TA TALKS BACK: CONFESSIONS OF A CLOSET TWILIGHTER
Today, TA Staffer Eirelav writes in a great article about her love for the Twilight Saga and gives us a look inside the confessions of a closet Twilighter.
Today, Thursday, September 17, 2009, I celebrate my one-year anniversary as a member on Twilighters Anonymous. My experiences here have been overwhelmingly wonderful, and yet, I haven’t shared very many of them with my family and friends. Why? Simply because they don’t know just how far my obsession has gone.There are four people I know in real life that know I am a moderator on TA. Three of those people know that I write fan fiction. Only two of those people have read my writing. Why is that? Why haven’t I come out of the Twilight closet? Honestly, I don’t know. I’m hoping to learn that through the writing of this article.
My love of The Twilight Saga began the same way as many others’: through reading the books. I started reading the books about a week before Breaking Dawn came out, so it was available by the time I was ready for it. I lost count as to the number of times I read all of them in that first month. All I did in my spare time was read. One of the books was constantly with me. I had one in the car, hoping to be stuck in a traffic jam, one always came to work with me, and I would carry one around the house with me from room to room.
Eventually, the books weren’t enough and I had to branch out into other things. I went online and began searching for anything and everything Twilight I could find. Website after website, I searched for news about Stephenie Meyer, her writing, the movie. I was on a different website when I found the link to TA. When I saw the name, I knew this was the place for me. Twilighters Anonymous. It called to me, begged me to check it out. The realization hit me that I could explore my addiction, because I knew that I was addicted, without anyone else finding out. It became my dirty little secret.
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The article is cut off at the end there. Anyway I must say I can relate, nobody knows just how far my obsession for Twilight goes and that’s because I don’t know anybody else who has read the books and loved them as much as I do. I have some friends who have seen the movie but it’s not the same *sigh*. Thank goodness for TA where I can let out my Twihard side and not feel embarrassed:)