I just finished reading a fic that I enjoyed. The plot was somewhat unique and the writing was good. The normal cliches were there, but it was a pleasant read.

Until the epilogue.

Why does an author feel it necessary to carry the epilogue just that bit too far? Edward and Bella overcome the obsticles that have been placed in front of them. They are building a happy, functional relationship together. All messy plot points are cleaned up.

But wait! There's more!

Sneak peaks into their future... the birth of a child... the death of a parent... mid life crisis...

I don't mind sneak peaks. In some instances, I crave them (see Help Wanted outtakes). But wait! there's more!

What? Edward and Bella are dead? Their child is eulogising them? They meet again in heaven?

Wow, thanks for all of that detail, but I am totally wierded out and am going to back away quietly.

This isn't the first time I've read this, so I know it won't be obvious which author I am talking about (because I don't want to point fingers).

So, what is your opinion on epilogues? Have you had a similar experience to the one I just went through? What fics have you read that have had a really good example of a happy ending without taking it too far?

I keep starting this and then freaking out and hitting the X on the top of the screen, but Im going to try to post this this time.

So I want to get to know everyone better around here.

I want to know 3 random facts about you that people think are weird...

3 guilty pleasures....

3 favorite TV shows...

3 bands your into right now...

Also I need more friends so if you want you can follow me on Twitter @DixieGirl8814 And Ill follow anyone that adds me

One more thing if anyone plays Farmville on Facebook and wants more friends you can also add me over there I dont use it for anything but Farmville and Im always looking for new neighbors. Click Here

K hope this doesnt flop.

All of my answers will be in side.

No doubt I'm way late finding this gem, and the source: peopleofwalmart.com , but I'm sure there are some who have missed it so I must share...

I'm taking advantage of FFAF and asking you to ask me questions.
I'm not trying to copy the rangers or anything, I promise. I'm just bored at home playing Petville on Facebook.

I LOVE being asked questions. During group introductions, my answer for the classic "Tell us a random fact about yourself" is usually that I love answering questions. Honestly, I think it's just to make up for the fact that I'm a horrible conversationalist, so answering questions helps get me going.
I've been on ADF for a while, but I still don't know many people because I've been too afraid to just make random comments until very recently.
SO...in order to put myself out there a little more as well as help cure my boredom, I want you guys to ask me any question you want. I'll answer everything as best I can and hopefully we can get some awesome conversations going in the process.
And if this fails...then it fails and we'll all get on with our lives. I won't hate anyone.


Ok kids, time for presents!

 

OK...so I'm watching Showtime and they just interviewed PFach about Nurse Jackie and Twilight and he said he wanted to give a shout-out to the Twilight Moms because he loves them and they send him food...lol!

So started thinking that it would be cool to get one of the cast members to give ADF a shout-out. I was gonna suggest some kind of campaign to try to make that happen.

But then I REALLY thought about it and I'm not sure if I would want them to see some of the things we say about them and their characters.

Would you them to visit the forest?

It is rather late. I can not sleep so.....

What is the background on your computer?

Is it Twilight/ fanfiction related?

Feel free to attach a screen shot if you so desire

=)

So I'm gonna take advantage of this friday to ask you smart ladies(or any men in the forest?) this question...

Why does my boyfriend like to do stupid things that piss me off? and what's wrong with men's brains?

I honestly don't have a lot of experience with guys but I know a lot of you campers are married or were/are in relationships so you have had a while to study this strange thing I call a man's brain. (Seriously the stupid things my bf does make me consider turning lesbian but I could never do it because I'm addicted to his hot body.)

So I want all of you  to help me understand why men act the way they do. Tell me how you deal when your man makes you want to smash your head against a wall.

My best friend and I made a deal tonight.

Since according to her I'm spending too much time on Fanfics and ADF, she's worried I'm not going to perform well in my finals this semester.

The deal is simple starting on May 4th (last day of classes) I'm to give up my online addiction (she originally wanted me to start tomorrow, she's crazy!).

She will take away my laptop since I dont need it to study and I will only have my books with me (no i dont even have pleasure reading.)

So I ask you all a favor tell me what to do while in hell, I mean I do need to do something else otherwise my brain will explode from all the reading.

Should I buy a coloring book? Execise?

Have any of you ever have to go cold turkey on something?

