Happy Hump Day, you wascally wabbits!
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I just thought I would put up a quick post to let everyone know that the Anything Goes Twific Contest announced its winners this evening.
I hope everyone enjoyed reading the entries and I want to give my congratulations to all the winners.
Maybe I will get up the nerve to post something in a contest, someday.
Good evening, all. I hope your Tuesday has been fantastic and you're all treating yourselves well.
Since this is my first Tuesday Temptations, I thought I would recommend a few of my firsts in fanfic. I hope you all are on board with this because if you're not, you're gonna be disappointed.
I have been pre-reading and acting as beta for a few authors for a while, now. The first person who asked me to act in a pre-reader capacity was Shadow Masen. We struck up a friendship when she was still writing and posting her fic, How to Forget. She liked my comments and insights when I reviewed so she asked me to pre-read Come Back Tomorrow for her.
Summary: Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly in the path of the best things that will ever happen to us.
What can I say about Come Back Tomorrow?
Come Back Tomorrow is an exquisitely written story that gives us a look at the life of a young man, Edward Cullen, who is a terminal cancer patient. He is alone, with no family or friends to support him through his final days, until he is befriended by one of the staff psychologists that work for the hospital where Edward is being made comfortable in what he has decided will be is final days.
Bella Swan is the staff psychologist who wants Edward to have someone who cares about him with him while he goes through the final stages of his life.
He resists her efforts to befriend him, at first. But finally, he allows her to keep coming back tomorrow. In the process, they fall in love. Edward is near death when Bella finds out that it doesn't have to be that way and Edward knew it all along.
Come Back Tomorrow is full of exquisite angst, a little fun and fluff, but most of all, it's full of a love story that overcomes everything, even death.
You can read Come Back Tomorrow here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10949827/1/Come-Back-Tomorrow
http://www.twcslibrary.net/viewstory.php?sid=10698
https://fictionpad.com/author/ShadowMasen/stories/21006/Come-Back-Tomorrow#!coverpage
The second story I want to recommend tonight is The Screamers by KiyaRaven. The Screamers is my first boomerang fic. I know that it is the story I have read the most times. I've read it 7 or 8 times by now.
Summary: Street kid. Rockstar. Worlds apart and yet so similar. Sometimes fate throws people together for a reason, and sometimes two people that rub each other the wrong way make the best sparks.
I absolutely adore The Screamers. How can you not love a story where the main characters call each other Piss-girl and Asstard?
Edward Cullen is a rock star who is chased by screaming girls wherever he goes; hence the name The Screamers. Edward is a recovering drug addict who has quite a few demons in his past. He is out to get a pack of cigarettes one night when he is spotted by some screamers and chased into an alley where he promptly steps on a girl who is sleeping there, pissing her off in the process.
While they are talking, she passes out because of a head injury she received earlier so Edward takes the girl, Bella Swan, to his hotel to make sure she is okay.
When she wakes up, she meets Edward's sister/manager, who promptly offers her a position as his handler.
The Screamers has comedy, drama, and angst. But the best part of The Screamers, in my humble opinion, is that Robert Pattinson is also a hilarious character who gives Edward some competition when Edward goes all New Moon on Bella during the angsty part of the story.
The Screamers pretty much has everything going for it and I will be re-reading it for years to come.
The Screamers can be found here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5081258/1/The-Screamers
The last story I want to recommend tonight, on my inaugural Tuesday Temptations is Inhuman Nature by the incomparable LyricalKris. Summary: This is the story of two vampires. One sinister monster who collected the humanity of others. One who struggled to find the humanity he lost. This is the story of one human. Victimized by one, saved by the other, thrown into the middle of a myth, saddled with a secret terror of one monster she could only share with another. You don't need to be human to be humane.
LyricalKris can do no wrong, IMHO. She is a consummate artist and her work transcends fanfiction into the realm of the finest literature.
