bubblegum-noir replied to your post: meyer’s feels on monsterhood are ...
yeah, it’s weird. the pro-monster part of it i love but that somehow turns into the other extreme where humanity is basically symbolic of worthlessness? and even non-vampires like the werewolves get a terrible time agencywise with imprinting :|
the way she handled werewolves is a pile of fail: imprinting, how they have to obey the alpha, how they begin to look alike like
both the werewolves and bella had their agency inhibited by circumstance they never asked for, but bella is still allowed to have her agency and her choices validated but the same doesn't happen for the werewolves, specifically leah i am just really upset by how leah is treated by the narrative in comparison to bella like wow meyer why.
i would hesitate to argue that humanity becomes a symbol of worthlessness though because Charlie is still a person who is validated and even Rosalie's desire to be human is validated -- it's just something that Bella is no longer interested in.
but at the same time, meyer shies away from saying that humans do some shitty things like when she said that a lot of the crime was the fault of vampires like no
don't try to apply some idea of monsterhood or the monstrous to shitty behavior that humans commit against each other
and you're still a vampire
i'm not really sure where i'm going with this other than wow really annoying when people attempt to divorce bad behavior from humanity lol okay
