#commentary: the twilight saga

[lexyscross]

CRAZY how the Volturi are like, "We have to keep the existence of vampires secret," and then they walked around dressed like the most stereotypical God damn vampires you have ever seen in your life! CRAZY! Insane to me!

#IT'S YOU TAYLOR! YOU'RE THE PROBLEM – IT'S YOU! 🤦🏽‍♀️ #the volturi #volturi coven #aro volturi #marcus volturi #caius volturi #jane volturi #alec volturi #felix volturi #demetri volturi #twilight #the twilight saga #commentary #commentary: the twilight saga #txt

[howlonghaveyoubeenseventeen]

if you had the opportunity to write/direct a new series of twilight movies, what would you do differently?

#gimme all the commentary please 💖 #twilight #twilight saga #twilight renaissance

[think-pieces]

Sunjoy signing on

Something about vampires, I don't know if it's the age I grew up in. Or genuine interest and love for vampires. But by golly I fucking love vampires.

In almost any media context I love vampires. I am currently reading, Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda simply because it's vampire themed. Twilight, the Vampire Diaries, Shadowhunters, Vampire Knight, some episodes of Supernatural. I love vampires. Lore, history, stories.

I should preface, so long as it's either tasteful, OR (as seen in my choices), it's so tacky, it's good. I will argue, Vampire diaries has the best ~lore~ about vampirism. Do I think it should be as long of a series as it is? Oh god no. But the lore is peak in terms of the Vampire content I consume. I will say though, Vampire Knight has a strong aesthetic foothold. It could be the style of anime, the "costuming" but it simply is better in the aesthetic department.

Twilight. oh good god. Twilight is a mix (for me), of Vampire Diaries, Tortured Artist TM, Vampire knight. In the funniest way. it has a better styling of "we're techincally dead. frozen in time." there's a lack of warmth, and a strong design of hollowness that resonates in them. I do like how they unintenitionally write them as being the age they are "frozen" at. Solely because it makes sense. The lore is, ugh. But it has moments of clarity. just moments. Let's not give Stephanie Myer too much credit.

I do enjoy when Vampires are made to be "monsters". Why you ask. Because they are. If not for them being argubly the most humanoid monster out there. THEY'RE STILL MONSTERS. When Supernatural had them grow rows upon rows of teeth when they smelt or tasted blood. Shit was horrifying. As it should be. Edward Cullen shouldn't ~Sparkle~. They're nighttime creatures. they should burn in the sun like in the Vampire Diaries or in (I think Shadowhunters does this too).

I fear we as a society stopped growing for the better when we made Vampires hot and have them prey after actual 18 year olds. it is the obvious choice at times. Vampire hold a certain unnattainable sensualism about them. Untouchable, graceful, elegant. They are in my opinion, one of the best things to come out of the monster world.

signing off

sunjoy

#the twilight saga #twilight #vampire diaries #vampire #vampirism #vampire lore #vampire knight #supernaturalvampires #supernatural #media commentary #media critique #media criticism #shadowhunters #womaeating #Youtube

[restinslices]

If I ever wanted to see one of my niggas and whoever I was dating took the engine out my car, they’d be here today and gone tomorrow. Bella really be letting this CORPSE tell her what she can and can’t do. Could NEVER be me cause who are YOU? What authority do you hold AND WHY DON’T BELLA TELL HIM HE CAN’T CONTROL HER AND STAND ON IT?

This mf fr told her she can’t go to a lil party at Billy’s house. End of discussion. WHO ARE YOU? If I was 21, I’d need a shot rn.

#twilight saga #twilight books #twilight #twilight eclipse #I guess I’m giving commentary as I read this #I’m actually mad tho #stop letting him do this #THE ENGINE OUT MY CAR??? #volturi should’ve killed them both at this point #Slices Speaks

[adreamf-spring]

Charlie DILF Swan

#twilight saga live commentary

[cleopatrachampagne]

i’m reading an absolutely incredible pacific northwestern gothic lesbian romance/mystery novel (the dead and the dark by courtney gould) one of many i’ve been enjoying over the past few months, and i really gotta say that i’m usually a pretty unbothered bitch who minds her own business but i cannot stand people calling twilight pacific northwestern gothic. it’s exactly like the debate a while back over how inauthentic southern gothic feels/is from people who aren’t from the south. bc i assure you brigham young university is not a genuine pacific northwestern experience and neither is anything in twilight.

