Any fics like that?

Ladies, I'm 34 and I know NOTHING about makeup. Never wore the stuff. Well, now I need to, and so I'm going to ask some questions, and hopefully you can help me out...

1) Do those creams they sell for removing dark circles under the eyes really work? I look like a starving Cullen with my undereye circles.

2) What about freckles/scars? Is there anything that really works at smoothing out the complexion?

3) What sort of makeup would you recommend to someone who doesn't want to spend a lot of time painting their face in the morning, and would prefer not to have to do mid-day repair jobs?

4) What about eye makeup? Do I really need it? What kind of mascara should I use, since I have a bad habit of rubbing my eyes?

5) I don't have wrinkles, but I still have an occasional outbreak of acne. How will regular makeup use affect that?

What I don't want:

What I would prefer:

My fic rec:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6688030/1/Bellas_Suicide_New_Moon_AU A strange little tale, but compelling, once you get past the first two or three chapters, which are a bit rough around the edges. It's Jasper & Bella (or maybe I should say "The Major" and Bella.) After she shoots herself, Jasper saves Bella by turning her into a vampire, but she lost so much brain tissue that she doesn't have any memories. "Baby Vampire Bella" is kind of cute.

I'm having a bit of a problem here. I've been writing a story for a while, but I can't seem to find a proper title to fit it!

Tons of authors have great titles that I can't even begin to comprehend how they came up them. For example:

The Misapprehension of Bella Swan Regarding the Inferior Intellect of Hockey Whores

It's such a mouthful, but it's so good for the story!

I don't thinking anyone but HH can pull it off.

Many authors use song titles as their title for a story, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Others use movie titles, theories, lyrics. Or they come up with one on their own.

How do you title your stories? Do you prefer making one up or getting inspiration from other works?

To make this fun, add a make up a silly title you'd like a fic to be called!

My rec:

The Earth, It Trembles by Ginginlee
A girl, a boy, a God, a life, a rebirth, an escape, an attempt at living again.
Twilight - Rated: M - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 33 - Words: 37,800 - Reviews: 796 - Updated: 4-3-12 - Published: 2-13-12 - Bella - Complete

This story is very interesting and disturbing, but worth your time!

IN NEED OF MAJOR POSESSIVEWARD FANFICS!! 

preferably ending with hot sex

+ someone rec'ed me a fic a while ago about Bella being a stripepd or prostitute and Edward being super-possessive? anyone know of it? Lost the name of that fic.

My rec:

Evading Edward

Bella's first encounter with Edward instantly leads to a mutual dislike. She is the new girl in town that has attracted more than one admirer and he's the boy who usually gets what he wants. So how will one evade when the other is set to conquer? AH

With scaryward! I just read The doll house by Kambria Rain, and i loved it! So i'm in the mood for mistery/horror storys and fics with scaryward :D 

My rec: 

The Doll House / http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5064271/1/The_Doll_House

We were all going to die. I used to be an optimistic person, but that went out the window as soon as the hot mountain man decided we were going to hunt the hunters. AH. Warning: So far, there are minor character deaths, and Edward's a little scary.

Twilight - Rated: M - English - Horror/Mystery - Chapters: 15 - Words: 45,771 - Reviews: 1189 - Updated: 7-15-09 - Published: 5-15-09 - Bella & Edward - Complete
 

I finally read the book, because I felt like after the awesome ADF games I needed to. Now I'm left perplexed. I can't believe that that, what I read, is what everyone's been talking about. I feel like I missed the point completely. If I could be pressed to come up with any emotion for it, the best I've got is meh. Meh plot. Meh characters. Meh pretty much everything. The only thing that sorts of saves the story from my thinking it genuinely sucked was the idea behind the dystopian future, not necessarily the execution of that idea, but the idea of it. The two things that bothered me the most were the ending and how perfectly Mary Sue Katniss is.

Am I the only one? What am I missing?

My rec:

Into the Wild by Miss Baby

No one who values their life ventures into the woods after dark. However, when the man Bella loves disappears in the woods surrounding Forks, does she really have another choice? AU/Canon pairings/Humans and wolves.
Twilight - Rated: M - English - Romance/Mystery - Chapters: 20 - Words: 83,853 - Reviews: 564 - Updated: 5-31-10 - Published: 2-20-10 - Edward & Bella - Complete

SWATH article with set story and some spoilers from Total Film inside.

