Site of the Day: My Life is Twilight
Filed under: Fandom
Just when you thought it was safe to welcome that delirious Twi-hard family member back into your life comes a new website that's just ... well, all kinds of hilarious. It's called My Life is Twilight, and it consists of a bunch of little notes from fans who want you to know that their life is all about Twilight. I'm sensing an MTV True Life episode in 3 ... 2 ... 1...
But seriously now ... no wait, how can we really be serious about this? I know, they're young kids obsessing over a harmless entertainment property -- which, I imagine, is better than doing hard drugs or killing squirrels or whatever it is bad kids do these days. However, some of these little notes are just ... yeah. Here's a sample from the site:
"Today, as in every day, when I reread all of the Twilight books, I will cry, and when my boyfriend walks in the room I will intentionally start a fight with him & yell at him for "not being Edward Cullen". He knows now not to come in the room while I'm reading."
"Last year, my friend and I were out dancing. It was the middle of winter, so when her boyfriend came in from outside, he was freezing cold. Snatching his hand in hers, she proceeded to place it on my face, proclaiming "He feels just like Edward."
"Today I realized that ever since I read Twilight I highlight the word "twilight" in every other book I read just to give myself satisfaction that it MUST be a good book!"
"I work with juveniles that have just been arrested. Even though I know these kids have just committed a crime, I smile a little wider and act a little nicer when I talk with one named Edward."
Read the rest over here, and tell me if this is completely normal behavior or if there really is some sort of weird epidemic at play here.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
12-01-2009 @ 10:38PM
Mike said...
The obsession with this is getting dangerously close to redardation.
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12-01-2009 @ 11:46PM
robert said...
the ability to have a healthy relationship is being destroyed page by page in some of these poor girls
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12-02-2009 @ 3:36AM
yani said...
Being a fan is one thing... this is obsession, and unhealthy obsession at that... I mean picking a fight with somebody because they're not a fictional character, that's covering up some underlying emotional issues.
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12-02-2009 @ 4:23AM
Julia said...
I can't stop reading.... How do these people function with an obsession like that?!
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12-02-2009 @ 7:39AM
j said...
ergh... please, for the love of god... no more.
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12-02-2009 @ 8:07AM
Steerpike82 said...
How old are these people? They're not all 14, surely?
I mean, this is scarey!, but theres some real issues going on here.
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12-02-2009 @ 9:56AM
Kate said...
Owwwww...owwww...my brain...>.o
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12-02-2009 @ 10:51AM
greatone said...
This is one of my favorite one of the site:
"While driving in the woodsy part of town w/ my gf, I see a wolf run across the road. And w/ no time to react, I ran it over. I looked over at my gf to see if she was OK but instead I see her sobbing and hear a faint whisper, "Jacob". Unfortunately MLIT. "
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12-02-2009 @ 11:52AM
Eric H said...
There is a thin line between fandom and obsession, Twitards cross it everyday.
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12-02-2009 @ 1:27PM
Jonathan Kuhn said...
I am shocked at the inability of the writer of this article and the commentors to see sarcasm when they come across it. Clearly most of these are made up by people who hate Twilight and want to make fun of it. Isn't it obvious?
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12-02-2009 @ 2:38PM
Devon said...
Unfortunately, I think most of them are legit. I certainly have no love for Twilight, but there was a time was I was a near-fanatical Harry Potter fan. In that fandom too, many people - and myself on occasion - took their love for the franchise to ridiculous extremes; that's what rabid fans DO, no matter if they're Trekkies or Potterphiles or Twi-hards. People really are weird enough, and dumb enough (myself included), for these stories to be true. If the stories seem worse or more extreme than your average rabid fan-wank, that may just be because Twilight (IMHO) is such an awful fandom. Freaky fans of a cool franchise - Trekkies, for example - are still easier to empathize with than freaky fans of a twisted, godawful franchise like Twilight. At their worst extremes, Twi-hards come off as nothing less than grotesque.
12-02-2009 @ 2:28PM
twilight said...
wow, that is some serious Twilight fan mail!
http://www.twilighteclipse.info/twilight-new-moon-movie-clips
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12-02-2009 @ 9:41PM
De said...
*sigh* I want to cry about the dumbing down of humanity. I disagree with you about one thing, though. I think it would be better if they were on drugs. At least then they could use the excuse that they were high when they said/did/wrote moronic stuff like that (and we could understand the fandom for that crap).
This is your brain on Twilight . :(
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1-10-2010 @ 4:58AM
nomzod said...
Twits with lits
Let's have a little talk about twighlight fans....
Twighlight fans are called twits wits.
Twit wits like to pick snits.
...And when twit wits pick a fight,
It’s called a twit wit picked snit fit.
...And when they fight on forums,
It’s a twit wit picked snit lit fit frumble
And when theses twit wits frumble
With their lit snit cause tears and trouble,
They call it a twit wit picked snit lit frumble tumble tantrum.
AND...
When twit wits tumble twit lits in a frumble with their friends, and their friends call their friends too...
...they call this a twit wit lit fit frumble tumble tattle tantrum bile pile.
AND...
When twighlight fans fight twighlight fans online, not on a forum, but in fan-fic,
And have tantrums,
And their friends fight their friends too
But in the comments on the story
And the forums on a fan site,
Or worse it’s on live journal
And half of them are girls,
And the other half are gay,
And all of them write poetry,
And none of them are over 20
That’s...
...well it's just sad really.
Really really sad.
~Chris Weixelman, c/o Dr. Seuss.
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