It's Like I've Lost The Will To Live

I'm serious, yo. I love writing this blog and used to love finding all the funny GIFs to include, but tonight I'm just. . .

I feel like I've been drained of my will to live. Someone just dig a hole and kick the dirt in over me after I lay down.

I mean, even going to my happy place. . .

Which, you know, is just some variation on pretending I was the model on this shoot because LOOK AT THE INTENSITY OF THAT KISS!!!

But, alas, even my happy place doesn't help.

But then I find GIFs like this one and they make me forget it for a few minutes. . .



Mrs. Iron Man is a lucky woman!

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Okay, enough of my whining, am I right? All o' y'all are probably sitting there like this. . .




Okay, there's no need to be hostile.



I'm getting to it. Chillax.

This week I have two vamp fics and an all human fic for your consideration. Since I've been in the sad mood, I'll just get that one out of the way right out of the box.

In the story Empty Chairs at Empty Tables by LyricalKris, Edward is the sole survivor when a pissed-at-the-world Eric Yorkie opens fire on him and his group of friends at lunch on a day like any other at Forks High.

Summary: The wake of a tragedy—a school shooting—has far-reaching consequences. Edward was living his life as though he had to make up for the four people who died in front of his eyes. Bella's life had been blown apart before it really started. Two strangers who happened to come back to the scene of the crime on the same day.

The story fluctuates from ten years in the past when the shooting happened, and the present, when Edward has been invited back to Forks High to commemorate the anniversary of that horrible day.

There is to be a ceremony and Edward arranges to go back to the cafeteria to see where the shooting happened and has a panic attack. Bella, who lost her father on that same day, helps him. Bella, it turns out, also has her own demons to fight as a result of that day.

This story is a WIP and Kris just got started on it a few weeks ago, so there are only six chapters written, but what an impactful six chapters they have been. I'm looking forward to seeing how the rest of this story plays out.

And, y'all already know I think that LyricalKris does no wrong. I mean, I dedicated an entire blog to her body of work. I also think that Empty Chairs at Empty Tables will turn out to be a beautifully done representation of the feelings of the survivors of a mass shooting. If she does this story anywhere near as well as she did her story Nightmare Before Christmas, it will also be a story of how two survivors of unthinkable trauma come to support each other and fall in love in the process.



Empty Chairs at Empty Tables can be found here:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12237551/1/Empty-Chairs-at-Empty-Tables

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The next story I have for you is called A Scarlet Night by prettyflour.

Summary: In a world where power is held in a precarious balance, what will happen when dark and light collide?
A Scarlet Night is an AU story where Edward is a vampire who was turned by his maker, Carlisle, in 1918. That, my friends, is where any similarity to Twilight ends.

To begin with, there is no Cullen family in this story. The characters are all here, but they are not a family. Carlisle turned Edward in 1918 and that is it. Carlisle created Edward as a companion for himself, and they remained together as father and son for the nearly 100 years that they roamed the earth together.

Bella is not human in this story, she is a faerie. Bella is no Tinkerbell type faerie; there are no wings and no glitter. She channels the elements to keep the earth in balance.

Bella is the last living faerie on earth. Fae blood is the sweetest, most potent blood and vampires get addicted to it once they taste it. Because of this, they have hunted the fae to near extinction. 

Bella seeks Edward after meeting Alice, a vampire seer who kept having visions of Bella being killed by Edward. Alice wanted to warn Bella of what could happen.

Bella was intrigued by Alice's visions and sought Edward out. After meeting him, Bella realized that they are mates. After the couple's initial meeting, Bella decides she needs to confer with the seer again, and when she does, Alice reveals new visions. Visions of a great war between a coven who wants to take over the world and enslave humans and the Volturi, the rulers of the vampire species. In the visions, Bella sees Edward fighting with the Volturi until he is overcome by the coven wanting to enslave humans. He is tortured and killed by them.

Bella decides that she can't let that happen so she goes back to Edward and informs him that they are mates but they will have to take it slow so he doesn't kill her. She starts showing him how to use the magic she uses and he learns very quickly.

The promised battle happens, but in the process, the remainder of the characters that represent the Cullen family make their appearances in the coven that want to overthrow the Volturi.

This story is unique and I enjoyed it a lot. It is HEA and I will definitely read it again someday.

I can't get the available picture on the story to work so here is a Twi-pic I like. :-) Plus, this scene happens in the story.



A Scarlet Night can be found here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7341348/1/A-Scarlet-Night
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Last, but not least this week, I have a story called Shotgun Charlie by jstarr.

