I've only read one so far that Edward wasn't present at all (and I can't remember if Alice was either....I'm thinking not? It was The Quiet Room). And I didn't end the fic feeling that I was gypped out of something because Edward didn't make an appearance, it was actually a nice change from having him act like a spoiled twat like Matron mentioned 

Most of what I've read so far has a square off of some sort between J and E.

Oh, I'm sure I'll read Edward fics again....just probably not until I've exhausted all of the good Jasper ones lol.

 

See, I enjoy the square offs between the two over Bella. I'm enjoying that he ditches her, she moves on with J, E comes back into the picture and she basically tells him to f*ck off. Even though I love the saga (obv) and will always, on some level be an Edward fan, a small part of my feminist side does a fist pump when she doesn't take him back

And I never picture Jasper with blond hair. When I read, he's just like he is in my profile pic, darker haired hottie

Then I read a Bella/Paul fic on a total whim and it was GOOD. And then more I came on here and you would mention Jasper got me really thinking....I love his character. He's a total bad ass. I want to read some Jasper lovin'.

And I've not read an Edward fic since lol

I do know I haven't read a single Jake fic. He shows up once in a while, hates on Edward, and is never seen again, lol!

It's not that I dislike Jake, I just don't see him as romantic lead for Bella at all. He's more the friend/brother vibe, like Emmet.

I've read human and vamp Jasper fics, and much prefer the vamp ones. I like any time of Edward story though.

Ditto on all of this! Jake is always just the friend role to me. And, Emmett is always the brother role to me as Carlisle is the father.

The only wolf pairing I'll read is with Paul, the others just squick me out for some reason.

All that said, I couldn't imagine anything other E/B at one time and that's changed quite a bit so who knows lol

And while I love Jasper, Idk wtf was going on with his hair in the movies? I mean....what? It was just odd to me.

There was a blonde actress that played Booth's love interest for a season who would have been a perfect Rosalie. Yet they hire an okay looking brunette & turn her into a blonde.  She is so not Rosalie to me.   

Agreed! I always thought Olivia Wilde (with her hair blond obv)  wld hv been a better Rosalie. For as earth shatteringly (idk if that's a real word, but I'm going w it) beautiful as Rosalie was described countless times, Nikki Reed doesn't fit that.

A brunette who decided after the first movie that dying her hair blonde was too "rough" on her hair, and made them use tacky wigs in the rest of the movies, until the last couple, where they seem to have given up. She's not even blonde in the last one is she? Ashley Green is wearing a wig now as Alice too, and she looked so cute with the short hair in the first couple of movies.

Nope, totally not.  She's not bad looking, but Rose is supposed to be like drop dead gorgeous. IMO the only ones that really fit in that movie is Ashley Green as Alice, and Carlisle and Esme were pretty good. I think Jackson has tons of potential, they just didnt' use him enough, and made him look bad, and I dunno if Kellan Lutz is BIG enough to be Emmet, they always talk about how brawny he is.

Kristen Stewart LOOKS the part, but girl can't act at ALL. Pattinson is ok in other stuff, but is overly dramatic in these, and did they hire ANY Native Americans to play the Quilluettes? (I'm sure I spelled that wrong.)

I do know I was SHOCKED when I realized that was Charlie on Revolution on NBC. Looks totally different without the s'tache, so much younger!

Olivia Wilde would have been great. She's even blonde in whatever cosmetics ad she's doing right now.

I know Ashley Greene has to be wearing a wig, because she has such long hair in all her pictures and appearances. To me, she just looks like everyone else, but the short hair in the first two movies set her apart from the Hollywood crowd.