Shit! How could I forget Katrina and The Waves?! It was only 17 years ago!!! And I'm sure they've lost count of the amount of awards they've won since then. Not. I think I'm going to start an anti-Eurovison campaign; just for shit and giggles....
I thought Eurovision was there just to serve as joke fodder for Graham Norton. Of course, as an American, I've never seen it.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginYou are not allowed to view links. Register or Login'....as I do love a c*ck!!!' You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginYou are not allowed to view links. Register or Login Darn it! Another set of panties for the waste bin! I really wish Myla would make them a bit more durable (or Fassy proof), jeez is it too much to ask! I'm happy for all OFD to come out of the closet, as long as they look but do not touch! AND MS LOOPY? STOP CALLING HIM MIKE! Shit! How could I forget Katrina and The Waves?! It was only 17 years ago!!! And I'm sure they've lost count of the amount of awards they've won since then. Not. I think I'm going to start an anti-Eurovison campaign; just for shit and giggles....
Speaking of Graham Norton. The show with Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy was on BBC America this past Saturday. It was hysterical. I had a little sense of deja-vu when I first started watching since I'd watched a few minutes of the video link loopy (?) put up, but had not yet watched the whole thing. It sounds like it was a vicious movie set with the punching game! Graham was smart not to play.
I seriously don't know why anyone would want to play the punching game, especially when you have the likes of Hugh involved. That bruise that James had was good one though.
The only bruise I've seen to rival that one was a huge bruise my daughter got on her leg when she slipped between two 25 foot boats.
Your poor daughter, that sounds really painful - I hope she was okay afterwards apart from the bruise on her leg. My 2 younger brothers would get bruises like that regularly but that's cos it was self-inflicted as they played rugby - stupid men.
Chapter 36 is my absolute favourite of the whole story...It gutted me (btw are you crying yet? Or was that just me?) I'm going ot have to go back and re-read WIde Awake I can't really remember it very well....I think that happens when the author doesn't classify the prologue as a chapter and FFN does, if you look FFN classifies the prologue as chapter 1 while the authors classifies Isabella Bliss as chapter 1....but also with two people writing it they might just have missed counted where they were..CW&IA is one of my two flounced fics also; High Fidelity was the other one but I went back and finished it....Astro threatened my life if I didn't.
Wow I never thought to compare Wide Awake to Dusty, but Wide Awake was the first Twilight fanfiction I ever read, so it holds the most special place on my little metaphorical fanfic bookshelf I can definitely see how they mirror each other now that I think about it, but Wide Awake has a better plot to work with, IMO. That Bella and Edward were both emotionally damaged individuals that managed to find solace in each others company. Plus, I'm a sucker for resolution in the stories I'm reading so I really enjoyed the fact that Edward knew he was messed up and needed to seek help outside of his bedroom walls where he was tucked away with Bella most of the time. Dusty is just another example of asking myself "Why does anyone do anything?" Because they can. What you mentioned about teen love is so true! Those two were so wrapped up in one another, even though that much co-dependency is really not healthy, but when you're a teenager in love no one can really tell you otherwise. Outside of school work the only thing they really had to worry about was the other, because they didn't have jobs, their parents still paid for everything, so your biggest extracurricular activity turns into being the best girlfriend ever.
...But mostly I sit there thinking about how dumb they are for what they're doing, but there wouldn't be any plot if they were smart teenagers I wouldn't have had the chance to do half of what the kids do in some stories, because my mom didn't trust any of my friends for a very good reason!
Okay, so I was a bit bored and looking for something real quick to read last night and I cam across this one-shot and I quite enjoyed it, I was crying so much by the end though - but that's not saying a lot as I cry at loads of stuff (stupid hormones)For a first attempt it's not bad at all.
Wide Awake was the first Twilight fanfiction that blew me away... It is right up there at the top of my list. I guess Trippin Slippin surpassed it recently, but before that nothing could really compare to the level of emotion I felt when reading Wide Awake. (except for that darn epilogue!! I wish I hadn't read it) I agree that I think Wide Awake had a better plot and flow... with Dusty, a lot of the angst is repeated over and over, but again that's reality with an addict. It's a cycle of "I'll try to do better" and then the addict hitting bottom again so the fact that they made this fic so long really just helped us "feel" more of what Bliss was having to deal with him and his addiction. Like you, I absolutely need resolution and specifically a HEA when I'm reading, so Wide Awake left me in a happier spot (before the epilogue) than I think Dusty is going to leave me. My parents were quite strict and we lived in such a small town that we really couldn't do anything without our parents finding out. I'm so glad I didn't read this story as the parent of a teenager... It would have made me a crazy paranoid parent! I would probably hire a PI to stalk my kid and make sure they weren't out doing anything illegal.
Since you cried, am guessing this is not HEA?Should i avoid this too? Have already added CW&IA and The Grand series of Carano in my Delete list. Nope, not touching them, ever.
Does anyone know if Grand is more "angst" than romance/drama? From what I read it was just another Mobward story but it's not happy go lucky, because Bella is his mistress and from another post Edward is allegedly a crazy jerk?I remember liking Grand but the translating was distracting but I might have to give it another try. It can't be any more dramatic than SexyLexiCullen's A Quiet Storm which is a huge, gigantic, every single adjective you can think of MESS.
See, I started to read 'A Quiet Storm' but didn't get past the first few chapters. I started reading it thinking WTF?!?! Did I miss something? Cause none of it made sense at first, then as I started going I just didn't like the characters. I didn't get past Sorry but you are not allowed to view spoiler contents.. Did it get better after that? I mean, there was all these great reviews and it won fic awards and crap. Is it worth the read? I like a good mobward story every now and then. But it's gotta be a good one, that's like it's actual mob. Not like 'The Mobster's Son' by words.left.unsaid. I dropped that one a few chapters in. The characters were going in circles and it wasn't even mob-like. They said they were mob but didn't do anything but cry all day.
She was fine and wore her battle wounds proudly. She regularly came home from her sailing weekends/camps with bruises. I'm just glad they were from boats and not from bullies.
Well, I just finished reading Dusty. I'm very glad that I took the leap of faith (Thanks, Demaris!) and read this. It was really good. Really sad and tragic, and not remotely fluffy, but I'm glad I read it. I said earlier that I hadn't cried yet, but I did cry in Chapter 38... Don't read further if you don't want to have the ending spoiled... I have lot of thoughts on the ending! Sorry but you are not allowed to view spoiler contents. Ok and the last thing... I noticed a weird discrepancy and maybe you guys won't remember if you haven't read it recently, Sorry but you are not allowed to view spoiler contents.So, a long rambling post there but now after reading Dusty I understand why so many folks couldn't really say one way or another whether it ended with an HEA.
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