Road trip, In Houston, same night as pic in campfire below.  Rob playing with a guitar he borrowed.
Erica says: 

"i meant to post THIS pic with my Takamine guitar. It's just nice...i guess for a cell phone."

"Hey, that was MY GUITAR he was playin'! He's super laid back and cool, you guys need to give him an eff load of credit for that."

I'm going to be incredibly lame and ask for cheering up.

I just found out I have pink eye in BOTH EYES.

HURTS LIKE A MOTHER TOO.

gifs, pics, fun websites, good movies.

Lets make this a

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Or just come talk to me? How was your day? What's your weekend like?

Today was my last day of work. I'm now unemployed and in massive pain. Yay.

Leaves are beginning to turn and Halloween will be here before you know it. The stores are already stocking up on choice treats. What better way to celebrate Autumn & Halloween in the Forest than by having a Candy Exchange!

Radar123, Ibeesavamp, and I had a ball purchasing and shipping candy to one another. I can’t tell you what a difference it made in my hectic day to open a box of yummies from Canada! We had so much fun that we’d like to share the experience with you.

If you’d like to participate, please comment below. You can pair up with someone by commenting on their post. Radar123 and I were thinking that it would be nice for people to pair up with campers that they haven’t really spoken with before. That way you get to meet someone new.

How much candy should you purchase for your partner? Between $10 - $15 worth (unless you are rolling in the dough and want to spend more).

Once you have a partner, please PM one another to exchange addresses. Candy packages should be shipped before the end of September.

ETA: Please post your general location for shipping cost purposes.

Enjoy!

Okay basically my house doesn't have the internet, right now I'm at my mum's but tomorrow I'm heading back to mine ready for the year of uni and I KNOW I'm going to go crazy for those 9 days, so I was wondering if anyone knew something that would help me save fics to my computer that's easier than copy and pasting the entire thing? Socialising with real life people can only go so far in maintaining my sanity, I'll need fic and I know it. I'm also going to miss my online friends way more than a person should.

Also any tips for having fun away from a computer? It's been so long....

If this question is asked all the time I'm sorry and also if this question isn't allowed I'm sorry.... but I fear for my sanity omg I'm lame

FYT

The Blessing and the Curse is now complete!  Ahh!  And I'm too busy to read it right now (omigosh have company coming and I have to clean the toilets and make dinner!)  But go - read!

I've been meaning to post these videos for so long, and now I finally remembered it! Basically, two guys from Norway put themselves in the HP videos, and I have to say that they've made a very good job! They call themselves PistolShrimps on Youtube and you find their page here.

Enjoy!

FFAF and I am posting another photo of the Rob road trip, can't help myself.

So cute.  THIS is what I would look like too.
 

so hey, it's Friday, everybody's out partying and getting drunk - there's even a small party going on in our house! - but I'm staying in my room, because I'm sick. Mope.

Therefore, I would like to ask you dear campers, if you can rec me some fics of the mystery genre or horror genre.

For example, And With Thee Fade Away and Mens Rea: A Guilty Mind for mystery, and Lions Eat Lambs for horror.

It probably won't make me any better, but at least I'll be in a better mood :)

Thanks!

For your time:

Hi, I'm working on the Fandom People Awards and I was wondering if y'all can help me out with something.

There's a whole section of categories for Twific artists. We're asking people to nominate their favorite banner, blinkie, manip, and fanvid-makers. There are also a BUNCH of categories that ask people to nominate their favorite banners. For example:

Most Creative Banner
Most Visually Stunning Banner
Banner That Makes You Purr
Banner that Most Captures the Vibe & Characters of the Story 

We'd like to encourage people to seek out some of the lesser known artists in the community. But I'm not sure where to tell people to go so they can check out what's out there. I LOVE what ADF has done here with the artist cabins, a chance to showcase each artist's work! Do you have any ideas for people who are not members of ADF? Are there places they can check out that similarly showcase Twific artists' work?

Much love, Althea
p.s. Also, go nominate the people in the fandom that make our community as awesome as it is :) It's a chance to show love to people who are often overlooked so DEW EET! http://www.twificpimps.com/fandompplawards/nominations/

Hi Campers! It’s Friday AND I’m off work today, so I want to play a game! If you want to play along with me, here’s what you do:

1. Set your iPod, iTunes, or whatever music player you use on shuffle.
2. Write the first one or two lines of the first 10 songs you that come up. You are NOT allowed to skip a track unless it:
A. Gives away the title of the song
B. Is an instrumental piece or an audiobook
3. Edit your post to strike out the lyrics when someone guesses the correct title and artist.
4. Look through the other posts and see if you can make any guesses! If you’re making a guess, reply to that post and put the number you are guessing for and the song title and artist.

Some rules….
1. Using Google or other search engines is cheating!
2. While the game is being played, please try to keep the extra chatter/comments to a minimum.

This game will last until the end off FFAF (5pm EST on Saturday). At that time, if you would like to go back and edit your post to show the correct titles and artists, feel free!

My 10 will be the first post inside!
 

I'm so behind in FF lately so you're all prob reading this already, but if you're not check out 'Green' by bratty vamp. It's really really good (everything she writes is really really good).

