I'm not sure if many of you followed the shit storm that went down on lion_lamb today, but it has made me EXTREMELY curious.

Whether you are Team Edward or Team Jacob, what are your feelings towards the opposite team? Do you think less of someone because they aren't the same team as you? Do you truly find it incomprehensible as to why someone would be on the other team? Are other people rude to you because of who you go to bat for?

Where do you draw the line between supporting your team and bashing the other?

I just don't get the hatred that so many people apparently harbor for this stuff. ADF is the most tolerant Twi forum I know of, so I figured it would be a good place to discuss this issue.

(please, try to be respectful w/ responses.)

There is tons of info coming from her 4 hour fansite interviews but I found this particularly funny. Especially since she gets painted as so uptight.

Breaking Down: The parody version of Breaking Down that Stephenie wrote in her head as a release from stress.

* Stephenie just decided to write in her head a story where Charlie ends up as a meth addict, Bella accidentally kills Alice, Edward runs off in depression and can’t stand Bella anymore, Bella settles down in the arms of Mike Newton who then leaves her and runs off with Eric Yorkie. Bella can’t take it anymore walks to the infamous cliff goes to commit suicide then decides she can’t do it turns back from the cliff trips over her own two feet, trips, hits her head on a rock and dies.

more info in the comments if anyone is interested.

I was wondering if anyone has habits while reading fics?

Something that when they reread the same fic- a song that is listened to, food/snacks, ANYTHING!   I am a rapid rereader- about 2x, 3x maybe more if the story captivates me. So I develop habits quickly and realized today that I had subconsciously associated certains things with reading certain fics.

Mine-  

Fourteen--I eat something sweet and a lot of calories-- ice cream w/ malt mix on top or crazy cake (chocolate that is super good and omg!) or pie. Anything with chocolate. After I have pretzels and tums.

Coming to Terms- I totally veg out. Carrots and celery all the way. I ate 3/4 bag of mini-carrots while reading it once without realizing it. I think the crunch helps with how ticked I get at Edward in the first half.

University of Edward Masen- I listen to Joseph Arthur majority of time. Mellow and moody.

The Blessing and the Curse- salted (regular salt or season depending) and buttered popcorn and milk

Loner-  Usually drink coffee, hot tea, or cappuccino.

For most reading Coldplay's- Rush of Blood album is what I listen to, with a few exceptions, mainly bc it is really mellow and perfect background noise.

So, yeah, any one have other habits?                     Or am I the odd duck that plays too much attention to my own habits?

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the forest shenanigans have begun

if you have messages, click on the mail in your forest taskbar in the upper right-hand corner (it'll have a number on it)

confused?  just wait.

and use this post to troll for people to tag.

IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT:

please comment with something, anything in this campfire.  you can't be tagged unless we see you and your beautiful icon.

ETA: i just got back from dinner after making this initial post, and i've been tagged back 13 times already

i totally forgot to cross my fingers and say NO TAGBACKS DOUBLE BLACKOUT FOREVER AND INFINITY SQUARED

Hey!  Let's have 'em - a list of your favorite one-shots.  Bring them here, and indicate whether they're fluffy or angsty or flangsty or smutty or whatever whatever WHATEVER.  IDK.  Sometimes, you need a palate-cleanser before you start another multi-chap, or you're on line at the bank/post office/bursars/police station lineup and you don't have the time or attention to devote to forty-five thousand chapters.

List them.  Link them. 

I just checked my favorites, and only found one o/s on the list: What'sMyNomDePlume's "Put a Ring on It".  It's fun and fluffy, and I like how one moment of hesitation proves to be incredibly expensive to Edward's serenity.  I'll comb back through my other lists and bring more pretty shiny things to post here.

i think it's still FFAF, and I had this epiphany, so I want to know what you all think. 

A lot of people agree that while Twilight is a great story, there are a lot of issues with the writing - overuse of adverbs, overuse of "chagrin" and repetitive descriptors.  Yet, most of us here LOVED that story.  Enough so that we're, you know, here.  On the other hand, I've recently read several stories which were technically well-written.  Their grammar and language use is close to perfect.  Yet the story didn't grab me and I walked away unsatisfied. 

Which led to my epiphany:  I'm willing to excuse some grammar/word-use fail if the story is good.  But I'm not willing to stick with a technically competent tale if the story itself doesn't grab me.

