Totally random...

What really inspired this designer's spring collection? Is it just me, or is he totally going for the vampire vibe? Could the models be any paler and still be breathing?

Models wear creations by Dutch fashion designer Josephus Thimister as part of his Haute Couture Spring Summer 2010 fashion collection, in Paris, Sunday Jan. 24, 2010

Nothing says "haute couture" like a pair of shredded scarves and no shirt. Alice Cullen, where are you when they need you?

 So, until I started writing my first multi-chaptered story on ff.net, I had no idea that authors get little emails sent to them whenever a reader adds the story to their Story Alert list or any of the Favorite Options.  Included in that email is a link to the reader's Profile Page.  I mean, I figured when I reviewed or wrote a message to an author, they could click on my name and see more about me, but I didn't know that story alerts and favoriting was not anonymous.

Discovering this as a writer, I find it fascinating to click on the profile pages of anyone who alerts or reviews my story.  Now, clearly my little story is not generating a ton of traffic if I have the time to glance at the profile pages each time.  But still, I'm mostly curious - if they're favoriting, does it look like their favorite list is really their TBR list, or is it a true reflection of the stories they like most?  A lot of readers just have blank profile pages, but I've found a few whose descriptions of themselves have sparked an interest or resonated with things in my own life - those readers' reviews tend to mean a lot more to me, because I have some sort of personality attached to the penname.  Also, I'm interested to find whether a reader is also a writer, and if so, what kind of stories they write.  

So...is it just me?  Writers, do you ever check out the profile pages of the people to favorite/alert you?  Review your stories?  Readers, did you know that alerting or favoriting a story sends an email to the author with your profile page linked to it?  If not, does it affect the way you view your profile page?

How to Save a Life by unholy.obsession has been updated.

www.fanfiction.net/s/5454169/20/How_To_Save_a_Life

Let's talk about it!

So, yeah, I'm following the trend and finally poppin' the ol' campfire cherry...;)

We all know that the Twilight Saga is never going to be considered classic literature, and that BD, in particular, a steaming pile of dog excrement.  For most of us, anyway.  That said, over the last several days I've had my attention drawn repeatedly to the fact that all things Twilight are seeping into the cultural fabric and are here to stay for a while.

Example A:  While waiting to pick my son up at school, I struck up a conversation with a pregnant woman who was carrying two Cocker Spaniel puppies.  The puppies' names?  "Bella" and "Edward."  The baby?  A boy.  Due in June.  Will be named "Jasper."

Example B: Sitting in the play area at the mall, I overhear a woman address her toddler as "Edward."

Example C:  I meet another pregnant woman, this time with a twin girls.  She plans to name them -- get this: Alice and JASPER.  That's right, a girl named Jasper.  Which is an idea that I actually...sort of...like. 

All of this inspired me to put my research hat on and check out the list of Top 100 most popular baby names at BabyNames.com, where I learned that:

"Isabella" is the #2 most popular girls' name and has been for two years now.  "Bella" is number #18 and has gone up in position from last year.   "Leah" is at #28 and has gone up more than ten ranks since last year.   "Alice" is at #40 and has gone up more than ten ranks.  "Esme" is on the list for the first time ever at #84, and  "Rosalie" is also there for the first time at #88.   For the boys, "Emmett" is on the list for the first time at #54;  "Jasper" is more than ten points up at #42, and "Edward" is at #65 but has shot up more than ten positions. "James" is up, too, at #27.   "Carlisle" is not on the Top 100 list this year, but I have no doubt we will start to see a whole klatsch of little Carlisles running around in a couple of years.      The only names from Twilight that are on the list and have actually gone down are "Jacob" and "Victoria."

"Renesmee" is, not surprisingly, not on the Top 100 list.  BUT -- the website now has an entry for it.  Which means that someone, somewhere, liked it enough to saddle their little girl with it and put it on her birth certificate.  Which I guess, when I put it in perspective, is a hell of a lot better than "Speck Wildhorse," "Moxie Crimefighter," "Pilot Inspektor," and a million other hideous monikers that celebrities are saddling their kids with.  Hell, it's even better than some of the names of my own sixth-graders.  "B.Yond" and "Mee'Shon" among them.

So, as they say here at ADF, Lettuce Discuss the ways, big and small, that we have noticed how the Twilight saga has affected, enhanced, changed, or ruined Western culture in ways that may actually last 50 years or more...!

