I’m pretty much out of things to say about Twilight tattoos, so I’m just going to leave this here while I go cry quietly in the corner.
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I was going to say, “At least the family crest is looking good,” but then I read the name. …and lost hope in humanity once again.
Yeah, same here. “Nice stencil…. oh.”
Yup, it got me, too.
Me too … dont such people have a family themselves to create an own family crest or why to put one wiith a fictional family on her (?) back?
Vlad ÈšepeÈ™ is waiting in hell for all these people. And he has a bone to grind with you in particular, Stephanie.
As will most of the writers past.
As a writer, Stephanie Meyers is awful. As a marketeer, she’s really rather gifted. Instead of wasting years developing characters that could pass for living, breathing human beings with their own thought processes, impulses and human traits, she’s basically made them as blank as possible and then had her readers project their own personalities onto them. It seems too much like an intentional marketing trick for it not to be one; knowing her market so well that she’s written her books almost entirely around the premise of selling lonely, misunderstood teenage girls a female character they could be, and a male lead character they’d love to meet.
It’s the same sort of romance fantasy pulp that used to be sold to middle-aged housewives, now packaged to a generation of teenage girls.
which, make Stephanie Meyers brilliant! She found a niche market – impressionable, stupid teenaged girls and middle aged women who wished they were still teenagers – and then made millioins off of them. Wish I had thought of it first!
do I like her “writing”? hel! no… but I admire her for the empire she has built on what could only be described as ridiculous books. Good for her, it’s the american dream!!
I will admit, I read all the books, only to see what was the attraction, and I concur with your assessment, Rauss.
millions*
I agree with Rauss here. Even worse, the romantic pulp sold to middle aged women has declined in quality due to Meyer’s influence. Too many bad vampire romance series sporting tortured heroes and gormless heroines pining away because they too want to live off blood. A sorry business all in all.
So this perfectly describes every high school relationship in the history of ever. So I don’t understand why people get on Meyer’s writing for being unrealistic…
THAT NAIL!!! You hit it on the head with one swing!
I read the first book and was highly annoyed by the characters. I wasn’t going to go further, but I have a really good imagination and it had been picked…I wanted to see what would happen. The second book ruined it for me. I couldn’t stand any of the characters, the grammar and style of writing were very childish, and the whole story was just a teenage-angst weep-fest.
Whatever happened to loveable characters like Nosferatu?
What’s offended me more is that she’s taken the crest from a book of Scottish clan history, and then tied it into Twilight.
Ugh, I mean, just ugh.
Which clan? I would look to try find it, but I cannot be bothered looking through every single crest.
However, at least it isnt the crest from either side of my family….
If I had to guess… I’d say it’s the Cullen clan’s crest.
I suppose it’s possible that her last name is also Cullen, but if it’s not, it’s pretty creepy to go appropriating the crest of a family or organization you don’t belong to.
I had a look at the Cullen clan’s Crest and according to google, the is an Irish clan Cullen, but it has a different crest. There is also Cullen which is a sept of the Gordon Clan, but all I could find was the Gordon crest which is a Stags head.
Cullen is definitely a Scottish name, also a town famous for Cullen Skink.
True true, but any idea which caln’s crest Stephanie nicked? As it aint the Cullen’s crest, unless its for the one that became a sept of Gordon. And I have been unable to find their crest.
First off, it’s not a crest, it’s a coat of arms (a crest is only the part of the arms that stands on top of the helm). So she’s got it wrong from the start by displaying it in that weird lace circle — arms are displayed on a shield, or on a lozenge if borne by a woman.
Arms don’t belong to “clans” or to names. Each coat of arms is granted to an individual, and then passed on to that person’s descendants. Since Cullen is a fairly common name, there are probably several Cullen families that are entitled to arms, and the arms will be different in each case.
For the life of me, I can’t make much sense of that design in heraldic terms, so I suspect it’s been mangled a bit. It’s certainly Irish, given the combination of shamrocks and red hand. The animal looks like a lion at first glance, but after examining the head I think it’s a badly done, musclebound wolf. Heraldic wolves do look a bit odd, but usually not this odd.
Actually Robbie in Scotland most coat of arms belonging to an individual are displayed inside a loop, almost like a rope or a looped belt. Also, having a red hand on a crest doesn’t automatically make them Irish, some Scottish clans display a red hand on their coat of arms.
