Entertainment Weekly  ran an interview with the Eclipse costume designer which i thought was pretty interesting.

One of the revelations was that these pants from the training scene (which btw I'd been trying to figure out since the first stills)

are actually karate pants

Designer Trish Monaghan reveals - • Robert Pattinson wanted to wear karate pants for the training sequence. “So we got him some karate pants, and it’s like the crotch hangs down to the knees, and I just thought, Ugh. Who’s gonna go for this? Because everything has to be approved by Summit,” Monaghan says. “We took them in a little bit, and they loved the karate pants. Who knew? I was so surprised.”

The rest of the interview is pretty long so I'll post it in the first comment

highlights include

-Rosalie's wedding dress and a deleted scene (that I can't wait to see on the dvd)

-Jake's too-tight tshirts

-Kstew almost in a swimsuit

 I've had a lot of complaints about the clothes in the movies, but Eclipse was the most improved imo. The flashback scenes were awesome and the Cullen's denim looked better on screen than in the stills.

What were your favourite and least favourite aspects of the clothes and style in the movies? Share pics and be thankful for the lack of khaki!

or idk, laugh at the whole karate pants thing

(and i guess there might be some spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen Eclipse yet)

An Advice Campfire

It's no secret that the forest is chock full of intelligent and insightful people.

Sometimes I need advice but I don't want to ask anyone who is too invested in me personally. I don't really like people I know knowing certain things about me anyway. For instance, if I tell my mom stuff, then she worries too much.

So, in this post I invite you to ask for advice about anything at all, and then see what the forest has to say!

We have already seen that there is pretty much no such thing as TMI here, by the way...so don't be shy.

My question will be in the comments.

And: HECK YES. It's Fuh fuh Friiiiiiday! I love this day.

You know what this means Campers...

FRIDAY FREE FOR ALL!

Post what you want... have FUN with it, but remember to keep this interactive and share with the class!

We'll return to our regularly scheduled programming at 5pm EST Saturday

(and no we didn't forget, sometimes Rangers go to bed early)

It's also #FOLLOWFRIDAY on Twitter,

so go on there and follow a bunch of new people,

make some FRANDS!

And don't forget to follow the Rangers because we freaking love you guise!

@wolvesnvamps

@jandco

@jennyflyrocks

@wtvoc

@jennnday

@Emibella1

@torsstupidmouth

@littlesecret84

@Capricorn75

@grownasswoman20

And of course...

@DifferentForest

Leave your Twitter in the comments so people can Follow you too!

Okay.  I had a thought. Granted, it's a thought engineered by a cortex with a perpetual sleep-debt, but yeah.

What if we started lists for the purposes of Favoriting them (punch that pink heart, baby!) so that those who wish to know what we at ADF recommend as certain kinds of fics can refer to them? No pimpage necessary beyond a link and a summary.  I was just thinking it'd be cool then people could copy and paste to their own computers for reference or refer to their own Favorites list.

ALSO if you favorite the list, you can find it again when you find new fics that fit into this category.

Any takers?  Thoughts?  Hm?

FYT:

AND!

Be brave!

We'd probably have to put them into categories and I know I'm not a Ranger, but this is a user-generated site (content wise) so I thought I'd toss this out there.

I'll post an example in the thread, just to see if I am making sense. Heh...  If you find this thread disappears, it's probably because I am suffering from post-cortexual exhaustion...

     Practical Jokes!

Have you ever been the victim of one? Or are you the jokester?

I ask because my hubby is always pulling pranks at my expense. I could regale you with many examples of things he's done to me, but i will just share todays mischief.

So, i woke this morning to a sudden pain on my butt/tush/boo-tay (pick your poison). Anyway, once i woke up to the point of awareness, i realised someone - or something - was yanking at my pj bottoms. Literally trying to pull them down! And furthermore, that the pain in my butt was infact one of the dogs biting me. Turns out, one of my dogs had a firm grip of my pants, tugging at them like a chew toy. while the other two were trying to take the more direct route by burrowing in from the waistline. As it turns out, my lovely husband had deposited a handful of little dog biscuits down my pants while i was still sleeping. Then made his escape to the office before his dastardly deed was discovered.

So, do you live with a rascal like mine? Care to share any anecdotes about past crimes?

I've been calling my hubby, Richard, Dick Dastardly for years.

It is Friday-Free-For-All, right?

Last fall DeeLovely and I pooled our money and purchased a story by JennyFly in an auction. The prompt we gave her for the story was the song 'The River' by Bruce Springsteen, a song that both of us could relate to for personal reasons.

Jenny created an incredible story, better than either of us expected, and as an added bonus brought in Jandco as her consultant and partner in crime.

Today the last chapter of 'River Dam' has posted.

http://www.adifferentforest.com/Fiction/Default.aspx?Chapter=2896
 

Go read, enjoy, cry a bit, and then come back here to talk about how awesome this story and the authors are.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, J & J, FOR PUTTING SO MUCH HEART AND TALENT INTO THIS!!!

So, I've been gone for a while (lurking here and there). My husband was deployed and I was planning a vow renewal ceremony with the whole nine yards since we didn't have it the first time around. Then moved back to the hell hole we are stuck in til the military sends him somewhere else. 

Anyways, since I've came back I can't really get back into fan fiction and I'm hoping you lovely ladies (and men) can help me out. 

