Now, give me a damn job.

That's right, this campfire is brought to you by the great unemployment fiasco of what-year-is-it-now?

If you live in Texas and you have a child who goes to a public school, then you probably go to PTA meetings and hobnob with whatchamacallits...PRINCIPALS! yes. You speak to principals and such. I'm trying to get hired as a high school English teacher. I'm tolerably fluent in English. Help me out here.

To make this interactive, you can:

1) talk about your own job hunt

2) tell me about a teaching job in Texas I might apply to

3) critique my job hunting style

4) offer advice to me or others in the campfire

5) fix me a cocktail

fyt:

So- I have now received two very upsetting reviews to my ff today. (to me anyway)

I wanna curl up and cry that people think Bella is 'immature', needs to 'grow up and deal' and that they hope "Edward lets her have it'

This is the first chapter that is 100% how I felt and how I was dealing with things....

J

So here's the deal. I love WC's. I suck at finding motivation to write and they help me tons. Really, TONS! Problem is, there are never any WC's going on when I'm ready to write, which is like now.

So I had this idea that I need opinions on... making a posting for a WC group for this time, which is usually from around 11am until 2pm EST. There have to be some people out there that are writing now, aren't there?! There are the random days where the time is different, but it's usually around now.

What should I do? Should I make a campfire each time I'm looking to form a group? Or should I just take down gmails or skype names and hope to find someone? I think an ADF writing group would be fun, I just don't know how to go about it. Gimmie some ideas people!!! 

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This is the first picture I've seen of Bear, thought I'd post if anyone else is interested.

Looks like he has the same leash as my puppy. Let's make it interactive by posting pictures of our pets. I don't think I can do participate until I get home but have at it, guys!

I've been watching a ton of Archer lately. 

I want to read some Secret Agentward! 

I've searched the database and found very little to whet my appetite. 

Please, direct me to it!

Post pics if ya want....

So in my breaks between writing papers (I've written 50 pages worth in the past 4 days), I've rediscovered the greatness of isakassess's "This Is Not My Life".  Can anyone one recommend any good fics in which Bella (or Edward) is kidnapped and the search is on?  I tried to see if there was an ADF master list, but couldn't find one, and what I found in my meager search of ff.n was not good.  Too many "victoria kidnaps Bella during NM".  I love Criminal Minds and Without A Trace, which is why I liked TINML so much... about the search and the lives, not the overly graphic abuse and ultra cheesy immediate happily ever after.

I'll take anything, but what I'd prefer not to have is:

- Edward as Bella's kidnapper/rapist (I know Rape Romances will all the age in the 1970s, but really, that's just wrong)

- Entirely focusing on the abuse of the victim (I personally don't enjoy that, and there seems to be a lot of fics out there like that)

- Whiny, Mary-sue-esque teenagers with no character development

- Bad Writing.  (I'm an English senior, creative writing minor, on the editoiral team for my school's literary journal, and I work in the writing center. Trust me, I see A LOT of crappy writing during the day, so things like pages worth of dialogue written in ALL CAPS and poor writing style in general tend to turn my off half way through chapter 1.  I know I'm picky, but what the hey. Isn't ADF all about blending differing personalities and opinions?)   <--wow that was a long aside... the students I work with would be told to fix something like that (-:

Anyway, FYT...

and my newest obsession:

Hi Campers!

I don't know what's been going on here in the Forest lately because I've been too busy with RL, reading EP (for the first time, and OMG I think the angst is gonna kill me) and.... working on this:

Master Fic List Spreadsheet

With the help of Mary_Weather, Stardust1 and Cerebella, the Master Fic List has been put into a googledocs spreadsheet.  I have set the privacy setting that anyone who has a link can access it, so save that link (or favorite this campfire) if you're interested!  Hopefully I'll be able to keep it updated as new lists get added or fics get added to various lists.  :-)

And I want to say a huge THANK YOU to the three ladies that helped me with this.  Mary_Weather, Stardust1 and Cerebella, this would not have been possible without your help, so thank you times a million!

EDIT: If you've written a story and would like it added to a specific list, feel free to PM me with the title & link and I will be happy to add it to the list. Please make sure to specify what list(s) you want it added to.  Also, if you see something incorrect on the spreadsheet (incorrect link, story on the wrong list, incorrect author name, etc.) please PM to tell me so I can fix it.  THANKS! :-)

According to some chatter on the Twilighted forums, daniele123 (spelling?) pulled her stories. It looks like her blog and Facebook were deleted too.

I was reading Men Without Eyes and, her latest, Under the Apple Tree Mini.

Anyone have a copy of what was posted? I was behind on MWE and even without a conclusion, I'd like to read what I can, if possible.

Sooo, because I'm trying to be a good wife and not stay connected to my laptop all hours of the day (and night)... I feel disconnected from the fandom.

Come in and tell me what I missed in the last two weeks?

Your favorite updates, Rob photos, interviews, Breaking Dawn news...

Come on, people...help a sistah out!

Here's some pretteh to encourage you:

So...I've decided to go through my *cough 600 cough* updates waiting in my mailbox and I'm please to say I got through quite a few stories this evening...

