I know campers aren't too fond of "help I can't find this fic" posts, but I am a girl in need that's starting her Christmast break and needs to get back in touch with her fanfic.

So, please kind campers, does anyone know the name of a fic about a free-spirited country girl Bella who gets her job back as a nurse for city boy Edward? And Jessica is Edward's (or was) city-girl girlfriend. And I clearly remember pie. Yes, there was pie.

Thanks so much, dearies!

I was reading a story on ffnet and then my Internet crashed. I have no idea what the name of it was so I'm hoping that someone can help me.

It's set in the wild west and Edward is half native American. Bella's father is a drunk and beats her and she's promised to Mike Newton. Edward wins Bella's hand in marriage during a card with Charlie. That's about as far as I gotten.

Thanks in advance. :)

Hi!

Whoa. We have had a huge amount of new campers come and join us over the last month or so. WELCOME! We are thrilled to have you here. The Rangers have been getting a lot of questions about what can and can't be done here in the forest and we decided to do this post to make things clear for everyone.

A Different Forest is NOT just a Twilight website. Yes-it's true! Our main focus is Twilight but we are VAMPIRE friendly at all times. This means that we encourage and want you to make campfires about ALL THINGS VAMP! (Vampire Diaries (including the cast members), True Blood (including the cast members), The Black Dagger Brotherhood, The Vampire Chronicles, etc). We are in discussions and hope to add some other vamp fic as well. Please feel free to post anything related to vampires at any time.

If the Twilight cast is in it, then we want you to post about it. Water for Elephants? YES! Welcome to the Rileys? Absolutely. And well-you get the idea. Whatever the entire Twilight cast is doing on that particular day, feel free to shout it out!

Harry Potter. We can't compete with the mega-sites in that fandom nor do we want to. But Robert was Cedric and that makes anything HP fair game here so post away.

Be a fire-starter-we encourage off-topic posts! If you have an off-topic idea, please just email, PM, tweet, or gchat a Ranger about it. We are very accessible and want the best conversations here in the forest so don't be shy!

Free for All begins on Thursday night at midnight (technically Friday morning) and runs through Saturdays at 5 p.m. EST. You can post about anything and everything without getting Ranger approval during this time.

A Different Forest is YOUR community and it will be what you make it. Don't like a post? Start another one. Have an idea for a debate? Speak up. Want to get to know people better? Comment more. We are here to work with you on making ADF a thriving, vibrant community full of conversations and discourse (and of course eye-candy).

If you have any questions, please put them in the comments. Thank you all for being here.

We're dreamimg of a CANON CHRISTMAS

and we want you to write it for us.

Here's the deal: Write 500 to 1000 words about the Twilight characters of your choice ( and I mean the BOOK CHARACTERS: vampires or werewolves or highschoolers (i.e. Angela, Lauren, Jessica, Mike, etc.) or parents (i.e. Renee, Sue, Billy, Phil) or police (i.e. Charlie, Mark), but if you pick humans you HAVE to include at least one significant supernatural character in the story) at Christmas.

Here's the detail:  The story can be jolly, violent, romantic, angsty, sappy, fluffy, smutty (but please keep it PG13), or impossible, as long as the CHARACTERS are Canon (LIKE THEY ARE IN THE BOOKS).

If you have romance of any kind or RELATIONSHIPS OF ANY KIND, we want CANON COUPLES and CANON RELATIONSHIPS only. Thank you.

And in case you missed it up there, THE STORIES MUST HAVE A CHRISTMAS THEME and again-THIS IS CANON.

This contest is looking for the best story, so it will be judged MAINLY on the storytelling and plot, BUT things like grammar and spelling are contributing factors, so don't enter something that you haven't even proofread.

Here're the rules:  Each entrant is allowed only one entry, and no collaborative efforts can be acknowledged due to the fact that the winner will be the one Camper who posted the winning entry.

Entries under 500 words or over 1000 words will be disqualified.

Entries must be posted IN THIS CAMPFIRE.  Campers, feel free to comment on the entries as you read them here. These extra little holiday themed stories are supposed to fun for everyone and our special Forest treat to all.

Rangers are ineligible. Don't even try to fool me.

Side note from wolvesnvamps: NO RENESMEE. ANY STORIES CONTAINING, MENTIONING, FEATURING, OR REFERENCING RENESMEE WILL BE DISQUALIFIED.
 

Tick tock:  And finally, as with all our 12 days of Christmas games, the competition is open for 24 hours from the time this is posted, and the winner will be announced on FRIDAY NIGHT about 48 hours from the opening of this competition, in order to give the judges (the entire Ranger staff) ample time to read all entries and vote. See the above map of timezones so you can calculate the open hours of competition wherever you are in the world.

Oh, and you want a prize?

Since participants of this game enjoy reading, how about a $100 Amazon gift card?

Yep.

Ho ho ho.

THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. WE DO LOOK AT THE TIMESTAMPS FOR THE COMMENTS TO SEE WHEN ENTRIES ARE POSTED.

THANK YOU FOR PLAYING.

WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED TOMORROW EVENING (FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17)

Of all the Twilight Saga books, I loved the first one best. And unlike MOST, I don't mind the fade to blacks, and overall chasteness found in the series. Because what enraptured me so, was the way E and B loved one another in that all-encompassing, "we've created our own world that no one can enter" kind of way. It was so intense to me and it sucked me in in such a way that I might have neglected my kids for a week straight just to finish the books. 

I am about to be off work for a full week and need some reading material. Since I finished the Twi-books so long ago, I have not been able to find another book or series in which the main characters share that kind of "thing" that E and B shared. Can anyone rec me something that comes even close?

i'm just gonna leave this right here.....

the full HD trailer can be found on iTunes

gif made by oscar519.

oops. forgot to add GAW approved this. 

omg that font turned out amazingly

so, i'm still stuck for ideas for a couple of people.  let's make this a GIMME IDEAS campfire.  you post the people you still need gifts for (and the max you're willing to spend), we respond with what to buy.  

inspired by the fact that nayarit and anne shirley cullen sent me my gift-giving campfire gifts today (thanks, guys!), and i'm totally jazzed about embossing stuff and ogling nude penis sculpture!  

gimme ideas for:

-a 31-year old single straight male with great fashion sense and impeccable taste who buys himself whatever he wants (we end up getting him expensive booze every year); will spend up to a hundred bucks

-a 3-year-old girl who loves cinderella.  i was thinking about sqwinkies, but i don't know if that's appropriate for the 3-y-o kids?  will spend up to 20 bucks.

non-autoplay for your time:

When Edward and Bella grace the screen in the Massengill Douche Meadow in Eclipse, all I hear are corny harps and genital-less angels singing. But when Bella and the good doctor get a little alone time? I hear total 70's porn music:

"Bella, there are other things I will mend since my p-- of a son refuses to...."

Which folks onscreen in the twilight franchise show the most heat to you?

A little "Bella and Carlisle" lullaby for your time:

Between my little burg in North Idaho and Seattle is a tiny town called Leavenworth.  It's known as 'Little Bavaria' and is a quaint and fun place to visit.

This is the latest tourism ad:

We all know Forks has Twilight and that it saved their area's economy.  They also have this:

Leavenworth has Woody

Forks has loggers.

Tell me, campers, what silliness does your town have? 

*Approved by wolvesnvamps

Edited to add:  Miss Jennyfly is a ship sailing quickly to her demise. Quote "I will miss the Forest," she said during an interview earlier today.

I think she needs tequila. Lots and lots of tequila.  :)

EDIT of the Edit: Ok, she doesn't need tequila. But I refuse to let her die. 

*closes eyes in concentration*

"I do believe in Jennyfly....."

(Not gonna lie, I came up with the title of this post and kinda gave myself a pat in the back)

A lot of the BETA sites are "full" if you will at this time, so I thought I'd ask the forest.  If you consider yourself a grammer/spelling nazi, but are equally good at spouting encouraging little nuggets, I not only want you...I kinda need you!

More on the story and what I need inside...

Today is my favorite Argentinian's birthday, which is a HUGE feat cause they birthed Maradona AND Messi . . . but everyone please get in here and show some love to our fellow camper.

She loves futbol, all things Robbie Pattz, NON metrosexual men--so if your Edward describes the cross-stich hem on Bella's dress she's gonna scream, cats, and being a general sunshine for everyone! Oh, and bring the funny too! She's amazingly sweet, genuine and caring, and a real treasure to know. And since this is like her second home, please come and wish her an AMAZING day. Happy Birtday bb!

I know there are many Robert admiirers here.. and I know a lot of you enjoy Jackson. So, I give you the best of both worlds-

This video is crazy hot. You are warned-

 This Week's Game:  (RE)NAME THAT FIC! 

(suggested by the wonderful, cookie bakin’ and steamin’ hot Jazzy-Cullen)

GUIDLINES:

1.   Post an alternate title to a fic.

2.   Leave guesses for other people's renamed fics.

Maybe someone else has another alternate title? Maybe you'll stump everyone with your mad renaming skillz? Let’s see if a fic by any other name can be just as lemony, angsty, etc. You get the gist?

Example 1:
Fifty Shades        (Answer: Master of the Universe)

Example 2:
The Land of Cookies and Unicorns     (Answer: Wide Awake)

Special thanks to Capricorn75 for dealing with my PMs first thing Wednesday mornings!

My first entry inside.
 

The forest is quiet today so I thought I would try something here...

I want to know who you feel you relate to most in the Twilight Saga books?

Are you in love with shopping and can tell the future? Are you kind of a loner and cook for your dad all the time? Did you fight in the Civil War and really like history?

Tell me who and why your choice is? Feel free to add to this...I hate being bored.

So today was my mom's birthday. She was never one to make a fuss over her birthday. She always put her husband and her children before herself. She was truly the most amazing woman I have ever known.

So fellow campers I want to know about your moms. Is she your best friend? Can you talk to her for hours on the phone even though you will see her the next day? (my mom and I would do this every Thursday night my first year of college.)

