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Edward and Bella matching icons ✨️

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Edward and Bella — The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, (2010).

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Edward Cullen & Bella Swan || The Twilight Saga (Twilight)

MATCHING, MATCHING, MATCHING

Edward's iconic coat makes a reappearance.

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Gender, Genre, and Excess in Twilight

In "Gender, Genre, and Excess," Linda Williams explores the ways in which melodrama as a film genre often uses excess to convey emotional intensity. She describes melodrama by its ability to “encompass a broad range of films marked by ‘lapses’ in realism, by ‘excesses’ of spectacle and displays of primal, even infantile emotions”.

I think this description of melodrama can be applied to the 2008 movie Twilight. Like most vampire stories, Twilight is a romance about repressed desire and untamed hunger. Representations of gender and sexuality are central to conveying the movie's melodramatic tone that exists throughout the novel. Williams suggests that melodrama is heightened through portrayal of gender and sexual norms, which is seen in twilight through the male/female predator/prey troupe, the helpless female troupe, and the idea of female sexual purity. Although I will be harshly criticizing this movie, it is also an iconic cinematic masterpiece. I am also just analyzing the movie, not the book.

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Twilight is a great example of lapses in realism heightening gender and sexual tensions. In case you haven't seen twilight, Edward is a vampire who is immediately attracted to the smell of Bella's blood, but can’t eat her because he is vegetarian (doesn’t eat humans). The central tension of the movie is that the natural danger they pose to each other only heightens their love. They both have to struggle against their own safety and nature to be together, making them want each other even more. Within the world of the film, most of the men are secretly some kind of monster, they just hide it to live among civilization. This magical realism allows for excess of gender and sexual norms. Edward is the male monster who wants to be good and Bella is the helpless female who needs saving. Throughout the movie and the larger series, Edward has to protect or save Bella countless times. This seems to be the throughline of through the whole series, Bella can not protect herself because she is mortal, so she needs Edward and the vampires to rescue her. Even though Bella wants to be brave and strong, it is against her nature and she physically can never match his innate strength. This feels like a heightened version of a heterosexual relationship through excess in gender in relation to magical realism. Edward and Bellas exaggerated struggle in their relationship of his physical strength and her physical weakness could be interpreted as commentary on the inherent power imbalances in heterosexual relationships. Bella does not want to need his saving, yet she continuously needs Edward to protect her from the evils of the world.

Representations of sexuality are heightened melodramatically in Twilight through the concept of purity. Even though Bella wants to have sex with Edward, Edward won’t because he doesn’t want to hurt her. He thinks his strong vampire body would break her weak human body, so he is reluctant to even touch her. Melodrama is created through using excess obstacles in expressing female sexual desire. Bella is the typical romantic female lead who the director wants to remain pure to send a message about female sexuality, except it is depicted in terms of her mortal status being what holds her back from sex. Her status as the only mortal among two male suitors is representative of the innate social difference between the expression of male and female sexuality.

Excess is also used to heighten race tensions that already exist. There is a tribe of Native Americans in the town of Forks, and they are secretly werewolves. The werewolves and vampires have an ancient rivalry over territory. The use of lapse in realism heightens melodrama related to conflict of native territory and is a way to convey historical conflicts around land.

Overall, Twilight exemplifies genre in excess in the way it uses gender conventions and magical realism to heighten romance, race, and sexuality.

Questions:

Do you think twilight falls into typical romance gender troupes?

Do you think lapses in realism heighten or hinder expressions of female sexuality?

Would you consider this film to be feminist in any way?

[violetfaust]

The Bad Seed

TBH, though, any tournament that pits Destiel vs. Mulder/Scully in the SECOND ROUND is very badly seeded. That would be more appropriate for a finale death match. The only couple I can think of as iconic and with as much influence is Kirk/Spock.

Spirk inspired the blueprint for all modern fandom and shipping (grafting Sherlockian pastiches with '60s sci-fi convention fandom with the crucial seasoning of romance). I think they were truly the first time a vast number of fans openly said, "I think these two guys are more than Just Friends."