Summary: When Charlie catches Edward and Bella in a compromising position how will he react? What lengths will they have to go to in order to get alone time together?

What can I say about this story? I had such a good time reading it. Edward is overcome by his lust for Bella one night when she is sleeping and decides to let his fingers do the walking and she wakes up while he is feeling her up.

They have sex and Bella is so loud that she wakes Charlie up and Edward is so pre-occupied by what just happened he doesn't hear him coming down the hall to investigate all the screaming and moaning. With his shotgun that he named Willie.

This story is funny and sweet and endearing. There are grammar and syntax problems, but I was entertained enough to continue reading and ignore them.

So, if you're looking for something cute and funny and fluffy to get your mind off your troubles, Shotgun Charlie is a good story to do that for you.

There's no banner for this story, either, so here's a funny meme I found when looking for a picture of Charlie.



Shotgun Charlie can be found here:


https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4832313/1/Shotgun-Charlie

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And so ends another edition of Smut Sluts and Angst Whores. I hope I didn't drive you too crazy with all my rambling at the beginning of this blog post. 
What can I say? I'm a precious blossom who is easily bruised.

Seriously, don't hold it against me. It's just one of my facets. All of us fully mature and mentally stable individuals have many of them.



Anyway, that's all for this week, folks. I have to get to bed so I can get up early and make a doctor's appointment so I can get all my meds refilled.



See you next week!

I'm Back, Bitches!!!!

So sorry for the unforgivable delay. And I know you probably don't want to hear my excuses, but I feel the need to purge so you're stuck with it.

When last I left you I had just received an eviction notice, I believe. Well, I have since vacated my apartment and am staying at my son's until I get a new place. We put my computer in storage and I flat out refuse to try to put this out on my phone. 



Then, a little over two weeks ago I was reading something on my phone and because I need bifocals and my old glasses were REALLY old, and consequently, WAY off of being the correct prescription for me, I usually ended up taking them off to read close up because my arms just aren't long enough to read small print with my glasses on. So I laid them on the couch beside me and one of my son's dogs ate them.





Well, a week into it, my son took the lenses from my old glasses and put them into a pair of $6.00 reading glasses frames he bought me so I could see well enough to at least get my daughter to school and my new, much stronger prescription bearing glasses arrived last Thursday.

I CAN SEE AGAIN, and I just have to say. . .



So I'm back and I have three stories that I think you will really like.


The first story I have is called Resurfacing by NewTwilightFan. It is complete.

The body of the story is told exclusively in Bella's POV and I'm not gonna lie, sometimes it's kind of depressing, but it's a great story.

Bella and Edward are both fresh off of bad break-ups when they set up profiles on a dating website. Bella weeds through a few losers before she finally gets a lovely message from Edward. Since they live in different cities, they start communicating and getting to know each other via the emails they send each other, then graduate to instant messaging, phone calls and texting.

They graduate to phone sex and the relationship kind of stalls there for around three years before Bella finally decides that she can't continue with the relationship because it's going absolutely nowhere. Just as she's come to this decision, Edward gets word that he's been promoted to head up a branch of his company's company in Bella's city. He begs her to not end the relationship and fights to keep her in his life. He tells her he's moving and gives her his new phone number. She realizes he's living there now and they have a chance.

The story is extremely well-written with very few grammatical errors, very few fic clichés, and I enjoyed it very much.


https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10132963/1/ResurfacingBella is anxious to finally meet the object of her desire: handsome, wealthy, enigmatic Edward Cullen. After almost three years of talking and teasing via e-mail, text and phone calls, is she truly ready for something real?

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The next story I have for you is a very new WIP that, I am not kidding here, I got goosebumps from reading the prologue. I have been leaping on EVERY update since I discovered what looks to be a nicely different AU retelling of the Twilight story.

It's called Saudade and I'm totally enamored with it. There are only a total of three chapters posted, so it's quite new, and updates weekly.
The prologue gave me goosebumps, the first chapter continued them and the second just kept the good feelings coming. The author is Violet Bliss and I look forward to where this new version of Twilight goes. I can't wait to see what happens. I can't get the provided banner picture to work for me so here's a picture that's kind of like it.



https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12326133/2/Saudade

Unhappy with her monotonous and seemingly aimless life, 24 year-old Bella Swan sends a wish up into the universe for more. It answers, leading her back to Forks, for a chance to fulfil the destiny always planned for her. But will the reluctant, handsome and butterscotch-eyed Dr Edward Cullen let her?

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The third story I have for you this week is called Where I Belong by bnpwrites. It is all human and Edward is a rock star from what I can gather, however, I get the impression that he's trying to get into acting from all the 'shooting' the guy has to do.

