Those of you who know me, or follow me on Twitter, know that I have a beautiful 11 year old who I lovingly refer to as Mean Girl.

My emotionally aggressive little lovely is in a particularly fowl mood today because she has to wear a 24 hour heart monitor. She's been doing this once a year since she was 6 months old, but that doesn't diminish her raging over it.

So I'm respectfully asking begging for your help. Post a funny pic for my Mean Girl. She's not real fond of people most of the time, but she has a never ending love affair with animals, so find a funny animal pic or vid and turn her frown upside down.

GAW gave her blessing to save my sanity.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 – 11/16/12
Director: Bill Condon
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
The astonishing conclusion to the series, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN, PART 2, illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions

Here's the source to the article on www.twilightlexicon.com.

How does this make you feel?  Just because I know everyone's talking about it.

My thoughts will be in the comments.

When I decided to devote this week's campfire to Kristen's smile, I didn't know I'd be having THE WORST DAY EVER. I'm in one of those really, really foul moods, so I don't know why I'm even bothering with this right now. But I found some pics, and  I love her smile, and I hope she's having a blast in Montreal working on OTR. So show me what you love. The smirk? The giggle? The big silly grin? The sly barely-there smile? IDK.

JUST TRY TO MAKE ME SMILE, DAMMIT. Or each other. Or yourselves. Whatever. Here are some gifs to start things off.

(and yes, the dakota/kris giggle gif will be posted every week, regardless of what we're appreciating)

Hey Campers!

Let's face it... this is a mostly-Twilight fansite....but we're between movies and there isn't much going on in the Twi-verse so the woods are a bit quiet.

SO LET'S TALK

Anything you want.... the more off-topic the better.

Tell me what yer doing...

Tell me what yer SUPPOSED to be doing...

Tell me what you WANT to be doing (or who lol)...

ANYTHING!

i googled 'something random' and found this :)

Nature must really abhor a vacuum. I have suffered a severe absence of good Emmett and/or Rosalie fic. By the sweet offices of campfires here and breadcrumb trails on twitter, I have been led to a treasure mountain.

Just want to share the joy, with anyone else who might be looking for something similar.

Mockingbird 1915 to 1960 and Lilies, by hmonster4

Mockingbird: exquisitely structured story of Rosalie's coming to terms with her life after death. Canon. o/s

Lilies: dark/tragic Emmett -- what if he inadvertently gave Rosalie what she wanted most of all, but the price, ah, the price ... AU. Long enough to develop the concept fully, but a one-shot nonetheless.

Little Singer, by winterstale

In the land between past and present, between memory and thirst, between lost and found: the fragile song echoes. Canon. o/s.

In the Land of a Thousand Years, by flute_genevive

I've only just started it but it promises to be a lovely tale of the Cullens, Emmett and Rosalie centered, sensitive and rich.  Canon, multi-chap, WIP.

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I can't believe how few reviews these stories have -- perhaps because they (except for Thousand Years) are one-shots? Anyway if you haven't read, they are gems just waiting to be discovered ...  and leave a little love if you liked.  I did. <3

Hey lovely ladies,

I know you can read FF stories on your kindle but I was wondering if it was possible to read stories from this here forest on there too????

Can anybody help? 

Cheers my dears : )

For lots of folks, school starts this month. For some, even this WEEK!  Gak!

I got another request in my inbox to have a fic list compilation of HIGH SCHOOL FICS, featuring the familiar cast of Twilight. Indeed, I see this request at least once a fortnight or so here in the Forest, so this should be a TERRIFIC LIST!

As with the campfire yesterday, I figure this is an anything goes list.  AH (which I imagine will be prevalent), AU, ratings from mild to mature, I invite you to bring your favorites to share around the fire. Then, the next time someone visits the Forest and wants to know what WE recommend for the best High School fics, they can either do a search on the compass icon OR we can point them to THIS LIST!

Remember to punch the heart up at the top of this campfire before you go inside if you want to mark this as a favorite!  It's always good if you can find it again, eh?  I mean, not all of us want to revisit high school, but most of us LOVE watching other people suffer through it. ;-)

My first recommendations will be inside, as always.

Thank you, awesome CAMPERS, for sharing your fics around the fire!

No, I don't mean the wedding day.

I mean for the appointment with infinity.

Alice keeps insisting that I need to pay serious attention to my grooming because however I look on the big day will be how I look eternally-- aside from the natural enhancements wrought by the change itself.

But specifically, she keeps mentioning WAX and tattoos and other adornments that she thinks might make me feel attractive for all eternity.

Rosalie even backs Alice up on this, offering me images from a file she calls "Sacrificial Grooming" which consists of artwork through the ages of nubile young women on their way to meet death at the hand of a demon.

I'll share some with you:

So, my issue is this: I tend to keep my nether-parts well-kept but natural. I shave and trim to keep it neat, but I've never waxed, and I really don't want to. But do I heed Alice's warning of ETERNAL STUBBLE?

Also, I know fashions in body hair come and go.

What's my best bet?

How do you keep yours?

I saw some commercials and honestly it didn't look too terrible, if I may say =]

Anyway, I'll basically let you guys go where you want with this...

Suggestions:  What do you think they'll put in it?  How likely is it that you're going to go see this (I probably will)?  Do you have high hopes for it?

Say what ya thinkin ^^

Welcome to the

*Request Campfire*

Request a type of fic, request help finding a new book, request some advice

or request anything at all*

Just remember to put your request in

Big Colorful Letters!

