the choice between Edward & Jacob is not a question of which relationship is healthier or which partner is best suitable for Bella. neither is correct. neither is best. neither produces a happy ending for Bella. at the end of the day this is still a vampire novel. any choice Bella could make would yield, at best, a bittersweet happily ever after.
if she chooses Edward, she gets the terrifying Breaking Dawn ending: a girl who rejected her call to grow up has hung her love & her eternity on an emotionally stunted partner who hates himself marginally less than he loves her. she's a teen mom with a kid she never wanted who perpetuates the generational trauma passed down from her parents. by keeping this child, the Cullens have set the stage for an uprising/cold war against the Volturi who are likely to take revenge in order to maintain power. Bella is living in a tenuous "dream come true" wrapped in a nightmare & doesn't realize it.
choosing Jacob is the true coming-of-age ending that rips the stitches out of a wound that never fully healed. even if we ignore the fact that she ends up with a man who sexually assaulted her (we must bear in mind Jacob's character is influenced by smeyer's racism, but it did happen), they can't have a secure romantic relationship. based on the high imprinting rate of the pack, Jacob will likely find his imprint in his lifetime & will lose himself to the imprintee. he will no longer be her Jacob. he will inevitably abandon her (whether he wants to or not), & she must reconcile with the reality that she will always be inadequate to Jacob's imprint. & say he never manages to escape the vampires? he will presumably not age for a long time, meaning the relationship Bella always feared with Edward (her being an old grandmother while he stays forever young) remains a possibility. this is the story of a girl who slaps a Band Aid on an open wound & calls herself healed while flinching every time she sees the shadow of the knife that cut her.
if she chooses neither (team therapy), her healing requires her to lose or be at least partially disconnected from everyone she cares about. Bella must spend the rest of her life shut out from one world while never fully existing in her human world ever again. she must always keep secrets. she can never go back home. even in the unlikely event that she manages to escape the Volturi, the threat of being hunted by vampires will never leave her. in addition, she must face her worst fears (aging, losing Edward) while always keeping in mind the immortal life that could have been hers, if only.
even the "healthiest" option produces scars that will never quite heal.
Twilight is a horror. Twilight is a vampire novel. Twilight is gothic. Twilight is fiction. neither Edward nor Jacob is a "bad" choice because neither will give Bella her happily ever after. the choice between Edward & Jacob is simply a matter of which horror story you prefer to read.
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hot take time about the mizu and akemi ship. y'all can disagree but i said what i said, because again, it's just an opinion!!!!
putting the rest under a cut so y'all are free to ignore this if you want. i'm just rambling anyway and, again, these are just my personal opinions.
okay like i gotta hand it to blue eye samurai like it's genuinely impressive that they've written their characters so well, like each one of them feels so real and fully-realised
and as a consequence of that, it actually. for the first time ever. has me rooting against a sapphic ship becoming canon endgame LIKE LMAO ???? i didn't think that was POSSIBLE but here we are ???
cuz like if you know me at all you know i usually instantly latch onto any femslash ship at any given opportunity. like i don't think yall understand. i was ride or die for korrasami before it was even remotely a thing, like at that point korrasami was still a CRACK SHIP in the fandom and i was gunning for it immediately and begging them both to leave mako's stupid ass!!!
but SOMEHOW this show, with all its gender fuckery galore and all its well written characters, has somehow made me look at the mizu/akemi ship and say "i'll pass." like dont get me wrong i was pinning my hopes on it initially in the first episode, but by the time i got to the end??? NAH.
like don't get me wrong they ARE cute and sexy on paper and i DO definitely see them developing feelings for each other (mizu towards akemi especially, less so the other way around because akemi just does not strike me as the pining type) but for an endgame? nah. it'd be weird and messy for both of them like!!! they'd be bad for each other!!!
they both want and need completely different things in life (mizu wants vengeance but needs acceptance/belonging; akemi wants freedom but needs autonomy and empowerment).
and they don't even share much in common that would help them bond in a romantic way? like not even interests-wise, but like. personality-wise too. their perceptions of life and approaches and experiences all directly contrast each other. like i know that they're narrative foils and all, which is great, excellent really, but romantically? there is no common ground between them.
besides, of course, both being AFAB and struggling with the patriarchy and misogyny, both having a surrogate father figure who raised them (swordfather for mizu; seki for akemi). aside from those things, they diverge in almost every single way?
like i do get the appeal of the "yin and yang" dynamic of opposites attract in ships (i have so many such ships from other fandoms after all), so i do suppose that, if given enough time for a really long and intense slow burn, it could work. but with all the plot plot plot the show's got going on, i don't know if that's going to be possible, especially now that mizu is ??? apparently going to london ????
