Inquiring Minds NEED to Know

1. The last update I read was ____________

2. I....

(a) dropped everything to read it.

(b) finally got around to it.

(c) waited until I could savor it.

3. I thought it was _____________

4. I...

(a) left a review and it said ______

(b) didn't leave a review but if I did it would have said ___________

5. The story that I am really waiting to update is _______________

For those of you who love Kristen...

I’m sad to say that front man of the band Type O Negative, Peter Steele, 48, died of heart failure on April 14^th.

I jumped onto their website today to check out a couple things and caught a message:

“It is with great sadness that we inform you that Type O Negative front man, bassist, and our band mate, Peter Steele passed away last night of what appears to be heart failure.

Ironically Peter had been enjoying a long period of sobriety and improved health and was imminently due to begin writing and recording new music for our follow up to "Dead Again" released in 2007.

The official cause of death has yet to be determined pending autopsy results. The funeral services will be private and memorial services will be announced at a future date. We’d like to share our thoughts and those of Peter’s family below.
We are truly saddened to lose our friend and appreciate the tremendous outpouring today from around the world.

Sincerely,

Josh, Kenny and Johnny”

Even if you don’t know who this amazing man is, I’d like to acknowledge his musical talent, deep baritone voice and Sex-God looks.

The thing that saddens me the most is that I’ve had someone close to me, only one year older, who died from the same thing not long ago.

Love and Respect, Mr. Peter Steele.

Wow, that's her fastest update ever. Go read on Twilighted, then come back here to discuss.

http://twilighted.net/viewstory.php?sid=7061&chapter=18

I need opinions from people who's opinion I value... I figured this would be a good place to start.

So. I write two stories, This Mortal Life which is Jake-slash, sort of canon fic; and Born to be Mine which is Bella/Edward, AH AU OOC. In B2bM it has already been established that Jake is dead even before the story begins, but I've always intended on showing how he died in a 'flashback' chapter. Because of my deep, deep attachment to my Jake in TML I'm finding it almost impossible to kill Jake off in B2bM. I know it's a different story, hell, it's a completely different version of the character, but I really don't want to do it!

I've had a bit of a chat with my beta (the fabulous greeneyedgirly) and I'm considering asking someone to ghost- write that chapter, only because I want to do it justice and not just churn out any old crap just to fill up the space. So my questions are:

If you were reading B2bM, would you think it was cheating?

Do you think I should force myself to write it anyway, regardless of if I didn't 'do it justice'?

Is there anyone out there who would actually consider ghost- writing it for me?! Full credit would, of course, be given for any work anyone does on it.

Do you know of any other stories, other than collaborations of course, where this has been done? Did it work?!

Okay, I think that's enough for now! Thanks for your time...

I was watching SNL this morning and was surprised to see how upfront the writers were, claiming Rob and Kristen were dating. 

Do you think the writers are right? Or are they dead wrong? Or are they somewhere in the middle? 

Please remember to respect other people's opinions. (: 

So, I've been racking my brain for a good 24 hours, because I was reading this fic and I can't remember what it's called or who it's by and I didn't put it on story alert. So if you guys could help me, that would be great.

It's an Edward/Bella where they are in high school. She's not allowed to date until she's 17 and on her 17th birthday he took her out to a diner and all he ever wanted to do get out of Forks and be something but then he gets Bella pregnant and they end up buying a crappy house that used to he Harry Clearwater's and he goes to work at Newton's lumbar yard. She ends up having a girl...sound familiar?

For your time

If you guys know of another recent campire along this same topic, can you please point me to the link?  I received one of those "Can I translate your fic into Russian?" e-mails today. I've heard a little bit about this topic here and there over the past while reading fanfic, but I haven't yet finalized my own opinion about it. So I figured that you all could give me the skinny. These people want to translate and put it up on their own site (not FF.net). I don't yet know what site it is. I also do not speak Russian, so I would not be able to validate the accuracy/quality of the translation.

My question is: If you or someone you know has allowed translation of your fic, has it worked out okay? What are the potential downsides or pitfalls? Right now, I'm leaning toward allowing it just because I don't really care. But I figure since this has been sort of a hot button (e.g., with Poughkeepsie), I was curious what you all know.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

Here is Billy Burkes our fav chef of police song It's called "Removed" and it's one of the
leading candidates to be the first single from the album.

Here are his instruction on listing to the song.

Once you've successfully downloaded the song, here are some
suggestions for optimum listening pleasure:

1) Make yourself comfortable with a relaxing beverage of your
choice.
2) If your computer is hooked up to some killer speakers, you're in
good shape. If not, you're gonna want to grab yourself some
headphones.
3) Create an environment for yourself where you won't be bothered
for at least 5 minutes, set the volume according to your mood, sit
back and groove.
4) Repeat steps 1 through 3 if so inclined.

here you go...

http://billyaudio.s3.amazonaws.com/Removed.zip

 Edit: Here the YouTube vid i made for those campers that was not able to download it here you go

CBS Sunday Morning had a segment about 'Gustav Holst's - The Planets' today which inspired me to scramble for my old CD collection so i could listen to it in full. I've always loved this Suite, Jupiter inparticular, and was a little ashamed of myself because i haven't listened to it for a few years. Recently i've been favouring Massenet, but that's besides the point.

Anyway, i just wondered if any of our Campers have favourite Classical Pieces or Composers?

Please share.

I know it's sunday and i'm supposed to tie-in with something Twilight related soooo, as we know, Edward is a fan of many music genre's including Classical. He and Bella had a mutual love of Clair De Lune by Debussy.  There, Ranger's is that adequate?

