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to make this interactive, tell us where you'll be on friday, whether it's in line at target around 3am like me, or snuggled in bed surviving turkeycoma.

also, share your favorite black friday tips/strategies.  

oh, and this SNL spoof of black friday is hilar, so watch that.

They have to change and alter some stuff to make the books come alive to and capture interest on screen but what things made you still go "Huh?" when you first saw any of the movies.

Example: I know everyone seems to love it like it's a character on it's own but:
 

Charlie having a mustache...Huh?

That had me cocking my head with one eye closed when Billy stepped on screen and it was distracting because I was itching to get home and look that up. Bella's internal mumbing was a lot of dry wit so I couldn't imagine her not making reference to her dad idolizing Tom Selleck as a senior in high school and growing out a mustache that he never got rid.
 

I am a slow writer. On top of that, I am a pretty busy person. But I also have REALLY GOOD INTENTIONS and can sometimes find myself being excessively motivated. 

"So, what is this about?," you ask.

Lately I have been receiving PM's via fanfiction.net from irate readers that I have yet to update my story from this summer.

I know that that is a long time but it got me wondering

What do you expect from authors?

Would you rather an author take down a story than to wait for an update?

Would you tell an author exactly what your expectations of them are?

Do you think that they need to honor their commitment to a story and that you have a right to read that story in a certain reasonable amount of time? 

I seriously don't know what you ladies (and gentlemen) are going to say on this subject. The point is, I feel really bad and I don't know if that is making me write any faster or if it's making me feel like giving up on it all together instead of waiting until I have the time to finish it the way that I want to.

Did I expect life to throw me all of these curveballs? No. But I also know that people deserve to be given their entertainment expeditiously.

I just want to know if there is any general consensus among fanfic readers on this subject.

Thank you.

Update: Guilt won over and I posted 15 pages (here on ADF). I wanted to write the "ending" but I left it open. If people don't yell too much I'll write more but at least it's something!!

For the last 2 weeks I have not been around my computer, 1st I was at UK hospital with my aunt for 5 days, then with the family as we planned her funeral arrangements.

I was in a store last night and noticed a magazine with pictures of Rob & Kristen on the front, so apparently I have missed new pics. If you could please feel me in on these new pics, I will be forever greatful! :D

Also I had a crap ton of fics (ok really like 6 or 7) up on my computer when I left, the hubby has lost it all. So if you could please rec any complete ExB fics, please do so. I'd really like to read some happy or humorus stories, it helps take my mind off things.

Thank you :p

You have 364 Unbirthdays each year. Is it your Unbirthday today?

Come on inside and post a photo of what you want for your Unbirthday and let us know when your actual Birthday is.

Mine will be in the comments.

what's that you say?  who is lambcullen?  (<-- yes, that name is linkified!)

is she the wonderful person who brought us:

Tilt?

yes.

First Edition?

yes.

Catching Spiders?

yes.

and so much more?

yes!

IS SHE ALSO THE WONDERFUL PERSON WHO STARTED A NEW STORY (THAT'S ALREADY SO SO SO SO GOOOOOD, AND I'M SUPER EXCITED AND QUIVERING WITH ANTICIPATION?)

yes.

I present to you: Whispered Words and False Promises

lettuce discuss.  thoughts? predictions?

(and yes.  things are linkified for your pleasure)

episode 3.11 "gingerbread"

Mom, I'm not an age group. I'm me. Willow group.

episode 3.12 "helpless"

note: this is one of my top five fave episodes for the last five minutes alone.

Angel: I saw you before you became the Slayer.
Buffy: What?
Angel: I watched you, and I saw you called. It was a bright afternoon out in front of your school. You walked down the steps... and...and I loved you.
Buffy: Why?
Angel: 'Cause I could see your heart. You held it before you for everyone to see. And I worried that it would be bruised or torn. And more than anything in my life I wanted to keep it safe... to warm it with my own.
Buffy: That's beautiful. Or taken literally, incredibly gross.
Angel: I was just thinking that, too.

ETA: JUST FOUND OUT WARNER BROS. HAS OPTIONED BUFFY AS A REMAKE.  YEAH, A MOVIE REMAKE OF BUFFY. FEATURING NOT-JOSS WHEDON, AND A WHOLE SLEW OF NOT-THE ORIGINAL CAST AND CREW.  DISCUSS YOUR IRATE-NESS AND RAGE IN THIS THREAD.

 Do you write fan fiction?

Give us a little peek!

Post excerpts from your upcoming chapters here!

~ Don't forget to include a link to your story! ~

The sound quality is not that great... but still, Rob brings the funny

http://notalwaysright.com/in-the-twilight-of-their-youth/7815

In The Twilight Of Their Youth

MOVIE THEATER | PERTH, AUSTRALIA

(I’m serving a family at the box office. The wife keeps looking nervously at the Vampires Suck poster we have on display.)

Me: “You’ll be in Cinema 6 for Tomorrow. Enjoy your movie guys!”

Wife: “Excuse me, I just have one question.”

Me: “Yes?”

Wife: *leans in close* “Are people actually watching Vampires Suck?”

Me: “Yes, it’s very popular with young teenagers and has sold out a few times.”

Wife: “But… but… it’s insulting Twilight!”

Me: “I know, I saw it too.”

(The husband quickly grabs his wife by the arm before she can say anything else.) 

Just go read it peoples, if your still reading this than stop and just GO. No seriously, I mean it. GO!!!

Jumping Rob!! There's an entire tumblr devoted to photoshopping the water-diving silliness into other pictures.

Click here to see it.
(NSFW WARNING: THE NAME/URL HAS A CUSS WORD IN IT.)

Nothing like a good internet meme, bb's. Cannot. Stop. Laughing. Come giggle wif meh.

FYT:

Jumping Rob being shot out of a volcano. xD

Just started reading The Confidence Man by OhMyWord   http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5850826/1/The_Confidence_Man

I was looking for a COMPLETE fic to read and stumbled in to it when I went through Spanglemaker (HI THERE :) ) fav story list.

The summary pulled me in:

"The target is Isabella Swan, fellow graduate student. Came into a fortune when her mother died, she doesn't seem to care to do anything with it. Quiet, shy, just waiting for The One. I'll be everything she wants me to be."
Twilight - Rated: M - English - Romance/Mystery - Chapters: 29 - Words: 98,890 - Reviews: 2214 - Updated: 11-16-10 - Published: 3-28-10 - Edward & Bella - Complete

So, did you guys start any new Story/WIP TODAY? SHARE!!

Okay. So just down the road from my flat there's this little coffee shop. I've never been in there, but they have a board outside and every day they put up a different quote. Usually they're literary in nature... sometimes they're quotes from famous people... Anyway, I always look forward to walking past and reading them, 'cause they're usually really sweet and make me smile.

But today. Oh, today's quote...

"Twilight... the end of another day, the return of the night. Twilight, page 233"

Really? Really? Of all 4 books. Of all 1600 pages in total, that was the best quote they could chose?

I was a little disappointed! Haha.

But it got me thinking - we talk about everything here, but I don't think I've ever seen a favourite quote campfire.

I want to know your favourite quote from the books or the movies.

And I want to know your favourite quote of all time!

the always lovely ashley greene and joe jonas at the airport:

oh wait, I should add a picture of Ashley to make it twilight related:

He's like a kid in a candy store. Or a duty free candy store. 

So what's ol' Joe up to? In search of a new fertility statue so he can knock up Ashley to keep her jonasfied forever? Buying his mom and early Thanksgiving day present? Do tell. 

...when I saw his normal-guy body and pasty bum in those swim trunks and boxers.

But then a new set of pics comes along and HELLO!

Smoldering and furrowed-brow ones in the comments.

Full credit goes to the amazing, the resourceful Setje at quick and ready SOURCE.

(Is that crediting okay, rangers?  I think were not supposed to pimp other blogs without ranger approval, but I nicked these within an hour of their posting and they should get credit, yes?  Are the adjectives construed as a pimping?)

TODAY MARKS THE DAY THAT MY LOVELY WIFEY, KIMVI WAS BORN.

FOR THOSE OF YOU NOT LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE BEEN SPAMMED BY HER LYRICS ON TWITTER HAVE BEEN MISSING OUT. 

SO PLEASE JOIN ME BY HELPING MAKE TODAY THE BEST DAY EVER FOR HER!

NATHAN WORE HIS CROWN FOR HER TODAY:

JARED AND JAX CAME TO VISIT:

AND HER NEW LOVE TOM EVEN SHOWED:

SO SEND HER SOME OF THIS:

AND ENJOY OUR SONGS WE WILL DANCE TO AT OUR WEDDING!

I LOVE YOU BABY AND HOPE YOU HAVE THE BEST DAY EVER!

• All The Right Moves by iSelbe6126.0519
• Back Across the Pond by chels926
• Blinding by xlavendermoonx
• Distractions by windchime
• Fallen Princess by Bforqueen
• Finding the Way Back by sweetishbubble
• First Imprint (Sam's Story) by I_am_Kate
• Green by Bratty-Vamp
• Incubus Anomaly by elusivetwilight
• It's Just Lunch by TG81
• Of Kith and Kin by Chicklette
• Red Eyes and the She Wolf by Leanne Golightly
• Renfield and Chiclets by katinki
• Secrets, Lies, & Family Ties by IdPattThat
• The Confidence Man by OhMyWord
• The Dead of Night by annamorphos
• The Family Business by SuzsPetals
• The Heart is a Bloom by mtk1970
• The Truth Will Set You Free by Chellie

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Thank you for the awesome graphic, patsyrobinson! I ♥ U

This campfire was approved by Grown.Ass.Woman :)

i want to be a beta.  idk, I was a beta previously but then didnt' because of a heavy workload, but I miss it.  I miss the close relationship an author has with their beta. 

i miss editing.  i miss reading through.  i miss commenting. 

-sigh-

if anyone on adf needs a beta, come let me know?  or hell, even a prereader.  :)

(and yes, I'm part of Project Team Beta, but I feel like the process is so impersonal.)