Give me your fan fics that would make you come back every time. 

And to make it a little more interactive, have any of you ever drifted from fan fic and tried to come back?

FYT

Edit 

I will read absolutely anything you guys will give me. AH, AU, whatever. And I love angst. 

Sorry I forgot to mention earlier.

Has anyone read any of the books lately? Or anytime after your love for the books deflated?

I'm only asking because last night I decided to crack open Twilight after a more than a year of being neglected. I couldn't sleep, and...well, it was glaring at me from it's spot on one of the shelves.

Anyway, I don't remember Twilight being funny. I remember it being the most boring out of all them. But reading it again I'm, like, laughing, and smiling (and rolling my eyes a bit, too). And, now that I'm not obsessed with Edward anymore, I'm not smiling because of him. Bella has a humor, and Edward can't seem to teasing her, which makes her snap and get irritated at him pretty frequently.

Does anyone remember this the first, or even second time you've read it?

Because I don't. At all. Am I the only one who was too, eh, mystified by Edward to actually pay attention to the story?

But I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone know where I can read "Emancipation Proclamation" and should I bother to???

This thread is totally self-serving, but I hope you'll muddle through it. 

So, I've just finished my 3rd full length fic and I'm already feeling the loss. I've poured my heart and soul into it for months and now it's over. I've loved these characters and how they've developed. I'm feeling sad. 

I've moved on to the next project, but new stories are hard for me. I struggle with the plot and worry that it won't be as good as the last story. Does everyone go through that?

Anyway, I thought you guys might check it out now that it's done? 

A World Away

Summary: Bella thinks military men are arrogant womanizers. That is, until she meets Edward, a hot and unpredictable Navy SEAL who quickly deploys for six months. Will he change her mind or leave her brokenhearted? Rated M for language and lemons. BxE.
 

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5645432/1/A_World_Away
 

Thanks for indulging me! I'm totally sad! 

ok so, i have to share this story with everyone because i LMFAO when i heard it. (and yes it's twilight related)

i have this co-worker, she knows of Twilight but doesn't know really anything about the movies or the books. she just knows that a few of us at work are fans and she heard all of us talking about how we were going to go watch Eclipse.

apparently she thought we meant an ACTUAL Eclipse. the night of the midnight release she went out in her front yard in her PJs and stood out there waiting for an Eclipse. when her husband asked what she was doing she just said she was waiting for the eclipse to happen and i guess her hubby and his friends looked at her like she was nuts. it wasn't until she texted her cousin that she learned that everyone had been talking about the movie. i think she stood outside for a good 15-20 minutes. 

i'm pretty sure we made her retell the story to everyone at work. 

anyone have any funny/embarrassing twilight related stories? i'm bored. entertain me plz. 

FYT (a funny yet terrifying BD manip. omg, i can't wait for more of these as we get closer to the movie. oohhh...we could turn this into a bad manip campfire. i've discovered TONS of them. ok so just tell me a story or give me a bad manip. i'm really really bored. kthnxloveyabai.)

I'm excited! I placed an order with Amazon.de last week and got my books today. 

I got this:

... which is New Moon in German. I do like the German titles, as they are a play on words.  "Biss zum Mittagsstunde" literally is translated as "Bite until Noon", but the word bis (with just one s) means "until".  So the title really should be "Until Noon", but instead they throw the "bite" in there. Personally, I think it's funny.  I can't wait to start reading it!

I also got these, and I'm excited for them too:

Has anyone else ever read the Twilight books in another language? If you have, have you enjoyed them? 

Fanfic Photo Challenge

Lettuce play a game.

Find a fun picture on the internet and post it in the comments. The crazier and stranger the better!

Then write a fanfic summary or a drabble in response to one of the pictures posted. 

Be silly immature ridiculous perverted creative!

Trailer for Kristen's movie - Welcome To The Riley's

Being from across the pond I have yet to see Eclipse but I was wondering...

Is it anything like this wonderful trailer?

I have compleatly lost the plot of the story I have been working on....

What do you guys do when you lose the plot of your story or get writers block?

Have you ever started a story and then lost interest in finishing it?

So someone interviewed SM and they wound up hearing about the shellshocked version of BD from an exhausted, punchy writer. 

I think it's great.

If you want to read the interview, scroll to the end to find out the insanity that is Breaking Down -- SM's own private fanfic/parody/crackfic of how it could have ended.

Then tell me... is Stephenie co-opting on someone else's fanfic?

She does have things to say about how she hopes FF writers can move on from writing stuff they can't own and will write their own original stories.  I think she's being positive and supportive, though. Not naysaying the fanficking universe.

Thoughts?  Who's got original pieces in progress?  

Can't remember the name of a story? Have a little information but not a lot? Remember what Edward did for a living or that the Bella was amazing?

Here is the place for forgetful campers to not be ashamed of their flighty brains!

Tell us everything you know and we can help!

It's the Thursday Amnesia Campfire!

I'm a tad bored at the moment, so let's play a game!

Drop a comment in this campfire with a quote from a movie, book, or even a song. Just let us know which one it is. (For ease of viewing, make the quote pretty and colorful)

Try to be the first person to reply with the correct answer!

Person who gets the most right wins bragging rights!

LET'S ALL HAVE SOME FUN!!!