I'd like to warn everyone with a forum to be very careful who you allow to become a moderator. A friend of mine made someone they didn't know moderator, and a few minutes later her entire forum of over 4,000 posts was deleted. fanfiction.net has been notified, but the forum is already gone.

There's a disturbing trend in art and stories I've had pointed out to me on deviantart in which one character, most often Amy Rose or Cosmo in the Sonic franchise, eats another character. This is apparently hilarious to the fans of this weird idea. Someone was mercilessly flamed and spammed by several of these fans for complaining about the idea, and has been threatened with their passing on lies about them to everyone on deviantart in an attempt to get them to quit the site. Seriously, I think anyone enjoying seeing someone eat someone else needs professional help. The fact this person reports he's still being flamed by more and more of this bizarre group has convinced me to avoid deviantart. I'm closing my account there without uploading anything.

The last few stories I've updated, the titles are ending up left justified instead of centered. Since I'm not doing anything different, I'm wondering if anyone else is having this problem.

How is it that Yu-Gi-Oh can talk about graveyards and show skulls, and TMNT Back to the Sewer can have April and Casey talk about marriage, but Tails couldn't tell Cosmo he loved her, and Shadow seems to have died because we couldn't see a flower on a grave? And did you notice how episode 78 is more than a minute shorter than other episodes? They couldn't use one minute of that long opening with Vanilla and the Chaotix or Amy and Cream?

It's been three years since Sonic X was cancelled. Since then, we've had mostly games that aren't officially part of canon. The ones that were, one is erased at the end, and another turns Sonic into a monster. Are the new games good for the Sonic franchise? Does anyone have news about a new Sonic game other than Sonic Chronicles 2?

You know what's frustrating? Trying to figure out details about Cosmo's people. TMS told us next to nothing. Seedrian isn't even their official species name. They never bothered to give them one. Seedrian was coined by a fan. All we know is, unknown invaders attacked them (possibly Molly's people, but they talked like the Metarex had started it,) the king went crazy, turned his soldiers into monsters, the queen ran away with all of the women, tried to kill the monsters, the king and four others survived as Darth Vader-like cyborgs, and they attacked and killed the women, except for Cosmo. The males seemed to love violence and weaponry, while the females seemed peaceful and in touch with nature. Everything else is guessed at. Some people have suggested Lucas/Dark Oak had a relationship with Hertia/Earthia, and her children were also his. Yet he had no problem having Scar Ship (actually named something like Death Ship in Japan) destroy his wife and children. What about the other Metarex? Did they have wives, children, sisters, mothers on the ship? Did any of them try to save them? Did they succeed? And how would Dark Oak have reacted to their attempts? TMS and Sega gave us a lot of questions, but no answers. At the very least, we deserve a major Metarex video game. Cosmo should appear in 3-D at least once.

If Sega does bring Cosmo back some day, do all of the stories about Tails suffering because she's gone become pointless? I'm willing to let After the Metarex become redundant if Cosmo starts making video game appearances, how do other writers feel about this.

I've noticed stories where there are other Seedrians and other Metarex. If more existed, we would have had Hertia or Lucas mention them at some point. Someone once suggested Cosmo's sisters might have survived, but Dark Oak would have found and used them in the final battle if that were true. Seedrians couldn't have survived (although they might be revived in some way, like, hopefully, Cosmo still might.) There may be many Metarex still out there, but the kings that were cyborg Seedrians are all dead. Dark Oak has to have died, or Cosmo's sacrifice was for nothing. Yellow Zelkova sank into molten lava in the original Japanese version. It sure looked like Tails' Sonic Driver destroyed Pale Bay Leaf and Black Narcissus. And Red Pine plunged into a black hole. Well, his ship did. But so did the Blue Typhoon and Eggman's ship. Hm.

Four more chapters of How Not to Learn Hobbies are planned for the spring carnival. I need more ideas for this one! After the carnival, I have fishing, wrestling, ice skating, the Olympics, and that's it! Maybe Cosmo will finally do something right. Or not. This series is probably about half finished.

One more chapter of Cosmo and Tails Meet the Incredible Hulk!, and Sonic X Final Cast Party, and two chapters of Scooby Doo. These three should all be finished...eventually. I know, I'm way behind in everything! Please stand by. Amy Rose's New School may run six or seven more chapters. Ghost Story will run until I run out of story ideas. Gee, can you tell I like haunted house stories?

