Hi, I'm Ghostlanxx, you might also remember me as The Romantic Nerd, NekoKriszty or MikoKriszty. I'm closer to 30 than I am to 20. English is not my native language. I am a nice person and I have a wide range of interests. Whenever I find an author whose work captures me, I start considering them my best friend and leave reviews that resemble love letters.

I pretty much abandoned this site after AO3 came into my life, because the policies here (bullying is okay, porn is not) are bullshit.

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Head over to my Tumblr for all kinds of funny catpics, ramblings, fanart or fandom sideblogs. If you want to read uncensored versions, or just have a safe backup for these stories, look for me on AO3. I have this penname and all my previous ones saved as pseuds, so just look for the story title and one of my aliases.

I have grown out of anime, manga and their fandoms (mostly. YGO caught me by surprise). I sometimes read an old fave of watch something, but it's rare.

My life had been kind of a mess for a long while, and while I've moved on, I still have my block when it comes to writing that's hard to overthrow. I am rewriting Shadowed Past (like, with the pace of a glacier: one chapter a year) and publishing the whole thing when it's finished.

I was in the Glee fandom for almost 5 years, adoring Kurt Hummel and Klaine. Disclaimer about that: canon is, with the exception of the first season, much of the second season, and the second half of the fifth season, is complete and utter, fan-pandering terrible bullshit. Don't know where I stand with the 6th season.

Inuyasha: oh my god, it is terrible. The clichés, the dumb characters, the tired and lame plot... Ugh. 10 years later, just, no. Dragonball Z and Naruto has similar problems, but I still remember them fondly. Well, mostly Dragonball Z, I have serious beef with how Naruto ended.

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In June, 2010, I reached a total of FIVE THOUSAND signed reviews. Proud of that one.

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MY STORIES

I am very far from being proud of the stories updated here. Most of them are badly written, have grammatical and structural mistakes in them... And the fandom Japanese! Dear lord no. Also, I am kind of a perfectionist, and probably will never, ever be completely satisfied with anything I do.

From these stories, read Arigato, minna if you're into family angst and hurt/comfort, read For I have taken her lips for some gore and dark and horror, and read Company and Healing Touch for happy fluff. Rain is something weird that I needed to get out of my system. I guess I have no idea is almost okay if you like friendship and sticking together and sticking up for your friends (and don't mind fangirl Japanese. I'm so ashamed). I don't even know where to catalogue Never have I ever - friendship, romance, bromance, angst, alcohol, sex - it's all in there, in a weird jumble.

All the others are not even worth talking about. My gigantic ego is preventing me from deleting them for now, though (also my hope that one day I might use these to practice writing). Nevertheless, do yourselves a favour and don't read them.

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If you are a writing beginner, and want to learn about the basics, I advise all kinds of writing tutorials. Here are links to the ones that helped me understand why is it that I like some stories more than others:

How to Disengage a Reader - very typical mistakes, I recommend this to everybody, to find new tips or to refresh old techniques

Original character creation: Mary-Sues by Dantesgirl, Wiki Canon-Sue, The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test - because Mary Sues are the ultimate killers of fan fic.

The Storycrafter's Toolbox A Library of Writing Tutorials (This site is for 18 only. Although the site itself centers around yaoi, or boy on boy stories, don't be afraid of these, the tutorials describing things such as dialogue or angst stories don't have yaoi in them.)