The Gender-Swapped Twilight Cash Grab | Twilight Book BREAKDOWN

[@AlizeeYeezy]

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[@seretti]

Sponsored by a shady site like this... Their scummy practices are well-known by this point and I advise people to buy from authorized resellers.

[@IOrganiseContentUK]

G2A is legit AIDS, CD Keys is the superior greay market website

[@skylarkblue1]

Oh boy this isn't it. G2A are known full on scammers to the point where developers ask people to pirate their games instead of buying from G2A. Please don't support this site!!!

[@skylarkblue1]

Y'all remember that "IRL mystery box" complete scam that ricegum and shit where called out for supporting? That was ran by G2A

[@tugger]

oh no, another creator I love shilling G2A...where russian mobsters sell stolen and region jailbroken game keys...illegally...this won't blow up in anyone's faces at all............

[@lokcachte]

The thing I respect the most about Stephanie Meyer is that there are countless books about vampires that have made a more or less solid lore that everyone uses to a certain degree. Meyer just said “fuck it” and did whatever she wanted. I don’t like her books and think they’re poorly written, but respect the absolute gall to ignore over 100 years of vampire lore. I like how it flipped things on its head and restarted vampire fiction craze, though the books are terrible.

[@andrewb6194]

The “Sparkling” thing still hasn’t been forgotten. It’s a bit of a gag nowadays To her credit, it was such an out there concept. I wouldn’t have thought of that.

[@leahscontemporary]

Because it's stupid to think there's a set rule for vampire lore. European vampire lore is way different than African or Asian or even original Amerindian lore. Dracula never burned in the sun yet he's the standard for which many based their novels upon. Besides the Twilight Saga has very detailed lore and backstory far more than what the movies drew from. It's original and unique and even the sparkling(which isn't actual sparkles) makes sense for their types of specie

[@andrewb6194]

@@leahscontemporary I mean, it’s still stupid (sparkling), but alas. The big issue I have with Twipires is that they have no exploitable weaknesses. Which begs the question of why they just don’t take over the world? Gunfire won’t kill them, it’s tough to cut them with a sword, and their literally overpowered, no other force in their world can stand up to them, and their far stronger than a lot of other fictional characters and species. Even some versions of Goku and Superman would be outmatched by them.

[@pinkanimositygaming]

@@andrewb6194the biggest threat they face is other vampires. The only ones we see kill vampires in this series are other vampires.

[@andrewb6194]

@@pinkanimositygaming ok, but what’s stopping them from taking over the world? And what does that have to do with my point? Even the strongest land carnivore to ever exist, Tyrannosaurs rex, had to face prey that could just as easily kill it, like Ceratopsians, Ankylosaurs, Hadrosaurs, and even Sauropods. Couldn’t they have just been made to be weak to gunshots or something?

[@bbear2695]

steph meyer: rewrites history of an actual existing native american tribe also steph: men cant get custody thats ludicrous

[@aethertoast4320]

The horrifying thing is that she isn't really wrong. I mean my cousin couldn't get his kid away from a repeatedly arrested drug addict who couldn't keep a stable job that lives with a convicted child SA offender that kept having truancy issues with their daughter. So yeah, it is really a stretch too far to say a dad got full custody.

[@grandempressvicky6387]

​@@aethertoast4320it's proven (at least in written statistics) that when men are willing to contest the custody, they win 40% to 60% of the time. Most custody battles are settled outside of the court without the judges rulings. I am not saying there are not exceptions to this but Judges ask questions like: Who is the primary caregiver? The ability of a parent to provide The parent-child bond The parent-parent relationship The personality and history of each parent The best interests of the child and if appropriate the wishes and feelings of the child. And if it was the case that the men fail in any of these (typically the first one is why the mother is given priority) then custody disproportionately goes to the mother. EDIT: So it is likely the case that the Judge thought the drug addict had a better ability to care for the child/the children preferred their mother than their father. In modern times, they don't just give the kids to the mom because they're the mother.

[@MyratheDunmer]

Here in the UK, men get custody when they ask for it p much. Really hard to get denied it unless you’re shooting heroin directly into your eyeballs

[@legrandliseurtri7495]

@@grandempressvicky6387 Even if the child does prefer her mother, letting her live with a SA offender, if what aether says is accurate, seems a bit irresponsible.

[@tiryaclearsong421]

​@@grandempressvicky6387That's true now. In the 70s my mother's aunt got custody of her three kids even though there was a lot of evidence she was abusive and the kids kept trying to ask and even run away to stay with their father. The father fought until he basically ran out of money and he still only got the kids when they turned 18 and the courts could no longer force them to stay with their mother. I am very glad this is no longer the case. The world was quite different 50 years ago and this is one major area of improvement. It benefits everyone for parents to be able to split custody and for kids to have a say in their custodial parent.

