Age: Young enough to answer honestly, old enough to know better.

Lately I've gone on a serious vampire kick, and there doesn't appear to be an end in sight. And it's still going on after TWO friggin' YEARS.

Things in Bold are stories that I think are worth your time checking out, either because they are especially well told or the idea is entirely unique, or a variety of other reasons.

Books/Authors: Drizzt, Wheel of Time, Sword of Truth, Twilight, Abhorsen, Harry Potter, Abarat, Deathgate Cycle, Anne McCaffrey, Tamora Pierce, CS Lewis, Jane Yolen, Moorchild, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Xanth, Elizabeth Kerner, Wild Angel (Pat Murphy), Black Dagger Brotherhood, Patricia Wrede, The Dresden Files, Ann Rice, Terry Pratchett, Tanith Lee, Gary Paulsen, Black Like Me (yeah, it was a school assignment, so sue me), The Powers That Be (series), L. E. Modesitt Jr., Jim Butcher, CLAMP,

Anime/Manga: Trinity Blood, Vampire Hunter D, Darker than BLACK, Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro, Angel Heart, xxxHolic, Hellsing, Mushishi, Hana to Akuma, Zombie Loan, Black Bird, Ushia to Tora, Naruto, Bleach, Phantom~Requiem for the Phantom, Vampire Knight, D.Grey-man, Inuyasha, Rosario (plus) Vampire, Hunter x Hunter, Birdy the Mighty-Decode, Wolf's Rain, Mermaid Forest Chronicles, Dokuhime, Blood (plus), Death Note, Enigma, Black Blood Brothers, Detective Conan, Alice Academy, Usotsuki Lily, Samurai High School, Fullmetal Alchemist, Onidere, Franken Fran, Ao no Exorcist, Soul Eater, Black Lagoon, Stalker (webtoon), Kaichou wa Maid-sama!, Iris Zero, Anarasumanara (webtoon), Legend of the Sun Knight, Pumpkin Scissors, Taiyou no Romance, Crazy Girl Shin Ba, Helen ESP, Defense Devil,

I have A LOT of favorites, I know. However, there are a few that I hold near and dear to my writer's heart.

Forget Me Not by BlazingMidnightRain
Milk Tea & Thirteen Sugars by Darth Stitch --Series--
Dreams, Memories and Visions Long Gone by Cordelia Yang

Moth to the Flame by Lady Ravenshadow
Once Bitten, Tainted Angel, Dream Walker and Siren Song all by -RiP-Vii --Series in Progress--
I Don't Belong Here by OpenBook
Leela's Friend by Shadowxwolf
To beOr is that To bite? by Strych9

Bound For Tomorrow: Sesshomaru and Rin by Ravyn Skye
The Price by Fenikkusuken
Revelation by Fenikkusuken
Paean by Empathiea
Cicatrice by Almandine-Azaleea
Everything by Indomitable Spirit
Once In A Lifetime by Lady Calliope
Puppy Love by FogottenKaze
That Which is Mine by Koneko4
The First Legacy by Luna Silvereyes

Dance with Me, Drizzt by Drow Elf

Colors by Angel Ren
Elizabeth Masen's Plea by Subtlynice

Quotes

When deciding whether to go to work, decide, is it better to be absently present or presently absent?

Children are among the most deceiving creatures, did you know? Apparently so fragile yet cruel in their pranks and games. I shall be a child and the battlefield my playground, and the enemy my dolls.
~Alucard: Child's Play, by Thess

"I was killed!
Damn it! I'll avenge myself!"
~BusoRenkin

a face hides itself
from itself
a mask is the truest guise
~Heroing, book

Please, laugh at my faults. Then I can laugh with you.

"Don't ever let a man tell you he's not a hentai, cause there's no such thing as an innocent male. That's an oxymoron, kinda like 'military intelligence'" ~ Another Closet Hentai; Inuyasha

Being alone in a room isn't nearly as lonely as being alone in a crowd.

Sometimes you need darkness to see how pretty the embers are.

Rin: “I just knew I’d regret the day when your brother introduced you to ramen,” she complained. “I don’t understand how he doesn’t have a heart attack every day, with as much sodium there is in that stuff.”
Sess: “Do not belittle the only useful thing Inuyasha has ever done for this Sesshomaru,” the demon replied haughtily. ~ The Pearl; Inuyasha

"..."
"We seem to have come to an awkward silence."
~Me

Media today are lazy-asses. (Discussing how media does no research about anything unless it's going to embarrass someone)
~Richard Zlogar, UWRF Professor

Sess: “I am always a paragon of etiquette.”
Inu: “Keh. Tell that to those panther-youkai you dismembered last century.”
Sess: “They were neatly dismembered.” ~ The Price; Inuyasha

"Daddy, can you eat mommy later?" ~ Chidori no Jutsu; Naurto

Why is it that it matters whether your food is cool or hot but not the guys?
~Me on a muse

"I am a cooked chicken!!"
~Anna

God is coming, and is she pissed.
~Patrick Hagen, UW Platteville professor

Es stimmt nicht dass Deutsche alles wissen, sie wissen nur alles besser.
~German maxim

Can you keep your hands off each other for 20 minutes?
~ Mr. Knight, teacher (Made even funnier by the fact that it was two guys he was talking to)

He thinks I’m a goddamn nun or something. ~ Tainted Angel; Vampire Hunter D

Electrons are not like beefsteak
~Quantum Reality, Book

I can see just fine without my glasses... Just not as well as everybody else.
~Me

Whoever said nothing was impossible obviously never tried slamming a revolving door.

Whoever criticizes our generation obviously has forgotten who raised it.

"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."
-François De La Rochefoucauld

“Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.”
-Unknown

“If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
-Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister.

Controversial Issues:

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 Britney 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 forbids 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...

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