life and death: stephenie meyer's twilight gender swap au fanfiction they published for no reason
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ม.ค. 2025
- hi friends!! finally got around to reading life and death by stephenie meyer!! this is the twilight au where bella swan is a boy named beaufort and edward cullen is a girl named edythe!! ps im getting a new eyeliner bc this one sucks and i look like a racoon at the end love you hope you enjoy!!
Stephanie Meyer truly is her own biggest fan and in a way that's admirable
i know i aspire to that level of confidence!!
Re Midnight Sun, you're correct about the leak, what happened is that the book was actually finished by the time the leak took place. Stephenie Meyer was very upset about it (even though the leak was kind of her own fault), and she didn't publish Midnight Sun for years because of that. So long story short, it was finished before Life and Death, but published afterwards.
OHHHH that makes sense thank you!! i was super confused when i read that in the foreword lmao
okay but lowkey… changing the “about three things i was absolutely positive” line makes sense if you consider Stephanie just thought “well, hes a boy. he cant be as poetic”
trueeee maybe that’s why!!
I haven't read Life & Death bc I didn't like that EVERY character was gender-bent. It would've proven her "it would've happened the same" point better if only Edward and Bella were swapped, and the side characters treated them differently bc of their genders, and they still ended up together. But, if Life and Death was actually your edit and Edward and Bella met in a different way, I'd have picked that book up in a heartbeat. I LOVE concept. Great video!
thank you!! yeah i agree gender flipping everyone was the worst part of the book in my opinion!!
I was born '82 and in 1987, my younger brother and I were in the center of a a custody battle. My mother had a stable, well-paying job. My biological donor was flighty, but his family were pillars of the community. Mom had to fight tooth and nail to keep her children. If Charlie was a police officer (I don't know if he was always a cop), the courts would have looked super favorably on that. The MC's mother would have a huge struggle for any kind of custody in a situation like that. I'm just saying, it is not only reasonable that Charlie would have kept Bella/Beau, it would have been seen as the best option for the child. Charlie would have needed to say he didn't want custody. You know as an adult that remembers going to court and listening to aunts and uncles trying to steal custody.
this is a super great point!! i do think it’s weird Charlie didn’t get custody, i always assumed he didn’t really fight for it until reading her foreward
This is top tier wattpad
no fr could be found on ao3!!
Rosmund! Would have seemed more thenatically appropriate for Rosalie.
Jasmine as you mentioned would have been great for Jasper.
I feel strongly that she should have made Alice to be Alex.
ooh alex would’ve been great!! and yeah rosmund makes soooo much more sense than royal!!!
The "dominant" to "potent" change I fully believe was because of Fifty Shades of Gray, somehow, unless the the white covers happened before EL James
that would be SO funny - someone else said it’s because that’s what they changed the movie line to, but i’d also like to believe el james is somewhat responsible for this
Fun fact; Her name is spelled ‘Stephenie” because her dad, (named Stephen) added an ie to his own name for her’s.
In an interview she referred to the spelling of her name as her dad’s gift to her.
thank you for letting me know!! i updated it!!
I love how fans run with the lore in this series for their fanfics. My biggest one is that the Volturi have humans on the payroll to cover up vampire attacks, creating a delicate balance with the humans knowing about vampires and how they go about their lives.
also interesting bc they say that humans can’t know about vampires, unless they’re the ones to tell them about it…
40:54 I always thought rather than Jacob imprint on Bella’s daughter, there could internal family beef where Rose wanted to get with Edward all this time but Edward ends up falling for human Bella (Emmitt wouldn’t be in this version). Rose could be jealous of Bella for both stealing her love and still being human. Then in the 3rd book, Jacob imprints on Rose when he comes to the graduation party, bringing the wolves and the vampires together to fight the newborns in a tentative truce but the other wolves don’t really like it. So when you get to the fourth book, there’s still tension and the wolves are looking to fight, because they can’t trust what will happen with the baby. When the baby’s born, Jacob convinces Sue, through Charlie, to meet the baby and she charms everyone so the wolves cool it and accept these particular vampires and they all have a stake to ensure nothing happens to her when the Volturi want to attack. Also a grown (at least physically) man doesn’t imprint on a baby.
ohhhh wait this version would be super cool!!!
