Comic-Con 2010 Programing Dilemmas

I just got back from a fabulous Vegas vacation where I bought these:

And I randomly met and had drinks with a star of one of my all time favorite daytime soaps (he been on two of my favs to be exact), I will post that pic in the comments section because, well, I'm in it and I don't want to subject anyone to a pic of me if I can avoid it.  But more even more exciting than probably one of my most favorite Vegas vacations I have ever been on (and I've gone at least 25 times in 10 years) I can not wait to attend my second

So no Twilight Saga Panel this year BUT Melissa Rosenberg will be on a panel and the Twilight fan-fiction panel is Saturday.  I'm studying my program guide harder than I did for any school exam right now.  If I go to the Twilight fan fiction panel I likely would not make it into hall H for Harry Potter.  The Psych panel is at the same time as the panel for the new Charmed Comic book.  I have to practically campout subjecting myself to panels I don't care about in Ballroom 20 all day for the Joss Wheadon panel on Friday and for the Glee panel Sunday. 

Decisions, Decisions.  For those of you going what panels are your must haves?  For those of you not going what should I try to ask Melissa if I can get into that panel? 

I am so excited for this!

Going through the before v. afters of essentially all of the Twilight cast members, I found out that Jackson is the one that changed drastically. Don't gte me wrong - I love the guy to death. But he was just so adorable before Twilight (OC, Beautiful People) and even after Twilight. But at some point, he decided to work on facial expressions as well as hair (which was FINE before).... dear god, help us all.

Before:

After:

A few months ago I finished my first serious attempt at fan fic writing.  Now that time has passed, I realized that I rushed to finish and would've probably taken it in another direction if I had more patience.

So, my question to you experienced fan fic writers is...

Can you revise your story once it's completed?  Or should what's done be done and move on?

ok.  so some of you might remember a long time ago, i started a campfire with the idea that adf would author a fic all together and things would be harmonious and lovely and serene and we'd all have this massive one shot that we wrote and YAY.

well.

i finished piecing it together 3 days after that fire was posted.

to say the very best...it still isn't too cohesive.  everyone submitted WONDERFUL passages...and then the idea was for me to take these passages and make a cohesive story out of 'em.

um.  i'm not claiming brilliance or even semi-coherent crack fic here...but i have it just the same.

the chicks on twitter busted me and called me out...so here it is.

the adf collab, written by:

Dawnmarie Dreaming, Mrz.JasperHale4evr, Baruka Athena, Shouvley, Grownasswoman, Jennyfly, LJ Summers, flor_p, Perfect Meadow, Wonkeygirl, Hmonster4, Feeb01, Cranberryjello, Yasmina2005, Nayarit, Juliesbutterfly, Kell, Erica_lopeezy, MickisE, Chalger3, Billa, littlestar300, Jenward, Miztrezboo, Duskwatcher, Capricorn75, Spritedoll83, litljazzbird, reesa710, VampiresHaveLaws, DawnTwilight0000, scarletoctopus, lookingforhoofprints, lababykarla, Irony, bondedtoJasper, Ibeesavamp, Vampella, EbJ, Serendipitous, nataliem, neuroticris, aerochick, DianaWolfskill, alwayshave, aliceelizabeth, classictwilight, Bratty_Vamp, hidingfromsomeone

it will be in the first comment.

don't you judge me, yous.

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 "With This Ring" 

The newest chapterof Jandco and Jennyfly's High Noon is up!

Hmmm...I wonder what the title means?

I don't know about you, but I LOVE weddings. I ALWAYS cry and I have an unhealthy obsession with floral arrangements..

WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE WEDDING?

WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE IMPASSE?

CAN YOU NAME THE CREEPIEST DUDE IN THIS CHAPTER? (I know I can)

Anyone know of any good E/B high school fics which are complete?

I've been reading 'Dead On My Feet' which is brilliant but I'm all up to date with it now. If you haven't read it though you should check it out, so so good! : )

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6007656/1/Dead_On_My_Feet

Seducing Ms Swan  by DQRC

Epilogue posted today :-)

Have you guys ever listened to Twilight Saga in Audio Format? I personally enjoy Audio Books since they distract me from my road rage during my daily commute to work. And the twilight saga are among my favorite recordings. The Reader "Ilyana Kadushin" did a great job recording the books and voicing all the characters, especially Alice's.

