I'm looking for a Beta for my fanfictions, so look at my profile and tell me what you think. I'm looking for someone willing to work with me and my sometimes late updates.

Link to my profile:

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1956542/lababykarla

For your time.

What is up with the fandom's obsession with it? It feels like how the Cullens managed to not eat Bella during her time of the month or some other period-related question is being almost constantly asked by the fandom. I understand it's blood so logic might say that this would pose a problem, but it's not blood like the kind that runs through your veins & is all fresh & red & vamps think it's yummeh in their tummehs--it's a waste product from the reproductive cycle that is expelled from a woman's body over the course of app. 5-7 days. And it's not even always red--I've seen it come out brown--& sometimes not quite the same color red as regular blood, if that makes sense. It just doesn't seem like a vampire would consider that alluring.

I'm not trying to bash anyone's curious questions or say that asking the questions is stupid, but they just never occurred to me because it always seemed obvious why a vampire wouldn't want to nom-nom someone b/c of their monthly.

So, why do you believe these questions are so prevalent in the fandom? Is the period issue something that bothers you or do you feel the same as me (or do you possibly have another view)? What sort of PMS-related questions have you heard asked about vampires?

Hello all,

I have spent the last 2 hours looking for a fic and all I have come up with is a major headache.

Here's what I remember: Bella is a teen mom and Renee gives her a really hard time so she moves in with Charlie. Renee didn't let her take any of the baby's stuff with her so Charlie takes her shopping. He also buys her an suv instead of a truck. When she goes grocery shopping everyone is staring and Esme comes to her rescues and tells every one to quit staring. After that the friendship and sleep overs with the Cullens begin. The last thing I remember is Bella walking into the cafeteria and seeing Jessica kissing Edward.

What frustrates me the most is that I am positive that I had this story on alert. So either I am completely overlooking it or its been pulled.

I hate not knowing!  Does anybody know what I am talking about? 

Twilight is awesome.

We know Rob is hot.

Jacob is emotional.

Yes, I liked Breaking Down Dawn

Ok, campfire TOS met.

For the Southern CA and Arizona campers...

Question inside...

EDIT: This is about the earthquake that occured this afternoon in Baja.

This all got me thinking. (I know, right?)

I planned to post this earlier, but life got in the way...

Lettuce share some of our Easter  pics...

Post pics of your pretty eggs,

You (or your cuties) in your (their) Sunday best,

Or your delicious Easter Sunday Dinner.

If you don't celebrate just post a picture of how you spent your Sunday.

On another note, how do you think the characters in Twilight would celebrate the Easter holiday?

Do you think the Cullens hang around and decorate eggs?

Or make pretty Easter baskets?

Maybe the wolfpack goes Easter egg hunting?

Hey Everyone!

I just got back from an afternoon at the "in-laws" for Easter.... it was a long afternoon.  Now I have a headache and I'm a little bit cranky.  I'm looking for a couple of one-shots to read that are all about the HUMOR, something that will make me LOL.  Any rec's?? 

 HI!

I am at my mother's with lots of family for Easter dinner and decided to sneak away for a bit. We are a very noisy family. (surprise surprise). 

Tell me campers-what are you doing today? 

All the gif making sites I use are down and I'm going through gif making withdrawal. If anyone could direct me to a program that makes gifs from youtube videos for my avatar, I would be grateful. The video I want to use is of hottie Sidney Crosby on his bed laughing. I shot the video myself, you know, when I was hanging with him in his hotel room. www.youtube.com/watch

To make this less of a useless post, Imma ask you what part you're most looking forward to in the 7 Harry Potter movies. For me, it's the whole Tonks, Lupin and the baby storyline. They are so cute together. And, anyone know where the first part of the movie is going to end?

(As far as I know HP posts are allowed, correct me if I'm wrong. :)

Because I wish I was a puck bunny:
Toews and Crosby:

This guy is Matt Cullen: 

Pic spam me with sexy, sweaty athletes. :)

* waves timidly *

Hi there !

This is my very first campfire. I’m one of the shyest lurkers you will find out there, so that is kind of a big thing to me (please, don’t laugh). As per usual, I’m overthinking everything, wondering if I’m doing something wrong or completely stupid or both. I swear, I must have written and erased that post a dozen times before deciding to go with it - and as for right now, I'm still not completely sure about that. Somebody please shoot me now ! 

