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edward be like you’re in her voicemail i am in her home we are not the same

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The way this scene is supposed to show Edward’s perspective + more insight into Carlisle’s self control/parental role, esp towards Bella, BUT ITS THE MOST CHEMISTRY EVER BETWEEN BELLA AND ANYONE ELSE?? the chin tap? The holding her arm in place? The low way he’s speaking to her? BARKBARKBARK

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Favorite Character Meme // 6 quotes

Midnight Sun Chapter 5 // “Why won’t you leave me alone?”  Believe me, I wanted to say, I’ve tried.  Oh, and also, I’m wretchedly in love with you.  Keep it light.

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edward likes taking bella to the meadow because she gets eaten up by mosquitos who then become flying little snackies that edward doubles back for. edward leaps about the meadow snatching them up like a bass jumping from a lake

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It’s always ‘wyd’ and not ‘wthhybl'

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Anon, per request:

With all the buzz surrounding Smeyer possibly releasing a new book + her previous claims that a future book in the series would be in either raspberry or leah's POV, there's this notion i've been seeing for a while now across the fandom (whether here or outside tumblr, post and/or comment) is the idea that Leah would imprint on one of the hybrids "so she can get over her prejudice against vampires/be more compassionate to the Cullens" (iirc i recently even saw it on a youtube comment the other day, that's how i got reminded of it)

...i'm sorry, but Leah is the one person (every one in the Quileute tribe, really) who has EVERY right to hate vampires, precisely because of what they did to her people *and* what she lost from the forced transformation triggered by the vampire presence (she lost Sam to a werewolf imprint, and she lost her father from his shock upon witnessing her transformation). And she is in NO way obligated to play nice with the Cullens, especially from her perspective, they came back to their area AND later on endangered more of the children on her tribe to phase prematurely because they invited more vampires. One of them literally injured her brother (*cough* Bella) while the rest just watched and did nothing to stop it.

and when she thought she was finally free to start anew with Jacob's tribe, Jacob's imprinting with Rigatoni basically shackled the pack with the Cullens (i feel bad for jacob in this, because in a way he really did end up becoming a "slave for life", something he used to joke with Bella....)

if anyone should get over their prejudice and learn more compassion, it's the Cullens (especially the "kids" like Edward, Rosalie and Alice constantly throwing slurs at them) to the Quileutes, NOT the other way around.

Oh, God, yeah, the idea that Leah needs to be 'redeemed' by learning to like the Cullens (or Bella, for that matter) drives me up the wall.

I AM genuinely worried she'll imprint on Nahuel, though. I just feel like it would be very SM for there to be this love triangle with Jacob/Nessie/Nahuel but then Nessie chooses Jacob and oh no, what do we do with the leftover Nahuel? Oh, Leah's single!!!!

I've said from the beginning of this blog that it makes ALL THE SENSE in the world for the Quileutes to hate the Cullens. It doesn't matter if the Cullens didn't know their presence would trigger the transformation, they DID know they weren't wanted there. (It seems like this was 100% an author choice, a "the story needs to happen!" thing because for their own safety and secrecy it just doesn't make sense for the Cullens to move back to a place where they know people know they're vampires. It's just a stupid, pointless thing to do just for their OWN protection). But it sounds like SM googled 'rainiest place in US", found Forks, moved the Cullens there, THEN found out about the local reservation and co-opted them to make vampire-hating werewolves so in story it just . . . doesn't make any sense.

They're also, like, you know, actual serial killers. However you interpret the Sam/Emily mess, NONE of the wolves have ever killed a person. All of the Cullens except Carlisle have killed people (Rosalie and Edward did so intentionally, not slip ups, but they've still killed). I can't blame Billy & co for not wanting blood-drinking killers to move into their area. Like that's enough. Even if, like SM, you don't see the larger issues of racism and colonialism, that's reason enough to be like, GTFO. They Cullens might be trying to be good but by their own account, mistakes happen. See: Bella's birthday party.

But it never made ANY sense to me that the Cullens would hate the wolves. "They're our natural enemies." I mean, they aren't actual Children of the Moon werewolves, though? And even if they were, so what? The whole Cullen experiment is rejecting traditional vampirism, why are they sticking to the "we hate werewolves!" thing when they've thrown out everything else? Again, I know: so the story can happen. And in any other setting this would be pretty standard vamp vs wolf beef, with the name calling and all that. But when you make all your vamps rich and white and your wolves poor and Indigenous, you set up a lot of really ugly implications whether they were intentional or not.

