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itsprettyunfortunate · 8 months
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Beau: I did not sleep at all last night
Alice: You know what they say, if you can't sleep somebody is thinking about you
Beau: And who would be thinking about me at 3am?
Edward: *panicked silence*
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mikaharuka · 9 months
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A Delight in Hands - Official Post
Finally, months later, I have a new entry for A Series in Hands!
This entry is pretty special, since it is my first go at writing from Winter Light Carlisle's perspective. Also, this fic takes place in Apricity's near future, starting right after the Seattle trip and continuing on through the summer, several months later.
The events of this fic will show up in Apricity in due time.
Title: A Delight in Hands [Part 6 of A Series in Hands, Winter Light]
Fandom: Twilight, Life and Death
Ship: Carlisle Cullen/Beau Swan, Carlisle Cullen & Jessamine Hale
Rating: Teen
Category: M/M
Word Count: 900 words
Summary: Carlisle notices Beau's major crush and his attempts to get closer... without realizing he already succeeded in winning Carlisle over long ago. [An Apricity future fic, taking place in the near future, starting right after the Seattle arc and ending during the summer, several months later. Sister fic of A Flirt in Hands.]
Notes: You can read this without reading canon or Apricity. However, this fic takes place in the Winter Light Verse, a world that differs notably from canon. For this fic, you don't need to know much, but it is recommended that you read the sister fic, A Flirt in Hands, first (Tumblr post). Also, a few notes are listed in the A/N for context.
(fandom-blind friendly by default, Apricity-blind friendly too)
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emmett-mchearty · 2 years
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I have decided today that my fic is just the La Croix version of Twilight.
Like you can kinda taste the canon? Maybe? Canon was definitely involved at some point but not anymore. Queer people seem to like it better tho for some reason. 🤷‍♂️💅
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If anyone's been curious about what I listen to while I (fail to) write gay twilight fanfic, here's my playlist 💞
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Since you did do an ask on the bigger and more popular Mane 6/Rainboom ships, may as well ask on the lesser known and talked about ones. Thoughts on:
TwiDash
PinkieDash
Sunset/Rainbow Dash
Sunset/Fluttershy
Applejack/Fluttershy
Fluttershy/Pinkie
Rainbow Dash/Fluttershy/Pinkie
Sunset/Trixie
Sunset/Wallflower Blush
Twilight/Trixie
Twilight/Rarity
Sunset/Rarity
Rarity/Rainbow Dash
Sunset/Applejack
Ohohoho!
Twidash - Absolute jock/nerd energy. Also mad scientist/willing guinea pig energy! Can be fun.
Pinkiedash - absolute bros(genderneutral) who will party hard and cause a large-scale prank war throughout their home. Love them.
Sunset/Rainbow - Somehow both very similar and very different in a way that may butt heads at times but god they'd also vibe so hard.
Sunset/Fluttershy - in my aus I usually make them gay in opposite directions, but I can see this being sweet.
Appleshy - absolute cottagecore energy I love them.
Flutterpie - Okay but remember my rewrite of Pinkie Pride where I switched it to be Flutter's birthday and the Pinkie v Cheese fight was about that and it ended in Pinkie remembering that it's Flutters' party so they sneak off to have their own get together while the epic bash is happening? THAT.
Rainbow/Flutters/Pinkie - Fluttershy is exhausted but she loves them.
Sunset/Trixie - The most dramatic couple oh my god.
Twilight/Trixie - honestly the mid ship in 'Twilight with her other powerful unicorn reflections'. Still good of course! Though I do think this depends on your exact characterization of Trixie.
Rarilight - YES!! YES!! I'm not even gonna elaborate I'm just going to once again recommend The Enchanted Library
Sunset/Rarity - Actually while I rarely focus on this one I actually love them?
Rarity/Rainbow - Another opposites attract but I do adore the dynamic!
Sunset/Applejack - Honestly I rarely consider this but I think it'd be cute
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adachimoe · 7 months
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"Great with your hands"
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Yea Yosuke is saying the protagonist seems good with his hands (器用 is like dextrous, skilled, etc), but the, "Um, never mind" thing at the end is entirely a "Ha ha it's 2008 and GAY jokes and/or SEX jokes are FUNNY" thing added to the English script.
Which, honestly, is "in character" with the other 2000s white man humor in this game, like rewriting Kanji to say "come out" or the Loveline book description being rewritten as a dunk on Twilight.
