Holy cow in a hand basket! I haven't updated this thing in so long. People will think I still don't like Star Trek! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
So, yeah. Hey, y'all!

The name's Rasberry Parfait, as you can probably tell. I know I spelled Rasberry (RASPBERRY) wrong, but I don't care. It makes it easier to find myself when I look up my name. The name itself stems from a middle school nickname Raspberry, which I got by saying "I have three sisters. I respond to anything."

"Can we call you Raspberry then?"

"Um...sure?"

"Cool."

11.13.09

So, I usually don't put blog entries up here, and I guess this isn't technically a blog entry. I just wanted everybody to know this.

Today was Friday the Thirteenth and my laptop crashed. I lost everything I've written since January. January, people. It is now November. Nearly a year's worth of writing has been lost.

If you're wondering, it was a lot.

I also fell in the bathroom and bruised my hips, but I can't say that's been the worst part of my day.

The moral of the story? Back your computers up, people. Do it now.

I am going to go die now. -_-

Suicide

Not my style. I'm just sad right now, I'm not actually going to die right-oh gosh...OH GOSH! MEGACRYOMETERS! OH SNA-

ABOUT ME
I've been writing fanfic since I was twelve, and I call those first two years of my writing for-lack-of-a-better-word "career" my 'Sue Period. Guess why. Hint/Shameless Self-Promotion: See my story "The M Files."

As previously stated, I have three sisters, and also three brothers and a whopping sixteen nieces and nephews. Family gatherings, man...fun times, fun times.

I'm old enough to be in High School, but I'm young enough to be in High School. Hopefully not for much longer. I want OUT already.

Aside from writing, I love: Music, fashion, acting, performing, and art. Mostly anything creative. I also enjoy watching sitcoms with my mom. I want to become an actress/musician.

I am a Christian, and I try not to blatantly preach to people in my writing, but my views will inevitably effect my writing, of course. So...yeah.

I am addicted to TVtropes.

I'm kind of known as the "friendly neighborhood psycho" in my crowd, in you will. I went to a new age store the other day and they had all these sweet-looking fantasy-novel knives. I'm going to buy one and just walk around with it hanging on my belt. It's not illegal cause it's not a firearm and it's not concealed. I checked.

If you want to drop me a PM, please do so. I love making new friends!

MY WRITING

I like doing stuff that's about people. I like doing OCs, and OCXCC romance, but not Mary-Sues. I like breaking the stereotype that all OC and OCXCC romances are Mary-Sues.

My favorite genres are angst and humor, with some romance, family and friendship thrown in for good measure. I'm also beginning to foray into the difficult yet exciting genre of adventure. And I'm loving it.

I recently switched over to a laptop because my old computer was...too old. My writing will probably pick up more when I get my old writing onto my new computer.

But anyway:

The M Files will be continued. My Sue Period was just chock full of days where I had nothing better to do than write, and write I did-badly.

The Howling at the Moon Series, I'm not sure. I'm rapidly losing interest and I think it might just be better to have it end with the first installment and let you imagine how Rory's story goes on from there.

Waterworks-the best fanfiction I've ever written. I've plotted out everything so carefully, crafted the backstories of my OCs with utmost attention to detail, and nobody cares. I've not gotten one review. I have the next three chapters written out, but I'm not going to a post a story nobody's reading. I love it too much to take it down, though, so if anybody's reading this-PLEASE. Read Waterworks.

I have plans for about three or four Narnia fanfictions, so those will probably be next projects.

Also, know that I'm starting to get into original fiction, so this will be taking up some of my time as well.

MY STUFF I LIKE

Narnia, Twilight, Harry Potter, Star Trek, Star Wars (but only the original ones with Luke and Han Solo and Chewie. I'm also getting into the new animated Clone Wars stuff.) Ben 10, House, Ouran High School Host Club, The Office, Mortal Instruments, iCarly, Drake and Josh, Total Drama Island/Action, Spongebob, Invader Zim, Lenore: The Cute Little Dead Girl, Scrubs, and Heroes, among other things. Not necessarily in that order.

QUOTES
"New Jersey is like New York's retarded brother that they kept in the basement." -Frank Iero (no offense to people from New Jersey. I just thought his phrasing was funny. I've never been to New Jersey, I personally have no opinion.)

"You know what the secret to happiness is, Joe?"

"Yeah, smokin' lotsa weed."

"Well, that, and lowered expectations."

-My brother and sister

"I just want to squeeze your little head off and hang it in my rearview mirror." -Paula Abdul (to David Archuleta.)

