Okay look. Stephanie Meyer contributed four (4) cool things to the contemporary fantasy genre, which I shall now list here in the hopes of getting it out of my system. In descending order of importance:
1. Writing a story about a girl who wants something. Plot driven by a womanās (non-vilified) desire. Truly dreadful execution but still a good idea, sort of a literary incarnation of the āhe a little confused but he got the spiritā meme.
2. The fact that when Bella becomes a vampire she can still breathe but āthereās no relief tied to the actionā which I remember verbatim because it fucking slapped. The idea of human physical sensations being partially defined by our mortality and the sensations still exist after you become undead but your experience of them is fundamentally different because you no longer need any of it? Extremely cool. The closest Meyer came to taking an interesting stance on vampires being dead.
3. Werewolves are immortal but they can literally stop whenever they want. That shitās hilarious. Curse of immortality who.
4. The fact that vampires donāt sleep or get tired so their communally-raised baby doesnāt have a crib because she is always in someoneās arms. That was extremely cute and thereās a different, better book contained somewhere in that specific concept.
5. Depression being represented by like 6 blank chapters titled with months.
6. She was the first person to openly encourage people to write fanfiction and not sue fanfiction writers when that was the norm.Ā
