#Team Edward vs Team Jacob

[acinematicworld]

The Twilight Saga

(which is your favorite?)

[mamuzzy]

It's so unsettling to see in fandoms that characters who are struggling with their inner demons and dark emotions, they make mistakes and try to do their best despite failing and failing again, are deemed to be problematic and undeserving of love.

[terrorpyjamas]

i've been playing unleashed

[soaps-mohawk]

Man, I love the rare Sunday uploads <33 you're telling me I get to read another chapter AND watch a new episode of HOTD on the same day? Fuck yeah.

Fuck yeah!!!!! Ugh I need to get caught up on House of the Dragon 😭 I know it's going to hurt me so I'm avoiding it. (especially the newest episode).

Okay but I gotta ask....Team Black or Team Green? 👀

[robinsnest2111]

thinking about going to the library to check out a couple twilight books, just to see what all the hype was about 15 years ago 🤔

[mistressemmedi]

Daniel and Yuki this, Daniel and Yuki that.

Y'all are sleeping on the Spanish vs Italian media fighting over Carlos vs Charles 🍿

[thisbibliomaniac]

I normally block "suggested for me" posts immediately, but I let this one live because I have been thinking about this very thing nonstop since 2008

[kay9leo]

It's hard being the new kid...

Sort of "modern" HL AU

Meet Iñaki "MC" Martinez Cariaga! She's the new transfer student from the United States. She was late for the sorting ceremony so she's currently houseless right now, hence the gray tie. Unfortunately for MC, her ancient magic is a magnet for attracting trouble and getting her into situations she rather not be in, sort of like Percy Jackson.

Fun Facts:

Normally her eyes are brown, but ever since she ended up in the UK, if she's around the presence of high Ancient Magic activity, her own ancient magic activates, turning her eyes a magical blue. They also turn that color when she's using it. At the advice of Prof. Fig, she tries to keep a small flow of it running consciously if she's not at a nearby ancient magical source.

She's also big runes fan! Since her family comes from both Central and South America, she has a big love of studying Mayan glyphs and Incans quipus (they use that instead of runes to conducting their magic). She also knows some indigenous words in Kaqchikel and Quechua; some for fun and some for spell casting. Seeing Norse runes in person was the one thing she was definitely looking forward when going to Hogwarts.

While she doesn't originally goes by MC back in the States, it became her deferred nickname/shorten version of her double surname Martinez Cariaga to use at Hogwarts. She's gotten tired of both professors and peers taking too much time to say it or have them accidently butcher her surnames (or first name even). Her nickname of MC is used so often that it gets to the point that barely anyone remembers that her name is Iñaki 🤣

Ancient Magic & Hogwarts Castle

I headcanon that the Hogwarts Founders were ancient magic users who build Hogwarts and never told anyone about their abilities. Since the place is humming with Ancient Magic, MC's eyes are always a constant magical blue. It's when she leaves Hogwarts grounds that she has to focus on maintaining that magical flow.

The Big Move, Fourth Year & the Reserved New Girl

Unfortunately, Iñaki's dad lost his job during the first layoffs of the Great Recession in early 2008. Thankfully, he had a buddy who hooked him with a new temp job in London, causing the Martinez Cariaga family to move across the pond from New York to London during the end of summer. While she loved the idea of traveling and going to Europe (and maybe even learn more about the different ancient runes used there), she wasn't too pleased at the idea of moving abroad and leaving everything she knows and loves.

Instead of starting her freshman year with her close friend group at Excelsior (NYS magical school system, Ilvermorny is the New England private magical prep school - the most famous, oldest and only school most people know outside the US), Iñaki is starting 4th year at Hogwarts.

Note: The words between "< >" is spoken in Spanish. MC comes from a Spanish-speaking Latino household. If the words are not in between "< >" assume she's speaking English.