"Last week, Japanese scientists explaced... placed explosive detonators at the bottom of Lake Loch Ness to blow Nessie out of the water. Sir Curt Godfrey of the Nessie Alliance summoned the help of Scotland's local wizards to cast a protective spell over the lake and its residents, and all those who seek a peaceful existence with our underwater ally." -Napoleon Dynamite

"The venn diagram of guys who don't like smart girls, and guys you don't want to date...is a circle." -John Green

"Hello, could you at least knock before you enter my mind?" -Tino from "The Weekenders."

"Are they not allowed out when their grounded?" -Chip Heron (the Dad. He's the dad.) from "Mean Girls." (I actually hated that movie, but that line reminded me so much of my own dad that I couldn't resist.)

"Psh. Russians and their problems." -Devin

"You're going down, La Fleur! You're going down like a Sweet Muffin!"-Dodgeball

"Hello, this is Jane with the L.A. Times!"

"...Oh. I'm sorry, but nobody at this residence can read."

-Jane the Saleswoman and I. (She hung up on me after that.)

"There are too many people too angry at a world that isn't the least bit angry at them." -I Hope You Dance (The book, not the song.)

"Children, your performance in the school fundraiser was miserable. Your parents will all be receiving phone calls instructing them to love you less now." -Miss Bitters, Invader Zim

“Popcorn for breakfast! What? It’s a grain. It’s like, like grits, but with higher self-esteem.” –Maximum Ride

"I was making pancakes the other day and I saw a fly. And that's when I realized that a spatula is a lot like a flyswatter. And a crushed fly is a lot like a blueberry. And a roommate is a lot like a fly-eater." -Demetri Martin

"Normal is getting dressed in the clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car you're still paying for-in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." -Ellen Degeneres

"'Brian, what's the I-before-e rule?'

'Um...I before e...always.'

'No, Brian, no. It's I before e, except after c, and when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and you'll ALWAYS been wrong no matter WHAT YOU SAY!'

'...That's a hard rule.'"

-Brian Regan

"My apartment is infested with koala bears. It's the cutest infestation ever, much better than cockroaches. I turn on the lights and a bunch of koala bears scatter, I'm like 'Come back! I want to hold one of you, and feed you a leaf!'"-Mitch Hedburg

"Nothing scares the truly conventional more than the unashamed misfit." -JK Rowling

"Would you call this a good marriage? Cause if it is, I don't get why Gay people want it so bad!" -Max, George Lopez

"A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages." -Tennessee Williams

(In response to House asking what is the right answer)

"I'm sorry?"

"Wrong!"

"I love you."

"...WRONG!"

-Taub, House, Kutner, House again, House, MD

"There's no way it's fine, I'm sorry. If I were you, I would just like, freak out, and then get drunk and then tell someone I was pregnant."

"Okay, that's a lot of good ideas. Thanks."

Kelly and Pam, The Office

"Hey, Chad. If got this adorable little girl here who's dying to meet you."

"What does she look like?"

(Disgusted) "She's nine..."

(Chad hangs up.)

-Sonny and Chad, Sonny with a Chance

MY RANTS

Bathroom Rant

You know what confuses me? When you go knock on the bathroom door and someone's like 'nobody's in there.' It's like, why do people keep tabs on exactly who goes into the bathroom and when? And how do they do that whilst going on with their lives? It must be some genetic thing that people are supposed to be born with that I don't have, because seriously, everyone I know does that. Me, I can't keep track of that crap for nothing, I'll be talking to some people and then someone'll be like 'Hey, I'm going to the bathroom,' and I'm like 'Okay,' and they come back five minutes later like 'Hey, guys,' and I'm like 'Hey, where've you been?'

Twilight Rant

I'm a diehard Twihard, don't get me wrong. But you wanna know why all the haters have it out for us fans? Because 90 of Twilight fans can't let it go when someone didn't think it was good. Come on, people. There are worse things than not reading Twilight. "You haven't read Twilight? Go shoot yourself in the foot." That's not nice. And yet you wonder why people have to hate on Twilight fans. The fact that I got the back of my chair kicked for mocking Edward at the movie didn't help. (I know it was Edward, not the talking, because I mocked Jacob and nobody cared. If you're wondering what I said, it was whenit showed Edward watching Bella and I said "Wow, Edward, that's not stalker-y at all. He sees you when you're sleeping...he knows when you're awake!" I said it in a quiet tone, as well, so it's not like I was screaming it out to everyone...)

