A Pair of Teal Deers
I am alive! Okay, so I’ve been stuck on dial-up for the last two weeks, which sucks (mostly because I really wanted to stream Doctor Who episodes), got sick a week ago (am better now!), and spent way too much of the intervening time playing Oblivion, now that my brother actually has a computer that will run it
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...then she gets pregnant with a demon baby that breaks her ribs, spines, and makes her drink blood (as a human), then has to be chewed out by heroic Edward, and ages super fast and has awesome psychic powahs AND THEN JACOB IMPRINTS ON HER AND BECOMES HER ONE TRUE LOVE. And then Bella becomes a vampire, and maybe it was sort of cool but it cinched her Mary Sue status. Pretty sure the relationship is still not equal because the writer is a Mormon and equal relationships are just not possible.
CHECKLIST FOR ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP TRAITS
Total isolation...check. Bella is isolated by her new vampireness, and is taken into the Mormon family.
Threatening one partner with suicide if they should leave...check. Bella threatens Edward. At some point both of them attempt a tag team suicide across the world, but it fails.
Unequal power...check. Sexism, Bella is always the weakest, the ignorant, and the damsel in distress because she's a complete idiot (not that anyone in the book will admit that).
One partner does things that upset the other partner continuously (in the name of true love lawl what)...check.
Et cetera.
It's incredibly stupid and for some reason I'm absolutely not surprised by any of it, up to and including the complete lack of an epic battle. Though admittedly I am very surprised she decided to stick in her nightmare pregnancy fetish when the books are purportedly clean. Edward chewing a hole through Bella's uterus was pretty not clean, in my opinion.
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