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Nathan is a very likeable person/vampire. He's my new favourite character. Like to know more about him. :)

Chapter 40 Spoilers.

I'm just amused about how the Bella For Queen talk didn't send anyone into a panic. I guess the thought of Bella being in power, instead of the Volturi, was comforting?

Though now that I think about it, I think we did see some ruffled feathers in relation to what Bella would use Pera for. Is that it though?

I get a "File does not begin with '%PDF-'" pop up.

0Alicorn
I can download the file from the link on the about page, but now I can't open it for some reason... Edit: Taking down the links until I know how to make them work because otherwise I will get 5 e-mails about it.

Arial font Luminosity is not working.

0Alicorn
Now I'm stumped...

The Luminosity links do not work on the About page. I get 404 Error messages. The Radiance one works fine though.

0Alicorn
This should be fixed now, my bad.
0Alicorn
I'm adding a note about the availability of PDFs on the website's about page. Do you want to be credited under this handle or another? Want a link to anything?
0Alicorn
alicorn@elcenia.com

I am unable to update the old files anymore. So here is the new Radiance PDF link. http://www.mediafire.com/?qg0qqphqkl1mq36.

I'll try and find another file sharing program that I can use for free, and am able to update files.

0Alicorn
Y'know what? I have webspace. If you just send me copies of these PDFs, I will fling them up on my webspace; that takes three seconds apiece and I do not anticipate laziness causing appreciable delay.
0wedrifid
Well, my first thought was "github would be perfect!". But possibly overkill. :P

A while ago meaning fifty years, or a while ago meaning five years?

0Alicorn
Like in the late 1800s.

Random thought/question.

Will we be seeing the vampire Maria?, aka Jaspers maker and the leader of the vampiric army in the south.

Is there still a army in the south? I'm not sure if you mentioned it in the books, and I can't remember if they were still there in canon...

0Alicorn
Oh, the newborn armies running around in the South got smacked down by the Volturi a while ago. I'm assuming Maria was a casualty.
2Alicorn
That one looks fine :D

I've changed the font from Times New Roman to Bookman Old Style. Maybe it will help with the italics. If not I'll try something else when I wake up.

Luminosity without handwriting: http://www.mediafire.com/?bw8li3401ffwjli

Luminosity with handwriting: http://www.mediafire.com/?b77o68xf0srak58

Radiance 1 - 38: http://www.mediafire.com/?54q4sqpss3dwfwc

If you have the same font problems with the Radiance file, I'll change it when I wake up.

1Alicorn
The italics still look off and the handwriting portions still aren't working. Not sure what's the matter.

I've uploaded a second file. I'm assuming that you can't see the font because you have a different OS (Mac?). I might be wrong.

http://www.mediafire.com/?bw8li3401ffwjli

1Alicorn
The italics still look weird (like they are in a different and larger font) but the notebook entries are legible now.

Thats very strange. I'll just change it back to what it was originally then.

EDIT: Actually, what program are you opening it in? I'm using Adobe Reader 9.

0ArisKatsaris
I can see it perfectly, so the problem isn't something like you having any fonts in your machine that I don't.
1Alicorn
Preview.

You might want to download the PDF Luminosity and see if you like the way the font looks. I'm unsure. I had to make it a bit larger than the rest of the text, because you couldn't really read it when it was smaller.

1Alicorn
It doesn't appear to me as text at all (observe) - throughout it's either completely blank or weird gray and black rectangles. Also, the italics don't appear to be in the same font as the rest of the text.

Thanks. I've updated Luminosity just now.

Another question, would Bella have the same handwriting as she had in canon? Because I found the font SMeyer used online and was wondering if I should use it for the places where she's writing in her notebooks.

1Alicorn
I see no reason why the handwriting should be different - go ahead, it's a cute idea :) I'd recommend doing that in lieu of the italics I used to signify notebook passages, rather than in addition to them.

I'll do that then. Also, what is the font you've used for the website banner? Was thinking of using it for the title's on both files.

1Alicorn
It's called "Zephyr", or "the Twilight font", the latter of which is a useful search term if you wish to obtain it (ARRRRRRR).

Luminosity: http://www.mediafire.com/?b77o68xf0srak58

Radiance chapters 1 through 38: http://www.mediafire.com/?54q4sqpss3dwfwc

If there is anything wrong with them, just tell me and I will fix it. I'll be updating Radiance as Alicorn does.

1Alicorn
Added links to these to the current discussion thread; will put them on my site and ff.net profile soon too.
1Alicorn
Every now and then I find a typo or want to change wording in Luminosity, too, so that could stand being updated once a month or so too.

I'm volunteering myself to make PDF's of both books. I'll keep them updated as well.

EDIT: And if I can figure out what mobi is and figure out how to convert it, I'll do that too.

