Twilight Author releases genderswapped version of Twilight because reasons -

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I don't even know what to say to this. Why is this a thing?

https://gma.yahoo.com/twilight-char...s-life-123310541--abc-news-entertainment.html

 

[Strelok]

Because she enjoys making money presumably.

 

[Bugaboo]

Gosh golly just what we needed

 

[Hat]

So, is the book the same, albeit with different names and pronouns, or does the text actually reflect a difference in the story as a result of these changes?

 

[Tookie]

I'll save my money for the all-latinx tranny edition, thank you very much.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

So, is the book the same, albeit with different names and pronouns, or does the text actually reflect a difference in the story as a result of these changes?

She claims it starts out the same but starts to differ greatly as it goes on. But oh dear god, the names. Edward and Bella are now Edythe and Beau.

Edythe. And Beau.

There's also this.

Two “Twilight” characters who escape the gender swap in the new book are Charlie and Renee, the parents of Beau-Bella. Those two were not changed because, according to Meyer in the foreword, “I have a really hard time believing that any judge at that time (or even now) would give a child to a transient, unemployed father over a mother with a steady job and strong ties to her community.”

 

[Ido]

Edythe. And Beau.

What. The. Fuck.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

What. The. Fuck.

Full name Beaufort.

 

[Adamska]

This is fanfiction at it's finest. No seriously, this is literally fanfiction that Meyer is trying to make a cashgrab on, right down to it being the same story in spite of "changes".

 

[Red]

I hope one day I can be successful enough that I can publish fanfictions of my own novels and still make money.

 

[Ido]

Full name Beaufort.

...This is the person who named a character Renesmee, so I'm not surprised she picked such horrible names but goddamn.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

This is fanfiction at it's finest. No seriously, this is literally fanfiction that Meyer is trying to make a cashgrab on, right down to it being the same story in spite of "changes".

It worked for 50 Shades of Grey...

 

[AnOminous]

I hope one day I can be successful enough that I can publish fanfictions of my own novels and still make money.

Everyone else is (50 Shades), it's only fair that the original author gets to as well.

 

[Trickie]

Apparently she did it to prove that Bella isn't a damsel in distress... somehow.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Apparently she did it to prove that Bella isn't a damsel in distress... somehow.

Because if she was a man, she'd be strong enough to defend herself? Or because now it'll be a man in distress? Because either way, it doesn't work.

 

[MasterDisaster]

Part of me hopes other authors start doing this. Harriot Potter and the Cotton Pony sounds like a good one.

 

[Strelok]

Apparently she did it to prove that Bella isn't a damsel in distress... somehow.

That's the official line. We all know the real reason is much, much simpler.

If I could get paid just to slightly change a book I already made, you can be damn sure I would.

 

[Bugaboo]

My Grandma wants to read 50 Shades of Grey andI'm like "I'm not sure it's what you think it is Grandma..."

 

[Techpriest]

My Grandma wants to read 50 Shades of Grey andI'm like "I'm not sure it's what you think it is Grandma..."

Your grandmother sounds like a lovely lady of the sort I enjoyed listening to while I worked at the nursing home.

 

[Bugaboo]

Your grandmother sounds like a lovely lady of the sort I enjoyed listening to while I worked at the nursing home.

Honestly she's very very competent and not senile but she doesn't understand popular culture or the modern world so she just goes outside and works in her garden for hours and does yoga and she's 80 years old and we're scared she'd gonna die in her garden