[@elenabe4718]

Alizee admitting she (weirdly) respects and loves Meyer is the character growth Twilight needed

[@eveandaedrul]

I can't deny it either. Twilight is terrible but so enjoyable!

[@lucystoner]

Stephenie seems very petty and dramatic and immature. Those are admirable qualities.

[@AlizeeYeezy]

I'm so proud of me

[@dragongirl7978]

I low-key want to write a fanfic about them having coffee together and becoming the weirdest besties ever. 😂

[@linstar9172]

@@AlizeeYeezy We're proud of you too!

[@kymar4810]

Ah yes, the two genders: Red Delicious and Granny Smith

[@Anyratac]

Want this to be mainstream

[@SanjaSleipnir]

So she didn’t gender swap Charlie and Rene, because it is unrealistic that a father would win full custody of their child… in a book about vampires and werewolves

[@SJBueller]

Imagine out of everything a father being a loving and responsible parent is just too far 😂

[@SanjaSleipnir]

@@SJBueller we don’t have to imagine angel 😭😭

[@wompppwompwomppp]

Right? She could have easily had Renee just be kind of that flaky " fun " mom who wasn't super responsible so she lived with Charlie instead. I have an aunt who prefers to be the one working, doesn't like being a stay at home mom, and needs her own time. My uncle really was the one doing everything for my cousins during the day as well as when my aunt would be home from work. She loves my cousins more than life itself but at the same time her personality is just not set up to be around them 24/7. Nowadays they're divorced which is probably for the best lol But theres sooooo many women who dont have that "Motherly instinct" and I think stephanie could have really used that for Renee.

[@bratatouille]

And as another commenter pointed out, she rewrote the history of an actual, real native American tribe to fit her story, but a dad getting custody in 1987 was too far 😭

[@scionsilverbeat8149]

Reading this as a girl who has happily lived with her father after her parents divorced. Lmao.

[@xrosyxposyx]

It's the fact that her fans were waiting patently for like 10 years for midnight sun snd she put this out first lol

[@katharineeavan9705]

I heard that was because EL James released the 50 shades from Christian's perspective book while she was still finishing Midnight Sun and it bummed her out too much to finish for awhile

[@fernglade]

​@katharineeavan9705 Nah, it was because someone leaked the manuscript of what she had done so far online

[@ciaranicole1334]

​@@ferngladeit was both. Midnight sun was leaked so she waited to release it, then when she was going to, EL James released Grey and so she waited even longer.

[@warlordofbritannia]

The difference between Stephanie Mayer and EL James is that Mayer is earnestly trying but failing to be a good writer while James is a hack.

[@RainWelsh]

I specifically read the whole Twilight series back in the day, just because I didn’t want to be one of those people bitching about it and then going “oh no, I’ve never read it, I’ve just heard it’s bad”. I was coming with receipts. My dissertation was literally comparing the series with Dracula from a feminist perspective. Apart from the sexist bullshit, Twilight is mostly just dull. It’s not even really bad, it’s just incredibly fucking boring, made worse because the background characters all seem so much more interesting than the leads, though I’ve no illusions that they’d remain interesting if Smeyer actually wrote about them. Like JK Rowling, she’s just a extremely pedestrian writer who happened to tap into something at just the right time, honestly the phenomenon is more interesting than the story. I tried to do the same with 50 Shades and almost ripped my eyeballs out. I made it about 60% of the way through the first one and had to stop for my own mental health, it was just a joyless slog through the most painfully inane, misogynistic garbage I’ve ever suffered through, and I hate that fucking Eel with every fibre of my being. So yeah, TL;dr, I fully agree.

[@xLiLlyx98]

Also, because christian grey seems to be the self-insert character for El James, she probably won't ever put out a gender swapped version because her fantasy won't work that way. For once, we should be glad about that (although femdom fsog might be just the tiniest smidge more interesting than the original slog because it might not quite be as mindnumbingly heteronormative overall)

[@AlizeeYeezy]

100%

[@jacksyoutubechannel4045]

@@RainWelsh I tried so hard to do the same thing when I had a friend who was obsessed, but I read the first chapter of the first book about four times in 2006/2007ish, then got halfway through the first chapter again and chucked it across the room. I couldn't do it. _So_ true about Rowling, by the way, though I think she had a compelling story, which I would argue Meyer did not. Rowling felt like a woman with a story to tell, while Meyer felt like she'd just always wanted to be "a writer." (Luckily for Rowling, there was also a certain charm in her writing proficiency increasing in tandem with Harry's age, so the books seem to roughly align the age of the target reader and the age of the main characters. The only real downside was that she became too invested in "outsmarting" the reader, and sacrificed what was likely a better ending for the one that we got.)

