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What random object makes you think of Edward?

Okay chickens, David Slade just tweeted this:

Can it be?  Is he gifting us with an Eclipse trailer?  Because, dude, that would be so awesome.

p.s.  Have any of you seen his UNICEF trailer?  It's pretty effing good.  Go check it out.

New Years Resolutions

Ima starting this just before my new year, to include everyone around the world and so this counts as a missfit post :)

TigerMilks resolution..... START A CAMPFIRE! CHECK!

M'kays... a new one? Write a Fic and enter the first time writers comp.

Now. Whats yours!?

Make 'em as crazy or as serious as you wish. Plus points if you make me lolz.:)

((Edit. Ima totally jumping on Jen's New Years Post. Ima just insanely jelous she lives in Austraila and I'm in the North of England.))

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Well its me again (Jenny - Demons4eva)

Because I am in the best city in the world - Melbourne Australia I can be the first to wish everyone at the Forest a very Happy New Year and hope you all get nice and pissed tonight.

I will be at home the weather is going to be hot so I will be lounging around our pool with extra teenagers at hand as well as a couple of friends.  Hubby has been working really hard the last few weeks so it will be good to see him relax as we both have the next 3 days off from work.

Lots of love and best wishes

Roll on 2010

Jenny

xxxxxx

I'll ask for recs too. I want must read one-shots. I've read all the updates posted lately and I don't want to get into a new story until the dozens I have on my fav list completes.

So I want the best of the best, angsty, funny , or dark. It doesn't matter. But they must be one shots OR completed short stories(10 chapters or less)

Thanks In Advance!!!

Okay, so, I'm can honestly say that I'm generally pretty picky when it comes to fanfic. I have hardcore fanfic ADD. I really only have ever followed 8 or so stories all the way through so far (and 4 of those are bratty_vamp's where I get her early chapters in exchange for sexual favors). The reason for this? I'll find  a great idea or premise for a story and dive right in...only to find that it's sucky!

Do you guys run into this? Where, the idea in the summary is good and you go "Oooh!! That's interesting!!" , but the execution and constant poor dialouge between characters ruins it for you only a few chapters in?

Basically what I'm trying to get at here is, I'm out of books to read right now for the remainder of my Christmas break and any awesome recs would be sweet. Something addicting and keeps me wanting more...

Ya know, twists on the original stories with a very bloodthirsty Edward....OR, maybe a good fic where its Breaking Dawn without the alien baby shiz...just, gimme whatcha got! :)

 I adore free entertainment. I use my local library, read fanfiction and I have been listening to podcasts for a few years now. So much so that I count some podcasts among my favorite things. Things that I subscribe to and try not to ever miss. 

These are my all-time favorite podcasts. Remember, Ranger Emibella wouldn't steer you wrong so check out the youtubes. You may like them and want to subscribe. Really, I am addicted to these:

THIS AMERICAN LIFE

From Chicago Public Radio. Hands down, my favorite podcast because it is my favorite radio show. I seriously crush on Ira Glass. He is adorable and his voice is amazing. Yes. I am serious. Don't judge me.

The Moth Podcast

Unscripted story telling from around the country. These are always interesting and sometimes very very good.

All Songs Considered Podcast

Bob Boillen is a music elitist X 100000000 and I love him for it. He has on great music (with some misses, of course) and some great guests. Every once in a while you are treated to a tiny desk concert or a full length concert on the podcast. This is serious quality free entertainment

and last:

The Totally Rad Show

I have been watching since episode one. This is proof positive that I am a geek. If I ever get a podcast, this is how I want it done.

Here is a movie review they did a while ago:

BUT MORE IMPORTANT: WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE PODCASTS????? 

There seems to be a lot of these lately....

but I had a vivid dream last night about a fic I read awhile ago....

It was set in Troy time, Bella was a regular woman married to some guy and one day she sees a bronzed hair god-like man and of course falls madly in love with him.  But it turns out he's an oracle of Delphi or something like that and isn't supposed to be touched - only they end up going at it on the side of a cliff and he gets all cut up along his back...later she sees him buying slaves in the market place and at some point I think he goes to her house and they end up in her marital bed.  That part might have happened first, I'm not sure.

Anyway - can anyone remember the name of this one?  I'm not sure if it was multichaptered or just a one shot.

Uh, I won't even get into what my dream was about. 