Anyway, I was reading the last update of Expectations and Other Moving Pieces (I can’t believe I flounced this fic the first time I wanted to try to read it. Fortunately, I gave it another try a while later or I would have missed some really good stuff) and the AN got me thinking. Do people seriously ask or even beg for lemons in a fic ? I mean, I love me some lemons as much as the next person, but I would never ask for it. Especially if it’s completely unnecessary and doesn’t bring anything to the story (which is the case most of the time, but that’s not my point).

I’m very pleased that the author has stayed true to what she wanted to write from the start. But IMO, it should have never gotten to the point where she would apologize for not writing what some readers wanted her to write. That’s her story to tell (and she does it really well).

I know some writers ask their readers what they would want to read in the next chapters. As a reader, I’ve never been really comfortable with that because it makes me wonder if the writer knows where she’s going with her story or if she’s going to drag me forever in some non sense. Maybe I’m wrong and she knows perfectly where she wants to bring us, but that’s how it makes me feel.

Anyway, my question is : Has anyone here ever been confronted to this kind of reviews and requests ? If you have, what was your reaction ? Did you insert some specific scene that has been requested by readers (not necessarily a lemon) ? Or did you stick strictly to your outline (if you have one) till the end ? And (last one, I promise) how do you feel about readers requesting some stuff in a fic ? Yeah, that’s a lot of questions right here.

Well, that wasn’t so hard after all. I still feel like this is stupid, but like I said, I overthink everything (and I hope you don’t because that’s exhausting). Thank you for your time and if I may say, even if I’m only mostly a lurker, I’m extremely happy to hang out in this very pleasant forest (where I’ve found some of my all time favorite writers).

Hello campers ^^

I think I need your help with something. Some time ago, I published some non-stories on FF.net and would like to recycle them. They were just parodic lists on the past-times (is that how it's written Oo) of my victims ("15 things X does on his/her free time"). Looking back on these stupid lists I've published, I really feel like deleting but just can't... so I was thinking about recycling them and using the contents of my lists (which are really just ideas and not stories) in real stories. BUT how could I integrate them in stories? Do you have any ideas? I've thought about Emmett on a spying mission, but I need more (I have 3 non-stories that need new lives...)

I'd be really grateful if you helped me.

It doesn't have anything to do with the rest of this post but:How did Bella survive knowing full well that not only Edward but all the Cullens knew each time she had her period? Isn't it mortifying? Bella is worse than me in the "I-don't-want-attention" department, yet I would be dead if it happened to me! Did Edward say anything the first time? And if Jasper jumped on Bella for a single drop of blood, on her period she must smell strongly... Stephenie Meyer completely skipped this topic whereas the subject is often unneededly brought on in other books, TV series or movies... And now I'm curious because of something very stupid...

It was just a thought...

Hey everyone!! I'd like to start off by saying Happy Easter to anyone who celebrates the holiday. :)

As much as I love Breaking Dawn, I always get annoyed with a few parts of it (Jacob's Point of View, the imprint, the lack of Edward in Part 3.) So I was wondering, has anyone read any good Breaking Dawn AU fanfics? I'd really appriciate it. Thank you :)

Allow me to prelude this post by saying I'm sure much more prolific persons have debated this topic before me, but it's one that I'm genuinely confused by.

Why Edward and Jasper? I really don't get why in Slash pairings, these are the two to do. So to speak. Edward/ Carlisle has its fanbase (not my cup of tea, personally), but there's very little Edward/ Emmett and Edward/ Jacob outside of the ever popular polyamorous threesomes.

The lack of a big Jake presence in Slash Fic does puzzle me; I mean, if you look at Harry Potter fanfic the Harry/ Draco pairing is huge (again, no pun intended). I recently read a fantastic H/D story Says the Magpie to the Morning (Sorrow, Take Your Own Advice) -- I would definitely reccomend it. And there's a good basis for H/D shipping, the line between love and hate has been blurred in popular fiction for centuries. You would think that the constant animosity and tension between Edward and Jacob in the series would have resulted in lots of authors jumping on this bandwagon and using the underlying homoerotic friction to create some great Edward/ Jacob stories. And don't start arguing about it, the whole tent scene in Eclipse was wrought with sexual conflict- and not just between Bella and Jake.

How much do the actors in the movies influence the pairings, do you think? Do we want to see this:

More than this?