[@EasternStandardTim]

Shortening “literature and language” to “lit and lang” is one of the most painfully beautiful things I’ve ever heard

[@MegaCelacanto]

So she didn't swap the Volturi, huh? Three queens instead was just too unrealistic in this vampire novel, I guess

[@Nemamka]

oh my god but I would actually have read the shit out of fanfictions of THEM if they were genderbent aaaaaaaaa

[@clpearson991]

Props to her for monetizing her own fanfiction.

[@AlizeeYeezy]

we love to see it

[@linstar9172]

@@AlizeeYeezy Now all that's left is the 50 Shades version of Twlight, as written by Meyer.

[@26349]

@@linstar9172or a version of 50 shades where main characters swap genders (please god no)

[@Maledict.a]

Fun fact where Meyer writes that the "hospital staff" are enamored with female Carlisle, she's changed it from the "nurses" crushing on Carlisle in Twilight. Just some sneaky sexism there, proving that Meyer wrote Twilight with a lot more gender stereotypes than she'll admit. 🤷‍♀️

[@ellieanderson5745]

noticed this!!!

[@lemmyphatch]

Beau makes sense as the gender-swapped name since Beau means handsome and Belle (Bella) means beautiful. No clue where the bizarre Edythe came from though, sounds like she couldn't think of anything lol.

[@vamp_bat_chomp]

Only thing I think is it could also be shortened to Ed. Though that would sound weird on a girl. I'm one to talk though, with my name lol

[@clairepaffey1727]

Isn't Edwina the female version of the name Edward? Guess that doesn't sound cool enough!

[@erina2600]

Edward - Eden, idk there’s so many better options

[@CazuhLynn]

I was immediately thinking Elizabeth. Sounded similar in age.

[@FlowerOfNaraku]

@@erina2600 Eden would be a great option, the cover even has an apple on it

[@NoelleTakestheSky]

You know, Meyer actually inadvertently highlights the sexism in her books by how she went about all of this. While rare, there were fathers who got custody without mothers being unfit, and even in 1987, when mothers got custody, it was unusual for a mother to be allowed to move a child several states away without having a good reason for a judge for why it was in the child’s best interest to be that far from their other parent. And admits nixing Beau being as emotional as Bella since she didn’t think that boys would react that way, and Beau got his way in the end since boys were to get choices. The girl vampire couldn’t stand her ground like the boy vampire can. When Bella never had periods aside from the last book, there were no changes that HAD to be made for Beau having a penis. NONE. She made changes because she can’t see a boy being so whiny and helpless.

[@elderly_gentleman9489]

Yeah in the majority of cases where fathers don't get custody, it's because they don't WANT custody. People use stats to try and twist this fact into a narrative of male oppression when in reality, those fathers could have easily applied for shared custody if they had been inclined to.

[@deathdragoncat]

​@@elderly_gentleman9489 Yup I always bring that up because the truth is most men don't bother asking for custody so the numbers are simply skewed. 👌

[@didi8496]

About periods, it got me thinking. Was it worst for Edward when she was on her period? Sure, it wouldn't be "clean" blood, but it would still be blood coming from her!

[@26349]

@@didi8496Meyer has some canonic info regarding this on her website. If you don’t wanna go search, I’ll briefly tell you that I remember: the blood is of poorer quality/is not considered blood, so it doesn’t interest vamps; Edward can sense when Bella’s on her period but he’s a gentleman so he never brings it up and doesn’t pay attention. Fin.

[@didi8496]

@@26349 thank you so much! Edward is such a gentleman 😅

[@eveandaedrul]

In my headcannon Bo is a househusband-type himbo, and Edythe is a Greek statuesque goddess. The car scene really gave me "one hand on the wheel, the other on my [himbo's] thigh" vibes lmao, I kinda enjoy their dynamic, albeit how rushed the book felt.

[@cinnapurrin]

same! honestly i was hoping that Edythe would be taller than him. LET POWERFUL WOMEN BRIDAL CARRY CLUMSY NERD BOY

[@wompppwompwomppp]

thissssss

[@paperigangsta]

​@@cinnapurrinyeah making her small and fragile and him tall was a cowardly move. i wish we could have it the other way around even once lmao, not even in a "ooh she's a big domme" way, just like... their physical appearance. though it would've also suited the dynamic that's going on in the book, if she's supernaturally strong why can't she have even a little bit of muscle :'(

[@26349]

@@paperigangstaunfortunately Stef is too sexist and religious to “emasculate” the young man like that. Therefore his supernatural love interest should be diminished to a way weaker look even though she’s a thousand times stronger than him. Cause we don’t want the boy to be intimidated and looking stoopid by her side, do we🤡🤡🤡 (/s, just in case😅)

[@KuroKappo]

Its too bad we didn’t get female chief of police “carly swan” cocking a gun and saying “you aint bringin that cullen girl into my house”

[@thatsdisco]

MOMMY-- sorry..

