There has been some drama in the forest over the last few chapters, so I have to ask…

How are you feeling about this one? Happy? Sad? Disappointed? Excited?
-My opinions are inside-

We have discussed this story in the past, so I *think* it’s OK to campfire.

(Another question inside, but I don’t wanna spoil)

Which reminds me… SPOILER ALERT
 

i need some new tunes

your resident music dork ranger is in want of some good, new musics to listen to.  the other resident music dork ranger, emibella, is off being a hippie, daydreaming about the s.avett, and being a professor, so i'm posting on her behalf as well.

give us your favorite thing to listen to right now.  i'm pretty open-minded, so hit me.  my favorite genre is music that doesn't suck.  and even then, i'll probably still be game.

here's what i'm looping today:

we came for the story - we stay for the peeps.....

there are some faces missing/quiet lately.  shout it out ...

who do you miss? faces, stories, weekly posts, you name it....mine in the comments....

I have a few questions related to the smut in fanfiction, but to keep the home page PG-13 it's going to go in the comments :).

Some back porn for your time: 

There are things I will not tolerate: students loitering on campus after school, horrible murders with hearts being removed... and also smoking.

this is my fave episode from this season, yo.  discuss dirty old man puppets in this campfire.

Well of course almost the whole world knows about Twilight and it's awesome characters in real life, but what if no one new about Twilight?

Imagine a world where you were the only one who knew about the Cullens (whether your world involves real existing vampires and such, or its all just fiction, is up to you), Bella Swan, Jacob Black, and the entire world of Twilight. A blissfully unknowing citizen comes along your path, you tell them you had a great day with ( your choice of Twilight character here ), and their response is, "Whose that? What's Twilight?"

How would you respond? How would you explain who Jasper Hale, Chief Swan or Edward Cullen were? How would you open a persons eyes to the world of Twilight? Or would you tell them at all? If the Cullen's secret was safe with you, maybe you would have never spoken about vampires at all. Would you tell the world about Twilight if the world never knew about it?

Hey everyone! I'm wondering if we have come across any more sightings or pics of Rob and the Brit pack's now infamous road trip? Did our boys make it to Nola safely? I'm heading down there thursday for the weekend, so I'll be keeping an eye out just in case :0)

What I really want to know is if any of ya'll have ever met Rob, or seen him in person at least, and if so, what happened, did you get a pic, hug, etc? Was he shy? Sweet? Scared? LOL!

And what do you think your reaction would be if you just happened to run into him somewhere? Squealing? Fainting? Jumping him?! I for one would probably be speechless, turn bright red and embarass myself lol :0)

What would you do?

So I'm not big on using Twilighted.  The only reason I use it is if there is a story I want to read that only exists there.  I don't know why, I find the search engine difficult to use (I almost always have it come up saying that a certain story doesn't exist even though I know full well that it does and I enter the title exactly right, I've tried it surrounded with quotes and everything) and ff.net is just simpler and an easier search for me. Plus you don't HAVE to log in to read stories there whereas if the story is more than T rated on Twilighted you have to log in (although I understand this requirement as their attempt to keep minors from reading stories with mature content).

Anyway, I noticed in the Pimp yourself campfire earlier on that several people like to use Twilighted to find stories.  I'm thinking of posting my story over there and am wondering about a few things.  For readers and authors, how many of you like Twilighted?  What aspects of it do you like?  And for authors, what are the reasons you choose to post on Twilighted? Any tips or insights?  Thanks!

EDIT: Tell me about The Writers Coffee Shop and any other sites you may use too.  I keep hearing about TWCS but when I visit I'm a bit at a loss. lol :)

FYT: Rob is curious too...

It's back! Just got the alerts from FF.net

There Fell a Stillness        http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6324021/1/There_Fell_a_Stillness
A man who doesn't believe in faith. A woman who may be losing hers. Two lost souls collide in the stillness between hope lost and found. "I think you need this more than I do. Everyone needs a little something to believe in sometimes."

I know a lot of us were enjoying this before it was pulled...

Okay, so I was going to make this a "GOODBYE BLONDE HAIR" campfire, since BD starts shooting in November, or whenever, and Kristen will have to dye her pretty Marylou hair back to Bella brown (andIwillcryhugetears), but I decided there's plenty of time for that. Birthday Girl Scarletoctopus suggested a DakotaStew campfire, which gave me the idea of a Runaways campfire, which made me think 'let's just go big and make this a WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE KRISTEN ROLE campfire'.

Now, I love her in everything, and she'll always be my Bella (shutupyesIknowI'msortaquotingthemovie), but I think my favorites are Kristen as Joan Jett in The Runaways,

and Kristen as Em, in Adventureland.

So come share your favorites. Why did you love/hate Kristen in a particular role? What are you excited about? Vamp Bella? Marylou? Mallory? (omgIgettoseeWttRnextTuesdayomg) Show me your favorite pics. Share your favorite Kristen quotes about various roles. Wish Scarletoctopus a HAPPY BIRTHDAY. This campfire is dedicated to her. OH, AND TO BELLA, WHOSE BIRTHDAY WAS YESTERDAY.

We all know there are thousands of us out there in this fandom, spread across tons of sites and communities, reading a wide range of genres. So how does a newbie get their fic recognized?

I've seen a lot of lamenting on twitter about how the same fics get recced over and over again. People have mixed feelings about "Big Name Authors" (so-called BNAs) getting so much attention while other well written fic falls by the wayside. What (or who) decides when a fic will rocket to stardom a la "Swirl and Daisy"? Where do you find new fics?

I was very lucky in this respect. When I started publishing my first fic, I collected a nice base of readers right at the start, many who have followed me through all my posted fics since then. I did very little in the way of promoting past posting announcements on a couple of boards that I had updated.