 Green » What happens when lawn-boy, geek, and self-proclaimed social leper finds himself in a situation that shakes his comfortable invisibility? Will he stay green? AU- All human.
Twilight - Rated: M - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 11 - Words: 41,134 - Reviews: 1764 - Updated: 9-10-10 - Published: 7-3-10 - Edward & Bella

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6108912/1/Green

It's also here in the forest.

So what's everybody reading at the moment? Anything to rec? Re-reading an old classic? Found something new?

Dead On My Feet updated

Thoughts?

I leave mine here:

Warning: spoilers, probably.

I live about 2 miles away from where this explosion took place. 

A 24 inch gas line exploded in a residential neighborhood in San Bruno, CA last night at 6:15 p.m.  People were home from work, quite possibly sitting down for dinner when it happened (I know we were).

Six fatalities have been reported, and 50 homes have been completely burned to the ground.  My heart goes out to the families who have been affected.

(view from our backyard balcony)

Sorry to be all emo this morning, but this is just so friggin crazy.  You see stuff like this happening in the news all of the time, but you never think it will happen anywhere near you.  We are so close to this explosion that it's crazy.  A friend of ours even needed to be evacuated.

Some more photos....

Tell me about your week !

Good?

Not so good?

On the fringes of the universe?

Is anybody watching the Buffy stuff with wtvoc?

Should I watch it?

And...

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES

Started Season 2 last night.

Did you watch it?

(I have to wait for streaming online)

(My week's laments are inside)

(I couldn't think of a name)

Now then! How are you all today?

This is an older-man appreciation campfire.

Now, come on - we all have that person (celebrity or otherwise) which we fancy even though we know we shouldn't.

My main one is Mr Colin Firth even though he's older than my Dad. I wouldn't say no...

And then Richard Gere:

Justin Hawkins (DON'T ASK)

Hugh Grant

*Sigh* I could go on for days. I like me an older man ;)

So how about you? Who is that celebrity you know you shouldn't fancy - but you just can't help yourself. Young or old.

I always love looking through the makeup campfires!  Without fail, I will find something new and exciting that I want to try.  But more often than not, I get excited about something that is name brand and therefore expensive.  Now I don't mind forking over money for a good product (especially if it's a skin product, like moisturizer), but I also have several over-the-counter products that I couldn't live without. 

Brattyvamp turned me on to this mascara and I honestly don't know how I got along without it for so long!

My other OMG-I-can't-live-without-this product is this lipgloss.  It stays on alllllll day and doesn't dry my lips out (and I am a confessed Chapstick addict!).  I probably have most of the colors in this picture because I don't wear regular lipstick anymore and my favorite color is Royal Raisin.  I put it on in the morning and I'm set for the day!

Speaking of Chapstick, if you are addicted to it like I used to be this nighttime stuff is ah-maze-ing!

Now I know we have some OPI polish addicts in here *cough*wtvoc*cough but I like Sally Hansen's Qwik Dry better than it's OPI equivalent.

Come in here and share with me campers!  What are your favorite over-the-counter makeup products?  Where is your favorite place to buy them?  (I like Walgreen's because they have good sales!) No department store, name brands allowed--I want to know what your favorite makeup is that can be bought at Wal-Mart or Target!  =)

It's been a long time since I've read an AH fic. I've become so disenchanted with the genre that I mentally breeze right over the stories when I see them recc'd here in the forest. But I'm wondering if I'm throwing the baby out with the bathwater, so...

Could you rec me an AH fic that is an actual piece of Twilight fanfiction and not some original fic where the two main characters are cleverly named Bella and Edward? I would like an Edward who's "Edward" and not "Assward," "Slutward," or "Thugward." And I would like for the female protagonist to be Bella and not a pale brunette who's a sassy cheerleader or a depressed drug addict.

Thank you!

Ok so I am following a couple of wards and have a really nice friendship with one in particular (yes you smugs!) and I would like to know which "Ward" you follow and follows you back and what sort of tweets do you have with them?

I follow and love @smugward he is gorgeous and is very good to me, I also follow @QBWard and @cuddleward but don't talk much to them.

So... its Friday Night... Im at home COMPLETELY ALONE

and drinking myself into a stupour!!

And... Im in the mood for a fight. But since im chronically lazy right now... that fight will have to be in the spirit of a GIF WAR!!!

Please... Partake... No Holds Bar'd! 

Ready

Set

GO!!!

Hey Campers.  I just found out my ex-boyfriend, the only man I've ever been in love with, is marrying my ex-best friend.  They're both my exes because they had a relationship going on behind my back for months before someone else inadvertantly spilled the beans to me.  While I was at work.  That sucked.

It's been a few years, so I thought I was over this, but when I found out via Facebook that they were marrying, it was like a punch in the gut.  I'm not in love with him anymore, and I don't need a friend like her whom would do such a thing....so why the pain? 

Anyway, I was hoping we could share tales of love found, love lost, love not wanted, betrayal, or happy endings?  Any relationship, with a partner or friend, that challenged you and caused you to grow or made you happy and renewed your faith in love.  Because I could use a little solidarity.  And tales of strong Campers lives are the most inspiring tales I know.

Although pics of wet hotties are pretty inspring too.