In exchange for your time, some panty-dissolving goodness:

And just because:

and because me also likey:

26 years ago today, a very special man was born. aka John aka the guy who takes care of this site.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BABY

Please help me wish him a happy birthday, while I go and bake him a cake.

Ugh.

So I'm trying to write a O/S (For the ADF Happy Valentine's Day Emmett; god, that's a mouthful; TWSS) and I'm writing it in 3rd POV.

I. hate. it.

It's so difficult for me because I always write in 1st POV. I don't know whether it's good or if it sucks, whether I'm doing it right, or anything of that sort.

SO I HAVE A QUESTION.

Obviously.

So number one, which POV do you prefer? I prefer first, only because it's always been the easiest for me.

And numba two, do you switch POVs often? Not like Edward, then Bella, I mean like..for one-shots or multichapped? I hope that made sense.

Lesee lesee..........

That man is gorgeous.

I've just finished reading a wonderful ff that still is on my mind. I just... it's so magical and pretty and oh, how I wish it was true! The story's title is The Mirrors by adorablecullens  (www.fanfiction.net/s/4971734/1/The_Mirrors). I feel like a little girl once again. If you haven't read it yet, click the link and start to do so! It's really worth your time :).

I hope you aren't mad at me because of this little advertisement, but I had to share this with somebody!

Sooo, arouse was the first word that popped up as a synonym of inspire, and frankly it was the most appealing to me to use in this post...

I'm so thankful to AD campers for rousing the smallest bit of inspiration in my stagnant mind! Today after a full year, literally almost to the date, of not updating or even typing one additional sentence to my last fanfic i left hanging, i sat down at my laptop in a crowded Starbucks, took a long draw of my latte and wrote myself 6 paragraphs....while that might not be much, (and i also don't have word on my mac so I had to email them to myself!) it was all thanks to AD. Reading all you lovely authors speak about your process and post your stories, reading all the recs people post on here, and generally just being immersed in the fandom...sigh i love it here kiss kiss...

So along with this being a love letter to AD, I was wondering how many other authors find themselves inexplicatly drawn to write again after being in here

So, long story short, I introduced my big brother to the Twilight series...aka...I forced him to watch the DVD one afternoon when he was sick and didn't have the strength to fight.

He hated the movie, but agreed to read the book when I promised him it would be a lot better.

He read it.

He liked it.

He went out and bought the rest of the series.

And things were great. We laughed about how he hated Bella more and more with each passing book. His famous quote is: " You know what I really wish? I wish there was a way for Jacob to turn her into a werewolf. That would fix her." I teased him about the fact that he was probably Team Jacob because most of his exgirlfriends had treated him exactly the way Bella treated Jacob.

But then he got to Breaking Dawn.

The first phone call came after Bella's impregnation. And it went a little something like this: "You've gotta be f*ckin kidding me! How the hell did she get pregnant? Edwards DEAD!"

Then there was the phone call after the imprint: "SM is playing some sorta colossal joke on you people, you know that right? There's no way in hell that this is really how this is supposed to play out."

And then the phone calls stopped. When I called him to find out what he thought of the rest of the book he said: "I donated that shit to the used book drive at work. The whole thing was one long ass episode of Days of Our Lives, but with vampires. Guess what I'm going to do the next time you recommend a book to me." And then he hung up.

Now I'm not here to debate the merits of BD, I'm here because I need to redeem myself. I need THE BEST BD FanFic there is. I need it to be mildly smutty, but high end quality shit. Preferably a story that picks up after the fad to black on Isle Esme, but includes NO PREGNANCY, NO FETAL IMPRINTING, and a bit of Voltouri action wouldn't hurt.

Am I asking too much? Does this story even exist? Please help. The fate of all future Thanksgivings Dinners rests on me mending this fence.

And this is totes OT, but you people are so amazing, so here you go, a little LoTR eye candy, my way of saying thanks. 

Hey Y'all.

So its a sunday night down in Aus and I'm bored as hell so I thought that I'd start a nice campfire.

About a month ago one of my friends introduced me to a OOC pairing that I thought I would never like- Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger HP fanfiction.

Now I just cant get enough of the stuff. Its awesome.

So, I was wondering...

What is your favourite, crazy out of character relationship to read on fanfiction sites?

