Dear ADF-ers

There's a huge-ass bumblebee in the hallway outside my bedroom.  It's about an inch and a half long and is buzzing around the lampshade, which it possibly thinks is the sun.  (It's midnight here).

How do I lure it away from the lampshade and out of the bathroom window?  I have no bug spray and I don't want to kill it anyway (or piss it off), I just want it out of the house.  There's only me and my housemate available and she's being a big cowardy-custard and has locked herself in her bedroom.

Ta muchly.

Edit: It has disappeared.  This is not good.

Calling All Twilight Fans

Oprah is looking for Twilight fans for the June release of Eclipse. She's looking for fans of all ages to tell their stories and why they love the Twilight series and movies so much.

I'd love to go and see Oprah, as if I really needed another reason to love this woman.

Here is the link to submit your info: www.oprah.com/ownshow/plug_form.html

it's fff so i can totes do this :]

once upon a time there was a very tall lady with striped tights who fell in love with her milkman...

 

and now you carry it on. think lewis carroll/edward lear type nonsensicalities.

Okay, so I was aware that as an actor, RobPatz would have achieved more gigs than Twilight.  

(Though, in all honesty, I didn't know the dude existed until Twilight. Forgive me for this travesty.) 

My friend ended up telling me about his part as Cedric Diggory, which I had to admit---even though I'm not really a Potter fan, except when it comes to a few snuck fanfic here and there---he looks pretty darn hot.

 

Daniel Gale wasn't so bad either...I mean, if you're into the nerdy thing with glasses, he's actually really cute...The fanfic really endeared him to me, if you really must know.

 

So here I am, happily making my way through all these wonderful depictions of RobPatz, when I stumble upon this little nugget that knocks me dead.

DEAD.

WTF?!

What's with the 'stache?

Does anyone else find this really WRONG?

Reviews.  Stats.  Hits. 

Why do we care? 

When I first started in the fandom, I didn’t even know there WAS a stats page.  Then I was lurking around as a lurker is wont to do, and I saw someone reference their stats page.  So I went and dug about and found mine.  Holy smokes, was that graph beautiful. 

I had, like, 35 hits!  In ONE day!  I am not kidding you, I ran to the office to tell Dirk.  “Baby!  35 people read my story!!”  I ran out again to refresh the page.  And then I proceeded to spend the entire weekend refreshing the stats page in between reading other people’s chapters.  It was glorious.  I was SO. Damn. Happy.

Of course, over time, it took more and more to make me happy.  I’m such a junkie. 

And if my new chapter got 8 reviews last time, but only six the next time, I was tempted, there in the dark of the night, with only the soft hum of the laptop for music, to reach out to those former reviewers and say ‘Hay!  Why’d you stop??” 

I refrained.  (Thank Jesus.)

Then something happened.  I got really busy and I couldn’t check.  And after about a week, I realized I hadn’t been.  There were some days where I had a hundred hits, and some where I’d only had 4. 

And reviews.  Oh my god, reviews.  Now, I may be a bit shy sometimes, but I pretty much always speak my mind, so it’s no surprise to anyone how much I love my reviews.  And reviewers.  Seriously – this fandom is made of such amazing and generous and TALENTED people that my mind?  Generally and consistently blown. 

I get excited when someone I really like and respect reviews my fic.  And I want to tell the world:  OHEMGEE!!  So and so reviewed my fic and they liked it!  But I don’t.  Same as when someone that I’ve never heard of before writes me a review that just…blows my mind.  I want to sit them down and make them cookies or breakfast or *something*.  When one of my frands reviews my fic, I want to hug them.  **hugs**  (I’m a hugger – don’t judge.)

But my question here is this:  Why do we care?  We can’t take stats to the bank.  Reviews, while soul-feeding things, are not going to put food on the table (cue flower monologue from A Knight’s Tale).  What makes this more intriguing for me is that aside from not being able to do anything with our OWN stats and reviews, we seem to also compare ourselves, relentlessly, to others. 

Now, this is a subjective thing we’re doing here.  Writing is not science.  It is not mathematics, and there is no right or wrong answer.  I’ve read popular fics that I think are just awful, and I’ve read little-known fics that make me swoon in my seat.  And when I try to compare myself to any of them, I come up short because there are too damn many variables.  (Nod to Katinki and Renward.)

So campers and rangers and writers of all ilk, I ask you this:  Why do you care?  Do you stalk your stats page?  Do you covet each and every review?  If so, what drives you, and if not, why? 

