#the only indigenous female character with a personality other than happy homemaker
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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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