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cats-and-cacti · 2 months
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effrvsnt107 · 1 year
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I fucking LOVE this shot, and it’s hard to explain why. I don’t have the right descriptions words but the way it has Bella pressed in the corner, turned, while James is looking closer smiling is so haunting and creepy, it’s amazing
Also sorry for the jump scare, it doesn’t have that blue filter
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threebooksoneplot · 7 months
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For some reason when I saw that you were writing the next books in the series I was trying to figure out how you would do new moon with vampire beau and was really excited for some weird left field shit where beau doesn’t think the wolves smell bad or something and Jules still liked him very romeo and Juliet style. This direction makes WAY MORE SENSE for being the actual life and death vibes BUT was there any consideration to try to go full fanfic with vampire!Beau?
tbh, there was not! mostly because of our "we can't write what we want, it has to be plausibly Meyeresque" rule. which exists because the work of 3B1P has always been to close-read and compare those titular 3 books (which are remarkable specifically for their repetition of the same story) and see what we learned. now the work of Season 2/New Moon is applying what we've learned! and it's a lot—about style and voice in writing, about the evolution of smeyer's career, and of course about her specific gender hangups.
in the case of Beau vs. Bella, the comparison has always explicitly been about gender. so giving Beau a completely new plot, while fun, wouldn't have allowed us to do that crucial work of comparison. (plus you're so right that if left to our own deranged devices we would have gone in "weird left field" directions that would make smeyer's hair curl. I can only imagine the resulting bizarre narrative tug-of-war in which vampire!Beau somehow continued to get dramatically whumped within an inch of his life (Shannon) but in an irritatingly cynical black-comedy way (G.) not to mention that, as we're semi-kinda discovering with Dark Noon, creating a story from the ground up takes a lot more time and effort than hitting ctrl+f and changing some names and pronouns!)
also, I can't speak for Shannon here, but if I'm gonna "go full fanfic" (which is an excellent way to put it lol thank you) then I want it to be about characters I actually care about! and as much as I enjoy edythe/beau/julie compared to edbella, they're still not characters I like in that unique fannish way where I wanna write fic about them, yknow? they're not blorbo status. for me, Euphoria And Agony is fun specifically because it's a writing exercise and a parody.
so yeah, for those reasons there was never really any consideration of "going full fanfic." but not because it's not like, a cool fun idea—I would totally read a Life and Death fic sequel along the lines you described if someone else wrote one!!
—G
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cto10121 · 11 months
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If they could do at least one thing right with this new Twilight TV show…they should at least retain the fake-out prologue with Bella going to meet James in the ballet studio in Phoenix. Why Movie Twilight decided to eschew this dramatic and perfectly cinematic opening for…a deer metaphor and a cactus, I have no clue. I only know it was wrong.
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vampiresinforks · 2 years
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9/10 times when I check the twilight subreddit i regret it. It's like nobody has ever read the books there and if they have they did it with their eyes closed and their ears plugged listening to heavy metal
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forksdreaming · 2 years
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so if jasper’s power is supposed to be physiological, could he essentially focus someone with adhd the same way adhd meds do?
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edwardsmate4ever · 9 months
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Driving around Portland, the exterior of the ballet studio from Twilight was immediately recognizable!
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fuckmeyer · 5 months
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timewarp!twilight: a time travel au
[throughout the series, Bella Swan has prophetic dreams that reveal her future (or present predicament) in cryptic ways. but tho Bella can peek forward in time, her true power lies in the past.]
time first unzips when James sinks his teeth into Bella at the ballet studio.
the burning in her veins overwhelms her. for a delirious moment she seizes from venom & bleeds out on a hospital room's tile floor where her mother is giving birth. to her.
the Cullens barge into the studio. Bella's writhing on the ground. they never see the warp. a stunned James is defeated.
