The Coalition for Better Treatment of Esme Cullen

I know nobody asked for this, but hear me out. I have created playlist for Carlisle and Esme, throughout their moods and time periods. Or if you’re reading Carlesme fanfictions these songs could give you that melancholic slowburn vibe of longing and love:

Longing, Balance, Sadness

M83 - Outro

Lykke Li - Silent my song 

Lykke Li - Love out of Lust

Florence and the Machine - St. Jude

Radiohead - All I need

Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

Beach House - On the Sea

MorMor - Heaven’s Only Wishful

MUSE - Undisclosed Desires

Carlisle’s vibe

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Hymn of the Cherubim

Chopin - Nocturne op.9 No.2

Mozart - Lacrimosa

Michael Nyman - Heart asks for Pleasure First

Erik Satie - Gymnopédie 

Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine

Van Morrison - Beside You

St. Michael Front - Once

Esme’s Vibe

Florence + The Machine - What Kind Of Man

Arctic Monkeys - Arabella 

Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

Enya - Caribbean Blue 

Agnes Obel - Riverside

Queen - Killer Queen

Donna Summer - Hot Stuff

Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man (literally Carlisle reference)

The Ronettes - Be my baby 

The Moody Blues -  Nights in White Satin

Omg thank you for the ask @stregoni-benefici - this did brighten my day amidst the job search! 💖

To answer your question - Yes! I imagine it started in the years Edward was gone. After a few weeks — once the initial grief and shock has worn off and it’s a familiar pain she is forced to carry — she realizes there’s only so much time she can spend painting, cleaning, reading, and finding anything and everything to do around the house alone while Carlisle is working twenty-four hours at a time. She starts by exploring their yard, and then slowly widens her territory each time she ventures out. For the first few years of their marriage walking out on her own meant someone would wind up dead, but by the time Edward leaves she has enough self control that she can stay in control if she smells a lone hiker or mountain climber miles away. 

The first time Carlisle comes home and she’s not there he panics — surmising, of course, that Esme has also left him — and follows her trail to find her sitting at the base of a waterfall. After that, it becomes a game. About once a week he’d come home to a note, and have to find her, sometimes hundreds of miles away. At the top of a mountain, in the middle of a lake, a cave tucked in the side of a cliff, or up a tree. It’s a way for them to get out of that too quiet of a house, to soften the blow of coming home to a dust covered piano. 

Eugene von Blaas, 1843-1932

Edward’s cunty little peacoat

“You don’t even say hi to me.” “…Hi.”

James’s fuckass ponytail

Victoria wearing a fur rug from IKEA as a shawl

Nomads being barefoot

Supermassive Black Hole

Flightless Bird, American Mouth

Actually I’m just going to say “the soundtrack” otherwise I’ll waste a bunch of bullets listing all the songs

Whatever the fuck kind of drugs RPattz was on when they filmed the scene where he’s in sunglasses. He was equal parts hot and unsettling, as Edward should be

Edward jumping from a tree?? The sky?? onto Bella’s truck while she washed it. Very playful and it’s the scene where they look the most in-character imo

Bella’s little fantasy montage of her and Edward goth’d out on that gaudy couch. Honestly this might be my favorite on this whole list. Where would we be as a society without this (source)

The Cullens’ baseball outfits. iirc smeyer didn’t specify their attire.

Changing Edward’s outfit for the sun reveal. I’m mad they changed the scene itself so drastically the way they did, but thank god he wasnt in that sleeveless collared dress shirt from the book

“This is the skin of a killer” is peak camp and I wouldn’t change it for the world

Nixing the gotdamn khaki skirt

Whatever the hell this is. Look at her getting in his space in his little brooding tree. Look at him perfectly matching her movement to stay close but not allow contact. The modern equivalent of a ball scene in a regency era piece (source)

Jasper being introduced as the one who always looks like he’s in pain

Bella being a headband girly

Bella being a flannel girly