Inhuman Nature is a WIP (work in progress) vampire story. This may not be the first vampire story I've ever followed, but I think it may be the first fic that I've felt so unsettled and disturbed after almost every chapter I read.
Most of the characters in this story are slightly out of character from what we're used to in canon Twilight and canon fanfiction.
It is the Cullen family, without having had Jasper and Alice meet up with them in the 1950s. All of the members have jobs, rather than having the "kids" repeating an endless cycle of high school and college.
The Cullens in Inhuman Nature are still "vegetarian" vampires, and are out hunting one day when Edward comes across a vampire (Jasper) who is watching a pair of humans who are out camping.
What our favorite mind-reader sees in this vampire's mind disturbs Edward so much that he insists that Jasper leave the area immediately. So Jasper does.
He moves on to Seattle and is at a mall when he is run into by a small child who is trying to find Santa. He decides to help the child find her mother or caregiver. When they find the child's caregiver, a young woman named Bella Swan, Jasper sees something in her that intrigues him, so he decides that she will be his newest victim.
Jasper kidnaps Bella, and proceeds to treat her just like he's treated all his past victims. He doesn't merely drink from them, kill them and dispose of their bodies. Jasper keeps them for weeks, even months at a time. Drinking from them multiple times, each time sucking his venom from them to prevent turning them. As he does this, he uses his empathic abilities to feel their every emotion so he can get to know them, preserving them in his perfect vampire memory for all eternity.
But what Jasper sees as noble or heroic, Bella points out to him as barbaric. When she stands up to him, Jasper decides her wants for more than what her blood can do for him so he decides to let her go.
You'll have to read the story to find out the rest, but I can tell you that LyricalKris gives us such descriptive writing in this story that you feel every bit of emotion that every character feels. Chapter 16, in particular, is a masterpiece of Kristina Sanchez's writing ability.
Inhuman Nature can be found here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12015038/1/Inhuman-Nature
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Well, I hope you check out these recommendations. If you've read them before, you should try reading them again. I always find I missed something the first time I read a story, so a second time always lets me see something new. If you haven't read any of these stories before, I think you will enjoy them.
Have a great week. See you next Tuesday.
Good morning, Fic Lovers. I hope life is treating you well, today.
I started this blog because I miss the International House of Fan Fiction. There was just something about their blog that made me happy and I read it every time there was a post, once I discovered it. It's left a pretty big hole in how I get my fic recs. I know there are other blogs out there, and I'm not dissing any of them, but there was just something about the IHOFF that made it a cut above the rest. I hope that I can come close to filling the hole that they left to your, and my own, satisfaction.
On this inaugural Temptation Tuesday, I'm going to explain how I found fan fiction. Later, in my first recs post, I'll give you a few of my firsts. I think that seems fitting, don't you?
Good. I'm glad you agree with me. Thanks for playing along.
I first need to state that I came to the fandom rather late. It was the summer of 2012 before I discovered fan fiction. I didn't see any of the movies or read any of the books until late in 2011. It was my intention to avoid reading the books until after I had seen all the movies, because I. Hate. Waiting. Between. Installments. And I had owned the series in hardcover for over a year without reading it.
So it was my intention to wait until all the movies were out on DVD so I could just watch them in one long marathon, right? Are you picking up what I'm putting down?
Then I saw the trailer for Breaking Dawn Part 1. Specifically, the part in the trailer where they show Bella in the casket? I know, right???? Well, you know I just HAD to find out what happened. So I read the entire series in three days. I think I slept a total of seven hours that weekend.
Seriously, that was one of the best weekends I've ever spent.
I was able to go on with my life after I spent that weekend devouring the Twilight saga in its entirety. Barely.
I found myself becoming mildly obsessed with it. But really, who isn't, right? I mean, it's Edward and Bella! (We are Jacob haters here, folks. Get used to it.)
So, it was probably October of 2011 when I read the Twilight saga for the first time. In March of 2012, a family member needed a live-in babysitter for her kids, and as I didn't have a job at the time, I volunteered. They. Didn't. Have. Cable. So I read the series, one right after the other, over and over, for about four months straight. Yes. I was that bored, otherwise.