Bella says nothing, chalking it up to a near-death experience. ofc she can't unravel the fabric of time lol like what?? who does that???
over summer, night terrors haunt her when Edward is away.
the "good" dreams give her flashes of the future. wolves. light. cliffs. a stone antechamber. red hair. a casket.
it's the nightmares she fears the most.
her PTSD-fueled flashbacks feel so real, she unzips time to escape James's attack & wakes up in random places as if sleepwalking.
at first they're tiny jumps. a few minutes back. then several months before she meets Edward. then the day Renee leaves Charlie with Bella in tow.
the night after her disastrous birthday party, her nightmare dumps her in the back alley of a neon-lit diner.
this isn't home. not 2006, not 1996, not 1986, even...
disoriented, she stumbles in and sits at the counter. the folded newspaper by the napkin dispenser, the Philadelphia Herald, reads March 3rd, 1950.
oh god.
when she looks up, a familiar pixie-haired vampire stares back at her with moony gold eyes.
"you've kept me waiting a long time," says Alice, pushing a plate of pancakes toward her.
time zips. back in bed. morning. 2006. Bella scrambles to school to tell Edward about the time skips.
ofc, it's hard to speak when you're being sucker-punched in the gut by your first love's painful breakup monologue.
instead of confessing, Bella says goodbye.
October. November. December. January.
as the wolves shift and Laurent stops in for a visit snack, Forks gets all gunked up with paranormal vibes. Bella warps further back for longer periods. 1935. 1933. 1911. 1863.
luckily, she often crosses paths with the Cullens. as humans, she knows, they won't remember her. it's cathartic to see them, if only for a few moments...but it's never enough.
she pulls increasingly dangerous stunts to keep traveling. motorcycling. chasing wolves. stalking vampires. on & on.
Bella dives off a cliff to chase the visions.
she smacks the water & warps to 1918.
human Edward Masen immediately falls in love with a drenched & shivering Bella Swan. over the evening, she falls in love with him. again. ugh.
but was it a time skip, or a near-death experience? she wakes up coughing water, Jake breathing life into her on the beach.
Alice returns. with a renewed love for Edward (ugh), Bella jets off to Italy to save him & meet the Volturi.
back in forks, the vote ignites a fiery rage she'd buried for months.
how could they do this to her? how could they break her heart & leave her behind when she needed them?? did they even stop to think about Laurent??? the wolves?! VICTORIA?!!
just as she lunges for Edward to rip his stupid face off, time unzips in front of them & she vanishes.
further back than she's ever gone.
London. 1640s.
human Carlisle tries using a silver cross to defend himself against a starving vampire while Bella looks on.
when the vampire's eyes find hers, the horror of what Bella has been doing settles in like a dense fog.
with each time skip, Bella seals their fate.
not only is Bella the thread that ties the Cullens together in time, but Bella aligns the stars for every member to become a vampire.
in the 1640s, she is the scent that pulls the starving vampire away from Carlisle.
in 1863, María sees Bella's warp & pursues her until she finds confederate Jasper Hale on his way to Galveston.
in 1911, her time skip startles 16 y.o. Esme out of a tree, breaking the girl's leg. she is treated by Dr. Cullen.
in 1918, a cold & wet Bella gives Edward the flu.
in 1933, Carlisle spots Bella on his way home from the hospital & finds her so eerily familiar he calls out & rushes to catch up. frightened by the commotion, Royce et al leave a dying Rosalie in the street.
in 1935, warping into a forest pisses off a huge black bear. Emmett saves her & subsequently gets mauled.
in 1950, she listens to Alice tell the story of her only human memory: prophesizing as a little girl about the "lady in the blue jeans" who comes to visit, to the horror & disgust of her superstitious parents. they throw her in an insane asylum.
now, in 2006, she reappears & falls at the Cullens' feet. her face reflects their looks of shock.
it was her. it was always her.
& all because she ditched Alice & Jasper to confront James at the ballet studio.
"oh god," she whispers from the floor in a broken voice. tears blur her vision. Bella looks up at the family of vampires. "i think i've made a terrible mistake."
