venusofvolterra

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𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢 𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥 While the Higher Guard are permanent fixture's in the hallowed halls of Volterra, there is also The Transitionary Guard that is managed by Santiago primarily. These members of the coven come and go through the ages, though most of them stay for at least a century before they part ways with The Volturi. . Cast: Liam Samuels, Sosheba Griffiths, Lee Soo-Hyuk, Medalion Rahimi, Lewis Bryant, Olivia Cooke, Tony Thornburg and Geri Steenkamp.

#new brain worm unlocked: #Liam samuels as a vampire

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Absolutely honored to recurve such high praise! I love your blog so much as well! 💕💕

(And my apologies for the inactivity, school is kicking my ass)

For the ask game: wand, minotaur, and god 🦢🤍

𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐝 - Before I really wished to live in big cities, but at this point in life i just want to live in a cottage in the Scottish Highlands or something, not somewhere too warm.

𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐮𝐫 - If you woke me up at 5 am with a knife to my throat and demanded me to sing a song without stuttering; It would have to be "Shake it out" by Florence + The Machine. That song is me if you bottled me up and somehow made a vinyl. Alternatively there is also "Willow" by Taylor Swift and "Crystal" by Fleetwood Mac.

𝐆𝐨𝐝 - My top five when it comes to blogs... well, seeing as though I have been away for a while I have no idea who is around any longer sadly, but I will write down a list of some oldies and some newer ones I have found;

@the-volturi-diaries (I don't know how many times I have reblogged you at this point in time, but I am not sorry.)

@venusofvolterra (A little inactive right now but has some A+ character takes and I support it)

@writerman (Go read 'Thrall' right now.)

@wake-of-vultures (Go look at their art and read 'Cracks in The Crypt' right now)

@keepingupwiththecullens & @panlight (Classics ™)

From the Fantasy Ask Game

#sweet things #volterran-wine

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Rewatching midnight mass

#midnight mass #🤝 #twilight

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Occasionally I'll randomly think about the Midnight Mass vampire vision of lights where you get the rays out and it kinda dances and then I'll think about how I basically get the same thing when I'm wearing my glasses became light reflects off the lenses and I've got an astigmatism

#astigmatism or stigmata? #the world may never know #(I also have astigmatism)

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Today we visited Volterra :)

It is a realy lovely medival town in tuscany

i know they filmes the move in montepulciano but we went to siena and Volterra is just 1 hour away...and its Volterra ;)

#volterra

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Literally went “darn this a har- HEIDI!!”

Additional poll

(Not part of the tournament)

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Felix’s gf: I hate men.

Felix: yes! You should! All men are pigs! We are terrible!!

#twilight #the volturi #the twilight saga #volturi #felix volturi #twilight new moon #twilight eclipse

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For the smart but unsuccessful ruler I’d go with Heraclius, who become the Byzantine emperor in 610 and even though he successfully fought a pyrrhic war, he was sort of doomed to fail and lost Egypt to Arab invaders.

For straight up idiot (tho it’s hard to say any of them are idiots) I’d go for Didius Julianus who straight up bought the Roman Empire. The way he acquired the empire made him unpopular and therefore easy enough to over throw.

hello! as you know i'm writing a felix fic.

i'm including demetri's cats, and i've decided to rename some of them. that being said, i need some help on the two orange boys. i specifically need names of historic figures/leaders who were ineffective/unsuccessful rulers.

i need one who was actually kinda clever (but who ended up a failure), and another who was just a straight up idiot.

i'm leaning more towards greek, roman and italian, byzantine, and egyptian names, but i'm open to others (see anne, who was named after the english monarch and passenger ship to plymouth).

(also tagging @venusofvolterra who i've noticed is great with history but anyone is welcome to help)

#historical twilight #if you squint

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Gentle reminder that I don’t take hyper specific writing requests.

If you’re curious as to what kind of asks I do accept, it’s as simple as looking at my masterlist and seeing what kind of asks I do respond to.

(Hint: they generally concern hc, world building, and character analysis)

#it’s just not fun for me #and often asks me to defy all my own world building and hcs #twilight #the volturi

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Hi,

It’s your friendly neighbor fanfic author here. In the light of this apparent new trend of people feeding unfinished fics to AI to get an “ending,” and some people even talking about “blanket permissions,” let me just say this:

I EXPLICITLY FORBID ANYONE TO FEED MY FICS TO AI. DUDE, THAT IS ABOUT THE LEAST RESPECTFUL THING YOU CAN DO. IF YOU DO IT, SHALL YOU BE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM YOUR FANDOM AND WALK ON LEGOS BAREFOOT TILL THE END OF DAYS.

That is my anti-permission.

Thank you for your attention.

#same goes here

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What vibe do I give off?