EDIT: I'm an idiot.  It's by Nightshade (AKA RacketGhost on FF.net), For the Love of Traitors, available here in our lovely forest under Storytelling. I got several details wrong.  It was part of the Age of Edward Contest from over the summer. 

Check it out if you can.  : ) 

and I'm a little squeamish about it. I've been talking with a few people and I just want to air some ideas and thoughts out:

Is this fandom becoming TOO EMOTIONAL to be involved in?

I'm hearing stories about authors and their reviewers, of cat fights starting in forums and, the worst yet, cyber-bulling. I used to think this was a great and wonderful fandom to be in, but now I'm not so sure. Another reason why I came to ADF: to avoid the drama.

Maybe I'm too cynical or something, but is anyone else in this boat?

Since the FFA is still in effect, I thought I would take a moment, since I have a moment to tell you about my almost 2 year old. He'll be 2 on January 7th. Normally at this time he'd be in school/daycare because I work from home. He's staying with me today because he was running a fever this morning and has a double ear infection

In the 3 minutes it took for me to fix him breakfast he:

Colored the PS3, a DVD, the wall, sliding glass door and my hardwood floors in purple crayon.

Broke his train set he got for Christmas

Spill his milk on the dog

Tell me he loves me

Rip pages out of his new books

Set the TV so I have no idea how to get it back to it's setting

Hid my cell phone.

It's only 9am.

Send Prayers.

So, I have been dying to ask you lovelies, what do you think of this?

Have you read the first chapter that is up on Charlaine's web page?

Is this how you pictured Alcide?

Crystal?

And all the other season 3 casting they have done. Do you think TBs weres will be as well recieved as Taycob?

I for one am about to combust, the anticipation is killing me.

Oh and plaid.

pulsepoint has posted a oneshot.

frenetic

it was entered in the "thing called love" contest and won third place despite the typos omg

go. read. ffail.net ain't workin', still.

deanostarr.gif for my bb pulsepoint

Hello all!  I noticed the FFA is continuing on until after NYE so I figured I would start my first campfire....
It probably seems kinda random, but I have to tell someone and I didn't want to tell any of my friends or family over the phone, so I decided to tell everyone at ADF.....

I'm pregnant. 

Yeah phew!  I am kinda excited/kinda freaked out because it wasn't completely planned.  My husband wants to wait to tell our families until go to the drs and they confirm it, but I'm pretty sure they will and either way we are telling my fil tomorrow night because he has to travel for his job on Monday and he will be gone for a month. 

So, thanks for reading this and here is some yummy RobPorn with a little TL thrown in....

but did anyone see that tongue...........OMFREAKIN.............me next........ now which story does that remind you of ???

I'll start:  

Bratty_Vamps     Abbracciare il Cantante

a scuze me while I go plunge myself into a snowbank now 

omg pulsepoint made me another icon.

talk about how much you love her fic burn and shine, or about who made your day today.

Since it's still open posting, and so many of us live in NYC, I thought I'd try this here. I'm going to take a minute to get to the point.

So I moved into my current apartment in June. After awhile it became apparent that I had a mouse. I put out a couple of traps that didn't work, then bought one at Target that did and got it pretty quickly. I thought that would be the end of it, but that's just not my life. One night I go into the kitchen for water and I found three to four running around. That began a month long nightmare of living in what I call Rodentra. The apartment managers were being useless dillweeds. The best I was getting was glue traps to catch them. Throughout the whole ordeal at minimum 15 came out of there dead. I was calling guys in out of the hallway to dispose of them. The were freaking everywhere. I kept raising a stink and they came in and shoved steel wool in places held down by wood and kept acting like I was some dumbass who was actually going to buy that that would take care of the problem. It did stop them for about two weeks, then I came home and found yet another in a glue trap. So, finally, I called in rage mode (I had been rather civil up until then) talking about their breach of warranty of habitability, thus their breach of contract, and that I'd have absolutely no issues taking this to arbitration as soon as possible because there is no reason I should have to live like that. The next damn day they were in my kitchen ripping out the cabinets and pulling granite away from the wall. They found a perfect mouse size hole at the base of the wall. They shoved steel wool in it, plastered over it and then tiled the entire base of the wall, then put everything back. (Still did a half-ass job of putting it back in places, but that's not the point right now.) So it has been a few months and I haven't seen another mouse, nor have any shown up in the traps. I keep hearing noises, but that's either my paranoia or they're in the walls. At this point, as long as they aren't in, and can't get in my apt., I don't care. It got so bad I basically had an emotional breakdown over this. I just need them to stay out. 

