I just found out that one of my graduates from this June killed one of my dropouts from this year. I am in complete and utter shock and my heart is breaking for this entire situation and their poor families and friends.

I'm just stunned and I can't sleep. I need something positive. Please.

So...I just watched Remember me & for the LOVE oF BoB sombody come hold me!  I found the ending totally unesessary.  I generally dont do any 9/11 movies because i remember that day all too vividly...so i say again "SOMEBODY Hold ME/ HUGGGGG ME/ Send me some Happy!!!!"

I'm hyperventilating.

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

just updated. I don't have time to read it right now, amybe later tonight, I hope, I pray....

lemme know what you all think!!!! I can't wait to come back here and hear about it!!!!!

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxraGFyaXp6bWF0aWt8Z3g6NDRhMTcyNjYwYzY2OThlMg

I can't remember if I have seen this before, but it is something that always bugs me.

I'm always curious about where people get their avatars from and why.

I'll start... Mine is a Photoshop picture of Edward that I did, for a story I have sitting aside.  I plan to more in the future, but I'm happy with that one right now.

There should a picture here of the banner...

Heather C.

So I write this dark comedy/parody of the Twi-Saga, called Cracked! I just updated today (Chapter 6: Family Feud).

I'm finding that since a lot of it is satire, it's not always easy to keep it light and funny. I still like it, but I have no idea how the readers will feel about it until it's already posted, if the humor is balanced enough, if I've crossed over into humor that's so dark it's not even humor anymore, or if I've missed the mark completely and it's just serious.

To make this interactive, I ask you: when you write, how much consideration do you give to what you think your audience will want, and how much to what you want? Do you make sacrifices for one over the other? Does the story suffer for it, or are the results better? Are the rules different for comedy than they are for drama?

For your time:

help me, obi-wan kenobi campers

i am preparing for halloween (yes, already).

i am lazy and do not feel like trolling, so do me a solid, yes?

i'm making witchy potion bottles. i need names to put on the labels. i've got amortentia, bezoars (using dried prunes. how creative am i?), felix felicis, draught of living death.

yes, i yoinked those from harry potter. i could use ingredients, though. the cleverer, the better. so list potential ingredients from HP, borrowed, made up, googled, what have you. i've appropriated labels i found while trolling the internet, but now i'm creating my own using good ole ingenuity and even gooder, older photoshop.

or talk halloween and why it might be better than christmas. it's not, but there's definite potential.

alternately, discuss harry potter, list good HP fic recs, talk about whose death will be more upsetting (obvious answer being fred weasley) (uhh spoiler alert) post pics of hot gingers, discuss HP: the musical, etc etc etc

and if you have halloween decoratin' ideas, by all means- show us pics and yes, i'll post pics of my project when i'm done.

eta: amortentia and some of the bottles i have.  i buy them cheap at thrift stores.

I HAVE A QUESTION.

ACTUALLY, SEVERAL.

BUT FIRSTLY-and i'm sorry for being blunt because...that's just how I am when it comes to sex- I WOULD LIKE SOME ADVICE.

SO PLEEEEASE LADIES (and gents?) HELP ME SORT OUT MY "AM I READY TO LOSE MY V-CARD" STUFFS. I NEED TO KNOW FACTS BECAUSE I FEEL SO NAIVE.

they shall be in the comments because some people might get offended about sex. not sure why, but hey ho.

I had this idea for a post back on Monday. It was even all approved by GAW. Then I actually thought about it and I got all self-conscious. So I scrapped it and got a new idea. ^_^ 

And since it's still FFAF, I'm gonna take full advantage of it. 

I need some good LOLZ. So tell me silly things about yourself. The more creative you get and the harder you make me laugh the more points you score. 

Here's some of mine:

I literally spent 15 minutes in my kitchen with a pen and a pad of yellow accordion post-it notes just so I could do this. 

I also...

...reenact battles with dollar store figures. 

 and I haven't swept the floor in a while

Obviously this is the The Peloponnesian War.

Well, at least I reenact historic battles until my cat comes along and pretends to be God-freaking-zilla. (I'm a little bitter, can you tell?)

So Campers, do your worst. Make me laugh 'till I pee myself.

Pictures are nice, although not necessary. 

Just know that anything posted here can and will be used against you for future blackmail ;) 

but I could just be opening myself a can o' worms/whoopass. A little bit of a deep convo for 10am but here goes.

I was just going through a new follower's fave stories. She faved my Slash/Backslash 2.0 piece, Unsportsmanlike Conduct, which usually means she'll have a lot of good lemony, smutty stuff. But as I was parusing, I noticed something other than smut.