[@unslaadkrosis9435]

I'm so turned on by that idea right now

[@theoctopusesgardener]

oh god carly swan would totally be a boy mom

[@CosmicFrenzy]

Man... We were well and truly robbed.

[@noth1ng5id]

If it wouldn't be believable for Charlie gender, you know gender swapped male parent to get custody of the child, but it is believable for gender swapped Carlyle to be a doctor and have been a doctor since the 1900s?

[@Flareontoast]

Now, there's a cool idea!!! Vampire woman crossdressing so she can be a doctor until it's more acceptable to be a female doctor. Actually sound really interesting.

[@joywagner979]

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Vampire.

[@MinDeRien2658]

Eeeeeh, depends on when in the 19th. Also would've been rad if swapped carlisle was one of the ancient pioneers or something.

[@ashannaredwolf8485]

I kind of love that “it’s just so unrealistic that a father would get sole custody” is the hill of realism Steph’s ready to die on.

[@Pukeprincess]

Consuming the media I’ve got wanting to get into for weeks/ months: nah not right now Watching random people rant about shitty creepy romance novels: *sits comfortably and pays plenty of attention*

[@marysueme]

17:04 "...being so enamored or gobsmacked by a vampire's supernatural beauty that you accidentally do a CPR too hard and kill someone." As someone who knows CPR, this concern is hilarious. It's a common saying that if you don't break a rib, you're not doing it hard enough. Them going harder (pun intended) because of a vampire would be a good thing.

[@Alresu]

Agreed. She could have had the same effect with people messing up the count and rhythym. I guess that would be a bigger danger.

[@lionconstellation]

"If she's done this, wait till E.L. James does it to Fifty Shades of Gray" ALIZEE DO NOT SPEAK THAT INTO THE UNIVERSE

[@FlowerOfNaraku]

I can't wait to meet the iconic girlboss Christina Grey

[@pinkanimositygaming]

I would love for a Spider-Verse type story where alternate versions of Bella and Edward go on adventures.

[@nikkydalby7126]

My biggest frustration with this book was that I felt the Beau should have written a fake journal where he said stuff like he appreciated his dad & whatnot & let his dad find it so that then there could some better closure between Beau & Charlie

[@alexebeling9366]

Hi just wanted to say I'e been sober for almost two years, and your videos where you discussed your sobriety was a thing that gave me hope

[@palinurus]

I'm so happy for you :) Congratulations on almost two years!!

[@irradiated_woman8016]

HELL YEAH. Good on you.

[@astrorat7228]

congrats!!!!

[@AlizeeYeezy]

Congratulations!

[@Alresu]

Congrats!

[@dunjunart]

does stephanie know that "corpse with no identifiers incinerated/exploded in car" is like, the most classic "this is someone faking their death" ploy IRL or like 80% of the time they're trying to collect insurance but still

[@chickpeasandeggs1486]

Now we just need a story about Edythe and Edward and Bella and Beau; Super Nova and Black Hole.

[@irradiated_woman8016]

_>Black Hole_ Lmaooooo

[@Everyyoueverymiau]

And Bella with Edythe and Edward with Beau 😁

[@bananamanchester4156]

​@@EveryyoueverymiauStephanie's sweet Mormon brain would shrivel up like a prune if that happened 😂

[@fernglade]

Black Hole omg 🤣

[@cakebby18]

Super massive black hole

[@thatfuzzypotato1877]

Before even watching this video. My prediction: Like Midnight Sun, its going to be a borderline word-for-word match just with "he/she" and "Bella/Edward" swapped. Edit: I work in a hospital, and have worked with some seriously hot doctors. Not once has it ever distracted me to any degree. Nor my coworkers. We are professionals, and do our jobs.

[@crowdemon_archives]

Yea when you're busy with your work, most of the time you won't even have time to entertain your fleeting sexual thought lol 😅

[@storageheater]

11:50 "This was the reason Charlie'd never fought Mom about custody; he knew she needed me." This is a very strange thing to put in a book where she just claimed that in the time it was set, men were never going to win custody, and it could almost be argued that it's the basis of a good enough explanation to genderswap it. But oh well, there's always the 20th anniversary edition to fix that.

[@ptheorist4670]

The thing that got me in this gender swap is that Meyer gave Beau OCD to justify him being tidy and cleaning up in Charlie's house. Because of course teenage boys are incapable of cleaning and tidying up unless they have OCD. It's even scarier knowing that she has three sons :)))) Loved your breakdown, can't wait to see you break down again for Midnight Sun!

[@ProjectAsher1]

Never knew she had kids, are they called EJ 1, EJ 2 and EJ 3??

[@eli-cl4wo]

YOOOO I READ THIS IN REHAB AND LOVED IT but then i left rehab and realized that bad books were my only form of entertainment in there and this book is objectively insane in concept and execution. still haven't read twilight, life and death is the cannon in my heart.

[@rubycroxton466]

Its insane to me that you haven't read twilight like i cannot imagine the experience of reading this first

[@SaigesArstgo1031]

@@rubycroxton466my only experience of twilight is alizee reading them lol

[@SIGSEGV1337]

@@rubycroxton466 As a guy I've only seen the first Twilight movie and read none of the books, but the idea of vampire girls is hot to me so this is the first book I'm reading

[@myweakness1883]

No but Meyer's internalized misogyny needs to be unpacked. Beau had it easy - he got to the happy ending right away and was spared so much pain. Bella had to suffer Edward leaving her in the middle of the woods; she had to fear for her life when she discovered Victoria was coming for her; she had to put herself in dangerous situations just to hear Edward's voice 😅 Not to mention the most traumatic pregnancy and child birth ever. What the hell Meyer 😂

[@annme_87]

My parents' lovable, goofy, clumsy, ball obsessed black lab is named Beau. So I can't help but picture his doofy grin and floppy ears every time you say the character's name.

[@user-zs9ux1ru8u]

This just tells me that with enough confidence, I, too, can publish my own book series. Confidence is everything.

[@matiiih6260]

Now there needs to be a Twilight AU book which takes place in 1918 Chicago where human Edward (somehow) meets vampire Bella!!

[@5PctJuice]

That ending just makes me feel even worse for Charlie, holy shit. Adding that kind of guilt onto the pain of losing a child?

[@raincandy1653]

What's interesting is that in "Twilight", Edward is described as hard like rocks and cold, but Edith (Ik it's spelled wrong but how her name is actually spelled is an abomination) is constantly described as soft

[@whocares605]

yesssssss i noticed that. ms. meyer makes the sexism in these books even MORE prominent by making beau actually have a brain and self-control. edythe is supposed to be this soft beautiful goddess because i dont think the author understands how to make a girl character that is as rude, threatening, and weirdly possessive as edward was for the whole series.

[@palinurus]

I was still in my Twilight phase when this book came out, and I was so genuinely excited when I found out that one of the characters had my name. Now imagine my devastation when I found out that it was my least favorite Cullen. (Edit: Also, do you guys think that Jessamine was still a Confederate soldier?)

[@TuesdaysArt]

I'm sorry, Edythe

[@abhainn35]

You have a pretty name :)

[@Stera1984]

I'm so sorry renesmee

[@palinurus]

@TuesdaysArt Remember, I was a preteen Twilight girlie at the time and therefore incapable of sensing red flags. Edward was my second favorite Cullen, and I was so certain that I'd be sharing a name with his gender swapped version. I outright refused to read the book when I found out that Emmett had become Eleanor instead 💀

[@orxalowe]

i like to think that jessamine is trans, which would allow her to have the same backstory yet remain a woman

[@avaannie3906]

She just wrote a Fan Fiction of her own novel. I read some of this book in the bookstore when it came out, I was so appalled by the little I read that I definitely did not buy it 😂

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

Is this a common type of fanfiction? Are there gender swap fanfictions of a lot of films?

[@feena339]

@Mecharnie_Dobbs yes there is a lot of gender swapped fan fiction of everything.

[@avaannie3906]

@@Mecharnie_Dobbs I’ve seen a few but I don’t really like the premise so I’ve just avoided gender swap fics

[@napoleonbonaparte7529]

​@@Mecharnie_Dobbs Ya, it's called Rule 63 "For every given male character, there is a female version of that character. For every given female character, there is a male version of that character."

[@yukikanegawa7470]

I hope she eventually writes Twilight except it's a horror thriller with Edward as the villain.

[@bethanyd6701]

she already did, it's called Midnight Sun

[@pepschnapsrockz]

@@bethanyd6701lmao

[@mrs.cullen_xx]

@@bethanyd6701as a person who already read midnight sun, I agree. (Coming back a year later 🎉)

[@UsikuPls]

Dang Steph really had the chance to give us gay Bella x Alice Twilight for the 10th anniversary and this is what she did instead 😔

[@mariamaddalozzo4715]

36:10 I feel a little icky about Meyer having the male POV go 'she's so perfect, I can see her RIBS through her shirt.' And while she never states it directly, she does frequently imply that all that vampires are incredibly, and desirably, thin. Considering the Mormon reputation for fatphobia I'm not surprised. But still, yikes.

[@KH-zr6pt]

So I wonder if Renesmee would be named Charernest now? Could call him Nesty for short... "You nicknamed my son after a house for a bird??" lol

[@elfhchan]

Just a small piece of info about the name Athenodora. It comes from Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, warfare, and handicraft, and Theodora from the Greek θεός (theos) 'god' + δῶρον (doron) 'gift'. This name essentially means "Gift of Athena", in Greece it's quite common to use two names mixed rather than having a first and middle name separate from each other.

[@onefor.ALLyson]

I remember buying this book and immediately thinking something was off because it had the wrong font on the cover. Then when the inside was incredibly unremarkable, I gave it away after reading. I was more excited seeing that you posted a video of it than I was when reading it. Thank you for making it!

[@MrsSoapAndClay]

Gender swapped twilight as told by Alizee?!?! Why are you so good to us?

[@KaylaChan90]

I mean, if other people can publish fanfics based on her story, sure Meyer, you go for it yourself!

[@KH-lq1lj]

yeah vampiricism is used as a metaphor for impurity. Bella as a human is a pure virgin. there's a totally different standard for men, even with mormons. You're right, Beau's story was so different because i guess men can't be corrupted in the same way women can? lmao

[@irradiated_woman8016]

WAIT so how do we get renesmee here? Without renesmee, or the egg she comes from within bella to create a creepy and dubious hold on a werewolf psyche, why does girl-Jacob obsess over boy-bella? Where's our love triangle coming from? I need answers!

[@SaigesArstgo1031]

obsessing over the sperm?

[@ziah5640]

When I need dumb fun during a depressive episode, I can count on Alizee✨

[@Flareontoast]

I'm rooting for you!! Hoping you get out of that episode quickly. Wishing you love and patience with yourself and your body and your mind.

[@ninawth]

I'm here for the same reason as well

[@briimilli]

Depressed club meeting ✌️

[@rosesthornsandreads]

alizee. please please do a longform video on midnight sun. i enjoy the middle 400 pages unironically and it's one of my biggest character flaws i want nothing more than to watch you tear it apart for hours on end. i think if that video was released i would literally cry also i found your channel literally a month ago and am practically caught up on content nothing brings me as much joy as watching you tear books apart for hours. so. that is all

[@rosesthornsandreads]

never mind i just got past the first five minutes of the video i will be anxiously awaiting the midnight sun one this is incredibly exciting!!!

[@Pomshka]

Anne Rice's Vampire's hair always grows back to however it looked the time they're turned. So the "elder vampire's" are *MEANT* to set the new Vampire's up before they're turned. So giving them a hair cut, shaving them, tattoos, piercings etc because once they're turned it will always go back to exactly as they looked the second they're turned. So, in the book (spoilers). One of the vampires cuts their hair short like a mans, every single night because their very long curly hair always grows back. The child Vampire's never change and according to the TV show based on the book series; if you are turned and you still have an intact Hymen, it will stay intact forever and regrow every night.

[@seewolf3333]

All hail queen Alizee feeding us with all the content these past few weeks! 🎉

[@thehermit8618]

I wish someone loved me as much as Smeyer loves her own stories

[@annibelplant3269]

I want Stephanie Meyer to keep going with this. She just puts out 50 more versions of twilight and everytime there is another tweak, one detail in plot or writing that she changes. Everytime there is a long foreword addressing and explaining it way too extensively. And someday people will be like, "Yeah, put all these changes in one book and this would actually be kinda ok".

[@wh0aheavy]

This is amazing timing! I just finished your last four and a half hour twilight breakdown masterpiece this morning.

[@jennycomelately]

Idk if the difference in the length is the gender differences, so much as S.Meyer's improvement at the craft? It's like the quote: "If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter." She just got more concise and less ramble-y.

[@lmallia6719]

I like your idea of Charlie the vampire slayer. I always thought Twilight would be a bit more interesting if Charlie knew about the supernatural in Forks.

[@eldrichnemo9312]

I don't think Charlie is too involved but there IS a Twilight/Supernatural fanfic "The Wedding Crashers" that takes place during Jacob and Reneesme's wedding. The focus is on Sam, Dean, and Leah Clearwater and is mainly a defense of the latter character. Spoilers: Castiel shows up when the brothers are threatened and it does not go well for the vampires.

[@AnnaCurrotto-zr8wv]

​@@eldrichnemo9312ooh, do you happen to have the link to the fanfic?

[@peachybun]

ngl the description for Edyth’s appearance was very… interesting. 🥴 apparently her being extremely skinny and frail ( to the point of seeing her ribs and collarbones ) is gorgeous while Edward gets to be chiseled with muscles/broad shoulders, but it honestly would have been nice if SMeyer had described Edyth as being more toned, and broader shouldered, less dainty and not so …. tumblr thinspo inspired. i’m not expecting her to be absolutely shredded but come on. like Smeyer wants to call out the misogyny but also just sort of falls right into it at the same time 💀

[@Pomshka]

I wanted her to look like that character from the Disney film, Encanto? Like a big Greecian Gladiator/Greek sculpture. Give us buff Edythe/Bella you coward!!!!!