Well, I was kind of bored with reading it over and over (BLASPHEMY!!!) so I decided to get on the Stephenie Meyer website on my phone and noodle around for a bit, which I did. Can I just say, she totally should have left in the part where Jasper helps blow dry Bella before the prom while Alice and Rose were helping her get ready. That was some funny stuff.
But that's not my point. My point is that after I oh-so-innocently wandered on to Mrs. Meyer's site, I discovered the amazing awesomeness that is Midnight Sun.
So, I read Midnight Sun, not ever expecting it to just end where it did. I mean, WTF????
Why would she do that to me?!?
I was desperate for the end of Midnight Sun. I felt like a junkie looking for a fix. I just had to see the rest of that story from Edward's point of view. My very sanity rested on it. But it wasn't there. What could I do?
I did what every self-sufficient bitch does. I Googled the fuck out of that shit. I typed "End of Midnight Sun" in the search bar and a few hundred thousand hits came up so I clicked on one that looked promising.
That click led me to Scrib'd and a document that said it was the end of Midnight Sun, so I read it, thinking that because it said Midnight Sun Continued, it was Stephenie Meyer. I know, right? I was pretty stupid. I had no idea fan fiction even existed at this point.
Anyway, I read that and enjoyed it, but at that point, I still thought it was Stephenie who wrote it. There were more links, so I clicked on one of them and that was a link for the same thing on fanfiction.net. And then I was like,
So, that is my story of how I discovered fan fiction and my deep love for all things Edward and Bella. My recs post will post later today or early this evening.
Until then,
It's official. The reason I decided to post on Tuesdays is so I could call my Tuesday rec posts Tuesday Temptations. I'm a genius, I know.
Don't hate the playa, hate the game, yo! It's not easy being me. Enough of my self-congratulatory bullshit for one day, right? Let's get down to business.
For starters, I'd like to tell you how stuff is gonna work around here. Give you the nuts and bolts, so to speak. I want to recommend a few stories every week. I'll give you at least one completed fic and one WIP. I'm also going to highlight a different "Ward" every week. You know, MobWard, DoctorWard, BallplayerWard, etc. I'm also going to try to give you something funny every week.
Starting with the post on October 2nd, 2016, I would like to have a guest recommendation/review every week, as well. Everyone is welcome to volunteer for this, and if I have enough volunteers, I'll consider doing two or more.
Anyway, tomorrow will be my first official Temptation Tuesday. I hope you like what I want to do with this blog. You can join our Facebook group at this link:
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My personal fanfiction.net page is at this link:
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4378705/SarcasticBimbo
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https://www.facebook.com/smithbelynda
This is my Twitter:
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Feel free to PM me at any of these addresses if you don't feel comfortable with leaving me constructive feedback here. If you just want to be a douchecanoe and flame me, well, you can just...
Hi, everybody!
My name is BeLynda and I am a fanfic addict. I'm a smut slut, an angst whore. I'm a lover of yummy fluffy goodness and I am not ashamed.
My fic name is SarcasticBimbo and I read my fic on fanfiction.net, mostly. However, I also read on TWCS and on FictionPad. But my go-to site is fanfiction.net.
I've written a few little things, and even started my own multi-chapter fic, but I stalled out because my main love is reading. I love to read. I spend pretty much every waking minute sitting at my computer reading.
What do I read? I'm glad you asked me that. I read fan fiction. Twilight fan fiction, to be exact. I love the characters of Twilight so much that I spend pretty much all my time reading about them in all their different configurations.
I belong to a bunch of different Facebook groups, and I am always recommending fics on those groups. People seem to like when I do that, and I miss the International House of Fan Fiction blog, so I decided to start my own. I plan to post once a week, but it may vary. I hope you like what I do here. I welcome your feedback and I plan to invite one or two people to make fic recs every week, as well.