I will share a story in the comments.

Also give me your best mom related fics. Because we all know who the real glue to the Cullen clan is.

Thanks to Tor for approval.

Someone has something they'd like to say to you:

To Whom It May Concern,

I am a dying breed. My kind is on the verge of extinction and it’s not werewolves or shape-shifters killing us. It’s humans.

Once upon a time my world was full of magic but all of that has changed. Now my world is filled with CEOs, hockey players, horse racers, and numerous other men who are only shadows of what we are. True they often look like us. Maybe they have the same eye color or hair but that is usually the extent of the similarities. They do things we never would. They are unfaithful, callous, or addicted to drink or drugs. They know nothing of love as I have known it but most importantly they are not immortal. They do not know the night and the secrets it hides. They are not slaves to the moon or to a thirst that burns and can never truly be quenched.

Bella will tell you that it is the man in me she loves but I say it is the monster that has made me what I am. Without him I would be a corpse in the ground. Without him I would never have met her. Without him I would not have desired her so strongly, been so perplexed by her, and thereby come to know her and grow to love her as I did.

In the beginning that is the man you fell in love with. It was his journey, my journey that you couldn’t tear your eyes away from. You spent hours upon hours reading about my romance with Bella and all of the dangers we faced at every turn because of what I am. Maybe you wondered if I would kill her. Maybe you wondered if we would end up together. And maybe at the very end you wondered if we’d both perish, unable to surmount the odds placed against us. The important thing is that you stayed. You stayed until the very end. And then you wanted more.

So you made more. You spun stories about me, about my life, the could haves, would haves, and should haves. You wrote about my days as a human, about my early years as a vampire when I was ruled by hunger and anger, and about my time spent with my family and my love. Sometimes you made me braver, sometimes weaker. But always it was my nature that created the conflict and if I may be so bold as to say, you did it far better than my creator.

But no more. I have been put away on a shelf to sit and collect dust. I grow weaker with each passing day, and why? Because of humans. There are so few left that love me as I am that I am becoming less real with each passing moment and soon I fear I will be gone forever.

I want you to remember why you first fell in love with me. I want you to come back to the story of a boy and a girl whose love knew no bounds; to a world of magic waiting just for you. You might think you know the story already but I assure you that you don’t. Not in the hands of the people I’ve seen. There’s so much left to tell, so much that was left out the first time around and each of you has a wonderfully unique voice to tell it in.

To those of you who have been with me from the beginning, the ones who have continued to believe in my kind, I ask you not to give up. And to those of you that have strayed from the path I ask that you come back. Step back into my world where all dreams are possible, where myths are not just written in books, and where legends are very, very real.

I am afraid and that is not something I admit lightly. With the way things are heading…well, it is like I once said to Bella. It will be as if I never existed. And I very much want to exist.

Yours Always,
Edward Cullen 

*approved by wolvesnvamps; more in comment, originally posted in lovelyanddead on LJ

We are soooo happy to announce the winner of our background contest!!!

The camper who is FIFTY DOLLARS IN ITUNES RICHER and who has gloriously provided us with the perfect background is...

GRACE_DEVICE 

who submitted this BEAUTIFUL picture 

that is now our background! 

Isn't it PERFECT???

Come inside that beautiful cabin (this campfire) and tell her how wonderful it is and how happy you are for her!!

I am sure there is a fire burning so come inside and I'll make you a s'more. We can have a glass of wine and talk about how happy we are and how wonderful it is to be celebrating the twelve days of Christmas with our amazing forest friends!

Come on down, Grace_Device and claim your prize!

Ok Campers...

It's the Holidays. My Christmas tree is GORGEOUS.  My wine glass is nearly empty.  It's cold outside and I'm cuddled on the couch under a blanket with my hubs....  Sounds like the perfect evening right?

Well, almost.  There are A LOT of you out there that I just don't know. So this is what I want you to do...

TELL ME 5 THINGS ABOUT YOU

But not just any old thing--- I want specifics.  Here's the criteria:

Tell me....

1. your ONE big regret.

2. one great thing about the city/town you live in.

3. what's the #1 thing on your wish list this holiday season

4. whats one thing about you that NO ONE ELSE knows--- share a secret

5. SOMETHING RANDOM...anything personal you want to share.

Mine will be in the comments.

LURKERS--- here's your chance to GET IN HERE and talk to me.  I NEED YOU!

Now....also....this isn't just about you getting in here and talking about yourself... you also HAVE TO comment on something some else says.  Maybe you live in the same city.  Maybe you share the same regret.  Maybe you saw their wish list item on sale at Target. 

ANYTHING... TALK TO ME CAMPERS...and TALK TO EACH OTHER!

GO!

also... Bobby Long or Robert Pattinson pics would be greatly appreciated.  thx.

And I woke up to screaming...my day has been crappy and I need a pick me up. I just finished eating my dinner of a cup o' noodles. Any one want to share or do general pick-me-ups???

Or share what they had for dinner??

wow...i'm self-absorbed...my apologies.