What if Edward never came back from his vigilante excursion….? Well, he becomes Batman in the year of our lord 2025 😂
29:01 i'm gonna make the assumption that the ones that say "dominant" were released after the movie? bc i'm pretty sure that's the screenplay's line. i guess "potent" suggests something poisonous but "dominant" suggests danger more quickly and movies need to be somewhat efficient yk
Beau carrying Edythe's backpack does also give "familiar" vibes lol
That is the original foreword from the anniversary edition in 2015. She mentions Midnight Sun because that’s what we all thought she was going to release, Life and Death was a surprise
oh dang i didn’t realize the release got pushed because of the leak!! that’s crazy!!
She did try to choose names somewhat popular when the character was human
yeahhh idk about Royal but the rest of them i could see coming from the era they were born!!
39:06 If Edward met Bella when he saved her from those guys in the city 👀 and then his fascination began because he couldnt read her mind, etc.
congrats on the new camera!! i think this video looks great, i never would’ve guessed you weren’t using professional lighting!
thank you!! 💕
Congrats on the new camera!! Your set up looks good! I actually like the darker background, it makes you very glowy and fabulous. I’m watching on my tv but writing the comment on my phone.
I think the rest of the series would have been so different if Edward and Jacob were teen girls. The psychological warfare between the two would have been nuclear
thank you!! i’m glad it looks good!! good to know about the darker background!! and i would’ve loved to see how 3 more books would look after this one but we’ll never know unfortunately :(
It's giving "this could have been a fanfic"
Regarding lights: It can help adding small lightsources in the background like LED-lights behind furniture or a standing lamp or something if you fear your background is too dark
It does look good now too
thank you!! this is a great idea!!
Beautiful Creatures was the OG genderswapped Twilight 💪
omg i should revisit it’s been so many years
I saw video where they called film a failed Franchise and i was like wait wasnt their whole books seriess I read. Like novela added for no reason but i enjoy the book the movie lol. Just random had viola Davis and Jeremy irons with random cast and it wasn't even acting .@@meredithnovaco
I remember almost nothing from L&D except for the ending because I felt so bad for Charlie and Renee
rightttt it almost made me cry!! it was so sad
if you have bright enough lighting for your face, you can use a regular lamp to light the room. most people I've seen use a few bright lights in front but facing away and diffused against the wall or flat curtain. the Elgato brand lights are reliable and have a wide temperature range
ooh good to know!! i’ll have to try this!!
thank you for reading this book so we don’t have to lol - congrats on the new camera!! excited for what other videos you have planned this year 😄
P.S. it could be a great touch to add some small, colorful light sources in the background, like RGB strip lights or fairy lights - they can create a soft bokeh effect and make the background more vibrant/visually appealing! :)
thank you!! i’ll try to set that up for my next vid!!
What /I/ would name the characters
Edward- Eden/Ella (unsure)
Bella- Ben/Benjamin
Alice- Alec
Rosalie- Roman
these are WAY better!! eden would be cool bc of all the genesis references from the original book 👀👀
She probably didn’t want to use the name Jocelyn because the mortal instruments, Shadowhunters clary mom is name Jocelyn it would Have been wired if named jasper Jocelyn I love you
oh dang i didn’t even think of that you’re probably right!!
If I recall correctly, reason they put "dominant" instead of "potent"on the book covers is because that's what they have changed the line to for the movie
ohhh wait that’s fascinating!!! but why change it for the movie?? answers lead to more questions
i think genderswapped Bella is called Beau, bc Bella means beautiful in italian (Belle means beautiful in french) Beau is the the french word for beautiful (for a masculine object) and handsome (applied to a human being who is male)
that makes sense but it doesn’t lead to the most smooth reading experience imo 😅😅 names can really pull me out of it!!
