UPDATE 11/25/08: I live! Has college consumed my life, or what. It's not even the workload, but just the fact that for the first time in my life, I must balance school, hobbies, and--gasp--a social life! But now that we're getting closer and closer to finals (no guarantees that I'll survive them (our Hum one is four hours long, booo)), I've been holing myself up again, like the good old days. These random reviews that I've been getting over the past few weeks have pretty much tipped my Guilt Scale, and so now I'm trying to ease myself back into the fandom. No promises, though. I think the next chapter will have to be a short one, as I have a paper to rewrite, another due on the sixth, three midterms, possible additional paper, not to mention all the reading and problem sets that I'd normally have. So, shit. Work is piling up, and that, I think, is the time when fanfiction becomes most desirable. A good way to escape all that, you know. So the next chapter will hopefully be up soon, although don't expect anything as long as in the past. I hope you guys are still reading! And I'm so so so sorry for such a long delay; I had no idea it would be this long! I love you all! Your support will really push me through the difficult process of adjusting!

I am so crap at writing these things.

I'm an incoming college freshman (oh god, where has my life gone! this is all coming up too fast!) with hermit-like tendencies and an unhealthy love of naps (oh, that's where my life has gone...). I also enjoy using parentheses, if you couldn't tell (although I do a pretty good job of avoiding them in my stories. but whenever I do use them, I feel simultaneously happy and naughty). Daydreaming consumes my life, when I'm not writing. When I say consumes, I mean consumes: sometimes a single daydream storyline can last for several weeks (on and off, of course; I do have to function like a real human being sometimes, unfortunately), although, like most of my stories, I never finish them. Go figure.

Oh. But I guess you're all here because I like to write. I stumbled onto fanfiction... a while back. A really long while back, actually, now that I think of it. But it wasn't until early 2007 that I actually started writing fanfiction (my first story is on one of my other accounts... but I won't tell you which ;) ), and since then, it has been a very torrid love affair, with quite a lot of tears and frustration thrown in with all the nicer bits. My first dream was actually to become a novelist, and that is still one of my number one dreams, but it's so hard. Fanfiction is such a relief, because all the characters are nicely characterized for me and I can run away with them in my imagination and have lots of parties and fights and all that, and we can become best friends and worst enemies in my head. But I guess the reason I've kept on writing fanfiction is thanks to the fact that it's instantly gratifying. (: That's where you all come in. Writing novels... who knows if it will ever get published? or if it does, whether anyone will even read it? But fanfiction... you get instant feedback as to whether your writing sucks or if it's all right. So, while most people on this site aren't all that inclined to criticize (which is another thing I love ;) ), it's good practice, anyways. We'll see. Maybe I'll get really lucky, haha.

I guess the only problem I have with fanfiction is how emotionally invested I get in it. Reviews keep me writing, and writing very fast (by my standards), but if those reviews never come, my self-worth drops quite a few notches. That's something I definitely need to work on. But I love, love, love any reviews I get, especially the ones that try to help (although praise is always loved (: ).

Another thing I'm working on: reviewing the stories that I read. I always have trouble with reviewing, because I want to be one of those people that make writers feel good, but I also want to help them improve. This means that my reviews tend to be pretty long-winded and convoluted (much like this bio!), which also means that I tend to be spent after one review each day (which I hate doing, because I always hate it when people leave just one review and then no more... hey, I'm materialistic, what can I say?). And I can never shake the feeling that I'm not really qualified to be giving con crit. But, yeah. I'm trying! At least I'm replying to reviews now! I never used to do that! :D

Anyway.

Some of the major themes you'll probably see in my work have to do with evil, because my favorite characters tend to be the villains. (: (i.e., man's descent into evil, man's propensity towards evil, the evil in all of us, &c., &c., &c.) I just love embracing the darker sides of everyone, myself included (which doesn't mean that I support violence or anything that ridiculous... I just love writing/reading about it, haha).

Um. Oh god, I'm really not that interesting of a person. I just like to pretend I am.

Drop me a line! I love to ramble at people about fandoms! :D