#homeboy laid his head down on bella’s breasts and told her that her scent drove him nearly insane with desire that first day

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Twilight Clown Takes Special Edition—Kristen Stewart & the Migratory Slash Fandom

99% sure this is headline bait from Variety, but regardless, the clownery is too tempting to resist, even if it leads to my ultimate destruction. Gasp! Maybe I am queer-coded?

1) Yes, obviously, but also 2) Tell me you only saw the films without telling me you only saw the films.

Because in the books, it’s abundantly clear which of these boys has Bella’s V in a vice hold. And it ain’t the friendly neighborhood werewolf.

The Migratory Slash Fandom Appears

I literally don’t know where to start with this. With the obviously queer-coded characters? Even the dumb anti fandom usually stick to Queer!Alice and Rosalie, and that’s mostly because they hate Edward (and Jacob) with Bella. Their backstories are gay? Only if you believe that writing about trauma is inherently gay, which 😬

Someday I will sit down and make a serious study on this fan tendency to queering het romance even heteros have trouble stomaching (past the obvious resonance of “forbidden love” as a theme). But that day is not today.

Literary Analysis!1!!1!

Because forbidden love trope = queer every time. And I mean every time!!!

Look, Dracula and Carmilla’s queer undertones are more than just the fact that they are Gothic. They literally must have implied queer desire (haven’t read Carmilla, but Dracula at least has the “Leave him! He’s mine!”). There must actually be a current of homoeroticism, symbolic and textual, in the work. If a Gothic novel doesn’t have that, then it’s really not queer (Wuthering Heights would be a prime example). Genres and their conventions are not inherently queer or straight.

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