Have a good Sunday guys!

oicu stretching to make it count

for the record, wtvoc says claire de lune is boring, and that arabesque no. 1 is a much prettier piece.

my go-to at the moment: (i love classical as much as the beatles)

Is it fair to want more?

Warning may be TMI.

Last night the husband and I are taking part of our nomal Saturday night romp. He starts swiping his palms across my ta ta's roughly...first swipe, yea it feels good, around swipe number thirty, not so good! I'm beginning to wonder if things will start falling off.

Is it too much to ask for him to love,lick,swirl,pull,pinch my breasts? You know what I mean...if not read "the Office".

Now, I know from experience that my husband does not like his sexual wonderfulness to be questioned, but me being the wife that I am, I can't help myself ( i also may be worried that he is causing permanent damage). I say that he may need to change up his routine a bit and try to give suggestions, lets just say things went DOWNHILL after that...pun intended.

Next thing I know i'm back on the sofa reading more Fanfic.

So I ask you...Is it wrong to expect more? This has never been an issue before and we've been doing this sex thing for a long time. Is it fair to him? he is just a man, a real man?

Tell me about your experience and how you handled it.

I feel the need to tell you that my husband is the love of my life, he is sweet and he loves me more than anything, but he is diffenatly an old school mans man.

So today I go back to university...luckily it's only for two weeks...but then I have exams and I have four tests in these two weeks...needless to say I'm not a happy camper

So what I would like...if you may...is things to cheer me up :)

Happy E/B fics, filled with happy endings, and zero angst. Emmett being silly, although I would like them to be rated M...'cause smut makes me feel happy :)

Or maybe you have your own funny stories to make me laugh? Or funny pictures?

Forget blue Mondays its gunna be blue Sundays from now on for this camper :(

I just killed some time with photoshop, trying to design a banner for a fic I plan to write in the semi-near future.

Judging by it now, would you be interested in reading the story without knowing a whole lot besides what the banner sort of tells you? 

Should I take the words out and just have the pictures and title?

New Question: Do you like the first banner, or this one better?

So... I just finished watching the birdcage which is one of my favorite movies of all time, anyway I'm in a light mood so does anybody have a good humor fics to pass the time with? (I'm feeling in really good spirits right now so angst would totally kill it)

And while were talking about favorite movies, what are you guys favorite movies? You know that movie that you could watch over and over again?

Albert is hilarious!!!!

Hey! I need help finding the FIRST ever Twilight Fanfiction that I read a while back. I'm sure it was on Fanfiction.net but the story pot is so big that I can't find it again.

It's about Edward meeting Bella when he's still in a relationship with Tanya. There are three parts to this story, with each chapter in a different POV. The first chapter is in Tanya's POV. What I remember is Edward meeting Bella when she drives into Edward's car. They go have coffee, and Edward lies about having a girlfriend because he's is immediately attracted to her. The story is retold in each other their POVs.

It was the first fic, and I adored it. It's also one of the few fics where Tanya is not hated as the "other woman".

Thank you! I hope someone has read it and remembers the name.

Hello everyone, its been a while in between campfires and I would like to know

WHO HAS BOOKED THEIR MIDNIGHT RELEASE TICKETS FOR ECLIPSE?

I just booked mine last night, if anyone is from my neck of the woods, I will be at Hoyts, Chadstone Shopping Centre 30th June 2010 (my birthday btw) at 10pm getting ready to ogle the beautiful Edward Cullen in the movie of the best book in the whole Twilight Series.

On another topic completely I was wondering if I could get some prayers happening for my niece as she is pregnant with twins and at 26 weeks she and the babies are in a bit of trouble.  She is in hospital and the doctors are really looking after her, but a little prayer would not hurt at all at the moment.  She is named after me, Jennifer and she is a team Edward but she is going to name one of them Jacob.

Thanks everyone

Edit:  Sorry Rangers I did not check with you about this add on.  Hope its ok!

Just a general question - do you think the number of reviews a fic already has determines if other people read that fic?

For example, if a fic has a low number of reviews, do you think people overlook it because they think its not popular enough to be a great story??

I've noticed fics with more reviews tend to draw in more readers. What do you think??

I for one think its a shame that smaller fics (as in small number of reviews) get overlooked, simply because the author may not play such an active role in the fandom etc.

Leave your thoughts.

I read a fic back last summer (like September, 09) that ended with Edward killing *or almost killing* Bella during erm, intercourse, in the meadow.  It also included some awesome insights into Charlie's mind (through Edward's perspective, mindreading skills, natch) and I CANNOT for the life of me find it again to find out whatever happened at the end..I seem to recall Jacob being involved finding her in a compromising...and, erm broken as per Edward's worst fears in that sort of situation....PLEASE tell me someone out there knows what I am talking about and can name that fic!  I would be grateful as I have *literally* searched for months to read the *hopefully happy* ending of that tale.  Please help me out?

Starry, newbie (ok not newbie but a long time lurker with the courage to ask a weird question)

I found this website (not affiliated with it) while looking for a way to grab stories off blog without having to copy and paste.    This site is soooo easy!     You plug in the URL and it shoots you back a PDF almost instantly.

http://pdfmyurl.com/

I just snagged a 38 chapter story in not a long amount of time.  

(PS if this ain't okay to post please feel free to delete!)

 So this is what happens when I have a weekend with no homework to keep me occupied, I spend time in the forest, on ff.net and on youtube. 

Tonight I am looking for pic spam or stories of any rating or videos of Jackson or Jasper. 

Here are some treats for your time :)