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this class can fit so much trauma

Chapter 15: the gender politics of Twilight Reimagined

Notes:

IM ALIVE. i'm so sorry, i was not supposed to be gone this long. i don't know what happened. ao3 author curse didn't even get me or anything. i just kinda had a really weird summer and then got hit by the hyperfixation beam in like 4 different fandoms that Were Not MHA. still haven't abandoned this series tho i promise. this chapter sat like half finished in my docs for a year and then i randomly got insp to finish it at work today so here yall go lol

no one gets high in this chapter and i think that's because my main dispo got shut down. that's also why this chapter isn't as funny as usual (things i say every chapter). this chapter is significantly enhanced by at least a passing knowledge of Twilight. Guess what i read recently.

small warnings for an anxiety attack (off screen!) and its aftermath thats kinda in the background of this whole chapter, as well as mentions of suicidal ideation in the convo between kiri and mina. (its like. its positive tho i promise)

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

this class can fit so much trauma (6:38am)

tentacool: Something is burning

tentacool: It is not coming from Bakugou’s room

tentacool: Who is burning

 

pokeball: That feels pointed

 

tentacool: It is

 

sugarbaby: If one of you ruined the oven i will cry

sugarbaby: I had plans for that oven after class

 

ispy: i hate to be the one to tell you this but

ispy: not anymore you don’t

ispy: Class Rep tried to make breakfast

 

ClassPrep: I was simply trying to make rice! I don’t know what happened!

 

ispy: well step one is to not put the rice maker on the stovetop

 

EdgarAllanCrow: I do not care as long as I may still acquire my caffeinated sustenance.

 

ispy: i have bad news for you about the coffeemaker, tokoyami

 

EdgarAllanCrow: Pain and Suffering

 

ispy: :/

ispy: wait don’t you drink apple juice in the mornings

 

EdgarAllanCrow: How did you

EdgarAllanCrow: i drink black coffee, the same color as the darkness within us all.

 

tentacool: He drinks apple juice

tentacool: From a thermos

 

EdgarAllanCrow: I am currently taking applications for a new best friend.

 

ispy: brutal

 

ClassPrep: Does anyone know why the fire alarm isn’t going off? 

ClassPrep: Not that anyone needs to be concerned! The incident was swiftly dealt with, and there is no need for evacuation!

 

ispy: translation: he used the fire extinguisher and now half the kitchen is covered in foam

ispy: including iida himself

ispy: and me

ispy: this was my last clean uniform

ispy: at least you can see where my head is, i guess

 

pokeball: I dismantled the fire alarm last weekend.

 

sugarbaby: Damn it guys, now no one gets cupcakes

sugarbaby: Wait todoroki why

 

pokeball: I dismantled it.

 

tentacool: That’s… that’s not an answer

 

ClassPrep: If someone could please inform Aizawa-sensei of this minor incident, that would be fantastic!

 

ispy: i think iida is about to have a crisis

 

ClassPrep: I AM NOT

ClassPrep: THESE ARE NOT TEARS! I JUST GOT WATER IN MY EYES!

 

ispy: yeah ok so thats bullshit and im actually concerned

ispy: where is the dekusquad,,, @pokeball where are your handlers

 

tentacool: I haven’t heard midoriya get back from his run yet

 

pokeball: @insomnya

pokeball: @insomnya

pokeball: @insomnya

 

momther: Oh dear

momther: I will be there in a moment, hagakure

momther: Tsu is in the bath, and Ochako is likely still asleep.

 

pokeball: @insomnya

pokeball: @insomnya

pokeball: @insomnya

 

insomnya: i am awakened. why am i awakened.

insomnya: o shit

 

ClassPrep: Everything is alright! Please do not be alarmed, Hitoshi-kun!

 

insomnya: omw one sec

insomnya: no offense iida but i do not believe you at all lol


Hagakure > Shinsou (6:45am)

floating scrunchie: so since ur coming down here u should know that Rep is definitely having an anxiety attack

floating scrunchie: i think he’s almost calmed down now

floating scrunchie: but i think it would be good if you could make sure he gets to the showers and then his room. yaomomo and i are taking care of the mess.

 

kicking shins-ou: how bad was it?

kicking shins-ou: do i need to call my dad?

 

floating scrunchie: uh. well i don’t know? it was really quiet, i almost didn’t notice.

floating scrunchie: i think you should maybe try to convince him not to go to class today though?

 

kicking shins-ou: i’ll try

kicking shins-ou: thx for looking out for him, im sure he’ll tell you the same later

 

floating scrunchie: ofc!! happy to help!!