So what do you prefer in general Books or Audios? or Both?

Can you guys recommend any books in Audio Format, I am dying for Romance recs. Are there any good ones, I find it very difficult to look for Romance Lit as the book covers scare the heck out of me in general,

This campfire is approved by grown.ass.woman

I went to the Live! With Regis and Kelly this morning.  Did anyone catch it? 

I took my mom, and we had a great time.  The first guest was Peter Facinelli who plays Carlisle and Dr. Cooper on Nurse Jackie.  (Which is a great show by the way.)

I love this guy:

With a lot of celebrities, it seems like they put on a show for some random charity that they only care marginally about at best, and they tend to choose only the ones that will give them the most visibility. It's kind of a paradox: the charity needs to put their face out there as much as possible to drum up more support, so publicity for the charity doesn't necessarily mean the celeb is an attention whore, yet would the actor get involved at all (donating money, volunteering time) if they weren't going to get credit for it?

In a world where celebrities buy trophy animals and dress them up like dolls, there's a vicious cycle of breeding-buying-abusing/neglecting-dropping off at already full shelters going on. Kellan has the money to buy any pet he wants, and when he chose to adopt Kola instead, it wasn't just one animal being saved--it was potentially thousands more as people who admire him are inspired to adopt.

Thing I like about Kellan also is almost every single one of his tweets is either promoting a charity event or responding to a fan's tweet. I'm the first one to eyeroll at people who have to reply to every single tweet a celeb makes like they were seriously looking for our approbation, but this guy actually does care what we think. He's always tweeting happy birthday or passing along a prayer request or telling some girl she's special.

Anyhoo, if you suddenly became as famous as our Twilight actors, J.K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer, etc, what would you use your celebrity to promote?

EDIT: It doesn't have to be a specific organization. You could just do animal rights in general, or encourage awareness of a disability, etc without a sponsor behind you.

Does anyone else using a mac have trouble linking in campfires?

Whenever i press the little link button and try and paste the address nothing happens. 

I was just curious, prob me failing with technology once again but if you know what I'm doing wrong, let me know. 

Thanks : )

Hello Campfire Girls!

I'd like to earn my "Historical Romance Merit Badge" and I need YOUR help to do it! I've been reading Twilight Fan Fiction for a year now, and I can truly say I've just about seen it all. Poor Edward, Bella, Jasper, and even Carlisle have had just about every unfortunate situation known to man happen to them! *Mel wipes a tear away*

So recently I stumbled upon a few fics that were different; set WAY back in the past. First I found "Alton House" which totally rocked my world, but hasn't updated in a long while! *sadness ensues again*

Then I found "The Mail Order Bride". Excellent, well written story with a good plot, interesting characters, and hot citrus thrown in for good measure. BUT I finished it and then I was sad again (I need to get a better hold on these damn emotions!)

Then I found a story special to my heart because it was set in New Orleans (I have lived there before!) called "Enchante". It is also well written and very interesting! But again, I have caught up with all the updates and am WAITING (tick tock, tick tock...) for another chapter!

SO... Here's where you come in! Recommend some Historical Romance fics for me to read.

Here are a few things that I find important:

*needs to be well written with a good storyline

*doesn't have to be canon as long as it has Bella paired up with one of the Cullen Men

*All Human, please

*Historical setting, but I will not limit the time period or place

*Lots of Lemons please, because I like them *I am smiling dreamily now!*

*Complete (or almost complete) is preferrable, but I will accept suggestions that are not complete if the author updates regularly.

Ok Campfire Girls, that's my request for today! Thanks so much for your help! I hope that you all have some nuggets of wisdom to share in this area; let me see your creativity shine!

~ Mel ~

around this pool.

CAN YOU SPOT ANYONE ELSE?

it's obvious, but still

edit blowup:

Oh hell - here she goes again.

Yeah, I'm back - and I am on a tear.

We all have faults, bad habits we want to break, right? Well for me, I forget sometimes to say thank you.  I just assume (cough) that people know how much I appreciate what they do.

I'm fixing that today.

This one is for all the people that help, cause you know, people need people.  Let's make sure those unsung heroes get some love today.

Rangers - this one is for you.

