#edwardxbella

[dreenicorn]

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[a-polite-melody]

Absolutely there is something to this, because I know that the first of what I'd call "antis" I ever came across were people arguing against gay ships by calling these ships "problematic" somehow while obviously not liking the ship because it was a a gay ship.

Like. The first "it's pedophilia!!!" used to tear down a ship I ever saw was a person saying so against a gay ship, and I go to their page and see that they ship guy-1 with girl instead of guy-2, and that this was the actual reason behind their ship hatred.

This is what the whole "anti" movement grew out of initially.

I also wonder if the reason why the Antis of today usually skew young (but not always) is because the young Antis generally didn’t deal with the past ship wars of characters that were head -cannoned by other people as being gay? We fans in the past always had to deal with prototypes Antis however, the prototypes Antis usually attacked shippers who had shipped characters in gay relationships saying that the shippers who shipped characters in gay relationships were wrong. This dealing with the prototype Antis taught the older fans to ship and let ship , and not to take shipping too seriously. Now with the increased of LBGTIA +/ Queer representation ,in the Main stream media (which is a wonderful thing by the way ) , there is less need to head cannon characters in gay ships. However, the Antis of today may have never learned the ship and let ship lessons , or the don’t take shipping too seriously lessons that the older fans did. I wonder if this can explain part of the division between older fans who usually (but not always) skew towards ship and let ship, and the younger fans who skew towards Antis beliefs (but not alway)?

I think that’s a really good point! that could definitely be a possibility

[volturiprincess]

What are your feelings and thoughts about the jacobXbella and edwardXbella fan wars when twlight first came out?

Hello dear anon😁,

Very interesting question to start off my day. When this whole love triangle blew up I was like 10 and even though at the time I didn't really watch the movies at the time I was in Team Jacob x Bella. But my reason was because again I was just choosing for choosing without really having enough information. Where I'm from it was not like a big deal like it was everywhere else, so I did not experience the crazy side of it. But then again as I mention I was young and what exactly are a bunch of 10 year olds going to say? We would just make an opinion on who is better looking. We were just looking forward to recess wanting to play tag or wall ball, also me and my peers at the time weren't huge readers or watching romance/drama movies either (I was still getting the icks when I saw people kissing on screen😅)

My main thought on this is how insane this was, like how it was like a whole thing, you had to pick a side or you would get dragged or get a whole lecture about which side is the best. I also think at the time it was more like who was hotter not like who is actually 'better' for Bella but still arguments were created, versus now people actually do sit down and talk about it more civil. I noticed lately that if you ask the whole Team Edward or Jacob now a days, your asking if you are Team Vampire or Werewolf. I think I like that question more than who do you think Bella should of ended up with. Thats just my opinion but I feel you get to hear more opinions and have more interesting talks.

If I were older at the time I think I would of just stayed back, because when I get into a fandom, honey I will come in with so much facts and knowledge, I will not get taken down easily. However the fandom at the time was a scary place to be, people were passionate about there sides and they truly believed whatever side they placed themselves in WAS the right side. Like sure I have my passions too about Twilight and stuff but I would not actually argue with others in saying my choice is the only right one or force someone to decided. If your Team Bella x Jacob or Team Edward x Bella, good for you I wont fight you.

The beauty of now a days is people are not only focusing on those three as much, now we are focusing on other characters, they are getting the recognization they deserve and its no longer Bella, Edward, Jacob and the other characters. Sometimes I forget that this Bella, Edward and Jacob exist, I don't focus on those three anymore (mostly my eyes are on the Volturi now💙) or care to be part in the whole love triangle anymore.

Alright I have talked enough🤭, I hope this showed my thoughts a bit and answered your question dear.

[twilight-moodboards]

EdwardxBella Tuck Everlasting AU

sure!

[dorkzrul]

Bella: *doing a crossword* Hmmm.... what is a word for perfect in every way?

Edward: *without looking up from his book* Isabella

Bella: Edward!!!! *blushing* it’s actually flawless...

Edward: Exactly! You’re flawless!

[depressedtwilightblue]

Hi twilight friends! I am in DESPERATE need of some twilight (BellaxEdward) fanfic recs! I feel like I’ve read almost everything I can get my hands on and I’ve got like 5 WIPS saved that I refresh thrice daily like a maniac!! Any and all recs are welcome and encouraged!! (I’m a sucker for vamp universe tho, and I LOVE LOVE twilight rewrites) ok thanx 🤍

[beenlosinggriponsinkingships]

"• edward + bella ❝ I could never give you peace ❞" Midnight Sun made me nostalgic so here we are

[everythingnerdyxoxo]

Edward Cullen and Bella Swan - Twilight

[girlscrushes]

No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever.

[dreenicorn]

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[marcjarc]

I guess... The time has come.