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demolitionbullets · 3 months
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stephenie meyer i'm begging you to be gay and rewrite twilight once again but with bella & edythe
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purpleeivy · 9 months
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Day 23 of my Daily Drawing. Accomplished Psychiatrist, Loving Dad (who pretends he doesn’t love his family, but only to himself), Westalis’ best Spy, and absolutely hot as fuck, Twilight! Now known also as Loid Forger.
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I love Spy X Family it’s so good. I even wrote a story that essentially stole the ending of Season 1 (Cour 2) for part of it. (Not saying what specific part cus i don’t wanna spoil it, but it’s to do with Loid meeting someone). I loved that story i’ve just not been able to write anything for ages. I really wanna. Sorry rambling I’ll do that in a bit. Critic time.
Negatives - I instantly noticed when I uploaded the image that Loid’s left eye is angled left and up, while his right eye is angled right and up. Idk how I didn’t notice that when checking over the drawing lol. Also his head shape is a teeny bit off.
Positives - Literally everything else. I love Anya’s one (shameless self reference), and it is fitting that her father’s drawing be just as good imo.
Rambles time.
I know I said yesterday I am gonna do a thing about Shallan and the stormlight archive, but I realised that that’s gonna take a lotttttt of effort, so I’m just gonna do it when I reread the books. I really want to get that perfect, even if no-one reads it, because I just think it will help me with my mental state a lot. And I’ll probably also rewrite it to be a character essay on Shallan (if I can figure out what those actually are). So if that goes well then I could potentially do the same for other Stormlight characters. (And maybe characters after that.)
Random manga recommendations. If you’re gay and or into manga, then you should read
(Yuri, and i’m 99% sure these are both completely SFW, though I haven’t read the latest chapters)
- Kimi To Tsuzuru Utakata/The Summer You Were There
- The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy At All
and
(Not Yuri but I love it anyway, it might be nsfw at some parts, I don’t really remember)
- Ikemen Joshi To Josou Danshi/While Cross-Dressing, I Was Hit on by a Handsome Guy!
I’ve been meeting up with friends more and it’s been nice, but it’s also made me realise how… not great, i’ve been feeling when im alone. I sort of got used to it so it didn’t feel as bad, but now I’m actually enjoying myself with people I like I’m seeing just how bad it is, cus im comparing this feeling to the good feeling. Idk. It’s weird, I’m not gonna go into it here (in this post, maybe i will in the future)
I’m getting super into One Piece so I’ll probably draw some of those characters. I’m only up to episode 220 or smth, so I won’t be drawing anyone from after that. (and only the Going Merry for now)
Idk if I have anything else to say, so as always.
Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, and goodnight from me.
love you all <3
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denimbex1986 · 3 months
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'The 2023 film, 'All of Us Strangers' enchanted festival enthusiasts. However, the absence of an Oscar nomination posed a separate challenge. Now, let's take a closer look at this film that has garnered critics' acclaim, raced from one award to another, and secured a special place in the hearts of moviegoers.
'All of Us Strangers', directed by Andrew Haigh and starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, unfolds the story of a gay couple.
Adam (Andrew Scott) is a solitary television scriptwriter living an isolated life in London. Despite initially hesitating to invite his drunk neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal) into his home, Adam eventually gives in to Harry's persistence. As their relationship progresses, they navigate through various events and embark on a life together. However, Adam is eventually confronted with Harry's death, forcing him to sever ties with his reality. Throughout this process, the ghosts of his family guide him. After accepting Harry's death, Adam embraces his spirit, and they peacefully fall asleep together, lost in a beam of light accompanied by music as the screen fades to black.
Scott portrays Adam, a struggling scriptwriter inspired by his past, grappling with a screenplay as things haven't been going well for him lately.
The film initially focuses on Adam's face reflected in the windows of the flat in the twilight of London. Adam immerses himself in the music of his childhood and sifts through a box of family treasures connecting him to the distant past. However, he appears detached – in the echoing, neat but cold apartment, almost empty in a Ballardian tower block, emphasizing his loneliness.
A gentle relationship blossoms between Adam and his neighbor Harry, the only other occupant of the building.
During a research visit for a script Adam is writing, he goes to his childhood home in the suburbs of Dorking. There, he encounters his deceased parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), who remain unchanged, unaged, exactly as they were 30 years ago when they died. Scott balances the film's supernatural elements with emotional equilibrium, and the entire cast complements him in this harmony.
