Fic Rec: Growing Up Cullen

[melissatreglia]

Because it had to be posted at some point, and it might as well be me.

If you haven't read the Growing Up Cullen LJ-RP series yet, I think now is a good time to come out from under that rock you've been hiding. This series should be required reading for anyone who is anti-Twilight. Ratings-wise, I would consider it PG-13 due to some language and sexual humour.

Part 1: I like how we turned Edward into a 40 year old mother on a bad day.
http://balcarin.livejournal.com/462027.html

Part 2: YES, I AM DOING THAT "EMO BULLSHIT," I CAN FEEL IF I WANT TO
http://balcarin.livejournal.com/462772.html

Part 3: STOP TWIRLING THE POOL STICKS, THEY ARE NOT TOYS! YOU DON'T GROW BACK EYES, EMMETT.
http://balcarin.livejournal.com/463133.html

Part 4: I feel totally validated that Growing Up Cullen is canon thanks to the Midnight Sun leak.
http://balcarin.livejournal.com/468348.html

Part 5: Growing Up Cullen: Christmas with the Cullens
http://balcarin.livejournal.com/494218.html

Bonus: Growing Up Cullen icons
http://balcarin.livejournal.com/463630.html

Enjoy!

ETA (8/6/19): The LJ account that hosted GUC is long gone now, so here's the entire series in PDF: Get from Dropbox

Comments

[chibi-regalli.livejournal.com]

Yeeees, I needed another excuse to read this thing.

[erikalyndis.livejournal.com]

Now the links are sitting here looking all tempting I guess I will just have to go and read the whole thing again.

[zenfrodo]

None of these links work anymore; LJ purged the journal, and the Wayback doesn't get to them all. Anyone know know if the writers posted these elsewhere??

[melissatreglia]

I found it! They're in PDF format in Dropbox.

View or download here!

[zenfrodo]

Oh man, Melissa, I'm sorry -- I totally forgot about commenting here!

Yeesh. I'm an idiot. And thank you for the files! I'll be downloading as soon as my laptop's back from the repair folks -- on mobile right now & all my dropbox info's on the laptop. Thanks again!

[melissatreglia]

Hey, that's totally fine! Your original comment is actually how I discovered the LJ pages were gone.

I'm just glad I was able to find the PDF files, as it would be a real loss to anti-Twi-fans the world over not have GUC around in some form any longer.

[zenfrodo]

I've been going back and rereading a lot of these -- watching Scoobynatural led me back to The Wedding Crashers, which had me looking up this site again -- and rereading GUC was a bit of a small revelation.

Unlike the actual Twilight, GUC made Edward actually *sound* and *act* Edwardian and "from another time", as Meyers puts it. Two people goofing around in chat and having mindless fun with Twilight did what Meyers's actual writing failed at.