Renesmee--1 day after conception

Since I love posting Twilight craziness on this blog, I couldn't pass this up. I first saw this on Geekologie some weeks ago, and honestly it scared even me. I had to look at it for a minute everyday to desensitize my senses, before I finally got the courage to put it up here.

This is supposed to be Bella's womb, with Renesmee as a tiny fetus inside. I love Twilight--I have this blog to prove it--and I have nothing but awe and respect for all the creative fans who could put together dolls, fanfic novels, songs, poems, and what-have-you, all in the name of Twilight. But there is a line beyond which creativity becomes creepiness, and clearly this one had crossed it.

Cinematical has an image of the closed version of Bella's uterus.

You may inhale--Rob does shower!

While I was waiting for Twilight the movie to screen in Manila last year, I surfed around for information on a certain Robert Pattinson, the actor picked to play Edward Cullen. I knew he played Cedric Diggory, but beyond that I couldn't tell him from one Zac Efron, whose movie I haven't seen at all. Anyway, among the first photos of Rob I found was this:



Not bad, I thought. That face has potential. There's hardly a trace of the pink-cheeked, overachieving Hufflepuff. But hot damn, he sweats like he lived in tropical Manila! I mean, hasn't he heard of antiperspirants? Granted, the double shots of underarm wetness aren't enough to cloud his luster (read: sex appeal), but would I want that arm around my shoulder, fangirl or not? (After giving it some thought---hell yeah, I would! Even if at 5'4" my face would be right smack on the wet spot.)

So when rumors about Rob stinking up the New Moon set circulated last week, this photo came to my mind. And although I honestly believed the story was exaggerated, I was willing to allow that perhaps his royal hotness wasn't too conscious of his appearance, or the impression he made on people, because he was too focused on his work. I mean, it could happen to the best of us (raising an eyebrow).

But thankfully, it appears the rumors are not true at all! In an interview with Moviephone, Rob finally cleared the air, so to speak.

Is it true that, I don't know if you saw this, but a source on the set of 'New Moon' said that you don't smell good, that you don't shower?

I haven't even been on the set yet!

You know the same thing went around about Zac Efron a while ago; that he doesn't shower.

Really? He looks like he smells really good [laughs]. I also do shower.

Rob reads fan fiction

"It’s surprisingly hard-core. And very well written."

So said Robert Pattinson of Twilight fan faction in his GQ interview. And I totally agree! These Twilight-inspired works of fiction are very imaginative, and they go where Stephenie Meyer dared not tread--pre-marital sex between Bella and Edward!  Or at the very least  some really heavy making out scenes that could qualify as smut ("lemons" in FF lingo).

For sure, these FF writers have taken the Bellward saga beyond the confines of the young-adult genre. And a lot of them are so good I almost fear for SM (but she owns the characters and all things Twilight, so she need not fret). I actually find their take on SM's beloved characters, uhm, more rounded. They're darker, funnier, more "human" and more honest. In short, these are impefect characters that adults in my age group could actually relate to. Well, except for the fact that they get a lot more Cosmo-inspired sex than we do.

I used to stay away from FF, even from the Harry Potter era, because I didn't want stories that "desecrate" the characters I've come to love. So I never thought I'd be interested in stories were Edward is human, has a dirty mouth, and prone to in-your-face horniness, which happens to be the case is most popular Twilight FF. But after reading one such story, I realized this Edward could be as lovable, especially since I imagine he too has Rob Pattinson's face.

The novel-length stories come in installments, like a TV series. And they could be as addicting. I just dropped by Twilighted.net one time, and before I realized it the sun was rising and I had read a whole novel, with a cliffhanger in the end. Now I can't stop myself from clicking on the story I bookmarked to check for updates every morning.

I'm tempted to put the links to my favorite FF stories here but I'm afraid they might not be fit for young readers. But I encourage mature readers to go to Twilighted and check out what they have there. 

He can't lie, indeed

"A FEW DAYS AFTER we meet Robert Pattinson for the first time, we will call up his Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart, who will say this about him:

'He can’t lie,' she says. 'It makes things a little scary for him sometimes. But it’s my favorite thing about him.'"

The rest of Robert Pattinson's
GQ interview is here. Don't miss the link to the slideshow of him glammed up somewhere on that page!

Just to whet your appetites before you hit that link, here's what the article writer, Alex Pappademas, had to say of his answer to the Camilla Belle question:

"This is maybe the most poorly executed denial we’ve ever heard. This is, in fact, how we would deny dating Camilla Belle if we wanted as many people as possible to believe that we were totally hitting that, while still coming off as an untruthful person. Either Pattinson can’t lie, or he can’t lie very well."

Edward's bedroom

He had a hundred years' worth of journals! Now I know where some fan fiction I've read got their inspiration. Bella was feeling right 'at-home' in this clip. She was also really chatty. And Edward looked awkward, like it was really his first date. It's interesting but I liked how this scene came out in the final cut.

Trivia: A chincilla is a squirrellike rodent (Chinchilla laniger) native to the mountains of South America and widely raised in captivity for its soft, pale gray fur (www.thefreedictionary.com).

This alternate scene clip is from Trailer Park on MySpace Video.

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Bella's not-so-chaste dreams

If I remember right, the scene where Bella woke up from a fitful sleep and found Edward at the corner of her room was shown early in the film. This was before they were even friends, before she knew he was 'different,' before she got a touch of his cold skin, before she knew the ardour she showed and the implied spit swap in this clip could be fatal. Is this what they called a nightmare in the book?

This is among the deleted film scenes provided by Access Hollywood.

'I'm not Edward Cullen'

I saw this first on Twilight Extremists. It's one of those gems that I particularly love to put in this blog. I swear, this will crack you up.

Charlie bit me, Twilight version?

I'm amused by this previously unseen Twilight footage from Access Hollywood. Honestly, I can understand why it landed on the editing floor. Is it just me, or did that finger biting and then licking part really come out awkward rather than sexy? Too bad, the "fragile humans" line came right after that. Rob delivered that quite well.



And in case you missed this YouTube sensation some years back, see for yourself why I think it inspired the above finger-biting scene.

Making sense of the DVD race

There's a slew of Twilight DVD choices coming out this month, and thank God Twilighters.org came out with an ultimate guide to help us pick. The earlier we send our choice to our Titas and Ates in the U.S., the better their chances are of getting these for us. You could pre-order and have some of these shipped, but there's always the risk of the stocks going out. The local release (is there only one, really?) is not very loaded so you might want to pick from these.

I'm personally partial to Target's Twilight 3-Disc Deluxe Edition DVD, with 45mins of previously unseen content and the iTunes movie download. At $22.99, that's just around P1,120.



Text version of this video is here.