Thank you for fostering a supportive community full of amazing men and women. Thank you for bringing together people of disparate backgrounds under the banner of fun and picspam.  You are tireless in your effort - and you deserve all the kudos in the world.

Okay forest - here is your challenge - in one quote, song or picture - give a heartfelt thanks to someone that has helped you find your way in fic land, who gave you a nudge when you were down, or made you laugh when you felt like you were going to cry.  And give up some love for our amazing rangers too.  As my mother likes to remind me (and I typical roll my eyes - who cares how old I am) You can never say thank you enough.

Happy Monday Campers!!

How are you today?  How was your weekend??

I'm waiting for the repair guy to come to my house since my garbage disposal BROKEN and I can't use it and now the water won't drain properly.  Also..for some reason the dishwasher is also connected to the same pipe so I can't use that.  SOOO ANNOYING!!

All I know is that if Edward Cullen were here, I wouldn't have this problem.  I'd just wake up to a newly remodeled kitchen.

So I had the WEIRDEST DREAM LAST NIGHT!!

First... I thought I was pregnant...so I took some weird pregancy test...then it turned out i WAS PREGNANT...but I decided to go out with some friends and since I couldn't drink I decided to STRIP at this bar.  I actually kinda enjoyed it.  But then I left, and I walked home...but not to my home, to these people's house who had a baby that I needed to breast feed (WTF)...so I do that, then someone was grilling chicken and hotdogs and stuff but they were doing it wrong so I got mad at the dude and go in the house and take a bubble bath. And when I got home ESME yelled at me for stipping in a bar. WTF?!?

OMG...SO STRANGE!!

Anyway...

Today is TKMOON'S BIRTHDAY!!!

Wish her a Happy Birthday here or in WTVOC's awesome campfire just a few stops below :)

Didja see these......

more here

guhh it was a good weekend...

Some Random For ya...

~Minnows have teeth in the throat.
~Porn star, Ron Jeremy, has a masters degree in Special Education.
~Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don't. does ff count? i think so!
~Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
~160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
~During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
~Only male fireflies can fly.

TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD...

-about your weekend

-your weirdest dream

-something random!

Greetings and Other Expressions of Salutations!

Pursuant to the discussion on THIS CAMPFIRE, I thought to start the Fic Lists in earnest.  

Today's list will be AU (i.e. have a supernatural aspect or not all human, which is AH) stories that are remarkable for their lemony goodness (Thanks, Diana!)

Rules of the Fire:

(heh, let's see how this works, shall we?)

1.  KEEP IT SIMPLE  

i.e. no pimpage. Just the name of the story and the link and the author's summary as provided by FFn or Twilighted or TWCS or their blog.

2. NO DISCUSSIONS

i.e. no replies to each recommendation, whether in affirmation or WTH-isms.

* * *

Remember, the idea is to be able to mark these for yourselves so that you can find this list as a Favorite (hit that heart, remember!) AND to make this a search-able list (so someone can go to the compass icon and type AU FICS in the search field and hopefully turn up this thread.

Also remember this is a totally add-on-able campfire.  Keep tending it. :)  

Now...let's see how this works. I'll start off in the first reply.

ETA:  A reminder.. this is an AU CAMPFIRE.  This means Alternative Universe and in the fanfic world of Twilight, it means Supernatural Stuff. Like VAMPS, WEREWOLVES, and even ANGELS and OLYMPIAN GODS and ANY OTHER magic/supernatural stuff that y'all can dream up. :)

SOON SOON SOON there will be an AH campfire for lemony goodness.  That means ALL HUMAN, which means no vamps, et al.  For THIS CAMPFIRE, though, we're going AU.

Thanks so much!!

~LJ

Does anyone know where I can watch the most recent episode of True Blood for free?

Usually I use yidio, but the only links they have right now require a subscription.

(Also, I live in canada, so that also complicates things.)

Please help!!!

For your trouble:

Thank you forest!

happy birthday, my darling tkmoon

if you live under a rock and/or you don't follow @tkmoon712 on twitter, you may not be aware that it has been 46 minutes into sasha's birthday

so get in here, wish my darling a good one

spam this campfire with pictures of david boreanaz, mark salling, buffy, glee, sexy sexy pictures of waffles and other foodstuffs, and post other delights you think she would enjoy

or you could make a bunch of drunk tweets in her honor, idk idk

k back into my hole to cram study