My Twilight Sideblog

I saw this comment on a YouTube Short today and YES EXACTLY

Carlisle has a separate photo album with mug shots of his children, taken when they were in trouble. With captions like "Edward, speeding, 1986" or "Jasper, card counting in Las Vegas, 2000"

Twilight, and it's basically the same except the love triangle is Jessica, Rosalie and Leah. And it would be an actual triangle too.

i've grown from making niche twilight yuri to twilight yuri that's never been heard of before. All using the smallest farm of clips ever imaginable. But will that stop me? No way. I just regroup for a sec and go again.

Like, not morally necessarily, the guy was an abuser, no sympathy for him. It just always struck me as a strange and interesting choice on SM's part.

Because previously she had described Edward's vigilante era as him taking out people who were actively doing harm. He was preventing other people being killed by killing the would-be killers. He would hear in their minds what they were planning and then he would take them out before they could do it.

But Charles? That's revenge. I mean I guess it's possible he's still out there being cruel and abusive, but that's not why Edward killed him. Edward sought him out. He didn't like, just happen to cross his path and overhear that he was planning to do something bad. It's pretty clear he hunted him down to avenge Esme.

Like I said, interesting!

There's also the timing of it? Edward leaves in 1927. Esme has been with the family since 1921. So that's six years. If Esme wanted revenge, she had plenty of time to do it herself like Rosalie did. The fact that Charles was still alive six years into Esme's vampiric existence suggests, to me, that she didn't care about revenge.

had to transcend my tumblr post to ao3 for the one time

I’ve said before I’m kind of fascinated how the concept of mates/true mates has become a mythology of its own in Twilight fanfic, but that I didn’t get that same sense from the actual books.  So I thought I’d do some PDF word searches to see how ‘mate’ is used within the series. Here are the results. Number of times ‘true mate’ appears in Twilight: 0 Number of times ‘mate’ appears in Twilight: 0

Number of times 'true mate’ appears in Midnight Sun Draft: 0 Number of times 'mate’ appears in Midnight Sun Draft: 0

Number of times 'true mate’ appears in New Moon: 0 Number of times 'mate’ appears in New Moon: 12 Some of these are doubled “mate for a mate,” and all of them are referring to James/Victoria/Laurent and Victoria’s quest for revenge against Bella.  Number of times 'true mate’ appears in Eclipse: 0 Number of times 'mate’ appears in Eclipse: 7 5 of these are referring to “soul mates” (including Alice/Jasper, Jared/Kim, and Jacob/Bella), only two are specifically referring to vampire mates, and these 2 are talking about the Cold Woman’s revenge from the Quileute legends.  Number of times 'true mate’ appears in Breaking Dawn: 0 Number of times 'mate’ appears in Breaking Dawn: 17 Most of these are Bella describing the new vampires (ex. “Siobhan’s mate, Liam”), although there are 3 references to 'soul mates’ (one Rose/Emmett and the other two are Jacob hoping to imprint at the park). Aro calls Bella Edward’s “newborn mate” twice. Edward refers to Bella as his wife, not his mate.

Number of times 'true mate’ appears in Bree Tanner: 0 Number of times 'mate’ appears in Bree Tanner: 0