Scully and Mulder invented the internet-based fandom and actually gave us the term "shipping." (UST might be another term invented just for them.)

And Destiel was the couple that finally, if barely, got slash over the goal line. That went, over the course of twelve years, many writers, and a few cultural sea changes, from "this friendship is weirdly intense" to "oh, he (they) actually IS (are) in love."

No one does it like them.

(I can't even think of another couple who deserves to be in the semifinals with those three. Maybe, though I hate to say it, for cultural influence Drarry or Bella/Edward? Those being the two couples that trained an entire generation or two of tweens/teens into taking shipping from a niche interest to general cultural phenomenon.)

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ROUND 3 RESULTS

For those of you just joining us...

The TEAM THUNDERDOME is a tumblr bracket in which teams of 3 or 4, both iconic and obscure, duke it out in deathmatches voted on by you, the viewer at home.

64 teams entered the event.

8 teams remain.

These are their stories.

ROUND 3

QUARTER 1

FIGHT #1 - [W] Team TRIFORCE (Link, Zelda, Groose)VS [L] Team SHREK (Shrek, Fiona, Donkey, Puss in Boots)

FIGHT #2 - [W] Team KRUSTY KRAB (SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, Mr. Krabs)VS [L] Team OOO (Finn, Jake, Princess Bubblegum, BMO)

QUARTER 2

FIGHT #1 - [L] Team JIGSAW (John, Amanda, Mark, Lawrence) VS [W] Team FORTRESS (Medic, Heavy, Engineer, Soldier)

FIGHT #2 - [W] Team MARIO (Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi) VS [L] Team PERSONA (Makoto, Kotone, Yu, Ren)

QUARTER 3

FIGHT #1 - [W] Team RWBY (Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang) VS [L] Team MYSTERY INC (Fred, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne)

FIGHT #2 - [L] Team WONDER PETS (Linny, Tuck, Ming Ming) VS [W] Team WOOHP (Sam, Alex, Clover)

QUARTER 4

FIGHT #1 - [W] Team DARK (Shadow, Rouge, Omega) VS [L] Team KEYBLADE (Sora, Donald, Goofy)

FIGHT #2 - [L] Team POWERPUFF (Blossom, Buttercup, Bubbles) VS [W] Team TALLY HALL (Rob, Zubin, Andrew, Joe)

WE'LL SEE YOU IN THE TOP 8!

In the meantime, this week features the return of EXHIBITION MATCHES! (These will run for the standard 7-day poll and begin roughly an hour from this post's publishing (cir. 1 AM) to allow proper time for some other teams to catch up!)

EXHIBITION MATCH - AVERAGE EVERYDAY SUPERNATURAL EPISODE Team WINCHESTER (Sam, Dean, Castiel, Crowley) VS Team GHOSTS (Blinky, Pinky, Inky, Clyde) VS Team TWILIGHT (Jacob, Edward, Bella) VS Team PILLAR MEN (Kars, ACDC, Wham, Santana)

EXHIBITION MATCH - MEANT TO BE, PART I - GO BEYOND! PLUS ULTRA Team DEKU (Izuku, Tsuyu, Ochako, Shouto) VS Team BAKUGO (Bakugo, Mina, Denki, Eijirou)

EXHIBITION MATCH - MEANT TO BE, PART II - SUPER SONIC RACING Team SONIC (Sonic, Tails, Knuckles) VS Team DARK (Shadow, Rouge, Omega)

EXHIBITION MATCH - MEANT TO BE, PART III - THE XENOBLADE SPECIAL Team BIONIS (Shulk, Reyn, Dunban, Sharla) VS Team AEGIS (Rex, Pyra, Mythra) VS Team AIONIOS (Noah, Lanz, Eunie, Riku)

EXHIBITION MATCH - TWISTED PICTURE SOLUTIONS Team SCIENCE (Gordon, Bubby, Tommy, Dr. Coomer) VS Team JIGSAW (John, Amanda, Mark, Lawrence)

EXHIBITION MATCH - HONORABLE MENTIONS, PART IV Team PIRATES (Will, Elizabeth, Jack) VS Team NINJAS (Kai, Jay, Cole, Zane)