*no downloads, of course. Do I need to keep saying this?

spoiler campfire

nothing that hasn't come out yet, please

Ladies, I Hope Ya'll can be Super-Mega-Foxy-Awesome-Hot Right now.
(Yes, I have been watching AVPM&AVPS On Repeat)
Anyways;
Im In A Serious Search For REALLY GOOD Od School Rap Songs.
So Far I Have;
Let Me Clear My Throat - DJ Kool

Bust A Move - Young MC

And Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice

But I Want More. So 80s & 90s Kids And All The Other Ladies!
HELP! Oh, And You Can Blame
Just One Of the Guys by SorceressCirce
For Inspiring This Campfire :)
 

Do you write fan fiction?

Post excerpts from your upcoming chapters here!

Don't forget to include a link!

Add banners, artwork, videos too if you want. Show us what you got. Tease away!!!

Poor Edward :(

Read it then come discuss!!

Why is no one talking about this?

A VOW OF STRONGEST STONE

I don't know what I'm going to do till Sunday! Gah!

Hello Campers!

Happy Monday to ya!!

I hope you all had a fantabulous weekend.  Mine was quiet, and relaxing, and I got a TON of writing done! I am OVERWHELMED by the response to the Secrets campfire yesterday.  You all are such an amazing group of beautiful people.  I'm in awe :)

So let's get straight to business.... Some News:

Unless you've been hiding under your bed for the past week, you already know that my stalker, Robert Pattinson, took some time from making my life miserable and spent the weekend fliming Water For Elephants in GA and TN.

He was seen at some bar in Chattanooga:

looks like he had a good time. source

Also... apparently Rob saw this dog and decided to get the hell out of there...

It's being reported that Rob was so taken by the pooch that he wants to adopt it.  The trainer was all like dude it's gonna cost you a grip, this isn't just a dog, it's an ACTOR.  Rob doesn't care though...he just wants a new friend.  No news yet if he was able to get the dog or not.  Srsly...this is pressing news. source

It's clear that Kellan Lutz doesn't mind being photographed when he's out and about.  He was seen golfing at Pelican Hill Resort in Cali over the weekend.  He even posed for a few pics...  source

Rachelle Levere is featured in the July issue of Tails magazine for her work helping animals.  She's the face of a campaign battling puppy mills and irresponsible breeding.  Read the whole thing here if yer interested.

SOME RANDOM FOR YA~~

~In Texas, you can be legally married by publicly introducing a person as your husband or wife 3 times.
~85% of men who die of heart attacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.
~You can only tell the gender of a Macaw through an operation. They lack exterior genitals.
~An oyster can change its sex once every seven days.
~Richard and Carol Roble are the most re-married couple. They wed each other 56 times, beginning in 1969.
~The average shelf-life of a latex condom is about two years.
~An adulterous Greek male was sometimes punished by the removal of his pubic hair and the insertion of a large radish into his rectum.

umm...okayy

Someone amazing just sent me this--

Good morning and HAPPY MONDAY!

In my world, MONDAY is the best day of the week. SERIOUSLY.

Now, an unusual thing has happened in the Forest.  People have been using their PM function and sending me little notes!  *bounce* Because of these notes, I am going to be asking you, CAMPERS OF ADF, to help us out and bring on some more fics for specific lists.

Today, as you surely read as you entered the campfire, is for Crackfic. Funny stuff.  Things that should make a reader laugh, darn it.

For this, I figure ANYTHING GOES.  Recommend your AH, AU, G - NC-17 favorite fun fics.  One shots or multichapter experiences.  Anything that you find funny so that if someone says, "I'm having a ROTTEN day and I need to LAUGH. What've ya got?"  We can point them to THIS LIST.

I'm gonna figure you all know by now to keep the responses in this list to the story titles and authors and links.  You KNOW we're not discussing them here, right?  

RIGHT?

GOOD! :)

Right now, our entire List of Fic Listings is located at the AH Non-Canon Pairing List.  So click there if you're looking for the lists.  I am thinking that later this week I will make a post that is a list of lists.  So you can punch the favorite heart and keep it for a favorite campfire if you're so inclined.

Ready?  Bring on the funny, people!

My first recs will be in the campfire.

Thank you, so much, for sharing your rec's with the Forest!

My betas are out of commission. I have a slashy o/s in need of a beta right quick cos it's due ASAP.

I'm sorry rangers if this isn't allowed. I'm super desperate as I thought my girls would be able to help me out but alas, I am sans beta.

Anyone good with Femmeslash and wanna do a lil look through/ content-clarity assist? I would be indebted greatly and I always repay my debts!

TIA!

So tonight we have touched upon the fact that T rated fics don't get read as much as M rated fics and I was wondering why that was.

I write a T rated fic that I beleive is well written, there is no smut and minimal swearing, so I don't see any need to xhange it to a Mrating except for maybe gaining readers.

What are the opinions of the wonderful and all-knowing campers as to why T rated fics seem to be left in the dust?

FYT:

I have a small pet peeve that I'd like to share with you.  It's about something pretty inconsequential.  I know this.  But I've reached my limit and need to get it out.

Not everyone in Arizona is tan.  No, really.  I (unfortunately) live here, so I know.  Lots of us are pale.  We wear sunscreen every day, or hats, or even carry around umbrellas. (I don't do the latter two.  Honest.)

Now it's true that there are tan people here, and not even from the sun; my town has an ungodly number of tanning salons where young women pay MONEY to increase their risk of skin cancer over and above the frightening levels our state blesses us with already.  But as a state, we are no more tan than, say, New Jersey.  

So, my dear fanfic writers, you can feel free to give that cliche a rest.  I'd be super grateful.  In fact, as a token of my advance appreciation, I'll leave you with this piece of hysterical fabulousness from The Onion.

Al-Qaeda Calls Off Attack On Nation's Capitol To Spare Life Of 'Twilight' Author