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[rosemmett]

I hate that Rosalie dislikes Jacob for racist reasons. She should hate him because he sexually assaulted his supposed 'best friend'. She should hate him because he doesn't take 'no' for an answer. She should hate him because he leveraged his own life so that a woman who has made it clear how little she wants to kiss him would kiss him moments after he found out she was engaged. Rosalie should hate him for all the reasons Rosalie hated the men that killed her, and not because he is an Indigenous boy who was turned into a shapeshifting werewolf by the presence of her species.

[quill-and-feather]

❀˖° The Cullen Girls (& Bella) °˖❀

My favorites ღ Alice and Rosalie’s fashion senses were a bit hard for me, as I feel like Alice dresses like this and in more billowy, lighter outfits, and Rosalie can gravitate for a more casual style (rather than always sticking to the office chic, ‘30s silhouette as I drew here). Let me know which style suits both of them better!

[twilight-midnightsun]

[itsfortheplants]

guys. I think we go too easy on edward cullen.

[midnight-sunnydale]

When does Edward Cullen Accountability Week start??? Because I am READY

[edwardskhakipants]

The problem is that I love everything that's wrong with him. Edward Cullen Accountability Week and Edward Cullen Appreciation Week are the same week.

[midnight-sunnydale]

This is absolutely true

[edwardskhakipants]

I mean I'll obviously start ... My favorite things that are wrong with Edward Cullen:

1. He's got no rizz for the entirety of Twilight. Cannot believe that Bella still likes him after All That.

2. Finds out the girl he's crushing on likes him back and his first thought is to send her to a mental hospital

3. Stalks a girl and confesses to stalking her (this charms her????)

4. Blinded by love, he makes zero good decisions in New Moon. Complete buffoonery.

5. Tortures himself and is shocked to discover that hurting himself hurts those who care about him. (this seems deeply unfair but okay...)

6. Threatens marriage at every inconvenience.

7. Does not want to fuck in honor of The Lord.

[midnight-sunnydale]

This is it, THE definitive list of all the reasons why I love Edward Cullen. Everything he's ever done wrong is also everything he's ever done right. Thank you for the delightful summary.

Also @edwardsvirtue what are you doing hiding gold in the tags??????

[hoahoahoahoahoa]

I’m very conflicted over the end of New Moon

On the one hand, Edward and Bella’s reunion is sweet and cathartic (Edward being sure he’s dead and somehow in heaven because she’s there!!) and has juuuust enough angst with Bella worrying if Edward’s going to disappear anyway again but enjoying his presence while she has him. And the “blackest kind of blasphemy” speech? *chef’s kiss*

On the other hand it is SO LAME that Edward suddenly doesn’t have to worry about his bloodlust anymore around Bella. Like I get it it’s so perfectly Edward to be ~fixed~ by knowing true heartbreak but like. The guy essentially starved himself for months and then had his singer literally slam into him.

How about he gets her back only to immediately have her in peril again because they’re reunited— an echo of the inciting incident for him leaving in the first place. Bloodlust-wise, it’s like that first day in Biology all over again but so much worse because 1. this time and there’d be witnesses right the fuck in Volterra the worst place on Earth for a vampire to attack a human with witnesses, 2. He doesn’t have to just hold on for an hour and then run off to some remote place with lots of animals to hunt this time; he’s got to face the freakin Volturi with Bella right next to him and 3. (most importantly) Bella’s not a stranger this time.

So he’s euphoric over Bella being alive and with him, but it’s drowned in the lake of fire in the pits of this hell of his own making. When the ordeal with Aro is done he can’t run off, he has to ride in a car and planes (enclosed spaces!! Boy is NOT breathing) without killing Bella…

And when they’re finally home, what does he do? Again, leaving even to hunt is unbearable, but if he doesn’t hunt he can’t hardly breathe around her, which means no talking, which means no explaining that he’ll just be gone for a couple of hours, and hopefully when he returns he’ll be in control enough to beg for her to take him back. He was gone for months, and in a horrible headspace; desensitizing won’t take as long as the first go-around but it won’t be instantaneous either. He’s got to show Bella how much he really cares about her while barely talking to or touching her. Maybe he chances taking her hand at some point on the ride home, but that’s all he has to give

From Bella’s perspective, it doesn’t change much; just amplifies the doubt. Even with Edward obviously being happy to be with her again in canon, she’s convinced he’s going to leave again at first chance. In this divergence he’s speaking through clenched teeth to answer Aro’s questions (I doubt Aro is going to help explain things to Bella after reading Edward), not saying a word to her the whole way home. His eyes might show a hint of his pleading, but mostly Bella misinterprets his hunger as him being pissed off. Even if Alice tries to help Edward communicate, there’s way too much room for Bella to catastrophize

