I've finally started writing and posting fanfiction after years of being a member, so figured I may as well put up some info about myself in case anyone wanted to know. Feel free to ignore it. ;P

I will admit to being a married woman with all those fun 'adult' responsibilities that we looked forward to as children. Though the primary goal of moving to another country is not one I can say I ever anticipated really. I am a self employed business owner that makes her living by making and selling various crochet dolls/plush/toys for various fandoms and genres. My icon is an example of one such piece, but you can find much much more at my site here if you'd like. :)

While I consider myself an artistic/creative person, writing is not something I do a lot of. I tend to be more of a reader and will happily sit down and devour a well written 100k word story in a day. Between running my business, processing my immigration and assisting my mother (who is recovering from a near fatal illness) I don't always have an abundance of free time. As such, expect updates to take some time nowadays. I also enjoy hanging out on tumblr, playing video games, and exploring new artistic mediums when I'm not writing.

General things I like in stories:

-Plot (but I will occasionally read a nice one shot)
-length (I'm at my happiest when I can read a nice plot that already has at least 80-100k words written)
-Good characterization of already existing characters
-Humor (not necessarily a comedy piece)

General things I don't like:

- Authors who write twins (mainly the Weasley twins) as people who just alternate speaking. It doesn't work that way and these scenes make me cringe. They can even kill an otherwise wonderful story for me.
-Bad grammar/spelling. A few mistakes here and there, no problem, no one is perfect. Several in every paragraph, I stop reading. It gets too distracting at that point. Find a beta, they are wonderful people. :)
-Long author notes drive me crazy. I'm talking about the ones where people will respond to their reviewers for almost half the chapter length. This is silly and they should just send personal messages to these people. That's what the system is there for after all.
-Authors who place author notes anywhere mid chapter. Do me a favor...just say no, okay? It's distracting and typically ruins whatever (possibly) subtle reference/joke you were going for.
-Dialog that goes on for a long time without reaffirming who is speaking. Also drives me crazy. I have no frame of reference to these two (and sometimes more) characters' body language, and while I know it is a commonly accepted practice to use this for dialog heavy scenes, more often then not I find myself losing who is saying what after more then 3-4 lines. To say nothing of the people who use this for a page or more sometimes. As such, you will never see me do this. I will almost fall into the opposite side.
-Too much description between/thoughts between dialog. I'm not talking about a few sentences. This when you have several pages of inner dialog that takes me so far away from what was currently going on in a scene, that I will often have to re-read what was last spoken or done to remind myself. That or I just skip over it as tl;dr.

I'm sure this list may make me seem like I'm nitpicking, but after reading so many fics -as you do- over the last 20 years, these are just the big things that make me 'nope' out of a story.

Fandoms that I read regularly: Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Mostly crossovers though), some Naruto, and Doctor Who.
There are many others that I'll poke around and check out, especially if I've enjoyed a movie/show/book recently whose world I just don't want to leave yet, but these are the main ones I frequent. One of my favorite things to do actually is author hop. I've found that -most of the time- if I enjoy what an author has written, I'll more often than not find some stories under their favorites that I enjoy as well. Give it a try some time. :)

Story idea:
By Hook or By Crook
If there was one thing you could say about Hatter, it was that he was no idiot. So when he sees that the fight to save Wonderland is doomed to failure, he uses his contacts in the Resistance to flee to Earth. Permanently. A few months after setting himself up, he runs into one Alice Hamilton and begins to date her with a passion and freedom he was unable to experience in Wonderland. Everything seems to be perfect until his past catches up to him when he sees Jack Heart, prince of Wonderland, lurking around his Alice's dojo for some reason. Will Hatter tell Alice of his past and confront the former prince to keep them from being drawn into the darkness of his home world? Or is it already too late for that?

Not sure if I'll type it up or not as it would most likely involve completely re-writing the Alice movie plot, but it definitely sounds interesting to me. If you'd like to read it (or maybe adopt the plot?) let me know please.

Update: For any of you that do check here for updates, I'm happy to report that my mother survived her double lung transplant back in 2018, and has been slowly and steadily recovering since then. The pandemic sucks ass and while you'd think being basically unemployed would give me writing time, I'm mostly just keeping my head above water right now and can't find the drive to write. I won't force myself to write either. It's something the saddens me greatly as I love story telling and reading and I wish I could work on CaC more. I have the whole second part (and well as a third) plotted out and bits of scenes and dialog written. It will happen one day, I know it will, but until you get the alert of a new chapter I can't promise when a normal writing schedule will be available for me.

Thank you to all who continue to read/comment/subscribe to it. I see each notification and it fills me with hope that you'll be there when I can write regularly again.