As part of this week's series on fandom, Vulture will profile a number of passionate, influential fans. Name: Laura Byrne Cristiano, 46, co-founder of Twilight Lexicon, the oldest Twilight fan site.Origin Story: Laura Byrne Cristiano's Twilight fan story didn't begin with Twilight, but with Harry Potter. Through the now-defunct Hp fan sites Sugar Quill and Werewolf Registry, Cristiano met a fellow fan of the wizarding world in 2003 named Lori Joffs, who developed a fierce new obsession in the winter of 2005. "Lori kept chattering about this new book Twilight, and I honestly read it at first just to shut her up," jokes Cristiano, who immediately found herself drawn to the world of Bella and Edward. "At the time, it wasn't like anything else out there," she explains. "Every other book heroine had these tremendous odds stacked against her: She was suffering from an eating disorder or was caught in a...
- 10/17/2012
- by Gwynne Watkins
- Vulture
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