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Edward Cullen text posts part 2

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twilight (2008) is an unparalleled masterpiece of camp and awkwardness and i love it dearly

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The year begins with Jasper ☺️❤️

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twilight will always be comfort to my soul

(cred in the video. there’s not enough video edits here on tumblr)

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not allowed to say Harry Potter, but what was your book series obsession as a teen

mine was definitely Eragon

#the twilight saga #i was obsessed #annoyingly so

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☾・●┊ 𝔧𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰 // 𝔩𝔞𝔲𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔱 // 𝔳𝔦𝔠𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔞 𝔦𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔰 ┊●・☽

twilight (2008)

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Y/n: *sneaks into the castle at 2am*

Marcus: *turns in a chair* care to tell me where you were?

Y/n: I was with… Uh......A....Aro!

Aro: *also turns in a chair* Care to- *keeps spinning* Marcus I can’t stop the chair.

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Just wanted to redraw some scenes from twilight saga ✨

(This pic actually been on my phone for soooo long idk who’s the original creator of this meme lmaoo 😭)

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Jasper Cullen Defense Post

So there's a few common critiques of Jasper's character that I've seen floating around, and I wanted to counter those criticisms.

The biggest is that Jasper is only on the diet because of Alice. This one is 100% false. The guidebook and Eclipse state that he was driven into a severe depression by virtue of feeling the emotions of his victims. It was so bad that he continually starved himself after leaving the South in an attempt to stave it off.

Obviously Alice helps tie him to the Cullens specifically, but let's not pretend that he wants to kill people. He's got 70+ years worth of trauma from absorbing the dying emotions of all his victims. Without Alice, he'd absolutely remain on the diet, because going off of it means going back to the worst period of his life.

The second one, and one of the more annoying ones, is that he's racist/owned slaves. Now, the Newborn Wars are a clear parallel to slavery, yes. But Jasper's backstory doesn't suggest that he owned slaves. We know he grew up in Houston, enlisted at a young age, and rapidly rose from common foot soldier to major.

The scion of a wealthy slave-owning family wouldn't be a foot soldier, he'd start out as some kind of officer.

And joining the war doesn't necessarily mean he supported slavery. The majority of the Confederate army was made up of poor/lower class people who'd never owned slaves. Jasper probably joined for the same reasons as Edward's reasons for trying to join the army, a desire to win fame and glory. It's hard for me to really fault a late teenager/young adult for that, it's something that's driven young men since time immemorial.

Even if he was racist, though, which is never suggested in the books or films, it's hard to say Jasper's experiences in the Newborn Wars didn't adequately punish him. The dude lived 70 years in absolute hell, soaking up the misery of others with a psychic gift that makes it impossible for him to ignore anyone's feelings.

Thanks for reading!

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When she wrote the Twilight books & Midnight Sun Stephanie Meyer accidentally gave us autistic girl representation with Bella and this is the hill I will die on

In the movies the way Bella is always playing with her sleeves or hair? Stimming 🤷🏻‍♀️

Prioritizes comfort over aesthetics in her personal style

The whole thing where she describes her brain as being AM radio vs FM

Social struggles and a hard time making friends

Clumsiness

The way she hyper fixated on researching vampires and trying to figure out Edward

Her love for literature and how her favorite books are so worn down from constant use

The new moon meltdown; I think it could be argued it was also partly bc her whole world just got upended and she’s having trouble adjusting

The way she’s described as “emotionless” and “too awkward” in how Kristen Stewart plays her

Obviously any of these on their own don’t mean much but I think if you mush them all together it’s at least worth considering. Source: my audhd gremlin brain

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Woah, woah, wait, hold up—

Nobody ever mentioned how drinking Bella's blood affected Edward afterwards.

Could you imagine? The first time they're in the hospital in Phoenix, and someone is visibly shocked to see the hints of scarlet in Edward's eyes? The first time he grabs a door handle just a little too hard, in plain sight of Rene, and bends it in his hand because he forgot to compensate for his little bit of extra strength?

And maybe it had worked its way out of his system before Bella woke up, or maybe not. She may not have known what it meant at the time, but she definitely would have noticed the crimson ring around the edge of his pupil, like a halo, or like an infection.

And I think Edward would have deeply hated it.