I scarcely, if ever, update or change this, but now it's time.

1. Some of the stories I have posted are extremely older than others in the same storyline. I advise readers to skip them, as eventually I will either rewrite them utterly or replace them with new stories. Given that I usually just log in to update before going off to read and leave excruciatingly inane reviews, I don't clean out the hodgepodge much, so bear with me.

2. Feel free to email me.

3. Despite the mistreatment of certain characters who inhabit that particular form on occasion, I do, in fact, like rats. I have a friend who keeps several and I spoil them terribly with yogurt drops. I do not, however, care for spiders, and any tarantula lovers would do well to not take the way I treat their pets' cousins personally.

4. Pairings you are most likely to see: HG/SS, AxI, HP/GW, NT/RL, etc. I can get very random when I want to. You may see slash in my work because I may see slash in real life. If you can find it in reality, you can probably find it here...that does not go both ways, though, sorry to say.

5. Yes, there ARE a lot of OCs. Piles of them. If you like that, good; if not, meh. It's not like there's any shortage of fanfiction writers. I've actually become sort of famous as an OC-specialist...well, famous in the sense that being well-known as a fanficker is about as rare, special or useful as having a dog who likes you. In fact, the story I suspect most of you are here to read is the result of a bet that I couldn't write the Anti-Mary-Sue. It's still moving along, if slowly, but just lately a new dimension was added to the bet -I was dared to have some of my supporting cast actually be Mary Sues, with one redeeming exception: they don't know it. Sues always seem to know they're beautiful and pretty or else they have a finely-crafted coating of angst powder -that carcinogenic dust made from dried and ground-up emo kids' eyeliner. A real Haplessly Mary Sue, according to my darer, must have accepted that some things in their life are different from others', know that they are good at some things and not others, and then carry on with otherwise normal lives instead of going full-tilt and heaving-bosom after one or another main canon characters. They may be stunningly pretty -but they can't think so themselves, and there has to be a catch in every 'cool' thing they have going on. That sounded fun to me, so...I'm writing it. There's also been one real, genuine, stupid-as-a-stone Mary Sue in there for a few chapters...when twenty people find the bint, then I'll kill her off.

6. Updates will appear soon. I was busy with real life and a new kitten. He's adorable, but bitesome, and tends to attack the keyboard at intervals. We got him when he was three weeks old and he was seven months as of 12/07. Cute, clever little guy.

Here's a nice URL:
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j13/Jan_McNeville/JWTickes.jpg

The perfectly fabulous Risi has favored us with yet another illustration, this one far better than that scribble the link above sends one to. So relax, your eye-palettes may now be cleansed. The horror of the pencil lead is over. Nice URL:
http://home.comcast.net/~ceridwen/jesst.jpg

UPDATE 2/07: Incidentally, my boyfriend and I are now engaged. Felt you might like to know.

UPDATE 11/08: We have a third kitten now.

UPDATE 8/09: See icon for third kitten. Busy with real life, updates to stories to follow soon.