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I have a question for you based on your headcanon on Demetri. I'm sorry if you've answered this already though in previous posts. I wanted to know the relationship dynamic between Demetri and Felix. Obviously, you've stated that Demetri would be a toxic partner, but how does that bleed into his relations with others (especially Felix)? Felix is pretty levelheaded and grounded so he would know and identify his behaviour, right? How do you view their relationship, the bond and the healthiness of it all? Does he have any boundaries with Demetri? Does Felix address his behaviourisms and trauma with Him, and keep him in line in a brotherly way or turn a blind eye? personally, I doubt Felix would stay completely silent if Demetri did perse get a mate and was manipulative, toxic (even emotionally abusive?) to them.

and how do Felix and Demetri maintain a stable and somewhat healthy bond? Because, in all honesty, I doubt you could stay friends with someone for over 1000 years if the relationship was utterly toxic.

if you don't answer questions right now, feel free to delete this, I just wanted your take on it! I hope you're having a great week though, Lovely xx

(that was longer than I anticipated, sorry)

Thanks for the question anon! My week has been okay but I hope yours is lovely!

This is quit a long ask so I’m gonna break it down into pieces that I think will help us understand some of my thoughts/HC regarding this.

On human/vampire relationships in general:

It’s important to understand first that I do think with the way that it is written in Twilight it is virtually impossible for there to be a healthy relationship between a vampire and a human. 

From the pheromones, to the strength, to the clear power imbalances any human would have in a relationship with a member of the Volturi guard, there is simply no advantage a human would have over either Felix or Demetri.

On Felix’s character:

I would also like to reiterate that Felix is not necessarily a good person. He might be very protective of those he cares about but doing his duties require at the very least indifference to the value of life and most likely even some enjoyment for what he does. In book canon, he makes several off color comments about killing Bella and about her looks.

Also Felix eats people guys. I know we all love him and have very fanciful ideas about him as a mate but realistically, he’s probably not interested in having a human mate long term and is probably eager to turn them.

Many of those power imbalances that make a relationship with a vampire unequal are very much present in a relationship with Felix — maybe even more so.

That said, I think you’re right to point out that he wouldn’t go out of his way to add to it but I can’t pretend Felix is free of these behaviors entirely.

On Demetri’s character:

I’ve expressed in this post how I see Demetri as being particularly sadistic. While I stand by that, even if he is more sadistic than some members of the Volturi/guard he’s not the most sadistic.

If his behavior somehow was too much for the Volturi he simply wouldn’t be in it. Ergo, it’s not. So while it isn’t exactly how Felix would behave, he has no qualms.

I also see Demetri as someone who would be controlling in a relationship. This is mostly because once again, he does not want his mate to stay human very long and will do whatever it takes to get them to agree to the change.

If we’re getting into some of my personal Demetri lore, some of this is left over anxiety following the death of his wife as a human. Despite that human memories tend to fade for vampires over time, I imagine core parts of their psychology at the time of turning stay relatively cemented (this is a hc to make the memory thing make more sense bc it really wouldn’t work given modern psychology). Thus, while he may not remember the details of why he reacts this way, he does.

It is also within the subtext of canon that the Volturi expect new vampires to cut off all their previous friends and family — I can’t imagine it’s any different for their own mates.

On Felix and Demetri’s relationship:

Simply put, they don’t really have that same toxicity between them — logistically there isn’t reason for there to be.

As it goes for them, they’re pretty much on equal footing. They rank similarly, they’re both vampires, they both have the same goals, and anyone they loved as a human is long dead.

Anything that might bog down a human friendship, like for example, significant time spent apart, isn’t a big deal for vampires — especially ones as old as them.

I do think Felix might stick up a bit for a vampire mate of Demetri’s if he was being unfair but even his own kings keep their wives drugged up in a tower, so he might sympathize to some extent with wanting to protect your mate to the nth degree even if he’s not in agreement with it. It all depends on the specific situation.

TLDR; what we consider moral/amoral and abusive in relationships doesn’t fully translate to vampires. They’re inherently kind of toxic and amoral so they have their own entirely separate understandings of those things.

Alrighty! I hope that answers some of questions about my interpretations of Felix and Demetri, let me know if you have any further ponderings!

#twilight #the volturi #demetri volturi #the twilight saga #volturi #felix volturi #twilight new moon

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The battle scene of the breaking dawn part 2:

How it really ended :

(Based on a true story 😂)

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the thing about being in a fandom for a long time is you inevitably develop very intense opinions about things you know objectively are absolutely meaningless but nonetheless make you want to gnaw through drywall like a feral cat and there's just nothing you can do about that

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My Demetri sim has a very flirty relationship with Mortimer Goth and they’ve kissed.

Just thought y’all would appreciate this turn of events. Demetri and his wife have like 3 kids but she’s been woohooing with Summer behind his back.

#is this sims post to niche? #twilight #the volturi #demetri volturi #the twilight saga #volturi #Mortimer goth #summer holiday

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@volturi guards: What did Carlisle do the whole time he lived there in Volterra?