I haven't been able to cook in my kitchen for a long time, and I can't even really describe how I've been living because my places is filthy and diseased. I still had some boxes, and they crawled in some of those. There is mouse crap everywhere. However, because of school I didn't have time to do anything about it. I plan on going back a week before classes so I can finally clean, but I really want to get a professional cleaning crew in there to do a deep clean and disinfection.

So, for those of you who are in the city, do you have any cleaning service recommendations? Pretty please?

Anyone else who lives in the city, do you have questions or need recommendations? Maybe we can all help each other.

Everyone else, what are your apartment horror stories?

If you don't have any then, uhm, Robporn?

So I think I'm fic!pregnant, because I just got a craving for a certain type of fic. I'm looking for one where Edward still lives with his parents, all Failure to Launch-like.

Any and all would be appreciated! :D

And for all you lovelies:

   

So I'm ready to start planning our vacation for next year and am looking for some ideas. I'm fine with going to Disney World for the billionth time. It's easy to plan, we stay onsite so no rental car is needed, and we get the meal plan so I don't have to pay out of pocket for food. However, I am open to other suggestions, and I'm counting on you guys to have some for me. Some info to get your creative juices flowing:

• The trip is for me and my kids, age 16 and 10.
• We typically go the first week in October. It's freaking hot and humid as hell in the south, and I don't like to be out in it, so I don't normally travel in the summer.
• We like to DO stuff on vacation, sitting around a pool or beach for a week is not fun for us.
• I have no interest in Washington DC, so let me get that option off the table quickly!
• Travel needs to remain in the US
• I'd love to visit Arizona, both the northern and southern parts of the state. I'm leery about renting a car and driving someplace I'm not familiar with though...
• I'd love to go to a dude ranch where you're really involved, not just where you go on an hour-long trail ride each day and that's it.
• Spas, massages, and pampering hold no appeal to us.
• Interested in Southern California but not sure what would be fun family activities; however if we did go there the Santa Monica pier is a must.
• Interested in Seattle but don't know if there's enough stuff to do to keep us occupied for a week.
• I wouldn't be opposed to Hawaii if there is something to do that does not involve the ocean or helicopters. I'm scared of flying and I do not go in the ocean at all. Or let my kids. Sharks, you know. And yes I am dead serious.

This week in pimpage:

PIMP SOMETHING YOU LOVE THAT YOU WANT OTHERS TO LOVE JUST AS MUCH.

This means it can be yours (you love your own stuff) but it can also be something that you think needs more attention. Because, let's face it, not every fanfiction that gets over 10k reviews is the BEST fanfiction and not ONLY are the most prolific artists the best and we ALL know at least ONE diamond in the rough. 

Those who want to read something new, this is the post to read!

What am I pimping this week?

To Be Stabbed in the Front by Forever Gold

This fic has 15 chapters and ONLY has 182 reviews. This MUST change. This is just not right. 

summary:  A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still." - Friedrich Nietzsche. When people are not as they seem and adolescent behavior becomes the façade, Bella is forced to seek truth in a world full of lies.

ALSO

My girl (I am just going to keep calling her that) HMonster4 is beta'ing what is sure to be a GREAT Rose story as well...

The Long Way Home

by TheHeartOfLifeIsGood

Summary:  There was a girl. She loved a boy. And then she lost it all. Will her journey back to the place where it all began and ended light the path for forgiveness, or will it swallow her whole? A story about friendship, love and the true meaning of coming home.

it doesn't even have 2000 words yet, so if you want to get on the bandwagon (or make a bandwagon for that matter) This is a great place to start!

Your homework for this week, my campers: Read, Review, comment, read, review ... and make sure you tell them A Different Forest Sent You.

We have the power to make someone happy. Why not DO IT??

GO FORTH CAMPERS: PIMP, READ, REVIEW, REPEAT

While ff.net continues to ride the short bus and not send out alerts, please be aware that several of our faves updated today.

Bare www.fanfiction.net/s/5115281/22/Bare

Just Wait www.fanfiction.net/s/5320917/29/Just_Wait

Not Without You www.fanfiction.net/s/5343595/26/Not_Without_You