Hey everyone. Despite the name I am actually a guy. I had totally watched Kagome kick Naraku's ass in episode 35 of InuYasha right before I joined. Thus the name. Now some basics about me: I'm 20 years old until April, I'm originally from the state of Illinois, and I'm going to college at Indiana University. Hopefully there are no creepy stalkers reading this...

Anyway...I guess I should first address the fanfiction aspect. All my stories should be considered abandoned. I started them years ago and I just can't get myself to finish them. The Naruto one is too far gone to be saved. It's totally cliche, but since I still get alerts letting me know people are reading it, I'm going to leave it. I may not enjoy it, but saving myself embarrassment isn't worth it if even one person genuinely enjoys reading the story. The Ranma/InuYasha crossover is so barely even started that I could presumably clean it up and finish it. However, I have other priorities that I'm focusing on. I've actually stopped writing fanfiction because I'm working on a series of original novels. I like creating my own characters more than borrowing the characters of other. It gives you more freedom because there are no expectations of how a character has to act.

Sorry if this bit of news saddens anyone, but there are really much better stories out there than my early attempts. If anyone is looking for a good one, feel free to PM me and I can give out some recommendations. I still read an outrageously large amount of fanfiction. I've been reading a bit of everything lately. I find I can read anything as long as the writing is good. Things like pairing or genre don't really turn me off of a story.

This ends the whole serious bit of my intro. The rest is really fun. It has to be since it's all about me lol.

Let's see. Things I like:

Books: Harry Potter (JK Rowling duh), The Dresden Files (Jim Butcher), The Artemis Fowl Series (Eoin Colfer),The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis), Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas), Songs of Innocence and Experience (William Blake), Twilight (Stephanie Meyer - Sort of), Twelfth Night / Richard III / Othello / Romeo and Juliet...pretty much anything Shakespeare. Same for Agatha Christie, I own her entire collection.

Anime: Ouran High School Host Club, Baccano!, Gundam (Wing and 00 - Seed = awful), Prince of Tennis, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Cross Game, Nodame Cantabile, Library Wars, The Beverage Club (aka Tytania...if you've ever watched it you know), Macross Frontier, Akagi, Utawererumono, Asura Cryin, Detective Conan, Irresponsible Captain Tyler...Naruto (kinda, only up to episode 30 or so of Shippuuden)

Movies: V for Vendetta, The American President, Runaway Jury, 12 Angry Men, My Cousin Vinny, Milk, Lord of the Rings II and III, Pirates of the Caribbean I, The Lion King (rawr), Beauty and the Beast (Best. Animated. Movie. Ever.), Ocean's Eleven

Music: I have two groupings. Group 1 (Modern) - All-American Rejects, Taylor Swift, Savage Garden, 3OH!3, Coldplay, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Katy Perry, Bon Jovi, The Killers, Nickleback -0- Group 2 (Classical) - Beethoven (Pathetique Movement and Moonlight Sonata especially), Debussy (Claire de Lune and Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune especially), Chopin (Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor especially), Bach (Air especially), Pascal Roge (Jeux d'eau especially)

TV Shows: Criminal Minds (fav!), House, Family Guy, Eleventh Hour, The Daily Show

Other things I love: Watching sports (NFL - Philadelphia Eagles, MLB - Chicago Cubs, College Basketball - Indiana and Villanova), playing tennis, writing (duh), reading (again duh), family, friends, politics, video games (RPGs and sports games especially), cooking, journalism (PR/Photography), swimming, traveling, pizza, chocolate, bananas,

Things I don't like: Judgmental people, Fox News (couldn't help it, only political plug I promise), the Dallas Cowboys / New York Giants / St. Louis Cardinals / Chicago White Sox, badly written stories, short chapters, one dimensional characters

UPDATE: In honor of the new season of House, here are some awesome quotes from the show!

Dr. Cameron: So I’m thinking we should have sex.
Dr. Chase: That makes sense.
Dr. Cameron: Despite the wisdom of pop songs there’s no point in putting our lives on hold until love comes along. We’re both healthy and busy people, and we work together so it's convenient.
Dr. Chase: Like microwave pizza?
Dr. Cameron: And of all the people I work with you’re the one I’m least likely to fall in love with.
Dr. Chase: Like microwave pizza.

