Konnichiwa,

Summer with the Sohmas Status: Graduation is eminent...so is an update. I apologize for taking a whole semester hiatus, but it was unavoidable. Fortunately the semester was eventful enough to give me quite a lot of material for SwtS as well as a few other project I'm working on. So keep your fingers crossed and send me some good energy.

It's my only project I've posted here but I do have several other fics I'm working on including a Draco Malfoy fic and a KAT-TUN fanfic. KAT-TUN is a japanese boy band. If you don't know them, look them up. As far as postings for this site, this is the only one for now. Maybe eventually I'll get the Draco fic up but I have more work to do on it before I'm ready for that.

In the meantime "SwtS" which I started about 2 years ago is continuing to evolve for me. What started as a very personal story I wrote for me and myself alone for amusement and therapy is now turning into something different. I'm not the same person or writer that i was, but as the story is really about the evolution of people anyway, I think that's OK. Not sure how long it will be or how long I'll take to finish it, but there's a story there that I want to tell and refuse to give up on as long as there are people who want to hear it. FruitsBasket is still and will probably always be my favorite and most special Anime.

My reason for writing and sharing fanfiction:

-There is more to the story than what is given to us

-There is another perspective with which to view the story/there is further exploration of the material to be had through fiction

-I want to spend more time with the characters (This one is problematic. Serious credibility issues arise when fanfiction authors let this get out of hand.)

-Farce...need I say more?

Fandoms I'm into (if you care to know):

Anime/Manga:

Fruits Basket

Bleach

Full Metal Alchemist

Ouran High School Host Club

Death Note

xxxHolic

Vampire Knight

Skip Beat

Anything Ghibli

Japanese TV Dorama

too many to list so I won't even try, I watch anything KAT-TUN members were in, stuff with Matsuda Shota, ikuta Toma, and Yamashita Tomohisa. I do branch out from there, but that covers the bases.

Currently watching: Gokusen 2, Ninkyo Helper, Tokyo Dogs, Samurai High School, Sapuri, and LIAR GAME 2!! O.O

Books

To list a favorite would be impossible. I read incessantly But I can't go without mentioning a few:

Peter Pan

Narnia Chronicles

Lord of the Rings and Middle Earth Mythology

The Neverending Story

books by:

Jane Austen

Dickens

Lemony Snicket

Roald Dahl

I read Harry Potter but I wouldn't classify myself as a true Harry Potter fan. I'm far too crytical of Rowling as an author, Harry as a character, and the books as literature to be a true Harry Potter fan. However, I enjoy the world she created. And take pleasure in the books and movies. I am also in love with Draco Malfoy. ;P

Currently Reading: Burton on Burton, The Tale of Genji, Emily Climbs, The Confessions of Lady Nijo, Anna Karenina, Japanese Visual Culture

Anyways, if you've gotten this far kudos.

Ja ne!

P.S. ... no ... I am not a Twilight fan. But that doesn't mean you can't be.