As the bond between Adam and Harry strengthens into a potential future together, Adam is continually drawn to his unresolved childhood trauma of the past.
Time doesn't necessarily heal all wounds. Instead, it makes them deeper and more debilitating. Adam can't rewrite the moment his parents were killed in a car accident. However, he can recognize them not as a bullied and beaten child but as an adult gay man.
The excellent, highly sensitive screenplay is adapted from the novel "Strangers" (1987) by Japanese author Taichi Yamada.
The 2023 film is not the first adaptation of the book; the initial one was Nobuhiko Obayashi's 'The Discarnates' in 1988. However, Haigh has left his mark on the story.
The use of the real childhood home for scenes between Adam and his parents emphasizes the emotional connection between the director and the material.
There are clues in this film that connect director Haigh to his previous works: it establishes a link with his second feature, the gay romance 'Weekend.' It also shares the sense of a window to the past and the cyclical nature of time, disrupting lives with the discovery of a lost lover's body preserved in ice, as seen in '45 Years.'
On the initial viewing, we can guarantee that you won't escape the film's heart-wrenching emotional impact.
We believe that watching the film once is not enough to fully grasp it. The complexity of Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch's composed music harmoniously strengthens the film's meaning. The mastery of Jonathan Alberts' seamless editing subtly guides us through parallel timelines and simultaneous moments in Adam's life within a cityscape. In essence, we can say the film's success is a collaborative effort.'
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Twlwight
Ok so this is just, straight up (gay up) a rewrite of twilight. Chapter for chapter. But everyone's gay. And nice to each other. And have healthy relationships. And Mike is ADHD. And the dads are useless. It WAS crack but now ive done more hours of research than I care to own up to so who actually knows lmao. God its so long.
About three things I was absolutely positive;
First, The Cullens are Definitely Vampires
Second, I am a Raging Lesbian with the Hots for Alice Cullen
And third, Edward is a Fucking Twink
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malo-mart · 1 year
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Gonna complain to you cause I need to complain to someone about it even if you disagree. I kind of hope totk is the last zelda game. I love the series, I could tell you every piece of information about every game and the 80s TV show. I've played and beaten every game (except totk because I got it late and im getting everything done before I progress). I dont like that they're changing the formula of the game. Why change something that makes the game what it is? It was just a ploy to get new fans but like?? I loved zelda because of what it was and now they're just rewriting it?????? I didn't like botw all that much honestly, I didn't like being told a story rather than experiencing it. It never felt like a zelda game to me totk is better so far but it's still just, if it's not broke, don't fix it. Yet they tried to fix something that wasn't broken. It's upsetting to me.
Wow first of all what an honour to still be the one stop shop for botw hate. I absolutely know what you're saying and I have battled despising botw for what it is for 6 years. They took all the Zelda conventions from us and left no scraps, not even an iconic boss redesign. No music scraps, nada. But I am learning to appreciate that it really was Game of the Year and it deserved the praise it got, but at what cost 😭 I think after straying so far from a traditional Zelda game, it means that at some point they are going to deliver an iconic traditional game that rocks us to our core. And it's worth noting that they have to move away from botw completely now. It's like OoT and MM - after that, Wind Waker was born. They will change the art direction, the gameplay, the story, the characterisation....so even though I know we will most likely never get what we had back, at least it will always be new.
I also completely get what you mean by being told a story rather than experiencing it. My girlfriend and I joked that the cutscenes were like watching TV cuz it's completely disengaged from what I am doing in the gameplay. I always had a criticism that for twilight princess, it's midna that confronts ganondorf and it's all her motivations which lead up to the final fight, but I also learned to appreciate that Link was just a pawn in the game. Like that was Midnas story and her fight, much like botw/totk seems to mainly revolve around Zelda. But at least Midna and Link are interacting the whole entire game. And also midna is gay to me so I love her regardless
Well after writing this I can very much see there are two wolves inside of me - botw hater and botw apologist. Feel free to always vent in my inbox, its a botw hate safe place.
I hope you're enjoying totk a lot more. I thought the first half of the game was SOOOOO good and the second half needed some story improvement, but the final boss and cutscene??? absolutely worth it!!!!! good luck out there <3
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itsprettyunfortunate · 8 months
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Alice: I thought you two were dating
Beau: What, no! Why would you think that?
