Some delightful soundtrack-age for this journey through December.
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WHAT I READ
This isn't necessarily everything I read.
These are just the bad boys I'd highly rec.
Official Description: After one horny night alone with a webcam, Edward enters a surprisingly intimate friendship with a stranger online. He someday plans to meet this 'Jazz' girl he's become so oddly enraptured with; too bad Jazz isn't exactly a 'girl'.
I saw this rec'd on an ADF campfire about people's favorite WIPs. I wanted to read this but it appeared to not update in awhile. I just saw it on the Fictionators' What's Pwning You, and it seemed to have updated at last. So I tried it, and of course love it! An Edward getting off in front of a web cam? An Edward who is now questioning his sexuality? Um yeah, obvs.
Their mega hot playing in the rain leads to fun times in Edward's room in chapter 5 - loved!
After holding hands at the mall, it just ended on chapter 7 with the greatest confrontation at Jasper's door, promising a chapter 8 that will be mindblowing :)
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This next one was so quirky and fun that I pimped the hell out of it in our 2010 Year in Review as both an innovative use of audio to enhance the storytelling, AND as the weirdest little fic that I can't stop reading :)
In the Deepest Space by loss4words
(link to audio version)
Official Description: What will happen to the astronaut, Bella Swan, when she is unable to make it back to her ship on Mars and close to death? Who will come to her rescue and what will she learn about what else is "out there?" Rated Mature for language and lemons.
I saw a review of this fic on Fictionators, where it had a link to where you could LISTEN to the author's audio version of the story. I just had to check that out. And I'm SO glad I did. I am having so much fun listening to Anna narrate as I read. She does an excellent job - especially since everyone but Bella speaks with a very distinct alien accent!
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I'm swept up in the almost daily updates and narrative flow of...
Young Pilgrims by ineedyoursway
Someone on ADF had just discovered this fic and mentioned it is a quick read. Someone else commented that it's amazing how much she says with so few words. I was intrigued.
The style is interesting in that it captures the minimal investment Bella has in her own day-to-day life, with a narrative that is essentially a stripped down stream of consciousness, mainly observations of the world around her, which consists of the coffeehouse and its inhabitants, and her apartment and its inhabitants of Alice and Brosper.
I'm super annoyed by spoilers of any kind so look away for the next few paragraphs if you are too. Just jump to the next fic on my "What I Read" list.
Edward is a beautiful, ballet dancer who is at school on scholarship. After leaving a ballet shoe behind, he goes in the back with Bella to claim it and things get passionate, clothes start coming off, and then Edward calls out "Rose!" And who should start working there now -- a young former ballet dancer, Rose, who Bella wants to hate but who is actually too cool to hate. We learn a bit more about Edward - that he tried so hard to be in love with Rose because he wanted so much to be in love.
Bella hangs out with he and Carlisle at the soup kitchen, confirming that Edward is indeed lacking in a permanent residence. It just left off as Bella has gone to see him dance and afterwards, invited him over to her place.
I hope it works out for these crazy kids, And by that I mean I hope he accepts her invitation and they go back to Bella's and bone and relaysh and set up camp for him to stay there, where they can continue to bone and relaysh.
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Along with everyone else, I got caught up in the fandom-wide phenomenon known as The Plan!
I found out about this fic thru a post on ADF which explained that it's being told IN REAL TIME! And I am such a geek about innovative methods of storytelling. For example, I practically wet myself over MrsTheKing's Crushed Seraphim, which used the review mechanism the elicit reader involvement in the direction of the story.
So when I found out that The Plan was being told via multiple posts a day, where the time in the story is the same as the real world time it's posted, I knew I had to get in on it and experience it with everyone. And everyone's response is so much fun -- they are all over twitter, just as addicted as I am :)
What's so cool about this format is that Bella's obsession becomes our obsession, because we're revisiting it multiple times a day. It's in this that a cool storytelling gimmick actually becomes quite a brilliant mechanism for pulling the reader into the story.
Kari and I jacked Twific Pimps to give an Emergency Mid-Week Rec of The Plan :)
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The 2 biggest developments in my fic life in December have got to be my discovery of
HERE is the review I wrote for this amazing VampAU fic.
and
The review for this fic is in the works and will be pasted in here as soon as it's live. But in summary: GO READ THIS FIC IMMEDIATELY. My love for it is HUGE.
WHAT I WROTE
The latest installment of the HOTNESS Hall of Fame was all about a particular type of lemon - hotness that occurs between strangers. I call it the "Hey there, sailor!" Lemon. I feature the incredible hotness of Last Tango in Forks, Reality Minus Expectations, and Breaking Trinity.
In the realm of hot fandom topics, I wrote about the oddity of authors being almost universally anti-translation of their fics... which I don't understand at all. My thinking is that by saying "no" to people who want to share your fic in good faith and give you credit, you are essentially encouraging them to plagiarize you, cuz they're gonna do it anyway.
I wrote a review of La Canzone della Bella Cigna by Phildelphic
My 2010 Year in Review - a rundown of my favorite fics from the past year.
WHAT I PIMPED
December with the Twific Pimps
Finally, Kari and I jacked the Twific Pimps site and busted out a Mid-week Emergency Rec of The Plan by QuantumFizzx.
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