Asui Tsuyu > Iida Tenya (12:04pm)

Tsuyu!: Tenya

Tsuyu!: Are you awake?

 

Tenchan: No.

 

Tsuyu!: Ok

Tsuyu!: I have lunch for you kero

Tsuyu!: I can leave it by your door

 

Tenchan: It’s unlocked.

 

Tsuyu!: Can I come in?

 

Tenchan: Yes.


this class can fit so much trauma (5:10pm)

electric rat: guys can i be real a second

 

a nice boulder: (for just a millisecond)

 

pinky dinky doo: (Let down my guard n tell the people how I feel a second)

 

birdplaneuravity: Boooooo tomato tomato

birdplaneuravity: I thought we banned hamilton in chat

 

a nice boulder: sorry idk what came over me

 

NotAppleCertified: We found Kiri’s sleeper agent activation phrase ig lol

 

pinky dinky doo: I refuse to apologize

 

electric rat: ANYWAY

electric rat: can i be honest

 

a nice boulder: this is a safe space

 

NotAppleCertified: Lol no it isnt but be honest anyway

 

pinky dinky doo: Omg Kyoka ur so mean 

 

NotAppleCertifed: Is that news or…

 

electric rat: can i just say my thing

 

a nice boulder: ye sorry go ahead!!

 

electric rat: ook tbh dont judge me but lowkey i think the moon landing might have been faked

 

(5:24pm) electric rat: wow the silence is defeaning 

electric rat: dont all speak at once guys

 

birdplaneuravity: Bitch what thefuc k

 

electric rat: i mean

electric rat: idk america seems like it had a pretty good reason to just fake it. like weren’t they desperate to not lose the space race or whatever

electric rat: plus who could even prove it. you’d have to go to the moon

 

birdplaneuravity: i

 

NotAppleCertified: I think you broke Ochako…

 

pinky dinky doo: Kami babe

pinky dinky doo: Respectfully

pinky dinky doo: What the Fuck

pinky dinky doo: Babe they had already lost the space race

 

electric rat: like i said. desperate.

 

birdplaneuravity: Kaminari

birdplaneuravity: Pls

birdplaneuravity: U can see rover tracks with a telescope. 

 

electric rat: hmmm

 

birdplaneuravity: Also

birdplaneuravity: WE HAVE BEEN BACK

birdplaneuravity: LIKE SEVERAL TIMES

birdplaneuravity: Not just ‘we’ like Humans either, we like Literally Japan

birdplaneuravity: Kami pls this conspiracy should have died like 200 years ago wE HAvE BEEN TO THE MOON

 

electric rat: you make a compelling argument

 

birdplaneuravity: A compelling arguement…

birdplaneuravity: THREE CENTURIES OF SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENT

 

pinky dinky doo: Should we do something

 

NotAppleCertified: He made this bed

 

birdplaneuravity: WE HAVE EXPLORED PARTS OF THE GALAXY THE FIRST ASTRONMERS COULDNT HAVE EVEN IMAGINED

 

NotAppleCertified: He can lay in it

 

electricrat: i mean it was just a theory

 

birdplaneuravity: Where are you Kaminari

birdplaneuravity: I’m fixing this

 

electricrat: uh


high on heroines (6:47pm)

ghostbusters: Hey quick question

pass the aux: Here we go again



ghostbusters: Rude. Anyway.

ghostbusters: how many of you guys are familiar with Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined, the genderbent version of Twilight that Stephanie Meyer wrote for the ten year anniversary of the og book published in 2015?

 

ellen ripley: yk i am!! 

 

lesbian jesus: Not even remotely

 

the braincell: i’ve heard of it

 

pass the aux: Not at all but I have a feeling I’m about to be

 

kirby: Thats a thing??

 

ghostbusters: Great ok well

ghostbusters: First of all dont read it i promise it isn’t worth it

ghostbusters: But second of all the whole thing is that SMeyer was like “ohh everyone always called Bella Swan a damsel in distress but it actually has nothing to do with her gender and if i switched the gender Nothing Would Change”

ghostbusters: But The Gag Is that it literally proves that everything changes change if Bella is a man and Edward is a woman 

 

ellen ripley: OMG RIGHT i was thinking abt that the other day like girl literally proved herself wrong in the process of writing her own damn book lol

 

pass the aux: The Mormon vampire romance author is kinda sexist?

pass the aux: Fork found in kitchen lol

 

ghostbusters: You arent wrong 💀

 

kirby: Wait tell me more

 

ghostbusters: GLADLY 

ghostbusters: Ok there’s a lot of examples but the biggest one is that the biggest conflict in the entire series (beyond the love triangle and the various battles and the baby) is that Bella wants to be a vampire soooo fucking bad and Edwards is like nooooo i cant do that we have to be married first whatever

 

ellen ripley: yes yes the vampirism as a metaphor for virginity, we’re all familiar

 

lesbian jesus: I beg your pardon?