But yeah. Anyway, y'all are giving me and the rest of us more accepting Twihards a bad name. So please, at least consider my point.

Also, I'm not saying Twilight is a perfect piece of literature .Seriously. I could name a ton of flaws right now. But I'm not going to, because that's not the point. While far from perfect, I found the pros to outweigh the cons while reading it. I enjoy the books immensely. It's fine if you didn't. Really. But It'd appreciate it a lot if you didn't automatically assume that I'm an Edward-obsessed person who can't talk about anything else. I don't even like Edward that much. I mean, I do, he's an interesting character, but I don't fangirl over him that much.

OC Rant

Like any sensible person, I don't like Mary-Sues. But I dislike them especially because of the fact that they have biased people against original characters in general. And I love original characters, and CCXOC pairings. Suck it up and deal. And it really sucks when you're trying to write a story with an OC and people are like "Ugh. I hate you stupid pervy twelve-year-olds, I wish you'd get out of my life and shut up." (I like Napoleon Dynamite. Just so you know.) Do you KNOW how much time I spend Sue-checking characters? Like, I've never been told that personally, but you hear people going "Ugh. I hate OCs, they suck." I'm like "Thanks. Thanks a lot."

Push/Pull Door Rant

At my optomitrist's office, the front door, you push when coming and pull when going. I get it wrong every time. It's funny, I'm walking out and try to push the door open, and it doesn't budge so I crash into it, scream "GARNET!" (Gosh darn it. Don't you watch Fred?) into the silent waiting room and everyone stares. I smile sheepishly and high-tail it out of there.

Narnia Pairings Rant

Enough of Suspian and other boring/perverted pairings. I say it's time for a revolution! If you think nerds are better than princes and that the movieverse Susan ought to end up with the geek, copy and paste this into your profile and spread the word! Susan and the Geek forever!

I just want to note here that I actually don't mind Suspian that much. I mean, it wasn't in the book, but I thought it was an interesting twist. I also thought it was good foreshadowing for when Susan goes all "Lyke, OMG! I am so grown up! Look at me, with my good looks and lipstick and blah blah blah!" later on if they choose to make movies of the rest of the series, for people who haven't read the books and don't already know what's going to happen. What bugs me about it is that now half the Narnia fics are like, "Aslan changes his mind and Susan goes back to Narnia to live with Caspian and they all lived happily ever after, la la la!" Aslan wouldn't change his mind over something like that. He's Aslan. Plus, Susan and Caspian are like, thirteen when all this is happening. And thirteen-year-old relationsips are not exactly known for being long-lasting, no matter how mentally and emotionally mature those thirteen-year-olds are. So even if she stayed, they'd probably break up over something really stupid.

Also, even though the person I got this from didn't like PeterXOC or EdmundXOC fics, I'm actually quite fond of them, at least the well written ones. Which, by the way, are severely lacking.

Wow. I am one long-winded health dessert, aren't I? But anyway, yeah. I tend to like nerds more than princes. And movieverse Susan should totally wind up with the geek. Unless they choose to take her in the bookverse direction and have her fall away from Narnia. Then she doesn't deserve him...Oh, oh oh, I know! Okay. So, what if it's the geeky kid that helps her "come close to Narnia in her own world" and then they die and go to Aslan's cool mountain home place, and then everything's cool! Yeah. I like that.

Whoa, I wonder if they put Ramandu's daughter in the next movie, if they make it. (My understanding is that they are.) Okay, so what if all that stuff with the geeky kid (okay, if I were the geeky kid, I might be getting kinda ticked off right now, even if I did know that I-I mean, Raspberry-meant it as a compliment, or even term of endearment, because geek just isn't an insult for her. I mean, if I were that kid, I'd be ticked off at not having a name. Um...what was his name? I know they put it the movie...or did they? TODD! Let's call him Todd.) Okay, as I was saying, all the stuff with Todd and movieverse Susan happened, and then Ramandu's Daughter and Caspian get married in the movieverse...so then, when Todd and M. Susan die and go to Aslan's country, and then M. Susan sees Caspian again and meets Ramandu's daughter (who would probably be equally ticked off now. Why doesn't she have a name? Let's call her Ashley. No, wait that doesn't sound Narnian. Um...whatever, never mind. Her name is Ashley. End of story. I wonder what her name really is, though? I mean, her name couldn't have been just "Ramandu's Daughter." I mean, can you imagine? Like Caspian proposing: "Ramandu's Daughter, will you marry me?" "No." Sings "You Don't Know My Name" by Alicia Keyes.

