He Also Has OCD

he/him (nonbinary) bi 25yo 🌲 succumbed to the Twilight renaissance, so here is my side-blog 🌲 I choose to believe Edward & Bella are neurodiverse and trans because I'm right 🌲 I follow from @kickmetothemorgue 🌲

[lambandlion]

When Bella finds out she’s pregnant in BD, she mentions that her last period was 16 days before the wedding (the wedding took place on August 13th 2006) and that at the time of her phonecall with Carlisle (which was 17 days after the wedding) she was 5 days late. She also mentions that her period is never late.

This means that her cycle is 28 days exactly (16+17-5) and that her last period began on July 28th 2006. That was also her last period EVER btw because then she got pregnant and then was immediately changed.

So I counted backwards to every single one of Bella’s periods, from her last one before she changed, to the first one after she moved to Forks. The results:

To elaborate, Bella was on her period:

When she first met Edward at biology class (January 18th 2005)

At the meadow (March 12th) and baseball game (March 13th)

The first time she heard Edward’s voice in NM (January 16th 2006)

When she bought the bikes and she started repairing them with Jake (January 17-18th)

When she and Jacob did homework together and she invited him to the movies (February 14th)

The day she realized Jacob is a werewolf (March 11th)

Quite possibly when she jumped off the cliff, depending on how long it lasts for her (March 16th)

When  Jacob confronted Edward and Bella about the treaty and gave Bella back her motorcycle (April 7th)

When Edward caught Riley’s scent at Bella’s house (June 2nd)

At the Quileute bonfire (June 3rd)

When Jacob went missing in BD (Late June/Early July)

So… yeah that’s what I did today.

[edwardcullenisavirgin]

Ur insane I think I love you

[panlight]

"We have to go to high school this one time because Alice foresaw that we would meet someone important there," would make more sense than any canon explanation. It would also explain why they were so bad at blending in. They hadn't done it before!

I mean I guess you could make the argument that Edward would refuse to go if it meant luring an innocent human girl into the dark world of vampirism, woe! But maybe Alice didn't see who/what all that clearly just that like, "this is the cover story we need to do this time, trust me."

[panlight]

ALSO make more sense of why Forks in the first place. I know it's likely because SM wrote things out of order and placed the Cullens there before discovering the Quileutes and co-opting their wolf legends, but it has never made sense to me why the Cullens would move back to the one place where there might be a danger to them. Even if they don't know or care that their presence will trigger the shifter gene, for their own safety it just seems very foolish to move back there. And like yes, I know, they had to so the story could happen, but "we moved here because it's the rainiest place" is not much of an excuse. Move to the second or third rainiest place where there is no history of giant vampire-killing wolves?

So again, if Alice had had a vision and insisted that, for some reason, they need to be at Forks High specifically for the next few years, then at least that's something.

[no-blood-no-foul]

Now what would be an interesting turn of events would be if Esme attacked Bella in New Moon. Sweet, motherly, lovable Esme who never really leaves the house to be around humans - she doesn’t even have her own car.

How immune is she to the scent of blood? Jasper is in school every day where I know people are bleeding. But esme?

Picture the party ending in New Moon with Emmett and Jasper holding back their heart-faced mum, and suddenly the lovely Esme is very much a vampire and Bella is looking her future in the face

[colinrobinsonscardigan]

I love how much Twilight discourse used to be centred around how Twilight isn’t scary and how Edward isn’t a rEaL vampire he’s just a hot guy!! Who sparkles!!!!!!!!! As if Twilight wasn’t very famously a romance book. That’s like turning up to a Saw movie and getting pissed off when it turns out to not be a cute slice of life fic. Genuinely what were you expecting.

[edwardcullenisace]

I just finished reading Life And Death and, as a trans guy who has always loved the Twilight books, Beau Swan is SUCH a catharsis for me! He makes me so happy and I definitely agree with the head canon of him being trans/nonbinary! I love your short story about agender Beau!

Thank you so much!! I can't believe I never wrote more but it's been years and my writing style is too different now so every time I try to touch it it just doesn't work😭

But yeah smeyer has this very strange ability to write characters (especially the main character tbh, in both the twilight & life and death versions) who are just obviously queer in some way without having a clue

Trans Beau Swan my beloved💕

[tichelcain]

i like to think that stephanie meyer told herself “the worst they can say is no” over and over in the mirror before asking mcr about the twilight soundtrack

the worst they could say was not no.

