This. So Excited. How Often Have Readers Had The Opportunity To See Both Readers And Author Made To Engage

This. So excited. How often have readers had the opportunity to see both readers and author made to engage with the strong gender scripts underlying an incredibly popular work, made explicit and challenged by a gender-swap? Has it ever 'officially' happened before?

i know everyone and their grandmother is taking potshots at the new twilight novel but honest to god i have so many questions, so many things i needed to know in the agonizing hours occupying the space between “knew this thing exists” and “got my filthy, goblin hands on a copy,” and my first and most pressing being what are we going to do now that jacob black doesn’t have a knot? how does renesmee work in this universe – does she exist in this universe? would she have existed? if edward is the one who is against having the baby, would edythe have carried it given the reverse situation? would edward’s body – unable to change, age, or grow, even conceive a child? would there be a vampire abortion? would there, in this universe, have to be some kind of fanfic-style cis-dude mpreg for beaufort slash bella swan to fulfill her destiny of being a zombie vampire babychild incubation machine? and like, in a universe where the dynamics of half of the familial and romantic relationships are predicated on gender roles learned and assigned in like, the mid 19th and 20th fucking centuries, how does rosalie’s storyline even work? she was only a vampire because of a) her relative class status b) the existence and enactment of gender-based violence in the depression era,  jasper was only a vampire because he was an active confederate soldier in texas during the southern vampire wars, would alice’s institutionalization and torture have even happened if she’d been a man? would carlisle have been a doctor? is edythe going to take the role of stalker slash protector without the hovering obligation of antiquated gender roles? how does leah’s struggle with the hypermasculinity assigned to her as a werewolf play out if she’s like, a dude, how does the whole lowkey racist narrative about quileute men being unable to control their violent, animalistic impulses because they’re native ameri– excuse me, werewolves, play out if all of them are women. i have been sending frantic, screaming voice memos about this to several people tonight and my only regret is that this was the way you all had to find out that not only did i read twilight but i am heavily emotionally invested in the consistency of the twilight universe’s internal logic buT LIKE FOR REAL IS THERE GOING TO BE MPREG IN THIS? IS BEAUFORT (BEAUFORT!!!) SWAN GONNA HAVE A BABY. WHAT HORRIFYING PORTMANTEAU IS RENESMEE GONNA SUFFER THROUGH THIS TIME

More Les Mis + Wolfpupy Tweets, for absolutely no reason and I'm sorry

The Bishop: you have to be cruel to be kind, no wait the other thing, you have to do nice things. phew, could have caused a lot of problems

Javert:my disregard for gravity was the true cause of my downfall

Tholomyes: irreparable damage has been done in that i cant be bothered to fix it

Thenardier: as the number one spiritual figure in your life my spiritual guidance and advice is to send me money

Gavroche: cant live in ribcage of dinosaur skeleton at the museum, cant live in giant inflatable gorilla at the caryard. no place for me in this world

Gillenormand : in a way aren't we all responsible for my actions

Mabeuf: hoping birds dont notice your coin purse is just a hot pocket with the filling emptied out

Marius: looks like it is going to be smooth sailing from now on for me and some eggs i have put all into one basket

Theodule: some say i am so shallow and vapid in life but i literally just love to be that like all the time right now its so true

Eponine:if you want something done you have to just forget about it and move on with your life, theres no point in expecting anything from anyone

Montparnasse: my street gang has been walking down the street snapping our fingers in unison for like 3 days, we all forgot why we were doing it

Enjolras: i am too busy living an important life to care about the solstice

Combeferre: some say killing people is the answer to the problems, me personally i think killing people is bad to do because im not a horrible monster

Jean Prouvaire: dead people taking up all the good graves, some of us alive folks want to be in the grave too you know

Feuilly: i could sit on power lines too if the world would stop keeping me down

Courfeyrac: it happens to the best of us, the best of us such as me, out of both of us im the best one, probably too great to give you usable advice

Bahorel: if the bible has taught us anything its that you have to fight for your right to party. a song? oh then i guess it taught us nothing then

Bossuet: there should be a limit to the number of curses and hexes you can have put on you, this is getting ridiculous

Joly: back in the frankenstein times you could make a monster whenever you wanted, these days you have to have a license or something i guess

Grantaire: everything is going to be ruined so just dont worry, have a relax

Louis Phillipe: when the sun goes out, the air turns to fire, and the streets run red with blood, i am probably to blame for it

National Guard: stop being so defensive i am just trying to hit you with weapons

Cosette: i am a big fan of all the famous internet cats and hope they live long and happy lives

Valjean : my whole life has lead up to this moment, being dead in a grave

Bitter Sweet Symphony | The Verve

aND THEN FIRE! SHOT DOWN! FROM THE SKY IN BOLTS! LIKE SHINING BLADES OF THE NIGHT!

“There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around searching for their other half, and when they find him or her, they are finally whole and perfect. The thing that gets me is that the story says that originally all people were really pairs of people, joined back to back, and that some of the pairs were man and man, some woman and woman, and others man and woman. What happened was that all of these double people went to war with the gods, and the gods, to punish them, split them all in two. That’s why some lovers are heterosexual and some are homosexual, female and female, or male and male.”

― Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

reblog if you’re the bisexual cousin

I like this song as sung by women, but I love how Ramin kept in the gender of the one who left. Also this feels very intimate. 

Ramin singing I dreamed a dream