Last Updated: 11/30/09

Hey, folks. I'm just a middle-aged American guy, writing fanfics for fun after a long day at the bit mine.

Likes: Heroes who are actually heroic, and actually get the girl (or girls, Hero/Multi is a lot of fun if you can pull it off).

Dislikes: Clueless idiot heroes who survive on pure luck and the bad guy's mistakes.

Visit my blog, Shaper's Ramblings for rants, Q&A and other random posts related to my stories.

Current Project Status:

Indomitable - Ch8 at 3 K
A re-telling of the Shipuuden story in an alternate world where Jiraiya actually knows something about women, the Kyuubi is willing to scheme and bargain for survival instead of just raging against the bars of his prison, and Naruto has enough brains to actually do something with those incredible advantages the canon version let go to waste. Expect lots of ninja ass-kicking and a fair helping of screwed-up romance in this one.

This story now includes lemon scenes, which of course can't be posted here. Not only that, but this site apparently has a bot that crawls author profiles and removes links to other fanfiction sites (nice one, guys). So I've posted an actual link in my blog, or you can de-obfuscate by hand: naruto_dot_adultfanfiction_dot_net_slash_authors_dot_php?no=1296874460

For Want of a Jinchuuriki - Ch3 at 0.5 K
Ninja-style geopolitical intrigue, with side orders of training and teenage romance. Inspired by Perfect Lionheart's missing hokage challenge, but the plot rapidly diverges from that starting point. Kinda-sorta Naruto/Hinata/Temari/Anko, but don't expect a harem-fic plot - Naruto's only 13 at the start of this story, and the girls aren't all going to magically get along.

Time Braid - Ch8 at 1 K
Some people think Sakura's only real problem in the original series was immaturity. She'll have plenty of time to grow up in this version, since she's stuck in a time loop until she finds a way out. Of course, she's not the only one stuck in the loops, and they don't all get along. This story is a bit more experimental than my other works, and of necessity I have to compress decades of time into a reasonable number of chapters, so don't be surprised if the writing style seems a bit different.