Personal Message To Readers

R.I.P. Ernie Roe, you will be missed. February 8th 2009

Hello, everyone. I've got a few new updates, as my usual. As you all know, BSV2 came down. But, due to reader response I've decided to keep LCA up. I know I work on it eventually, just not right now. Glad for the show of support, overall. I have some more news for you other than that. As you can see, I have three stories in the works. KMI, Torn and Mona. Torn and Mona will be updated once a week if I can manage it (I usually can). KMI will be updated once a month since it's a sequel story with an OC pairing and not as in big a demand as the other two for updates. At this point, you;re wondering, "Why, Blade... I thought you said you had school in the fall. What gives?" Yes, yes I did. Well, turns out I'm not taking fall classes this syemster. There's a number of reasons... but the big one is that I like going to Dragoncon and with a full schedule I'm worried it'll be too much make up work to deal with when I get back from the small vaca. I'll take them in the spring and summer from now on. What does this mean for you? More time for fics during the fall. I plan on (hopefully) finishing these stories by the end of the year.

Another bit of news! I just signed up for a livejournal. Yeah, took me long enough, eh? I think I'll be posting my fanfics on it. So... chances are... if FF.NET decides to fail as it has recently... well, you'll see updates there sooner. The url is: http://blade-redwind.livejournal.com/

Thanks for reading.

--Blade

Story Statuses

Kei's Mission Impossible: Itachi Needs Love Too! - Working on it... Sorta..x,X See above message.

Lights! Camera! Action!: The Playboy & The Dropout - Soon to be Removed See above message.

Boarding School V2 - Soon to be Removed See above message.

The Bet - Done!

Sinch In Time - COMPLETE! FINALLY!

Torn - Working on it!

Fanfiction Pet Peeves

1. Mpreg - Just... no... no! Why on Buddha's green earth would you do that? It's an insult to everything the relationship stands on. They're gay. They're men. They don't need to have a child to make them feel better about the fact that one of them doesn't have a vagina. -.- I can't even begin to express how much I HATE Mpreg. In fact everytime I come across one and start to read it because it doesn't have a warning I freak out and hit the back button far too many times. I hate it so much I think we should have a search filter on FF.NET to avoid it.

2. Screen Play Style - It's not even that I hate this. I just find it slightly annoying to read a summary and the start to read the fic only to find it's written like a play.

3. The Seme/Uke Phenomenon - Let me just I have no issue with bottom/top or seme/uke type stories. It does happen in gay life. I wouldn't say it's super common or anything. Anyway, you won't see this type of thing pop up in my stories a whole lot. I don't like to categorize relationships or sex. Quite a few gay men in real life don't even go all the way with their partners because it hurts so much. It's a huge trust issue and not many people can give that up. So, if you see partners switch up in my stories... it's because I like to shake things up. -winks-

4. Past Tense, Present Tense, First Person and Who The Hell Said You Could Speak In MY Paragraph?! - Oh god, the best fics possible could be ruins by these four issues. I can't tell you how many stories I read where someone was saying 'She said' to 'She is saying'. Number one, I've never found an instance where you'll use present tense in a story unless you're using " to show a person speaking. Second WHY do people insist on having two people talking in the SAME DAMN PARAGRAPH?! It's hard enough to tell who's speaking half the time without a writer putting two conversations in ONE paragraph. Though, to be honest, I've never read a rule on it; but, have these people ever read a real novel before? Isn't it like a golden rule to change up the paragraph for a new set of thoughts or words being spoken?

5. Buffy As A Vampire - What the hell? Why do people do this in Buffy fanfiction? I suppose it's a personal preference... but, seriously, if you're gonna do it? Don't make her want it! Buffy does not WANT to be a Vampire. In fact, in season one? Are you listening? YES, in SEASON ONE there is an episode where this guy is making people's worst fears come true. Buffy's worst fear? To be a Vampire! She fears being turned into an evil creature of the night, people! So, if you're gonna have her changed into a Vampire in your fic, quit making her WANT it or going to Spike for it! >,

DON'T DO THIS! It's BAD!!

I'll add more as I think of them...

07.27.09 : Hey! Newest update! Just did a youtube video rant thing about Naruto. If you're interested, check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x88-qev-pdg