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For the LAST TIME: I do it because I LOVE YOU. I've tried time and time again to let it be understood--I only review obnoxiously, suggest irritating additions or corrections, and repeatedly question the wording of common phrases because I see something in your writing that I enjoy or admire so much that all I want is to be part of it, and MAKE IT BETTER. I'm insane! I know! Moving right along, if I hated or wished to insult your delightful piece, I wouldn't give you the pleasure of a flame to add to your review count! I'm petty like that. Also lazy, which is why I will write five-paragraph reviews but never lift a finger to write my own review-worthy story. But back to you, wonderful author, how can I convey how sincerely I feel for every review I write? I've never held anything against a writer who's termed Draco a blonde (blond=masc, blonde=fem), or mixed up the 'i's in "definitely" (I do it all the time). Granted, I happen to hold Word's spellcheck in high regard, but even I seem to be struck with a blind eye when I edit my own papers. We're human. But you're incredible. Let me help you.

YaY! I just uploaded my first story evah! Go Ellae! Sorry, loves, but this one was Twilight. Ack! Don't kill me! It was a bday prezzie for Kookey chan that I was convinced (after long lengths) to upload in time for Christmas! I expected to keep it up only until February... But plans changed. I promise (really this time) that next one will be Drakky love!
And for those who're getting started on some right now (Whore? Is Eileen here?), the absolute Dramione Bible for ALL die-hard, true-love, Draco-fangirls, Arctic Demon on (the Dramione site) ColouredGrey has your everyday needs with starter plots and favorite, and grossly overdone, but still fun, clichés:
An Intermediate Guide to Dramione Romance
and
A Beginner's Guide To Dramione Romance

Another favorite on the CG is Rizzle's AHMAZING -DH- (naturally) Ghosts, with which I am in love.

And sadly, yes, I have no other ficx up. So don't feel obliged to read through my endless yammerings if you'd like to get to the point. I like to talk about myself.

But otherwise, I just review. Cuttingly and dashingly worded, I'd like to add (I'd like to wish)... I'm also collecting beta requests on the side. The more literary geniuses I can enlist into my army means better war propaganda in my dictatorship.

Am a total DracoxHermione fan (with emphasis on the "Draco" part)-- a DH story brought me to fanfiction.net, a DH kept me here. I've read Quite A Lot of DHers (I'm on page 104 of 206 of DH Complete ficxions), so I'm practically an expert. Practically. More like rabid Draco Malfoy fangirl.

My philosophy/epiphany is that Draco is a beyootiful, secretly-deep, incredibly witty, very, very wealthy loveleh little boy, and this rose-tinted vision of him is COMPLETELY unrelated to the JKR one... Don't try to argue with me that she owns the real one; in truth, he belongs solely to me.
Hermione only passes because she's the only one with a slight chance at keeping my love entertained. Thus, I am very dead set against the Pansinator, Ronnikens, Neville, etc., any other pitifully sad fanboy/girls who are speedbumps in the road to DH love.
The FEW exception to this love (NOT obsession, this is love.)-based hate is ol' FW, who passes by mere dint of the power of CrazyGirl47's Just a Harmless Joke. And WHY do people even like George better? He's already earless! R should've just killed him off! Boy's useless unless they can pull out a threesome...

I'm also leaning towards BlaisexHermione pairings nowadays. Blaise has all the "badboy appeal" and smexiness of Draco without half the drama. Plus I like my men somewhat tall, dark, and handsome, and it appears that Blaise can match Hermione in intel (He's brilliant. JKR says so. u_u) without having Lucius or Snape in the mix. Those men give me the creeps...

Aaannd (I'm losing my ideals here, people!) I've had a recent softening for Viktor Krum (the name itself is a keeper) with the persuasion of the lovely Nynaeve80's adorable HGVK fics. I don't know if a Bulgarian accent is ALWAYS that hot, but damn it sure gets me.

I have no problem with any other pairings (I encourage HPGW and RWLL because they are, admittedly, kawaii), except ANY of the Marauders with ANYone else than who JKR has set them up with. They're too old. It's unnatural. Give it a rest.
Plus any with Lucius/Snape with other than Narcissa/Lily. I mean, guys, hello-- EW.

Though Draco is my love, my true forte lies in the unnatural. Beyond the cheap magic tricks of HP, I am into the hardcore vampires, faeries, and other disassociated magical beings with natural, born-with powers. I also have a running interest in legends, such as King Arthur, Merlin (hellz yeah), Robin Hood, basically all Greek, Irish and Norse mythology.

By my self-explanatory description of Harry Potter (the books), you may have (cleverly, no doubt) deduced that I do not really like HPtb that much. As in obsessive.
It's really nothing against JKR or the chars, only that I read the first book waiii back when I was a twitchy little kid, and waaiiii before the entire HP-crazed-fangirls thing erupted.
I feel that Jojo gets credit for making a really good book/series, but that seriously, people, the maniac camping-out-at-B&N-at-12 is just going overboard. And the movies are really just overrated. But this bitingly sharp opinion comes from that they have very little technical basis in the books, including (but not limited to) a completely ahmazingly sexah casting of Draco, who I had previously envisioned as a scrawny little prick. The casters got it close, but good looks were not one of Rowl's descripts... Grandly appreciated, though.
Yes, so I may be feeling just a bit betrayed... a teensy tiny bit, really...

I have a couple of ficx, but none of them are really aligned with any book. I'm currently editing some of the easier ones to a book-related format, but naturally, that would make them OC. Oops.

