So, assuming that I found Twilight movie moderately lame and haven’t read the novels, would you recommend I take a look at this fanfic?
It occurs to me that this fanfic would make the worst feature of Twilight bearable. Vampires that glitter and sparkle in the light at least do justice to the title “Luminosity” even if they are a disgrace to the vampire myth.
Sparkly vampires are not the worst feature of Twilight.
Anyway, no affection for or knowledge of Twilight is required to enjoy Luminosity. Although if sparkly vampires really piss you off, then perhaps you won’t like it; I’m canon-compliant in the worldbuilding department up to and including sparkles.
Sparkly vampires are not the worst feature of Twilight.
Out of curiosity… what is? I personally found canon!Edward just incredibly boring given that I am used to Spike and Wolverine (the latter being closer to a conventional vampire than Edward is). But I don’t recall much else and there wasn’t anything I found annoying in Luminosity—you no doubt filtered those features out for us.
As stated here, I think the flaw is misplaced emphasis. There’s nothing missing, and nothing I find truly extraneous for the story Meyer chose to tell—she just lingers over weaker portions.
I guess someone other than Alicorn should also answer this.
It’s competently written and pretty enjoyable, but not as much as Methods of Rationality.
I haven’t read so much as a word from the novels nor watched so much as a trailer from any of the movies, and had successfully avoided learning anything about the contents except the names of the two protagonists and that it’s a paranormal romance with sparkling vampires and werewolves (I despise paranormal romances and vampire fiction in general). I had no trouble at all following along, and the world managed to not come across as exceptionally stupid, contrary to the very vague second hand impressions I had, despite apparently canon compliant world building.
It starts a bit slow but is pretty engaging despite the long introspective monologues, which must be difficult to pull off. It’s much more down to earth than Methods of Rationality, nowhere near as crazy, doesn’t contain as much humor and is much more even in tone.
I liked this a lot more than HP:MOR, despite the fact that I never found luminosity sequence all that interesting. I’m thinking I should reread it, though. I’ve never read or seen anything twilight-related prior to reading this fanfic. It’s well written, light and enjoyable.
So, assuming that I found Twilight movie moderately lame and haven’t read the novels, would you recommend I take a look at this fanfic?
It occurs to me that this fanfic would make the worst feature of Twilight bearable. Vampires that glitter and sparkle in the light at least do justice to the title “Luminosity” even if they are a disgrace to the vampire myth.
Sparkly vampires are not the worst feature of Twilight.
Anyway, no affection for or knowledge of Twilight is required to enjoy Luminosity. Although if sparkly vampires really piss you off, then perhaps you won’t like it; I’m canon-compliant in the worldbuilding department up to and including sparkles.
Out of curiosity… what is? I personally found canon!Edward just incredibly boring given that I am used to Spike and Wolverine (the latter being closer to a conventional vampire than Edward is). But I don’t recall much else and there wasn’t anything I found annoying in Luminosity—you no doubt filtered those features out for us.
As stated here, I think the flaw is misplaced emphasis. There’s nothing missing, and nothing I find truly extraneous for the story Meyer chose to tell—she just lingers over weaker portions.
I guess someone other than Alicorn should also answer this.
It’s competently written and pretty enjoyable, but not as much as Methods of Rationality.
I haven’t read so much as a word from the novels nor watched so much as a trailer from any of the movies, and had successfully avoided learning anything about the contents except the names of the two protagonists and that it’s a paranormal romance with sparkling vampires and werewolves (I despise paranormal romances and vampire fiction in general). I had no trouble at all following along, and the world managed to not come across as exceptionally stupid, contrary to the very vague second hand impressions I had, despite apparently canon compliant world building. It starts a bit slow but is pretty engaging despite the long introspective monologues, which must be difficult to pull off. It’s much more down to earth than Methods of Rationality, nowhere near as crazy, doesn’t contain as much humor and is much more even in tone.
I liked this a lot more than HP:MOR, despite the fact that I never found luminosity sequence all that interesting. I’m thinking I should reread it, though. I’ve never read or seen anything twilight-related prior to reading this fanfic. It’s well written, light and enjoyable.