The Movement of the Earth -- Author's Note

[audreyii_fic]

Title: The Movement of the Earth
Author: audreyii_fic
Fandom: Twilight (Team Jacob)
Rating: T
Characters: Bella, Jacob, Charlie, and others (J/B)
Genre: Romance/Angst/Wolfpack!Humor
Warnings: Language, violence, and references to adult behavior

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[audreyii_fic]

I don't know if you've read my fic, but it's basically the product of me having a mental breakdown over how bad Meyer is and how much I can fix it.

It has been on my list. Now that I'm taking a break (I've got a little palate-cleanser one-shot percolating in the back of my head, but that's it, and I'm taking my time with it) I'll probably get a chance :)

But yet, I persevere, because dammit, I know which of Meyer's characters are fun and how to use them, even better than she does, and while that is sad, it's like I'm sticking it to her every time I use Embry to his full potential. I'm laughing in her face every time someone tells me they wish my story was how Twilight turned out. So while it may be a masochistic endeavour, it's a fucking fun masochistic endeavour.

Exactly. I honestly don't know how I can devote so much time to this level of hatred for what is, after all, just a book series. But since I read the first book two years ago it's just eaten at me. It's probably not healthy, but saying "fuck you" to Stephenie Meyer in every way I possibly can in somehow cathartic. (My therapist says it's displacement. She's almost certainly right.) And yeah, it's masochistic as hell. But I maintain it's still less damaging than, say, running a marathon.

Twilight was set up to be the best thing we've read since Harry Potter, and it was such a monumental fail that it left so many of us pissed off and bewildered, to the point where we have to show just how easy it would be for Steph to turn her shit around and make her fail tale enjoyable.

God, even mentioning Harry Potter and Twilight in the same sentence makes me break out in hives. Part of it might be envy -- 90% of the fics I've read have been notably better than what's published, so why her and not us? -- but I really thing that most of it is headdesking bewilderment. The Twilight series is like a microcosm of the downfall of Western Civilization. I feel this driving, obsessive need to understand it.

And yeah, I saw the lack of ending coming, since New Moon's ending is fail on toast, where nothing gets resolved except the fact that Bella firmly sucks as a character and a person, but I didn't think the set up would be that direct. I just thought it would sort of peter off into nothingness.

Heh. I honestly didn't realize the ending until about two-thirds of the way through (by which I mean beyond the Victoria scene and the basics of the touching scene). I kept the set-up for it very open and vague, because I knew I wasn't sure. Eventually I had a major Eureka! moment, wherein I realized the reason I couldn't find the ending was because there wasn't one. The last several paragraphs of the fic are direct (formatting) New Moon lifts. But, well, I figured the possibilities for the next book would at least be a lot less craptastic.

Oh, and your friend is a loon. Full stop. You don't have to be a snob to know drivel.

She's really not -- I am a snob, and a horrible one at that. The amount of very deserved eye-rolling I get is staggering. I really don't understand my friend's approval of the series at all, but she's a pretty sane person in most other respects. (By the way, the fact that you referenced Piaget makes me want to marry you. If you'd brought up Maslow's hierarchy of needs I'd elope this very afternoon.)

Thank you for the awesome compliment :) You, too, are awesome. We are partners in raving Meyer hatred and self-injury.