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⌈ Secret Post #3198 ⌋

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Stephenie Meyer will milk TWilight until its an old, dry husk of a thing, and this time around, she's gender-swapped it: a concept that I actually think could be kind of interesting in the hands of a talented and daring writer who would do more than I what suspect will be a giant find-and-replace job. And if the source material were actually good.

I haven't stopped laughing at the spelling of Elise since I read it.

You mean Edythe for Edith? That's been around for a while. In The King In Yellow (written in the late 19th century) the protagonist of one story's mother is named Edythe.

SA

But I do know an Elyse (pronounced Elise) and THAT irritates the crap out of me.

Please let this lead to people making good ass supernatural romances with interesting non-passive female characters and well used supernatural elements and lbgt relationships and no harlequin stuff

Thus won't happen obv

Hahahah nope.

maybe some of the fanfic will be good

I find it hilarious that Meyer is now actually doing exactly what HP fandom has been accusing JKR of ever since Pottermore came out.

What's next? A Twilight/Genderswap Twilight crossover where Bella and Edward team up with their Rule 63 counterparts to save the universe?

In a bizarre way, this doesn't actually bother me as much? I mean it's blatant milking for cash, but at least it's an actual book.
Even if it's the laziest thing on the planet, and I am horrified that people are actually going to fork over money for this shit, just wait and see.

I sure as hell wouldn't pay money for it, but I might get it from the library for the lolz.

Oh, same here.
It's especially ironic because I found Twilight mind-numbingly boring and insipid, but now I am actually curious if it looks different with the genders switched.

It won't work. A big reason for why Twilight was popular was because Bella was a blank slate that the fangirls could swap for themselves and feel like Edward (or Jacob) was in love with them. They're not going to swap themselves with FemEdward.

Someone once started a fanfic about a gender-swapped Twilight, and I thought it was pretty interesting. Unfortunately I think it's been abandoned. :(

This whole thing reminds me of a Star Wars retelling fic that I did a lot of thinking about but never wrote that made Luke the senator prince from Alderaan and Leia the moisture farmgirl.

That one has been adapted into the script for The Force Awakens.

I would totally read that.

From what I saw, she basically just ctrl-f'd and replaced pronouns/names, and made slight changes to lore with a slightly different ending. That's it. It's hilariously lazy. Also I'd totally forgotten about "Midnight Sun", which her fans are still waiting for it seems. Poor bastards.

I skimmed through it. It. Is. Terrible. Horribly, horribly terrible. I know that Twilight has a buttload of problems, but I've got a soft spot for the series because I associate it with the precious few good memories I have of high school. I thought she could've done a better job since it's been ten years and surely her writing must've improved, but nope. And that ending . . . Ugh.

Care to give spoilers?

Sure! I skimmed it while walking around Target, so I might have missed some stuff. Spoilers a few spaces down:

Bella had her clumsiness, but Beau's supposed to be OCD and it never really comes up. Everyone is genderbent except Beau's parents, which I thought exposed some bias on Meyer's part because Charlie's still a police officer. The dynamic is almost the same with Edyth watching Beau when he sleeps and talking about how she can hardly control herself. The Port Angeles scene had Beau and his friends shopping for corsages and Beau almost getting murdered by some girl gang. Meyer wrote the story to show there's nothing wrong with the dynamics in Twilight, just that Bella's overshadowed by awesome, but the genderbent version has Beau being a bit more outspoken than Bella. He gets almost killed by Joss (girl!James), but in this version Edyth doesn't suck the venom out and he turns into a vampire. Then it skips to the Breaking Dawn chapters and Beau is suddenly the perfect newborn who can control his thirst and make out with Edyth all the time. Not mpreg or regular pregnancy. There are two chapters that talk about the Volturri and how they're a major threat, but theuly never show up. The wolves, led by Bonnie (Billy) do show up, but nothing except talking happens and Beau asks Bonnie not to tell Julie (Jacob), but Bonnie says Julie will find out eventually. Beau apparently faked his death because there's another scene showing his parents and classmates all crying at a funeral, which was pretty depressing and made me feel so bad for Charlie. The story ends with Edyth and Beau living happily ever after.

It was pretty bad, but at least Meyer kinda recognized it was bad because she apologized in the afterward and admitted it wasn't something her fans had been waiting for like Midnight Sun. I don't think her goal came across very well. Even with leaving most of the story intact, Beau still didn't seem as passive and sensitive as Bella.

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