She seemed to have a lot of fics that had rape warnings. This got me thinking.... can rape be a main plot device?
Obviously someone thought yes, lots of someones since there was more than one story but more than one author.
I've seen some, but not many. I never read them (Except for Just Wait which is beyond amazing and it's not a plot device as more of an integral part of the main rising action), too close to a sensitive subject for me, but I was wondering if any of you read them or have read them and like the story you read.

If you did, was the attack used as a plot device throughout the story or as a catalyst? Is it "Bella needs saving" kind of plot lines?

Just curious. I'd love to hear your opinions on this. Authors especially, but fans of fic too!

Hello you wonderful, wonderful people. The beautiful ssarrahh1 and I have joined forces to bring you this little activity we have concocted. It’s called…..(drum roll please)

SONG-O-GRAMS!

It’s similar to gif wars, but instead of sending gifs to one another, we will be posting songs. You can call someone out or make it public and let anyone reply to it.

For example:

Sarah’s song was:

And I replied with:

:)

Okay now it’s your turn. We love the campfires when everyone comes out and makes new friends so make sure to have some public serenades as well.

Edit: make sure to mark if the video is for everyone or to a certain person.

A friend just sent this to me, and I have been cracking up all morning. Maybe I'm just weird, or, maybe, some of you will enjoy it too. 

http://vimeo.com/14190306

One of the things I love about this fandom is the spread in ages. There are a lot of college-aged campers, and a lot of us who are *cough* older. And there have been a couple of posts by younger campers asking for advice about specific issues; what to take to college, etc. 

It made me wonder...older campers, if you could pass on some words of wisdom to our younger friends, what would you say? I hesitated to use the word "regret", because, at least in my case, I'm pretty happy with my life now, and everything that's happened to me so far, good and bad, got me here, so I don't regret anything.

That said, there are still things I wish I'd done, chances I wish I'd taken, when I was younger. As you get older, careers, significant others and families make it much harder to jump at random opportunities when they come up, or to make crazy life-altering choices. So some of the things I wish I'd done when I was younger will now probably always stay on that list of "wish-I'd-done's".

So campers, what's on your "wish-I'd-done list"? What wisdom and advice would you want to pass on to the younger generation if you could? I'll start it off with mine in the comments.

Today is my 27th birthday and one of my good friends gave me this....

At first I thought it was Rob and Anna and then did a double take. That's me! I laughed for a good ten minutes so I thought I'd share it with all of you! And to make this interactive, if you have any manip pics of yourself and Rob or any other celeb, post them! I'd love to see them...and it's my birthday so you all have to do what I say :P

If not, rangers feel free to delete this. I have had a song stuck in head for DAYS!!!!! This is the one. To make this interactive, what songs have been stuck in your lovely heads?

So, it looks like I'm going to the Dallas convention. I can't believe I just agreed to it.  A friend just called all excited that tix went on sale, and that PFach was added to the roster (not going to lie - this was the selling point for me). But she wanted an answer right away as to whether I wanted a ticket or not. OMG, I said yes. I wonder if this just took my new cell phone fund back down to nothing..anyway, yeah so I got some questions!

What can I expect?

Did I just get seriously ripped off?

What do you actually DO there?


At the very least it's a nice weekend away w/ the besties right?


What have I done? 

Thanks for any and all insight!

I'm bored tonight and decided to have a Buffy marathon :)

I realized how much I miss the Scooby gang. Anyone else miss this show? 

So...Chaske Spencer on Twitter just said...First five questions get answered.  So I asked a question. And he responded.

https://www.oxfam.org.uk/donate/pakistan-floods/index.php

Hey guys! Since it's FFAF, I just wanted to raise awareness about the terrible flood that's affected nearly 20 million in Pakistan.

Hopefully, we can all dig deep into our hearts [and pockets] to donate something. I've posted the link from oxfam but you can use unicef/other charities.

Cheers!

The beautiful Jazzy-Cullen has graciously agreed to be my ficwife.

She is funny and adorable, and will make a wonderful trophy ficwife, which will make all the rest of you jealous, which is clearly priority number one in any marriage.

Oh, and we are also totally just MTB, kwim??? ;)

There's only one problem, neither of us actually knows what a ficwife IS exactly. I just see people talking about theirs all of the time, and it makes me want one. It isn't listed on the Wiki page for FF terms... any help???

Yay. It's Friday.

Disclaimer: If you choose to show negativity in this campfire then punkfair will PUNKSMASH you and you will most likely lose limbs. Js.