This story is also a WIP, though it's a bit further along than the previous story I mentioned. The author writes well and I'm enjoying our PMs back and forth when I review chapters. She's pretty cool.

In the A/N from the first chapter, the author states that she doesn't promise a happily ever after, but I'm down for this ride. I am in love with this Bella and Edward, so far. They are playful and their banter is hilarious.

Edward has his demons, of course. What self-respecting RockStarWard doesn't? Or, should I say demon? Because, everything else kind of stems from his relationship with his dad. His dad is a major asshole, based on the behavior displayed by him thus far in the fic.

Alice is Edward's sister/manager, and I'm pretty sure she doesn't have our boy's best interests at heart here. I'm pretty sure she's the one who leaked photos of Edward with Bella at his father's retirement party to the press so I've got my eye on her.

Anyway, I'm really enjoying this story and I can't wait to find out what happens next.

Unfortunately, I can't get the banner on the story in ffn to work for me so here's another picture of Edward and Bella that I like.


https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12219270/1/Where-I-Belong

Bella Swan never expected superstar Edward Cullen to wander into Walgreen's and she never expected him to change her life.

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That's it for this week, folks. I've gotta run pick up my daughter from school. We're supposed to get some snow tonight and tomorrow so traffic is gonna be sucktastic if it starts while I'm doing this.



I'm about to willingly go to a parking lot filled with teenage drivers in what could be a fairly substantial snowfall. How do I feel about that?




Have a great week. I am outta here!

Hey, guys, it's Lara. AKA MeteorOnAMoonlessNight.

BeLynda is legally blind, did you know that? Yet, she loves her authors and her Fandom so much that she helps all of us anyway. Last week, her son's dog ate her glasses. I know how bad it is when I'm without glasses, but can you imagine how it is for her? She can only see, no lie, two inches in front of her without her super powered glasses. So I'm writing a post because she's been out of commission. I know she hates to leave any of us hanging, but it might be February before her new glasses come in and she can post again. I'm proud to call her my super beta, and my friend.

Since I'm filling in for the inestimable Ms. B, I have gone out of my way (not really) to scour the internet (my faves list) for a whopping FOUR stories. You're welcome, America.

P.S. I know I'm not as funny as she is. My apologies.


Mating Deviation by Fyrebyrd

This completed fic was on my to-be-read list, and I have been eagerly diving in. On a spaceship hurtling towards their new home planet Alterna, Edward is next in line to be Commander. As the mating ceremony nears, Bella realizes there's an error in the system that matches random people with each other. She manages to convince Edward she's right, despite every other person of authority telling her she's treasonous. She stops Tanya and Edward from being mated, and for the first time in a millennia, the people are allowed to choose their own mates. And guess who Edward has chosen?

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11897593/7/Mating-Deviation


The Last House on Blackberry Lane by shouldbecleaning

This new wip has all the mystery. I haven't got a clue where it's going, except that it's going well. Set in the 1920’s, an ill Edward goes to stay with his Aunt and Uncle in New England. The house next door catches his attention as he stares out the window. Decrepit and appearing abandoned, it is in fact the home of Justice Swan, who offers Edward a position as a judicial clerk. In his home. Updates every other day.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12301913/1/The-Last-House-on-Blackberry-Lane


Caribbean Dreams by Sukiethree

This was a one-shot for the P.S. I Love You contest. Sukiethree is a new author, and I think she's got a gem here. Bella lives in Montego Bay, running a bar and restaurant. When she sees a mysterious stranger sitting outside every day, she becomes intrigued. When the cutie starts coming in for lunch, they hit it off and become friends. They have a date on her day off, and things get steamy.
Then he disappears for days, and Bella finally goes to his place to find out if the connection she felt was all on her side. Only she finds Edward gone and his place trashed, and the next thing Bella knows she's being followed. I'm so excited to see where this is going and what happened to Edward. Updates on Fridays.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12312115/1/Carribean-Dreams


What's Love? by Alyscia

Another new author with her first fic, What's Love is only on STARS library. Bella is a hard hearted con artist, 4 times divorced. As things unravel for her in New York, she makes the decision to go back to Forks to start over, moving in with her foster brother Jasper. Flashbacks reveal that this genius has had a tough childhood with both of her parents dying, leading to a disaster of a foster home. She's really just trying to survive in a cruel world. This one comes with a serious angst warning. Updates on Thursdays.

http://www.starslibrary.net/viewstory.php?sid=11740&textsize=0&chapter=1