The author is quite right. I definitely identified with what she (he? didn't check) was saying. I never had the whole 'teenage heartthrob' thing, but I did have a six-foot poster of Orlando Bloom as Legolas on my bedroom door for about a year. SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

Twilight is just another fad-- and yes, the books suck, though I don't know about the movies, but there's nothing wrong with girls having crushes on movie stars. It's just a thing, ya know? Especially the bit where she says "We imagine what we'd say to him if we were more confident," which is actually really sad, thinking about it. I can't be the only one on this 'Board who remembers middle school, and the fact that most guys were every -bit- as out of reach as Orlando Bloom or whoever the guy was at that point. There's something comforting, I think, in thinking about a guy who's unattainable to all the girls in your school, the popular and pretty girls just as much as the geeky, awkward kids.

Some people are obsessed. Upholstering your room in Pedowolf is perhaps even more pointless than covering it with Rapeface!Edward.

I don't have a problem with it. It places the Twilight movies' stars in the context of movie history as the next generation of teen heartthrobs, which is exactly what they are. I've got no issue with that.

I think the writer of the article probably doesn't know what these teens get up to in fanfic, but why should she?

~Neshomeh

I don't think it meets the level of professionalism that the onion demands