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Moodboard of Archie Cullen
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What in the Charlisle. Carles.
Life and Death Renesmee.
Oh yeah, big Charlisle energy with this AI-generated, strangely proportioned, uncanny angelic demon child.
CHEARNEST
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The other thing about the Renesmee storyline that bothers me (other than it not really making sense that only half of the vampire species retains fertility, or that it rubs motherhood in Esme and Rosalie's face, or I just don't vibe with supernatural pregnancy/creepily smart children stories) is that it sort of invalidates all the cool stuff SM did with found families.
The Cullens are LITERALLY a found family--Carlisle found Edward, Esme and Rosalie; Rosalie found Emmett; Alice found Jasper and then then Cullens; Edward found Bella. They aren't actually related at all, but they created this bond, this family, and that's so interesting to me how they come from different places, different time periods, and still make this work. Fascinating!
And the wolfpack, too! Now some of them are actually related, but generally as like second or third cousins. I don't know about you, but I only really know my first cousins, and even then not all that well. I had a second cousin in my homeroom in high school and even though we had the same last name I didn't know her at all. We just shared great-grandparents that died before we were born. So to me the pack also has that found family vibe. Sam as the pack dad despite being so young himself. Emily as the pack mom, making snacks and giving the boys a place to hang out at her house. The brotherly joking and bickering and fighting between all the guys. You can tell in these scenes that SM grew up with brothers. I did, too, and there are moments that really capture that, even though other than Seth and Leah, none of them are actually siblings.
But then she throws in Renesmee and it sort of feels like, "well, found family is good enough for the others, but Edward and Bella need a REAL family." Esme "makes do with substitutes" but E/B get a REAL child, and that just did not sit well with me. And in the movies Edward even has LINES that reflect that vibe, when he's standing with Alice and Jasper as the wolves attack in BD pt1 and says like "I won't let them hurt my family;" like Alice and Jasper themselves aren't also his family. Or in BD Pt2 when he tells Bella, "You've given me something to fight for: a family." Again, like he hasn't had a family all this time. I get that when you become a spouse and parent your definition of family can change but it still just felt kind of like a slap in the face considering we spent all this time with the other characters and they have all risked their lives so this Edward/Bella/Nessie family can even exist. Including the shifters!! And maybe she didn't mean anything by it, but because Nessie is the only biological child in the Cullen family is does come off that it's superior to the other kinds of bonds somehow.
I don't know, it just sort of feels like biological family is elevated above the found families. For example, in the books, Renesmee doesn't actually call them Aunt Alice and Uncle Jasper like in the movie, she only calls them Alice and Jasper. Charlie gets to be Grandpa, but Alice and Jasper aren't Aunt and Uncle.
And I really liked the found family stuff, so this "REAL family now" vibe was . . . not my favorite.
so kind of them to adopt all these little orphan waifs. but only because they can't have a real family due to specifically esme's infertility
(the irony of bella finding jessica snide and judgey here only for smeyer to turn around and all but shout through a megaphone that "bio family = superior to found family")
bonus: and specifically carine's infertility. only women experience that and are also defined by it :))))))))))))))))
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In a universe where Edythe Alex Cullen existed, I wasn't going to be interested in any other girl.
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Anonymous asked:
re: the long eyes thing (and life & death in general)!
twilight phase podcast, which is hosted by three people who work in the publishing industry, had a really interesting talk abt the publishing process for life & death and concluded that there's almost no way the book got edited at all, bc smeyer handed it in for the twilight anniversary after they asked her for a new intro, and the turn-around time on that plus the requirements to actually publish a new book instead of just adding a couple pages to the beginning would be a nightmare!
so yeah, seems like no editor saw the "long eyes" thing to object to in the first place
LMFAO that's so funny and I'm 100% inclined to believe that. but I s2g if smeyer ever puts out another work and we just so happen to see "long eyes" in it I'm going to lose my gd MIND—shannon
yeah that absolutely checks out —G
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did a poster thing for l&d too
Anonymous asked:
pssst hey g do you happen to have a “legal” version of life and death handy? i’ll give you my right sock and some pocket lint
stephenie meyer publishing midnight sun
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Anonymous asked:
Hi any idea where i can find pdf of life and death?
omg i too would like to know lmao do anybody got us?? @bellaskhakis u’ve been posting links…what do u know about l*fe and d**th 👀
if somebody doesn’t reply on this w the link… i’ll post it later if i find it! 😌
@sweetrevelation has a drive with life and death in it!
