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fuckmeyer · 7 hours

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the choice between Edward & Jacob is not a question of which relationship is healthier or which partner is best suitable for Bella. neither is correct. neither is best. neither produces a happy ending for Bella. at the end of the day this is still a vampire novel. any choice Bella could make would yield, at best, a bittersweet happily ever after.

if she chooses Edward, she gets the terrifying Breaking Dawn ending: a girl who rejected her call to grow up has hung her love & her eternity on an emotionally stunted partner who hates himself marginally less than he loves her. she's a teen mom with a kid she never wanted who perpetuates the generational trauma passed down from her parents. by keeping this child, the Cullens have set the stage for an uprising/cold war against the Volturi who are likely to take revenge in order to maintain power. Bella is living in a tenuous "dream come true" wrapped in a nightmare & doesn't realize it.

choosing Jacob is the true coming-of-age ending that rips the stitches out of a wound that never fully healed. even if we ignore the fact that she ends up with a man who sexually assaulted her (we must bear in mind Jacob's character is influenced by smeyer's racism, but it did happen), they can't have a secure romantic relationship. based on the high imprinting rate of the pack, Jacob will likely find his imprint in his lifetime & will lose himself to the imprintee. he will no longer be her Jacob. he will inevitably abandon her (whether he wants to or not), & she must reconcile with the reality that she will always be inadequate to Jacob's imprint. & say he never manages to escape the vampires? he will presumably not age for a long time, meaning the relationship Bella always feared with Edward (her being an old grandmother while he stays forever young) remains a possibility. this is the story of a girl who slaps a Band Aid on an open wound & calls herself healed while flinching every time she sees the shadow of the knife that cut her.

if she chooses neither (team therapy), her healing requires her to lose or be at least partially disconnected from everyone she cares about. Bella must spend the rest of her life shut out from one world while never fully existing in her human world ever again. she must always keep secrets. she can never go back home. even in the unlikely event that she manages to escape the Volturi, the threat of being hunted by vampires will never leave her. in addition, she must face her worst fears (aging, losing Edward) while always keeping in mind the immortal life that could have been hers, if only.

even the "healthiest" option produces scars that will never quite heal.

Twilight is a horror. Twilight is a vampire novel. Twilight is gothic. Twilight is fiction. neither Edward nor Jacob is a "bad" choice because neither will give Bella her happily ever after. the choice between Edward & Jacob is simply a matter of which horror story you prefer to read.

#twilight #twilight renaissance #bella swan #the twilight saga #edward cullen #twilight saga #twilight meta #not to be a downer but the edward/jacob feud is silly #i understand this feud will continue in perpetuity because controversy & drama will always garner attention in online spaces etc #but the idea that either of these men will provide the happy story some people in this fandom want is an illusion #because no matter what happens The Twilight Saga still operates in the context of the vampire/gothic genre which by design can't produce #a 100% happy ending. the vampire itself reflects the inner anxieties of a society - & isolation & change & death - etc.#these are anxieties that can be alleviated thru vamp media. they can be escaped but never solved. which is part of the horror of the genre #The Horror Will Not Go Away #& in this respect Twilight is NOT the exception to the rule.#'oh but it's a YA romance so-' yeah so the black walls get wallpapered. they're still black underneath & nothing changes that #i wish we were able to debate the choice between Edward & Jacob while still bearing in mind neither choice is wrong #i think this fandom would be a lot less toxic & mean to each other for no fuckin reason but oh well

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i-belswan09 · 3 days

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softgirlll-withanziety · 2 days

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jamespotterbbg · 13 hours

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@gardenofrunar i told u i edited twilight 😭😭

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assiraphales · 4 months

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he’s wearing edward cullen press on nails. I repeat, his is wearing edward cullen press on nails

#LMAOOOO?????#twilight #Edward Cullen #robert pattinson

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momokarp · 4 months

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That Cullen kid is being weird with your daughter

#twilight #bella swan #edward cullen #charlie swan #twilight fanart #yeah I made twilight fanart #momoart #like I couldn’t resist #fanart #digital art #twilight fandom

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beardedmrbean · 1 year

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#twilight #edward cullen #bella swan #stephanie meyer #breaking dawn #5k #10k

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southpauz · 2 months

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POV: You're Bella and you sat next to Edward in biology class

#twilight #edward cullen #bella swan #meme #my art #my sketches #my meme art #this is cuz of that announcement for a twilight animated series btw #i felt like doodling this at work real quick

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nerdby · 9 months

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forkswashington · 9 months

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#twilight #twilightedit #twilight edit #edward cullen #edwardcullenedit #renesmee cullen #the twilight saga #twilight saga #breaking dawn #twilight meme #twilight memes #twilight renaissance #my post*

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pedro-pascal · 3 months

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EDWARD CULLEN + red flags 🚩

#twilight #edward cullen #robert pattinson #twilightedit #filmedit #chewieblog #dailyflicks #cinemapix #moviegifs #cinematv #userstream #usertom #arthurpendragonns #userjasmine #usersugar #tuserhan #usermandie #*#bella gorl RUN. this man is GASLIGHTING you non stop 😭

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queertwilight · 1 year

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as someone who has moved to a smaller city (30K people in total) for grad school, i would like to say twilight is wrong. the smaller the population the more people know you. i went to a cafe twice and they already know my order. 1000% everyone in forks knows the cullens are vampires and are just too entertained by how bad they are at acting normal to break it to them

#bella swan #twilight #edward cullen #twilight renaissance #effervescent #rosalie hale #alice cullen #twilight revival #twilight saga #new moon #twilight renewal #the twilight saga #carlisle cullen #esme cullen

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thefabledcannibals · 26 days

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