maria cullen

I just watched the entire Twilight series for the first time and, not to be dramatic, but I will never forgive the internet for convincing me Edward doesn’t care about Bella. That man was pathetically obsessed with her; he did not take a minute to try and die the second he thought she was dead. Man was prepared to swear off sex with his wife because he thought he hurt her. He is a boy loser.

The thing people don't understand about Bella is that she unconditionally and irrevocably matched Edward's freak. He broke into her house to watch her sleep, fucked up her truck so she couldn't see her other friends, ate tears off of her face, and she was super into it. That's why fan lore where Bella is grounded or relatable doesn't work. We were explicitly told that she was these things because it's how she saw herself, but at every possible turn in the entire series she is insane and melodramatic and obsessively insecure and controlling and that's why she and Edward belong together.

What I love about Bella is that she really is just a teenage girl. She falls in love hard and fast like basically all teenagers do. She’s almost constantly thinking about how hot her boyfriend is. She has very low self-esteem like so many teenage girls do. She feels awkward and like she doesn’t fit in, and basically every teenage girl goes through a phase where they feel like that. I see people say a lot that Bella “isn’t like other girls,” but I disagree. Bella is exactly like other girls, and that’s why so many people connected with her. The appeal of Twilight is that Bella is normal, that she is like everyone else, but she enters into this world and has experiences that are very far from normal.

i still can’t believe the twilight movies have people genuinely thinking charlie swan deserves the dad of the year award. book charlie couldn’t handle his only child’s tears to the point that he would avoid her any time she had any emotion at all, including during her catatonic depression, he would disable her truck on the pure suspicion she may be sneaking out (because she went to bed too early in the evening… to spend the night with edward in her room), he left to go on long fishing trips randomly, allowed her to move in with him and immediately do all the cooking, cleaning and laundry for him without helping out at all, when he grounded her at the end of new moon he basically treated her as his live in maid once again, he sided when jacob when he basically sexually assaulted her in eclipse, and most of all, he never fought renee for custody of bella because “renee needed bella to take care of her”. bella was 18 months old when renee took her and left btw.

sorry if i was a bitch i probably wanted to go home