Hi. I've divided my profile into nifty little sections for your enjoyment, so go ahead. PMs are enabled if you want to talk about something. Be warned if you're here to bitch- I bitch back. :D

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Fandoms of Interest: I started out with Maximum Ride, but I'm pretty much done with that fandom. Instead, I've been obsessively reading the archives of The Hunger Games, Gallagher Girls, and Vampire Academy. Especially Vampire Academy. And now I'm in love with Night World, but the FFNet archive here sucks and I have to go to livejournal for my Keller/Rashel/Jez/Hannah fix. I also read The Incredibles fanfiction (especially Syndrome/Violet) and Sky High. (Something about superheroes does it for me.)

Gender: If you can't figure it out from my name, I'll just leave you to wallow in your own stupidity.

Location: Deep South, USA (what's up, y'all?)

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Random Facts:

I have my first avatar, thanks to the FFNet admins who thought everyone should have either a personalized avatar or a stalker pic. I'm not happy about it.

I've done my best to make my profile idiot-proof by 1) bolding the things people tend to skip and then get confused about and 2) separating the sections to make it easier on the eyes. If you're still confused, I can do no more: go curse the brains you were given, get caffeine, or take a nap. The last two can be especially helpful.

I recently learned how to swallow pills. I'm very proud of myself. :D

I enjoy flames. I appreciate concrit. I dislike reviews that say ZOMG!! UPDAtE!!11!1!11 and/or have rampant chat speak in them. Please refrain from doing either when reviewing my stories (when they're finally posted). I value quality over quantity.

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Stories: Since I'm an Offishul Beta Reader now, I suppose I should stop saying that I don't write?

Stillborn- My first fanfiction, inspired partly by Maiyri's annoyed AN in her original Anti-Fax Duet. Unfortunately the version up now lacks this AN, but meh. (Review her fic, btw.) Apparently I sound like Max when I write, albeit with a slightly bigger vocabulary. It's my only stream-of-consciousness fanfiction, and it's an ugly fic. Kind of reminds me of Flannery O'Connor, minus the religious themes, because she also writes very ugly and very human characters.

You Wanna Know How I Got These Scars?- I had no intention of turning this into an actual story; it was originally a post on one of the FFNet MaxRide forums, written in response to a post made by the Joker-loving Teh Soul Cookie. (Her post was "-dances-". If you squint when you read it, you can sort of see the relationship between that post and YWKHIGTS.)

Is This a Smile Which I See Before Me?- Look, I have no idea why Teh Soul Cookie inspired this one as well, since she's hardly one of the people I usually talk to on the forums, but hey. Her post ":D" stirred the writing juices randomly, and this was the result. (I was told to post Smile and Scars by the same user, nathan-p, so yeah... thanks, Nathan.)

The Flirt- I'd been scrolling through the MR archive and finally a Fax story with the obligatory flirty hotel check-in girl made me exit the archive and write this piece. Well, it was more constructive than harshly concritting the writer for something that she probably wasn't even aware that she was doing.

Elasticity- I wrote this drabble on max-dan-wiz, posted it, and decided to transfer it here so that I could keep all of my stories together. And also because FFNet was my first home, so I feel obliged to stick with it.

To Dress With Fire- Inspired by this thread on a Hunger Games forum, this was a spur-of-the-moment oneshot. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it until I changed the first paragraph from past tense to present. Now it flows much better, and I feel like a tense-confusing idiot. Lulz.

Uniform- I've always liked the uniforms on the front covers of the Gallagher Girls' books. And then suddenly Liz wanted to comment on her uniform, so I let her.

Moment- A short, pointless oneshot. I don't like how the fandom has shifted from survival-action to ROMANCEROMANCEROMANCE!, so this drabble was me tipping my hat to the days when life was hard for the birdkids.

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By reading this profile, you have given me temporary control over your mind. I hereby relinquish it gladly, because it's not interesting in the slightest.

Goodbye, my children! Go and sin no more against the fandoms, for they will retaliate.

Carpe noctem! (Seize the night!)

~)Mer(~