I never really engaged with twilight in any significant way but I do remember always thinking that christian grey made no sense to me as a fanfiction version of edward, because, to be honest, Edward always seemed like sort of a softie to me, cringing away from the violence inherent to him as a vampire. post cp video I'm realizing that's probably partially bc I wasn't really paying attention but anyway what's funny is that this is sort of the inverse of how I see Ali's treatment of kylo ren. she took a guy who is textually extremely violent and turned him into a sensitive misunderstood sweetie with a PhD. and yes, aliguys absolutely have their violent side, but as I've posted about before, it is almost always internally resolved before the narrative begins; they're men who used to have anger issues, past tense. I think the eroticism of that capability for, but not predilection towards violence is a huge part of what's Going On with aliguys, and this feels really clarified in Lowe and Eli especially. I'm so curious to know Ali's more specific thoughts on twilight; it's clearly something she's engaged with but I think it's likely she has criticisms. I mean she did give one of her main characters an obsession with Alice/Bella fanfic. so like. speak on it babe