My related story would have been the daughter who stole a man from her mother. She's had a very marked thing for men the age of her father all her life.
Zoe: Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing? Book: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.
'War Stories'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Jun 20, 2011 10:09:32 am PDT #13388 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sumi - Jun 20, 2011 10:18:06 am PDT #13389 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Atropa - Jun 20, 2011 10:18:40 am PDT #13390 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Isn't that part of the plot of the last sparkly vampire book? Like, the werewolf falls in love with the newborn vampire?
Yes, that is part of the plot for Breaking Dawn. And one of the reasons I'm slightly looking forward to the movie. Because that is going to be AMAZINGLY creepy on-screen, and I will laugh and laugh and laugh.
Ginger - Jun 20, 2011 10:28:55 am PDT #13391 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
He said he was planning to wait for her, let her grow up and experience the world, but he always thought they would end up married.
That's pretty much the plot of Heinlein's The Door into Summer. That's one of the Heinleins that seems way creepier when you reread it as an adult.
Jesse - Jun 20, 2011 10:32:36 am PDT #13392 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It happens in the Time Traveller's Wife, too, right? (Note that I never read the book or saw the movie, so I could be totally wrong.)
And now I just saw a thing about a 51-year-old actor marrying a 16-year-old singer, neither of whom have I heard of, but whose marriage is on eonline: [link]
le nubian - Jun 20, 2011 10:36:17 am PDT #13393 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Yes, that is part of the plot for Breaking Dawn. And one of the reasons I'm slightly looking forward to the movie. Because that is going to be AMAZINGLY creepy on-screen, and I will laugh and laugh and laugh.
Okay, so Jilli has the right outlook. Cleolinda's recap of that book is still burned into my memory and I cannot figure out how they are going to film this book. I haven't seen any of the previous movies, but I might catch this one just to see how they handle the WTF.
le nubian - Jun 20, 2011 10:39:12 am PDT #13394 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jesse!
That actor is Eugene Tooms! He married a 16-year-old. The creepy factor went up by 20.
smonster - Jun 20, 2011 10:42:26 am PDT #13395 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
It happens in the Time Traveller's Wife, too, right?
Well, not really. t spoiler He's already married to her in the future when he meets her as a kid. And behaves appropriately and keeps his identity from her as long as he can, IIRC. t /spoiler
Zenkitty - Jun 20, 2011 10:42:51 am PDT #13396 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Creepy guys falling in love with young girls... well, better that he wait years for her to come of age than that he try to woo her now.
Honestly, though, it's the "waiting for her" part that's really creepy to me. If a young man saw a 17-year-old girl and thought, dang, she's cool, if she were older I'd ask her out, and then moved on with his life and happened to meet her again in 5 or 6 years and said, hey! you grew up! and you're still awesome, wanna go out? That would be okay. It's the obsessiveness of the waiting that ain't right. And the age disparity, if it's more than about 5 years. The difference between 17 and 22 is not as disturbing as the difference between 17 and 32.
I met my first real boyfriend when I was 16 and he was 23. He "waited" for me to turn 18, insisted we get married, and lost his shit when I refused. Then I discovered that what had seemed so cool was in fact a creepy psycho.
If she's 8 when he falls for her, though, he's a nutcase. I'm sorry, dude: even if you two were madly in love in a previous life, in THIS life you're a pedophile.
Jesse - Jun 20, 2011 10:47:05 am PDT #13397 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, good, smonster.
That actor is Eugene Tooms! He married a 16-year-old. The creepy factor went up by 20.
Hmm. I don't remember Tooms at all -- I must not have been really watching XF yet at that point?