STARE AT THE RED CROSS FOR 60 SECONDS.

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BLINK A LITTLE

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CLOSE YOUR EYE OR LOOK AT A WALL AND WHADD'YAA SEE?

 so i stuck to my word, and im starting my own campfire! Here is an opportunity to ask questions, make fun, or debase me! Also thank you for FINALLY starting the Team Joe page. (i actually need to join it myself)

here is the extensive link:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Joe/257325567482?ref=search&sid=851615083.208883509..1&v=wall  

Let the magic begin.

-Joe

Okay, I guess I gave in to the peer pressure. I joined twitter. I am https://twitter.com/kisvakondok. I'm completely clueless, though. Is there a twitter etiquette? Who should I follow? I mean I know a huge part of the twiverse is on twitter. I still haven't figured out why its so great, but I guess if you can't beat them join them. So...  if you give me your addresses I'll add you? Is that how it works? Huge warning in advance, I am clueless in twitter. Like Alicia Silverstone clueless. Hopefully I'll learn. I already changed my background and everything.

Rangers, feel free to delete this if it's off topic, but I should tell you the only reason I decided to join the birdflock of tweeters is ADF. Yes, ADF, you got me to go to join the dark side. I got so curious because there was all that stuff going on on twitter that I just didn't have access to. Not anymore *evil laugh*. But if there's some other place I can get all the twitter addresses from, please tell me.

And just for kicks...

copy/pasta directly from the_gazebo

Let's talk age.

Do you agree with it? Do you think that they shouldn't be allowed to do it? I'm fairly certain that on FF, you need to be 16 to read M rated stuff, and yet you see disclaimers all the time, "if you're under 18, don't read this."

Well... You aren't even supposed to be posting about Edward shoving his sparkling dick into Bella's vagina anyways.

For me, I was reading trashy romance books at 13. My mother would buy them for me. If a book was too explicit, she would tell me, and say, "that's really dirty, I don't think you should read it." Of course I would, but I went into it knowing that it was going to be really graphic. so I don't really have a problem with that. Hell, I was watching movies that were really sexual even younger.

This is my opinion, not anyone elses or that of the other rangers, but I'm no one's parent, I don't think that a lot of people who are on their self-righteous horses should be acting as parents either, they should be acting as parent to their own children, not someone else's child. we have no way of knowing what some of these teenagers parents are allowing them to view or not to view, and it's not up to anyone else except for them. In a lot of countries, the age of consent is 16, or even younger, so really, who are we to say, no, you're not 18, you can't read that. Especially if the ToS is you need to be 16 to read it.

And as for the argument about not wanting to supply porn to a teenager, well... don't be writing it on a site where it's not allowed.

Also, a lot of these people who don't want teenagers to read smut, are writing about a 17 year old Edward, and 16 year old Bella going at it like rabbits. So, why can't the age demographic that you're writing about, read it?

Srs Bsns time...yeah, I know....

When is the last time you read a story that wasn't Edward and Bella?  It could be a secondary character or non canon ship.  It could be slash, it could be just a single character, doesn't matter.  It's just not ExB.

Tell the truth, have you ever?

And authors...if you write a non canon or a secondary character story - how do your stats differ, either from your ExB stories, or to what you see in general fandom?

Have you ever read a story that was so lovely that you were jealous you weren't the one who wrote it?  

Well, I just read one of those stories, and I want you to read it, too.  

The Crimson

One of the things that drives me crazy in this fandom as far as fanfic is concerned is that gems of stories like this one get lost among the Master of the Universes, Wide Awakes, Clipped Wings and Inked Armors and Emancipation Proclamations, because those stories are popular and get tons of traffic and word of mouth.  These stories get lost because so few people will give fics with low review counts a try.  This one only has eight.  EIGHT.  

It's a one shot, and it's Jake/Bella.  But you should take fifteen minutes out of your day and read it, because it's beautiful.  And beautiful writing is beautiful writing, no matter who you ship or how many reviews you have.

If you like it, please take a moment to tell her so.  You'll make me happy on a day when wolvesnvamps is determined to break my spirit by vocally rooting for Brett Favre.

Thank you.

Edited to clarify:  My mention of the stories above was not to say they don't deserve their popularity - it's just to show that popularity begets popularity and stuff gets lost in the shuffle.  It's a cycle, man!

this is for:

jess's jawdropping smile and her counterpart rpatzz.

joe's beardgasm and his counterpart kstew.

and ofcourse, for "THE" forest.

oh hell, here it is:

and because i really really can't fcuking help it...

if this fire is against all campfire rules, just do what you gotta do ranger. *head down and sniffs*

and i'll still do mine.

i love this different forest

i love you all...

- taciturnsblood

It's Sunday...that means River Dam updated!

Discuss here or in jennyfly's cabin.

Hi! This is my first post ever so, sorry if i screwed up...

I was just wondering if you guys knew any good stories where Bella and Edward are in high school...

 Are you up to the task?

Ranger Emibella and I want to see lots of fabulous Emmett for Valentines Day....and oh baby are there some great names coming out of the woodwork...come on, don't sit around debating the national debt, jump in and play.

Come on, you know you want to...

Alright...I am confuzzled.

Anyone here know how to change any AVI I have to EXACTLY 100x100 pixels??? I can't put any AVI up on this site to save my life...

Help!

Saw this posted by jelena_xo over on team_kbitch's LiveJournal and I had to share the funny here. 

I pretty much LOLed over this.  Ngl.

Very random, and this is my first post ever...

Am I the only fan fic reader who gets fan fic elbow? Seriously, my left elbow looks like it is bruised and dry-skinned from leaning on my left side, propping myself up, just so I can casually read my fan fics that have updated...

Just sayin'

Your questions answered by Jess & Joe!

Hilarious Twilight Spoof

Never mind...it was a bad idea, which I'll save for a crackfic.

 How do you feel about photomanipulation? 

I had (*key word*) an account on deviantART for a while where I would post things that I had worked on, including banners that I had done for a few fics. However, I woke up this morning to a comment from some guy on my main profile stating that images I had posted that included photos of celebrities (...Twilight characters...) were art theft and that if I didn't remove them he would report my images to the site. o_O I said "screw that" and just completely deactivated my account.

I don't know how I feel about this. Sure, I technically didn't take the pictures, but all of the images I posted contained disclaimers that I was only manipulating, not creating. Images were also only taken from freely available pictures and stock exchange websites. 

That being said--do you think that banner-making / fan art crosses a line?

I don't know...I feel that there are some cases where it can get out of hand or inappropriate [haha see any creepymanip post]...but theft? really? I'm certainly not making any money off of it....

*post approved by wtvoc!*

What have you accomplished lately?

I finished up a bunch of projects at work this week! woot woot.....

 Saw this on twitter. what do you think?

EDIT : NOT the actual trailer, just info on when it might be released.