My other usual interests are (other than writing and reading) eating, collecting earrings, collecting pencils (if you lost them as frequently as I did, you would too), talking loudly (and usually over the opinions of others), MUSIC, shopping (you can never, ever, EVER have enough clothes. You can, however, not have enough money...), making/having money, being obnoxious, flicking bits of random materials at people, being ahnnoying, singing at the top of my lungs off-keyedly, manghaing, sleeping.

My authors are based around Scott Westerfeld, some of the serious Jenny Carroll (Cabot gets more hardcore in these), later Tamora Pierce works, Garth Nix, Holly Black, Shannon Hale, Robin McKinley (The Blue Sword and her others, retellings of fairy tales, are awesome) Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Gregory Morris (for King Arthur fun)... and more.

My current favorite books are: TWILIGHT, The Little Princess, Jane Eyre, The Sword and the Seer (a favorite from back in the Bangbaby days), Ella Enchanted, Pride and Prejudice, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe, Dhampir (I NEED to get ahold of the sequels!)The Lost Years of Merlin (T.A. Barron) series, Hunter's Moon and sequel, The Great Gatsby, the Maximum Ride series, A Matter of Profit (and other Hilari Bell), Blue Bloods, Bordertown and subsequent books, Just Listen, the HEX series, ... and more.

Other favorite literary work/authors who haven't (yet) made it to the Fav Lists, but are still totally fun: Montmorency, Thief, Liar, Gentleman?, Piers Anthony, Anne McCaffrey, Jonathan Stroud, The Merlin Effect, Fearless, Vivian Vande Velde, Bloodline (Kate Cary), Artemis Fowl (I don't care if it's a children's book, Eoin Colfer is a mad genius), Golden, Vampire Academy, the Pendragon series (I am SO far behind, it's not even funneh), Jane Yolen etc., etc.

I ADORE giving out recommendations. I THRIVE on doing it.

My Favorite Quotes would take fuhevah, so I'll just cut it down to: Anything/everything that comes from the mouth/pen of Terry Prachett is absolute gold. Other extremely quotables are the incomparable Capt. Sparrow, and, Well... me.
"I love what you’ve neglected to do with the place."
"Asking me to choose my favorite book is like asking an artist to choose his favorite color.AraLuna

My Favorite Men: Jacob! (I am the one, the only Mrs. Jacob Black. Any bint stupid enough to challenge me will find themselves Very, Very, Bloody.-- UPDATE: TAYLOR LAUTNER AND I HAVE THE SAME BIRTHDAY! Us and Mike Shinoda.), Edward (Jacob is my love, but Edward was my first), (the lovely, the rich, the evil, the very, very sexah) Kyouya, Edward Elric, Fang (the MR char), Makoto, Steven Thomas, Shuri, many etcera.

If you'd like to know about my Favorite Manghais (which I very much doubt you do), message me! The list is waaiii too long. Some current ones are OHSHC, FMA, Death Note, Hana Kimi, DNAngel, BLEACH, ES, Tramps Like Us, Five, Hana Kimi, Princess Ai, FB, HG, and new, W-Juliet and Basara.
We'll have a lovely discuss' on the sexahist chars...!

Favorite Movies: Ditto with mangai, being too long. Basically, I'm into old-school classics like Aladdin, Cinderelly, Anastasia, and Treasure Planet (Yes, kids, once upon a long time ago, we didn't have DVDs! C'est le gasp. I know what you're thinking: How barbaric! That's right, snotnose, back in the day, we had to actually, physically, GET UP from our couch to rewind scenes! Tres gaspish. I know. Archaic!); The JD Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Pirates all the way, Batman + Dark Knight, The Phantom of the Opera is absolutely rockstar. My shows, eh la, they change monthly, but for now, Bones, Heroes, Batman!!

Other random bits (which honestly, are more interesting than reading about my totally narcissistic views of how incredibly beautiful I am--Let's play the one-word game!):

I like speaking in faux francais.

Music ranks very high up there with my other current addictions, my Youtube account has Zero vids, but 661 Favorited.
I enjoy my Beatles, Switchfoot, TDG, Bon Jo-VI, My Chem, Blondie, Madonna, Newsboys, ABBA, Maroon 5, Linkin Park, TVBS, AAR, Larry the Cucumber ( ), Greenday, BEP, etc. Current fav songs: Sin with Sebestian's very single single, Right Said Fred's I'm Too Sexy ( ), Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Stronger, Faster, Fort Minor's Remember the Name, Take That's Rule the World, Alvin and the Chipmunks' Witch Doctor (Remix), Hawk Nelson's Everything You Ever Wanted, KT Tunstall's Suddenly I See, Eiffel 65's Blue (Da Ba Di)... and many many more.

One of these days I'm going to update more...Whenever my ficx come up...

Some fun DH pix by my favorite fan-artist E.Johnston:
Hermione Doesn't Like Flying...
Sunscreen

And from the absolutely ahmazing Verauko(who I haven't gotten permission from, but I like to consider myself a secret fan... Hm? Much like a stalker,yes...):
The Sexah Malfoy

Random Fun Fact About Ellae: My icon changes every two/three weeks to a Dramione/OHSHC/Furuba/other pic. XD

::REQUESTING: There are no good non-DMHGs anymore! They've just burned out into extinction, merely leaving their bare, broken bones behind to produce oil in a millennium or so!
I'm currently in the mood for some HermionexBlaise, or FredxHermione... If you've got some good material, I'd love to edit, beta, or simply READ it!
Help! These sexy men need you!

(Also for goodness sake, if you've got those old bones lying around, we're in a gas crunch, people!)

Ellae.