Here's your community round-up from October 20 - November 11, 2009. If you'd like anything added to the next round-up, please leave a comment.

Projects:
THE HOST FANBOOK! (Accepting submissions NOW)

Discussion:
DISCUSSION PROMPT #45: HOW OLD ARE THE CHARACTERS?
DISCUSSION PROMPT #46: JAMIE AND WANDERER/PET
Discussion Prompt #47: Melanie's Inner Voice

Graphics
Icons by sjlnechnaia
Icons and Mel/Wanda manip by shadybrightside

EW preview is at the end.

The Daily 10 (11-11-09)
by officialspunkransom

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Thanks to spunk-ransom.com

weekly recommendation post.
Here's the place to rec all your favorite Edward/Bella fanworks (fic, fan videos, art, etc).



Memory in Blood | AU. Edward is an unapologetic "Recycler" of the scum of the human population. But when his plan is suddenly ruined by the appearance of a certain brunette, his world is changed irrevocably. My entry for the "In The Dark Contest." E/B. Dark themes.

A Rough Start | Overnight irresponsible Edward goes from bachelor to father of a 5 yr old. Meanwhile responsible, prepared Bella begins her first job as Kindergarten teacher at Forks Elementary. When irresponsible meets the epitome of responsible, sparks will fly!

A rite of passage | AU All Human. Bella and Edward are best friends. A story of self discovery and the loss of innocence. This story is about how two people deal with sex, love, trust, friendship all while growing up. Very OOC.

Title: Come Back To Me
Author: xConcretegirl
Rating: T
Pairings: All Canon.
Summary: Set in the 1940's during World War 2, Edward and Bella are young and in love, planning their wedding, when the war interrupts. Edward is heading off to war. Bella doesn't know what to do without him, and will Edward make it back? AH/AU.


Preview: Edward changed too, into a pair of jeans and plaid shirt. His hair was a mess, and my heart thudded at the sight of him. He was perfect. He was mine.
I all but threw myself at him, pressing my lips against his. He laughed against my lips, his arms wrapping around my waist as he caught me. His laughter subsided quick though, and a second later he was kissing me back. We knew we should get to the hospital, but Alice probably wouldn't notice if we were late.

Chapter One/Chapter Twelve

Another Team Edward vs. Jacob video

BEVERLY HILLS, California — Judging by the photos that leaked Tuesday night, a lot of people enjoy dreaming that Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart's onscreen romance also extends offscreen. But no matter what the truth is, this much is fact: Rob and Kristen are happy to have the other at their side as they ride the "Twilight Saga" wave.

"He's thoughtful," Stewart explained recently when we asked the actress to name the quality in RPattz that means the most to her. "I don't want to be specific. It's funny to talk about your friends in [these terms], because this is now going to be the one thing that's my favorite thing about Rob. It's going to be the thing."

Way back in March 2008, when MTV visited the "Twilight" set, two things were obvious: Kristen and Rob were going to set the big screen on fire, and the duo were growing close. Onscreen, Edward and Bella are romantic, honest and protective of one another; offscreen, Rob and Kristen have a funny, self-deprecating dynamic that has helped them grapple with all the insanity of the saga's explosion.

"It's strange, because she's changed over the movies I've done with her," Rob said of his leading lady. "I think from the first one, I was so quiet [and] very determined to do something on the first movie. I wanted to look very serious, and it made her, I guess, a little bit more reticent about how to deal with me."

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EDIT: Rough cut with Kristen:
( Video under the cut. )

1. Kristen is absolutely stunning.
2. How freaking amazing is she with fans?!?

Title: Reviving Fireflies
Author: greeen goldfish
Rating: M
Genre: Drama/Romance
URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5495072/1/Reviving_Fireflies
Characters/Pairings: ExB
Short summary: As war threatens to split apart their town, Isabella Swan and Edward Masen struggle with the scars left behind by the families who abandoned them. AH, OOC.
Any warnings:This is set during the U.S. Revolutionary War. There will be violence and trauma.
Disclaimer: Stephenie Meyer owns all things Twilight.

Chapter 2: Revelations www.fanfiction.net/s/5495072/3/Reviving_Fireflies
Preview: The fact that John and Tania had made their misadventure so public only added to the infamy of the story. Within hours of their boat’s departure, Edward Masen became Buelah’s favorite son. The hearts of men, women, and children were bleeding all over town for the poor, jilted innocent that was Edward Masen. Servants, fishermen, aged widows, hopeful daughters, and hardened sailors alike felt wronged on behalf of Poor Edward Masen. Men whispered oaths, damning John Masen and his morally reprehensible father, who was clearly to blame for allowing a son to grow into such a monster. Women tsked their tongues over Tania Hartvigsen, assuring anyone who would listen that they knew she was trouble the moment they heard that accent and saw that freakishly pale hair.

He opened up about his facial hair, whether or not he believes in "the one" as well as Edward Cullen's serious nature. Plus, his favorite parts of New Moon and whether he'll miss Edward when it's all over.

I can't embed, so click the cap!

Jacob looks too much like a women!

disclaimer: all original photos © their respective owners, no copyright infringement intended. the graphics in here are for pure entertainment.

69 // Robert Pattinson (VF shoot, old photoshoot, NM promo and more)
40 // Kristen Stewart (NM promo)
21 // Rob & Kristen (NM promo, candid shots)
05 // Ashley & Jackson (Glamour UK shoot)

BANNERS
3 Robert Pattinson
1 Robert & Kristen
3 Jackson & Ashley



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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.