EXHIBITION MATCH - HONORABLE MENTIONS, PART V Team DUWANG (Josuke, Koichi, Okuyasu, Jotaro) VS Team MISHIMA (Heihachi, Kazuya, Jin, Reina)

EXHIBITION MATCH - HONORABLE MENTIONS, PART VI Team GHOSTBUSTERS (Venkman, Stantz, Spengler, Zeddemore) VS Team LEVERAGE (Sophie, Eliot, Parker, Hardison)

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1- Cherik , ever since I saw X-men: First Class. They are opposites but soulmates, they fight then make Up, they ende Up together (Only good thing about Dark Phoenix ) and they are two sides of the same coin. They had unmatched chemistry . Also James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are Hot, and look good together.

2- Loustat .Since I first read about them . They are soap opera level of messy , they both are abusive and toxic as fuck, yet Anne Rice managed to make readers root for them to be together. Also they have been canon before I was born. They are everything : enemies, lovers, and everything in between. The show has given us an excellent (and very Hot) cast, which helps a lot. Sam Reid is Lestat de Lioncourt. And Jacob Anderson IS making Louis even better than he was. So i love them your honor.

3 Twilight ones (both official and non official) : Blame Ao3 and FanFiction for the weird ones XD Jalice (best one to me, fated complete each other , super pretty together), Karrett (just amazing , they were super cute), Carlesme (as many of you say they are father and mother twilight edition), Rosemmet ( she needed someone who made her forget her inner demons he needed an ángel who beared with his himboness, they are perfect for each other), Bellward ( she is his peace he is her dream, they are perfect for each other, enough said) Aro/Bella (crazy one, but Bella has a interesting dark side that could be very well exploited if she was with him. Also She is Vampire Queen material) , Ángela/Edward (he said she IS beautiful and her mind is even more beautiful, which to me sounds like this could be love material, Ángela liked him and found him beautiful too, It could work).

4 - Sookie / Eric since I read the books and Saw True Blood. They have chemistry. Good one ❤️ Dark one that works . Both are Hot and look super good together. Height difference (I LOVE It).

5 Hannigram Most toxic one here, but like, I LOVE them? They are soul mates, they are both so fucked up that putting them with anyone should be considered crime against society. They get each other, they need each other, they are complete when they are together. They both have tried to kill each other enough times that It has become a meme at this point. They both are super Hot, they deserve each other and look good together.

6 Klaroline (dark and good, Hot, undeniable chemistry, look good together ) Delena (Hot , look good together , they complete each other, they deserve each other) Kolmonnie (he liked powerfull pretty witches, she likes her men dark and powerfull. They did with him and Davina what they should've done with him and Bonnie on Vampire Diaries, tbh. They would've been a powercouple)

7-Djats pairings : Canon ones - Daisily (in book Its wished by Camila aka she made them be together off the record/book , like...She always got what she wanted, in show It was also her wish so we got the wholesome iconic end) : They have unmatched chemistry (many people are obsessed with It) , they are soul mates, they deserve each other, they need each other, they made unmatched art together...Also they totally they need to go to therapy individually and together tbh, they both have daddy/mommy issues respectively, they look good together, their height difference in show Its perfect, he is Brown haired greenish eyed + she is redheaded and blue eyed , they match well (which I LOVE)....also they are both so fucked up that putting them with anyone else should be considered crime against society (Imagine how fucking much I love Camila , that even being a Billy lover too, I will always think that she deserved better than what Billy put her through). Karengraham my the ones that got away, if circumstances were different they would be perfect. Show made them even better (cause the made Graham nicer and Karen softer) they broke my Heart. In all my aus they are together. Their height difference Its perfect, they look good together.

Camily, I LOVE them, they are lovebirds, she is his peace he IS her passion (cause passion means both love and torture), they had a calm chemistry so beautiful to see, they are sweethearts, they look good together, one is caucasic the other latino which I liked a lot, they are super cool...And thats why I was torned reading and watching the show too. I love Camila, she IS a force. She is brutally soft and nice. I found her interesting.