I would like to point out a correction on the Port Angeles thing: earlier in the book, Beau runs into two of the criminals at the airport, a guy and his girlfriend. He accidentally knocks into the woman with his duffel bag, and this pisses off her and her bf, but they back off when they see Charlie approaching (who is wearing his cop outfit and badge). So when Beau stumbles across them doing criminal shit in the alley in Port Angeles, they recognize him and remember that his dad is a cop, thus leading them to believe he will rat them out to the police
yeahhhh i forgot about that but i find it hard to believe they would remember him!! i couldn’t tell you the face of a stranger i bumped two months ago!!
This book pissed me off so much. It’s basically, and by basically I mean mean 95% word for word, twilight with every she/he swapped for a he/she and changed names. The only thing different was the end.
Life and Death was THE Twilight for me. I am AMAB girl and only transitioned when I was at uni so I grew up as a boy. A spiteful, angry, girl-stuff hating boy. Twilight was my nemesis - it was dumb, overly emotional slog and just pure garbage. I, of course, didn't read it because I was a boy and boys don't read that kind of stuff, they read cool things. Fast forward 8 or so years and subsequent transition and I stumble upon Life and Death - okay let's try this, I was wrong about my gender so maybe I was wrong about Twilight too. And I WAS. I was so utterly wrong. I connected with Beau so much, this awkward social potato of a man that fell in love with a girl capable of killing him and is just completely *smitten*. I loved him. I loved Edythe too. Life and Death allowed me to realize how dumb my teenage self was and was a stepping stone in my self realization and thus it helped me change as a person and learn to enjoy things I was previously rejecting outright because of patriarchy
Life and death 4ever ❤❤❤
this was so great to read thank you for sharing!!! this is what i love so much about making these videos is hearing all of your stories and the different ways you’ve connected to works over the years!! i’m convinced art finds us when we need it most/are ready for it and i’m glad that happened with you and life and death 💕
I think you look good, and the footage looks great girl! Have a like, I don't give these often :D
thank you!!
You basically gave us fanfic prompts at the end, the Jacob one though...the itch to write it....I mean....should I? would I? could I?
if you do send me the link 👀👀👀
@meredithnovaco I'll take this as a yes!
I don't disagree that the criminals thinking Beau was a cop was a little contrived and dumb. But she does set it up in the beginning at least by having them be there when Charlie picks him up from the airport and all of that, also he's described as being kinda tall, even if he's not certain on his feet, so it's a stretch but possible they'd think he's a cop Jump Street style lol
yeahhh but also would they really remember him from the airport??? but maybe they’ve just got a really good memory idk i guess some people look young!!
@meredithnovaco lol I never said it was a good excuse. But it's at least setup and payoff even if it's a bit meh
Oh god I know you're going to tell me why and how you hated it but this is the book that made me a twilight fan Meredith! It's my lifeblood! I'll defend it so hard 😂
i think you’ll be surprised :)))))))
Yes❤
I'm watching a video I didnt know I needed about a book I didnt know exists from a creator I didnt know I was already following (im sorry, but this just shows i wouldve subscribed twice 😅) lmao
aww thank you!! im glad that you would’ve subscribed twice!! 💕💕
Wait sorry I'm back... The whole potent vs dominant thing makes me think that the Edith thing is actually just a typo & not a creative writing choice 😅
What if the role was switched? 🤔Mmmm I wonder that??
Did you realize you wrote the authors name wrong in the title as well as the info box? 😅
thank you for letting me know, i updated it :)
Happy New Year 😊🎉
happy new year!!
ntm on jessamine............ 😭
sorryyyyyy maybe i was too harsh 😭
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no interest in twilight. just enjoy listening to you speak ❤
glad you’re here!! 💕