Just wanted to give a heads up that the Team Fire and Ice's "Southern Twi-Nights Contest" has been extended a week. People wanted to finish up their entries so we are giving them a chance to do so.

http://www.fanfiction.net/~teamfireandice

"A Southern Twi-Night"
Anonymous Contest - EXTENDED DATES!! DUE MAY 7th!!

We want you to portray the Cullens/Volturi/Wolfpack/Humans in your idea of what is "Southern."

Does Emmett drive a big truck and hunt with a 30/30?

Does Bella like to wear Daisy Dukes and work under Jeeps?

Is Edward a huge fan of Travis Tritt?

Take anything you think is classified as "Southern" and turn it into your fic.

RULES:

Rule 1: Fic must have something to do with the South, (any pairings or cannon characters are acceptable)

Rule 2: Fics must be between 2,000 and 20k words (3 chapter limit)

Rule 3: All entries must be submitted anonymously to teamfireandicefic@gmail.com. Entries will be validated and posted to the team account.

Rule 4: All stories must not be posted previously on FFn, Twilighted or any other fan fiction web site.

Rule 5: Stories must be beta'd or edited.

Rule 6: Authors may not promote their story in anyway. They may only promote the contest. (This is an anonymous contest!)

Entries must be submitted by : May 7th, 2010 @ Midnight EST
All entries will be posted by: May 8th, 2010 no later than Midnight (Or as they are received)
Voting will start May 9th and go through May 16th.
Winners Announced May 17th.

All banners will be made by ThatPanicGirlE which you can proudly sport with your stories!

There will be special awards for best use of:
• Mud-Boggin
• Sweet Tea
• Shot Guns
• Big Trucks with Lift Kits

REQUIRED ON ALL ENTRIES:

TITLE
http://www(dot)fanfiction(dot)net/u/2283402/TeamFireandIce
CHARACTERS
RATING
SUMMARY
DISCLAIMER

Good luck and we can't wait to see what you write!

Oksie doksey folksies

This is my last campfire on American soil for quite some time. It's 10.35pm here MT and I have a full day tomorrow. We fly 6am MT Saturday morning...I'll be up in the air for at least 17 hours...

I'm freaked honsetly. I'm a statistics girl, numbers are comforting to me, but even the statistics are no comfort when I fly.

So, just in case...and not to bring a downer to the campsite, but:-

This place has literally helped to save my life over the last few months.

Thank you.

I forgot who I was.

ADF actually helped me find where I was hiding and recover myself all over again. ADF rangers and members have made such a great place here. Sometimes I'm overwhelmed by the beautiful people I have met here.

I'll see you in a few days, and hopefully be able to settlle back into writing and conversing relatively quickly

Have a great weekend all

Much love

Chris

Ok so I want to know what yall do about mean ass co-workers!! I am having serious issues with one right now!! Its a guy of all things...mostly its girls that want to start crap but no not to me! I have worked with him for almost 3 yrs and in the beginning he was nice to me! Sometime in there he decided he was gonna be a straight up asshole to me for no reason!! Only me too!! I don't get it!! So all the time like every night we work together b/c we are on the same shift he is making a joke saying I'm fat or ugly and I always just laugh and brush him off cuz I am a strong person seriously stuff like that doesn't bother me but jeez its every time we work together and even in front of other people!

I have never told our boss that he is mean cuz I'm a nice person I hate to get other people in troble!Even tho other people say I should! So tonight he crossed a line! He was making his usual jokes when pregnancy got brought up! I have been trying for over 2 yrs with no luck and him and everyone knows it and we were talking about all the people that are pregnant including the other girl at work and he looks at me and says "always a bridesmaid never a bride" and I'm just speechless! I just glare at him trying not to cry! I try to play it off and go about work but I finally have to just leave and go cry! It made me so mad that I have to put up with that shit! So I told another co worker and she got the bosses involved and supposedly he's gonna get reprimanded in the morning! And you know what I feel bad cuz I got him in trouble!!

Am I crazy?? Please tell me if I did the right thing? Have any of you had to deal with stupid people at work!! Sorry I just really needed to vent!!