Jessica: Actually, I thought you were dating as well
Angela: Raise your hand if you thought Edward and Beau were dating
Everyone: *Raises their hand*
Beau:
Beau: Edward, put your hand down.
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mikaharuka · 9 months
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Ktêma es Aieí - Official Post
Woohoo! Here's another AU entry for my Winter Light Verse!
This was one of two fics I wrote for the AU exchange! Beyond that, I wrote for my friend Annie (@udaberriwrites)! She's always been very supportive and enthusiastic about the Verse! I was very lucky to be able to write my world and rarepair for the AU exchange, for her!
This idea's kind of interesting - see, I was originally considering this concept for Apricity, but eventually decided against it for other plot and theme reasons. Then Annie told me that she loves time travel AUs, we entered and got matched on the exchange, and I was given an amazing opportunity to revisit my original idea! If you are familiar with Apricity and the Verse, you'll likely recognize some similarities!
You can think of it as an alternate version of Apricity with time travel!
[As a side note, the other fic I wrote was Melle et Felle, for the Fire Emblem Awakening fandom. You can find that post over here!]
Title: Ktêma es Aieí [a time travel AU of Apricity/Winter Light]
Fandom: Twilight, Life and Death
Ship: Carlisle Cullen/Beau Swan, Mike Newton & Beau Swan
Rating: Teen
Category: M/M
Word Count: 7.6k words over 4 chapters (complete)
Chapter 1 - Crimson Winds [Aír], (2157 words) Chapter 2 - Cerulean Terrain [Gí], (1665 words) Chapter 3 - Emerald Blaze [Pýr], (1676 words) Chapter 4 - Saffron Cascade [Ýdor], (2154 words)
Summary: “We’re stupidly lucky that our actual existence hasn’t been extinguished by your libido.” Or rather, how Beau's endless pining and horny energy might have saved his timeline.
Notes: You can read this without reading canon or Apricity. However, this fic takes place in the Winter Light Verse, a world that differs notably from canon. For this fic, you don't need to know anything, but a few notes are listed in the A/Ns for an easy reference.
Also, this fic was written for the AU Exchange and is a time-travel AU retelling of Apricity, featuring various hijinks and ancient Greece! I was heavily inspired by the myth of Apollo and Hyacinthus with this!
(fandom-blind friendly by default, Apricity-blind friendly too)
You may be interested? @mrsmungus, @udaberriwrites, @magma-saarebas19, @aislinnstanaka, @lena-hills, @bees-and-sunshine @bleepbloopbotz, @sliebman10, @axolotlsupremacyowo, @0nelittlebirdtoldme, @kayedium-writes, @hylianjo
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junewild · 9 months
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this terribly edited meme is for me and between one and five of my followers.
do you want to be one of them? check out tenebrity, my twilight rewrite, here.
why would you do something like that? good question! check out some of my favorite reviews: "It's my favourite alternative for Twilight that manages to be deeper and still in line with the series without being a darkfic... doing Bella justice is a remarkable thing!" "I like this Bella." "I gotta say the best twilight rewrite ever." "All in all it feels very true to the original while being more interesting and well-played than the original was." "It's amazing normally I'm not into reading retellings of twilight at all, but this is amazingly written and all the characters feel real and the situations more realistic."
also, consider this: angela and leah are getting gay married. thanks.
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sunnydaleherald · 1 year
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, June 10th
Host (Lorne): It's like a song. Now, I can hold a note for a long time (laughs) actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.