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n3xii · 6 months
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POV: Twilight character answers your Y/N question while you're bleeding out on the cold floor (PAC)
you're bleeding out onto a cold, granite surface in an unidentified ballet studio, you were attacked by a group of wild boars. in your precious last moments, you have a question that you just need a simple yes or no answer to, and thankfully, the cast of twilight is there to answer them. Close your eyes and use the fear pumping through your veins to select your oracle, you have Alice, Bella and Carlisle.
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Alice's Answer
cards: ten of swords reversed and the two of cups
considering i'm the psychic of the family, I feel as though I am the most qualified to answer your question. My visions show a recent struggle or challenge fading away. There's a sense of relief and a turning point in the relationship. While there might be some bumps in the road, especially in understanding each other, the overall energy is moving towards reconciliation and healing. It's a reminder that relationships take effort and understanding, and with patience, the connection or bond can be restored and even strengthened. My answer to question is YES.
Bella's Answer
cards: 8 of wands reversed, queen of cups
erm, ok.
It feels like the cards are advising caution. The reversed 8 of Wands suggests a delay or a need to slow down, and the Queen of Cups upright emphasizes the importance of balancing emotions.
In terms of a yes or no, I would say no. erm, no but there is possibility for this situation to change. I mean, alice's visions change all the time. so it's possible. the cards indicate that while the situation might be moving slower than desired, the key lies in maintaining emotional balance and patience. So, it's a no for now, but it's more about navigating through the complexities of your situation with a careful and emotionally attuned approach. be patient, and trust your intuition, get in touch with what your emotions are trying to communicate to you
Carlisle's answer
cards: the world, 7 of pentacles
I may be a doctor, an immortal, supernatural one to be exact- however I am not hear to cure you of your ailments. I'm here to otherwise help you figure out the answer to your questions.
the cards I pulled for you was the the world and the 7 of pentacles. to get specific, the World card signifies completion, achievement, and a sense of fulfillment. It often suggests that a cycle has reached its conclusion, and there's a sense of accomplishment. Now, the 7 of Pentacles indicates a period of assessment and patience. It's about looking at the results of your efforts and deciding the next steps based on that evaluation. perhaps based on the results of a recent cycle you have completed, a recent achievement.
The answer is yes, but there needs to be careful patience and consideration involved.
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therealvinelle · 11 months
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What if Bella was basically Derek Zoolander? What changes in Twilight?
Derek Zoolander, for the uninitiated.
She doesn't pick up that Edward is a vampire.
At all.
In canon, Edward tries to protect his secret by not so subtly gaslighting Bella, "My eyes were always this color", "You hit your head, I was standing right next to you".
Isaderek Swanlander believes him.
Edward being unable to stay away, however, and wanting her to know his secret, keeps dropping hints that Bella either fails to pick up on or else she misses the point completely (I'm seeing a lot of "you sparkle? Wow, I didn't know animes were right about prettyboys").
In the end, he has to tell her he's a vampire.
She doesn't pick up on it.
"I drink blood," Edward says.
"Well, I drink pineapple juice, I think it's really nutritious. Is blood nutritious?"
"I want to drink your blood," Edward presses on.
Bella's eyes widen and she says "Oh, I get it now."
Bella does not, in fact, get it, but she presents Edward with a bottle of pineapple juice the next day and hopes she got it right.
She goes to Port Angeles with Angela and Jessica, who are tragically killed in an explosion because they frolicked around a gas station pouring gasoline on each other's and then someone lit a match. It was tragic, Bella was very sad and pouted a lot.
When James's coven run into the Cullens after the baseball game, Bella tries a softer and more catalogue look than the Ferrari or the Blue Steel, so she gives him the Tigre.
James still wants to eat her.
Bella decides to go hide in the last place anyone would expect to look: home.
(She actually meant her home in Forks, but when Edward and Emmett assume she meant Phoenix she agrees, that's even more smarter.)
James finds her, sends her the recording of her mother, Bella starts picking apart her phone trying to get her mother out, and James has to call again, this time he gives up and just tells Bella to meet her at the ballet studio.
"Okay," Bella says.
James isn't sure how he feels about this.
He gives her instructions on how to give the Cullens the slip and meet him, gives her the instructions again, gamifies the instructions, and ends up having to stay on the phone with her the entire time.
