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effervescent-emmett · 5 years ago

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have,,,,, have you read the books babe?

Dress as if today is the day you’ll be turned into a vampire. Cut your hair, get that piercing, sit for that five hour tattoo session, because you’ll be the same forever.

#listen im not saying youre inherently wrong #im just saying youre not right #there is so much to unpack with how she wrote the books #all of it in a christian #and more specifically normon #view point #there are plently of posts written by people much better at articulating their thoughts better than me #i highly suggest you look at some of them #bc while its true people can grow out of their old faiths #and can write fiction completely seperate from their faith #smeyer wrote twilight how a mormon would write it #from the villification and belittling of her female characters #to her blatant disregard of the history and beliefs of quileute tribe #to the waiting until marriage #to the prolife twist at the end #to making leah #the only female shifter #the only indigenous female character with a personality other than happy homemaker #fucking infertile #there is no denying smeyer was heavily influenced by her mormon upbringing while writing the saga #and for you to imply the renaissance is inherently misogynistic #a fandom that is filled to the brim with women #and lgbtq people #and people of color #who are reclaiming the characters who smeyer treated like shit #with her misogynistic mormon viewpoints #is bullshit

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