“maybe smeyer will write the rest of the series from edward’s pov” of course she won’t you fools. after midnight sun she will publish Noon Moon, a retelling of Life and Death from edythe’s pov
Anonymous asked:
Hiya who is Edyth?? and why does everyone think she’s gay and or love her? Google gives me zero clarity.
ohhhh my sweet summer anon
Edythe is the female!Edward from that time stephenie meyer rewrote twilight but with all the genders “flipped” in order to prove that it wasn’t sexist (spoiler alert: it’s still sexist and what she actually proved is that her own internalized misogyny is of titanic proportions)
short answer: everyone loves her and thinks she’s gay because this is the twilight renaissance and that is how we feel about every female character
longer answer: the existence of a (legit, published) genderswapped version of twilight allows you to take your favorite straight ships and make them gay while still being canonical. eg, rosalie/emmett can become rosalie/eleanor, carlisle/esme can become carlisle/earnest, etc.
though smeyer’s “no homo” energy is off the charts in it, life and death is still a recommended read! it’s 85% identical to twilight but the few changes there are are HUGE
Anonymous asked:
G is looking for asks on her day off ? Lucky me!! U reblogged that quote from life and death (?) where Alice/Archie implies that jasper/Jess would have killed her if she went looking too soon. Have any scenarios for that ?? I just can’t see jasper killing Alice because of how great canon vampire love is + jalice Extra deep love. Like I’d feel deep down something would have stoped him. (Haven’t read LD so maybe something is changed)
honestly…maybe in smeyer’s head, gender is the thing that would have stopped him. which is a tad ridiculous considering what happened with maria, and how many human and vampire women jasper had fought and killed before alice was even born. but I can definitely see how the scenario of a strange man approaching a woman and announcing he’s her soulmate vs a strange woman approaching a man and saying the same can be read very differently, especially to someone who hails from an era when a wife was legally her husband’s property. the power differential is just…different.
that said, I think there were definitely moments in jasper/jess’ life where they absolutely would have been ready to kill alice/archie before the latter two ever even got the chance to introduce themselves. low points, combat situations, any approach that triggered a fight or flight response.
I do think archie is selling himself and his gift a bit short by assuming that jessamine would necessarily have been successful at killing him, though.
maybe the real danger wouldn’t have been jessamine (and jasper) themselves so much as the company they kept. it’s a lot easier to hop down from the counter at a nice cozy diner and introduce yourself to your soulmate than it would be to approach them and introduce yourself while they’re with their hostile army of 20+ bloodthirsty maniacs conditioned for violence, to say nothing of their war general ex.
if alice....had said....either of these things....in twilight...it would have been all over for my preteen ass
#twilight#life and death#jalice#jasper hale#alice cullen#jessamine hale#archie cullen#honestly i'm thankful these lines weren't in twilight because baby G could have in no way handled it#'SHE WOULD HAVE K I L L E D ME'#um#n u t#god it's such terribly written dialogue too...but the CONTENT. the MEANING
I think it’s reeeeally fascinating that according to Life and Death, the farther from a human’s heart the bite happens, the longer their change will take and the more pain they’ll be in.
are we supposed to retroactively assume that carlisle was also bitten on the hand? did he know the rule about hearts when he changed esme, edward, rose, and emmett? by the time BD rolls around, it seems to be common knowledge, since edward knows to plunge his syringe of venom straight into bella’s heart.
and what about the rest of the vampire world? do vampires who are building newborn armies bite closer to the heart, in order to change their victims faster, or do they bite farther away as a test of endurance? where does aro bite his new recruits?
who first discovered the “closer to the heart” rule in the first place—and how? was it an accident, or did they experiment on purpose? did james know about it when he chose to bite bella on the wrist?
#twilight#life and death#carine cullen#carlisle cullen#injury //#they could have drawn an interesting parallel with james biting bella's hand/wrist and the vampire who bit carlisle/carine!#did james know The Heart Rule? was he trying to make bella suffer? seems very much in line with his character#note that in L&D#joss bites beau on the FINGER#which a) ok stephenie you kinky disgrace#and b) even worse than hand#and edythe bites his neck to speed up the change
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Life and Death fuckin sucks in some parts but I will forever hold dear Archie pouring out his soul to Beau in some hotel in Phoenix like I wanna cty
maria’s evil Life and Death counterpart showing up to bite jessamine whitlock hale like