i want to get a set of the books that all match, but for now i have my thrifted collection (minus a few bought new!)

I’m doing a grief fuelled re-read of the series for the first time since I’ve been a teenager. Frontal lobe locked and loaded.

Now, I’m only on New Moon so there is plenty of time to change. But I’m really taken with Jacob this time round. When I was a teen I was die hard in love with Edward - pathologically so. This time I found his intensity less intoxicating and I love the kind of “normal” that Bella has with Jacob.

I think it’s also influenced by getting together with my friend after many years of on/off yearning. There’s something more attractive to me now about the familiar warmth versus that very dramatic, brooding thing Edward brings on the surface.

Anyone else having rethinks at different life stages?

Re-reading breaking dawn honeymoon scenes and Bella was genuinely so happy. Ever since she fell in love with Edward, she didn't see any huge reason to not turn into a vampire. For the first time, she was willing to delay vampirism for something: Sex. Despite being bothered about their age difference, she was ready to stay human for a bit longer.

Once he gives in the second time and they start making love for the next 2 days, she is so happy and Edward is happy too. It would have been so nice if they could have continued that (they even had plenty of headboards left) without the whole pregnancy putting a stop to their newly married bliss. They didn't even get a month to themselves. And I don't think they had sex after going back to forks during pregnancy.

Of course they again have sex after bella is turned into a vampire but at that time neither of them knew Bella would make it out alive. It's a shame that their honeymoon was cut short 🚬

Okay first time posting on Reddit ever. But I (27 F) need to know if I’m weird for feeling this way 😅 I absolutely adore the Twilight movies just like any other Twilight lover. But sometimes, I avoid Twilight content, because it makes me both incredibly happy but sad at the same time. The happiness I feel when I see anything Twilight related can only be described as pure childlike joy ☀️ The sadness I guess can be explained as me being so engulfed into the story, I wish it were real. Anyway, I often find myself avoiding Twilight content as well because it makes me too happy? It like scares me how happy it makes me sometimes so I’ll scroll away from it. Idk if I’m even making sense. Please someone tell me I’m not crazy lol I’m not even like into all the intrigue details or lore of the movies. I don’t really care about that stuff. I just love the movies specifically as they are.

I’d assume Reness is full grown. Maybe Bella and Edward work? Maybe they’re all going apple picking together. Idk. Tell me your thoughts!

I made a Twilight themed werewolf card game for my Halloween party! I was looking for something to play with my friends and I thought this could be fun, so I made a French version for myself and an English version to share ❤️

PDF LINK : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-cSIRmarLgPvAxMbSNd9FxBgNJjAW0hZ/view?usp=drive_link

The cards are 2.5x3.5 inch, perfect to stick on actual playing cards or some cardboard. I also made a top for the cards so they look more official.

The pictures are all from Google and aren't in high resolution, just chose the ones I thought were funny.

Here is the Twilight font : https://www.dafont.com/twilight-new-moon.font

Here is the border : https://ko-fi.com/s/ad2f7f3e6b

Would anyone want to watch twilight with me? We can watch independently and just press play at the same time [:

HIGHER RESPECT

I think Bella's and Edward's bond is the best out of all Cullens. At least they think of their shared time as the highest pleasure - physically and spiritually (while for example Carlisle talked about the physical intimacy as "a very powerful thing", and likely focuses on his spirituality more). Bella and Edward value each other as the highest possible achievement spiritually - she is the best human, he is the best vampire. So at times, they feel unworthy of the other.

COMMON RESPECT

Bella sometimes attacks Edward or "gets defiant", but that's mostly because she has less power as human - so she has to assert herself, because she isn't given more power. Then we have the love triangle, which was very disrespectful to Edward. But then we have all the times Edward disrespects Bella:

* INSULTS\\COMPLIMENTS - calls her unobservant, unimportant, an idiot, a coward.. even if not entirely seriously, being called all that won't help someone who's self worth is already low. When does he truly compliment her? He says she's observant and that's about it. The rest he compliments is her human traits (warm, hair, cheeks, silent mind) and what she gives him (brave for spending time with him). While Bella regularly calls him good in everything, and defends his worth in conversations with Jessica and Jacob.

* MOVEMENT - forces her to get to his car, moves her around without asking, which is disrespectful when he as a vampire is so much stronger. Demands she goes on a vampire piggyride which makes her sick, forces her to birthday party and prom, but restricts her from seeing the wolves.

\* EMOTIONS - Bella is angry like a kitten, her face is very funny when she's shocked, her tears get registered and regretted but glossed over, her discomfort is amusing (after one piggyride, she gets sick and falls, which is hilarious).

* BELONGINGS - regularly insults her truck, and once it breaks, Bella thinks he might have done it. Gets her cars she never asked for and that don't fit with her. Overall, not much disrespect here because he doesn't even get into her things.

* HUMANITY - picks on her human traits a lot. He has better coordination, better driving, stronger, faster.. while her human traits are so weak and blind, but at the same time she needs to keep her humanity because of the higher respect (Bella deserves to stay pure and good).

* SOCIAL SITUATIONS - the first thing he does after meeting Charlie is joke about Bella's clumsiness, which leaves her very embarassed. Edward lets Alice do anything to Bella, and doesn't establish Bella's importance in family (lets them bet whether she lives or dies). The last interaction Bella has with the whole family is Alice getting her embarassed while Edward laughs along. The only time he demands respect for Bella from his equals is in Volterra.

* DEFENDS OTHERS, NOT HER - he defends Rosalie, Nahuel, Emmett and Jacob when Bella might think badly of them. But when Edward talks to Rosalie about Bella in MS, he frames Bella as "She will get bored of me, she isn't permanent." He also never warns Bella about Jessica, Mike and Jacob, even while knowing that their intentions towards her are hidden to her.

Even if the higher respect is the best, Edward is really not a gentleman to Bella.

In Breaking Dawn Bella guesses that the baby is a boy (obviously it ended up being a girl) but if it had ended up being a boy, what do you think they would have named him?

My vote is for Charlisle