I'm betaing a post-BD story for a new writer (Already Gone by FigSk8ingAngel). She's said that so far, all she's done for promoting is talking with other authors about her story. I know there are a lot of helpful sites out there, but I'm not sure how much traffic they get. So here's my question to you, campers.

Where do you go to find out about new stories? Who do you ask? Are there web sites you prefer over others? And for you authors, how do you promote your stories? I'm not asking how to get people to review your story, I'm asking how you get people reading in the first place.

Thanks in advance!

Tattoos. Leather. Piercings, maybe.  He's a player with a mouth on him and perhaps an affinity for alcohol or recreational drugs.  He's often in trouble in one way or another.

He's BADWARD, and for girls that like bad boys, he's the ultimate catch.

Now, I don't have a lot of personal experience with BADWARD, but I know some of YOU do... ;-)  Share him with the class, hm? 

We've got a lot of 'wards on the MASTER FIC LIST, so after you've shared your favorite ALL HUMAN BADWARD stories, you can check out what other faces Edward wears in the Forest.  Daddy- Husband- Sports- Dom- and even Dark- . The Campers of ADF like a lot of variety to their Edwards!

Thank you for sharing your own personal bad boy Edward around the campfire!

FF is down, and I'm a little bored and I'm trying to stave off the shiraz for a little longer as it's not even 6pm here in Oz.

Anyhoo, I recently discovered that a person I talk to on twitter also writes a fic I love, and I never made the connection before now because I only remembered the name of the fic.

I am a doofus, yes, but I was wondering, does everyone know what their ADF/Twitter pals are writing or have written?

I would love to know what you write. I'm suggesting twitter id & name of stories you've written.  Links for extra points!

FYT

Apologies if this is an illegal campfire - I wasn't sure if I needed a Ranger Permit.

Is anyone else getting an error when they try to log into FanFiction.Net? I was able to view chapters fine this morning, but now can't. I hope my work hasn't blocked it!  It is coming up with a 502 error.

Please... ease my troubled mind... let it be a temporary problem with their server...

FYT

GIRLFRIEND MOVIE IS SELLING OUT SHOWS AT T.I.F.F.!!

THE MOVIE IS A HIT!

The movie premiered to so far positive reviews and totally sold out shows!!! The actual general release is not until December but the buzz so far is really positive and the young man with Downs,Evan Sneider is winning hearts and minds.

The band, the 100 MONKEYS! Has been rocking their asses off and supporting the movie with shows all over Toronto and tonight they are doing one final show at Brant House to raise money for the Special Olympics,(as if I didnt already love them enough!!) So if you are in Toronto, beat feet over there and buy a ticket for $20 bucks and get a fantastic show with the best band rocking and give to a great cause! 

MOOOOOAAAAARRRR PREAAATTTYYYYY

SOOO MUCH PRETTYYY.....IM ON OVERLOAD!!!!!

The great purple fonted one is running around right now but did not want to leave you guys without your daily Buffy.

So, she called me and asked if I would start the campfire for it.

I don't have the links but if someone wants to help me with them (also as I am doing this from the couch where I am horizontal with ice on my back and don't really feel like looking) then I can edit as they are added or the crazy WTVOC can fix this and/or tack it to the top. idk, whatever she feels necessary.

This episode is a very Willow centric one and that's always good even if I personally am kinda meh on this one. 

Willow says come on in and join the watchalong with us.

Remember the rules:

No spoiling for others all you seasoned Buffyversers like myself.  

No blah blah blah Sasha can't remember them all *insert rules that you prob know here*

Enjoy!

*Also, don't forget to wish former Ranger and VIP Author Lillybellis and fabulous camper AnnieJ13 a HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY! That tramp Bella went and tried to steal their day but that's ok. We forgive!

purple edit: thank you, darling sasha.  i called up jandco earlier and made her be my taskmaster, but she told me to eff it all and take a nap.  anyway, here's the hulu link, with alternate links inside the campfire.

side note: tomorrow's episode is my favorite of season 1, so get caught up, yo.

Ok...

I love me a good Em/Ro...And I have been reading Inconceivable since the get-go.  If you haven't read it...what are you waiting for!  It's in the Forest!

I just want to wax poetically about AccioBourbon.  I flove her.  This last update...Yeah, I literally squeed.

Lettuce discuss...

Also, let's throw out some more good Em/Ro fics...ones that are really flying super low under the radar, that you believe need to be pimped out!

Do you write fan fiction?

Post excerpts from your upcoming chapters here!

Don't forget to include a link!

Hey Ya'll...

Summer was a bit crazy for me with RL as has been really nuts (esp as of late) And slowly but surely I looked up and realized I haven't read a hint of fic in almost 3 months. GASP! lol I know its a small hiatus but for as many stories as I was keeping up on I feel almost lost trying to come back in. Now that school is back and life is in order a bit, I tried to go pick up on some of them but it's just not feeling the same, the spark is kinda gone...... I thought if I went back to my very first Fic I stumbled across and re-read it, I would be fine and i'd just fall back in love with everything like I first did and be mesmerized. But then I realized that fic was The Office and it's gone now. (sadface)

So I was hoping to get some good COMEBACK Rec's! Not really asking for the first fic that made you swoon, because for most of those they're not even around anymore but that fic of when things got a bit repetitive or dull for you (no insult to authors), it just put a fire under your tush to get it all read in one sit or something to that effect. Has anyone took a break before and when you have time to come back in was different for you? Or have you ever gotten a tad bored of these characters? Did you just go re-read SM's Books or watch the Movies or what?

So basically I just want any good fics you can recommend that just made you fall in love with these characters All Over Again... Thanks!

fyt.

and mine. (my own mike newton)

I'm hoping this is on topic enough since it's on the Eclipse soundtrack and is the best song on there.