Are You Team Edythe or Team Julie? Twilight Gets Gender-Swapped.

[jurnag12]

So to clarify: She is publishing what is essentially a genderswap fic. Except those take more effort than this did.

 

[Lightspeaker]

OT: Hang on, isn't there a perspective reversal version of Fifty Shades of Grey? Gosh, even the fanfiction writer is putting more effort in from the looks of it.

There was going to be, but it got leaked and then cancelled. You may remember that the same thing happened to Twilight some time back.

So I guess we can expect a gender-reversed version of 50SoG within a year or so too.

Actually I'm surprised that one wasn't done FIRST considering the huge demographic expansion that it would represent. Although the writing would still be godawful.

 

[Dizchu]

What is with these god damn books? People often lament the fact that young people play video games and watch TV and movies more than they read books, but when trash like Twilight and Fifty Shades skyrockets to the top of the bestseller lists I don't blame them.

At least My Immortal is funny. Twilight is just depressing and tedious while Fifty Shades is downright abominable.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Is the werewolf chick going to be topless when she TFs back to human?

 

[Queen Michael]

According to the reviews I read, it's the exact same book with switched names and pronouns. Oh, and a new ending or so I'm told.

Does Beau get pregnant?

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Not in the first book, but who knows what might happen in later volumes?

 

[BytByte]

Praise the heavens. I now have a topic for my comparative literature thesis.

This does actually seem interesting thoug. She is still writing it so it probably still sucks, but I like the idea.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Bella's male version is called "Beau"?!

What an awful name. It's one level up from calling him Hunk, or Slab.

According to the reviews I read, it's the exact same book with switched names and pronouns. Oh, and a new ending or so I'm told.

Does Beau get pregnant?

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Not in the first book, but who knows what might happen in later volumes?

She gets almost-raped by men in the first book, but Edward jumps in and saves her - That would be very weird gender swapped.
Not to mention how all the trips to the mall with her girl-friends, or angst over every boy in school asking her to prom really won't work with just a gender swap.

From reading the article it does sound like it's a lot more than a mere pronoun swap, and Meyer actually says this:

Meyer writes in her foreword to the anniversary edition of the novel that the gender bending twist was prompted by her desire to prove that Bella isn?t a "damsel in distress," but a "human in distress."
"It's always bothered me a little bit because anyone surrounded by superheroes is going to be ... in distress. We don't have the powers," Meyer said Tuesday on "Good Morning America." "I thought, 'What if we switched it around a bit and see how a boy does,' and, you know, it's about the same."
"The further you get in, the more it changes because the personalities get a little bit different, but it starts out very similar and really, it really is the same story because it's just a love story and it doesn't matter who's the boy and who's the girl. It still works out," she said.

Which, props to her, is a better justification for writing the books than I was expecting.

 

[thewatergamer]

I...don't get the appeal, gender swapping the twilight characters isn't going to help very much because they are all still the equivalent of soggy pieces of paper with different words smudged on them...I guess if I had to chose then I would go with Edythe?

This feels more like a desperate attempt to stay relevant by rekindling her "stories" and I doubt that it will work

 

[FirstNameLastName]

Seriously? I didn't expect her to stray from the Twilight universe and formula, but she can't even be bothered writing a new book in the universe so she's just going to wallow in the original's success by re-releasing it.

What is with these god damn books? People often lament the fact that young people play video games and watch TV and movies more than they read books, but when trash like Twilight and Fifty Shades skyrockets to the top of the bestseller lists I don't blame them.

Same as when people claim video games need to "grow up", since the biggest games are things like CoD. I just point people in the direction of all the biggest successes from other mature mediums, like Kanye West, Transformers and Twilight. It's kind of sad, and more than a little infuriating, to see people like her making absurd amounts of money while talented writers barely scrape together enough money to get by.

 

[Dizchu]

Same as when people claim video games need to "grow up", since the biggest games are things like CoD. I just point people in the direction of all the biggest successes from other mature mediums, like Kanye West, Transformers and Twilight. It's kind of sad, and more than a little infuriating, to see people like her making absurd amounts of money while talented writers barely scrape together enough money to get by.

I think the main difference between books and other media is that books require relatively little talent to write. Well, a book that can become a mainstream hit. Even the most mediocre blockbuster movies and games have some sense of collective effort put into them. Michael Bay's movies absolutely suck and his style is awful, but there is a certain technical prowess to his films even if it ends up looking like a complete mess.

With books like Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey there is no similar threshold of effort and talent required, the only necessity is a good grasp of English (and sometimes not even that). A glance at any fanfiction site can tell you that anyone can write that rubbish. The explosion of popularity seems absolutely arbitrary.

 

[happyninja42]

I guess she's trying to stay relevant, since the fad died down. Men aren't going to read this, though, and most of her female readership has probably abandoned her for 50 Shades of Grey.

This is almost funny enough to check out, though. I'm legitimately curious what she thinks teenage boys think like. If it isn't "boobs, sex, porn, homework, sex, butt" then I'm going to be very disappointed.

"I met Edythe, and she was at least an 8. Gonna tap that, lol."

"Edythe was in my bedroom window last night, totally wants the D! ; )"

Teenage boys are idiots, fyi.

She's still going to tell it from the girls point of view I'm sure. Though she'll get it horribly wrong no matter how she does it.

OT: I'm on Team Don't Give a Fuck.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Seriously? Do we need more Twilight? And geared towards boys? Yeah, I don't buy it. And if this is just a genderswap fic... how creatively bankrupt can you get?

 

[soren7550]

OT: Hang on, isn't there a perspective reversal version of Fifty Shades of Grey? Gosh, even the fanfiction writer is putting more effort in from the looks of it.

Sadly, yes. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey:_Fifty_Shades_of_Grey_as_Told_by_Christian]

OT: Yeeah... gender swapping the story is lazy, and making Bella a boy this time around isn't going to make her any less of a damsel in distress.