~~Happy Anniversary~~
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[Drabbles & Short Fiction]
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makeover by BeatriceEveryTuesday (Buffy/Cordelia, T)
[Chaptered Fiction]
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I Need A Bad Idea, Chapter 41 by Skyson (Buffy/Giles, E)
The Long Haul, Chapter 17 by BlueZeroZeroOne (Buffy & Willow, Stargate Atlantis crossover, M)
Divide & Conquer, Chapter 41 by Removes_and_Cleans_Glasses_00 (Buffy/Giles, E)
Dawn the Vampire Slayer, Chapter 16 by LJ94 (wastedperfume) (Ensemble, M)
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Moments that Make You: The Hero and The Princess, Chapter 11 by myheadsgonenumb (Cordelia/Doyle, T)
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Tomes of the Apocalypse: Conquest, Chapter 5 by v_o_x (Multiple Spike/Xander/Angel/Doyle pairings, M)
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Those 2 again, Chapter 30 by Julikobold (Buffy/Spike, G)
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Inner Demon = Literal Cat, Chapter 7 by Desicat (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)
Cause I'm Beggin', Chapters 1-2 by Ifeelittoo21 (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)
More Found Family Ties, Chapter 1 by Julikobold (Buffy/Spike, G)
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Ship Of The Line : The Sunnydale Flyer, Chapter 1 by BlueZeroZeroOne (Scoobies, Stargate and Star Trek: Voyager crossover, FR15)
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Dawn the Vampire Slayer, Chapter 16 by LJ94 (Buffy/Spike, R)
Rising Dawn, Chapter 2 by Jws1993 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)
Insubstantial, Chapter 2 by flootzavut (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)
More Found Family Ties, Chapter 1 by Julikobold (Buffy/Spike, G)
The Time We Had, Chapter 43 by Dusty (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)
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Gifs: I say my power should be our power by lopeirce (Buffy, Kendra, Faith, worksafe)
Playlist: Buffy playlist by slayerdyke
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Video (artwork and discussion): Throwback Sketches (Buffy) by BKM Illustration (worksafe)
Fanvid: Breathe: Angel + Buffy by ClaytonChick8
Fanvid: Giles & Wesley | Buffyverse | Take Control by Jess Wilson
Fanvid: spike + buffy | HUMOR | i'm in a band, a rock band with spike by loveisntbrains
Fanvid: Spike Bad Romance 4K by Moon Child
Fanvid: Spike and Klaus to Buffy and Caroline- Let Me Rest in Peace by Bobblehead89 (The Vampire Diaries & The Originals crossover)
Fanvid: Spike and Klaus to Buffy and Cami- Let Me Rest in Peace by Bobblehead89 (The Vampire Diaries & The Originals crossover)
[Reviews & Recaps]
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Video: The BTVS Twisted Guide - Episode 2: The Harvest by Twisted View
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rainbow-femme · 2 years
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How do you feel about twilight today
There was a book series I read in middle school called the House of Night series. It was trying to capitalize both on the vampire craze and the Wiccan craze happening. I for years read the series voraciously until I had to wait for the new one to come out.
I finally got it and read it and went. Wait a second. This isn’t good. This is incredibly sexist, slut shaming, racist, homophobic, weirdly written, and the main character is one of the meanest protagonists I have ever read and it is absolutely incomprehensible that the authors (mother and daughter duo) have not noticed any of this and the book pats itself on the back for how pro women, pro gay, anti racist it is
So I went back and reread the first few books to see where it went wrong it and it really didn’t, they were always like that. I just so loved the world and the concept that I’d been rewriting the characters in my head to be not terrible so I could enjoy the amazing world. But once I’d had distance and got back in slightly older and with fresh eyes I realized the only thing I thought was good about the books was the concept and the potential and everything else had been me doing recalculations on my head of the characters not saying and doing the worst things possible at any given time (If you would like a more detailed look at how bad this book series is on every level Alizee has a great video on it)
Because it really was a very fun concept. Alternate world that is like ours except vampires exist and everyone has always known about them. And vampires get these cool crescent moon marks on their forehead when they first turn and when they become full vampires it gets turned into a cool personalized marking that represents who they are. And some have magic powers too. So as a kid that is perfect to project onto because it’s basically made in a lab for you to create your own version of it to put you and your friends in
It just also referred to people frequently as slurs, as sluts, referred to the one main gay character as one of the only “good gays” at the school because he wasn’t “weird and feminine” and frequently referred to the one black character as various foods
And that is where I land with twilight too. In middle school I loved it but when I look back a lot of what I loved was the idea. I will give this to Stephanie Meyer she is amazing at coming up with really interesting concepts and world building. But I never was that into the characters as they existed, like a lot of people they were just sort of empty dolls my young mind plugged what I wanted them to be into while inhabiting that world. I think a lot of us had Twilight-sonas of what our super cool OP vampire power would be and which of the characters would fall instantly in love with the self insert because honestly that’s a big appeal of the book, the ability to get the plot as a stage to put yourself into
So today I find twilight to be
A. Really funny to dunk on and make memes about
B. Another example of a very cool premise that sadly was created by a person who insisted on filling it in with bigotry and just generally bad writing choices. Which then fuels the aforementioned dunking
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