like, this novel is absolutely nailing the creepiness of hyper conservative small towns in eastern oregon (aka the maga headquarters of the goddamned world and the place where my dad escaped a literal neo-nazi skinhead cult) filled with old families and rampant corruption. another one i recently read used the sociopolitical issue of “hipster portlandia” culture, which beneath the surface of quirky leftists and food trucks is just cultural erasure, sickening gentrification and hostility against the poor, as what the gothic style monstrosity represented.

even if we brush past politics to just discuss the ecology, history and infrastructure, true authenticity is in dilapidated logging towns, the feeling you get in your spine when there’s a mountain lion watching you in the woods that you can’t see or hear, being baptized by rainwater imbued with toxic wildfire smoke, the grey fog over the cold beaches, the lovecraftian dead things that often wash up on those beaches, cities built on bones of burned cities and named after the dead leaders murdered by conquerors, covens of new age woodland witches, ghosts of pioneers, beasts of the wilds fighting against rampant deforestation, corpses of lost skiers frozen in the mountain snow and an unsettling history of geothermal and volcanic activity. not to mention the seriously disproportionate number of creepy cults which have thrived (and died) here.

maybe i was influenced by growing up hearing my parents talk about watching the air around them suddenly become thick with blinding white ash and then looking out their windows when the smoke cleared to see half a mountain just gone or the fact that the grandmother’s house in halloweentown was filmed in my grandmother’s old house or even just my own personal eerie experiences while hiking alone in the pacific wilderness but come on man.

hell, i’ve been to forks twice and my uncle’s place on the san juan islands a ferry ride from port angeles more often than that and she even has the weather wrong. the rich mythos of the cascadian culture from last decade to pre-columbus is fascinating but she just made up harmful stereotype fueled shit out of thin air. the twilight saga is a generic paranormal romance story that could be set literally anywhere. i’m an unashamed twilight fangirl but it’s about as far from proper pacific northwestern gothic as you can get so can we please stop calling it that?

#rant #bookblr #pacific northwest #gothic literature #twilight #twilight saga #creepy #gothcore #politics #commentary #lesbian #seattle #portland #life #stephenie meyer

[bellsward]

the constant commentary on edward's gaslighting is INSANE

#midnight sun #midnight sun commentary #twilight #twilightrenaissance #twilight saga #edward cullen #bella swan #the twilight saga #bella cullen

[charlies-congealed-spaghetti]

Came home from work to find my dog watching Twilight: Eclipse by himself. We usually leave YouTube up on the TV with a documentary or video game play-through on as they’re longer videos but nothing in the viewing history of my partner’s account should have suggested this movie for auto play. Anyway, we’re watching New Moon now.

#twilight #the twilight saga #twilight eclipse #personal commentary

[50shadesofpattinson]

#the twilight saga #twilight #robert pattinson #edward cullen #kristen stewart #dvd commentary #Youtube

[maya-hawke]

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE (2010) — Robert Pattinson’s audio commentary with Kristen Stewart

#twilight #the twilight saga: eclipse #robert pattinson #kristen stewart #edward cullen #twilightedit #filmedit #rpattinsonedit #userbbelcher #filmgifs #moviegifs #useraurore #usersavana #usersameera #userreh #usergina #usermandie #zanisummers #chewieblog #*mine #this is my absolute favorite thing to listen to when i need a serotonin boost

[hisakoichiki]

when i was at hot topic, i finally bought myself a twilight shirt to commence my full commitment to the fandom. i also needed to buy a chainsaw man shirt for my cousin's bday this Friday.

so when i got to the counter, the sales associate was like "TWIIIILIIIIIIGHTTTTTT" and i was like, yeah, I'm in my twilight era again!!!

she was like "i was actually watching this full-on commentary video essay on YouTube and it's really good, and what she caught with the video was basically jacob black would always answer whenever bella is so curious abt what was going on with him as:

"It's a wolf thing"

I was like "maybe i should try watching the saga again and take a shot everytime i hear him say that.", and she then laughed with meand replied "yeah be careful abt alcohol poisoning"

it was such a fun conversation..... I CANT HELP BUT REALIZE HOW TRUE IT IS AND I MIGHT REWATCH and actually see LOL

#twilight saga #twilight #txt #'it is a wolf thing' #AHAHAHAHAHA #jacob black #bella swan

[lexyscross]

The most romantic thing a man can do is endure crippling pain from his new girlfriend's superpowers in order to hold her back from attacking the goth cult who would surely murder her in one second flat.

