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fandomsecrets2015-10-06 07:03 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2015-10-06 07:03 pm
[ SECRET POST #3198 ]
⌈ Secret Post #3198 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Watching Dead/Fear The Walking Dead/The Walking Dead]
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[Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni]
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[Animal Crossing]
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[New Tricks]
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[Movie: The D-Train]
Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 027 secrets from Secret Submission Post #457.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: Gender-swapped Twilight is a real thing
(Anonymous) 2015-10-07 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)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.