twihard? no thanks >__
This has been bugging me for weeks now.
what the hell has happened to the Twilight fandom?
In only one year the whole thing turned from a following into a cult :/
Let's recap shall we?
November 2007: Yours truly is reading her friends list and stumbles across a post about Eclipse, the third book in the series.
Apparently it's a very good book, better than the second and first. I get intrigued and ask my mother to buy me these three books.
Christmas 2007: I open my books, read them all in a week. I fall in love with the story and the romance. I search online
for any Twilight fans, I find a lovely thing called the Twilight Lexicon and some awesome icons on eljay.
January: I am still obsessed with Twilight and decide to tell everyone else about it. I make fanart, watch videos on youtube.
It's here I discover DREAMTEAM aka Gaspard Ulliel as Edward and Emily Browning as Bella. I like the pair, start a crush on
both actors ^__^
Other Twilight fans who make icons about the book on eljay are hard to find but I find them.
I obsess with them.
I introduce and lend the books to friends.
Sometime in 2008: Talk of a movie is surfacing on the web. I get excited but don't follow every single information that does appear.
again sometime in 2008: I stumble across the info that Kristen S will be playing Bella. Meh I don't really care who plays her. I want
to know who play Edward.
a little later in 2008: shock horror as I discover Robert P is cast as Edward. i don't like the choice but find it comforting that he's at least read
the books :/
Summer 2008: BOOM it happens. Twilight is mentioned/featured on every channel, youtube channel, livejournal.
At first it's cool that new fans are getting to know these books.
Release of Breaking Dawn: I remember being excited about this book. I refused to go on holiday without it (seriously I told my dad not to book my flight before August!) I rushed out, bought it, started reading on the bus home......finished it....hated it. :(
"Oh well, at least the other three books were alright." I thought.
All of a sudden the book takes a nasty turn and the fandom goes batshitcrazy over Twilight!! WTF??!
I see TWATLIGHT being mentioned everywhere, there are articles online bashing the book (which is fine in small amounts but it got kinda
crazy as soon as the movie/kast book came out)
Christmas 2008: I'm worried about mentioning to anyone that I am a Twilight fan. People will look at you funny, think you're joining
the bandwagon and that you WANTEDWARDSPARKLE!! >___<
so thanks TWIHARDS for ruining this fandom :(
and YAY for the old Twilight fans who don't obsesses but like the books and story for what it is and not what it's become :)
what the hell has happened to the Twilight fandom?
In only one year the whole thing turned from a following into a cult :/
Let's recap shall we?
November 2007: Yours truly is reading her friends list and stumbles across a post about Eclipse, the third book in the series.
Apparently it's a very good book, better than the second and first. I get intrigued and ask my mother to buy me these three books.
Christmas 2007: I open my books, read them all in a week. I fall in love with the story and the romance. I search online
for any Twilight fans, I find a lovely thing called the Twilight Lexicon and some awesome icons on eljay.
January: I am still obsessed with Twilight and decide to tell everyone else about it. I make fanart, watch videos on youtube.
It's here I discover DREAMTEAM aka Gaspard Ulliel as Edward and Emily Browning as Bella. I like the pair, start a crush on
both actors ^__^
Other Twilight fans who make icons about the book on eljay are hard to find but I find them.
I obsess with them.
I introduce and lend the books to friends.
Sometime in 2008: Talk of a movie is surfacing on the web. I get excited but don't follow every single information that does appear.
again sometime in 2008: I stumble across the info that Kristen S will be playing Bella. Meh I don't really care who plays her. I want
to know who play Edward.
a little later in 2008: shock horror as I discover Robert P is cast as Edward. i don't like the choice but find it comforting that he's at least read
the books :/
Summer 2008: BOOM it happens. Twilight is mentioned/featured on every channel, youtube channel, livejournal.
At first it's cool that new fans are getting to know these books.
Release of Breaking Dawn: I remember being excited about this book. I refused to go on holiday without it (seriously I told my dad not to book my flight before August!) I rushed out, bought it, started reading on the bus home......finished it....hated it. :(
"Oh well, at least the other three books were alright." I thought.
All of a sudden the book takes a nasty turn and the fandom goes batshitcrazy over Twilight!! WTF??!
I see TWATLIGHT being mentioned everywhere, there are articles online bashing the book (which is fine in small amounts but it got kinda
crazy as soon as the movie/kast book came out)
Christmas 2008: I'm worried about mentioning to anyone that I am a Twilight fan. People will look at you funny, think you're joining
the bandwagon and that you WANTEDWARDSPARKLE!! >___<
so thanks TWIHARDS for ruining this fandom :(
and YAY for the old Twilight fans who don't obsesses but like the books and story for what it is and not what it's become :)