[ SECRET POST #3228 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3228 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

02. http://i.imgur.com/wQvMECA.jpg?1

[(Anonymous)]

So was this actually a real book, and was it really just a gender swap? Or did the plot and shit change?

[ketita]

Seconding the question.
Also adding: I started Twilight way-back-when and was bored out of my skull in less than 100 pages. Is this version at all entertaining?

[(Anonymous)]

It is almost literally word-for-word the same thing with only the names and gender-specific language switched out.

Like, she find-replaced the entire book, that's it.

[ketita]

Does it actually change the way the characters are perceived, this switch?

[(Anonymous)]

Bella as a boy is way more boring. Edward as a girl is still a creepy stalker. Meyer changed some stuff around that didn't sit with me right. I think in the original it's Billy and Jacob that fix Bella's car, but in this one, Bonnie (genderbent Billy) pays someone to do it. Billy goes fishing, but Bonnie only fished with her husband. Royal (genderbent Rosalie) doesn't get raped, but beaten. Those are just the examples I remember (I skimmed it real fast at Barnes and Noble), but there were these weird gender specific changes that were jarring because the vast majority of the book is literally a copy paste job.

[ketita]

Huh, these things you mention are pretty discomfiting - and kind of textbook examples of gendered stereotypes. A girl will be raped, a guy beat up, that's just how things roll.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, that's gross. Not that I imagined SMeyer would reach beyond traditional gender roles and stereotypes.

[(Anonymous)]

Cleolinda did an excellent and detailed breakdown of the differences between the two texts: http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/1096137.html

[ketita]

Oh, thanks!

eta: boo, it's twitter convos :c I need more than twitter's character limit to really get an analysis.

[(Anonymous)]

So...is there an excellent and detailed breakdown of the differences that doesn't use fucking Twitter?

[leisuretime]

Someone at Buzzed took a pretty good look, though some of the examples above weren't mentioned.

[bigpaw]

I haven't read it, but from what I heard, she did change the ending pretty significantly. So there's that, I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

Haven't you heard, OP? It's only women who must have babies to fulfill their life's destiny, duty and desire.


(And I say this as a woman who is sitting on a bunch of time-bomb eggs and going baby crazy cause I want one so much. SM is even more pathological than I am about this shit, and that's saying something.)

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't just the first book, or is it all of them?

If it's just the first there's no female pregnancy in the original either.

Spoilers

[(Anonymous)]

It's the first book up until the last fifty pages or so, where it skips all the way ahead to Breaking Dawn territory, minus the Volturri conflict and Jacob moping. I don't remember if they get married, but girl!Edward and boy!Bella end up living happily ever after . . . and fake boy!Bella's death.

[kallanda_lee]

That would have been hilarious. I might have even bought it because of that. And i'm not even into it, but lord Mpreg in mainstream stuff....

[(Anonymous)]

Well of course she wouldn't, the pregnancy doesn't happen until book 4.

[aniketosbriseis]

wait, they wrote a genderbend twilight saga? omg wasn't one enough?

how they explain a vampire pregnancy?
especially since her own version of the vampires is that they 'freeze' when they get turned into vampires so Edward being able to impregnate Bella was due to the fact that he was a virgin and for 100 years he never masturbated so he still had some sperm left from when he was human.

[ketita]

omg is that really why Bella managed to get pregnant?? That's hilarious

[(Anonymous)]

I remember her saying that, lol
Then she later gave another explanation that was like 'venom replaces all the fluids in vampires but the venon still works like human fluids such as blood and sperm. So yeah, venom impregnated her'

Idk which explanation she gave is the most funny but the venom one makes the first one she gave sound almost logical, lol