Summer is coming!!

And with it comes the boys of summer!

No, I'm not talking about baseball.

I'm talking about our Summer Movie Blockbusters...

...you know...

...the ones with the HOT GUYS

Like....

I hope everyone is having a great Friday!

After discussion with Sri in the Humpday CF below, let us play a game!

So I present you with.....

CONSEQUENCES, Internet style!!

(if you don't know what consequences is.... click here)

I think this will work if someone starts with number 1., then number 2 is a reply to that comment and number 3 a reply to that etc. There may be more than one variation of each consequence, but that will add to the fun! 

Here is an example:

From Wikipedia:

Each person takes a turn choosing a word or phrase for one of nine questions, in this order.

Adjective for man
Man's name
MET
Adjective for woman
Woman's name
Where they met
He wore
She wore
He said to her
She said to him
The consequence was… (a description of what happened after)
What the world said
 

Then the story is read (for example):

Scary Bob met voluptuous Alice at the zoo. He wore a giant yellow banana costume She wore a lime green string vest, & a pink tutu He said "This is delicious.", she said "Hit me baby one more time." The consequence was that they eloped to Mexico. The world said "the femme fatale will always win".
 

LET US PLAY :-)

EDIT: Why not try answering with an image/gif? Or start a new consequence!

(When I used to play, we would use celebrities/public figures and gradually the game would descend into increasingly debauched territory. I'll see if I can dig out one of our old games for the hilarity!)

Dear Rangers - as this is FFA and interactive I hope it is okay! And I can't tag, I'm afraid. Nothing pops up when I click 'Add Tag'!!!!

Hello everyone! I want to ask u ladies, if someone here are interested in works of Elena Forbes an English writer of crime fiction? 

My problem is next: i'm from Ukraine and in our country is published only one book of Elena Forbes 'Die With Me'. I tried to download the following two books: 'Our Lady of Pain' & 'Evil in Return ', but my attempts  failed :( 

So do you know, if the author has this books available as a free read online, so i can read it in a legal way?

Thank you for your attention and possible assistance :)

_____

And here is my recommendation for fanfiction: The Doll House by Kambria Rain

We were all going to die. I used to be an optimistic person, but that went out the window as soon as the hot mountain man decided we were going to hunt the hunters. AH. Warning: So far, there are minor character deaths, and Edward's a little scary.
Twilight - Rated: M - English - Horror/Mystery - Chapters: 15 - Words: 45,771 - Reviews: 1189 - Updated: 7-15-09 - Published: 5-15-09 - Bella & Edward - Complete

I suppose it is FFA, as here it is Friday evening. If not, tell me and I'll be happy to add a rec.

So, finally I saw Bel Ami, and I'll try to write an unbiased review. It is a decent film, not a great film. The main defect is that it is slow in parts (the middle part). George D. is a social climber, but he is not completely evil at the beginning.In fact he has some innocence that is quite endearing. But the environment he finds himself in corrupts him quickly and when he realizes he has been played by people who despise him, he will get his revenge and prevail. I don't know if this is  the psycological portrait one finds in the book (Not my favorite, I read it eons ago) but that is what the screenplay is about. From a visual point of view the film is very good, costumes and scenes are almost perfect, I would say. The three leading ladies are very good actresses.

Now, Rob's acting. Decent too, particularly in the first half of the film, where he is more innocent. Later on ... I don't know, he is not inexpressive, far form it, maybe he moves his face too much. Better directors could have steered him better, possibly. I am very curious about the opinion of others who have seen it.

As for the love scenes ... they are hot ... but too fast. Anyway, I have nothing to complain. I'll post more gifs inside.

RANGER EDIT-THERE ARE HOT SEX SCENE GIFS OF ROBERT PATTINSON HAVING SEX AND BITING HIS LIP IN THIS CAMPFIRE THUS MAKING THIS THE MOST PERFECT CAMPFIRE EVER CREATED.

Happy Friday, campers!

It's not the happiest Friday for me, since I'm madly finishing my thesis. The good news is, my work is all about Twilight! All the research I've done over the past four months has left me wondering... Is Bella actually an empowered woman? Is there a way to read the Twilight Saga such that Bella achieves freedom and power through her romance with Edward?

As I draw my final conclusions about the Saga, I want to ask you a few questions. Will you help me?