The entire time.
Edward can't get through to talk to Bella, because she's on the phone with James.
"No, goddamnit you idiot, tell them this is your mother!"
"I'm on the phone with James's mother?" Bella tells Jasper and Alice uncertainly.
James finally gets her into the ballet studio, and he tells her how he is about to kill her. Fucking finally, she was getting on his nerves.
Bella pouts sexily at him.
James walks towards her, looking very murder-y, and then-
Inspiration hits.
True, unfiltered, inspiration the likes of which guided Leonardo's hand when he drew the Mona Lisa.
Bella gives him the Magnum.
James freezes in mid-air, and when he hits the ground he doesn't move.
It's the most beautiful thing he's ever seen.
The Cullens rush into the room, and they too stop in awe to behold Magnum.
James can't believe he got foiled like this, and then the cops arrest him.
Bella goes on to discover her boyfriend is a vampire as well as what a vampire is, so she founds a school for vampires who want to learn how to drink blood good and do other stuff good too. When it's pointed out to her that the problem is learning how to not drink blood, she changes its name to "Bella Swan's School for Vampires Who Want to Not Drink Blood But Drink Animal Blood Good and Do Other Stuff Good Too".
"I have to think the Volturi are going to frown on that," - Carlisle.
"I used to frown at learning too, but then I learned that learning is important." - Bella, who can't read because there's no school for that.
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goldeneyedgirl · 4 months
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Eyeshadow Name Guesses/Demands for Colourpop x Twilight
You kept me waiting
Where have you been loca
Nice kitty
My own brand of heroin
Lion and lamb
Grand Theft Auto
Mushroom Ravioli
Ballet Studio
Third Wife
Effervescent
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What if Alice couldn't control when she got her visions and it was completely random? (this is even after her turning) Does this change who she is and/or how she sees the people around her? Love your blog btw, as well as therealvinelle's!
Glad you enjoy the blog! Look, @therealvinelle, praise!
Also, that's canon. (With the caveat of this is a books purist blog and I forget if/how the movies get into it and if they make it clear how it all works).
We see Alice try to focus her visions on certain people and look for certain events in Twilight, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn with limited if any success. In Twilight, she's not able to predict James's movements and only ends up seeing the ballet studio when his plan to lure Bella solidifies. Eclipse, she tries to predict Victoria which may or may not cause her to fail to predict Riley and reports being very spread thin between trying to predict Victoria, the family, Bella, and Aro all at the same time. Which also causes her to miss Caius. Breaking Dawn, Alice has to play whack a mole of "what happens if I go here" to try and guess where she might run into a hybrid.
It's worth mentioning also in New Moon that Alice can see that Bella can stop Edward killing himself, but not how the meeting with the Volturi will go afterwards (as that's too many decisions ahead).
And of course, the time in Twilight where she missed Edward nearly eating Bella in Biology because she was hyper focusing on Jasper that day. However, Edward assumes she still had the visions, she was just so focused on Jasper it became white noise to her.
What I'm getting at is that Alice can sort of focus on people/what she wants to see, but her best results are those closest to her, and even then there's often things she would have liked to know that she misses or she gets visions she wouldn't want/is trying not to see.
But back to the controlling when she gets them: she can't. We see Alice often in canon stop what she's doing because she's had a particularly alarming vision and from Midnight Sun we know that she's having visions constantly as every time a family member considers doing a thing/something is going to happen to them she gets a vision. It's just that most of the time Alice tunes it out.
Alice is only able to affect when she gets a vision if a) she decides to hang out near shapeshifters and or Renesmee in which all visions suddenly turn off and she won't get them again until she leaves the area b) if it's visions of her own future where she personally decides to do a thing c) if she asks someone "consider doing X" so that she can see what will happen.
She can't actually control getting them at all.
Now, it's not random, she gets them when someone close to her makes a decision/considers something or when someone else makes a decision/considers something that will affect the family.