and what would their endgame even look like? the two of them running off into the sunset together? why? when akemi has everything she wants and needs in edo palace? which, by the way, is completely the opposite of what mizu wants and needs, as mizu needs a place where she is free to be herself and is accepted and loved for who she is. she does not need, nor want, a life of political intrigue. she is not made for it, nor is it meant for her. akemi, on the other hand, is perfectly suited for such a life, while being completely unsuited for a life on the road, travelling, or living on a farm in the middle of nowhere. nor would akemi like or enjoy such a life either! she'd get freedom, yes, but it would hardly be fulfilling, especially now that she has decided that she wants greatness!
i don't know. if they become canon endgame, the show better put in the work. because this is a netflix adult animated show with the freedom to do that (unlike, say, cartoons on nickelodeon and disney where the creators all faced heavy censorship to get some rep in), so if they're taking the sapphic endgame route, they better buck up and put their backs into it because seeing the state of it right now, the chemistry is bone-dry and the prospects are disastrous!!!!
so until further developments prove me wrong and change my mind, every time i see mizu/akemi content somehow escape the confines of the mute function, i just reenact the gengar gay wrongs gif:
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genuine question @ ppl who think izzy is poor/ lower class:
why
fr tho im not trying to start a fight here i just want to know where this take is coming from. i've seen people state that izzy is poor/working class like this is an immutable fact of canon, but from what i can see, izzy might have a poor background, but we don't know enough about his past to say for sure. and he's definitely not poor now, during the events of season 1. he's not a wealthy aristocrat like stede, but he's definitely made a comfortable living working with ed. (financially comfortable, at least. i imagine life on a 1717 pirate ship is physically uncomfortable no matter how successful a pirate you are)
like if anyone knows why this take is so common let me know but i DO want to talk specifically with the people who believe this abt izzy. i honestly do not want to start discourse i just want to Understand
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"smart of me to burn them rather than eat them, i think. you're a surgeon-you would have dug it all out of my gut." and what if you did eat them, idiot? what if you did eat the orders thinking that there's no way artemy would get to you in time to dig them out--by the time he gets to you, stomach acid would make any orders illegible. but surprise! fuck you! you are now having improvised intestinal obstruction removal in lara ravel's parlor right next to the corpses of the men you killed! wake up again and surprise, the polyhedron is now dust and the only capable doctor who can help post-surgery is the one who gave you the surgery and got the tower torn down in the first place! what a situation! what to do with this situation!
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ok it's been a hot minute since I've rewatched s5 but where's that post that's like "we don't know how/why/the circumstances in which sam said yes to lucifer, we can't assume he was coerced/tricked/forced into it" bc like yeah I wouldn't put it past lucifer to attempt any of those things but I really really really like the idea of sam feeling so alone and wretched and unclean going to the only one he knows won't judge him for it. caught between relief bc he's not being constantly made to drown in guilt and shame vs. the guilt and shame that he feels when he finds solace in being with lucifer. it's like an ouroborous situation where lucifer is the cause of his shame but lucifer is also the only person who doesn't think negatively of him for what he's done, so he finds comfort there that he's constantly conflicted about.
also I feel like lucifer would have told him at some point that a vessel can just tell an angel to fuck off and they have to do it. or did that get retconned for the gadreel thing lmao. like if we take that rule to endverse, wouldn't sam have told lucifer to fuck off by now? but that also conflicts with slucifer killing endverse dean and I feel like no version of sam would be ok with that, he'd be telling lucifer to get the fuck out of him. I'm not gonna let my samifer bias get in the way of how much sam loves dean bc that would just be ignoring the entire show
I think the takeaway is that my bf and i need to get to s5 so I can talk coherently about this
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dont know if this has been asked before but do you have any srpska hcs?
most of them i covered in the last ask!! but a few bonus ones:
he started smoking when he was like 9
he used to steal cigarettes from enis until he got caught and enis nearly killed him <3
(idriza flushes them down the toilet whenever she finds his stash)
he tried to give himself a shitty stick n poke tattoo of an eagle once with idriza's sewing needles and pen ink and it got infected and now it looks like a weird smudge
appearance-wise he looks just like his dad when he was a kid, but rougher, like he's grown awkwardly into his body
although he's a little shit he can act surprisingly presentable for important international meetings and such
i imagine him and kos being like. the kid u fucking can't stand but ur parents force u to hang out with. they have a lot in common they just can't stop arguing long enough to figure it out. ilija is the younger of the two and also jealous of him (not that he'd ever admit it)
this isn't even a hc it's just a logical conclusion but. he's very desensitized to violence and quite hot-headed
spends all day online on FPS games shouting slurs (until someone gets annoyed and unplugs the pc)
ok last thing is. i don't want to leave u with the wrong impression, he's notttt like. grumpy grouchy angsty teen boy grr >:( i think tix described him as having an attitude like serbia's which i interpret like! yeah he's a deranged little devil but your first impression of him is that he's a cheerful and sociable (albeit annoying) kid
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