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BE AMAZED AT HOW B-E-A-UUUUTIFUL MY QUEEN ANGIE LOOKS. 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Winner: Christopher Plummer for Beginners (2010)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy
Winner: Laura Dern for "Enlightened" (2011)

Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Winner: "Downton Abbey" (2010)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Winner: Kate Winslet for "Mildred Pierce" (2011)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama
Winner: Kelsey Grammer for "Boss" (2011)

Best Television Series - Drama
Winner: "Homeland" (2011)

Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Winner: The Artist (2011) - Ludovic Bource

Best Original Song - Motion Picture
Winner: W.E. (2011) - Madonna, Julie Frost, Jimmy Harry("Masterpiece")

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Winner: Idris Elba for "Luther" (2010)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Winner: Michelle Williams for My Week with Marilyn (2011)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Winner: Peter Dinklage for "Game of Thrones" (2011)

Best Animated Film
Winner: The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Winner: Midnight in Paris (2011) - Woody Allen

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Winner: Jessica Lange for "American Horror Story" (2011)

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: A Separation (2011)(Iran)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama
Winner: Claire Danes for "Homeland" (2011)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy
Winner: Matt LeBlanc for "Episodes" (2011)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Winner: Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011)

Best Director - Motion Picture
Winner: Martin Scorsese for Hugo (2011/II)

Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy
Winner: "Modern Family" (2009)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Winner: Jean Dujardin for The Artist (2011)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Winner: Meryl Streep for The Iron Lady (2011)

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Winner: The Artist (2011)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Winner: George Clooney for The Descendants (2011)

Best Motion Picture - Drama
Winner: The Descendants (2011)

Thanks for joining me! =D

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I'd always seen her as Esme and just accepted her as a convincing member of the supporting cast.  Today I was sitting in bed (my perch these days as my second surgery's recovery isn't going so hot) and came across a movie called "Sweet Land"

Lo and  behold there is Ms. Reaser.  She is completely captivating me in this movie!

Aside from Patz and Stew, are there any movies you could recommend that I see from the other cast members BEFORE their Twi participation?

My Rec:

A Handsome Woman
AH - collab w/ Viola Cornuta *CO-WINNER JUDGES' CHOICE: Curvaceous and Bodacious Contest* He took her on faith, and, with a pot of shamrock, she traveled to an unknown shore to become his wife. Rated M for future chapters
Twilight - Rated: M - English - Romance/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 9 - Words: 79,739 - Reviews: 184 - Updated: 11-4-11 - Published: 4-13-11 - Edward & Siobhan

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6901335/1/A_Handsome_Woman

Happy Sunday!!!

Are you looking for a new story to read? Do you respond well to teasers? Then check out the teasers from last week at my PicTease site. 

Here ere is the list of stories teased.

PicTeasers:

A Dove's Cry by karenec

Disregarded Consequence by SweetLovinCullen

Everything I Knew by MissJanuary

Following Faith by Jen328

Not Going There by luckyirishtart

Plight Thee My Troth by Gingerandgreen

Someone Like You by bellasunderstudy

Such a Tease by TwiLucy_UK

The Breakers by les16

The Cassolette by MaBarberElla

The Pilgrimage by Camilla

Teasers Unplugged:

A Dove's Cry by karenec

You Belong to Me by twidictedbyrd

Come by and check them all out. I hope you find a new story to love.

Just in case you would like more info about my PicTease site. 

I accept picture teasers here for your new chapters until midnight CST on Sunday's, and I post and tweet them out on Monday's. (ex. http://pictease.twificnews.com/through-the-blaze-chapter-22-by-krnycorn/ )

I accept music teasers (Teasers Unplugged) for your new chapters here until 7pm CST on Wednesday's, and I post and tweet them out on Thursday's.  (ex. http://pictease.twificnews.com/teasers-unplugged-love-story-chapter-12-by-everydaybella/ )

Have you ever seen a fanflick? This is like a trailer for a fanfiction story.  Well if you have one for your story that you'd love people to see, or you have one that you love for someone else's story then submit it here and I post and tweet these on Friday's in the order they are submitted.  I usually post one or two a week. (ex. http://pictease.twificnews.com/fanflick-scotch-gin-and-the-new-girl-by-withthevampsofcourse-and-jandco/ )

If you're looking for a new story & you enjoy being visually or musically teased, come check it out, you just might find something new to love.

Follow me on twitter @TwiSherry for the tweets to the teasers.

So today what I need to hear are your stories of conquering the odds. Just because they are stacked against us does not mean we are down for the count. It happens over and over again. I just want to be reminded with some real stories. Big or small. Failing grades to fight of your life. Hope, like yawns, is contagious.