So even if Bella fully forgives and trusts him as quickly as she does in canon (which… nah), this gives Edward some more concrete consequences

[hoahoahoahoahoa]

I would like to add to this a headcanon that when a vampire is really, really hungry, the entirety of their eyes go black. Sclera and all. Like so:

I’m not throwing this into the mix just because it looks cool (though it does, of course)… part of the reason this looks so creepy is it cancels out an avenue of nonverbal communication. The evolutionary advantage to white sclera is more accurate gaze following: humans infer where other humans are looking based on which way their head is facing + the amount of white visible (and on which side it’s visible). Having limited/no contrast between sclera/iris/pupil means that Bella is missing yet another cue from Edward. In this AU/rewrite he can’t speak once he gets a whiff of Bella, and with his eyes like this she can’t even properly place his attention. To cap it all off, she’s finally with him but she can’t properly look him in the eye.

So Bella slams into Edward in the plaza, and the smell of his singer to his starved mind makes his eyes go from black irises to fully blacked out. He’s already pale and gaunt, and now his eyes look empty.

He grits his teeth and goes statue-still to keep from attacking her. He can’t speak. He’s never looked less human. He’s never looked so despondent. So unhinged. He’s never looked so scary.

[incel-moved-deactivated20210803]

there there girl. now take a sip of the diet coke. there you go. easy now

[bellas-empty-head]

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

it would've been 100% funnier if Edward's approach to getting Bella to appreciate her humanity was less begging her to not be a vampire and more....forcing himself to hang out with her human friends so she has a normal teenage experience lmao

could you imagine Edward Cullen at like...a high school football game?

getting dragged to an amusement park on senior ditch day

at some party and he has to pretend to be drunk to fit in with all the others

Mike, Eric, Tyler and Ben all start insisting on calling him Eddie

he goes on shopping trips with the girls because he's the only one with a running car that also has trunk space for their bags

he starts using his mind reading powers for The Gossip(tm) and Jessica is absolutely obsessed...finally someone with decent intell

God at some party everyone's lowkey high and they start playing truth or dare and Edward's using his powers to choose the least embarrassing option but Bella catches on and Edward Trusts Her so she picks him and he's expecting something tame like...truth what's your favorite color, dare kiss me or something lol but Bella looks him in the eyes and with no mercy dares him to strip tease while rapping an Eminem song. Mike films it. Edward didn't talk to her at all the next day lmao

they all go see a horror movie together and to Bella's absolute delight 1) it turns out to be a vampire movie and 2) Edward falls for every single jump scare

The Guys(tm) invite Edward to some weird bro bonding sleep over and Edward's expecting to be bored out of his mind without Bella but 3 redbulls, 2 video games and one ouija board session later they're all crying about their deepest fears to each other. Edward's telling them he's scared that if Bella marries him it will doom her eternal soul to hell but he can't live without her and they're like 'Eddie dude that's so specific calm down' 'have you considered therapy man??' 'bro you guys are 17'

Edward and Bella get roped into helping out with the senior prank and it goes t e r r i b l y. First time in half a century one of the Cullens have gotten suspended from school lmao

he sneaks Angela's little brothers candy every time they hang out at her house

Jessica begs him to tell her what Rosalie's skincare routine is but the vampire's don't even really have to shower they can just wipe stuff off and be good to go and he knows Nothing about skincare so he panics and tells her something absolutely batshit that nearly ruins her skin and Bella and Esme make him treat Jess to a spa day as an apology and Rose searches up everything on human skincare and buys some stuff for her

GOD can you imagine how helpful it would of been during eclipse to have completely non-objective friends chime in on the love triangle bullshit...Edward can vent about it without mentioning the vampire's and werewolves and they can tell him he's being dumb because she's clearly head over heels for him and is just friends with Jake

He's like 'but what if she stops loving me,,,' and they're like 'dude she's literally wedding planning with your sister and mom right now please shut the fuck up'

one day they plan a beach trip to somewhere other than La Push and it's cloudy enough that Edward should be fine if he keeps a shirt on and from then on the group has a mission: See Edward Shirtless. they go to LENGTHS. switching into his gym class. spilling things on him. begging Bella to take pictures for them. Good Christian Edward(tm) is scandalized but Bella thinks it's hilarious and keeps telling them he had crazy tattoos

Edward trying to fake pop culture knowledge to fit in but it's not working so he actually has to start paying attention to shit from the current decade and now he won't stop ranting to Bella about Harry Potter and he's very invested in Britney Spears' mental health

Edward trying to decode text talk and everyone makes fun of him bc he texts like a grandpa

Edward after one joint is on a full rant about how America should have handled the Spanish Influenza- like he has a detailed list of complaints and ideas- and everyone is like 'Bella I know he's rich but he's such a nerd Are You Sure you love him' skdjjdmd

anyway. let the old man act like a teenager for once. as a treat.