So, being FFFA I'd assume this is allowed. I have a group presentation coming up where we have to discuss gender roles in sci-fi and horror films. My role is to research female villains in these types of films. Problem is, I can't really think of many because I'm not a huge horror film person. So... campers, please help? I just need movies in this genre where there are female villains, and since you all are so wonderful, I'm sure you can help right? Thanks so much in advance! <3

For your time... 

Thus begins the birthday weekend of the great and powerful supreme overlord of purple font, creator of the most rereadable and quotable fics of all time, David Boreanaz's main squeeze and all around radical lady Ranger WTVOC. For many moons I have admired our Ranger from afar and was lucky enough to somehow make it into her good graces via drunken rumblings on twitter. So I thought that for her birthday I would create a playlist with all the songs that would forever remind me of her because of her general location. This ones for you, you minx!

To make this interactive, post songs that contain lyrics or titles representing your city/state/town/country/generalvicinity and don't forget to leave some love for the birthday girl!

Had a long day?

A long week?

Well here's a chance to tell off the person, place or thing that's been pissing you off.

We may not be able to say it to their faces (or maybe you have and are viewing this from jail), so this campfire is a chance for you to tell that special someone-

UP YOURS

So, as I was lying awake in bed last night, wishing that River Dam or Sanctuary would update, I realized that when I picture  in my head, I see  Now, as it happens, since I stalk JennyFly on here, I know that she is a blonde, and doesn't really look like JLo. But that image was in my head long before I actually knew what she looked like, and there it will remain.

Do any of you have funny images in your head for other folks here in the forest, or just in the fandom??? I have a lot of mental images for people, (WTVOC has always been Bella from the prom scene in my head, about to bar the doors for a vamp massacre, so the whole WTDBOC has really thrown me for a loop, but I think JennyFly is the only one whom I picture as an actual person. FYI bondedtojasper wears a 10 gallon hat in my head. and tight jeans.)

HELLO MY PRECIOUS CAMPERS. 

IT'S ALMOST THE WEEKEND HERE, AND I WANNA KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE IN STORE!! 

i'm heading to the beach tomorrow, with my beautiful bff.

We plan to go to this:

2010 FLORA-BAMA MULLET TOSS!!!

Which is basically an excuse to drink on the beach all weekend. =D

So tell me campers.... what kind of trouble will YOU be getting into this weekend?

Okay, remember that whole thing about James being obsessed with Alice as a human and a vamp that was in love with her or something changed her to save her? And Alice did some research on it when the family disappeared in New Moon, right?  Was that canon or a fic or a little of both? Why the hell can't I tell the difference anymore?

I'm almost positive that whole thing was canon. With that being the case, why the hell did SMeyer choose to write  this? A novella on Bree of all characters? I know this has been discussed before (well, I'm assuming so at any rate - I missed it), but all the things she could have written about makes the Bree thing rather nonsensical to me. (For the purposes of this exercise, let's just pretend that most of what she does isn't nonsensical to me.)

What other, less random, elements of the story could she have turned into a novella?
Off the top of my head:
The Alice thing.
Kate, Irina, and Tanya's past.
The Volturi (Carlisle's time with the Volturi, a Jane and Alec story)
The Romanians
Any number of the covens that showed up in BD, really.

As always, here's some pretty:

(haters kindly take a step to your left)     

(If this exact thing really has been discussed before, I'm sorry. Either ignore, or let me know and I'll put up some random silliness in it's place.)

As if I need something else on my plate . . . BUT I'm in search of someone to COLLAB with.

Here's the idea:

A pre-Twilight/Esme fic about Carlisle and Tanya's relationship. AU, but as close to CANON as possible but will be rated M. I think they had a little something going on. I really do. She was around LONG before him and I seriously doubt he stayed a virgin until he found Esme . . . and who could help poor lonely Carlisle, well TANYA of course. But there has to be reasons it didn't work and I'm thinking her succubus thing and his old fashion English values as well as a little involvement from the Volturi . . . hmmm . . . like MAYBE that was the reason Carlisle went to the Volturi, they split him from Tanya???

ANYONE . . . this DAMN thing won't die.

SO if anyone's interested let me know!!!

I LOVE writing and am pretty damn versatile I think. . . I've done AU, AH, parodies all the way to angst. (I like it that way because I'm here to learn and have fun.) Now I'm ready to dabble in a little pre-canon canon. Angst is my strong suit though. Here's my profile to check out my work.