1) Before Breaking Dawn (in which Meyer quite obviously writes Bella as the "white queen") what, if anything, did you find personally empowering about reading the Saga? What was empowering for Bella?

2) Did you feel any loss of power for Bella in Breaking Dawn?

3) What's your demographic? Married? Mother? Student? Teenager?

Are you looking for a HEA wonderfully written and funny story? Look no further my hot little campfire friends!

Weather-obsessed Bella finds Edward's journal, leading her on a trip down memory lane. Back then, Edward had run away, hoping to find a new purpose. Bella couldn't wait for her chance to escape, sure she knew what she wanted. Neither one expected this. Twilight - Rated: M - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 20 - Words: 122,316 - Reviews: 3553 - Updated: 4-13-12 - Published: 12-2-11 - Bella & Edward - Complete http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7601746/1/My_Beautiful_Storm

Happy Friday the 13th, fellow campers- I for one refuse to let the date affect my Friday!

Today,I'm setting my Pandora on the Old School mix and letting it rip.

Some of my favorite style of music is Freestlye, although I'm eclectic

Show me what gets you UP and Grooving

J

LJ Summers, that is.

Rangers wade through every campfire, answer pm’s, step in to keep us playing nice with each other, come up with new ideas and fun ways to get us involved, and try to keep a HUGE amount of campers all happy at the same time. We should thank another one.

LJ successfully writes original works and fan fics. She also betas, pimps, offers recs, and refs the heck outta the forest. Come on in and give her some love.
 

This is the campfire of Self Promotion:

THE PIMP CAMPFIRE.

Tell us about what you or a friend write. If you beta something fantastic, let us know. If you are hosting a contest, tell us about it.

Don't be shy!

http://jezebel.com/5900928/your-vagina-isnt-just-too-big-too-floppy-and-too-hairyits-also-too-brown

"Your Vagina Isn’t Just Too Big, Too Floppy, and Too Hairy—It’s Also Too Brown"

This article definitely made me think of how vaginas are described in fanfiction.

Im shocked by this.

I'm actually kind of excited to see how JK does with adult lit. The premise sound interesting

J.K. Rowling Reveals Title and Release Date of First Post–Harry Potter Book
Today 2:24 PM PDT by ALEXIS L. LOINAZ

AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano
Harry Potter's adventures may be over, but author J.K. Rowling isn't finished casting her literary spell.

One of the most successful authors of all time sent fans into a tizzy when she announced in February that she'll be penning an adult-themed novel—her first literary effort since retiring her boy wizard's wand in 2007.

Rowling didn't reveal much then, but now we've got juicy new deets about the book's title, storyline and when we can expect it to drop…

MORE: Harry Potter Grows Up? J.K. Rowling to Write First Adult Book

First up, the title: The Casual Vacancy.

Intriguing! Sounds deceptively nondescript, but with just the right curio quotient thrown in.

So what's it about? Here's a brief synopsis provided by Rowling's publisher, Little, Brown:

"When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen."

MORE: Daniel Radcliffe "Miffed" About Harry Potter's Deathly Oscar Curse

Hmmm…students, teachers, councils, ancient abbeys, battles—sounds like awfully familiar turf for Rowling, who earlier today tweeted a link to her brand-spankin'-new author website.

So when can you get your paws on Rowling's new tome?

Set your alarms for Sept. 27, 2012. And get those lawn chairs ready for what will likely be a bum-rush campout.

So, will you read it?

Read more: http://www.eonline.com/news/jk_rowling_reveals_title_release_date/308444#ixzz1rrvYrXif

I MISS HUMPDAY GAMES!!!

Come inside and lament with me about the awesomeness that was Humpday Games....i miss you RainyGirl!!!!

or suggest me Game ideas if you wanna start them again....

this is a discussion and i don't need to rec, but i love the girl who's written this, so here's for Rose:

Please Be Mine » by CozItRunInMyBlood 
'I glanced at the clock on my night stand, I internally rolled my eyes ... two minutes this time, I'm sure he's proud of himself right now.' Bella is trapped in an abusive relationship, will Edward help her, or simply add to her despair? AH/AU. ExB.
Twilight - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 31 - Words: 96,870 - Reviews: 467 - Updated: 4-8-12 - Published: 12-11-11 - - Bella/Edward

P.S. i know its probably not friday everywhere, but its friday where i'm staying, so its 'free for all' for me i hope....