EDIT2: Never mind, I just saw Zack M Davis' message.

0Zack_M_Davis
For the record, I just used Auto Kindle on an HTML file.
4anyareine
Luminosity: http://www.mediafire.com/?b77o68xf0srak58 Radiance chapters 1 through 38: http://www.mediafire.com/?54q4sqpss3dwfwc If there is anything wrong with them, just tell me and I will fix it. I'll be updating Radiance as Alicorn does.

I'm not blaming the mate bond for his behavior, what I'm really trying to say- and doing it badly- is that the mate bond is a stupid thing for it to group Demetri with Allirea as he seems incapable of change, and change he must for her to even consider any sort of loving relationship.

Though Allirea never really considered the mate bond, I think once she saw that he could see her she hated him immedietly and to me that means that she is also incapable of change, so why would the matebond group Demetri to her?

And also if Demetri is so unable to even process... (read more)

1TheOtherDave
It's always problematic, though tempting, to infer that someone is incapable of change from the fact that they didn't change in a particular context. In any case, agreed that the matebond is stupid in the sense you mean. It doesn't take the likely consequences of each case into account. Of course, even in the real world, people have all kinds of stupid urges in that sense.

I have conflicting emotions. On one side I feel really bad for Allirea, and what Demetri has done to her. But on the otherside I feel really angry at the matebond for making Demetri feel that way about Allirea and therfore inflicting him upon Allirea.

I'm not sure that makes sense.

4Sheaman3773
I guess that my reading of the situation is rather different from most of yours, in that I know exactly what the OP means, and agree (more or less). I feel terribly for Allirea. An eternity of rape is a horror beyond comprehension, and I am completely okay with her choice to kill him at the end of ch 31. But look at Demetri. He mate-bonded with a half-vamp. As far as his instincts are concerned, that's the same as mating a pure vampire. He doesn't just hope, think, or expect that she'll love him back--he knows it, with every fiber of his being, because that's exactly what would have happened if she was a pure vampire. The way I read it, it's not that he saw that she didn't like him, and disregarded it; he was literally incapable of reading into her revulsion and hatred as anything other than a playful, loving game. Perhaps she played it too often, or went too far with it, but that's what mates are for, isn't it? She was just showing her playful side, and her respect for his tracking abilities, because obviously she wouldn't part from her mate for long if she didn't think he'd be right behind her. The fact that he would have considered her strongest attacks negligible doubtlessly only exacerbated the situation. Do I feel sorry for Demetri? Yes. Do I think Allirea should have spared him? Not a chance, because in regards to his "mate," he's effectively insane, and would never, ever stop.
4TheOtherDave
I don't think it does. Demetri was in a position where the sine qua non of his life turned out to have value judgments inconsistent with the way he was living his life. That happens in the real world. Not as blatantly or clumsily as in the Twilight universe, admittedly, but it happens. Another person in the same situation might have chosen to change the way he was living his life to earn her love and respect. Or chosen to respect her preferences and suffer the harm of living without her instead of inflicting upon her the harm of his presence. He chose instead to disregard her values, her actions, her stated and expressed preferences, the many readily available credible reports of her actual state, a completely implausible preponderance of available evidence... he chose to ignore all of that in favor of an impenetrable fantasy that she was what he wanted her to be, felt what he wanted her to feel, wanted what he wanted her to want. Put another way: as a person she was inconvenient, and rather than suffer that inconvenience he reduced her to a thing. That happens in the real world, too. More's the pity. Sure, I agree with you that the whole matebond arrangement is pretty awful. But to blame it for Demetri's behavior is giving him a pass he hasn't earned.
0Vaniver
Those sound like complementary emotions. The mate bond is a terrible thing, because it causes people to do terrible things.

If thats true why hadn't Chelsea been told to cut the ties between the Cullen family before Bella screwed everything up? Were they perceived as not enough of a threat before that?

0Alicorn
Edward would have noticed her doing that. Addy didn't join the Volturi until a ways into the timeline of Luminosity, so they still had to add to the guard voluntarily then, and an unprovoked attack on the family would not have been conducive to this plan.

I really enjoyed this chapter. Having an insight into Addy's mind was very welcome.

Will we be seeing more of it, or are we going back to our regularly scheduled Elspeth now that she is conscious? Though I guess Elspeth would also now have that insight into Addy, though it might take her a while to find/realise it... but so will much of the Volturi... interesting.

1Alicorn
I have lots of opportunity to drop in other perspectives; this is just the first one that I've inserted "in sequence" (e.g. you get it at the point when it happened chronologically). I'm not yet sure whether it will serve my storytelling needs to do more chronological switches to Addy's perspective, but it's unlikely that you'll be without Addy's narration at all for the remaining story, even if she's always narrating from the past here on out.