Hi everyone! I'm a 23-year-old girl updating from southern California. I have one cat, a job I love, a president I hate, and a Prius named Debbie, who plays all of my podcasts on my hour-long commute. I do take oneshot requests in the Naruto fandom, so feel free to send those my way. I'm also here for you if you ever need to talk. Let me talk you down, talk you up, talk to you about Australian aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy or the C-Value Paradox of molecular evolution or whatever manga currently tickles your fancy or your fic. Whatever cracks your whip and butters your toast, let's hear it.

maintenance:

Will I read your fic? Fuck yes, absolutely I will. Send it my way.

On updating: Oh, how I wish I could promise you that I would upload quickly and consistently! Alas, I'd be lying, and I haven't lied to you yet, so I shan't start now. I only update when I feel that the new chapter is absolutely ready to go out! I cannot publish until the chapter feels like a natural progression of the plot, and that all characters are acting within the confines of their personality, and that takes time. I will never abandon a story (not even Now More Than Ever), but it might take me longer to work through the next step and get things just right.

Am I a published writer/do I have any original works? Yes, but unfortunately none of them are fiction. My degree is in biochemistry, emphasis human physiology, and my name is on a few research publications floating around out there in the great wide world of molecular cardiology and signal transduction of neuroendocrine cells. In my current life, do I write for a living? Unless you consider patient charts to be writing for a living, then unfortunately, no, I do not!

Fandoms: Preeeettty much only Naruto. My first exposure to Naruto was at age 10 or younger, in the Shonen Jump magazine, which I picked up in an Albertsons while my dad was doing the week's grocery shopping. The first page I opened to was during the written exam portion of the chunin exams, with Ibiki's bald ass head tormenting a room full of children, and Naruto prattling on with his usual i'm-gonna-be-hokage-believe-it speech. I was hooked, and off to weeb-land I went, never to return.

Wanna listen to what I listen to when I'm writing? Fire up your iPods, lads. I play a lot of Ziggy Alberts (any of his albums are most excellent), John Mayer, Hozier, Matchbox Twenty, and Billie Eilish. Donnie Trumpet and Dodie are honorable mentions.

What's currently in the works? Well, first and foremost, my three current published works: Seek, Now More Than Ever, and The Sun Goes With You. In the future, you can expect to see fics centered on Jiraiya, Itachi, and Gaara. If I get around to it I'd love nothing more than to write a Temari-centric fic because she kicks absolute ass.