Dr. Cuddy: (approaching with two young-looking female interns) Dr. House!
Dr. House: Time for Girl Scout cookies already?
Dr. Wilson: Get me some Thin Mints.

Dr. House: You think it's going to come out on its own? Are we talking bigger than a breadbasket? 'Cause actually, it will come out on its own, which for small stuff is no problem: it's wrapped up in a nice soft package and plop. Big stuff? You're gonna rip something, which, speaking medically, is when the fun stops.
Young Man: How did you...?
Dr. House: We've been here for half an hour and you haven't sat down; that tells me its location. You haven't told me what it is; that tells me it's humiliating. You have a little birdie carved under your arm; that tells me you have a high tolerance for humiliation, so I figure it's not hemarrhoids. I've been a doctor twenty years, you're not going to surprise me.
Young Man: It's an MP3 player.
Dr. House: Is it... is it because of the size, the shape, or is it the pounding bass line?

Dr. Foreman: No neurologist in his right mind would recommend that.
Dr. House: Show of hands: who thinks I'm not in my right mind? And who thinks I forget this very basic neurological fact? Who thinks there's a third option?
(Dr. Chase raises his hand)
Dr. House: Very good. What's the third choice?
Dr. Chase: No idea. You just asked if I thought there was one.

Dr. Chase: How'd you like it if I interfered in your personal life?
Dr. House: I'd hate it. That's why, cleverly, I have no personal life.

Dr. House: to the crowd in the walk-in clinic's waiting area Hello, sick people and their loved ones! In the interest of saving time and avoiding a lot of boring chitchat later, I'm Doctor Gregory House; you can call me "Greg." I'm one of three doctors staffing this clinic this morning.
Dr. Cuddy: Short, sweet, grab a file.
Dr. House: This ray of sunshine is Doctor Lisa Cuddy. Doctor Cuddy runs this whole hospital, so unfortunately she's much too busy to deal with you. I am a bored... certified diagnostician with a double specialty of infectious disease and nephrology. I am also the only doctor currently employed at this hospital who is forced to be here against his will.
(to Lisa)
Dr. House: That is true, isn't it?
(to crowd)
Dr. House: But not to worry, because for most of you, this job could be done by a monkey with a bottle of Motrin. Speaking of which, if you're particularly annoying, you may see me reach for this: this is Vicodin. It's mine! You can't have any! And no, I do not have a pain management problem, I have a pain problem... but who knows? Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm too stoned to tell. So, who wants me?
(nobody moves)
Dr. House: And who would rather wait for one of the other two guys?
(everybody raises their hand)
Dr. House: Okay, well, I'll be in Exam Room One if you change your mind.
Dr. Cuddy: Jody Matthews?
(Jody raises her hand)
Dr. Cuddy: Please accompany Doctor House to Exam Room One.

Dr. Cameron: I'm uncomfortable about sex.
Dr. Chase: Well, we don't have to talk about this...
Dr. Cameron: Sex COULD kill you. Do you know what the human body goes through when you have sex? Pupils dilate, arteries constrict, core temperature rises, heart races, blood pressure skyrockets, respiration becomes rapid and shallow, the brain fires bursts of electrical impulses from nowhere to nowhere, and secretions spit out of every gland, and the muscles tense and spasm like you're lifting three times your body weight. It's violent. It's ugly. And it's messy. And if God hadn't made it UNBELIEVABLY fun, the human race would have died out eons ago.
(She pauses to catch her breath)
Dr. Chase: (He is speechless)
Dr. Cameron: Men are lucky they can only have one orgasm. Know that women can have an hour long orgasm?
Dr. Foreman: (enters)
Dr. Cameron: (as if nothing had just occurred) Hey Foreman. What's up?

Dr. Wilson: Billionaires buy movie studios to get laid. They buy hospitals to get respect.
Dr. House: And the reason you want respect?
Dr. Wilson: To... get laid.

