My first ever blog post - Welcomes and Introductions

Welcome to TwiKiwi, the newest blog on the twi-block. Allow me to take a little time to introduce myself, my twi-experience to date and my bloggy plans…

My blogger / twitter handle is @I_heart_Fifty (more on that later). I am a 30 year old single gal from Auckland, New Zealand who fell down the Twilight rabbit hole a little over a year ago. In real life, I have a relatively stressful job in management of a national charity in the healthcare field.

Auckland, New Zealand - home sweet home

A few of my friends and family know that I’m a Twilight fan but I try and keep it all on the DL as much as possible, with one exception. My best friend in the world, the gorgeous and amazing Sparkly Jul, is as engrossed in Twitardia as I am and is a writer of fan fiction (for which I am her beta). You can find a link to her FFn profile at the bottom left of this page.

So I first read the saga in July 2009 and I was hooked. I then watched Twilight, waited patiently for New Moon, listened to the saga on audiobook, and re-read. Twice. I had never really ventured online for any of my twi-needs…. That was until about January of this year. Jul was working a nightshift when she did some blog searching and sent me a link to a little site called Twitarded. The rest is, as they say, history. I read the entire archive of JJ & STY’s hilarity in about a week, and hung on their every word. 

Smokin' hot? Me?

I can’t believe I’ve got this far down my first post without yet mentioning Rob. Mr Pattinson, aka the Precious, one of the most attractive men on the planet. I know you all agree with me so there’s no need to elaborate except to say that I can guarantee this blog will continue with regular RPattz worship. There will also be homage to the other men of the saga: Peter, Jackson, Kellan…. But there will never, ever, be pics of Taylor on this blog. Sorry Team Jacob fans, this is not the place for you.

or werewolves. ever.

As I heard mention on Twitarded of this thing called ‘Fan Fiction’ I was like, what the? To this day I can’t quite remember what the first fic I read was, but Clipped Wings was up there pretty early on in my fic career. Talk about start strong! I have read a huge amount of fic now and can proudly (?) say that I’ve read a grand total of about 3 real books since discovering fic! Then in about May I got a Twitter account, and met some fuckawesome people online – you know who you are.

Fifty Shades as pictured by Icy herself

My Twitter handle is named, of course, for the king of Twilight fan fiction, Fifty Shades, from Master of the Universe by Snowqueens Icedragon. If for some reason you have no idea what I’m talking about, as soon as you’re done on this page you best get yourself over to www.50shades.com. Get comfortable, you’ll be in for a long read, but it’ll change your life!

So this is the bit where I need to do some thanking. I wouldn’t be here doing this now without the fantabulous Sparkly Jul’s encouragement. Love you long time babe. I need to thank @TwiredJen from SoTwired for her advice, support and virtual cocktails. And last, but by absolutely no means least, the wonderful and extremely talented @17foreverLisa. Lisa has been so helpful to me from the start, and so generous. She has designed my Twitter avi and background, and now my amazing blog banner. I can’t thank you enough J

So what the hell am I going to blog about then? Well, you’ll just have to follow me and find out, won’t you? I can guarantee I won’t hold back on my opinions. The books, movies, fan fic, Rob, Kristen, the papps….. you name it, I’ve got an opinion on it.

Send me emails (iheartfifty@gmail.com) and tweet me (@I_heart_Fifty) and of course, comment below. It’s lovely to be here in the blogosphere, I can’t wait to get to know you all better. 

Thanks for reading! xxx