Stories planned for the future:

Sonic the Hedgehog Meets Great Cthulhu! Amy finds the Necronomicon, and tries to use its spells to make Sonic fall in love with her. What was she thinking?! In his house in R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. 6 or more chapters. Chapter one by Halloween. Supernatural/Horror This was planned out years ago as a story about Disney characters. I completed about half of the story back then, but never put it out anywhere. Can Cream and Cosmo face the demon coming for Amy while Sonic, Tails, and the others look for help? Who is Hieronymous Jade?

Unnamed Blaze the Cat story: Blaze comes from the future. So naturally, she's curious about who her ancestors in Sonic's time period are. But what if her ancestor turns out to be...Big?! Starting soon. May be only 2-3 parts. Humor/Family

Unnamed Avengers story: The Avengers just got together. Team includes Thor, Iron Man (in his clunky old gold armor), Ant-Man, the Wasp, and the Hulk. Villains include Skull-Face, a walking skeleton! Starting soon. 5 parts. Adventure/Suspense

I was thinking of trying some tv show stories, but I've noticed some of the reviewers are really into their favorite shows, and having one character just a bit out of character can get you flamed. Maybe the tv people take themselves too seriously?

Unnamed Bokkun and Cream story: Bokkun has no idea who he was before he was roboticized. When he gets a message from people claiming to be his family, he's overjoyed, and goes to see them, taking Cream with him. But what if Bokkun's family are not at all nice creatures, and Cream is now in danger? The serious side to Crazy In Love Or Just Plain Crazy? How big is Bokkun's family? You've seen how Cream's mom treats Bokkun. How will Bokkun's mom treat Cream? "Bokkun? What's hasenpfeffer?" 4 or more chapters. Beginning very soon. Suspense/Adventure What? A serious drama about Cream and Bokkun?! Does anyone know what sort of creature Muu-chan in Tactics is? There's a strong resemblance between her and Bokkun, making me think they may be the same type of goblin. Cream Meets Kikuri has proven to be unpopular, and may be rewritten from a cross-over into a one-shot based on this story with my fan characters replacing the devils. Starting soon.

Unnamed future story: Everyone and their children gather for a tenth wedding anniversary. But there's a party crasher that might just destroy an until now happy marriage.

Unnamed Rouge story: Does Rouge love Knuckles? Should she? Or is she just opening her heart up to suffering? Starting soon.

Sonic Daily Comic: Knuckles' fans, sorry, but I can't take this guy seriously! Will probably be the source of most humor. This collection is very late. Please stand by while I try to update the next week. More than 15,000 hits! Thank you everybody!

These are stories I've planned for, but I may occassionally rewrite an old idea and post it. Some one-shots, some miniseries.

If you'd like to talk about Sonic or Marvel Comics or anything, come to my forum.

My favorite pairings:

SonicxAmy (Sega keeps him running from her, but they also keep her chasing him, so it's obvious she's their favorite)

TailsxCosmo (my favorite couple, please write to Sega and ask them to bring her back, but be polite, or they'll never use her again)

CreamxBokkun (good girl, weird guy, the story potentials are great!)

Knucklesxeither Rouge or Julie-Su (still not sure, hey, maybe they made Shade planning to have her fight Rouge for Knuckles in future games?)

SilverxBlaze

Not so favorite pairings:

SonicxSally (Sega never accepted her into the games)

TailsxCream (most likely, but you have to wonder if she got him on the rebound)

CreamxCharmy (okay)

KnucklesxTikal (she's been dead for centuries, at least explain how she comes back!)

ShadowxAmy (finding someone on the rebound rarely works, Amy)

Cosmoxan unknown Thorndrigan (don't like it, but I'll accept it, but give a reason why there are still Seedrians out there that Dark Oak didn't track down and destroy)

EggmanxRouge (I've seen worse! In English, Eggman and Rouge are saying something stupid in one episode, but in Japanese, Eggman admits he's an old man, and he has some gaps in his memory. He points out that Rouge doesn't have that problem. Instead of insulting him like you'd think, she says, "I will some day." So they may have bonded by the end of season three.)

Pairings I don't like:

SonicxBlaze (Sonic's spoken for, Blaze! And aren't you as well?)

TailsxAmy (it just doesn't seem right! Like marrying your sister or cousin!)

TailsxCream (this assumes Cosmo comes back and Tails still takes Cream, which makes absolutely no sense!)

TailsxMarine (I used to be indifferent to this pairing, but of the very few Marine stories out there, most are TailsXMarine, and most have Tails acting way out of character, so this pairing has now become one of my most hated, this pairing just doesn't work!)

Cosmoxanybody else (Shadow hates her, her and Sonic's just wrong! I won't review Sonmo or Shasmo stories, because there's nothing positive that I can say about them, and Knuxmo is just weird!)

