WW's Fic Rec Friday

Happy Friday, guys! I for one have been ready for Friday since ohh... about Monday.

So, I have a confession to make. Lately I've kind of been cheating on Edward and digging on Jasper. And not just any Jasper, not Jasper the kind of secondary good friend character (like in Just One of the Guys), but Jasper the love interest. And not with Alice either. No no, I'm talking about... Bellsper. *gasp!* I know, I know... but I can't help it. He's so damn sexy.

Previously I rec'd Son of a Preacher Man by LaViePastiche. Stangsperella is one of my favorite pairings - EVER - but now she is (as she has been threatening/promising from the beginning) shifting the story to an Edward/Bella pairing. And I am sad panda. So, I went in search of other Bellspers to assuage the ache.


He and She by AHelm
Rated: M for sexual situations, adult content and language
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Summary: Sometimes, you can't fight chemistry, no matter the situation. "I know all your favorite spots and tonight we will connect the dots." Jasper/Bella. AH.

The first thing that struck me about this fic was the present-tense used. Normally, I have a hard time with this tense, but in this case it fit so beautiful; it pulled me into the moment and made me feel as though I was experiencing it along with the characters.

The first chapter is sweet and poignant; I felt their love for one another in every caress and whisper. She purposefully keeps the character names from us until the very end - and the fact that it was a Bella/Jasper pairing simultaneously shocked the hell out of me and made perfect sense. I could see them together in this.

The next two chapters begin to illustrate their struggles as a couple - all is not as easy as it seems in the first scene.

The chapters are short but illustrative; each vignette a small, descriptive window into their relationship and the challenges they face - they say so much with so little.

So read it. Embrace the Bellsper. Come back and we'll talk and I'll further enable your new addiction. Do it. I need comrades in this new endeavor.

Jackson Rathbone Reveals more on the New Moon Birthday Scene

During TwiCon last weekend, Larry Carroll caught up with the actor in an attempt to uncover more details about that scene — Bella's birthday party — and the way in which Jasper pounces at the slight whiff of blood. "It's a little bit more violent [than what you saw in the trailer]," Jackson explains. "It's really about the moment where Bella's kind of realizing what kind of world she's really into. We spent the entire film of 'Twilight' delving into the vampire, but now with 'New Moon,' it's like you're in the vampire world and what happens when you get that paper cut?" Press play below to hear more about the pivotal moment and how Jackson's costars had to hold him back.

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Robward Breaks Down Breaking Dawn

SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't read Breaking Dawn yet, close your eyes and move on to the next post. Lion_Lamb posted this hilarious summary of Breaking Dawn by the adorably animated Robward and I had to share the comic relief. Enjoy!"So it doesn't start so bad. Bella is whiny like usual but I basically just drown that out now. Plus I got her a missile proof car. She thinks its to keep her safe..."

"...but it was really just a way to bring the lolz for Jasper, Emmett and I."

"The wedding goes well...even a bit boring...but it was nice not to have to fight some evil vampire for a few hours...so I try to be a good husband and invite Bella's smelly dog best friend to cheer her up..."

"...but of course Fido has to go cause a big scene when he finds out I'm gonna tap that while she is still human even though SHE'S BEEN BEGGING ME TO DO HER FOR MONTHS and I mean, How much restraint is man supposed to have? I swear if I don't get some soon I'll choke a bitch..."

"Anyways, so I take Bella away to Esme's Island which is in the middle of nowhere so I can get busy with my wife in private and she won't get all cold from me because it's hot as hell. I mean I've had 107 years to plan this so I better not mess up now..."

"So then I get all seductive and tell Bella to meet me in the ocean then I'm finally not a virgin anymore but now no one has any idea how fucking awesome I am in bed since the bitch author fades to black so I get all emo about and figure I shouldn't do it with Bella again until after she is changed which of course pisses Bella off..."

"Then she is all "Edward, I need you" so I do her again then the bitch gets PREGNANT..."

"...so I totally freak out because there is no god damn way I'm spending eternity looking after a kid so I'm thinking it's time for a mutant baby smushsmortion but Bella is all attached and shit..."

"So we go back home to get help from Carlisle but apparently Bella and Rose are all BFF now so the house is all divided then to top it off things are now told from the mongrel's POV...

"I'M EDWARD FUCKING CULLEN...does no one care about my view?"

"Anyways, so I hear all the dog's thoughts and between Bella dying from the mutant baby and me not getting a chance to have my POV I get REALLY emo and desperate and ask Jacob to do Bella so she can have puppies or whatever werewolves have..."

"I know, I KNOW....WTF right? Lapse in judgement but I really didn't want Bella to die."

"So we're trying to be all nice to the dogs because the pack broke up and give them food and shelter and of course my bff Seth is awesome about it all but Jake and Leah have to be complete assholes about it all..."

"So this pregnancy shit goes on for way too long not mention a bunch of really pointless and boring stuff with the pack goes on..."

"Then of course as soon as Carlisle and the others leave Bella goes into Labor and then Rose decides she gets thirsty for Bella right when she is supposed to save the baby so I'm all "WTF MOVE BITCH" and get Jacob to keep Bella alive for the transformation..."

"So I inject her in the heart with my venom then bite her all over then 2 days go by while she has her transformation and she doesn't move at all so I'm kinda freaked but I mean 2 days! Quit bitching, mine was the full three and with way less help..."

"So when she wakes up she is super hot which is awesome and I take her hunting and it turns out she can handle the bloodlust business really well so thumbs up and I show her the baby and warn her about Jacob but kinda don't say everything..."

"...so Bella finds out Jacob imprinted on our kid and nicknamed her after the lock ness monster so she flips out on him which basically just amuses me..."