Dr. Chase: I think we need to take his girlfriend's theory into account.
Dr. Cameron: Oh, and what is that?
Dr. Chase: She thinks she rode him to death.

Dr. House: So what's your plan? You take the big dark one, I'll take the little girl, and the Aussie will run like a scared wombat if things get tough.

Dr. House: Dr. Cuddy. Thanks for the consult. His throat seems to have some condition.
Dr. Cuddy: He has a sore throat.
Dr. House: Of course! Yes! Why didn't I... He... He said that it hurt and I should have deduced that it was sore.
Dr. Cuddy: I was in a board meeting.
Dr. House: Patients come first, right?

Dr. House: When I decide to push you away, I hope there's a small person standing behind you so you fall down and hurt your head.

Dr. Cameron: (discussing a patient's diagnosis) What about sex?
Dr. House: Well, it might get complicated. We work together. I am older, certainly, but maybe you like that.
Dr. Cameron: I meant maybe he has neurosyphilis.
Dr. House: Heh, nice cover.

(to Cameron at Christmas)
Dr. House: Candy canes? Are you trying to mock me?

Dr. House: (examining a baby) No fever, glands normal. Missing her vaccination dates.
Young Mother: We're not vaccinating.
Dr. House: Think they don't work?
Young Mother: I think some multinational pharmaceutical company wants me to think they work. Pad their bottom line.
Dr. House: ... You know another really good business? Teeny tiny baby coffins. You can get 'em in frog green, fire-engine red, really. The antibodies in yummy mummy only protect the kid for six months, which is why these companies think they can gouge you. They think that you'll spend whatever they ask to keep your kid alive. Wanna change things? Prove 'em wrong. Few hundred parents like you decide they'd rather let their kid die than cough up forty bucks for a vaccination, believe me, prices will drop really fast!

Dr. Cameron: Why did you hire me?
Dr. House: Does it matter?
Dr. Cameron: Kind of hard to work for a guy who doesn't respect you.
Dr. House: Why?
Dr. Cameron: Is that rhetorical?
Dr. House: No, it just seems that way because you can't think of an answer. Does it make a difference what I think? I'm a jerk. The only thing that matters is what you think. Can you do the job?
Dr. Cameron: You hired a black guy because he had a juvenile record.
Dr. House: No, it wasn't a racial thing. I didn't see a black guy, I just saw a doctor with a juvenile record. I hired Chase 'cause his dad made a phone call. And I hired you because you are extremely pretty.
Dr. Cameron: You hired me to get into my pants?
Dr. House: I can't believe that that would shock you. It's also not what I said. No, I hired you because you look good. It's like having a nice piece of art in the lobby.
Dr. Cameron: I was at the top of my class!
Dr. House: But not the top.
Dr. Cameron: I did an internship at the Mayo Clinic!
Dr. House: You were a very good applicant.
Dr. Cameron: But not the best.
Dr. House: Would that upset you, really, to think that you were hired for some genetic gift of beauty instead of some genetic gift of intelligence?
Dr. Cameron: I worked very hard to get where I am!
Dr. House: You didn't have to. People choose the paths that gain them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort. That's a law of nature, and you defied it. That's why I hired you. You could've married rich, you could've been a model, you could've just shown up and people would've given you stuff - lots of stuff - but you didn't. You worked your stunning little ass off.
Dr. Cameron: Am I supposed to be flattered?
Dr. House: Gorgeous women do not go to medical school... unless they are as damaged as they are beautiful. Were you abused by a family member?
Dr. Cameron: No!
Dr. House: Sexually assaulted?
Dr. Cameron: No!
Dr. House: But you are damaged, aren't you?

Those are some of my favorites. Hope you enjoyed.

Now that you think you know me, I'm ready to shatter everything you believe with one video. I promise it's good if you make it all the way through it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHZqxecCukg

Lol, it's good isn't it. Admit it, you know you loved it. Huh, I just realized that no one is going to read this whole thing about me since I've abandoned my stories. Which means I just spent over an hour getting all of this down and nobody will even read it. cries

If someone does read it, I hope you enjoy it. I'll admit it's mostly just facts about me, but what's more interesting than me o.O

Kagome300 - I'm a guy.