A glorious thing to wake up to. 

Did you you see the Outlander Q&A last night? Tobias Menzies is actually making me look forward to Frank!  Also, Sam shares a few Rob qualities, one being that he is beautiful from certain angles, and not beautiful from others.

Do you think Outlander is poised to GO BIG, or do you think this is much ado about nothing?

OK, I'm going to clear up some things quickly.

First, for those of you who don't know who I am,  I'm the WebMaster and I wrote every line of code behind the site and am a co-owner of the company hosting the server.

There are and were no conspiracies, kerfluffles, etc - what happened is the domain registration accidentally expired, our registrar immediately sold the domain and we are looking to possibly get it back.  

One night as I was getting my son ready for bed Tor told me the site was dead and people were freaking,  I immediately found the cause (domain name gone) and bought the .net immediately myself and reconfigured the server for the new domain.  

This is why the registration changed and why it was so sudden.  It was a total "oh shit" moment as I'm not here daily, I did what I had to do to get it running again and have been VERY busy ever since.

For now the .net is working and will continue to work, spread the word to those who have not found their way.  We are working on the .com but no promises as of yet.

So everybody chill ;)

PLEASE DISCUSS INSIDE.

Also, in non-sh*tstorm related news, 

Outlander/Starz is doing a Live Q & A tonight at 9pm EST!

Welcome to the Monday Morning Hot Guy Campfire. What better way to start your week than a hot guy?

Every Monday, I'm going to dedicate a CF to the Hot Guy of the Week.The catch? The CF can ONLY be about the current nominated guy. 

We all have different tastes in men, so please don't yuck anyone's yum.If you have a man you'd like to see crowned for the week, PM or hit me up on twitter (@ffcherry) with his name

 ~  Jehovah's Sexiest Witness  ~ 

Wants YOU to Testify!

Dearly Beloved
We are gathered here today
To celebrate this thing called fanfic.
The princely power of purpledude
Joined with prosy pulchritude.

Strike a chord with the little lord of summer heat and a sexy back seat beat.

Raise a hand to the heavens, clutch your diamonds and pearls
Make a joyful noise unto the artists who really know girls
Forget the Spanx and give thanks that the homilies are free
With fic teasers from the pleasers who share their copy.

Dump the chumps and follow the scriptures
Of those who know a real amen when they write one.

So get it on the page and get on with the plot
Post a live link here & show us what you got.

Come on and have mercy. Do wrap up with a wrap-up.
 

My brother has two sets of twins (I know...): a girl and a boy aged almost six and two boys aged almost three (they share the same birthday). Ever since one of his youngest sons was six months old he wanted to wear bracelets and necklaces. Now he cries he wants to wear dresses and carry a purse. My sister in law and my mother, who sometimes babysits them, let him as he truly wants it, but tell him 'That's just for girls'.

I consider myself pretty open-minded, to a point that I honestly, honestly would prefer my daughters dated girls, esp. when they go to high school and we'll have all those date rape and unwanted pregnancies worries. I've seen many women being abused by the wrong men (my former best friend included) so why not keep that other window open?

But to go back to my brother's issue, they seem to worry not that their son will turn gay or whatever, but that he'll want to cross dress at school -and then later in life-, and 'what if he wants to be the princess at the school show? The bullying?'. There are always the employment difficulties (unless you live in Scandinavia or San Fransisco? idk), which is of course looking faaar ahead, but it does make you wonder about the disadvantaged position these people must be in. Much more if you're a man than if you're a woman. Not that it's certain that he will still want to cross dress when he grows up of course, though it does make it more probable than, say, his twin brother. Neither plays with dolls though, and I wonder if that means anything. Anyone knows such cases?

What concerns me the most is that he's started to become aggressive towards his sister, and it's hard not to suspect it's because she's so easily allowed to wear her tiaras and her pretty dresses. But then again, I do understand why they their first reaction was to tell him it's girls that do that.

Any thoughts on this?

FYT: Placebo, who I'll go see live in less than two weeks. Hope they'll be worth it!

Hi Ladies! I hope you are all doing well and I hope it's still FFA. If not, I offer my sincerest apologies.

Anyways, I was looking for your opinion.

I am in need of a new planner. Usually I buy a Lily Pulitzer planner because they're pretty and classy and do their job, and those are like the three most important things in life, right?

But this year, my friend turned me on to Erin Condren planers which are GORGEOUS and highly efficient. They're more than I would usually spend on a planner, but if I really want to, I can totally justify it to myself and my husband.

Is there another planner that you all would reccomend? One better than the two I've mentioned?

FYT, I was going to include a picture of Eric Dane as Dr. Mark Sloan from Grey's, but I can't figure out how to link a picture. Oh well.

LETTUCE DISCUSS INSIDE

OKAY. SO. I have been watching this show:

AND... I'm not gonna lie. I'm pretty unhappy with the pics for the Live Shows. ESPECIALLY this one guy that's entire "talent" is to rollerblade and pose like a teenage girl. AND HE'S LIKE 50.

But anyway...do any of you watch? If not, tell me what talent shows you like. American Idol, The X Factor, Britains Got Talent, blah blah blah.

AND, IF YOU DO WATCH, COME IN AND DISCUSS WITH ME WHY THE ROLLERBLADER SHOULD NOT BE THERE.

Feed Your E-Reader

(mostly) weekly campfire

I moved my whole household.

And then the Forest was for rent, and I was lost.

But now I'm back!!

Please post all the fabulous deals you've found this week. And if you pick up a book from a comment inside, please let your fellow campers know you did.

This CF is open to all genres and all book deals.

And don't forget to feed the trees, yeah?

Hello Campers!  Sorry for my lateness!

This week we are going to talk about what inspires you. 

ValiumWaltzes/VW/ValWaltzing: I'm not talking about JAMMF. 

We campers are a creative bunch--we write, we draw, we paint, we create.

But even if you don't have that type of outlet, we are still inspired by a great piece of poetry, novel, fic, movie or dance. 

Sometimes it's a particlar lyric of a song, or the tone of music or the way a certain piece of writing starts a fluttering in my stomach that makes me itch to want to work on my own writing.

This week I've been reading Where She Went by Gayle Foreman, which is the sequel to If I Stay. 

While I enjoyed If I Stay, it was nothing to how I felt about Where She Went.  There was something about being in Adam's head, the way she focused all the little things, the way I felt truly transported into their world, the way her writing made me forget that I was reading.  There's a certain thing that clicks off in my brain and I'm no longer figuring out how a writer wrote something, but I'm  just in their world. 

Come inside and discuss what inspires you.  Or come discuss sequels and trilogies with me.  I usually prefer the first book in a series, but this second book really resonated with me. 

This group performance choreographed by Sonya Tayeh on SYTYCD gave me chills.  She is such an inspiration to me as well.

Stay tuned, I'll likely be posting new stuff off and on. 

Why can't I be there?????!!!!!!   

Sniffle.  Oh well, at least I have December to look forward to. 

I WANT HIM!

I hope they're enjoying these first experiences with "celebrity."
 

If the show is half as good as the promotional stuff has been, we're all in for a treat!

Have you been to Comic Con?  What was your favorite part of going?