[simpfordemetri]

This is genuinely how i see everyone who is still obsessed with Twilight in 2026 (me included)

[mariapedia]

I wonder what it was like for Jacob on the rez after he got the Cullens to stay in Forks. So many people in the tribe and in the pack hated the Cullens, and they were probably planning the biggest party to celebrate the Cullens leaving. And then Jacob decides the Cullens can’t leave and reveals a tribe secret to an outsider in order to force them to stay. And then a bunch of vamps arrive at the Cullens’ house to potentially help fight a war against other vampires a few months later, which wouldn’t be happening in Forks if the Cullens had left like they planned to. People may be more understanding because he imprinted, but I imagine that people weren’t happy with him for a while.

[thesundanceghost]

remember when stephanie meyers was so desperate to tie up the loose ends of her love triangle that the paired off the extra dude with the couple’s newborn baby

[lunastwilightblog]

I saw this comment on a YouTube Short today and YES EXACTLY

Carlisle may well have pure intentions but he’s NOT ACTING LIKE IT

[i-belswan09]

wattpad - @ ariellaswan

[eeve06]

Random headcanon:

Carlisle has a separate photo album with mug shots of his children, taken when they were in trouble. With captions like "Edward, speeding, 1986" or "Jasper, card counting in Las Vegas, 2000"

There are most photos of Emmett.

[fuckmeyer]

tbh i think Bella & Edward's marriage is only happy and romantic for young people who don't know yet what a happy marriage looks like? which sounds kinda harsh since they're not unhappy, but...

there's an element of friendship that's missing. a deepening intimacy that comes with being newlyweds. constantly having sex is a stereotype & a fraction of what married life entails! i wish they had come back from their honeymoon with inside jokes and funny stories. i wish we'd seen them bickering over their idiosyncrasies as they adjust to living together. like. if you're going to write Twilight as a cozy paranormal romance, why cut out the coziest part of marriage?

beneath it all, what bothers me is that we never really get this emotional payoff. Edward & Bella struggle with their attraction, struggle to stay together despite the danger, struggle through their own insecurities and physical relationship... but there's no real reward for the reader after Bella becomes a vampire. we go right from the wedding to Bella getting pregnant, a possible war with the wolves, demon baby, then a confrontation with the Volturi.

when do we see them really be comfortable with each other as partners? the few lines we get of them reading together or discussing the plot don't feel enough for a series that uniquely prioritizes the "slice of life" aesthetic. why don't we see them take up new hobbies? or having discussions that would have been impossible for their unmarried virgin selves? when marriage goes symbolically hand-in-hand with flawless immortality, how come we don't get to learn what it means to to be married to your best friend forever?

[onyx-nights]

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

my actual vampire hot take is that if you're going to be a 'vegetarian' vampire (a vampire that only drinks the blood of animals) you MUST have hunter education. i'm so sick of people being like oh well predator animals are mean and scary because they kill cute 'harmless' animals like NO they're crucial for the environment and if you're going to hunt animals for blood you still need to stick to regular people hunting guidelines and only hunt things that are in season and abide by your areas bag limits

[moral-autism]

vampire that did a detailed study about whether vampires can get prion diseases and concluded they can't and preferentially hunts animals with chronic wasting disease. and then incinerates the corpses.

[aksemmi]

vampire who is a woke predation abolitionist and so exclusively hunts predators, leaving primarily herbivorous and scavenging animals alone

[yaldabaothadeez]

"For miles around the foul creature's lair is nothing but barren wastes"

"because of The Curse?"

"Because of the deer and rabbits, fucking thing ate all the wolves"

[hoahoahoahoahoa]

The debate over whether Bella’s depression in New Moon was reasonable or not has always been wild to me.

First of all, I’m sorry but if I had a dream that I wanted as badly as Bella wanted hers, had it so close, and had it ripped away so suddenly (being told it’s my fault) I too would have fallen into a severe depression. That sucks. Having this otherworldly experience, having the reasonable belief you could live a fantasy for eternity, only to be unceremoniously dumped back into the real world? That sucks!!!!!! Didn’t Doctor Who do a whole thing about post-adventure depression in companions?

Also, much more importantly: depression doesn’t need to be justified. It’s not always reasonable. Sometimes depression just happens for reasons that make little to no sense.

So when the protagonist of a love story falls into depression when her love interest leaves her, I think “yeah, no shit”

[emotwilights]

also she's 17 and this is the first time she's experienced heartbreak which is enough to send any kid into a spiral even without the vampire stuff