Name: Zoa Naramyon (It's pronounced nair-uh-mon)

Hobbies: Reading & Writing

Gender: Female and bi.

October 5: I've completely shifted into the realm of Harry Potter fanfics. I prefer slash, preferably Harry/Severus or Harry/Draco (or better yet, a triad between the three), though Harry/Riddle, Remus/Sirius, and Remus/Severus are yummy as well. I love Dark!Harry fics, because Dumble-dee is a manipulative prick who needs to get pushed off a balcony (poor HBP joke).

Favs-

Animal: Dragon

Book genre: Fantasy, Science fiction, Post-apocalyptic.

Music: Alternative Rock, Rock

Artists: Breaking Benjamin, Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, Nickelback, The Flobots, DAUGHTRY, Skillet, Pillar,

Color: Deep Blue

Food: most anything salty or sweet (Yes, it'll eventually kill me, but so will everything else.)

Drink: Water

Yaoi: Yuugi+Atemu, Jou+Seto, RoyEd, Elricest, Allen+Kanda, Snarry, TomR+Dark!Harry, Draco+Harry, Kyoya+Kaoru,

Hates-

Animal: Insects & Arachnids

Book genre: most anything Non-fiction

Music: Country & Rap

Color: Pink or anything bright (@.@ My eyes!)

Food: Garlic (hiss)

Drink: Soda (Ew. Carbonated sugar, no thank you.)

People who judge others by surface value; who hate someone for whom they love or what god they worship. Someone that judges people by others' standards; one who can't think for themselves.

I'm adding something else to my profile. I've been reading many stories, and sometimes I want to share a special one. So may I introduce...

Stories of the Week!

Best Plot: Wit, humor, insight, and the breaking of the fourth wall. This is the best I've read in a long time.

Path of Decision - by lulu42

Crossover: Harry Potter / The Sandman- Voldemort is in power, but the Wizarding World fights back. Harry Potter, Master of Death, is faced with a choice, move forward or change everything?

Most Laughter: Playful and artfully constructed. I would advise against consuming liquids while reading, as to avoid casulties.

Browncoat, Green Eyes - by nonjon

Crossover: Harry Potter / Firefly- Post Serenity. Two years have passed since the secret of the planet Miranda got broadcast across the whole 'verse in 2518. The crew of Serenity finally hires a new pilot, but he's a bit peculiar.

Most Tears: Purges the reader of all emotions, leaving you feeling tired, yet at peace. Keep the tissues on stand-by.

The Greatest Trial - by Minstral Knight

Harry Potter - post series, Harry Potter- After Harry Potter is executed, the then Minister of Magic crusades to determine the truth. The resulting posthumous retrial of Harry Potter leaves the entire Wizarding World speechless.

(All of the aforementioned stories can be found in my favorites list.)

I'm a quote collector. Sounds funny, doesn't it? It isn't, not really. I'll explain, shall I? -- I'm often told that I'm wise for one of so few years. It's always bothered me slightly, "What makes me wiser then the next person?" I realize that the answer, is they way I listen and learn. I listen to everyone & everything, then I pull out bits and pieces that make sense to me. You see, I learn from everything around me, that's why I sometimes seem wise. -- So being a quote collector means that I take pieces of others' moral codes and incorporate them into my own. (In case you're wondering, a moral code is the way you live your life; how you think, what is right and wrong, what choices you make, how you judge others, what's important, and your values.) So I'm kind of like a patchwork quilt. A moral here, parents' advise there, all balanced within myself.

Here are some quotes that I've taken to heart. Each of these taught me something - something that will guide and help me through the rest of my life.

Words to live by...

"Never explain; your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe you anyways." -- Elbert Hubbard

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -- Confucius

"What's better? A lie that draws a smile, or a truth that draws a tear?" -- Unknown

"Ignorance is bliss, knowledge is power." -- Zoa Naramyon

"When you take the first step into the blackness of the unknown, two things can happen. One: There will be something solid to step on. Two: You will learn how to fly." -- Unknown

"The best way to make your dream come true, is to wake up." -- Unknown

"It's better to be hated for who you are, then loved for who you're not." -- Unknown

"Without fear, there is no courage." -- Unknown

"10 percent of life is what happens to you. The other 90 percent is how you react to it." -- Unknown

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all." -- Unknown

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say." -- Unknown

"Never give up, for around the next corner, your life might change forever." -- Unknown

"People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine while the sun is out - but when darkness sets, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within." -- Unknown

"Dream as if you'll live forever, love as if you'll die today." -- Unknown

"I always knew that I'd look back on my tears and laugh. I never thought that I'd look back on my laughter and cry." -- Unknown

"Your dreams are like a candle and you are it's only flame. How long and how bright it burns is up to you." -- Unknown

"Don't let your accomplishments get to your head, but don't let your failures get to your heart." -- Unknown

"We can't discover the oceans if we're to afraid to lose sight of the land." -- Unknown

"I do not care so much as what I am to others, as what I am to myself." -- Michel De Montaigne

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life; define yourself." -- Harvey Fierstein

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." -- Robert Byrne

"It's not the length of life, but the depth of it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." -- Mark Twain

"The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy." -- Jim Rohn

"Go not where the path may lead; instead go where there is not path, and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A fool can change the world, but it takes a genius to fix it." -- Unknown

"The only thing unchangeable is change itself." -- Unknown

"Is that you speaking, or society?" -- gilgameshforeternity (FanFiction.net user)

"Everyone dies alone." -- Captain Jack Harkness (from Firefly)

"I don't agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire

"Bad things happen..." -- Zoa Naramyon

"Individuals can be intelligent, reasonable, and insightful, but people as a group are idiotic, gullible, panicky creatures that should be kept away from pointy objects." -- Vetis (FanFiction.net user)

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.

I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.

I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.

We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.

I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.

I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.

I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.

I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.

We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.

I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.

I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.

I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.

I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.

I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.

I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I did not have to always deal with society hating me.

I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.

I am the person who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male.

I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.

Re-post this if you believe homophobia is wrong. Please do your part to end it.

The white man said, "Colored people aren't allowed here." The black man turned around and stood up. He then said: "Listen sir...when I was born I was Black, when I grew up I was Black, when I'm sick I'm Black, when I go in the sun I'm Black, when I'm cold I'm Black and when I die I will be Black. But you sir, when you're born you're Pink, when you grow up you where White, when you're sick you're Green, when you're in the sun you're Red, when you're cold you're Blue, and when you die you will be Purple. And you have the nerve to call me colored?" The black man turned around and sat down, and the white man walked away...

Post this on your profile if you hate racism.

The Top Ten Reasons Why Anti-Gay Marriage People Are Stupid:

1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, liposuction, and air conditioning.

2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Brittany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we, as a society, expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans... Re-post this if you believe in legalizing gay marriage.

I have an account on FictionPress.com under the pen-name Naramyon (user id 601416). Please read & review my poems & stories!

E-mail me at zoathecritic@yahoo.com.

I have a Deviant Art account under the user name Naramyon.