The McNeills of Barra have theirs quartered with one square featuring a large red hand, bordered by nine small hands. The shamrocks heraldic lion indicates it’s probably not Scottish though, on Scottish coat of arms the lion is almost always a rampant lion and not heraldic.
Arms are only correctly displayed on shields or lozenges. If the bearer is entitled to an order of chivalry, then the shield is encircled by the insignia of the order. For instance, here’s the royal arms, showing the Order of the Garter.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_(Variant_2).svg
There’s also such a thing as an heraldic “badge”, a symbol that shows connection to a family, and these can be used more flexibly. This design looks a bit too complex to be a badge, but it’s possible.
I agree that a hand doesn’t always indicate Ireland — and we don’t even know it’s supposed to be red — but combined with the shamrocks it’s a pretty good bet.
The lion of Scotland is rampant, so a lot of Scottish lions are rampant. But then, the majority of lions are rampant anyway. Way back in the early days it was considered the only suitable pose for a lion.
This lion, or wolf, or whatever it is, is supposed to be passant (“walking”, with three legs on the ground and one foreleg raised), but it’s not very well posed. Or well drawn. The shoulders are musclebound, and the back legs are thick, stumpy, and baggy.
I know most of that already.
I’m Scottish, and from a traditional Presbyterian family. Lineage and heritage are things they take very seriously. I think I could name a few different variations of the clan badge, the Gaelic and English versions of the clan motto and point out the clan variant locations on a map before I was 12.
Actually, after looking at the other Twitarded tattoo two posts above this one, I see the crest is nearly identical. It must be something out of the books or movies. Strange that the vampire’s crest would have a dog in it.
I’ve never (thank God) read the books or seen the movies. But I was wondering why the heck they chose that for a Twilight coat of arms. Somebody must have dug it up out of a book because of the name.
A wolf sort of fits, at least. Wolves are traditionally associated with vampires. But in the Twilight books vampires and werewolves are enemies, so you’d hardly expect the Twi-pires to bear them proudly in their arms.
The rest of the design has no connection to any of it. And not even the wolf, if it turns out to be a lion.
(What idiot was first to cook up this werewolves-vs-vampires stuff, anyway?)
This was done by someone on the set of the original Twilight movie. It wasn’t described in the books at all.
Lord, that means it must have originated out there in Rabid Fan World. In that case, I’m amazed the design is as good as that.
The artist should have left a little more space between the “Texting While Intoxicated” declaration and the word, “lighter.” Barring that, he could simply have omitted the “ligh” and the final “er,” leaving us with an wholly believable four character descriptor.
I was pretty obsessive about my Nancy Drew books back in the day. Why didn’t I get a Nancy Drew tattoo during my formative years? I could have had Nancy in her roadster. I could have had Nancy, Ned, George and Bess arrayed on my shoulder like Mount Rushmore. I could have had The Hidden Staircase tattooed across my ass. And right above my lady parts, oh yeah, fellas, here’s your Password to Larkspur Lane.
I bet there’d have been guys trying to find the secret of your clock huh?
I could appreciate a really well-done Nancy Drew tattoo. The Nancy Drew books, along with the Hardy Boys books, were massive, churned-out marketing schemes in their own right, and the writing and characters were mediocre at best, but they were miles and miles and lightyears ahead of Twilight.
She wrote “Twitard” wrong.
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OK, I’ll play goofy here (Gawrsh, Mickey! Hyuck, hyuck!):
Am I looking at a stencil (the tarted-up crest, not the dstressing shoulder piece; the red tells me that this belongs to the ages).? To my aged eyes, it appears so, complete with an indication of a center line. If so, it looks to me like a pretty clean piece of work.
Yes, the crest is a stencil. The artist used a highlighter to mark the center line. Good planning.
Well at least she hasn’t had the crest done yet, there’s still chance lady!!! get out wile you still can!!!
Stephanie Meyers took one of the old Scottish clans (who have a rather interesting history and a huge rivalry with clan MacMillan from what I’ve read)…and turned them into..this… When I’m done raging I’ll go puke… but unless you are actually part of the Cullen clan and your last name is Cullen… DON’T GET THE DAMNED CREST OR COAT OF ARMS TATTOOED ON YOU!!!
You know, subject matter aside, the tattoo is looking like a well done piece. It would be something else entirely to have a completely botched horrible mess on her back that was SUPPOSED to be a Twilight tattoo. The fact here is, the tattoo artist did a good job/is doing a good job. The person IS getting what she paid for or better.