[fuckmeyer]

even if Bella WAS a perfect vampire, & even if this WAS who she was always meant to be, it wouldn't erase her insecurity of fitting in. she would completely overpower the Cullens in sports & competitions for at least a year. they have decades of inside jokes, memories, and cultural experiences she will never share. that's nothing to say of the real-world experience she lacks. & while no one would admit it, her perfect control must get irritating for someone like Jasper, who struggles with the diet, or Rose, who until now could brag about having the cleanest record besides Carlisle. obviously, as a vampire in a human's world, she's never going to find a true sense of belonging. but even among the Cullens, i don't see her overcoming that feeling anytime soon, despite what she might want to believe.

[fuckmeyer]

by making her a Perfectly Perfect Vampire, smeyer limits Bella's opportunities to bond with her new family. she's not opening up about how hard it is to resist the call for blood. or how frustrated she is that she can't do simple tasks like holding a pencil. or how sad she is that she had to leave Charlie behind. by being Too Perfect to kill the hiker, she misses out on the comfort she would have gotten from Emmett or Esme. she won't have adult conversations with Edward about the guilt he feels from his rebellious phase, & how to cope. we don't see Carlisle or Jasper pulling strings to erase her from the scene of the crime, or the family pitching in to reestablish their lives

like. idk if Bella (/smeyer) realizes that the Cullens are likely close because they've made awful, irreparable mistakes together and have leaned on each other in hard times. i think Bella believes her value lies in being useful and not a burden. she gets everything she wants, but there's still an unspoken cost. i think, by making her Perfect, smeyer has made her untouchable - even to the Cullens.

[9puppiesdrowninginapool]

it's time for aro's big naturals

[panlight]

Something interesting about Twilight is that the main group of vampires aren't even like THAT old?

I mean yeah there are Carlisle and Jasper who are more the ages you'd expected vampires to be in a story like this; well into their immortality, long past the time they might have lived if they had stayed human. But even then compared to Amun and Kebi, or the Denali sisters, or the Volturi leaders, Jane and Alec, Demetri, even most of his friends, Carlisle's like . . . a teenager. Jasper's barely a tween.

The others are little vampire babies! The books take place in 2005. Esme, the next oldest, was born in 1895. If she had stayed human theoretically she could have still been alive. She'd be 110, but it's possible. Alice and Edward were both born in 1901. They're each 104. Again, unlikely, but within the realm of possible for a human lifespan. Rosalie and Emmett were born in 1915. They'd be 90. We're getting into "yeah I have a relative that age" territory now.

They aren't that old. They've barely tasted immortality. Sure they've seen a lot of social change and everyone they knew in their youth is dead, but that's the same sort of experience that 105 year old grandpas in a nursing home have had. There were cars and telephones when five of the Cullens were human. They went to the movies. They aren't all that old.

[panlight]

"How long have you been 17?"

". . . a while."

"Yeah I get that, but how old are you really?"

"I'm turning 104 this year."

". . . that's it?"

"Are you not horrified?" "I mean Charlie's neighbor across the street is 102."

"Still does her own gardening."

"I think I saw her driving last week."

[edwardcullenisace]

I wish Bella had spent more time in the supermarket as the series progressed. Big fan of the supermarket scene in the first book. Would've loved her to have a silent crisis in the soup aisle

[edwardcullenisace]

[tags reading: I need to see Bella take Edward to the supermarket and how he turns up his nose at the human food. He goes with her anyway because he cannot be away from her. Bella tries to find out what his favourite food was as a human. Bella asks if any of the food smells better than she does (lol)]

Prev I'm gonna latch onto this because you've suddenly made me think how much I want to Edward's insistence that Bella appreciates every human thing while she can turned back on him in the worst way

Bella becomes obsessed with learning things about his childhood, his neighbourhood, what he liked what he didn't like. And bit by bit, because Bella is drawing it out of him, it comes back. What his mother used to make on a Sunday after church. How him and the neighbourhood kids used to turn their noses up at the pie Mrs Jones always used to bring to any street party/potluck. How it felt to be vulnerable. How it felt to wonder what everyone around him was thinking, carefully studying each face to figure out a furrowed brow or the hint of a smile.

And together, they find out that it's not some weird, special vampire thing. Remembering life as a human is painful to Edward, they're memories quietly put to the side to make the eternal future that bit more manageable

How this feeling weaves its way into the push and pull between whether Bella should become a vampire? Maybe that's for someone who's not meant to be working rn to think about

[edwardcullenisace]

I wish Bella had spent more time in the supermarket as the series progressed. Big fan of the supermarket scene in the first book. Would've loved her to have a silent crisis in the soup aisle

[bloodclotbitch]

Ok I made a fun one for the fun side of tumblr! You’re propositioned by this person at the bar for a beautiful night of love making

You respond…

HELL YES

Sorry, not my type

HELL NO

Who?

Voting ended onMar 25, 2025

[oopsitsnothingcreative]

Edward, busting into Alice’s room in a cold sweat after looking at Beau for an hour: AM I GAY?!?

Alice, whipping out a PowerPoint Presentation: I am so glad you asked.

[edwardcullenisace]

Look Rosalie Edward and Carlisle are just the perfect little angst circle to me. YES there should be emotional consequences to immortality. YES you should be bitter about it towards each other. YES you should resent each other for what each of you represent, for the life you lost and for the undeath that none of you asked for!

Sometimes I like to imagine that, as much as they don't get along, Rosalie and Edward are the closest of any of the "siblings". In that sibling kinda way. You hate each other, you grate on each other's nerves, but part of that resentment comes from the fact that you understand each other too well.

Even worse when one of you is a mind reader. Rosalie resents Edward for understanding exactly what she's going through, and for treading carefully where it actually matters, because that was meant to be private. Edward knows that resentment intimately, can't help but hear it like a constant hum in his mind, and resents her for it, even though she can't help her thoughts any more than he can help reading them.

But when it comes down to it, nobody else quite gets it. They have more fun when they're in someone else's company, they can forget their sorrows and self hatred for a bit, but when they just need to be quietly honest about their lives? That's when they need each other the most.

[edwardcullenisace]

If I was an immortal vampire who didn't sleep and had a wall full of CDs and just a bunch of music. I'm not saying Debussy wouldn't be in the collection. But the chances of it being in the player when my brand new human girlfriend comes over would be so low. It would be some wild off-putting shit that I would proceed to be so pretentious about that my fresh human girlfriend decides that a mysterious vampire boyfriend simply isn't worth it

[edwardcullenisace]

Bella didn't have the mystery figured out quite yet. Whether she would find her answers in myths, legends, and fairytales, or whether he was something not quite covered by that, she wasn't sure. But no matter her lack of evidence, her instincts screamed at her loud enough. She knew one thing for certain.

Edward Cullen was dead.

The sickly, lifeless pallor of his skin, and how cold it was to touch. The strange, changeable colour of his eyes. The fact that she never saw him eat, or drink. His overly sweet scent, verging on rotten.

And it wasn't just him, either. The whole family from what she could tell. She didn't know how it was possible, or what it all meant, but every single one of them was dead.

It should have made her uncomfortable. Getting increasingly entangled with Edward, inextricably drawn to him.

It could have made her scared. So many stories of the undead are filled with threat, and horror.

Mostly she felt pity. However long he'd been dead aside, he still had a teenager's face. What kind of life had he led? Does he remember who he was, then? Was there a childhood sweetheart left behind? A mother, a father? Or was the past just empty to him?

Perhaps someone smarter, or with a functional sense of self preservation, would keep away. She was too young to become so acquainted with death, certainly too young to acquaint herself by choice.

But it wasn't a choice now, was it? Not anymore. At some point, she had stepped unknowingly into the world of the dead. And on some level, Bella knew there was no escape

[edwardskhakipants]

I’m really grateful that rob played edward as so very miserable that they had to explicitly tell him to smile more lol. I wonder if it had been a different actor if we wouldn’t have gotten sad emo Edward

Rob had a vision. And it was correct, Edward is a brooding loser who hates himself. Not many heartthrob actors would go with that angle, and I'm glad Rob did.

I think the script failed him most... they just didn't give him the opportunity to be sweet, lovesick dork. He lands the few jokes they give him. Plus, he admitted that he struggled to shout in his American accent, so we don't get those dramatic Edward outbursts.

idk.

Maybe I'll just blame the script instead of rob patt?