Readers, writers -  What say you?

I somehow found this wonderful show called Skins and now i'm addicted. How many of you have seen it and what do you think?

My favorite couple is Sid and Cassie. Who's yours?

Also i'm still looking for characters for roleplay. come play with us at community.livejournal.com/realvampssprkl/

EDIT: If you haven't seen Skins yet, its about time that you have- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCXngDN9NfA

Hi, this is my first campfire... hope I'm doing this right.

If any of you have heard of Minisinoo, you might know that she took down her website, The Medicine Wheel, at the start of the month. Sad times...

Her favourite character was Cedric Diggory, in various ships... Go check out an interview with her at SYTYCW: http://sytycw.blogspot.com/2010/04/hannahs-interview-with-minisinoo-about.html

Minisinoo wrote Twilight stories which can all be found over at Twilighted, and wrote for the HP fandom, but has not fully updated her stories on FF.net or over at The Quidditch Pitch.

However you may have missed the ending of Dulce or just want to read both Finding Himself and Dulce again. If you do, I have made PDFs of the stories, including the pictures Minisinoo had.

So if you want a copy, I can post the download links in the comments

Edit: Links are posted in the comments now. Enjoy!

Within the past couple of days someone rec'd a fic where the author put cupcake recipes at the end of every chapter.  Now I can't find it.  Anyone remember what is was?

I'm gonna be gone all day today.  I'm not a morning person (espesh hungover ugh) ... but I don't mind waking up to this...

have a great day everyone :)

So, I'm a noob here, but I already feel like I get great advice. I just had an offer to translate my new two-shot into French, but I'm really unsure how I feel about this. I've heard some good things, but the profiles of most of fav authors have blatant lines that say "don't ask for a translation, I don't wanna" blah blah blah.

Is there a reason to be wary of this (beyond the "other person messing with my words" parts, which is why I'm conflicted to begin with)?

Why don't famous females wear trousers/pants/slacks (or whatever you want to call them) anymore?

I'm honestly curious why women don't wear something like pants or skirts anymore. In my opinion, even the women who are totally skinny look like they have huge thighs because they're in what to me looks like underpants.

This is my contribution to FFAF because I'm in California where Friday is still happening. (:

Hai Forest!  Hai! 

Since it's totally FFAF, here i am!  btw, i have this song stuck in my head.  You're fucking welcome.  :)

Whatcha drinking forest?  What kind of drunk are you??  I'm usually ridic and silly and even MORE filterless than usual. IDK - durnk chat should go here.  :)

Have you discovered the new reader setting in the latest Safari update? You just hit the "reader" button in the web address bar and it turns the page into a nice reading format for you. I love it for reading my fanfiction. :)

FYT:

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Tor received this email from Billy Burke tonight:

Hi Victoria,

In light of all that's going on, I'm doing a video Q&A on the website. Send me your best question within 48 hours.

Details at:
http://www.billyburke.net/20-questions-with-billy-burke

See ya soon
-bb

We want everyone to send a message at the above link telling Billy to say hello to her. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? THIS IS FOR TOR!!!!!

There have been some stories that others love that i've flounced. For various reasons, at some point I've flounced these and I know people LOVE them...maybe i'm impatient? Needy? Dunno...

I flounced The Lost Boys, but went back to try again, and ended up loving it.

Tell me why to try again...

1. Poughkeepsie

2. Realize

3. Deconstructing Dracula

4. Inked

5. Kevlar Knights and something something Docs

6. Reunion

What have you flounced, that you were glad you tried again?

Grab your alcohol and post your Twitter name here if you're in!

(Maybe later we can go streaking on the quad!)

OK, I've really been loving my city lately.  I spent an awesome night last week with friends at a rooftop bar overlooking the Empire State Building.  I had a great night tonight at Rink Bar, which is located at the Rockefeller Center ice skating rink - in the summer it's an outdoor bar.  I really appreciated that I was hanging out and enjoying these great landmarks.

Now, every city has something special.  Tell me what you love about your city.

Every time I see a campfire started for fic recs, I always see the same stories. Always! So in this thread, I want you all to rec me something you've NEVER SEEN RECOMMENDED before. Anything you want, just post it here. I'm personally a canon girl all the way, but feel free to post whatever you like, because I know there are a lot of Bella/Jasper, Slash fans, etc here.

Can't wait to see what you come up with.