I just got this from a French friend and have to share, Pictures are inside for the well known rules about p0*rn.

Adults only, please

Since it is not free for all I add a rec

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10108743/3/Masen-Manor

It is a new story by Drotuno and it is intriguing

Masen Manor, home to a prestigious boarding school, Masen Academy. An immortal hiding from the world has his faith tested by a hundred-year-old fortune and a broken, silent girl. AU…E/B…Slightly OOC…Rated M

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.

Do you write fan fiction?

Give us a little peek!

excerpt / pictease / music / poem / banners

~ Don't forget to include a link to your story! ~

Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Basics of Creative Writing

1) Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2) Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3) Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4) Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.

5) Start as close to the end as possible.

6) Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of. (VW's note - Diana Gabaldon really took this one to heart, eh?  -- OHMYGODEVERYTHINGCOMESBACKTOOUTLANDERWITHYOUDOESN'TITFORF**KSSAKE?!!!  Er, yes?)

7) Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8) Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

Authors - Do you use any of these tips?  Do you fly by the seat of your pants?  Do you think he's on to something, or do you think he's just an old whackadoodle? 

Readers - Do you agree?  Do any of these enhance your reading experience?  I, for one, heartily agree with #8.  I'm one of those people who frequently spoil myself, both with books and movies.  Too much mystery and WTFIGO? distracts me too much from the story. 

It's FFAW, right?

I just put on an old DVD, The English Patient which I first saw when it came out eighteen years ago.  Oh wow, what a difference a couple of decades makes.  

So much I didn't 'get' in my youth!  All the nuances in the two stories.  At the time I just thought he was grumpy (though pretty hot) and I didn't understand their affair, nor much of Juliette's Binoche's journey either.    The love scene during the Christmas party embarassed me.

I GET IT ALL NOW that I am older.

It also has an amazing passionate sex scene.  Now THAT I remembered well.

It hit me today how much he's like Edward.  Brooding and silent, too intelligent and tortured.   

There's a discussion of commas that I love too.  Some great dialog.

WHAT books or films did you not really understand as a teen that you totally get now?

Arizona has done this: http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/21/us/arizona-anti-gay-bill/

Seriously.

You would think we took a step back into the 1960s. There's a thing called Civil Rights, people!

To make this interactive, how does this make you feel? Or how does it affect you personally? What are your thoughts - even if you are against gay marriage, maybe explain why.

KEEP IT RESPECTFUL, please - these things tend to heat up.

Welcome to the

Feed Your E-Reader

weekly campfire

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?

So, today Sweden was just a little bit better (than Finland) in the semifinals of Olympic ice-hockey tournament. What can I say, I may have a list of excuses, but history will only remember the result. SIGH...

Finland and Sweden have centuries of shared history, they have so much in common - and when it comes to sports, they really, really love the rivalry. (Actually, if there are any resident Swedes here, please let me know if there is at all the same kind of feeling when the rival is Norway or Denmark? Any sports?)

Like today, before the match, the correspondent of Aftonbladet*, went and decorated one of the main statues in the centre of Helsinki with the national colours of Sweden (blue and yellow, or from the heraldic point of view, blue and gold) just to get rise out of Finns.

So let me know, who are the enemies you love to hate. Is it the same for the American and Canadian ice-hockey fans? (The other semifinal, USA-CAN is 0-0, the second period just started.)

What sport, what rival, what history? Like, is there a skijumping rivalry between Austria and Germany? Or Switzerland?

(Canada just scored, I need to concentrate on the game.)

*one of the Swedish yellow papers

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If you replace the word BOUNCE with FLOUNCE, you'll get the gist of the CampFire

(Go ahead + do it, I posted the Censored version )

The idea for this came from a Fic I was reading the other day, that I just had to flounce.

Not only was the summary completely off-base to what the plot line was really about, all of a sudden, way more drama than a Telenova happened.

While I won't tell you which Fic this was, I will tell you what makes me flounce a fic

Come on in + talk about your reasons for flouncing

So, what TV shows would you like to discuss involving heroes? Arrow, Agents of Shield, Heroes, those Batman shows with Adam West...anything! Talk about your fav Superhero shows here!

(Or continue to give me more ideas on what you would like to see in this campfire in the future!)

Hi Campers,  Let's share some

Body Art

(Clearly, this is not my body art, but a picture of Four's tatts in Divergent.)

Please share pictures of your body art.  Or if you don't have pictures, feel free to share your words or comment on other people's pictures.  Or, you can show us what you plan to have done in the future.

Alternatively, come inside and talk to me about Divergent.  I'm still towards the beginning so you may have to white out a lot of spoilers, lol.  I'm trying to read more and plan on re-reading either Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 or Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase or Tim Power's The Anubis Gates.  The last one is my first choice but I can't find my copy right now.

For next week:

Let's do a picture post of our furbabies and non-furbaby pets. 

LOOK LOOK LOOK!!!!  DEAN is back!!

People, there has been so much new pretty in the world in the last 24 hours, that I can't decide whether to p00p or wind my watch.  I'm going to need my own personal cooling system if this keeps up.

Please, frolic like wood-sprites within the comments and discuss the pretty and/or the importance of co-star sexual chemistry and/or have a naughty gif party.  You decide. *shrugs*