Okay.  I read way too much fanfic.  But after reading something today, I decided that many, many, MANY ff-Bellas raise a few questions for me, regarding girlie... uh... fluids.

TMI?  Maybe.  I'll keep my actual comment/question inside.  Enter/answer at your own risk.  Rain gear may be required.

I have done most of my Christmas shopping online this year.  I really dislike crowds and for me, this is the best way to shop.

I was doing pretty good, until I noticed one of the cute gift baskets I had placed in shopping cart was shipping from another company and the shipping charge was going to be more ( I had checked expidited shipping) than the gift. I quickly changed the shipping option, only to find out it was still very expensive.

So I got the bright idea to make my own gift basket, recreating the one I was going to purchase. It consisted of dehydrated soup mixes and other assorted soup fixings. Easy. I can do this with my regular grocery shopping. Except, yeah you've proably guess that too, I really hate grocery shopping around the holidays.

So I thought Amazon would be a great place to find what I needed. Except most of their stuff was like six packs of soup and I didn't want that. But I kept searching and came across something that made me laugh.

I'll post it in comments as...well... the product is pretty PG but the mind that saw it isn't.

I can't be the only one who has encountered the odd gift/product.

Share with me the oddball things you've come across while shopping. Doesn't have to be holiday shopping.

So I just watched eclipse (with the commentary - side note; how adorkable are they?!) and what I really want is some Jasper/Bella fic.

I've trolled through the master fic list, before you say that, but I'm looking for something kinda specific.

I want a vamp bad ass Jasper with a (pretty awesome) human Bella. It can be WIP or complete, New Moon or Twilight AU, anything I'm not fussy with that. 

I just want some bad ass Jasper please :) and feel perfectly free to pimp your own stuff :)

Hi! ADF needs your help.

Ok-I just weeded through our Twitter followers and whom ADF is following and cleaned it up. It looks nice and pretty now with only active tweeters (we only deleted bots and people have haven't tweeted in ages).

Now-we want to follow you so if we aren't, put your name in the comments BUT we want something else from you too (yea yea yea we are greedy but you love us).

Please tell us other than YOU who we MUST follow. The person you love the most on Twitter and why. We will then follow that person on your reccomendation and you have to tell them to follow ADF back. ok?

We are @differentforest on Twitter.

I know we're all eat your heart out over Rob...DUH...but gawd has anyone been following this guy? Don't tell me I'm late to the party, I KNOW I'm late, but im glad I just came at all.  I just want to look at him, and I think you should too.

P.S. and this has everything to do with his music. so HEAR THAT SHIT stat.

I dont know this other guy but check out that suit. unghhhhh

kthanxbye! happy feckin friday.

I was feeling nostalgic last weekend and decided to d/l and watch My So Called Life.  It was awesome.  I totally forgot how hot Jordan Catalano was.  I mean Jared Leto (who played Jordan) is good looking but Jordan (the character) was sexy.

This got me to thinking which actors had super sexy characters in the past.  So sexy in fact that the character sometimes eclipses the real person.  (Mine will be inside)

Ahh I've been found out Y'all!

I freelance design for fashion companies, and this week I'm working at a place I've been freelancing at on and off for about a year (we're semi-serious, not sure if we want to move in together just yet.)

Usually it takes me a few days before I'm dueling screens with Photoshop covering my ffn, but I know these people and they are really laid back and know I work hard. Idk, maybe some of you are saints at work but I need a 5min. break from digital sketching every now and then so my eyes don't bleed.

This morning I get in to work and see my stuff moved around. Which is fine I mean, I leave my passwords taped to my screen incase anyone needs a file off my computer etc. I really don't care. Usually I also remember to close out all my screens before I leave for the day too....

So I logged on to my computer and The Art Teacher is maximised and center screen, which I would never do, not only that it is scrolled far beyond where I ended my reading. So some one in this office knows my dirty Ffn secret!

Have any of you ever been exposed as a lover of the Ffn beast?! Tell me your stories.

Okay, since 1) it's FFAF, 2) my RobP0rn campfire is way overdue and 3) I got some really bad news today...

First, let me vent, please. If you don't feel like reading about my woes, scroll down...

