This is a scary box... I don't know what to say! cries

Um, yes... I have a wide range of fandom, and while I am a fan of a number of het pairings, I'm particularly partial to slash.

The things i read include - Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek (The Original Series), Fruits Basket, Pellinor, Harry Potter (obviously - has something for everyone), Scrubs (yes, I know), Loveless, Doctor Who, Torchwood, some House, Georgette Heyer (what there is of it, at any rate), Tamora Pierce, Diana Wynne Jones (infinitely better than JKR), and (if I'm feeling contemplative) Shakespeare.

In most of these fandoms I have SPECIFIC PAIRINGS THAT SHALL NOT BE SEPARATED ON PAIN OF DEATH. However, there are a couple where my favoured pairing shifts slightly - for example, in Harry Potter (not my main fandom focus at the moment), I vary between DM/HP and SS/HP, depending on which I'm on a kick of.

While I like romance stories (slash or otherwise), I very much enjoy any really well-written story; at the moment, I'm obsessing over aragonite's spectacular Sword series and Brittany Diamond's 'Analyzation/Commentary...'. I can also appreciate a good parody, and even the odd OC, as long as they are written well (see the Memories series from Yanikei).

I would also like to point out that anything that I might produce will never be HALF as good as these authors' work, and you should go and read them instead of this rubbish.

And yes, you know it's coming... the random stuff. It's here because I either like it, find it amusing, or think that it is important. If you don't want to read it, skip it.

If you support gay marriage and want to show it, paste this into your profile.

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..