#It's the single most romantic moment in the entire Twilight Saga. 😌 #garrett x kate #kate x garrett #garrett denali #kate denali #the twilight saga: breaking dawn pt 2 #breaking dawn part 2 #the twilight saga #commentary #commentary: the twilight saga #txt

[walkawaytall]

So, y'all know I have a stupid amount of knowledge rattling around in my brain about The Twilight Saga for someone who's never read the books simply because I love Twilight discourse. Anyway, I've been listening to someone's in-depth commentary on each of the books on YouTube recently and I just want to say...justice for Leah Clearwater??? What did that woman do to Stephenie Meyer to be used as a constant punching bag for the narrative?

#the twilight saga #twilight #leah clearwater

[think-pieces]

Sunjoy signing on

I loved twilight. I admit it loud and proud. Whilst i have many an opinion on twilight and it's filming, what could've been made, directors, casting, plot line, and everything in between. It's a well made franchise.

It was marketable, a highly anticipated release, unironically comedic, I ravish it's unprecedented, comedic, and unbeknownst intense mormon-ness. Myself, along with some of you (i hope) I didn't know it was heavily mormon-ified until much later in life. (as in maybe a year ago).

I could truly go on and on.

matter a fact. I will.

I suppose I'll begin with it's contents. Make no mistake, Kristen Stewart was an excellent choice for Bella. not just in the way it's written but portrayl as well. she was awakard, funny, unsure of herself. She felt things. and that's the most important for an actor to portray that many don't. They need to feel. not show or know they feel. simply feel. which is hard to explain i acquiesce. Moreover, I did enjoy the change Stephanie Myer made: changing it from two books, to four books/five movies. I felt it flowed much better for story telling, there's was more drama and character building. Now that's the way to do it.

Speaking of it, the characters. This band of characters that we grow with in the movies make the movies better than just okay. my personal favorites include Rosalie, Alice, Emmett, and Jasper. (The back up band). They're much more interesting, crafty, and downright entertaining than the Jacob, Bella, Edward mix. I do believe as fans we headcanon them better and funnier than Myer ever intended. what can I say, even I appreciate a good fan fiction.

However, my gripe is that Catherine Hardwicke didn't do all the movies because by god I wish she did. the care and love she treated Twilight won't ever be seen again in the Twilight universe. oh how i long for Catherine Hardwicke to redirect the Twilight series. Or to go back in time and tell her to do all the movies. However, the book she came out explaining the twilight movie. My lord does she make a girl swoon.

in order my favorite movies are: Eclipse, Twilight, Breaking Dawn Part 1, New Moon, Breaking Dawn Part 2. (really new moon and bdp2 tie for last/i don't care about them) It really could've been a trilogy series but I guess new moon and bdp2 add something to it. what that could be i dont know.

I digress, signing off

Sunjoy

#the twilight saga #twilight #new moon #eclipse #breaking dawn part 1 #breaking dawn part 2 #media criticism #media commentary #media critique #catherine hardwicke #Youtube

[adreamf-spring]

Ok, admittedly, Edward grabbing the bed and breaking it while fucking Bella is hot

#twilight saga live commentary #wow I've found something hot in these movies

[tired-biscuit]

Biscy I love you getting dicked down, I love that for you. BUT watching TWILIGHT?! J A I L 💀

WDYM TWILIGHT IS SO FUN TO WATCH IF YOU DON’T TAKE IT SERIOUSLY??! we watched eclipse and it was wonderful cos we got to see more of emmett and jasper (they’re my faves) hehe.

istg i always die at the “battle scars 😏” scene; it’s so funny fjdjdhdhdj……… i think we’re gonna watch breaking dawn pt 1 today and then pt 2 tomorrow so that we’re done with the saga.

i just know the commentary from mr. biscuit is gonna be HORRENDOUS when renesmee comes into play lmfaoooo

#biscuit mail