I have the DUTY to write a bellaxedward fic in a ABO universe ಥ‿ಥ

[twilitty]

In Midnight Sun it mentions that no one will play games with Edward because he cheats by using his mind reading. I like to think that after Breaking Dawn, Bella uses her shield to hide their thoughts so they can have proper family game nights.

12/10 I’m not usually a big edwardxbella person but love love love this idea

It must be hard for him to be excluded from family game nights because of something he can’t entirely control. Does anybody know if Alice is also excluded?

I like the idea that Bella is able to help Edward connect with his family in a casual way like this. Super lovely thank you for giving me this xo

[peachy-apricot]

why jacob’s anger is justified and edward’s a mean old jerk

Let’s forget how smeyer ruined Jacob’s sweet, sunshine personality and warm innocence for the sake of making the EdwardxBella case stronger and just follow me here for a minute. If we think about everything from Jacob’s perspective, his dislike for Edward is totally justified. Forget the love triangle and the vampire hate for a second and take Jacob’s dislike for Edward from an objective point. From his POV (New Moon pre-werewolf transformation) Bella’s mysterious ex-boyfriend not only left her broken-hearted with no remorse but left the poor girl by herself in the middle of the woods after they broke up which is the last time she ever sees him. To Jacob– or to any other regular person (CHARLIE)– that’s plain terrible. Bella goes into a depression, stops eating, seeing her friends etc. but you know who’s there for it all? Jacob. He was there for her when she was at her lowest and was her friend and support system the entire time. Edward didn’t stick around for that, he consciously chose not to have to watch and live through the consequences of his actions. Does it eventually pain him to see how Bella struggled through Jacob’s thoughts in Eclipse, yes, but for the most part he didn’t have to deal with it. Which leads me to my next point. What I don’t understand is that after all Jacob did for Bella in New Moon (by just being her friend and being there for her) Edward has the audacity to get territorial with Bella and restrict her access to Jacob as soon as he’s back in her life. I don’t get it. The whole hijacking her truck thing and claiming “the wolves aren’t safe they can’t control themselves.” I mean is he acting out of pure jealousy? Like dude if you’re worried about Bella having developed an emotional attachment to Jacob, it’s kind of your fault for leaving her in the first place. And even then being protective is different than controlling someone. The only reason Edward is back in Bella’s life at the end of New Moon is because she chose to have him back, she was irrevocably in love with him and overlooked 7 months of emotional trauma because smeyer is smeyer. But to an outsider like Jacob, watching that relationship unravel Bella just for her to go back to Edward was probably mind-blowing. And we can see as the series progresses how his dislike for Edward and his disagreement with her choice to take him back coalesces into disrespect for her autonomy and boundaries. 

Even from the perspective of an outsider who platonically loves Bella like Charlie, it’s easy to recognize that the way Edward treated Bella was not okay, so to dislike him is justified. Even if in Edward’s mind his intentions were pure, he still disrespected Bella’s autonomy and treated her like a child with no choice. In the end of Midnight Sun even Alice is like ‘Edward you can’t choose for her’ and he’s essentially like ‘we’ll see.’ While trying to fight visions of the future he forgets that BELLA IS LITERALLY HER OWN PERSON. 

So in conclusion Edward was being a jerk and Jacob not liking him makes a whole lot more sense and his reasons aren’t all just about him being in love with Bella and having a romantic adversary.

Jacob’s dislike for the Cullens for simply being vampires is an entirely different story but I can go into that too.

[panlight]

I am thinking back to that ask about how Breaking Dawn didnt show how vampires are supposed to be more likely to be solitary and nomadic. While I do agree that Breaking Dawn was not the text to support that claim Meyer made, I also think that with the while gathering of Breaking Dawn it was:

1. Because these vampires are just those closely associated-- if not exactly human-definition-of-friendly--with Carlisle.

2. Though we know the humans outnumber vampires as a rule (while never getting an exact or close-enough ratio because who did/ would take that census?), the vampires who became Carlsiles witnesses are presumably a fraction of the total number of vampires currently existing on Earth. While we do see the first picture of the global state of the vampire society in Breaking Dawn, since the world of Twilight mirrors our own except for all the supernatural stuff, I think I can deduce that these covens were the "special" coven.

"Special" in the sense that they are unique. Yes, because, they as the harmonious, permanent covens as opposed to epehmeral ones, that both narratively and physically support the Cullens but ALSO because they have background stories that, in their own right, have shown how special some key members are or how distinct their circumstances were to inspire one of their current members to create some of but the the others for their security. Which is something vampires seem to already do, but it is supposed to turn out with the coven breaking up or the 3rd wheel leaving a mated pair.