So yeah, Leah doesn't need to learn to love the Cullens (or Bella), the Cullens should learn to respect the wolves more, and frankly it's a tragedy that they are stuck together for the foreseeable future because of Nessie rather than a happy ending. The Cullens should leave but now "nooo you can't take Nessie away!!" ugh. I hope Leah doesn't imprint on Nahuel and be forced to keep phasing forever and be immortal for him. BELLA chose immortality. That's what she wanted. Jacob didn't want it. Leah sure as hell doesn't.

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imagine rosalie killing those men who hurt her, one of them being a man she cared about and envisioned a whole life with, a man whom she thought would make all her dreams come true, start a family with, who betrayed her

and she comes home, knowing about carlisle's morals about killing, and is met with kindness and understanding, no judgement or anger in his eyes, just sorrow for the pain he sees in her

edward, who's always a bit judgemental where she is concerned, but who knows her thoughts like no one else could, who has spent a decade killing rapists and murderers, looking at her with pride, impressed at how she didn't drink their blood, relieved that her thoughts are no longer completely filled with anger and hurt

and esme, who was also abused by her partner when she was human, the one who better understands her pain, waiting for her with a warm bath to wash off the blood and hugging her as soon as she walks through the door, whose first thought is making sure rosalie is ok, hoping that now she can finally begin to heal and find some peace

imagine

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ok but like…imagine the Cullen kids arguing over who has the cleanest record re: blood drinking and whether ‘singers’ should count or not and Carlisle being like ‘um it’s not a competition, human life should be taken very seriously’ etc. etc. and Emmett being like ‘ok but you don’t GET it though’ and Carlisle very pointedly saying ‘I HAVE tasted human blood you know’ and just like…gesturing vaguely at half his family who quite often Forget That

and then there’s like a half second of awkward silence before Emmett is like ‘ok out of the four of us who tasted best’ and Carlisle being like ‘I’m NoT goING to RATE yoU by FlaVoR’

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I got engaged two days ago. How should I incorporate twilight into the wedding (unhinged answers only)

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In the Twilight universe, “vegetarian” vampires have golden eyes from drinking animal blood, a more ethical source than human blood, which would give them red eyes. It has also been established that a diet of human blood makes vampires physically stronger. So, if the Cullens wanted to become stronger without jeopardizing their morals, could they consume mosquitoes instead? How many mosquitoes would they have to eat to survive? Since mosquitoes drink from both humans and animals, what color would their eyes be? Orange? In this essay, I will

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salvaged this glorious article from my art class from the magazine bin (which is why someone has cut out a chunk) 

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due to personal reasons I will now be crying in alaska for a week

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irina it’s not an immortal child it’s a vampire-human hybrid you don’t have to tell the volturi oh god she can’t hear us she has airpods in oh fuck

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Considering what we find out in Midnight Sun about Renée, it wouldn't surprise me if her untapped power were passed down to her granddaughter. It would definitely explain the effect Renesmee has on other people and add more power to her gift.

Honestly that's what kind of fascinates me about this retcon! Because it's canon that people can inherit versions of their parents' gifts. Charlie's thoughts are muffled and hard to make out; Bella's are silent. Renesmee can show you her thoughts (reverse of Edward) and seemingly break through shields, although it's only been tested on Bella.

So by saying Renee had this seemingly powerful gift to silently SHOUT her thoughts and get people to help her, SM is implying that Bella and Renesmee probably have some variant of this too?

I know plenty of us have sort of wondered "why does everyone fall all over themselves to help Bella?" all the time. Like, what reason does the wolfpack have to spend so much of their time protecting this one girl who isn't even a member of their community? Don't the Cullens have anything better to do than babysit her? And there are in-universe reasons ("They love her!" "they know Edward will fall to pieces if anything happens to her" "They know Jacob will be insufferable if anything happens to her") and out of universe ones ("she's the main character.") but maybe it's this. Maybe something about her radiates "HELP ME. PROTECT ME" too. And it sure seems like Renesmee has this as well; anyone who has let her touch them is ready to die for this kid. Maybe she has Renee's gift but she has to touch you for it to take effect.

Before Midnight Sun I would have thought SM's intention was just that Renesmee is THAT adorable and cute that everyone would die for her; that Bella was just THAT 'good' that people would want to protect her. But MS makes me think that yeah, they might have some version of Renee's power that's influencing how everyone is risking their lives to protect them over and over again.

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