 

ellen ripley: ok maybe not All

 

ghostbusters: The author is supes Mormon just go w it

 

lesbian jesus: Okay???

 

ghostbusters: ANYWAY

ghostbusters: so (for those who weren’t aware (yaomomo)) at the end of the first book Bella gets bitten by one of the Bad Vampires and almost dies but then Edward sucks the venom out of her like a snake bite and she stays human for three more books

 

ellen ripley: against her will btw like bella wanted to be vampy soooo bad lol

 

the braincell: i feel obligated to say that you shouldn’t actually suck venom out of a bite btw

 

pass the aux: Don’t like cut it either. Both of those things can make it worse

pass the aux: Just like… wash it and apply a cold compress and go to the hospital

 

kirby: Huh good 2 know

 

ghostbusters: OKAY COOL ANYWAY in the genderswapped version, Beau (boy Bella) gets to the final fight like 5 minutes sooner than girl Bella did so Edythe (girl Edward) doesn’t get there in time to save him, so his options are to either die or become a vampire and they LET HIM CHOOSE

ghostbusters: SO HE GETS TO CHOOSE BEING A VAMPIRE

 

kirby: Wait wtf

 

ghostbusters: And i cannotttt stop thinking about what that says about SMeyer’s feelings about bodily autonomy for men vs women. 

 

pass the aux: Its the Mormonism

 

kirby: I feel like we’ve said Mormon too many times

 

the braincell: probably

 

ellen ripley: wait wait wait its worse than thattt

ellen ripley: bc bella is all “oh i want to be a vampire so bad wdym i should go to college and get married first :( kill me nowwww” when she’s only like 16

ellen ripley: but beaufort is all “:/ i wish i got to go to college and get married first” 

 

kirby: Stop. BEAUFORT

 

lesbian jesus: Is that the male equivalent of Isabella?

 

the braincell: i don’t think so kero

 

ellen ripley: some of the genderswap names are so tragic. jasper’s name is Jessamine

 

kirby: Omg

 

pass the aux: Whats the hot dad’s girl name

 

ghostbusters: Thats the worst part 

ghostbusters: She doesn’t even genderswap bella’s parents. only characters in the whole book she leaves As Is

 

lesbian jesus: I feel like I need to unpack that but I don’t know enough about Twilight to do so.

 

ellen ripley: i think thats probs fine tbh

 

ghostbusters: So yeah thats what i was thinking abt when i shouldve been doing my homework for Cementoss

ghostbusters: Do we think if I just did my paper about the gender politics of Twilight Reimagined, he’d accept it?

 

the braincell: instead of the assigned reading?

 

ghostbusters: Yeah lol I think Ive read like 2 pages

 

pass the aux: Girl that paper is due Tomorrow

 

ghostbusters: I AM AWARE

 

lesbian jesus: Cementoss, no, probably not. However, you can probably get EC in English from Present Mic-sensei.

lesbian jesus: However, if you finish the reading for tonight by 9pm, I’ll help you outline your paper. At least then you’ll have something to turn in tomorrow. 

 

ghostbusters: Yaomomo did you know I’m in love with you

 

lesbian jesus: ❤️

 

pass the aux: lol


Asui Tsuyu > Jirou Kyoka (7:56pm)

frogger: kero

 

Kyo: I am not jealous shut up

 

frogger: i didn’t even say anything lmaooo

 

Kyo: SHUT


Kirishima Eijirou > Ashido Mina (8:12pm)

RED RIOT 👹: can i say something that’s going to sound SUPER concerning but is actually a therapy win

 

acid bitch 🩷🫠👽🎉: ofc babes

 

RED RIOT 👹: i was lying facedown in bed bc my brain wont shut up. as one does.

 

acid bitch: as one does!

 

RED RIOT 👹: and i had the automatic thought of like. “my room is so messy. i deserve to be choked out for it.”

 

acid bitch: hard disagree

 

RED RIOT 👹: that’s the win dude! i also immediately thought “that’s just stupid man, no i don’t” and then i got up and put my dirty clothes in my hamper

 

acid bitch: wait! ei! that’s so good!! 