Doesn't matter if its from Twilight, HP, Bones or anything else- I'm just alround curious! Do share...

Blackbird Fly by mistresselektra  has been revamped and is being put back up as we speak.  If you have never read this fic, I would recommend you try it.  It moves quickly and there is a ton of dialog.

www.fanfiction.net/s/5669191/1/Blackbird_Fly

SUmmary: AH/AU- Bella is a fractured girl with a life-threatening eating disorder. Her whole life changes when she meets Edward Masen. Warning- child abuse and dark themes. Reposted.

I am rereading it too as it is put up.

Hope you campers can help me, I am a bit all humaned out and need a canon/vamp rec.

I really like The Fallout, Atlas Shrugged, Abbricare il Cantante those sort of stories, if anyone could rec me some more completed that I haven't read yet I would be greatful.  I have tried to find the winners of such stories on the award sites (Eddie and Bellies etc) but have had not luck.

Please help out an old Edward/Bella fan here.

thanks and here for inspiration

BOO. I appear from the shadows of shameless lurking.

I'm sparking this campfire with some embers of something we've all exprienced.

RED

HOT

ENVY

I believe my most intense moment of fist clenching envy was when a girl I know won a contest to meet the one and only Mr. Pattinson himself. I died. Inside. Alot. 

So, help me not feel like a loser for posting this completely random topic,

what's your shining moment of envy/jealousy/green eyed moster?

I'm away from home, visiting family in Texas in the old stomping grounds where I went to high school.

Lots of things have changed. The landscape is different, but underneath new buildings and the stark surprise of an empty space where a building used to be, what I see beneath it all are memories.

In a way, a part of me has made that cliché sentimental journey down memory lane. And what I've dredged up has had me looking through an old box of photos I took when I was in that photography class my senior year, and I'm sobbing like a baby.

There's a picture of B, and there's a picture of that bitch J he dumped me for. There's a picture of our spot in the school cafeteria where we sat and got away with PDA, and one day my heart fell out of my chest when I was there with him and J walked by and he said, "I just saw my life go past."

That moment is where I found empathy for Bella in New Moon. I knew how she felt--- that feeling of a gaping open hole in her chest.

Tell me about your experience with that big hole of pain. Make me cry again.

Writers and readers. I'm interested in how you picture the characters. Particularly to writers. Do you imagine a certain actor? An amalgam of faces?

Forgive me if this is offensive to a writers domain. As I have not written fic myself, I don't know if there is a unspoken rule about leading your readers to specifically. I understand the desire to remain somewhat ambiguous in the world you have created. I dig that too.

Twilight sweeties Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning are alllll over Sundance Film Festival right now promoting their flick The Runaways and Kristen's movie Welcome the to Riley's. 

Here's some of the coverage:

I'M ON THE HUNT FOR MORE DAKOTA PICS. POST THEM HERE IF YOU FIND THEM! 

 RIP Patty! What a sweetie.

 A couple of months ago, i got this idea of a story which in my head sounded pretty good. But as I know that I'll probably never have the patience to complete it, I knew that I would probably never post it on FF or Twilighted. So, as my memory is pretty good when it comes to things like this, I let it stay in the back of my head so I could pick it out and enjoy it in my head whenever I wanted. 

Only, i never guessed that the characters would start living their own life and getting some own ideas and drive me crazy. So in order to keep me from hating the story I really liked, I started to write down some moments that I knew whas going to be in there.

But they seem to have gotten through there too, because suddenly Edward that wasn't going to curse once, cant seem to finish a senctence on my paper without cursing at least once.

The story that was supposed to be a fic about how father and daughter repairs their damaged relationsship, seems to slowy build into an Edward/Rosalie ending.

I wasnt supposed to have a moment where the characters are drinking, but I suddenly wrote a moment about how a drunk Edward steals Rosalies high heels, puts them on an starts singing "Single ladies" with the dance moves and everything (But this change was actually okay)

So, have any of your stories started as something different than how it ended? Did ideas come up that wasnt there before? Does it feel like your characters have their own life sometimes?
Can you give me some ideas on how i can turn this story back to what it once was?

I was just reading an article where the author thinks that Twilight is one of the greatest love stories of all time. While Twilight was great, I wouldn't say it is the greatest of all time.

Do you agree with the author?

In your opinion, what is the greatest love story of all time.

It can be either book, movie, or if you know of one, real life?