Most of the Cullen-witness covens' structure and structural integrity seem to parallel how the Cullens structural integrity hinge on one person's value, in their case it is Carlsiles personal values, altruism, and compassionate actions which all set up the Cullens to be as different as they are from "normal" vampires. Carlisle is also very curious, inquisitive, persisitent and was desperate to connect, so I believe that it was inevitable for him to find others even from the most isolated reaches of the Earth. The Amazon coven seeks to be a coven formed from already strong favor towards communal ties that indigeounous societies have plus the strong sisterhood (or romantic feelings depending on how you think of them) that they felt as humans, which would explain how satisfied they were with each other to not venture out for other vampires. Or maybe they genuinely thought they were different from the vampire they were told about and sought to stay away but saw Carlsle and were curious enough? idk.

3. Before Breaking Dawn, we saw or witnessed how mated pairs or single vampires break away from covens/armies to survive or because they just couldn't stand their members anymore: Shelly and Steve, Charlotte and Peter, Jasper, Laurent, Fred, Bree and Diego if they had the chance or made the right choices. McKenna and Charlesx may visit Luca, but they only visit and they arent violent against Luca because Makenna sees Luca as family since Luca's action to compose an inheritable vamp-guard role and be closer to his human family than any vampire known. Makenna and Charles are on their own most of their time. And Alistair was incidental.

Even without Boris, George and Joham--vampires that have never come into contact with either the Cullens or the Volturi--it was never feasible to believe that the Cullen witnesses were the rule of how vampires form and stay in covens or otherwise interact. Then because the covens who became Carlisle's witnesses are a fraction, I imagine that there are hundreds of vampires around and that more of them are as solitary and nomadic as we are told rather than shown. Because the narrative focus all along was the Cullens and EdwardxBella.

However, I do still think Meyer could make a lot of money from us fools who hunger for some novellas of other vampires' lives and/or backstories.

Yes, it's certainly possible that the vampires who show up (on the Cullen side, at least) are not a representative sample of the vampire society at large. It makes sense that Carlisle would prefer to associate with vampires who are at least somewhat . . . I don't want to use a loaded word like "civilized" but who, let's say, 'eat to live' versus someone like James who likes to hunt humans (and other vampires) for sadistic fun.

It's sort of like a vegan being friends with people who do eat meat and consume dairy, but drawing the line at people who engage in trophy hunting or any other abuse or killing of animals without a larger purpose.

The Cullens sort of recognize that most vampires will kill humans for blood, but they'd prefer to associate with ones who aren't doing it willy-nilly or cruelly, and perhaps there are a lot more vampires out there who ARE like James who DO kill humans not just for sustenance but for amusement, who don't travel in family groups, who are more animalistic and less human.

But the problem is that if SM wants to portray the Cullens as unique and special and unlike most vampires . . . then only showing us other unique and special vampires undermines that. We need to see the 'average' vampire, and multiple examples of it, to have a better sense of how the Cullens (and their friends) differ from that and she just . . . doesn't give us that comparison. Even the Romanians don't seem that different, and used to live in a large coven. The Amazons are allegedly "wild" but are part of united, happy coven lead by their creator and have a gifted member.

I don't know how she would do this, exactly, but I suppose it goes back to her not really having any interest in creating and exploring 'vampire culture' outside the vague existence of the Volturi. So much of what we DO get in the Guide feels like after-the-fact justifications. ("Hey, wouldn't people notice that tourists keep going missing in Volterra?" So then we get a convoluted explanation of Heidi's 'fishing' that seems much more complex than originally implied in New Moon). As we've mentioned before, the story really IS a romance/superhero origin story for Bella so that larger picture was never something SM was super interested in 'showing.' So what we are 'shown' (the Cullens' friends, the Volturi) doesn't match with the more ruthless 'tell' you might get from reading her interviews, or even from Garrett's speech.

Heck, I even though that newborn army in Bree Tanner was pretty tame compared to what I had been imagining from the 'tell' stuff.

To paraphrase Jurassic Park: Now eventually you do plan to have vampires in your vampire romance, right?

[b3st-part-of-b3li3v3]

Finally picked up QOTD

Did I know Aramand and Daniel were a thing? Yes

I did not realize however, how much fun they would be. Armand is such a relatable vampire character, like I too would just hyperfixare on everything for eternity.

This is also juxtaposed with the EdwardxBella dynamic 'cause I'm reading Midnight Sun at the same time. It's funny how both humans are obsessed with becoming vampires.

I think the big difference is too, ArmandxDaniel isnt portrayed as a healthy or desirable relationship, it's more just interesting and hot. EdwardxBella on the other hand is kind of being shown as the perfect love story....

Interesting

[bamsara]

was it technically-proficient and/or aesthetically pleasing edwardxbella art

well....it was a pencil drawing of them looking longingly at each other and the faces were...proportional

there was also a big ole deviantart watermark slapped over it but i didn’t get the name of the artist