 

RED RIOT 👹: yeah man ive never done that before

RED RIOT 👹: normally im just like “yeah i so do” and next thing i know i’m relapsing but THIS TIME I SAID NO FUCK THAT!!!

RED RIOT 👹: call that shit THERAPY GAINZZZZ

 

acid bitch: FUCK YEAH THERAPY GAINZZZ

acid bitch: i’m so proud of you ei!!!!

acid bitch: i’m bringing you ice cream we gotta celebrate

 

RED RIOT: aw you dont have to do that meens

RED RIOT: ik you said you were tired at dinner

 

acid bitch: i’m not too tired for this !!

acid bitch: open ur door

 

RED RIOT: it’s unlocked?

 

acid bitch: … whoops !


no crimes here (9:49pm)

orange juice addiction: Why did no one wake me up for dinner?

 

mumblemumble: Honestly we tried but you were sleeping pretty hard so Shouto and I just let you sleep

 

daddyissues: You threw a pillow at us when we tried.

 

mumblemumble: You also did that

 

orange juice addiction: Ah. My apologies.

 

mumblemumble: No worries!! It was kinda funny

 

daddyissues: You’re cute when you’re sleeping.

 

orange juice addiction: Oh

orange juice addiction: I

orange juice addiction: Thank you, Shouto

 

gravitea: LOL I think u broke him again

 

orange juice addiction: No I’m just tired

 

ribbitch: kero

ribbitch: ok tenchan

 

orange juice addiction: IS THERE ANY FOOD LEFT

orange juice addiction: I mean

orange juice addiction: Is there any food left (said at normal volume)

 

gravitea: aw sleepy tenya comes w stage directions thats so cute

 

orange juice addiction: I

 

mumblemumble: I don’t know if there are any leftovers tbh but Kacchan said he’d make you something if you want!

 

orange juice addiction: Oh, I don’t want to bother him.

orange juice addiction: I’m sure he’s asleep by now, anyway.

 

gravitea: Actually

gravitea: He got roped into helping Kami and Sero with homework after dinner, they’re in the common room

 

orange juice addiction: I don’t want to interrupt

 

slebby: oh my fucking god


this class can fit so much trauma (10:00pm)

insomnya: @fuckyou can you please tell tenya that you don’t mind cooking for him before he starves bc he doesn’t want to be an inconvenience or whatever

 

ClassPrep: I’m sure I have snacks in my dorm! I will not starve!

 

fuckyou: God why is everyone in this class so pathetic

fuckyou: Get your dumbass down here. I’m making you food.

fuck you: I was already going to make something for Dumb and Dumber so they stop complaining

 

swingline: Hey

 

electric rat: wait

electric rat: which one is which

 

fuckyou: Take a wild guess

 

electric rat: hey

 

swingline: Did you just assume you were Dumber

 

electric rat: yeah 😭

 

swingline: So you insulted yourself

swingline: Why did you do the work for him

 

electric rat: why do you all hate me

 

swingline: I could never

 

fuckyou: I AM ACTIVELY MAKING YOU FOOD

fuckyou: ALSO @ClassPrep GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE OPTIMUS PRIME OR FORFEIT DINNER

 

ClassPrep: Understood. On my way.

 

swingline: Katsu, man, normally your nicknames are top notch but Optimus Prime is a semitruck

swingline: Those aren’t very fast

swingline: Blurr is the fastest Transformer

 

fuckyou: Do I look like I care?

 

swingline: Not even a little bit!

 

insomnya: hey kats make some for me too

 

fuckyou: No. Make your own damn food

 

insomnya: I just got off an evening patrol route and didn’t eat beforehand

 

electric rat: and aizawa still let you go????

 

insomnya: what he doesn’t know won’t hurt him

 

fuckyou: Jesus Fucking Christ

fuckyou: Fine

fuckyou: BUT NO ONE ELSE

 

pinky dinky doo: 🥺


fuckyou: FINE

Notes:

i do need you all to know that the moon landing conversation is a real conversation that i actually had irl with an acquaintance at a friend's party. please note that three of the people involved in the conversation (myself included) work in a planetarium. it was actually painful.

also if you're actually interested in how stupid Twilight Reimagined is and don't want to read it (valid) I recommend this video for a rundown lol: Gender Swapped Twilight by Dominic Noble
if you're interested in learning more about Twilight wrt Meyer's Mormonism I recommend Signs Twilight Was Written by a Mormon by Alyssa Greenfell
and if, for some reason, you want a exploration on Race and Gender in Twilight, No—Twilight Hate Isn't Just Misogyny by Princess Weekes is excellent

ig my chatfic comes with a bibliography now lol sorry not sorry?

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