The fact that she still loves Daisy ("i'm her biggest fan, I love the beautiful Life she made for herself", even in show she blessed Daisily in her final wish video? I would never i'm too spitefull XD) even with everything that was going on is...No one deserved her.

The final fight of Camila and Daisy is more realistic but less interesting in show... I liked better that in book. They switched the "You can be what you wanna " of the end to put It in the garden party, glad they didn't erase It, but It should been placed where it was suppossed to be.

Simornie, I LOVE them, they look very good together, they are well written, Bernie IS hard Simone soft, they were super cute and had nice chemistry too.

Warrenlisa, they were funny and wholesome, I loved them.

Only if well written : Camaisy (there are good fics around written on the Spirit what if both dump Billy and Runaway together, if Daisy was less selfish and Camila more selfish, and both bi It could work), Edaisy (because of you @porkchop200324 because he crushed on Daisy in the book, I kinda have a messy Au were Billy punches Eddie out of jealousy after he sleeps with Daisy , also Eddie and Daisy look good together ) and finally the throuple my cousin is obsessed with and IS trying to convert me to, can be super interesting: Daisilyla (Daisy/Billy/Camila).

It requires : 1- Daisy and Camila acknowledging their Bisexuality, 2- for them to realize that, if they are both in love with Billy , and both like each other so much , like literal Daisy: "She is perfect"/"Camila Saw a Life for me that I couldn't see, she believed in me" and literal Camila:"i'm her biggest fan, I love the beautiful Life she made for herself, i'm rooting for her" , and 3- for Camila to see that she loves Daisy for the same reasons she loves Billy : tortured artist Who loves her and with a dark side that deserves better and she could devote to to give It to him/her. 4- For Billy to accept It...Not very difficult like living a permanet threesome with the two women he loves?! He would sign the fuck of that deal, lets be honest here XD, he would be the happiest with that throuple thing (even more than my teen cousin XD).

8 The official hunger games ones:

Odesta +my poor perfect soulmate tortured sweethearts baby Angels, they deserved better than canon, and thats what fics are for ) Everlark (so cute, they fit each other, I like them) , Hayffie (movies made It super cool, opposites attract trope).

And the unnoficial ones : Gale/Johanna (they could work, she like pretty and complicated people , he likes tough women ), Johanna/Finnick (if Annie didn't exist I think they could work , she is crazy and Hot he IS pretty , complicated and charming), Finnick/ Katniss (tough cookie vs hardened charming, could be interesting to explore) and the throuple Finnick/Annie/Johanna...feels slightly canon : I mean after the mockingjay fiasco Johanna moved with Annie to take care of her and help her raise odestas tiny baby, I feel that , had Finnick survived, both Finnick and Annie woulve convinced Johanna to move with them for a while until she recovered...And It would've become a forever thing.

9 . Wolfstar (opposites attract, super Hot, also tortured babies) Harry/Luna (weirdly works for me , especially in movies, they would be cute and both get each other as Strange orphans) Snily (opposites attract, dark one light one best Friends before) , Jily (Bad boy/ good girl , enemies to lovers if you squint, chemistry galore) Lily/Severus/James (if the 3 of them were less pigheaded and the boys nicer, also half of James and Severus issues would been fixed with a good apology on both sides, a punching match to even each other...and a kiss / good snog too) Fremione (mischief clever boy VS Mrs reasonable smart good girl, I love that trope), Bill/Fleur (they were perfectly cute).

10 - AHS : Zoe/Kyle, Zoe/Kyle/Madison, Countess/Donovan, Liz Taylor/ Tristán Duffy, Misty / Cordelia. I LOVE mess , as you can see.

Honorable mentions : Madney, Malec, Elizabeth/Darcy.

Too long I know XD I was summoned with this Game XD.

I tag Whoever wants to play, @mutuals feel all as nicely tagged here if you wanna play!!! :) 😊.

New tag game:

List your top 10 fictional couples, why you ship them, and when you started. Feel free to add any extra stuff.

No pressure tagging: @mzannthropy @andreabaideas @jesstasticvoyage @hellopsycho44 @a-strange-inkling @charlesleclerrc

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matching Edward and Bella icons!!

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