What do you love/hate about our favorite twilight stars?  I want to see evidence!!

Okay… Friday Free For All, right? I have to recommend a book to you all (I know, an actual BOOK, with a cover and page numbers and everything!). It’s called SHIVER and was written by Maggie Stiefvater and was published last summer. It’s AMAZING, so, so good! I finished it a few weeks ago and haven’t stopped thinking about it.

Just a short synopsis: it’s about a 17 year old girl who has a weird fascination with the wolves that live in the woods behind her house, one wolf in particular. And then she learns that the wolves are werewolves who change in cold weather and are human during the warmer summer months. Her special wolf ends up turning human, they fall for each other, and then struggle to find a “cure” so he doesn’t change back to wolf form.

Sounds weird, probably, but it is firmly grounded in reality and it’s the most romantic book I’ve ever read. I highly recommend you check it out!

Has anyone else read Shiver? What were your thoughts?

I don't usually do this, but I want recomendations of fics portraiting a realistic view of love and frienship, everything is acepted ,from fluff to death of character and in between.

For your time I give Dylan, the biggest genious out there.

Heya!  We're early this week, because, well, let's be honest...we all wanna focus on the telethon for Haiti later tonight.

thanks to taciturnsblood!

thanks to yanxxx!

I am trying to lose weight, about 40-50 lbs. Has anyone successfully lost weight and kept it off? What did you do?

And just because his bedroom eyes do naughty things to me

Love this.  Happy Friday everyone. : )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVy8Dr_SxWg

So.  We have been doing the TwiFic thing for a while now.

And, tbh, I read a ton of fic.

Tons.

Some I love, some I dunt.

An interesting phenom is occuring for me.  I find that some fics I thought were MAJOR publishing material a year or two ago now, simply AREN'T.

Anyone else find this to be true?

That being said, I completely understand why authors pull their fics in order to revamp/revise, etc.

Are there ANY fics you WANT revised ?  How would you fix them?

I know this would be ok'd by the Rangers and follows normal posting guidelines, but I really wanted to know.  I am SHYER I can come up wit' sumin' off-topic.  Chatty bitch that I am.

Happy Friday my forest friends!

So-I was supposed to post this last night but I forgot and NO ONE reminded me. grumble grumble

But that is in the past-today is a new day!

We have decided to try something new-something fun-something DIFFERENT by having Fridays become "Free For All Fridays."

What does that mean?

From midnight Friday morning to 3 p.m. on Saturdays (EST) the forest will be open to ALL posts. (as always feel free to post anything Twilight related as well) Then after the clock strikes 3 p.m. here on the east coast of the USA-posts must be Twilight related and off-topic posts approved by a Ranger.

It's an experiment-let's see how it goes. We are all in this together and we aren't afraid to try DIFFERENT things.

So-obviously as of right now-WE DECLARE "FREE FOR ALL FRIDAY!"

"Robert Pattinson stepped out in London this morning ahead of his appearance on George Clooney's Hope for Haiti telethon, evidently following in the footsteps of many other actors with a serious new beard! It's a rare public outing for Robert, who has been laying very low since his holiday vacation on the Isle of Wight with Kristen Stewart and gearing up to film his ladies' man role in Bel Ami. His cameo on this evening's fundraiser will be alongside other celebs like Rihanna and Jay-Z, who are taking the stage together to perform a special new song"

Apparently, I break websites. 

But after much coaching and a few pep talks from Rangers Pixievamp and JennyFly... I think I can try this again.... **crosses fingers**

I spend so much time here on ADF, it's like my home.  I blow off my hubz, kids, work... because I just have to hang in the forest.  I love it!  And now you people are invading my dreams. This was just too awesome to keep to myself....

LAST NIGHT I had this dream and I don’t even know WHERE it took place. But you know how you dream,and you’re not really yourself....like you're YOU....but maybe older or younger....you might have kids, or not…maybe married, or not.  It’s just like a different version of yourself?

Anyway…. There was this weird library.  And the library had this big conference room type of place, with tables and chairs, and computers and stuff… and all these people from ADF would hang out there and WRITE.  And it had wireless too because I was there with my laptop.

So at this point in the dream it switched to like…someone telling me a story about how in some weird movie ROBERT PATTINSON HAD TO JOG DOWN THE STREET NAKED.  And I was all what the hell?  That’s kinda weird but hot, right?

The dream switched back to where I had to go to the library.  INFERNALHEART was there waiting for me. She was at the library/conference room/ADF meeting place with AMERICNXIDIOT.  And they both were like DUDE HURRY UP.  They were texting me or something, IDK.

