Done ! Btw your icon is distracting. Hum... I have read a fireward. And have more on my list too.
*chants* fireward must wait. Fireward must wait.

I got FBIward first.

Awwww. Now I know why there was so much chatter about Terroir--what a lovely story! Nice and light. No angst or drama, just a simple romance set in the vineyards of Australia. Thanks for encouraging me to read this one. I wish I would have read it a little slower so that this B/E would still be around. I hope Thimbles posts a futuretake some day.

(Here's a link in case I'm not the last person to read this story.)

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Now I'm all excited about the chatter on Thief of Hearts and the GV bourneward one. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe...

I really liked Terrior, very realistic. I almost instantly fell in love this Edward. My favorite stories are the ones that you would actually see happening in your life, so I guess not fluff. What would you define it as?

I am lmao.  One chp? I would read one chp?
 

So 11pm. Animals feed. I am being feed. I get up at 430am and what am I getting ready to do?

I.AM.HITTING.NEXT!!!

Man that first chp just SUCKS you in.

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Author: Hoodfabulous 
I travel the Dirty Thirty alone, searching for something ... searching for myself. What I don't expect to find ... is him. A birthday one-shot written for and dedicated to Jonesn. Lemons/Language
Follow/FavoriteRated: Fiction M - English - Hurt/Comfort/Romance - Bella & Edward - Words: 14,984 - Reviews: 67 - Favs: 76 - Follows: 44 - Published: 08-15-13 - Status: Complete - id: 9600341

Loved this OS.

She is the Author of In the Flesh for the Dirty Talking Edward Contest. In my opinion it was the best one. Any idea why she pulled it from the contest ?? Didn't know that either.

Thank goodness I stay busy in all the hours I work. I haven't heard any drama around the contest. Do I even wanna know?

As wonderfully written as this story is, this contest entry barely meets the objective of this contest as the premise of this story is not based on Edward's actual words, but essentially CHEATS in using a cheapening plot device framed around the famous quotes and words of OTHERS. I personally loved this story and found the writing to be fantastic, yet think it's not an appropriate entry for this particular contest because HIS WORDS ARE NOT HIS OWN. While the authors of the other entries in the contest showcase their talents, coming up with original dirty talking dialogue, the dirty talking in this entry is 99 percent non-original. Does the last 400 words of almost a 16,000 word story constitute a valid entry, and is that even fair to the other entrants in this contest?

It barely skirts by. Barely.

I've read all of the entries and this is the one that doesn't comply with the spirit and the rules of this contest as presented, and that's clearly unfair (also, 1,000 words over the limit? Where there no consistent standards for this contest? I've read/voted in lots of contests, and the challenge for many writers is to stay within guidelines set - why were two particular authors given a pass when the others complied, even while the contest rules state that ALL submissions will be validated upon receipt for adherence to rules? The header and footer on both entries were less than 200 words - why are two entries in this contest allowed to break the rules? It makes me question whether certain authors are benefiting from favoritism, especially this entry, which grossly surpasses the contest limit and barely meets the contest goal in the first place). I think that's a disservice to all of the entrants in this contest, and the readers taking the time to read and vote in this contest. Take away the first 15,000 words or so, and what would this entry actually be without the "borrowed" words of other famous writers? I'm surprised more people are not upset by how unfair this is, and aren't questioning why this entry even qualified.

This isn't fair to the other participants. As a reader and someone who's really enjoyed following fic contests for a few years now, this is very disappointing to see.

This is the first time I've ever read an entry in a contest before, but after seeing this pimped on twitter so much, I decided to read it to see what all the excitement was about.

Unfortunately, I didn't find the excitement. This fic is mostly the words of other, popular authors. The lemon was dry. Their banter was cute, and I believe the author of this fic could very well have written something wonderful using his or her own words, rather than use quotes of other authors. It's disturbing to see so many people wearing their rose-colored glasses. It seems like the author of this fic intentionally used famous works of others to capture the attention of the readers, and make the readers feel intelligent by swooning over popular quotes the author could not create themselves.

After skimming through the reviews, I also found a reader who seemingly agrees with me. I noticed his/her comment concerning the word count, so I copy and pasted the fic, without the header and note at the bottom, into Word and it surpassed the contest rule word length by hundreds. I find it very fishy that this fic has been pimped so much on twitter, is so well-enjoyed by so many, yet almost everyone is completely oblivious to the blatant rule-breaking, and so easily disregard the fact that the author uses other people's words in most of the entirety of this fic.

Where is your OWN dirty talk?

There could be some more steaminess to the fic, but overall it's a cute fic. I simply find it disturbing that the rules are allowed to be broken in a public contest like this. Do you other authors not care? Why haven't you stood up for your stories? This makes me question the authenticity of an 'anon' contest. If a popular ff author pimps this fic, without caring that it breaks the rules by surpassing word length, uses other authors' 'dirty talk,' and has lemons as dry as the dessert, how can this be an anon contest? Methinks a little 'elbow rubbing' has been going on.

Barely skirts by? No. This fic doesn't skirt by at all.

The buzz around this particular entry was strange considering it's not that great, doesn't follow the contest rules and doesn't contain original dirty dialogue. The fact that it was allowed into the contest made me raise my eyebrows.

I went through the reviews and BNA's like Ninapolitan and Katinki. Things didn't really add up because this entry breaks rules and fails to meet the objective, so to draw that kind of attention? It made me wonder if this entry belongs to a BNA too. Reviews inexplicably rose like a fast rocket on this one, so more questions. Until I was mistakenly forwarded a long string of emails discussing who wrote this entry and the angling behind the scenes to drive up buzz and gain more votes for their friend. Of course no one is talking about this publicly, but now everything, including the large amount of reviews and buzz for this entry that doesn't even fit the contest, falls into a clear line.

I've read and voted in lots of anonymous contests, but this is one of the more popular and followed ones. Is integrity dead? And do the contest people even care that this is happening? There are a lot of people aware of what's going on but it's become their dirty little secret to help their friend. There were clues that something was off recently, with a few reviewers speaking up, and yet here remains the entry that never even qualified to be entered in the first place.

I'm disappointed that XXXXXX and/or those around her would sink to cheating like this. I'm disappointed that this contest wasn't more carefully run or entries validated according to the rules, which are very clear. Just imagine how other authors who spent time writing for this must feel, if readers reviewing this entry are becoming upset. That's without even knowing about the blatant cheating. It's supposed to be an anonymous contest. Clearly it's not. If I was a writer for this contest, believing in a fair playing field, I'd be calling for this entry to be removed. It should be.

A certain group of people should be ashamed of themselves for shifty s*%t. I always believed that these contests were about the talent of the writer and who did the best with the theme and within the set # of words to make it a harder challenge. But it's not. It's just one big popularity contest for the few who have the minions to do their dirtiest work.

I think this is unfair. This entry needs to be disqualified.

There is one story with a ridiculously high review count. It's highly suspect how fast that count shot up out of the blue one day when it was on a par with the rest for some time. That does not happen in contests unless there's a solid reason.

There were several reviews on that story (which may have been removed, but since I'm nosy I was reading all about it in one of my TwiFic groups.  LOL  Here's what they said:

And then there was this one:

And the big one:

I XX'd out the author, since I don't know if the reviewer was correct and I don't want to out the author of an anon contest.  Unless you want to PM me.

The original word count was 15,749, but now it's below the 15K limit.  Weirdness.

I think it's fair to also post this response by one of the hosts of the DTE contest to that last review that chippy posted.