I’ve seen many posts reminiscing about how buckwild Twilight was but somehow nobody seems to have mentioned the matching family jewelry?? that for some reason the movie’s costume designers thought it made sense that all of the kids would casually wear a family crest to school every day and nobody would say anything about it?? as if five weird antisocial adopted teenagers who skip school a lot and are all dating each other doesn’t just SCREAM cult activity??? if Charlie Swan hadn’t wanted to bang Carlisle he would have CPS on that family in a heartbeat, thanks for coming to my tedtalk
maybe that’s their trick? maybe every time they move to a small town they all take turns strutting and casually draping themselves over furniture in front of the chief of police until they figure out which one of them s/he is most attracted to and then that cullen (usually carlisle but sometimes esme. once, memorably, jasper) is responsible for keeping cps off their backs for the next five years. emmett calls it operation fuck the police.
It’s so interesting, because one of the early theories about Earth and its situation in the Universe was the geocentric model…which basically told that we lived in a sphere (around Earth, making it the unmoving center of the Universe) that was contained in another rotating sphere on which stars were “painted” (of course this schema is a sort of “basic idea”, it was discussed and adapted by many scholars on the subject at the time).
So in fact, this young girl just drew a conclusion on what she could empirically observe and her interpretation would not have been seen this derisive if we did not have the knowledge we have today! Of course we could be living “inside” the Earth-sphere, because the concept of Earth “limits” is an intellectual one, not something instinctively perceived!
For a bit of backstory, my calculus BC teacher in high school hated me and did her best to make my life difficult. One example of this: My school district swapped over to required uniforms that year (my last year, in fact). On Fridays, we were allowed to wear “jeans and a t-shirt”. I wore camo cargo pants. She sent me to the office because apparently “jeans” means “blue jeans only”. The lady at the office sent me back to the class with a note telling her to lay off. So she went to the principal about it, who decided to side with her.
After this, I decided if she wanted to make things hard for me, I was going to return to favor.
Plume de Lynx 