Then all of a sudden… ROB was with me, and he was like GROWNASSWOMAN LET’S GO! Then he TAKES OFF HIS CLOTHES and was all “I’m running!” (at this point I died but kept dreaming!) DUDE WAS RUNNING NEXT TO ME---- NAKED!!!

So I’m running too….trying not to stare at the goods, but c’mon, I HAD to…and he catches me looking and just SMILES.  We’re running and smiling and he’s NAKED and I’m trying not to lose my mind!

As I was running and LOOKING, I texted INFERNALHEART and was all “omghesrunningnakednexttomeiseehisdick” and her response was wayyyyy too nonchalant for my taste, but she said something like “yeah I know, he’s really good friends with AMERICNXIDIOT and he told her he was going to do it.”

WTF?!?!

So we get to the library/conference room/ADF meeting place and he turns to me and says “Thanks for that.  I’ll see you a little later, right?” Then HE WINKED and then his naked ass walked away.

Then I woke up.

AND DIED.

it looked like this...only, nekkid...

Many of you are familiar with the 'To Write Love on Her Arms' movement. For those who aren't, they aim to help those suffering from depression, self-injury, suicidal thoughts, and addiction. To read more about their mission, click HERE.

They are currently running a campaign to raise $1 million to start "the first live online crisis network with 100% of its staff certified and trained in crisis intervention" called IMAlive. In order to get the funding for this project, all you have to do is VOTE. You can read more about how this will work HERE; but basically, Chase bank is giving $1 million to charities who receive the most votes.

This is a great cause for anyone who has ever dealt with depression or suicide or knows someone who has. For those who have been lucky enough not to have seen these issues in your lives, please take a moment to check it out as well.

Just go to www.twloha.com and click on "click here to vote". You do have to download an app on facebook, but it's all very simple. Still don't get it? Here's Miley Cyrus, Liv Tyler, and a newly shaven Joaquin Phoenix (rawr) to teach you all about it!


(now put on your patience hats. miley gets a little....miley-ish)

Voting ends tonight at 11:59 ET!

This post has been approved by pixievamp

From MTV's Adam Rosenberg:

"The stars of Twilight are certainly capitalizing on the success of the angsty vampire phenomenon. I just wonder: with such a large portion of the ensemble landing roles in other films, what will that mean for the production of the still-unannounced adaptation of "Breaking Dawn," the final chapter in Stephenie Meyer's series? Hard to say, but that definitely leaves a big question mark hovering over this latest bit of potential casting news.

The word is that Robert Pattinson may soon be sharing a bill with two-time Best Actor Oscar winner Sean Penn in an adaptation of Sara Gruen's best-selling book, "Water for Elephants,"Variety reported yesterday. The news describes the two superstars as "circling" the gig -- ie they're in talks right now -- though Variety mentions that Pattinson at least will likely land the part.

The adaptation will be directed by "I Am Legend" helmer Francis Lawrence, from a script penned by Richard LaGravenese. The story follows a young man -- presumably Pattinson -- who drops out of school after his parents are killed to join the circus. Penn would play a disturbed animal trainer who works for said circus while the previously confirmed Reese Withspoon would play his wife.

Fox 2000's plan is to be shooting by June. Meaning anyone who had hopes that "Breaking Dawn" would shoot over the summer for a fall 2010 release had best adjust their expectations. It seems more likely that "Twilight" fans will be waiting at least a year before they see the Meyer adaptations wrap up, more if Summit goes ahead with the rumored plan to break the final book into two films. I don't think there's really a chance that "Breaking Dawn" won't happen, but these various "Twilight" actor casting announcement do have me wondering at the "when."

CROSSES FINGERS FOR ONE BD MOVIE INSTEAD OF 2. AND MAYBE A COMPLETE RE-WRITE IF THEY'RE REALLY GOING TO SUBJECT US TO THIS SHIT. 

 SOURCE

REMEMBER THAT LOVELY AND HILARIOUS CONVO JENNYFLY AND JANDCO HAD YESTERDAY REGARDING THE LONDON HAITI TELETHON??

WELL, WHAT IF THEY DO SPARE ROB THE LATE NIGHT AND PRE-RECORD THAT PORTION OF THE TELETHON??

IDK HOW REPUTABLE THIS SOURCE IS, BUT THE NET IS ABUZZ WITH THIS GOSSIP RIGHT NOW. 

And I don't know where to start!