I went to click on Wallbanger and it's disappeared!  Does anyone know what happened to the story?  I'm so sad I can't read the completed story!  I left off when Bella came home from their vacation, :(

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my president wielding the force for your time:

Hello,

I found fanfiction by accident approximately 2 years ago when my daughter found twilight.  I was looking for information on the books.  The first story I read was The List and I must say I was hooked.  My daughter now writes and would like to be a published author.  I have read her original work and she definitely has the makings.  She is 13.  The point to this campfire is I would like to get a Kindle to read.  I read about 5 books a week on my I phone.  Can you get to sites to read fanfiction on a kindle.  I would like to hear from someone who has one before I invest.

I love this blog site.  It makes my day and keeps me smiling. The jaw porn is not bad either!

We are a fandom where music plays a HUGE part of our world. We create playlists for our stories, youtube videos with awesome soundtracks to pimp our favorite stories, and talk about our music loves here on ADF all the time.

But what if you lost your music? Your iPod was empty? Would you cry, scream, curse all mankind?

Well I am in that hell right now, I’ve lost it all, and it was A LOT of music. So I turn to you genius fandom.

So school my ass. Tell me the music I NEED to know: your favorite artist, your favorite albums, your top played, your favorite playlists you’ve created, tell me the one artist I should download the WHOLE catalog of. I love all music and appreciate anyone willing to share their passion with me as well.

So come in, share what you love and you will hopefully introduce someone to their new music obsession.
 

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Hi babes! I am bored and the lovely ranger wtvoc approved this.

Let's chat about what is your favorite song of the moment, about the lastest book you read, your favorite TV shows or the one you're expecting. Anything... I just wanna talk.

*smiles*

Reading the responses to wckdqueen's campfire about the multiple reasons why we have such a love/hate relationship with BD, I realize that there are 2 main "currents" (Highlight to see spoilers...if there is someone unaware of the plot ¿?)

1. Renesmee-friendly:...they respect the idea of the hybrid child and the plot of the book, but don't like how it is written: the characters are OCC, the whole story is lost in this final chapter, there are not answers to question being asked in all the other books and even when in this world the birth of the child is totally possible, the book it's just too weird.

2. Renesmee-haters: for them there is no way SM wasn't high when she wrote such a horrible thing. The pregnancy is a terrible mistake and from that point everything goes downhill...it makes no sense at all and it should be burned or something.

So, after all this I couldn't help but wonder

Which side is yours?

Which is the perfect ending for the saga?
 

Poor Rob and his peeping t and a ways. He always gets caught and shot taking a quick peep at peoples goods on the red carpet.

But I'm a peeper too. Male, female - if someone's goods are exposed in some way, I'll peek like a naughty school boy too. I peep my own boobs sometimes  when I'm driving, it's like second nature. I was peeping at Reeese's boobs in the pictures earlier, and I didn't even have to peep-I was alone in my bedroom!

So what say you, are you a peeping Rob? do you get a thrill from sneak peeks? Are you sly or do you get caught peeping? I always get caught....

Okay...this is my first campfire, so please bear with me if I make a mistake by even posting this here. BUT...I am seriously devastated over the ending of a long fanfiction story that was one of my absolute favorites. (Not sure if I can post the name) The last chapter, plus the A/N we received today has left me crying and depressed. I am not going to be able to read the epilogue, and for me that is a first. This was a long and involved story that I was so emotionally swept away with...and now it appears that it will be HF and NOT HEA. I never saw it coming, and I think that's what has left me so sad and upset.

Is it just me, or should an author foreshadow, or at least describe her story as angst or whatever if there is going to be a beloved characters death? Am I just a big ole emo baby who can't deal wiith HF? Probably. I know I'm not as blythe or snarky as I probably should be when it deals with anything other than an HEA.  I know I need to toughen up...but HOW?

I guess I need a happy and sexy one shot. Or maybe just a shot...or two.

Saoirse Ronan is cast in The Host.

Why why why.

She was one of my favorite child actors...

On IMDB, from deadline.com:

EXCLUSIVE: Saoirse Ronan has been set to star in The Host, the screen adaptation of the bestselling novel by Twilight Saga author Stephenie Meyer. Scripted by Andrew Niccol, the film figures to be one of the hot titles when Inferno launches sales at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival next week. Niccol, who was originally set to direct, might resurface as the filmmaker.

Ronan, the Oscar-nominated star of Atonement, The Lovely Bones and most recently Hanna, will play Melanie Stryder, one of the last humans putting up a fight against an alien species called Souls. These parasites invade human bodies, fuse to each person's consciousness and systematically erase their personalities. Melanie is captured by the aliens and implanted by a Soul called Wanderer, something of a legend because of all of the "hosts" she has attached to on numerous planets. Wanderer's goal is to get Melanie to give up the remaining pockets of humans, but instead the alien finds Melanie to be unique in her unwillingness to surrender her consciousness. Wanderer is so overwhelmed by Melanie's memories and feelings, the alien is driven to reconnect with Melanie's old life.

Never read The Host, tbh.  But if the Twilight success is any indication, it looks like Saoirse will have to work after this movie to get back where she used to be in terms of career moves.

She was doing so well, too.  I adored her in Atonement and Hanna.

If you didn't already know, she is just a visually stunning figure.  Her eyes are freaking hypnotic, man: