Yes, two in one day! Shocking!!!

This evening, I'd like to ask you to share your favorite holiday themed fics!  Thanksgiving, Chanukkah, Christmas, New Years...what fics feature these holidays?  The request was specifically for this "most wonderful time of the year" as the song goes...

All pairings! All ratings! AU or AH!  Yes, I'm being fantastically magnanimous! 

So bring your favorite HOLIDAY THEMED FICS!!!  

I'll see if I have any recs of my own to share within.

Thank you for all you do to rec QUALITY FIC to the FOREST!

Come have a Very Slash-y Christmas & a Happy New Year
with the Make the Yuletwi'd Gay anonymous fic exchange!

Accepting prompt requests from now until December 1st.

http://yuletwid.livejournal.com

Posted with extra awesome Ranger Tor permission.

I am writing a paper for my English 3100 class that I need everyone's help with. The paper will be about how fanfiction effects (or is it affects? I am terrible at this distinction.) reading and writing habits of both authors and readers. I fully intend for this to be a publishable paper through the university; however, I cannot get enough statistical data without your help. I have set up a 15 questions survey online. A lot of the questions are optional and the survey is fully anonymous. There is a disclaimer on every page of the survey stating that any/all of your answers may be used in the paper, so if you are not comfortable with that, please do not take the survey.

I also would like to conduct personal interviews with maybe five readers and five authors. One reader and two authors have agreed so far, but if you would be interested, please let me know. The survey is more for statistics and demographics; these personal interviews will be used for personal accounts and will be quoted, with recognition if wanted or anonymous if not.

I apologize for not being able to give any type of compensation for taking the survey or being interviewed. Each of you that helps deserves something for your time and thoughts; alas, I have nothing but thanks to give. For some that will be enough, and for others it will not. I completely understand those that feel it is not. Never would there be any hard feelings. 

I am hoping to get over 100 responses on the survey, so please feel free to send the link to anyone you think might want to take it. I will be posting a link on Twitter as well (if I can figure out how), so I apologize in advance for those of you who will see this twice.

Fanfiction Survey

This was approved by the wonderful jandco.

Edit: A few of the results posted inside.

Hello all!

I was just in another thread on here and read that she isn't going to be finishing this story. I just wanted to see if anyone had more information on this. Is this true? Is she okay? Is there a reason?

Thanks in advance.

FYT

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN

DO YOU MAKE FAN VIDEOS?

DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE YOU WANT TO SHARE?

POST THEM ALL HERE!

MY REC FOR THE WEEK:

"Edward & Bella - The Outsider" by TheRaggDollish

POST AWAY CAMPERS!

We at Sparkling Citrus want to get in the holiday spirit. We also love our Fandom. We love the people in it and the support we all receive from it. So, we realized that we couldn’t be the only ones who felt this way so we came up with Fandom Secret Santa. Everyone who signs up will be matched up with someone else and will either make, write, or buy them a gift. Of course there will be rules, so if you are interested read below than fill out the form!

Rules

You must remain Secret. No telling your recipient that you are their Santa.

All emailed gifts must go through SparklingCitrus@Gmail.com to keep the secret. If you are making a graphic or writing a oneshot, send it as an attachment to us with your name and your partners name in the body of the email. We will send it to your recipient.

All gifts must be received by Christmas.

Once a gift is received, send an email to Sparkling Citrus to let us know you received your gift.

Everyone who signs up MUST participate simply because no one wants to be left out. If you sign up and get a gift but dont send one, someone else out there didn’t get a gift and that’s no fun.

There is a $5 limit on all bought gifts. This is to account for shipping costs, especially when we have fandom friends all over the world.

If you are making or writing the gift, read the bio that is sent to you, it will include fav twi-guy or pairing. You may also get sneaky and go look at their profiles and find out the fics they write and make them something specific to them.

Please, if you are baking or buying gifts, remember to look at the allergy part of the bio.

If you are not comfortable with giving out your real address, know that you can still participate, you will just be matched up with someone who wants to do a virtual gift(graphic or oneshot)

All signups must be in by November 28th and all partners will be emailed out on the 1st of December.

All names and partners will be published the first week of January so everyone knows who to thank!

Anyone interested in signing up, go to SparklingCitrus.com and look under the announcements page!

(Be sure to scroll down and visit the Robsten post below!  This photo had no -sten and didn't qualify :)  )

Rob =  an object of beauty. 

He's not even posing.  

Not the most masculine photo, but hey.

Who has been enjoying the major influx of pics from the Breaking Dawn set over the weekend and the last couple of days? *raises hand*

Now, this campfire will not revolve around Robert and Kristen as Edward and Bella. No.

I want to share the cuteness that is

Robsten

You know the drill, so come and frolick around the fire!

As usual, mine are inside, but FYT, one of my favs. VF2008 - le sigh.

Okay, so I have searched and searched and couldn't find what I was looking for. I know you guys can help a sister out!

Vampire mating. Not "imprinting" but MATING. How does it work?  I don't mean the bow chica wow wow (I know how that works), but is it "love at first sight" or does it take time?  I feel like Carlisle explained it somewhere, but maybe I'm confusing canon with fan fic.

I'm asking because I've been reading some non-canon couple fan fic Carlisle/Bella or Jasper/Bella and it's just sooooo hard for me to believe because canon couples would NEVER walk away from each other if they were "mated." But, could they be just husband and wife, as some fics have suggested, thus, they could be "mated" with another vampire? I love the idea of soul mates, but I also love the idea that you can be with someone and in love, while you're true soul mate is someone else and you don't realize it.

Okay, I'm rambling now, but please help me out. How does vampire mating work?

Hello,

This is my first campfire but unfortunately, I am a long time lurker. I love this site and everyone who post here. I don't feel so out of place for my obsession with all things Twilight (particularly with Twilight fanfiction). All the authors featured on this site are truly talented and I am so grateful that they willingly share their writings/stories with everyone. On this note,  I been trying to find a new fan fiction to read while I am re-reading my favorite stories that have either been completed or still a work in progress (waiting for updates).  It has been quite a challenge for me to identify the next story to read since there are so many recommendations here and on other blogs. I would usually just read the first 3 to 4 chapters of a recommended story and if the story does hold my attention on the first 4 chapters, I know it would not hold my interest further along. As a result, I am reaching out to you fellow campers for assistance. Base on the list of my top favorite stories that I've provided below, do you think you can rec some stories for me to read next? I prefer AH, Canon, and lemons are not required.:-) I am just looking for something that is well written and have a decent flow to the story.  I really appreciate your help and assistance.:-)

My list of favorite stories:

1) Hydraulic Level 5  (This story  is my all time favorite and am hoping it get publish one day.  I would love to have a hard copy of the book...the writing is so beautiful and with so much quality. Waiting for the updates is killing me slowly.)

2) Wide Awake

3) The Office

4) For the Summer

5) The Best Man

6) Breaking News

7) MoTU

8) With Teeth

9) Under the Apple Tree

10) CW&IA

Thank you for help and assistance.

PS Please excuse my grammar since English is my second language.

Brought to you by the letter A and the number 3!

Not that polyamory is limited to THREE by any means, but that is the number GENERALLY found in fanfiction.

These fics that I solicit from you today will certainly not be CANON, but they can be AU (meaning supernatural aspects) or AH (meaning all human characters).  Polyamory is almost always M or NC-17, so that's pretty much what I expect to see here. ;-)

Please remember the Rules of the Fic Fire:

1.  Keep it simple.

2. No discussions.

3. THESE RULES DO NOT APPLY TO THE RANGERS.  *heh* They know who they are...

Oddly enough, I even have a rec or two...they'll be inside.

Thank you for sharing your favorite fics around the fire...

And...

I'll be back later with ANOTHER LIST!

This week’s game:

FIC JEOPARDY: Stump The Smarties!

Provide a statement related to a fic. Any clue, any fic. Alex Trebec says the more obscure the better. Let’s stump the smarties!!!! Let others answer and see if they guess the correct fic. Your clue can be a word, a statement, a summary, an image, anything related to a fic. Make sure and also leave guesses for other clues, but please phrase your TwiFic-related answer in the form of a question or else Alex Trebec AND SM will get you! (Note to the smarties . . . you know who you are… ahem… MSM, HM, et. al.)
 

Example #1:

Bella constantly baked cookies, and named them for her mood.

First Answer: What is Wide Awake?

Special thanks to Jeopardy-lovin’ Capricorn75 for stickage :)  You will always be welcome on this Jeopardy show bb!!!
 

My first entry inside.
 

I started and ended this campfire twice because I usually don't do this.

But I really needed to discuss this last chapter.

For anyone who doesn't read it I mean this:

Green » by Bratty-Vamp
What happens when lawn-boy, geek, and self-proclaimed social leper finds himself in a situation that shakes his comfortable invisibility? Will he stay green? AU- All human.
Twilight - Rated: M - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 23 - Words: 100,978 - Reviews: 4161 - Updated: 11-10-10 - Published: 7-3-10 - Edward & Bella

It's towards the end and she's updated everyday until it's done. And if you haven't read it, don't click on the campfire.

Spoilers Inside.

End Island by xlavendermoonx

So a couple of weeks ago I started reading this story and I fell in love with it! It’s a mystery and I’m generally not good at coming up with theories but I’m having fun trying to with this one.

It just updated yesterday and it finally got to a part I’d been waiting for and then at the end of the chapter we learned something very interesting. So, I’m wondering – are any of you reading this? If so, come inside and discuss theories with me!

And if you’re not reading this – check it out!

Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6380184/1/End_Island

Summary: Secretly investigating an unsolved disappearance, best-selling author Bella Swan moves to a secluded island where she gets caught up in the mysteries of the case and the #1 suspect, Edward Cullen. BxE, AH, Rated M for mature themes

***Spoilers inside***
 

hi there

I am pretty new in the forest (well I mostly just lurk around) and I have some plot bunnies going around in my head for fanfictions, but I am afraid to write something down and end writing awfully, I have some ideas of what I do like and what I don´t when I read a FF, but no idea how to start or what do or don´t.

My FF if there is ever going to be one probably will not be B/E, no because I don´t like them, but because I have the feeling to everything has been said and done with that pair...,

so, I (I was going to say humbly, but no.. not really) ask :

what do you like and dislike in a fic?,

what are you ideas when you start how do you go from a bunny eating dandelions and apples in your head to something worthy of be read?

any advice?

should I just go to my corner and keep lurking?

(betaed for the great WriteOnTime with a big red pen)

My eyeballs are still spinning from scanning my (too large) list of stories...

The one I cannot seem to place:   AU     Bella wakes up as a vampire with no real recollection of her life before, and she appears to be DEAF.  She wanders alone for many many years.  She has some sort of "geological / geographical" gift.  She places her hands on the ground, and can feel the vibrations of nearby animals, or nearby humans, and can even tell if she has been in this place before.  I think she even wears the same dress she woke up in thru most of the chapters I had read (which may have spanned a century?)  The last chapter I remember, she had just encountered one or some of the Cullens, but I cannot remember the circumstances.     any assistance you may provide will be greatly appreciated (gosh, that sounds like I'm at work)

Welcome Back , Emibella!  You have been missed!

another case of amnesia : CURED

thank you shc92 : you win the prize! (as yet to be determined)

Hear No Evil by BlueSea14

I'm oddly attracted to Carlisle and Bella right now.

I ended up watching New Moon today (something I told myself I never would. I haven't seen any of them more than once). And the scene where Carlisle was cleaning up her cut struck me. I don't know why but there WAS some sexual tension and attraction there.

To me, there was more chemistry in that scene between 30 something Peter and teenish KStew than alleged "love" Rob and young Taylor combined.

So....Carlisle and Bella fics? I'm searching but my limits are really limiting me. I prefer AH and non-affair ones. And I think all I'm seeing is Carlisle cheating on Esme with Bella or Bella's scent being Carlisle's tua cantante. Any red-blooded, alive, single (non-attached) Carlisle and Bella fics? I'll take a boyfriend/girlfriend/fiancee/fiance but no marriage on either side or sparkles.

And well, Esme didn't hook me so Carlisle is a free-for-all and I think I like Bella with a blond guy but Japser belongs with Alice to me.

I think this will pass once I finally go to sleep but since I can't right now I need something...

Oh this will end badly. Shush. It will. You know it will. Stop resisting.

Let's discuss our deepest, darkest disappointments.

Hi everyone! Remember me?

I am guessing some of you don't know who I am but those of you who do

I AM BACK

and I need something to read!

The thing is that it can't be any old fanfic. This has to be something that is not good but FANTASTIC.

The best/most unique fanfic that makes you just plain GIDDY when you open an update.

Because, here is the thing, I have been away way too long and I am in the final paragraphs of writing MY STORY and I have lost my mojo.

I need inspiration. I need something to read that is going to

make me fall in love with fanfic again.

That is right, this is an OLDE SCHOOL RECOMMENDATION CAMPFIRE

Because Ranger Emibella is Back, baby.

Feel free to welcome me back, I could use the warm fuzzies. I love this place!