BigxBlaze (they're purple cats from different time periods, so they may be related! )

EggmanxAmy (Nightmares, anyone?)

Scourgexanyone other than a villain (Wrong on so many levels! Especially Cosmo and Cream!)

Tails is a girl, Amy is a guy, etc. Do you have any idea what Sega would say if they knew about those stories?! They just might join Archie Comics in forbidding the use of their characters.

New pairings I'm starting to like:

MarinexRay (only used as a joke so far, but I'll see if I can work it into a regular story)

MarinexManic (this relationship might be a constant battle of wits)

Metal SonicxBreezie (Metal thinks he's Sonic, and Breezie was made for Sonic to fall in love with her, so why not?)

Team Sonic: Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, Team Rose: Amy, Cream, and Big, Team Dark: Rouge, Shadow, and Omega,...hmm, where to put new characters? How about:

Team Princess: Sally, the power member, Blaze, the speed member, and Cosmo, the one who...falls down a lot (Come on, Cosmo! Work on developing some powers there!) (In the Japanese Sonic X, Cosmo says she has no powers, or doesn't know how to use them. Nice to have that cut out so that Cosmo can say something that she'd already said before! Hmm. And Cosmo wasn't playing her pretend game when Galaxina got onto her in a flashback. She was apologizing for causing trouble the day before. What kind of trouble did she cause. Was she a wiseguy before her family was killed?)

Here's a thought: Maybe they brought in Cosmo, then had Tails kill her, to set up a relationship between him and Cream. Think about it. All of the relationships are disfunctional. Sonic runs from Amy, so that goes nowhere. Knuckles can't trust Rouge. Again, a dead end. Why? Because otherwise they'd end up married, which conventional wisdom says will ruin a character. This is why the Hulk's wife died, then came back so weird, he wouldn't want her anymore. This is why the devil erased Spider-Man's marriage to Mary Jane. Sonic's creator, Yuji Naka, in fact, said he couldn't see a time when Sonic was married with children, he saw Amy as always chasing Sonic. So romance has to go nowhere in the Sonic canon. So Tails can't fall in love with Cream because of Cosmo's memory. Sure, the same obstacle stands in Shadow's way, but it seems very unlikely that Sega will give him a girlfriend, unless, of course, he steals Rouge from Knuckles.

Has anybody seen a drawing somebody made on deviantart of a glassy-eyed Tails trying to water a confused-looking Cosmo with a watering can? Makes you wonder if Cosmo might come back to find it's too late, and Tails has gone off the deepend. And now another drawing has appeared of Tails planting her in a pot and reading instructions on how to care for her. She does not look happy!

Speaking of deviantart, somebody there recently claimed that Cosmo was a Mary-Sue. Their description of a Mary-Sue makes Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker ones too. Their description is actually the scientific definition of the hero in classic myth.

Okay, what's up with all the Tails wants Cosmo fat so he has her come back so that the more she eats the fatter she gets? And what's with all the Eggman turns everybody into babies? And killing major characters like Sonic or Tails or Amy is kind of going against the whole idea of contributing new stories to this series. I won't be reviewing any stories where major characters die. Killing major characters for shock value is considered poor writing among professional writers. And what's with the stories about one character getting poisoned blood, so they have to have a blood transference with somebody else? This is playing god, and would get doctors into a lot of trouble. No, Sonic and other characters can't agree to let someone sacrifice themself that way. Sonic isn't the king, he can't make that kind of decision, and would go to jail for agreeing to it. I will absolutely not review or read these stories if I know this is happening in them. These stories are just plain wrong! I also won't review any M stories.

Does anybody know how the 4Kids stories Five Years Away From My One True Love or The Search For Cosmo ended? I never saw the last chapters before 4Kids dropped their fan forums.

What's the problem with second person stories? Are they afraid people would use them to insult each other? This ruins one story I had planned for Marvel Comics, as writing it in third person just wouldn't have the effect I was hoping to get. And interactive and choose your own adventure stories can't be allowed because...hm, why can't they be allowed? You'd think, then, they could be placed in the forums, but no stories allowed in forums. Maybe they're afraid that if two or more people make a story together, they'll start fighting over ownership?

My first fan character:

Name: Simon Prower (nicknamed Sanguine the Sensational)

Species: Fox, orange-red in color

Age: 18

Outfit: Always dresses like a stage magician, including top hat and cape that sometimes glows like it has chaos emerald fragments in it (maybe it does?)

Powers: Magician tricks. Tails finds him in his fridge. When he closes the door, then opens it, he's gone! Then he finds him in his cupboard. Limited chaos control maybe?

Personality: Lazy, disrespectful, takes nothing seriously, just plain annoying!