"...so to calm Bella down I take her to our little cabin the family gave us for some vampire sexin' and she felt way better if I do say so..."

"After we did it like all night (Yes ladies....ALL NIGHT) and even though it was only alluded too, we went back to see Nessie..."

"Okay, you have to admit the stuff with Nessie and me is pretty fucking cute..."

"SO Bella is all bonding with Nessie then that idiot Jacob comes back and tells Bella he fucking phased in front of Charlie and invited him over so we try to act all normal since hes been clueless all this time and its like "oh shit, what are we gonna do?"..."

"Then he comes and like basically doesn't care which is stupid but at least Bella didn't eat him which was helpful..."

"Time totally flies by and Nessie grows super fast and is all creepy too so Carlisle and I do research and plan to go back to South America to figure this baby shit out..."

"Bella goes hunting with Jacob and Nessie but that ho-bag Irina sees them on some fucking mountain and gets all miffed and walks away..."

"Alice has some epic vision of the Volturi killing us all just when things are going okay so we're basically all fucked then Alice and Jasper totally bail after we decide to round up more vamps to vouch for Nessie..."

"And its like "WTF Alice way to bail" but we formulate a plan anyways and everyone goes off to round up vampires to witness that Nessie grows since vamp babies and big N-O with the volturi since Irina told them she saw her that day in the mountains..."

"So all these vamps from all over show up and we find Bella is actually a shield but she kinda sucks at using it so we are all training her..."

"All this preparation stuff goes on for a long ass time, I mean even I'M GETTING BORED and I'm expecting to die soon..."

"So then the day finally comes for the battle to end all battles but it goes on so long and the volturi are all corrupt because we proved Nessie wasn't an immortal and Bella's shield keeps us all safe..."

"Then Alice comes back with another half immortal kid who is basically totally okay and stopped growing at like 17 so we know Nessie won't die and now we know that Alice didn't bail on us..."

"And like I totally knew she wouldn't bail because she is Alice and she is too Awesome for that..."

"So the voluturi back off because everyone kinda turned against them and all is good again and we have a bunch of random new friends and Charlie is totally doing Sue Clearwater now so Bella knows he is fed and shit..."

"So I thank Jacob and call him "Son" just to see the fucking look on his face which was priceless..."

"I mean if he is gonna end up my doing my daughter when she technically only like 7 but looks 17 and probably end up having some wolf-vampire baby I better get the jokes in now..."

"So everyone is all happy then Bella and I put Nessie to bed then I was gonna totally get some but Bella let me see in her mind finally which was nice after all this time..."

"So all in all it was pretty boring but I can't complain because I'm not a virgin anymore."

TLYDF: Exploring the Jasper Factor

Not long ago, our good friend AngstGoddess003 turned to the Twilight Sisterhood for a little research assistance. We're always glad to help when we can, so I was thrilled to see the results of that with her excellent essay for TLYDF called Exploring the Jasper Factor.

AG delves into the concept of Jasper being the next truly "acceptable" star of fanfiction's future. There are literally thousands of fics about Edward and Bella and recently there has been a surge of next generation fics with Jasper taking the reigns.

She breaks down the different variations of Jasper that we're seeing such as Vampsper, Texsper, Darksper and, one that scares me a bit, Edsper. AG explores what it is about these characterizations, in addition to others, that are so appealing to the readers and what the thought process is behind them from the authors themselves.

Beyond that, AG enlisted the help of the Twilight Sisterhood and others with some questions which I presented to those on our forum. First, she wanted to know if we imagine actor Jackson Rathbone, who played Jasper Hale in the movie adaptation of Twilight, when we read/write Twilight fanfiction. If not, she was curious who we do picture in that role. Then she wanted to know our opinions on which we thought was the cooler power, Edward's ability to read minds or Jasper's power of empathetic manipulation.

Here is the Jacksper breakdown and some of our contributions. I know who these "random" readers are. Can you find your input here?:

Jasper is Jackson : 11
Jasper is Jackson, with physical alterations : 5
Jasper is not Jackson : 3
Jasper is Joe Anderson : 1
Jasper is Tatum Channing : 1

Random Reader comment from The Twilight Sisterhood: As for the powers... I think they are both incredibly intrusive; you're either invaded by their thoughts or their emotions. I think I’d have to go with the thoughts, because it is the lesser of the two. I think Edward learned to ignore and tune out the chatter all around him, but they never said anything about jasper being able to ignore emotional surges around him. I’m a very empathetic person, and I know how hard it is not to succumb to the emotions of others when they're running high. I imagine most of the time he's not even sure how he himself feels, he is so inundated with the thoughts around him.

Random Reader comment from The Twilight Sisterhood: The "cooler" power is relative... I think the mindreading thing is cool, but not sure I'd want to live like that the rest of MY life or live with someone else who had that power...so I'd have to choose empathetic manipulation, although I'm a moody bitch, so I'd have to choose C - none of the above...if I had a choice, I'd choose seeing the future like Alice...she has the ability to change the future based on her visions! Way coolest power!

This is such a fun, insightful piece that you must check it out and show AG some love. She did a great job dissecting all of the aspects of The Jasper Factor.

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Twilight making an impact on the baby names

Have you ever viewed babynames.com's Top 100 Names of 2008 you will see several names from the Twilight Saga.
Male Names:
#7 - Jacob
#13 - Jackson (Rathbone?)
#94 - Edward
#100 - Jasper

Female Names:
#2 - Isabella
#24 - Bella
#87 - Alice

I predict we will see Carlisle, Esme, Cullen and Emmett added to the Top 100.
And let's not forget Renesmee, which has also been added to the list.

Twilight Trivia Fun

I found this fun trivia game on Rotten Tomatoes. I won't even tell you what my score was. ;o)

Test your Twilight knowledge HERE.