I can't get to FF.net very often...so a bunch of stories over there I haven't been able to read...

I'm so conflicted.

Like I'm pretty interested in "A War of Cynics," maybe the alien porn has greeenie scorched into my frontal lobe...but then again..."New Times Roman" apparently has a paunch-ward that can't be missed?  Also there's a few older ones that I just never got a chance to read...like "Lucky Charm" and "Deconstructing Dracula"...But several people recc'd me "Bare" in a campfire awhile back so I really want to start that one.  

What about you?  Any one story you're really excited to see here in the Forest??

Do you have a list of stories you intend to read here?

What should I start with? 

Happy Friday everyone!  

You know how in school, your teacher would sometimes say, "If you have any questions ask, because chances are someone else has the same question too?" 

Well I have a few questions about this site that I thought I would post and hopefully help out a few other lost campers. (Raises hand sheepishly...)

Is there a way to search for a specific campfire other than going page by page?  

Is there a way to search for stories by name if I don't know the author?

Thanks!

Sorry my mind just randomly inserts the word sex into things sometimes.

What I really want to talk about is reviews. Does it ever become pointless to review a story?

Like if a story gets hundreds of reviews for every chapter, is it realistic to think that the author can read every one of them? ( I know some authors say that they do, but come on)

So if they are not reading them, why should I write one?

As an author, do you really expect every reader to leave a review every time you update?

And after a while does another "OMG, this is so awesome!" really make that much of a difference?

As an author do you prefer substantive comments and reviews, or is it all about seeing that little number jump higher and higher?

I'm wondering this as an author and a reader who does not leave reviews very often, only when an update really moves me or makes me think. But I am starting to wonder if I am missing out on chances to show support by just leaving words of encouragement from time to time.

So let's talk about it...and since brought it up, here's a little sex for ya:

Gawd how I love a nice back *squeee*

Hello Campers!

I have said before that I haven't read any of the twilight books. I LOVE reading Twi fanfic and I have read quite a lot of it. I feel that I know everything from the books because of that. I know about about twilight and New moon ( Depressed Bella) and Jacob and the kiss on eclipse. Breaking Dawn and the baby-uterus fiasco. Midnight Sun being leaked. I have read cannon and non-cannon. More AU New Moons that I can count. The Cullens drive me crazy. How nobody seems to get Alice right. They reduce her to a shopaholic. The back story of Rosalie and Jasper. Carlisle and Esme meeting when she broke her leg, and so on.

Anyway, I need your help. Help me decide. Should I read the books, even though I feel I know everything already?

So, to help you help me, here are some photos of my Viking

It's a warm and fuzzy morning (even tho the weather outside is frightful in lovely C-Town)...

Do you know why?  There have been some great reminders the last few days of how lovely this fandom can be....

1. The Twilight Gift Exchange has some lovely stories posted - so generous of people to go out of their way like that (mine might have posted this week, think you can spot it?)

2. The Indies have gotten some excellent traffic - and there are some killer stories nominated. Mid point validated stories go up on Sunday eve - have you submitted your nominations yet?

3. I've gotten the opportunity over the past few weeks to work with/he;p out a few great authors - Grown.Ass.Woman, Katinki, and TheHeartofLIfe1 (aka Regina Falangia here on ADF)

4. The Emmett Valentine's Day Challenge got it's first official contribution yesterday - YAY!

5. and most of all - there have been some lovely additions to the forest.  Yes, my lunch box and better half Profmom is here - but the whole new crew is fabulous (alien porn aside).

So tell me - what's making you warm and fuzzy about Fandom on a Friday morning?

I'm at the librairy trying to work on my master's thesis and well, I'm not being very serious, I'm reading fanfictions...

Anyway, there's this drop dead gorgeous guy next to me, he's studying Dante and has a lot of Italian literary criticism books on his table. University of Edward Masen anyone? =))

Twilight fanfiction has made its way into my school work! I'm doomed (or blessed depending on the point of view).

What about you? Have you ever been in one of those situations where Twilight fanfictions meet real life?

I was supposed to make my thesis. But I read twifics, reviewed a few stuff, posted on ADF, watched a bunch of trainwreck episodes (thanks to Jess and Joe for making me giggle, great stress reliever)..

and made banners..

here they are:

the team joe banner looks the best although it was the easiest and fastest to make

and I made this one for lulz (actually, with or without scruff is fine with me)

and I'd like to know...

What do you do when you procrastinate?

How long does the RL hinder you from the twific community?

How long can you go without logging on ADF or other twisites?