Okay, I know it is a oxymoron, but anyone having any rec's for any angsty fanfic's that are not too overlly depressing?  They are perhaps heading for a HEA?

So, I'm sure plenty of you guys have used Project Team Beta before.

I was wondering how long does it usually take for them to get back to you?

Thanks.

for your viewing pleshaaa:

Hello friends.

On occassion, a fic hits me with something really close to my heart. No, I'm not talking about a sweet Edwardism, or a really poignant moment between characters. I'm talking about doc martens. Yes, whenver I read that Edward is wearing these boots. . .well, let's just say that I'm a bit like Bella from The Caged Bird by Kristen Nicole. I'll let her describe it. . .

". . .I noticed with an audible gulp that he happened to be sporting a very worn-looking pair of Doc Martens.

Oh, no.

I closed my eyes tightly to try to wipe the unbearably sexy image of those long, lean legs encased in vintage black boots from my lust-soaked brain".

I'm fickle that way, sometimes that's all it takes for me to open up to a character. I like when I have something in common with them, it makes the story that much more interesting to me. Of course this is not a perfect system. I've been let down by many a-converse-wearing Edward. This also occurs with the characters music choices. For instance, Edward and Bella from Oh, Inverted World. They both like Tool, as do I. If you've read it, you know exactly how much Edward likes that band. I also have an insane fetish for Edward in glasses. The typical black plastic kind. Sigh. . .you get the point.

So, do any of you know what I'm talking about? Have you made a little connection with a particular character or story? I'm talking about clothing preferences, music, beards, suspenders?(jandco) Anything goes. On the flip side, have you found a particular musical interest, or something similar to be a bummer for a character? Me? I have a hard time understanding an Edward that loves pop club music.

Another example. I like it when Edward wears plain v neck t-shirts.

Hi!

What a weekend huh? Use this post to chat about anything you want. Talk about anything and everything! I need to go shower...preferably with him right now!

 I'm at a loss here.  I read an update for a pretty popular story earlier today and I've never before felt this kind of irritation with an author or a story.  I literally had to turn my computer off and go out so I wouldn't write a nasty-gram as a review.  

Perhaps this is a sign I care way too much about fanfiction, or perhaps I should take this as an opportunity to start a forum where people can discuss and bash stories completely anonymously.........cause I'd really like to sound-off and I feel like I can't.  

Would you like to be able to go to a place like that and vent?  It'd be a like a confessional or something.  Or is that just too mean?  At least it would be confined to one place that could be easily avoided for the more sensitive souls among us.  Maybe we could have a confessional booth here where our user names are masked somehow?   Or maybe I just need to stop being a cow?

ETA: the general consensus is that a confessional or a bathroom stall type venue would be a very bad idea.  BUT, this has been a very interesting discussion that I wouldn't mind continuing.  :)

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Heres the video

RANGER EDIT: PICS OF ROBERT PRESENTING ARE IN THE THREAD!

I Just Finished Reading The Lovely Bones By Alice Sebold.
I Had To Read It For My English Course As An ISP Book.
(ISP = Independant Student Project)
It Started Off Good And I Was Enjoying It,
But Than Around Chapter 11 It Started To Lose It's Plot.
The Overall Quality Of The Book Decreased.
It Was Basically 200 Pages Of Filler Than A Big The End.
It Had A Great Plot It Kept Me Turning Pages Up Until Chatper 11.
Than It Was Like 'Okay, What Does This Have To Do With Anything?'
None Of The Conflicts Were Really Solved.
And The Ones That Were, Were Unsatisfactory.
And Than There Was This Happily Ever After Epilogue Type Chapter
That Said How Everything Worked Out When Really It Didnt.
My Overall Rating Is A C+.
She Could Have Done Better With The Plot
And It's A Compromise Book, If You Can't Find Anything Else To Read.

I Want To Know What You Thought Of The Book?
Do You Disagree With My Review? Or Agree?
Do You Plan On Reading It?

EDIT:
I Just Watched The Movie & It Was WAY Better.
A Much More Satisfying Ending.

**Warning There May Be Spoilers Inside The Comments Section**

Hiiiiii

 I'm a wolf girlie and I want to use a photo of the hotness that I have on file. Problem is it's too big, does anyone know how to resize and reduce pixels I have tried to use ms paint, no luck there, help!!!!!!!!!

 OK, so I came up with this really cool idea! Read Meg Cabot's diary earlier, and she's doing this real cool thing on twitter, where she started with a sentence, and then someone tweeted the next sentence and so on of a story. So let's do that with Edward and Bella! (because I prefer reading ExB stories)

Ok, now I just have to come up with a beginning...

BPOV

I didn't usually walk in to trees. In fact, as long as I could avoid banging my head into one, I did. But, of course, sometimes fate just wasn't on my side. 

Ok, yeah, I know. More than one sentence. But I think that you can write as many sentence as you want! And this beginning was just the first thing that popped up inside of my head, don't be too hard on me :( So, feel free to continue!

Pictures and video of Robert are in the thread-keep them coming!

A hilarious commentary of Twilight by Alex Day. Search his channel for the previous chapters :)

 We have love posts, we have silly light hearted posts, but let's get down to brass tacks and do a flat out appreciation post...

but it's going to have a twist.

Going with the usuals is great, but let's build in a new layer.  Give me something about someone new...not part of your closest circle....let's push the boundaries.

e.g...

I appreciate profmom for keeping me grounded, gustariana for making me be the grounder (that sounds wrong), daisy3853 for being my perky girl, starshinedown for being her fabulous sarcastic self, and theheartoflifeisgood (aka regina falange) for being all that and a bag of chips.