One might think that if the actors were the root of the matter that Edward/ Emmett would be a lot bigger than it is. I love Kellan to death (one of the things on my list of things to do before I die is to see if it's possible to grate cheese on his abs. Then lick them.) but he's a lot more.... heteroflexible than Jackson is. You only need to look at the Calvin Klein ads to see it; I'm pretty sure it's a well known fact that all underwear adverts are designed in part to the spank banks of gay men. And Kellan's not one to shy away from taking his shirt off. Bless him.

Ahem. Back to business... was there one author in particular who started the trend? The first Slash fic I read was The Forbidden Room by DefinitelyStaying *bowing before the mistress of Slash*. I'm so sad that it's gone from fanfiction; I'm over the moon that DStaying got it published (I own a copy!) but the new character names kind of make me sad. Her Edward and Jasper were amazing. I wasn't really part of FF before that came out, so I don't know if that was part of the trend- setting or following one that was already in place.

Please don't get me wrong, I know that wolfpack p0rn has its place and its fanbase and that there are some fantastic stories out there written with other pairings. However if you look at the majority of the nominations in the recent Slash Awards it says a lot; most of the nominations (and winners) were for the big E/J stories. Popularity has spoken!

I will end this longer- than- I- intended post with a request for any really good fics with uncommon pairings. Give me, oh, I don't know, Emmett/ Paul. Or Carlisle/ Charlie. Or Aro/ Sam. Or anything else you can come up with. And any theorising on the above would be great. Happy Sunday everyone!

That's right campers, I'd like to do a get together. Let's bring the Northeast (and anyone else who'd like to come) together!

I was thinking we could get a Passion Party together. Not only do we get to meet and have a good time, but we can have the fun of a Passion Party! I figure NYC would be a good place, my original thought was at my place but having people drive to the middle of nowhere... yea, no. Anyway.

What is a Passion Party you ask? To find out more you can go here.

We would need to get at least 15-20 women together, if we can find a group like that, then we can decide on where to hold the party. I'm hoping to find out if anyone would be interested in this kind of event!

Last Rites

Chapter 15 is up.

Squee.

If you're not reading this why the heck not. Edward is just delicious. The writing is just delicious. I really like Alice in this too (she's not annoying at all, except to Edward)

Oh, the scene in the movie theatre is again, delicious.

It's all delicious.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5225668/1/Last_Rites

reminder about the announcements

 limona & wtvoc will be announcing the winners of this year's eddies & bellies live this wednesday at 5pm PDT.

links to the broadcast will be on our website here.  you'll probably have to register to do be able to hear it; more information will be posted tomorrow.

we'll be having guests after the announcements to talk about stuff, and you'll even be able to call in and talk to us, radio chat show style!

What do you think the sexiest songs are?

What do you think constitutes as sexy?

So in the a/n for the newest chapter of Sanctuary, it says that people who follow ADF on twitter will get messages re: mail, the emails for the chapter.

I don't tweet. Am I going to be missing something from the story because of this?

Jennyfly Ranger Edit: Maybe some friendly Camper who gets the tweets would be kind enough to post an alert here when it updates?

The chapter is meant to mimick the experience of email. You never know when they're coming. When you want one, you check often.

You CAN also sign up for CABIN ALERTS here and if it makes things easier, i can post a notice of the update in the cabin & it will generate an email to anyone who has signed up for my cabin alerts.

OKAY?

So, I'm stuck visiting family in the middle of nowhere this weekend, and I've got a long trip home tomorrow.  I need to expand my iPod playlists to include some happy songs, because I like to be happy, and I'm sure the people I'm driving with like to be alive.  I don't want to strangle them, so post a YouTube of a song that makes you tap your feet and shake your ass and dance like no one can see you.  I'll start:

Hey there Campers!! So, I am all caught up on my updates and find myself with nothing to read for the rest of the weekend.  I have a RIDICULOUS to be read list and have managed to narrow it down to 5 stories.  What would you read first???

The Sound of Your Voice by Marie0912

Texts from Last Night by EverythingIDo

Daniel Gale: Cumming to America by danielgaleh00rs

How to Save a Life by unholy.obsession

Mutually Assured Destruction by Jandco

And to thank you in advance

I am working on my first AH fic, After Last Summer, and am getting downhearted by the lack of reviews. I am, however, getting regular alerts from FFn for story/author alerts and favourites.

What is your view on sending a PM to people, thanking them for reading and asking them politely to write a review?

I once received a note like that from an author and was appalled by their forwardness. Now that I am writing my own fic, I understand how important reviews are and comment on every chapter I read.

So, my question is, have you ever sent or received a PM like that? What is your opinion on it?

I am not decided either way...