And what I want to hear about are your recipes for people going through chemo treatment. I know a few months ago there was a cf about this and I didn't heart it because I didn't want to need it... But we've known it was a possibility for a while now... SO if anyone has a link to that cf or recipes to share it'd be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

My rec: A Federation of Cassandras (I still don't get the name but I know there's something behind it lol) If Renesmee had been a little older she would have known that you can't do that forever—bite your lip and hope no one notices that something is killing you. Eventually you scream or fall over or bleed out on the ground, and everyone knows. Everyone knows and it's already over.

And that's exactly what happened.

So this came up  as a side discussion in a thread several months ago, and I wanted to get far enough away from the thread that it wouldn't be in any way in response to the author of the original thread, becasue it's not mean t to be. (I don't even remember who started it, tbh.) 

But there was a discussion about how people have different preferences in fic. And what hit me was that even though from my vantage point, all a preference is is a prefence, there's often a lot of baggage attached to it. For instnace, preferring vampfic means you're snooty, loving smut means you're shallow, liking a super-popular fic means you're just a sheep. We've all encountered those and similar judgments, or seen them attached to others. Because of that, I think sometimes folks can feel attacked for what they like, instead of having it feel no different than checking out at the bookstore with a romance vs. a contemporary mainstream novel vs. a fantasy novel.

So I'd like to do an experiment. Tell me, forest, 

What Don't You Read? 

I'm not talking about the "Oh, if it's exremely well-written, it doesn't matter." And I'd like to get away from the, "I love to read everything" kinds of conversations because the truth is, when you're stuck fic-diving, chances are there are things you go looking for over others to help you cull the pile. I think it goes without saying that the right fic can knock anyone off their feet and make them reconsider the things they enjoy in fanfic, and that most of us are open to reading anything if it comes strongly recommended, but I also think that most of us do have things that, if all else is equal, are going to make us choose to give our time to fic A over fic B. And that those differences should be discussed openly and celebrated without attaching extra meaning to them.

If this goes right, I hope it will be a showcase, almost like our Master Fic List, of how there's a lot of diversity in our fandom. So I'm thinking pairings, I'm thinking AH vs. vamp, I'm thinking historical vs. modern, I'm thinking romance vs. thriller, I'm thinking pack vs. Cullens, smut vs. UST, take your pick. 

What do you disprefer to read? What floats your boat? What's going to be the deciding factor between Fic A and Fic B if they're both kind of okay? And even more interesting, when do you reach for a fic that is kind of okay because it has the features you want, instead of the fic that is amazingly well done but just not really up your alley? And what, if you had your way, would you like to see more of in fandom? Order it up. And lets just see how different our orders are. 

And if you've got some thoughts on why preferences have turned into judgments, I'd love to hear those, too. 

Good day ladies!  How's the fittness going?  You holding up okay?

Homework:  What is helping you motivate yourself?

24/7 Support - ADF Fit Club LJ Community

Also its never too late to join in. ; )

It's Forest Ranger, VampiresHaveLaws' birthday today!

Come wish Kim a happy day!

It's written by CarrieCee and I spent the entire night reading it after having heard about it on Edwardville. I quickly fell in love with it and am hounding my email willing there to be another update.

Is anyone else reading this? I'd love to discuss it- theories, reactions, etc...

Here's the summary and link:

When a hazing prank goes wrong, troublemaker Edward is thrown together with the unpopular daughter of the Police Chief. Bella Swan was the last person Edward was likely to fall for. But Bella has a lot to teach Edward about himself, love, life and loss.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7440948/1/In_Places_No_One_Will_Find

My theories/thoughts are inside.

SPOILERS INSIDE

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR NOLE

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

Hip Hip Horray to the wonderful author that gave me the wonderful Smugward

I know I had another cf on this story somewhere below, but she just posted THREE more chapters, you can't tell there are more chapters than the first one when you go to the first chapter, the adf e-mail notifications are not working so you can't tell if people are posting comments in an older cf and need to scroll all the way down and open the cf, and OMG THIS STORY IS GETTING VERY VERY INTERESTING AND I KEEP CHECKING MY INBOX ALL THE TIME AND I HAVEN'T DONE THAT IN LIKE FOREVER AND OMG (please hold my hand if she abandons it)

Chapter 5 (E/B shippers, brace yourselves. Him saying he's partial to her was even worse, imo): Sex and Lies

Chapter 6: Power and Jacob (see pic below)

Chapter 7: Sticks and stones (aka Alice is nuts but the only sane etc)

To make this interactive (lol as if I wasn't going to say this anyway): Is it me or are we having an influx of fantastic AU E/B angsty stories? Is AU the new BDSM? Are we going back to black basics? And am I the only one who can't accept a vamp Edward passing off as human having GREEN eyes?? He looks soooo damn good with dark eyes damn it, we deserve any chance we get.

