I'm an American teenager who reads waaaaay too much. I probably won't have (m)any (good) stories because I'm naturally more of a reader online or off. I started reading fanfic because, quite frankly, I was running out of good reading material. After reading all (five at the time) of the Harry Potter books the bazillionth time I searched "Harry Potter" on Google and, voila! Aren't the Tubes just fantastic?

I also dislike the epilogue of the 7th book (because everyone knows a happy ending just means having lots of kids and nothing else.) Quite sensibly (if you ask me -- no one does) I've heve therefore decided it does not exist. Nor, in fact, do any of the deaths. They simply don't, and any attempts at logic will be distracted with Ghiradelli brownies.

I'm rather fond of: Severus Snape
It dismayed me how much JK seemed to dislike him. (She is, essentially, the God to all the HP characters, as she created him and I must admit it rather distressed me that she could detest him.) After all, I like to pretend that the HP universe is real, and therefore all the characters are too. What man in his position wouldn't wonder/become absolutely positive that God hated them and created them just so they could suffer and be bitter, angry and unhappy? And what if everyone else who wonders that is also, you know, right?

Fanfic was always a way for me to see other sides of stories that I couldn't figure out myself, or find out if I was the only one who thought that facet was there. Naturally I came straight to ff.net and started searching for entries tagging him.

That was a few years ago and, I'll admit it, I'm a shameless fangirl. Crushes on (theoretically) fictional characters are generally frowned upon by most people I know. (I'm friends with nerds, don't get me wrong, but there's a difference between realizing that Howl (despite the fact he's animated) is rather fetching, and having actual crush.)

ahem, distracting hand gesture Anyway! Fond-ness, in no particular order:

Hermione Granger
Gred and Forge
Crookshanks
(most versions of) Harry Potter
Howl (of Howl's Moving Castle, both the book and the movie)
Bartimaeus (Of the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathon Stroud, which is fantastic and deserves a line of it's own)
The Fact That I can spell "Bartimaeus" Off the Top of my Head and Not "schedule"
The Gemma Doyle Trilogy
Scott Westerfeld (his books and other things like his blog)
John Green (and all his stuff see Scott Westerfeld)
Parantheses (of which I am much too fond not that you'd notice)
Ben Linus (from Lost)
Writing Long, Dull Profiles Which No Ever Read
Douglas Adams (who I am, in fact, rather furious with on account of his death)
And A Great Many Others

Quotes

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live. -Marvin

There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

- Douglas Adams