User blog comment:Kirby Phelps (PK)/Is Twilight dying down?/@comment-3263574-20101230004901/@comment-5753974-20121117014128

I have to disagree. I think in a couple of years from now it will definetely die down.

I was one of Twlight's first "true fans". I knew about Twlight since before the book was even published and was excited when it first came out back when no one even knew that the book existed except for book sellers and librarians. I read the book and instantly fell in love with it (BEFORE anyone else even knew it even existed). So I wasn't following a fad, or a hype or anything of the sort. I had Stephanie Meyers's website bookmarked as my homepage. I quoted my favorite quotes of the book to people and fangirled at any mention of the characters once it reached the popular media. I was such a weirdo then because I would re-read the books over and over and wish that SM was somehow related to me somehow so I could constantly ask her questions about Edward. Later I even went to events where she would be signing books (again, this is before she was popular so it wasn't that hard to get to meet her).

Now that I'm a bit older and have read the whole entire series again I realize that Twlight is definetely not the best. The more I read it the more I hated it, wondering why I had ever liked it before. I guess it's because I learned what an abusive relationship looks like and saw that Twlight personified and glorified that. (Plus the writing is just plain horrible *squeamishly so*, but that's another story). If your fine with that continue being a true fan. Although for the time that I was a fan I wouldn't call any of that fake, as you so put it. My tweeny dedication to it was real. But I'm glad that I am no longer a fan anymore.