Friendly reminder that there are 750 Quileute. Seven Hundred and Fifty. Think. For reference- how big was your middle school? (around that, maybe?) I think we tend not to understand how personal their inclusion in Twilight was. Smeyer took advantage of them. She's rich off of them and their culture. She exploited and misrepresented them. Seven hundred and fifty people. She could look each one of them in the eye and apologize in one afternoon and instead, she sits on 125 million dollars as if her hands are tied.

She could give every Quileute $50,000 each and still have $87,500,000 left over.

i honest to god can't stress how important it is to support authors of colour. white authors are NEVER going to be able to captures the experience of a person of colour in an authentic way and it will be flawed whether they had good intentions or not. support authors of colour because that is where you will get the best rep. if you're looking for good rep of a certain marginalised group and you turn to someone outside of that group for a good, authentic retelling of their experiences you will inevitably be disappointed by the outcome. turning to white people should not be the first thing you do when looking for good diverse rep that is absolutely the last place you should be going

ok this has been bothering me for a while bc I love new moon (book and movie) but it really really REALLY bothered me how in the book Bella didn’t go to Harry Clearwater’s funeral with Charlie. Like that feels so disrespectful to me, if my parents really good friend passed away I’d go with them bc that’s tragic and I can’t fathom that pain and handling it alone. Just to be by their side so they know you’re there for them??? But she stays home and I find that odd like I get Alice was there and the whole Edward calling but idk I feel like Bella should’ve went with Charlie. To me that’s the least Bella could do for her father in that moment and especially after having her lil revelation post-cliff diving and Jake telling her Harry had a heart attack.

im finishing midnight sun the same way I started it 12 years ago, hunched over my laptop reading a free leaked copy before s meyer kicks my door down. its called continuity

hey since midnight sun is gonna be coming out pretty soon and since, all jokes aside, there are gonna be links to lots of book downloading websites floating around, I just wanna take a moment to remind everyone to NOT use those sites to download ANY other books, especially from authors you actually want to see keep writing. I know it can be super tempting but authors do actually need books to continue selling. if you can’t afford a book then you should 100% check for it at your local library instead!

y’all will call maria (the woman who changed jasper) evil and then turn around and call jasper a small baby or whatever the fuck and cry about how he’s innocent when he was a full on confederate soldier while maria used her oppressors to get ahead and survive but y’all not racist tho 🥺✨

And everytime I point this out, I get accused of starting drama 🥴 y'all only know how to demonize and fetishize woc, eat hot chip and lie

Exactly! Jasper is way worse than Maria but people arent ready to hear that about their ~lil innocent baby~, right? Maria did nothing wrong and calling her evil because she did the nasty Confederate dirty (as she should) just shows exactly what we already knew- that the very people who will excuse racism in a character will also look for any excuse to trash a strong, goal oriented woman of color

Also! Smeyer had exactly ONE (1) mexican character that was named and called her fucking Maria. 🙃🙃🙃 Which should not be overlooked.

white twilight stans will understand that aro beheading carlisle in bd was an abuse of power and this action was traumatizing to those who bore witness and will understand that in that moment of carlisle’s death the only thing those who witnessed this atrocity could do is retaliate against their oppressors but then not understand why real people protest when real cops murder real Black people in the streets and in their homes without consequence