Is joined by Todd.

And then they became a travelling musical act. Like The Ting-Tings.)

Anyway, so yeah, Susan sees Caspian and Ashley (who has a name now, as does Todd, so they do NOT become a travelling musical act like The Ting-Tings) and-

Oh. Right. All I was gonna say on that was, wow. To quote Joe Jonas for a second (Quick question, how much a ditzy valley girl do I sound like right now? No, never mind. More like one of those Hollister-obsessed East Coast rich kids. Not that there's anything wrong with wearing Hollister, unless you're me, who hates Hollister. But if you aren't me, then it's fine. And not like there's anything wrong with the East Coast, either. Or being rich. I'm talking about the stereotype of all those put together, who watches the O.C. a lot and then they think California is really like that, so they start wearing Hollister for no reason other than it's supposedly "Californian" and then they put up fifteen million Myspace pictures of themself doing the Miley Cyrus face. Pout lips like a fish, peace sign close to mouth. You know what I mean.

But you know, that's just a stereotype. No sarcasm intended.

I'm serious. In bold.)

But anyway, to quote Joe Jonas for a second, "Awk-ward..."

Um...

Can things be awkward in Aslan's country?

Whatever. Rant Over.

In bold.

NERDFIGHTERS

"What's a nerdfighter? Nerdfighters are like regular people, except instead of being composed of various tissues and organs, they're made out of awesome. Nerdfighters do things like embroider pillows and hang out in My Pants."

-John Green

"Saying, 'Hey, I noticed you're a nerd' is like saying 'Hey, I noticed that you'd rather be intelligent than stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than vapid, that you realize that there are more important things in life than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan, why is that?"

-John Green

Brotherhood 2.0 started out as a project two brothers, Hank and John Green, came up with when they realized that they communicated almost entirely through text. They agreed to communicate only through videos (except when they visited each other, in which case, they would you know...talk) for an entire year, doing one video a day, taking turns-John, Hank, John, Hank, etc. No videos on weekends or holidays.

This project developed a following of people who are called Nerdfighters. Nerdfighters fight against the mindless need for hipness and popularity, and for nerds everywhere. Every nerdfighter is a certain kind of nerdfighter. I am predominantly a performing arts Nerdfighter, but there are all different kinds of nerdfighters-Harry Potter nerdfighters, sarcastic nerdfighters, and probably some taxidermy nerdfighters out there somewhere.

If you think that being a nerd is cooler than being cool, then you'll love it.

Nerdfighter.ning.com

Hank Green is a site developer (I think) and runs the website Ecogeek.com. John Green is the author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and Paper Towns.

DAVID ARCHULETTA

Should have won.

Seriously.

MUSIC

If it didn't exist, then I wouldn't, either.

Music has saved my life countless times, and in more ways than one.

When I grow up, I want to make music for a living. I might do some writing on the side, but I can't see myself not being a musician for a living.

Some have said that love is the closest thing to magic. Maybe it's because I've never really been in love, but I disagree. Maybe love is very close to magic, but we have music. Music is magic. It can do amazing things. It is an entire other language that everyone understand; it can communicate more efficiently than anything. Words themselves carry more weight put to a tune.

Words...lyrics. Lyrics, put to music, as I said, communicate better than anything. No one can explain why, but they do. The words stick in your head more effiently when put to a tune. They stick with you. They can haunt you. They can bring you to self-realizations that you can't have had any other way.

But most importantly, there are songs about everything and anything. And a lot of it is so vague that you can interpret it any way you want.

And sometimes, when you hear a song that says everything you want to say to yourself-when you hear a song that describes exactly how you happen to be feeling at that particular moment,

It can make you feel like maybe you aren't quite so alone after all.

WHAT I JUST SAID

See? I can be serious sometimes.

JACK'S MANNEQUIN

You know how Stephenie Meyer's always talking about how she loves Muse, it's her favorite band and how it always inspires her?

Jack's Mannequin is like that for me.

RENT-A-KID

Rent-a-Kid is the best straight-to-video movie ever. In case you haven't heard, its about three orphans who get rented out to a rich single couple living in an upscale apartment by the orphange manager's father. It's cute without being so sugary sweet that your dentist would be thrilled, it's clean without being juvenile, and it's funny without being...not funny.

My favorite character? Brandon. Duh.

"I think I saw Larry on America's Most Wanted. Maybe we should call the Police...?"-Brandon (about the doorman)

THE JONAS BROTHERS

So, I guess I'm kind of an artsy-type. I like writing and music and doing anything creative, and I absolutely despise math and everything associated with it.

