Hi!

I heard this bit on the radio this morning:

Nothing is worse than ___________________.

Fill in the blank.

Here are mine (which all happened to me in the past few days):

Nothing is worse than realizing your kid just pooped in the bathtub.

Nothing is worse than realizing there's a hole in the bottom of the trash bag and you've dripped a trail of nasty garbage juice on the floor.

Nothing is worse than realizing someone ate that candy bar you had been saving for when you really wanted it.

Nothing is worse than going to put your last pair of contacts in only to realize that one of them is torn.

Nothing is worse than realizing that, yes, you really are going to hurl. Right now.

YOUR TURN!

Chaos

Anarchy

Revolution

I have been watching http://vimeo.com/18064000  and http://vimeo.com/18280328

Are there other such wonders out there that I need to be seeing?  Has anyone ever done these rebellious acts?  Had a friend that did them?  What is the KUHRAYZEEE-EST thing you've ever done?

I like to watch others do stuff, but have never partaken of the fine wine of adrenaline...other than the fact that I had three boys, which, is an adventure in and of itself.

and if anyone can tell me how to make videos be in the main campfire window, instead of links, you'd have yourself a friend for life.

Another story pulled from FFnet :(

This morning I discovered, through twitter, that Pornward - from Bang -  is gone. I had just put this story on my list at the rec of a friend and now it's gone. So does anyone know what the author's name is that wrote Bang? I wanted to check the profile, but I am completely at a loss...

Hello all! I have just realized that i am really uneducated when it comes to the old cinema. I generally don't like watching old movies, because well, i'm stupid. What made me realize it, you ask?

THIS MOVIE!

It is now my ultimate favorite movie!

I've also watched and liked this

And this

But i want MORE!!! So rec some good old movies and educate me!!!

So, hi everyone.

First of all, this is my first campfire - YAY! :)

since it’s FFFA, I thought I could talk to all of you lovely ladies about something that’s been bugging me for a while. I’ve been together with my boyfriend for just two months now, but I have a lot of doubts. I’ll explain it in the comments and hope I can get some advice or your opinions!

I'm curious.

The first TwiFic I read was a vampfic by the name of Distractions.  It was rated T and detailed Edward's attempts to distract Bella from wanting to have sex on their honeymoon.  Immediately after reading that fic I found LolaShoes.  Her story, Let Your Light Shine, is the story which turned me into a fanfic junkie.

The first AH story I read was Heartache by Oohlalaa.  It still remains one of my all time favorites.

So tell me, what was the first story you ever read?  More importantly, what was the first story you read that hooked you on twific?

I am a 27-year-old mother of one.

I am too d@mn old to feel like crying over a pair of jeans.  

Please help me find some jeans that don't make me want to kill myself go all Heidi Montag and gets tons of plastic surgery.

Rest of my sad, sad story in comments.

Hello, lovelies. It is I, back from the evil flounce dead. Minus the evil, flouncing, and dead part.

See, after moving to our new house, I was out of internet for three months.

But people aren't lying when they say that the twilight world is like crack. I HAD to come back. Just couldn't stay away. The minute we got internet  I was back at every twilight page... slowly announcing my appearance. Thought I'd do it here to. I was gone,and now I'm here again... and: I MISSED ALL OF YOU SO VERY, VERY MUCH!.

Still, me being back had some thoughts go through my head. Like flouncing. People have done it. They've POOF disappeared. Sometimes they announce it, and other times they just make their way off the map. And it made me wonder... how would you flounce?

If you were going to disappear from a fandom, any fandom... how would you go?

Would it be a quiet leave, or would you go out with a BANG? Something big... like telling the whole fandom to suck it?

Well, here's your chance. Make up your flounce. Tell me how you'd do it. Let's see if we can find the best flouncer.

And ps... I don't think I'd ever flounce. After three months without u guys...  I thought I'd go crazy.

It's FFA.  Go Bananas.

GET IN HERE AND DISCUSS THE NEW EPISODE OF THE VAMPIRE DIARIES.

PLEASE?!

ETA: *mega spoiler alert*

ok so I was watching this interview with J.R. Ward

Let's Play Either/Or:

The time has come for me to start a new fic.

Shall I read Branching Inward by Life in the Snow or Click & Strum by BrattyVamp?

Be prepared to defend your choice.