If it was random, what visions she gets and doesn't get... Well, Alice wouldn't actually know the difference then so she'd just have this quirky gift that never seems to work when you need it to. I imagine Alice would be very frustrated about what she does and doesn't get to see and if she's informed too late to do anything about it.
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missladyforgaga · 11 months
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TWILIGHT, BELLA: Ballet Studio
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cto10121 · 2 months
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Finished watching that long-ass but well-done Contrapoints video on Twilight and it wasn’t clownish!!! It was literate!!! For once!!! Still, I have des Notes(tm):
Not sophisticated people like Contrapoints mixing up movie and book canon willy-nilly. 😑 Some of her analysis and argument, then, is greatly weakened by this, especially when she mentions Bella’s nightmare in Breaking Dawn (very different film vs. movie). Make it clear which one you’re talking about, sis!!!
By that token, her claim that the Port Angeles scene and the James fight in the ballet studio are examples of disavowal is not held up by the books. The would-be rapists are not described in any way, much less erotically; the focus is on Edward’s rescue and his fury. James is not even described as typically beautiful, actually average, and his framing is that of a typical villain
Re: Disavowal theory, Contrapoints misses the fact that Bella is a parentified teen of working class parents. There is even an in-canon explanation re: Midnight Sun as to why she doesn’t like birthdays (spoiler: her mother just dngaf). So Bella’s distaste for attention and parties and money is not an affectation or maidenly disavowal. It is a character weakness stemming from neglect. Her character arc is to accept her worth and to move away from disavowal and play-acting modesty, embracing her true self
She greatly undersells how much Twilight subverts typical gender roles and conventions. It’s Bella who wants vampirism, Bella who wants sex from Edward, Bella who comes up with plans and solutions, Bella who saved Edward. It’s Bella whose mind can’t be penetrated or manipulated, who develops an interest in motorcycles and loves her truck. Vampire Bella may be fully realized in her autonomy both physically and socially, but Human Bella did well with what she could do and worked hard to reach her goals (vampirism, sex with Edward). She was only physically weak.
Twilight also subverts the B&B/predator-prey dynamic just as much as it eroticizes it. Bella and Edward personality-wise are much more alike than different (there is definitely several shades of Romeo and Juliet there), so their physical inequality ends up being yet another obstacle to their romance rather than an inherent part of their dynamic. A big chunk of the reason why Bella wants to be a vampire so badly is because she knows it’s the only way to truly be with Edward, that this man-of-steel-woman-of-tissue situation cannot continue. The end of series sees Bella and Edward as explicit equals
Also, also, from the way the vampires are written in Twilight, becoming a vampire can be interpreted as very much an escape from patriarchal life. No need to cook or clean, male vampires can’t get you pregnant, and even if a male vampire threatens you, you have your own power to fend them off. Sex-based discrimination is impossible in the vampiric world. Only individual cases of misogyny can exist. So there’s that
For that token, there were and are hundreds of romance novels and erotica that do—or try to do—the same thing as Twilight. Before Twilight there was the Vampire Diaries and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And yet, while highly popular, none of these were as great a phenomenon as Twilight. Unfortunately, Contrapoints doesn’t really delve into what makes Twilight different from the world of romance and erotica, only why it was a success
A+ meta on how romance novels work. It’s a little no duh, but she explains it so well and eloquently
The toxic radfem/political lesbianism theory section explains the pearl-clutching around Twilight and Fifty Shades and misunderstandings about Twilight but did we really need a whole section on toxic radfem theory???? Otoh, I agree that bad intellectual ideas are super entertaining
Pamela discourse!!! Yeah, I learned all about that in my Development of the Novel course, it’s all good ☕️. But I disagree slightly with Contrapoints in that Twilight is not following that tradition. Bella does have virtue and purity signifiers; in many ways she falls under the Beautiful Maiden(tm) trope. But once again, Meyer gives it a twist in that Bella is portrayed as a modern agnostic girl who wants Edward’s D—preferably without marriage. And the narrative essentially cheers her on. Pamela would never
That Kristen Stewart interview where she says she didn’t feel like she was playing a character made me die inside and wonder if she has read the books. Contrapoints implicitly agreeing with her that Bella is a placeholder character made me die inside and wonder if she has truly read the books
Not Contrapoints actually agreeing with St. Augustine, that African-intellectual-turned-religious-dumbass 😑 Yeah, no, I do not agree that lust is inherently perverted. For one thing, what is “perversion” and what is “normal”? Spoiler alert: It basically all comes down to cultural and religious bias. It’s true that the sex act involves crossing boundaries and penetration of some form, but that in and of itself not inherently violent. You can hurt yourself exercising; doesn’t mean it’s something horribly violent!!! So yeah, there’s my fuck-St-Augustine rant for the day
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niamhthefae · 9 months
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Some marauders fic ideas because i can't write and want these to exist
Strawberry Popping Candy- dorlene- in which, marlene isn't expecting anything interesting to happen in this new town,at most she might meet a freind or discover a cool café. but it's probably going to be just like it always is.she changes her mind when she meets dorcas meadowes at the skateparkand is offered some of her strawberry popping candy
Sk8er boi- wolfstar- in which sirius has been doing ballet since he was 7 years old, always told to avoid the "rougher boys" that hang around the alleys beside the studio, then he comes across remus lupin,who proves to him that 1,theyre not that bad, and 2, his parents aren't always right about the world.
It's Twilight- an interesting half joking half not fic that is basically twilight, but better and gayer with one of the ships. it can be pretty much any pairing.
Bloody Kisses- jegulus + wolfstar-victorian/edwardian era- sirius and regulus are vampires, remus and james are vampire hunters that just got out of school. when regulus kidnapped the two and brings them back to the castle as "food" he doesn't expect him and sirius to fall in love with the two boys.
okay so this is another historical one but ssshhh I like history- litteraly just them but in the victorian era or something. idk we just need more historical aus because i want to read about my gays and my favourite time periods!
litteraly just their hogwarts years or a muggle au boarding school thing that's slytherin skittles instead of marauders centric because i love those guys so much. obviously dorlene and rosekiller and probably jegulus with wolfstar and everything else going on but it's more background bc it's not about them rn
Ice Cream Sundaes-any ship,maybe wolfstar tho?- in which [blank] is sick of working at an ice cream parlour in order to make money over the summer and [blank] is eating an awful lot of ice cream in order to see a certain boy/girl. basically one of them is on holiday with some freinds in Cornwall or Wales or something and they keep dragging them all to this ice cream place to see the other an dthen one day they get a napkin with their ice cream with the others number on it and "call me?" written on it. and then we get cute summer movie nights and dates on the beach and shit.
• Timeless- wolfstar or jegulus- where one of them (probably one of the black brothers) is immortal or a vampire or something and every time the other is reincarnated they fall in love, the tale of them falling in the present day, maybe with flashbacks to previous times when similar stuff happened. with angst about the immortal worrying because "they're just going to die again"
anywayz there's a bunch of my ideas that I can't be bothered to write,feel free to use them or even just imagine them if you really want. and if no one sees this then oh well
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trashland-llamas · 3 months
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Interestingly enough, something that Twilight and Death Note have in common is that the character who’s get fucked up the most by the narrative is the main character’s dad.
Cause Light’s dad for a good chunk of the series (I’m on ep. 12, vol 5) is going ‘can you pretty please stop suspecting my son?’ All confused but with L’s reputation, entertains it. He has to have some reasoning behind it. But like he’s in the dark, he doesn’t know that L is right. That the son he raised is really that bitch.
And then Bella’s dad is like ‘so you go against my wishes and date Edward? then, after your first date, suddenly hate his guts?’ not thinking anywhere near the realm of vampires. And then Bella verbally goes below the belt. Like if she had died by the one vampire in the ballet studio, her dad would think he fucked up as a father. And that’s just the first movie/book (I’ve only seen the 1st movie).
Like for the both of them, by them being in the dark, the plot is a psychological thriller. They’re sweating bullets the entire time cause some fucked shit is going on with their kid. Stuff that they don’t how to deal with cause it sure as hell didn’t come in the parenting manual.
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