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[twilightbreakingdawns]

they're my favorite ever actually twilight (2008) | dir. catherine hardwicke

[lottienats]

And that was the first night I dreamt of Edward Cullen. TWILIGHT (2008)

[runedtarot]

I wish we'd seen Bella and Edward have a real, proper argument. The closest we get is when Edward says if Bella doesn't want him to come and hold her that night, that she should close her window at night as a way to tell him he's unwelcome and she slams the window closed - before opening it as wide as it would go. I keep thinking about the end of Midnight Sun, and how Edward always planned to leave Bella. His perspective probably (?) changed after New Moon and then certainly in Eclipse when he says that he's selfish in letting her become a vampire (it's Bella's enthusiastic and series long wish but okay, sure Jan) so that he never has to lose her. Anyway! I'd love to see the fallout of Bella finding out his intention. That her biggest fear was genuine and accurate - Jasper's attack at the birthday party just accelerated the timeline. That everything he says at the end of New Moon, that he thought he would have to lie for hours to convince her, the whole bit about how he had left for her, while loving her was going to happen anyway. The actually empty platitudes and non answers before that.

And seeing Bella's stubbornness directed into making Edward grovel for forgiveness. Not sitting together, the closed bedroom window, the silent treatment and her ability as a shield really making Edward feel human about it. That she can slide back into the fold of her friends, and Jacob and Charlie being smug as fuck, and Edward having to grovel. Not giving expensive jewellery she doesn't want or trying to muscle in on her and Jacob's motorcycling but genuine, thoughtful acts of love and seeking forgiveness. Hopefully while Rosalie tells him it serves him right for being a dick while Emmett gleefully informs Bella of Edward's increasingly desperation and keeps offering creative and well thought out pranks, and Alice keeps putting the piano out of tune on purpose because the tension is so thick that Jasper's gone on holiday to Denali to get away from it. Carlisle and Esme sit him down to tell him he's being an idiot and then fuck off to Isle Esme for a bit to let the kids sort it out

That's indulgent but yeah I wish Edward and Bella had had a proper disagreement and we'd seen proper impact on their relationship outside of and well before renesmee

[xostrawberrymlk]

wait I just realized Bella still doesn’t know the Cullens held a meeting on whether or not they’d kill her, and that Rosalie and Jasper were screaming and crying and throwing up and chewing glass BEGGING AND PLEADING CARLISLE TO LET THEM DO IT 😭😭

[clarkegriffins]

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) dir. Chris Weitz

[forkswashington]

we were so robbed of a halloween party hosted at the cullen house in both the books and the movies. you just KNOW alice would've planned the FUCK out of a halloween party. edward in the most pretentious costume you've ever seen (some niche 18th century poet. bella and alice had to convince him to even dress up at all, so this was the compromise), alice in a gorgeous, historically accurate joan of arc costume which everyone spends the whole night complimenting and wondering where on earth she got it (carlisle's antiques collection. knowing him, it's probably the real thing), and jacob turns up 2 hours late in a shitty vampire cloak, white face paint, plastic fangs and the biggest shit eating grin you've ever seen. edward spends most of the night glarring at him from across the room while standing in the corner pretending to sip from his red solo cup. god, what a missed opportunity.

[fuckmeyer]

Bella should've gone FULL petty in Eclipse. so, your boyfriend dismantled your truck? show up to school the next day on your motorcycle. it mysteriously disappears? time to learn how to skateboard. deck gets smashed? show up on a fucking horse

[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?

[twilight-sagas]

Charlie every time one of Bella's alliances suddenly changes:

[fuckmeyer]

tbh, New Moon ending with "Edward came back, and i snapped out of my crippling depression :)" feels scarier than actually healing from your severe mental illness. how terrifying would it be to spend six months slogging through hell, then suddenly waking up in your fairytale wonderland like nothing happened? i'd be clawing at the walls waiting for the other shoe to drop. idk how you can look at the love of your life & not wonder whether he was real, or a memory, or a delusion. are you dead? dying? asleep? crazy? if so, to what extent? when he goes hunting, can you be sure he was real? when he follows you to class, does he feel like a ghost? when you dream, do you dream of the real Edward? the past Edward? or the hallucination? where did the pain that reminded you you were alive go? why do you suddenly have an appetite after wasting away to skin and bones? even Bella "I'm good with weird" Swan has her limits, and tbh "my soulmate, who weaponized my worst insecurities & sent me into a psychosis-level depression, is finally back and i am Cured" seems like a mind-breaking denial of reality. her whole life changed overnight in the best way - and she's telling us she has no scars from the dark? hmm

[aemondstark]

TWILIGHT (2008) Dir. Catherine Hardwicke

[autumnwhisperss]

2000s Forks, the dream small town.

[simkaye]

Anyone else feel like it’s been one of those days since 2019?

[angelbunnyxxo]

i love twilight so much sighhhhh

[edwardsdeathcabcd]

when bella didn't want to get married at 18 because she saw how her parents' marriage crumbled and she was opposed to the patriarchal nature of the whole institution, and is bitter about it until the moment she is walking down the aisle, but as soon as she's married she realizes that being mrs. cullen is actually the best thing to ever happen to her and she's immediately ecstatic to have a baby with her husband. the way jacob says "you don't even belong to yourself anymore" about imprinting and is repulsed by the very idea, but then when he imprints he realizes it's actually what he was born to do & nothing could make him happier & he leaves everything behind to live with his mate's family. man once you become aware of the mormon agenda present within the twilight saga it is ALL you're aware of lol

[twilightnetwork]

TWILIGHT | 2008

dir, Catherine Hardwicke

[alinasgenyas-deactivated2021060]

Mr. “Leaves me all alone,” I fall apart It takes everything in me just to get up each day But it’s wonderful to see that you’re okay