In other words…tell me more, tell me more….

 

I just got my license! (woot!) Sooooo, I want to hear your scary, or funny, driving stories.

I can't accurately describe the joy you ladies bring me.

I hate life most days (not in a suicidal way) but just you know, things could be better. and i love knowing there are people out there who just, i dont even know, probably feel the same way i do. and you make me laugh. god you make me laugh so hard. it feel fan-fucking-tastic.

I have a song rec for ya:

Artist: Modest Mouse

Song: Satellite Skin

 

love, love

I know you all know this game...I am super bored and thought I would interact everyone with this..I know its a drinking game but whatever...I do think backasswards all the time

anyways I will start

Never have I ever gone sky diving

Yea-I don't buy it. Nice try TomStu!

 

Along with the mountain of candy (specifically, Skittles and Hershey's chocolate), books, and a DVD, my parents decided to get me a bunch of iTunes gift cards. I've spent some of it, but I'm looking for more music. I'm looking for some good/happy love songs.

What are your favorite songs?

 Have any of you who post on FF.net had any problems with your traffic report over the past 3 days?  Just curious.  I am fairly new to the whole scene, and don't know exactly what to do when there are technical issues.

Tell me Something that you Love but others might think it's strange

I Love to listen to Songs Chipmuck style

Come on Share with me

Just thought I'd be a generous bitch and share this with you ladies, and maybe men?

Ooh, I already hear some of you groaning....

So, even thought there is a lot about BD that I dislike I will still be going to see the movie - the making of the conclusion to the series is still, with all its flaws, too tempting for me. Someone may as well add some chocolate, ice cream and cherries to it and place it in front of me on one of my health kick weeks.

I saw this article about the 'front runner' director. I never saw Dreamgirls. I haven't seen any of his other films.

Do you think he's right for the project or not?

Do you even think your ideal director could even make a silk purse out of the pigs ear that is Breaking Dawn?

Do you think even if your choslen director could do that, with Rosenberg writing the script and Meyer hovering in the background, that something good could be made?

http://paralleluniverse.msn.com/features/movies/the-wrap/dreamgirls-director-frontrunner-for-breaking-dawn/story/?gt1=28135

So I know we've done this before but I had inspiration to do it again!!! Mostley because I wanted to share my totally random and Awesome dream last night!!! I want to know what dreams you've had about Edward or Bella or Rob or Kristen or any of the others we love to hear about?? Rob and Kristen were both in my dream last night!! Tell me who you dream about!?!?! Mine is in the comments!!

Nah, I don't wanna know if you're a virgin or not.

There is an issue I'm putting forth though:
I am the 18-year-old virgin, attempting to be the 40-year-old virgin for documentary purposes. (I'm kidding!)

Anyway, being the romantic that I'm really actually not, I'd like to know if you lost it to music, and if so, what kind of music. And if you didn't, tell me why losing your Visa card is cheesy while listening to music.

And if there are any virgins out there, come say hi, and tell me what cheesy things you would like to happen to you right before you take the plunge!

I'm so inappropriate. :)

yeah I know.... this has been done already... but c'mon!  It's Kristen.  And we LOVE her.

And I really love Littlesecret84, and she worked so hard on this collage... I wanna make sure all the forest dwellers see it!!

HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY KRISTEN!

THE FOREST LOVES YOU (almost as much as littlesecret84!)

Just wondering if any fic writers do this every November.  This year will be my third.

In case you don't know, it's National Novel Writing Month.  A challenge to write 50k words in 30 days.  Then you have six months to finish whatever you write, edit it and submit it to Createspace and they send you a free book.

This was actually the catalyst to my writing a complete story and while it was stressful to make the deadline, I felt pretty good at the end.

 Okay, so I just had my second midterm for my Macro class. I went in, was feeling pretty good about it, and then WAM, I got to the third to the last page, looked at the questions, and just sat there. My mind was in an uproar, 'Where did this shit come from?' I asked myself. And then I turn the page and I nearly fainted, because WTF I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON! I seriously didn't answer the equivalent of a page of questions! Thats like 25 points! So needless to say, the test screwed me up the arse, said wam bam thank you mam, and left me all alone crying my eyes out (on the inside) over the unfairness of what I thought was a sure thing. 

I need hugs... and pictures of Hodgins/Zack/Booth/Cute little fuzzy animals... help a girl out?