7/11 update: Wow, been a long time since I've updated this profile! ; Well, it's high time I did.

Deviantart Account: http://howling-wolf.deviantart.com/

FANFICTION: MY ANTI-DRUG. because, who has time for drugs if you're reading and plotting and writing and checking reviews?

Current Fics

Second Chances: WIP. Chapter 15 has been up for a while now. Chapter 16 is coming along ok. Hope to have it up soon.

Art done by me (if anyone wants to do something of their own based on SC, feel free, just be sure to send me a link) Excuse the messyness of them, as most are just sketches (which has transformed into my general style):

Second Chances DA gallery: http://howling-wolf.deviantart.com/gallery/#Second-Chances

Spiritual Watcher: Just a one-shot about Yondaime's thoughts as he watches over Naruto's childhood.

Basic information

Name: Beth

Age: 19

Likes: reading, drawing, writing, Tales of Symphonia, Legend of Zelda, Okami, Naruto, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings (movies only, can never finish the books before getting bored), Jane Lindskolds' Firekeeper saga, animals, and the Internet (duh).

Dislikes: screaming children (hell, small children in general; it's not that I don't like them, it's just that they make me feel uncomfortable), overly loud music (heavy-metal in particular), and those cars that sound like they don't have a muffler (they creep me out, especially when I'm walking).

(loooong) Fanfic rants:

-mixing up there/their/they're, your/you're, to/too/two, etc. Everytime I see these mistakes, I just want to smack the author. Their uses are easy to remember. (The book is over THERE (placement). THEIR computer is slow (possesion). THEY'RE going to the movies (They are).) GET IT RIGHT! Also, since I see this a LOT, I'm going to give the definitions of 'Definitely' and 'Defiantly' to show to those who make the mistake that they are NOT the same word, nor are they interchangable. Nor do they sound the same, so why the mistake is made, I never understand. Maybe they just don't pay attention to what spell checker is handing out as default. Definitely - without doubt; certainly. Defiantly - open resistance; bold disobedience. See, not the same word. So I repeat; GET IT RIGHT!!

-Gender changes (If I even see a femNaru (there are seriously waaay too many of them), or any other sign that a character's gender has been changed, I won't even read the summary. (I'll tolerate FemHaku, but barely. And only becuase he's so feminine).

-Yaoi/Yuri/slash/etc. (sole exceptions are confirmed canon pairings and exceptionally good or interesting plotlines.) And don't even get me started on MPreg. :shudders: It's not only wrong, but physically impossible.

-authors who ask the readers what the pairings in their story should be. It's annoying. If you can't think of a pairing to put in the story, then don't have one. A pairing does not automatically equal a good story. There are several excellent stories out there that don't have a single reference to romance in them.

-Bad grammar/txt language/script format. It just makes it plain hard to read. Entire chapters put into a giant block of text are also annoying, since it's just so hard to read.

-Mary-sues. Need I say more? And yes, I do realize that some canon characters can be termed as 'Sues', but that doesn't mean it's okay to create 'sue' OCs. Canon sues are easy to ignore within the main story plotline they're in. OC sues are NOT. On this point, I consider any oc who is paired with a canon character as a sue. 'ocxcharacter' is something I do NOT like to see in a summary.

-Too many powerful/main character ocs in a fic. (This is a big one for me. It just detracts from the rest of the story for me, and I end up losing interest fast, which has happened too many times for my liking, especially since the fics themselves were really good. A few is fine, or minor character ocs, but have over a dozen, all of which are main characters, and I just give up on the fic, because they all just seem to blend together after a few chapters and I lose track of who's who). Definitely exceptions, but mostly because those characters are created in such a way that they become rather memorable. What's the difference for me? I don't really know.

-Character bashing (another big one for me. Doesn't matter who's getting bashed, it's annoying and makes me lose interest even faster than ocs.)

-Randomly giving characters siblings/family members that don't actually exist for no good reason, or explanation. I don't know why this irritates me, it just does.

-Not updating for over a year, especially after leaving a huge cliffhanger. That's just...grrrrr! (And yeah, I know I've almost gone that long with 7 months on SC, but-but-...I got no excuse...)

-Waiting for weeks/months for a new chapter, then finally getting one, only to have it be an A/N, mostly along the lines of "I'm so, so sorry for not updating, but you see, I just lost complete interest for this fic, so I'm not going to be completing it. So Sorry!" This just pisses me off. It's disappointing to the readers and something that I just hate. And it's because I hate this that I'm NEVER going to do it. It may take me a long time to update and/or complete a story, but I will not abandon it!

-Giving a fanfic summary that just says 'Summary inside' or something similar. 'I'm terrible at summaries' is even worse. People, you are NOT going to get any readers if you do that! Summary is supposed to be a summary of the STORY, not anything else. On that note, changing the summary with every chapter update by giving the summary of the chapter and not the story is NOT GOOD. Drabble/One-shot stories that vary in topic from chapter to chapter are ok to do this with, but not with fics that have a single plotline.

Random stuff:

You know you live in 2009 when...

1.) You accidentaly enter your password on a microwave.

2.) You haven't played solitare with real cards for years

3.) The reason for not staying in touch with your friends is they dont have a screenname or my space

4.) You'd rather look all over the house for the remote instead of just pushing the buttons on the TV

6.) Your boss doesn't even have the ability to do your job.

7.) As you read this list you keep nodding and smiling.

8.) As you read this list you think about sending it to all your friends.

9.) and you were too busy to notice number 5.

10.) You scrolled back up to see if there was a number 5.

11.) Now you are laughing at yourself stupidly.

12.) Put this in your profile if you fell for that, and you know you did.

98 percent of teenagers do or has tried smoking pot. If you're one of the 2 percent who hasn't, copy & paste this in your profile.

If you've ever talked to yourself, copy and paste this into your profile.

If you have your own little world, copy and paste this into your profile.

Put this in your profile if you know someone who is fighting, has survived, or died of cancer

If you've been on the computer for hours on end, reading numerous fanfictions, copy this onto your profile.

-98 percent of internet users don't know the difference between "your" and "you're." If your part of the 2 percent that wants to punch them, put this on your profile.

Weird is good, strange is bad, and odd is when you don't know which to call someone. Weird is the same as different, which is the same as unique, than weird is good. If you are weird and proud of it, copy this onto your profile

“Women were created in the goddesses’ image, remember? It’s us who should be asking them what sort of practical joke they had in mind when they created men.” - Ilia to Link. Quote from "The Flow of Time", a Zelda:TP fanfic by loyaltraitor777. It just made me laugh.