I had a really bad week last week. A friend of mine, from my fraternity, decided to end his own life. I already spilled in another campfire about that, so I won't delve into that again. Suffice it to say, the entire week was tainted. I just felt off, had trouble sleeping, and little things started going wrong, adding to my aggravation.
I visited my parents over the weekend and upon arrival, my mother told me my grandmother had suffered from two heart attacks that week. The second one was minor, but still. I visited her on Sunday before going home again. Then today, I called my mom to check in, and she told me that my grandma had been in and out of the hospital again all week and that last night she suffered the worst heart attack so far. My parents and aunts spent most of the night at the hospital and for a while it was touch and go. They really thought she would die last night. Today she’s been feeling better, joking around a little (and my cousin came by to tell her she’s pregnant again – at least some good news) but she has also said that she’s done. Admittedly, she’s been giving up for a while now, living by the day and dividing her possession amongst her children and grandchildren. Still, I’m sad. My mom told me to prepare, in case there may be a phone call soon.

So…

Cheer me up!

Nothing brings a goofy smile to my face better than images of Rob being all lovey-dovey. Whether he’s being Robward being all chivalrous toward Bella, or The Pretty being caught in a snapshot with the Stew… even imagining him in fic, being romantic… Just makes me swoon. I love the way he looks at Kristen, and the way it can be described in fic.

So please, help a camper out.

FYT

Also, one more request: does anyone have the gif of Rob doing the goofy dance from the Eclipse BTS?

Perfect casting...

                               In a perfect world (yeah...wishful thinking!)

who would be your Edward, Bella and the rest of the Twilight cast?

Firstly:

In the movies, if not the original cast

Secondly:

In your fav fics.... name the fic and your perfect castings....

Feel free to amalagmate ppl!

(Edited to make more colourful!)

Alright, so I'm venting here.  I need some commiseration.  Many of you know my cousin is getting married and my daughter is the flower girl.  I am already shelling out hundreds of dollars just to get to the wedding, Probably close to $100 for the bachelorette party, plus a bridal shower gift, a wedding gift, and she picked out a super expensive flower girl dress FOR A FOUR YEAR OLD who will likely never wear it again, or perhaps she will once for Easter or something.  Now it's all - this isn't right, and that isn't right, and can she wear this along with it?  To the tune of lots more $$$.  Okay, I guess I could just not buy diapers for the baby next month.  Plus this is happening right over Christmas and New Years.  The most expensive time of the year!  And by the way, we'll make it work, we'll buy diapers.  But I'm just really frustrated. 

When I got married I was sensitive to the fact that the people in my wedding and even those who attended it had to pay their bills.  They had diapers to buy and food to get on the table and medical expenses to pay, etc, etc.  I guess I just don't understand why every minute detail has to be dictated and perfect for a flower girl.  Alright, sorry, I know we all have different things that are important to us at our weddings.  But it just seems like every littIe thing is important to her and she has to do this wedding on a budget because their finances are tight so why doesn't she understand that everyone else is in the same boat?  Sorry, venting again.  I know that it's a stressful time and people want their weddings just so.  But honestly, I'm a pretty flexible person and this is getting ridiculous.

But I'm going through all of this with a smile at least outwardly.  I'm trying to have grace because I love her.  The relationship with her is more important so I grin and bear it.  I want  it to be a special day for her.

Anyway, give me your bridezilla stories to cheer me up.  Make me laugh.  Help me see that maybe it's not really so bad. 

I'm writing my christmas list and I need some book recommendations to put on it.

Has anybody read anything good lately?

What are you reading at the moment?

What is your favourite book of all time?

Can be any genre but I'm a sucker for a good romance. 

Thanks in advance.

morning campers!

alright, so this is a questions campfire.

i've got tons of them.

they will probably make absolutely no sense what-so-ever.  marriage, kids,dogs, diet, fics,sexy-times, make-up, whatever.

but i know we all have varying degrees of experiences and advice, so i am hoping that everyone will try and participate and add their two cents and whatnot.

thanks.

first question:

is anyone going to this:

EDIT:   THANKS FOR HELPING WITH MY QUESTIONS.  PLEASE TO BE ADDING SOME OF YOURS TOO.

...and Free for All Friday:

I present you elves.

May your weekend be happy!