To make this interactive, would you rather:

Date someone outside your political party like Edward in The Cullen Campaign or:

Have dirty restroom sex with an impossible partner like Bella in Imperfectly Perfect?

Give me some more "Would you rathers..."!

BONES DISCUSSION CAMPFIRE- THE GRAVEDIGGER EDITION

THE GRAVEDIGGER IS BACK

I HAVE HIGH HOPES FOR THIS ENTIRE STORYLINE

DISCUSS THE GRAVEDIGGER- YOU KNOW, THE ONE WHO BURIED DR. BRENNAN AND DR. HODGINS ALIVE AND THEN TRIED TO BLOW BOOTH TO SMITHEREENS IN AN OLD RETIRED AIRCRAFT CARRIER

I WILL RETURN AFTER LIZ LEMON ONCE AGAIN, BUT I EXPECT MANY ALL CAPS COMMENTS ABOUT THIS EPISODE WHEN I COME BACK

IF ANYTHING, TALK ABOUT HOW FED UP YOU ARE WITH well, everything, really

and also, i do not tolerate spoilers for unaired episodes, but anything else is fair game

the only cast member to remain consistent and faithful to his original character for your time:

Campers!!!!

Click & Strum Is Complete!!!!!

What do you thing of the end?

As was posted YESTERDAY, there is going to be a return of three classic weekly campfires 

Mondays will be for Pimping your stuff and others because we want to know about YOU and Tuesdays will be the AMNESIA campfire because, face it, there has been a billion of these lately and if we can wrangle them in one place, it would be a very good thing. 

But tonight is the return of this.....

It is time to Rec that fic you have been reading that EVERYONE should read.

This is NOT the time to give us what has thousands of reviews, we want the diamonds in the rough, those gems that you are not even sure you want to share because they are so good you may want to keep them for yourself.

We want to know what YOU are reading and WHY YOU LOVE IT.  This is most important because sometimes we are sitting on a mountain of recs and we don't know if it's our style. 

As always make sure to link it and please, if you are reading something that someone recommended, let us know! Even if it's to say something that you don't like about it.

We are here to be educated on the state of quality fanfiction!

I am expecting a lot of you campers, don't let me down!

I don't want to take over the forest today and post to much so I'm making two campires into one.

# 1-- I already watch True Blood and read tons of fanfic. I don't want to waste my time and watch VD if it sucks. I need your honest opinion. Tell me why I should watch it. Or why I shouldn't.

#2-- If I had a Jacob this guy at the botton would be it.

I really, really just needed an excuse to post that picture. Forgive me. Edit: I had to add just one more picture. Please bear with me.

An this SNL clip because I think is hilarious.

Now, is your turn to help me, or make fun of me because I'm random, or just show love for Rafa Jacob.

I am certainly not the most frequent reviewer but I try to let a writer know that I like what is going on in the story of the fics I do read.  Usually, my reviews aren't in depth at all.  I may make a comment or two about something but mostly it's "I really liked it and thank you for sharing it" sort of remark.  Forgive me please talented authors I have done this to -- I know I suck at this.

And as an author, I am always so thankful that people take the time to read my stuff never-the-less to review it.  It's so nice to know that someone appreciates it, yanno?

Considering all of this, I think it would be nice to suggest the kind of comments that are appropriate to leave when you do review.

1. Thanks.  -- Thanks are always appreciated.  

2. Comments about how the story impacted you?  A scene that inspired you.

3. Quotes that you thought were especially enjoyable or poignant.

4. A Question clarifying something that you didn't get.

5. Concrit.   Just remember there are kind and compassionate ways of saying anything you want.  Try the sandwich method. Tell them something good, give a suggestion, tell them something good.   As Mary Poppins said, "A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down."

Here are the sorts of suggestions that I've not found helpful as an author:

1. POST SOON.  I think most authors are posting as they can.  Fanfic is a hobby and done in people's spare time when the spirit moves them.  Not a lot of people have spare time and sometimes when they do, the muse is not there.  The only reason I can post as often as I do is that my kids are grown and I got tired of wrestling my husband for the TV remote.

2. GIVE US MOAR DETAILED SEX.  I find writing sex scenes difficult.   For the type of stories I write, and this may be a reflection of my old-fogginess, graphic sexy times would be out of place.   There's only so many ways it can be described and I, myself, prefer romantic rather than graphic --- well, anyway, what I am trying to say is I write what I feel works best.  If it needed to be more graphic, I would write it that way if I could.

3. WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO ___________?  Please don't ask me to reveal my plot points to you before I've told them.  That's what the story is for in the first place.

4. I THINK THIS IS WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO _____________.  AM I RIGHT?  Ain't gonna tell you that either.

5. THIS ISN'T CANON.  No, it resembles canon in some ways but not in all, else I would have strangled a few major characters.

And that's about all I can think of now. 

Do you have any more?

Gratuitous Picture:

He's such a nice boy. 

GAW said I could post this.  Thanks.  I hope your pants are fired up.

I just saw this on CNN and cannot stop raging.

Store reverses decision to hide Elton John magazine cover

(CNN) -- An Arkansas supermarket reversed its decision Wednesday to hide a magazine cover showing Elton John and his same-sex partner David Furnish holding their new baby.

The shield placed over the current issue of Us Weekly read "Family shield to protect young Harps shoppers."

The Arkansas-based grocery chain lets managers at its 65 stores decide when customers complain if the shield is needed, but it is usually for photos that are "sexually provocative or too revealing," Harps Food Stores President Kim Eskew said.

Complaints poured into the chain's headquarters this week after photos of the shielded magazine spread across internet blogs and news websites.

"When we began receiving complaints at our corporate office, we reviewed the magazine in question, removed the shield and are selling the magazine in all our locations today without any cover," Eskew said Wednesday. "Our true intention is not to offend anyone in our stores and this incident happened at just one of our 65 locations, which, when brought to our attention, we reversed."

Us Weekly West Coast Bureau Chief Melanie Bromley, who wrote the cover story, said the issue has been a good seller for her magazine.

"It's been very compelling for them (readers) and people have really felt the emotion with them (John and Furnish)," Bromley said. "So people have wanted to read about it and see the first pictures of little Zachary."

Bromley's seen no complaints from readers about having a gay couple with a baby on the magazine's cover.

"As far as I'm aware there was no negative feedback at all," she said. "I had not one email of any negative message at all. The only kind of feedback I got was positive, that people are so happy for them."

People Magazine put another same-sex couple with their newborns on front of its January 10, 2011 issue. But the photo of Neil Patrick Harris and partner David Burtka with their twins was only a small image on the margin of the cover.

When People featured photos of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi when they married in 2008, it was one of the magazine's best-selling issues that year, a spokeswoman said.

What the hell is wrong with people? It's somehow WRONG to show a picture of a family because it doesn't meet the 'normal' definition of family? Who are these people to judge?!?!? Are there really no more serious problems than this to battle against???

Pardon me!  Buzzing through! Working on my THIRD BETA READING project of the day...!

We've been talking a lot about Oldies but Goodies lately here in the Forest.  Rec us your favorites here in this fire so we can add the CLASSICS OF FAN FIC to the MASTER FIC LIST.

Criteria include:

A classic can be re-read and enjoyed time and again. So bring on the fics you read more than once.

A classic is complete. A one-shot or multi-chapter, it is available in its entirety. Somewhere.

A classic is of good quality. Something someone can point to as a FINE EXAMPLE of its kind.

AH or AU, all ratings, all pairings.  

Remember the RULES:

1.  Keep it simple.

2. No discussions.

Now, I've gotta jet...bookishqua wants me to oversee/referee a discussion her characters are having...  ;-)

Robert Pattinson Causes a Stir at a Louisiana Deli
By Mark Lambert

Thursday January 27, 2011 12:00 PM EST

Robert Pattinson

Splash News Online
Facebook Twitter E-mail He's busy filming Breaking Dawn in Baton Rouge, La., but during a recent lunch outing at a local deli, Robert Pattinson ended up feeding his fans' appetites.

"A couple of girls who work in here are young … and they were absolutely star struck," a source at Maxwell's Market, where the actor dropped in for sandwiches, tells PEOPLE.

Pattinson is a repeat customer at the deli and, despite the attention he earned from the younger employees, the source says he's just like any other customer. "He's just a regular guy, and that's how we try to treat him," says the source.

During his most recent visit, Pattinson was accompanied by an unidentified male friend and "grabbed a couple of sandwiches and left," the source says.

As for his costar, and off-screen love Kristen Stewart, she hasn't dropped by the deli … yet. "I haven't seen her in here," the source says. "But I'm keeping my eye out."