YAB: Wish Fulfillment, Part 1

Article about Bella's agency from a teenager perspective:
http://helen-keeble.livejournal.com/74065.html

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[miss3ffron]

your BBBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOORRRRRIIIIIII­INNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGG

[shmeiliarockie]

My boring what? My boring shirt? My boring sandwich? My boring art history text book? That isn't even a full thought...

Or did you mean *you're*, as in "you are"? Your bad grammar has dampened any impact of your oh-so-cutting jab might have had. Care to try again?

[songofgrayshadows]

I'm sorry, I have to ask. What book and what page does Edward promise Jacob all the sex he wants with Bella if he talks her into having an abortion?

[shmeiliarockie]

Breaking Dawn, Chapter 9: "Sure as hell didn't see that one coming" (Sorry I don't have the page number. I don't own any of the books.)

"I don't care about anything but keeping her alive," he said, suddenly focused now. "If it's a child she wants, she can have it. She can have half a dozen babies. Anything she wants." He paused for one beat. "She can have puppies, if that's what it takes."

[GaiasFashionAssassin]

I just nearly peed myself at that last line about Edward trying to convince Bella to have an abortion and letting Jacob have all the sex he wants with her. Well done.

[lambertlover19]

"5 men or women fighting for the protagonist's affections or interested in protagonist".

This is typical in many Cinderella-type (Mary Sue / Gary Stu) stories. I must admit that before watching the You Are Bella series of videos, I made the mistake of writing protagonists like that. This is the series that has make me want to go back and change that. Thank you so much. xx

[NarutoRPCfan]

"Our protagonist, ladies and gentlemen."

Favorite. Quote. Ever.

[slaughterersrock]

I've been hearing about the books since I was a young teenager, but it's only now, once I've become a college student, that I've actually started reading them. And yeah, there is a lot of wish fulfillment. Breaking Dawn in particular is so big on wish fulfillment that it's hard to take anything that "happens" in it seriously.

[selphiexfairy]

did you seriously read the whole series? how? i can't get past chapter 4 of the first book without seriously wanting to cry from pain. it's awful. ):

[KittzykatForever]

@Terrorkarel Lol

[Terrorkarel]

@KittzykatForever

don't feed the troll

[KittzykatForever]

@miss3ffron and like your not. Plus at least she has out worded you in this unacceptable confusing argument

[daisyhinojosa23]

2:57 - 3:04 EDWARD IS AN ADULTERER

[Kabutofan]

The instant popularity has always made me mad about the book. I've gone to three different schools so far in my life, two transferring in either near the end of the school year or before the end of the first semester. Even the one where I started at the beginning of the year started out horrible lonely and being treated as an outcast. It may be easier for someone who is more openly social, but Bella claims to having never had friends so it just makes the instance exception more improbable

[DemonicRemption]

@GaiasFashionAssassin As if I didn't have enough of a reason to hate what Meyer has done to Jacob... You guys give me another... Now I have more incentive not to read Breaking Down or Eclipse...