Hey all - so, at this point in time Bleach and the Half Blood Prince is currently the second most reviewed story in its category... Wow! That's like, the silver medal in the Armchair Olympics! While it would be great to get to #1 (shameless, shameless plug) #2 is not bad. But it wouldn't hurt for all of you to go in and just drop a brief review to help out... even to go back to those chapters you didn't review and ... yea, okay, I'm begging. I admit it. I want that #1 spot. Shoot me.

Favorite TV Shows: I don't really have any right now, other than Bleach and I am now back to watching Mythbusters. Smallville is gone; I used to watch Bones, Law & Order (all 3), CSI (I stopped watching when Grissom left). Love the old classic Star Trek, Fame, and the first three seasons of Buffy and Angel. I was working towards a Master's degree in MCT and didn't have time to watch anything! So I'm actually a little out of touch with what's on TV, and what's going on in the series I used to watch. I still don't watch much; Bleach, Mythbusters and old episodes of Hercules, Lois & Clark, and an occasional movie is about it.

Favorite Anime/Manga: Bleach (RIP, anime), Wolf's Rain, The Twelve Kingdoms (reading the books, but MAN, they are too dratted slow getting those out in English!), Rurouni Kenshin, Neon Genesis Evangeleon, Claymore, Black Cat, Buso Renkin, Darker than Black, Full Metal Alchemist, Kaze no Stigma, Blood, Moribito, Devil May Cry, Knight Hunters, Legend of the Dragon Kings

Favorite Cartoons: Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, and I'll admit to being a closet romantic and absolutely loving Disney Classics like Bambi... a really old favorite (ducking head) is Kimba the White Lion... one of the forerunners of Japanese animation. 1960's stuff.

Favorite Music: I'm very eclectic here. Beatles, Beach Boys, Elvis, Enya, Show Tunes... I love Gaelic music, New Age/Nature, Fifties, Sixties, Seventies... not much modern though, I guess they just don't make 'em like they used to...

Favorite Books: Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Almost anything by David Eddings and Mercedes Lackey's Valdamar series, Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter series, Harry Potter, Gordon R. Dickson's Dragon Knight series. I've also been reading the Percy Jackson series. I really hate the one a year deal... and why are all of my favorite authors DEAD??????

Favorite Movies: Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Star Trek (the latest movie was awesome!), 12 Angry Men, Tora Tora Tora, Anything with Godzilla in it. The Hunger Games. I think Christian Bale makes the Best BATMAN (anyone else see a Nightwing movie potential at the end of the third movie??); Christopher Reeve (RIP) was the best Superman, although Tom Welling was the best Clark Kent. Robert Downey is awesome as Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man, and the Avengers movie - AWESOME! Chris Hemsworth...sigh, and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine... I want him in the next Avengers flick!

Pairings I like: Bleach: IchigoxRukia (Favorite), IchigoxTatsuki (as a consolation prize), ToshiroxKarin, MatsumotoxRenji, MatsumotoxGin, YoruichiXUrahara, GrimmjowXSoiFon GrimmjowXNel, IshidaXInoue, IshidaxNemu, TatsukixRenji

Favorite Animals: Dogs/wolves; Horses, Tigers, raptors

Favorite Mythical Animals: Dragons, gryphons, unicorns

Contacting me: You are more than welcome to PM me through here, and I also am on Twitter with the same call sign, @ Eradona. Best to Tweet me around 3:30-4 am or 4-5 pm EST; if you don't get a reply, it's because I didn't see it, try again the next day. If I'm at the doctor/chiropractor, I may not go on Twitter and check my Tweets, and then I'll only go back an hour or two. If I'm late for work in the morning, I may not see it until the evening.

The following stories are in various stages of completion; many were started before the end of the Winter War, heck, before Ichigo returned from Hueco Mundo, so continuity is shot out the window, so they will need a great deal of work before they can be published...

Raising Ichigo: Yoruichi and Urahara find themselves as parents to an orphaned baby Ichigo Kurosaki. With a little help from their friends the Vizards, can they raise this boy to be the Soul Reaper we all know and love? Twenty five chapters completed which makes it about half complete; but to make it better, I could use some help – funny, humorous baby, toddler and young teen mischief stories – trouble for Ichigo and his friends to get into… IchiRuki, IshiHimi, UraYoru, TatsRen

Inner World: Aizen has trapped Ichigo in his inner world while it falls apart around him; will a daring plan by Urahara save him, or cost the lives of not only Ichigo but his rescuers? Not a long fic; six chapters written, only a few more to go to completion. IchiRuki, ToshiKarin, RanGin

Runaway Prince: The Crown Prince has fled the Royal Dimension and arrived in Karakura Town! How will the residents react to his presence, and what will Soul Society do? I have twenty one chapters done, but it needs some restructuring. About half completed. IchiRuki, some IchiTats; IshiHime; RanGin; other assorted pairings.

The Coup: A group of renegades has killed the King and taken over the Royal Dimension. The Queen is in hiding, and the Prince has been forced to flee with his sisters and his guards. Can Soul Society retake the Royal Dimension and put the rightful Heir back on the throne? Five chapters done, about one third of the way complete. IchiRuki.

The Royal Dimension: Ichigo finds out his grandfather is the Spirit King and is forced to move to the Royal Dimension, leaving everyone else behind. Can he adapt to the move, or will it break him? And what about Rukia? Thirteen chapters completed, only a few short of completion. IchiRuki, ToshiKarin

All Creation Turn to Ash: Crossover/Harry Potter. You Know Who has learned about Soul Reapers and is desperate to get his hands on one; however he hasn't been having much luck… until a group of teenagers from Japan come to England for a high school trip. What happens when he gets his hands on Ichigo? Can Ichigo survive the torture? Will anyone try to rescue him? Does anyone in Soul Society care? Two chapters done; IchigoxYamamoto, not yaoi!

Harry Potter and the Bleached Hallows: in development. Ideas and requests welcome.

Tales of Bleachy the Bard: this will be a series of one shots based on the Trilogy. Scenes that I haven't been able to include, Omakes - and ideas that you come up with. Got an idea you want to see as a one shot? Want to know what's been happening with so-and-so back in Karakura or Soul Society while Ichigo and co. were at Hogwarts? Shoot me a PM and we can discuss it. Only caveat - it has to fit in with the plotline.