[@peachybun]

@@Pomshka yooo! yes that would be AMAZING !!

[@jaynedavis3388]

Beau should have been almost gang assaulted like Bella & I agree she didn’t want to admit same sex assault happens even more than she doesn’t want to see a woman as the aggressor

[@ghostinthecity]

I'm kinda glad she didn't because imagine if the only queer characters in the whole series were some gang rapists.

[@ambitiouscabbage]

Alizee please can you also do The Host by Stephanie Meyer! I was obsessed with that book as an ignorant Twilight loving 12 year old, I would love an analysis 😂

[@chocofurina]

i watch you so much that my inner monologue is literally in your voice. i'm indian but i've been raised in the united states my whole life. this is like being colonized for the third time

[@ReneeKana]

Hearing that you're re-doing Midnight Sun is the best news I've received all month

[@zhongliidonglii]

As for your point at the part mentioning if Vampire's hair could grow back- yes. Imagine you have a completed painting in front of you. You can rip it up and and scribble on it and such, but unless you break it into multiple pieces and burn it, it's just going to reform back to the way it was before you did anything to it. It explains why there's a point in the book when Edward fights the Volturi and his face gets cracked, but it doesn't stay that way later in the book. They're forever the way they had been at the time of their original "death".

[@NoelleTakestheSky]

Except scars and tattoos disappear.

[@Melissa-sx9vh]

No actually hair doesn't grow back, Smeyer says it in The short second life of Bree Tanner. Hair that is ripped off doesn't grow back and cannot get reattached with venom (contrary to a chunk of muscle/skin), you'll just have a bald spot for all eternity. The cracked face is only in the movie iirc, in the books he is just in pain.

[@xorvictia]

“Good boy” My jaw DROPPED. Smeyer girl what are you DOING

[@mrs.cullen_xx]

SAME REACTION WHEN I READ IT.

[@d.tsukuyomi1869]

So you're telling me that a perfect vampire girl and a native american tomboy with abs so ripped you could grill cheese on them fell for a whiny, stupid, egothistical dude with no personality aside from "I'm not like other guys" who gets to watch as they fight over him? I get it. I finally get it.

[@MelodyLee19]

can’t wait to see what smeyer does for the 20th anniversary. whatever she does is going to be absolutely unhinged and I can’t wait for people to tear it to shreds online

[@GhostGirVinera]

Someone should make this as a movie, but extremely exaterated

[@rawanahmed8459]

you are posting a lot those days and I love it girl

[@julianlaresch6266]

The way Meyer feels like she has to swap every single character, that's wild, but also I admire the commitment

[@Natalie66796]

It's a shame, she was gonna release the Twilight series from Edward's prespective at first but EL James saw this and swooped in and did it before she could. I don't like Twilight but man has EL James being doing Stephanie Meyers dirty for ages

[@nostradamus1162]

hasnt she done midnight sun which is basically twilight from edwards pov?

[@Natalie66796]

@@nostradamus1162 She did eventually but it was delayed because she didn't want to make it seem like she was copying EL James

[@abhainn35]

How much are you going to bet that EL James will soon release a gender-swapped Fifty Shades? Antonio and Christina starring in the New York Times best seller, "One Hundred Hues of Color." (that's actually offensive to my OC, Antonio)

[@Natalie66796]

@@abhainn35 My entire life savings

[@26349]

“Stephanie Meyer, an environmental queen, recycling all the old material.”😂👏👏👏

[@mjm3091]

Compared to Twilight - the original, this one is actually much better when it comes to actual writing, characters and the finale is also fun, fresh and somehow satisfying. Also it opens doors for Beau x Edward/Jacob fanfics. I do think she could have adapted some of the other scenes better. But it is also still Stephanie Meyer. Like the SA scenes - for me the Beau one was reasonable, it's just less likely for a man to get SAd in dark alleys, especially as Beau was written as much bigger and threatening than Bella. For Royal - with how beautiful he was, I would still prefer to see the backstory being upholded, but obviously instead of being attacked by his wife, he would be SAd by his future father-in-law and his rich friends. Or maybe she could tell the story in different way, when he was drugged by his mother-in-law or some other woman and left in ditch to die or pushed to unliving himself, because he "betrayed" his fiancé. 1:05:00 Personally I think she is just lazy and not thinking enough. She probably was like - oh I need to change some more, what is like the most obvious reason to almost die for a rich man in the past? Ok, beaten up by some mofos. Do I also think she believes it makes men less masculine and that women couldn't SA someone and that it was less likely to be SAd by a group of men back then? Yes - but at the same time, I think in this case it's more about being lazy and going for the easiest route. 1:05:50 Wait it was more expensive? Lol. Definitely should have been somehow cheaper, especially for the electronic version. I didn't notice because I like rum and broad seas.🏴‍☠️ Like at least give a discount to people who read OGs.

