renee dwyer hate blog

It seems to me that SM found herself surprisingly interested in the Jacob/Bella dynamic. That was never part of her original plan; remember, she wrote Twilight and then Forever Dawn (which was basically had all the same plot points as Breaking Dawn eventually did). She had already written E/B's wedding, birth of Renesmee, Bella being a vampire. Jacob was just a family friend with a minor crush. But it's pretty clear he took on a life of his own in the middle books that SM had not originally planned for and my theory has always been that SM liked the idea of Jacob/Bella but not as much as the Edward/Bella endgame she had literally already written. So what to do? She wants them to kiss, so she makes Jacob force himself on Bella so that Bella is blameless. She wants them to snuggle, so she puts them in a cold tent where Bella literally needs Jacob's body heat so Bella is blameless. She wants them to kiss again, so Jacob threatens getting himself killed, so Bella is blameless.

And none of the Cullens seem at all bothered by whatever is going on with her and Jacob, and they don't have the details because Alice can't see him. It would be natural for some of them to be like, "uhhhhh, what? Is she cheating on Edward?" but no! She is innocent and blameless and they all (except Rosalie) adore her! Part of the family already! Don't even worry about it! Alice even says something like "wow it must be hard to have two good options" like she is a neutral observer and one of the options isn't her brother. They aren't even bothered by her making Edward, the only mind-reader and the only one who can communicate with the wolves when they are in wolf form, sit out the fight to the death that their relationship caused. They're cool with it. Because no one can resent Bella for anything, and if they do, they're bad.

And then we have Breaking Dawn. Bella's been begging for vampirism for awhile now, but maybe wanting immortality and power and beauty might be selfish? Can't have that. She's dying in childbirth. Now it's not just an emergency transformation to save her life, she's sacrificing herself for someone else. She's absolved, and so is Edward.

Even with silly stuff, like the clothes and parities. It might be selfish of Bella to want those things, so she doesn't, but Alice just gives them to her anyway.

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this has been bugging me for a while and i don’t see a lot of posts about it, which frustrates me to no end.

renesmee was created solely so jacob could get a happy ending, and that’s disgusting. from someone who was sexually abused as a child, i can’t sit and watch the breaking dawn movies without skipping over every single scene that involves jacob ‘babysitting’ or being near baby renesmee because it’s just too uncomfortable for me. and i have no idea how hollywood or publishers let that plot line go.

maybe to some, the idea of your ‘true love’ being your first love and waiting for someone is romantic, but not when it’s a child and a full grown adult. renesmee is a baby, no matter how fast she grows, she’s a literal child and to make matters worse, is being groomed into loving only jacob romantically from a young age by the ‘power’ of imprinting. she never got a choice when it came to love interests, because really, if jacob hadn’t imprinted on her as a baby, would she still grow up to be ‘in love’ with him? probably not. and to make matters worse, jacob is always around her as a child, always with her. do any of the cullens find this unsettling at all? rosalie, a survivor of a brutal sexual assault, shows no concern throughout the movie. edward cullen, the father of this baby, is perfectly fine with the plan to have jacob run away with her if all else fails. even bella, after the initial ‘fight’ scene, seems to have let it go, for the most part. carlisle, esme, jasper, emmett, alice...nobody shows signs of concern when it comes to this ‘bond’, (i will be damned before i call it a relationship.) of sorts. now, i’m not saying that they should be concerned about jacob abusing this privilege in anyway, i personally don’t think that jacob would ever do anything to harm renesmee especially as a child. but it’s still concerning when you realize, that this grown man will one day find this chid sexually attractive and is just waiting until she’s (hopefully, but i wouldn’t doubt if they allowed a relationship earlier) eighteen to start a romantic and intimate relationship.

not only that, but renesmee’s excuse of “being part vampire so she grows faster” is obviously just so nobody finds this revolting. and this trait makes her a tragic character, if you think about it, because renesmee will never have a ‘normal’ childhood. by the end of the movies, she’s already around 8-9 years old physically, meaning that, she’s already missed out on half of her schooling and hasn’t been able to socialize with any children her age. she grew up too fast to enjoy cartoons, dolls, imaginary friends and every other joy that comes with a childhood. that is, if we’re to assume that she continues to age like that after the movies have ended. to make matters worse, even her mental age seems to be progressing at a concerning degree, she’s obviously very wise for a kid her age, being able to approach aro with calmness and grace. not too mention, all of this mental progression has happened during a time of war. she practically grew up watching people spar and talk of plans to destroy the volturi, whilst also knowing full well that the volturi are after her. imagine, all of the necessary growth that happens in your childhood years, happening with all of this going on.

she’ll also never experience what other people get to, most likely. growing so fast, elementary school and middle school are out of the question. she’ll never know what it’s like to have a shy boy ask her to dance at a school formal, or what it’s like to make friends on the playground and the excitement that comes with class pets, ice cream days, girl scouts ect... she’ll never get to a point and be able to figure her sexuality out on her own, or find out what she likes in people and doesn’t like. because everything has been programmed to be jacob by that point. she’ll never get to feel the butterflies of that one person asking her to homecoming or the nauseating but beautiful nerves that come with a first date, because she’s known jacob all her life, so why be nervous to begin with? and why say yes to the boy with the sweet smile asking you to homecoming, when you’re programmed to believe that it’ll ‘break jake’s heart’? she’ll never get to make friends the same way we do, because there’s that caution that comes with being half vampire. and who knows if she’ll even be able too, seeing as her age progression makes it hard for her to stay at one solid age for too long?

she’ll experience everything that we do in eighteen years, in what? five? six? seven? that, to me, is heartbreaking. even if she’s just a character, we’re meant to feel for them and to care about them, and yet, all i’ve ever felt for her was pity. pity for a childhood that she’ll never get to have. pity for milestones that she’ll never get to experience. pity for the choice and freedom that was stripped from her before she was even able to know what those things are. she was branded an imprint before she could develop a personality, morals, standards. before she could develop her orientation and decide what she wanted for herself. all because smeyer wanted to give jake a happy ending. but what about nessie’s? would this girl want any of this, if she were old enough to understand and WASN’T bound to him by imprint? we all know that she won’t ever have a choice in the matter, because now it’s either, be with jake or suffer with depression and a slowly deteriorating health (if imprinting is the same as a vampires’ mate bond, which we were lead to believe) like bella once had. which will be even harder on her because she was always with jake growing up. it wasn’t a short time period like bella and edward, it was her entire life, so who’s to say separation wouldn’t be worse on her?

In the interest of fairness and not putting words in SM’s mouth, here’s the relevant passage:

And it’s just like . .. there are about 100 different ways she could have done this that A) (and most importantly!!!!) respected the Quileute tribe (not use them at all! reached out to them! her publishing company hiring a consultant during the editing process to work through some issues! not changed their legends! removed the supernatural aspect from the story!) and B) not made her protagonists look like callous jerks by coming back to a place they knew people were terrified of them and didn’t want them there. 

Like yeah yeah we got her accidentally hitting Mike with a volleyball in the first movie but I want a running gag where it’s like “thank god she only ever hangs out with indestructible immortals.” If Edward wasn’t impervious he’d have been seriously maimed/burned/crushed/stabbed fifty times over within the first six months of them dating.

She turns around in the kitchen while holding a knife not realizing he’s behind her, and if he were human she’d have just gutted him, but as it is his shirt is the only casualty. You know she’s hit him with her truck at least 3x; Edward laughs it off but one time he doesn’t have time to smooth the bumper out before Charlie gets home, so they have to make up a story. Etc.