panlight: panlight: My attempt to hopefully clear up for the Forever Dawn/Breaking Dawn confusion on

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My attempt to hopefully clear up for the Forever Dawn/Breaking Dawn confusion once and for all. 

bringing this back for the uninitiated or for people who just like flow charts.

I consider this really crucial for anyone thinking about this saga to understand, and goes to the point of this post I made a few weeks ago. There are inherent incongruities in the saga which exist because of this problem, which is why I consider it crucial to read beyond the text to the author’s intent in order to create coherence where the publishing process and writing process created incoherence. One does not have to read the saga that way, but that is the way I will always read it, so that’s what you’re getting if you come to this corner of tumblr.

I would add 6: The Illustrated Guide, which was released after nearly a decade of fan intervention and commentary, and which was largely assembled by fans and not by SM. In this flow chart, I would float it out as its own island because it is vaguely related to the canon but in many places counter-indicates canon and certainly contains aspects of plot and character background which shouldhave influenced the 4 books and for some reason, did not, which suggests that the ideas were not in place until The Guide was written.