And apparently, artsy-types aren't supposed to like The Jonas Brothers, because they're too 'mainstream' we're supposed to be all 'enlightened' about the dangers of corporate America and whatnot. But I never actually asked to be called artsy, I just kind of got labelled the Indie Art freak in Middle School. So whatever.

I dig the Jonas Brothers. Their music is fun, and catchy, and it always cheers me up. YOU HEAR ME, FANFICTION? I LOVE THE JONAS BROTHERS!

EDMUND PEVENSIE

Edmund Pevensie is, in my opinion, the coolest fictional character in the history of literature.

What, you don't know who he is? Chronicles of Narnia! (to be said in the voice of Jon Heder) GOSH!

But anyway, Edmund just is the coolest. He's witty and charming and intelligent, but also dorky and funny at the same time. More importantly, he's funny without being "comic relief-" you know when to take him seriously.

Oh, and for the record, Skandar Keynes is really good-looking. That much can't be denied. But Edmund was my favorite Narnia character even before the movies.

So there.

MARY-SUES

I've done a lot of research on the enigma that is Mary-Sues and self-inserts.

"I have heard time and again that self-insertion is the scourge of fan fiction and that any tale containing traces of it must be bad by definition. I used to believe that, too - for almost half a year.

The thing is that if this were true, virtually all fiction would be condemned from the start. All characters that we write are animated by putting little pieces of ourselves into them. There is no other way to make a character come alive. If we do not invest a little bit of ourselves into them, they will at best be forgettable cardboard comparses. The trick is to use different pieces in differing mixtures, so as to prevent all characters from becoming carbon copies of ourselves.

It's easier with fan fiction, since the characters are defined in their behaviour and relationships already. With new characters it can be a little more tricky to make them unique, because there is no model to guide us. This leads to a common prejudice, namely that any new character introduced in a fanfic must automatically be a self-insertion of the author.

Freud believed that all literature was in its basis self-insertion and all plots were wish-fulfillment. The only difference, according to him, lies in how well the author can mask it and gloss it over with redeeming social values. As a very broad generalization that may not be incorrect.

If all characters are in some small way self-insertions, then what we commonly call self-insertion is only the extreme end of something normal and usually positive in writing. It is not different from "good" writing by nature, but rather by degree. So why does blatant self-insertion get such negative reactions?

The answer is 'Mary-Sue-ism.'"

http://www.bast-enterprises.de/ranma/MarySue.html

It's the best essay I've read so far.

Not all CCXOC fics are Mary-Sues. A lot of them are, but I've found that it's unfair to say all of them are.

Also, in the immortal words of Jhonen Vasquez (creator of Invader Zim, among other things) "I could write about a tranvestite circus midget, and that midget would be every bit me, because he comes from MY mind."

Any original characters will resemble the writer, in some way. And the reason for that is also the reason for fanfiction itself, and why it's fun to write.

It's fun to take characters and add your own touches.

But as for myself, I promise I won't be like "Jessica Rose was beautiful, she was tall and curvy and blond and had beautiful eyes that changed color with her mood, and she was good at everything and was very sweet and kind and everyone loved her."You don't know how painful that was for me to write. I do spend a lot of time making my characters likeable (if they're supposed to be that way) without being unrealistic. So if you feel I'm not doing well on that account, please let me know in a polite and civilized manner or else I will have to wonder why some savage animal from the Jurassic period is alive, let alone using a computer.

REVIEWS AND FLAMES

I remember the first time someone reviewed on of my stories. I ran and told my parents and happy-danced the day away. I still do that sometimes, but the difference is that now I do it in the privacy of my bedroom, because my parents already think I'm a freak. Don't need to confirm it.

I adore reviews. I'm not going to say that I think you should review everything of mine that you read-because I don't review everything I read. I am a terrible person.

All I'm saying is that, I like reviews and if you wanted to let me know what you think of my writing, I will love you forever. (But, you know, only as a friend.)

Right now, I don't care if someone flames me. In fact, please, if you don't like one of my stories, please, let it out. Flex those flame fingers. I want to be burned at the stake, like Abinadi in the Book of Mormon. Why? I've never gotten flamed before...I'm wondering whether or not it'll hurt my feelings. Obviously, don't just lie and say you hate something just because of that, but if you DO find one of my pieces nauseating, then please don't not-review just to spare my feelings. I'm a big girl, I can handle it.

I think. But that was the whole point of that.

THE END

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