Sunlight Filtered Through Green Leaves

by siriuslymerlin

A gay twilight rewrite set in the late twenty-teens, with a hopefully refreshing twist! Forks is a nothing town, a hikers pit stop before they descend into the mass of green forest that threatens to engulf the Olympic Peninsula. Beau Swan doesn't expect anything from it, but then again, the universe has always conspired to prove him wrong.

26. Acknowledgments and questions

Hey guys!

Thank you so much for sticking with the story, despite the mega break I took. This is my third completed fic and honestly, I only got through it because of the amazing comments you guys left. Everyone was so sweet and helpful, and every time I read the comments I was inspired to write. Of course, this whole quarantine thing really messed with my head, so for a while, I just didn't have any motivation to write at all.

That is, until three nights ago.

Three nights ago, I sat down and reread all the lovely comments you all left for me. I was inspired to write, and determined to, so I through on the twilight movies (thank you Amazon Prime) and blasted through the last four chapters. After a pretty intense editing session—which I do by myself, so please don't mind the mistakes—I finally got around to posting the rest of this fic.

One more time, thank you so much for your support!

Now, onto the important questions.

I do want to keep writing, and finish out all four books, but I'm really unsure how to restructure a lot of the plot points. I have a lot of major issues with the treatment of the Quileute Tribe, which is a real tribe that smeyer completely bastardized. She wrote them into cheap caricatures of racist, native stereotypes, reducing them into either violent, or oversexualized 1-D beings.

I want to address that, and I want to make serious revisions (although I have to acknowledge that I can't fix all the dumpster fires) to make the series more palatable. Please let me know what you guys think would help make this more acceptable, like what characterizations I should change and what plot points.

Thanks for your support!