These are some comics based on Bram Stoker's Dracula from  harkavagrant.com (her site is great):

So, becoming a vamp. What does it symbolize, these days?

Discuss!!

I was actually going to start a campfire about this guy after seeing him on a Graham Norton rerun, last week. Then i found this on the Lexicon this morning.

Apparently, Jack went to school with Rob and 'Is not a fan'. Is this a case of sour grapes, or was Rob a dick in highschool? Regardless of whether you find his comments offensive, it's damn funny.

His comment about Rob starts at 13.55.

I'd put up with alot to chomp on this for a while!

Thanks for reading

First let me start out by saying I have a passion for based on true crime stories.  I truly believe that no matter how horrific a crime is I will still watch/read the story as it is the voice of someone who can not speak to us anymore.  Here's an example of one:

    STORY

So on to the issue I'm having that involves from what I can tell is a very fine line.  

Where is the fine line when a story has a non-happy ending vs. a topic people don't want to read about.

I got an email on another site today saying "there is a fic over on ff.net that romanticizes an abusive, controlling, incestuous and pedophillic relationship between a six year old girl and her eighteen year old brother."

I paid no mind to it but the writer of this email requested everyone go to ff.Net and report the abuse. Which I'm not sure maybe by ff.Net standards this shouldn't have been allowed, IDK~IDK. Either way the story got pulled and for some reason it bothers me that it did. I never read it nor do I know the name of the story but all the emails about it got my attention because everyone said they protested to have it pulled.

I completely understand why would you want to read about that but at the same time my mind is screaming like WHAT IF this was a real person and it was someones story. Would your opinion change about wanting to read it? Or is it that no one wanted to read it just because Twilight peeps were involved in ways people didn't want them to be?

This topic has been approved by the awesome Emibella, thanks my dear.

IT IS A SAD SAD DAY FOR ME. 

I HAVE BROKEN UP WITH BONES. 

WE ARE THROUGH.

OVER.

FINISHED.

I BURNED ALL PICS OF US TOGETHER, RETURNED ALL ITS CRAP, AND GOT OUT THE ICE CREAM.

THE DB CAN'T EVEN SAVE IT ANYMORE. WE'RE DONE.

COME TALK ABOUT THINGS THAT HAVE DISAPPOINTED YOU. OR RAGE. OR WHATEVER. IDK IDK. I CAN'T THINK CLEARLY RIGHT NOW.

THIS IS AN ALL CAPS POST AS THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO EXPRESS RAGE ONLINE.

WARNING: THERE MAYBE SPOILERS IN HERE SHOULD ANYONE FEEL THE NEED FOR THEM.

P.S. REMEMBER TO BE NICE. IF IT'S AN AUTHOR, STORY, OR WHATEVER FANDOM RELATED THAT YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THERE ARE STILL RULES HERE AND I AM NOT IN THE MOOD FOR RULE BREAKERS.

APPROVED BY THE OH MIGHTY PURPLE FONTED ONE AS SHE IS PLOTTING AGAINST HART HANSEN AS WE SPEAK.

During this summer's Fandom Gives Back auction to benefit Alex's Lemonade Stand, I was lucky to win a one-shot from the amazingly talented -- and really, really nice -- Starshinedown. She is the author of "Aengus," and it's continuation, "My Love Shall Ever Live Young."

Well, she just posted her one-shot, "Legacy,"  and it is one of the most wonderful stories I've EVER read. I asked for Emmett, AU, with a bit of mythology mixed in. And I got so very much more than that.

Summary: He remembers with crystal clarity some images of family and
homestead, a small handful of conversations, an enormous white oak, and a
tall, weary man with brown hair tied back with a leather band.

Read it. You'll be so glad you did.

Legacy, by Starshinedown

ETA:  EEEP. I forgot:  I want to read some more Twilight/mythology crossover stories. Post here and rec me some, babies!

Is it common to get novacaine when getting a tattoo these days.  If you have gotten a tattoo, describe the pain, sensation for me?? Okay?  Barely Tolerable? Please share you tattoo stories.  

Thanks!

Mel

Fyt - stolen from someone here.

RANGER APPROVED BY JENNYFLY BECAUSE SHE IS GENEROUS BEYOND DESCRIPTION.