Friends: Not many (Rouge may like him, but then again, this might be just to make Knuckles jealous)

Enemies: Amy and Knuckles, anyone else that take themselves too seriously, feels that Sonic has stolen his brother from him, but does nothing to make Tails like him more.

Appearance: Looks like an older, orange-red Tails with a pencil-thin mustache (may be fake)

Back story: When Tails' parents disappeared years ago, Simon was completely overwhelmed by trying to take care of himself and Tails, so he left him with Sonic. He shows up every once in a while, annoys Tails' friends, eats him out of house and home, but at least he'll go over to Eggman's house and annoy him too.

Just ran Sanguine through the Mary-Sue Test for the fun of it. He came out too original to be a Mary-Sue or Gary-Stu or whatever. Apparently his originality is based on the fact that he's unpopular with the canon characters and isn't in love with his reflection. Do those two points apply to that many fan characters?

Sanguine will be leaving Tails' Story in a few more chapters, but he'll be back for the sequel. I know, he's done nothing but complain and sleep since Amy yelled at him at the beach. His crazy behavior doesn't belong in the rest of Tails' Story. Expect this story to start getting depressing again soon.

Second fan character:

Name: Debbie

Species: Cat/human

Age: Same as Tails, but as tall as Amy

Outfit: Always wears red and white

Powers: None known. In fact, when she first sees Eggman, she panics. Well, she's great at climbing trees.

Personality: Feels she's ugly and no one would want to be her friend, so she's depressed a lot

Friends: Amy, Cream, Tails

Enemies: Anyone who says she's funny looking.

Appearance: Looks like a cross between Blaze the Cat and Zoey in Mew Mew Power.

Back story: Debbie looks too human to be accepted by animals, but too animal-like to be accepted by humans, and this has made her sure that she's some sort of freak. When Amy sets her up with Tails, and he says he's not interested, she takes it to mean he's saying she's too weird looking for him to like her.

Sanguine will be hanging around for awhile, but if no one likes Debbie she's gone. Let me know if you'd like to see her again. If two more people mention her she'll be back.

Third fan character:

Name: Ginger

Species: Monkey

Appearance: Long, prehensile tail she can use to hang upside-down with, grab people, and use weapons.

Personality: See Tails' Story chapter 18

Other info: Vector sets her up with Tails. Poor Tails! Stupid Vector!

Fan Character Group: Monster Hunters

This is a family of ghost busters and their friends. Details incomplete, but will include:

Name: Ringo

Species: Cat

Age: Same as Tails

Relatives: Anzu and Momo (sisters)

Weapon/Powers: Magic axe with wind powers

Name: Anzu (Ringo's twin sister)

Species: Cat

Age: Same as Tails

Weapon/Powers: Magic sword with electrical powers

Name: Momo

Species: Cat

Age:5

Weapon/Powers: Magic wand allows her to cast various magic spells

Name: Scorch

Species: Demon

Age: Appears about 12, but is actually over 100

Powers: Claws, fangs, firebreath, sorcery

Name: Wisp

Species: Human ghost (Momo usually tells people she has an imaginary playmate until she knows they can handle seeing a ghost)

Age: 10 when she died

Powers: Intangibility, psychic powers

They first turn up in Sonic Hundred Ghost Story, then expect them to drag Tails into a monster hunt in a story I haven't even started planning yet! Note that each of them has an arch enemy, not yet developed.

Name: Holly

Species: ?

Age: Two years younger than Cream

Back story: Can't say yet, but she has a connection to a major character, even though they've never met.

Powers: Unknown...so far!

Name: Glow

Species: Mink

Age: 4

Powers: Able to glow in the dark, some degree of super strength

Back story: Captured by agents of Doctor Eggman, Glow was forced to work in a rock quarry. She originally mistook Sonic for Metal Sonic. First appeared in After the Metarex: Sonic's Story. Anybody want her annoying Sonic again?

Name: Boris

Species: Badger

Age: 11

Powers: Super strength enough to pick up a horse

Name: Harvey

Species: Ocelot

Age: 10

Powers: Can create fireworks that cause little real damage except to an opponent's vision

Name: Heather

Species: Hedgehog

Age: Same as Tails

Powers: Unknown

Back story: Heather is a mutant hedgehog with four arms who has been mistreated her entire life. She met Tails during the brief time he was hospitalized after the death of Cosmo. Extremely bitter, and possibly not quiet right, what will happen when she gets free?

Black Rose: This character will occasionally be mentioned in some of my Sonic stories. Who is the Black Rose? Keep reading! This character will be closely connected to major characters...eventually. The Black Rose's sister appeared in the Sonic Daily Comic.