6: At the end of MC's first week:

MC:

<¡Hola Mami!>

< I'm fine. ¿And you? >

< Nothing interesting happened this week. >

< ¡NO! ¡It wasn't like I fought a dragon or a troll this week. >

< ¡Just because I faced the Jersey Devil in 6th grade or the Headless Horseman in 7th OR befriended Champ at Lake Champion in 8th doesn't mean weird things always happens to me! >

<¡I'm fine Mami! Nothing happened...>

<¡I had to Mami! ¡He told me he wanted to give me a "proper Hogwarts welcome" before we started! I told him "That's how we say 'Hello' in New York." Made it too easy for me by saying his spells out loud. The prof said I was a great example of how magical duels are different in the New World with our non-verbals...>

<He was cool with losing. ¡Sebastián even gave me a tour of the magical village nearby and introduced me to the "dueling club" the school has! >

< We dueled together…¡It was fun! I almost forgot how much I miss home… >

8:

MC:

< I still want to go home. >

< No Mami. I don't mean visiting you guys back in London. Home as in New York. >

< ¿Why should I make friends if we're only going to be here for a year?>

< ¿It's only a year...right? >

< ¿Right? >

< I gotta go...I promised my classmates I'll study with them for our exam next week. >

< I love you too. >

"Bye."

*Flips phone closed*

*Ends call*

......

MC's trying...but she is rather homesick.

She's now stuck in Hogwarts and isn't too keen on making friends since she has no clue whether she'll be there for a year or not - it all depends whether if they extend her father's work contract and she's isn't keen on making friends if she's only there for a few months in her mind. It gets to the point where Sebastian trying to friend her is like an unstoppable force meeting an unmovable object. (He ends up winning though when she accidently slips up and calls him her friend later on in the year).

For now though, MC is a very angsty teen right now and had her world flipped upside down.

At least she can take out her angst in dueling club 😅

I want to thank @myokk for listening to my ideas about my MC and to my sibling who needed to borrow my laptop for work (leading me to doodle and actually make a digital drawing on my tablet -that I use as a second monitor for work- since I couldn't edit some papers on those days). Without them this drawing wouldn't have happened.

I'm never doing this ever again because I a bit too perfectionist for art and I hated the number of layers I needed. It was supposed to just be a SIMPLE digital doodle!!!! Instead I made this 😭. Never again. I'm sticking to my pen doodles. I was bored out of my mind and I was either reading or doodling while my sis was testing out her new laptop and I was on stand by in case she needed me.

[manny-jacinto]

I feel like everyone forgets the cultural landmark Twilight was

i have not!!!! honestly those books and movies were my all teenagehood!!!!!! the fight scene from breaking dawn part 2 SHOOK everyone in the cinema to the CORE!!!! i was a bruno mars stan and i remember being SO excited because his song It Will Rain was in the soundrtrack of Breaking Dawn Part 1!!!! when i passed through Portland when i was going to Seattle, i was like "it's just like twilight" because it was raining!!!! those things are part of my life fr!!!!

[cuppajj]

would you participate in artfight this year?

I am! Team Werewolf >:) my drawing motivation's been all over the place this summer, but im gonna do my best to attack a lot of people!

[acinematicworld]

ꨄ - edward & bella - ꨄ

𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒯𝓌𝒾𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒮𝒶𝑔𝒶: 𝒩𝑒𝓌 𝑀𝑜𝑜𝓃 (𝟤𝟢𝟢𝟫)

[juliansdiary2]

This is why I’m Team Jacob

[inmydrcams]

Is glinda a good person? Not really. Does that make her a villain tho? No

[kelbies-fandom-locker]

Not aimed at any fandom / ship but sooo true ( especially in my Twilight days when I was 9 )

[anotherpapercut]

genuinely it will never stop baffling me how people will wear twilight shirts and talk about team Edward vs team Jacob and then the same people will be like "I'm not basing my personality off of a piece of media (harry potter) made by a transphobe 😌" like good that's great! so you can excuse racism but you draw the line at transphobia? good to know

[zenkindoflove]

I don't know how any of you who have been in this fandom for years have been dealing with this for so long. Like honestly, I'm impressed and want to learn from you all. Cause I'm strapped in and scared. 😂 This ain't my first rodeo by any stretch but this fandom certainly has a much more... Complicated ship war web.

Miss Maas how about you reveal the next ACOTAR book couple and end the ship/next book wars because your girl is tired😭😭😭