Exhibit A: (despite the dark eyes, it's not that unrelated to the story because of the Jacob/Bella watching scene)

ETA: HOLY **** GUYS SHE JUST UPDATED AND LOOK AT THE DARK EYE REFERENCE AT THE END

Chapter 8: Black and Blue

ETA II: Yes, another update. Wonder what will show up in the photo hmm

Chapter 9: Weak and strong

Bro related. I'm worried and I need to vent. Check inside...

Recently, I went surfing through some old documents littering my Fanfiction folder and what did I discover?

A chapter by chapter outline for an entire story.

It took me several minutes to remember that I had typed it up right before bed one night.  The story hadn't crossed my mind since.  I generally take the organic approach when writing, so to say that this little doc took me by surprise would be an understatement.

When was the last time you sifted through your own forgotten stories/plot ideas?  Do you have stories that you once started, but then lost interest in and have no intention of posting?

If they're doomed to rot away, why not post a snippet here? =)

Put all your comments and observations here....

I know some of you are fans of the tv show Roswell. Well Shiri Appleby has a new web series (only seen online I guess) called Dating Rules from my Future Self. It is very cute and very much a chick flix sort of show. Three episodes have been posted and here is where you can see them. (also available on facebook) I was wondering, is anyone else watching? thoughts on the show?

If not, lets make it all about Roswell. Post pics, favorite episodes, etc. You name it you post it cause its SO ROSWELLIAN!

I am sorry if none of this makes sense...I am enjoying some of my favorite wine and its been a LONG week.

YAY I remembered it's FFA :D Ok, so I need help. I'm getting another tattoo next month, A quote that says

"I love you much (most beautiful darling) more than everyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky"

And I'm not sure where to put it. I already have a tattoo on my back so want to avoid there.

Where would YOU get a quote done? If have a quote tattoo, show us?

Please & thank-you in advance :)

So recently, I was thinking about Washed Up and how much I love it and how I wish it would update, which made me start thinking about other stories I liked that haven't updated in a while, which got me wondering, does anybody know whatever happened to Hiding in Plain Sight by Limona, Washed Up by xrxdanixrx, or A Room With a View by shorthappylife?

I'm not sure if this is required for this type of fire, but here's a rec anyway.

Stranded by Beth818 is currently owning me.

Edward and Bella get on the same plane, but it crashes in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Bella and Edward are the only survivors, and they luckily find a deserted island to stay on until someone finds them. But can they survive each other?

I read this story that was called Bad News Bella, and was wanting to read it again because I loved it, but I can't find it. Did the author pull it? Or maybe I have the title wrong. The summary is that Bella's a news reporter who keeps saying dirty words on the air. She and Edward begin tracking this serial killer, get married, and have a kid. If someone could tell me if it was pulled or I just messed up the title, I'd appreciate it.

My rec:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7303130/1/bDirt_b_bRoads_b

A funny, sweet, awesome story that has my favorite Edward, Southernward!

As I have mentioned before on here, DH is a Brit Bike fan. This is his 'clan' He's Retchy

J

** I Forgot the whole 'interactive' thing-tx LJ

Tell me what you think about motorcycles in general- do you ride? If not- why? What about style of motorcycle? I myself prefer the cafe style and am partial to Triumph

omg brb reading

Chapter 16: Break the whole of life

How tf do I find a picture for this??

Perhaps this is a build on Raggdolly's CF below.

So, I had an interesting experience this morning regarding a survey I put out on twitter yesterday.

See, I'm in the outlining phase of an original work. If it's good enough and if I have the wherewithal to actually complete it, I might just try to do something with it.

The survey was "market research" if you will, just a quick way to test how closely what I have in my head matches preferences from a reader audience. I'm a researcher, so... this is the kind of thing I do.

Note: this has nothing to do with my fics, which I continue to write and enjoy, so don't think I'm jumping ship, LOL. 

But anyway, one of the responses I received was... rather hateful and unnecessary. And it kind of befuddled me that someone would take the time to write it. (I'll include it as a comment since it contains some not-so-nice language).

Subsequently, I had a brief conversation with a friend of mine and we were theorizing the reasons and whyfores of the reaction I received (again, see comments).

Our discussion then proceeded to more general observations.

We've observed that when someone - anyone - makes a move to leave the fandom to pursue publishing or original works in general, be it pull to publish OR purely original, there's this very negative response from members of the fandom.

I have some theories on why this occurs.

I'd like to hear yours.

SINCE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT PULL TO PUBLISH TO DEATH, LET'S STICK TO ORIGINAL WORKS.

AND PLAY NICE

So to summarize:

Why do people in the fandom react negatively to someone choosing to move from fanfic to original fiction?