[@viktor5783]

Honestly, 400 hundred pages of some guy being manhandled by a sexy vampire?? Sign me up.

[@Jokoko2828]

This is probably the most anime Twilight got.

[@ThatChickPiperTV]

As an author, I love when you do these types of breakdowns. I've even told some of my other author friends to watch your channel. Your personality is everything and you share a lot of the views I have on several books. Plus, you're the only person I've seen who liked the Gilmore Girls as much as I did. You should absolutely do Midnight Sun. I have so many opinions about that one. Great video. Love your content. Cheers!

[@CatOperated]

“good mormon heart” laughing in exmo

[@RaeaSunshine]

That patch of hair gone that you mentioned actually happened to one of the new vampires in the Bree Tanner book

[@leahhunt9610]

I’m waiting for Meyer’s cash grab of rewriting Twilight where Bella ends up with Jacob

[@fairyharp]

Another Alizee video! Here we go into the rabbit hole of twilight again.

[@zoebrugg7594]

Writer rule #***: You don’t write fanfiction of your own story. You can write fanfics, but not gain money from it, or skin it and call it original. (50 Shades of Gray, and Immortal Instruments.) Fanfiction can grow into something new, but not without forced growth, and much pruning.

[@vesperiris3384]

Meyer didn't have the courage to do what was necessary: Edythe femme-top and Beau boy-bottom 😔 we deserve better

[@kingofkeys93]

Yes I knew this book existed. I watched Amanda the Jedi talk about about twilight in a few different videos

[@mayrarara]

I literally just opened KZbin & immediately saw this…I’m hyped

[@Homeland_er]

0:38 Sums up the entire Twilight series in one sentence

[@vjtheowl6091]

That alternative ending with Daddy Swan Vampire Hunter is something we N E E D.

[@the_petty_crocker]

Steph's consistency of horribleness is truly inspiring. I feel so much better about all of my poor life choices.

[@VanishingPoint1970]

39:23 this was so smooth that I had to make sure that the joke didn't pick pocket me as it passed

[@FerraticaTheBard]

Hey Stephanie, tell us you started watching anime without telling us you started watching anime! Stephanie: "Beau, the main character, was the plainest, most boringest guy ever, and every hot girl in school wanted a piece of him." Good job, Steph, you nailed it!

[@tima7814]

no, the curse will only be complete when we also get a mlm and flf book of Bella x Edith and Beau x Edward + all possible POVs😂

[@patriciaw1137]

The opposite version of Midnight Sun should be Noon Moon

[@Beanaleann]

Patiently impatiently waiting for you to read the 5th book in the house of night series 🙏🏽

[@1607hannah1]

I was listening to your video on Friday and I wanted to keep listening to it, but forgot what it was called and I am slightly drunk right now so type in 'Green apple twilight' and your video was the first one that popped up! Glad to be back!

[@maycc.]

i’ve pavlovd myself- i cannot clean without an alizee video in the background

[@Jadeeee2323]

Re: 44:20 i remember from when u did the bree tanner video, yes if a vampire loses hair in a fight, they have a bald spot forever. Also their spit can be used as glue to reattach limbs that are torn off.

[@CaptainSam666]

About the hair: Anne Rice's rules are that all hair stays how it was when you were turned into a vampire. Bad haircut that day? Tough. Chop it all off? Grows back like in the Santa Clause.

[@ashannaredwolf8485]

Charlie Swan: Vampire Hunter is the fanfic I never knew I wanted to write.

[@Bebe-kk9mc]

Yesss exactly what i needed to listen to whilst im sick with covid ❤

[@finch600]

I remember my mate got the gender swap of 50 Shades of Grey and Christians dick gets brought up often in the dumbest way. Every time she sent me a photo I died laughing. Like written almost as if it was a character of its own.

[@Lei-AICPhD]

“BREASTS?!? Not in my Christian vampire novel!!!” 😂 I’m dead completely! That’s hilarious!!! As much of a Twihard as I am, I cannot believe I’ve never thought if their hair could be ripped out or even if they could permanently remove unwanted hair! Such a great thought I now must have answers to!!!

[@artimisjay8071]

Wanna know something funny? The names of the Volturi wifes are actually canon - Stephenie Meyer actually wrote it all down in her "all about twilight" book that also features a great timeline of all of the characters. It's actually quite nice, it also gives a detailed explanation on Alice' past.

[@gothamtruecrime]

This book is unequivocally better than Twilight. The alternate ending is actually good??

[@abbiexoxo4052]

I've been in such a low mood all day and then this dropped, mood instantly lifted