I also appreciate Chicklette for being such a lovely person who I am really enjoying getting to know.  I appreciate grown.ass.woman for her silliness and robpicspam (even tho we agree to disagree).  I appreciate Greeengoldfish for having the strongest sense of self I've ever seen. And finally, I appreciate Stretch for always keeping it real.

What about you? Who do you appreciate?  Who do you wish you knew better?  Let's open it up and get the conversations going :) 

I just started a new ff and I am a brand new author.  I have 2 questions.  May be stupid, but I'll ask anyway.

1.  to those of you who read...when you find a ff that you like, do you immediately add it to your story alert?    and

2.  to those of you who write...do you always use a beta?

any input is much appreciated!

So there was this post earlier regarding the use of clichés in the fanfic word, and I started to type away on an embarrassingly long list when I suddenly had a moment of... something and  now I feel kind of conflicted. To be honest, I've seen most of these clichés and sometimes they bore/annoy me too. BUT then I realized it is fanfic. It's mostly non-writers/aspiring writers writing for fun. It is written based on one book series (a YA book nonetheless), or one book and the fanfiction read about that book, most people read these and see how well they did/do and so they use it for their own fics. Even through using the same material writers will end up in significantly different places, it is unavoidable that there will be overlaps, overused expressions and some similarities if everyone is working from the same source. Also, this makes me feel like a burnt out film critic, who will diss every movie for lack of originality, when in fact he has just seen too many and is in a bit of a crisis of where to go from there, because he can no longer enjoy them like he used to. A crappy example, but I liked Enchanted when I saw it the first time, but after my sister started watching it multiple times daily somehow I find that I would pick nails scratching blackboard over Amy Adams' voice. I admit some of the fanfic I read first would make me cringe now. I mean, no question, I want original ideas and intriguing plot lines, fresh characters without these clichés but I don't necessarily expect them from fanfic. I buy a book. Of course sometimes I find them in fic, but it does not happen frequently and that makes it even more fantastic. (BTW books don't always give the experience either. I just started reading Hunger Games, when after a few chapters in I realized as good as it is, I felt like I've read it somewhere. It turns out it's basically a rip off of Battle Royal. I don't mean to be a cultural chauvinist, but it's easier to read in this form, however the concept is basically the same.)


So what I really wanted to say, is that proof that I read way too much fanfic and even the ones ridden with clichés, is that I could have written that really long list. So yes, that made me kind of introspective. There is only so much entertainment Twilight can give, even with fanfic. Maybe the reason they annoy/bore us so much is that we have a bit of Twilight overload? Just a question, but it is kind of the conclusion that came to me, but really do we expect Twilight through fanfic to cover that much of our literary needs? My basic question is: Aren't we expecting too much?

(BTW I found a list of harlequin metaphors for penis, and I feel that scepter of  joy as a euphemism is not adequately exploited by the fandom.)

i just finish my 3rd reread of Scotch, Gin and The New Girl and everytime i read it and i know that the end chapter is getting nearer and nearer, i get really really sad and depressed. *wipes tears and runs to momma

i miss wtvoc's edward and jandco's bella.

favorite line's?

You can never regret loving someone—and that is the one true and honest thing I learned from Edward that night.

Even when you should hate, or hit, or run like hell from that certain painful heartbreak—you just can never regret truly and purely loving someone. No matter how it ends.

So…when the most beautiful and hurtful thing that has ever or will ever happen to me was over…there was nothing left.

...

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NOW, WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE FANFIC LINES?

I'm thinking about the New Moon soundtrack. It was a definite improvement over Twilight, in my opinion. There were many songs that captured the emotions and tone well. Possibility by Lykke Li stands out for the blank months. Slow Life by Grizzly Bear was also excellent during the underwater scene. Another favorite of mine was Hearing Damage by Thom Yorke. The entire scene in the woods with Victoria was severely improved by that song.

My question is: What songs or bands do you have in mind for Eclipse. What do you think would capture the emotions and intensity of the book? It doesn't have to be current. I'm just trying to capture the feeling.

My personal pick for E & B

All I need by Radiohead

Some songs from Meyers playlist: I love them all. Good call Meyer!

Blackout by Muse--Excellent song choice--heavy with emotion

New Born by Muse--Would be killer for the fight scene

Hysteria by Muse--Meyer has said she wrote this as the soundtrack to the Jacob kiss in the woods

I had the weirdest dream last night....

WTVOC had sent me a locket, with the pic of dear old DB in it!

I was running around my house, trying to understand the meaning behind it. My sis asks me who sent it to me, and that who's that guy (please forgive her ignorant ass).

I said, "yeah, someone I know..." (I cannot reveal my FF/Twi obsession outside. meh...)

Then the scene shifts, and I see DB hanging around my house, Emily Deschanel is with him, of course. BUT, there's a huge ass but there. HE'S ANGEL, the VAMPIRE! Not Seeley Booth. Oh lord!

I'm trying to wrap my mind around it all, and he's all, "hey, WTVOC sent me here. You want me to call her?"

I thought, wow, WTVOC is greatness! (along with how must I get Angel/DB a little bit closer to me. hehe)

Then someone from my family shouts at someone (it's a mad house, I tell ya), and I wake up. DB was going to call her for me, I would've talked to her!

Okay, crazy, crazy dreams... yeah.

WTVOC, you must have infiltrated my mind or something, because I never dreamt of DB before! haha...

Has your opinion changed of people in the fandom (authors or readers) after how seeing how they interact with others or what they say?

Okay, so I'm not sure if this is allowed but i suppose we'll see.

I've just started my first story, and am in desperate need of a beta. Anybody interested ?

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5763989/1/Reign_Of_Chaos