11/26/2009

Nothing important to report here, just that I've archived over a million words (yay) and thanks to many people who are still reading it despite the fact that the story is complete, RotT is nearing the five digit mark in hits (it's over 9 Thousand!)

That is all.

Just deleted my Yu-Gi-Oh 'Pegasus' Revenge' story. Why? Because I haven't worked on it for a couple of years now. I doubt I'll ever get back into the swing of it and, as much as I'll always love Yu-Gi-Oh - at least the first one, not the stupid spin offs - I think I've grown out of the genre, at least for writing it. Sorry to everyone who enjoyed reading it, and I hope it doesn't turn you all off of me as a writer.

11/02/2009

Yay! I'm updating!

So as you can probably tell by the frequency of my updating, RoC is progressing smoothly. My rent has increased (and my bank account is in searing pain) and due to an assault by my muse I have posted a crossover story between the universes of Final Fantasy 7, 8 and X called Coalescence. I didn't expect very much in the way of people actually looking at the story (in total, it has 4 reviews, but it has almost a hundred hits), especially since I have already mentioned the irregularity of updates. Since I was so amazed that so many people were actually taking a look at it, and since it already was kind of sitting on my flashdrive, I figured I'd post it. I'm just that nice.

Hopefully my freshly installed security system will hold my muse at bay, at least until after I've finished the novelization and started work on my other projects. I don't really think so either.

And I bought my laptop a week earlier than I originally thought I'd be getting it! Woohoo! The guy I bought it from heard me squealing in excitement while I was at work and he told me I could buy it from him sooner if I wanted, so long as I had the majority of the money on hand. Two days later, Mr Laptop (that's right, I named him!) came home with me. The red makes it go faster.

You all probably think I'm even crazier than before, but that's okay. Mr Laptop can console me.

And before you ask, no, Mr Laptop is not a MAC.

A little about Queen000

My biography last time was a little long, so I’m just gonna write the little things:

Name: Queen000

Age: 24

Gender: Female (yeah that’s right, I’m a guy in drag calling himself Queen. Excuse me while I roll my eyes)

Favourite stories: Canon, focusing on the original characters.

Stories I wouldn’t prod with a ten foot pole: Stories where couples are not Canon (or where the canon couples are messed up to suit the author's view), most crossovers (I said most! That’s a step up from when I used to say no to crossovers), and 2nd Generation stories.

You wanna know more? Uh, okay. I live in Canada, not telling where exactly, I still live with my mother and sister, and I’ve got three cats, Nemo, Oreo and Rascal (all in order from oldest to youngest). Nemo’s a cranky old fart, Oreo’s the yellow-bellied bully and Rascal’s just lazy. Guess which one’s mine.

And that’s all you need to know. Now read my rant!

Queen000's Infamous Couple Rant

The type of couples I like to read are the ones that actually occur in the show/game/movie. Essentially, the canon couples. Why, you all ask? Why not experiment with people and switch them around to get a feel of what they would do? Because that is NOT how the coupling turned out. I have seen far too many stories where they change the characters couple and it really does not appeal to me as they did not end up the way the author or authoress has written them out to be. As much as I cannot stand some of the characters that a character I like ended up with, it's how the couples ended up working out! Despite the reasons of the author, the characters appear to love each other, so why can't the whiney and over-obsessive people leave them the hell alone?

Honestly, this really should have gone to the rants section of my profile and, for a time, it actually was, but this nonsense has been going on for the seven years that I have been here with FFnet, and possibly even longer than that. For those of you who can't stand a coupling because you wanted it to go a completely different direction, boo-hoo; get over it! The author/authoress of the movie/show/game/etc... Obviously doesn't want to listen to some over-obsessed fan of their work bitch and moan and carry on about the fact that their couples are all wrong in the mind of the reader. In the words of Foamy the Squirrel; 'Who the fuck cares?’ I hate April, and Gohan, and a whole lot of characters that get together with characters that I do like, but c'mon people! Quit whining already! The original author made it that way for a reason!

If a character has not been paired up with someone, fine. Go ahead and experiment. Make them straight; make them gay, hell make them pedophiles if it makes you happy, just so long as they stay in fucking character, and just so long as you do not destroy the couples that have been created for our viewing/video-gaming pleasure. Just don't change the gender on me; that's just beyond stupidity there folks. Unless it's a part of the character's character that they wanna have a transgender operation, then be my guest. Otherwise, leave it the FUCK alone!!

Speaking of which, I've seen a few of these stories floating around FFnet, and it scares me that people actually read this crap. Just a few days ago, I was searching ffnet for some good (admittedly rare) stories and I come across a summary that reads that the person is writing a novelization of Final Fantasy VIII, but that Squall's gonna be a girl. Huh? Excuse me while I laugh insanely at the author's stupidity. Why the FUCK would you change his gender? Do you want it to be a yuri, so that you can say that two girls are gonna screw each other's brains out? Or do you have some mysterious magical trick that's going to make Squall fall in love with Seifer, so that you can't say that it is Yaoi? C'mon!! I know people are truly smarter than that. It's twisted, it's wrong, and why would you do that?! It's too much for my brain to process!! Squall was born a guy. Deal with it!! If you wanna write him with Seifer, call it a Yaoi and deal with it.

The absolute WORST part about these outrageously insane couplings on ffnet are the stupid people who pair the characters up with themselves. WTF? Are you some insane bishonen or bishojo loving moron who can only get off on reading your own work of how you seduced characters like Vegeta, or Squall, or Seifer, or anyone else for that matter, into bed and have sex with you, only to watch as the person they are originally together with finds out about the betrayal and acts so inconceivably out of character that you have the remaining members of FFnet agreeing with your coupling for the sake of wanting to watch your portrayal of the original lover get maimed and stabbed and gutted until they are an unrecognizable mess. Get over yourselves. If you have to resort to that kind of cock-and-bull (no pun intended) story-telling, write to fucking Dr. Phil or Oprah about your fucking mental illness, you fucking retard!

I say, "No more incest fics with family members (straight or homosexual) having sex with each other!"
I say, "No more fics with 40 year old guys/girls having sex with teenage or younger girls/guys!"
I say, "No more turning straight characters homosexual!"
I say, "No more turning homosexual characters straight!"
I say, "If they are not slash characters, don't make them slash!"
I say, "Stop making a fucking soap opera which involves you and your dream videogame/movie/television show/manga or book character having sex while the remaining member of the couple acts like or is displayed as public enemy #1!"
I say, “Stop changing the characters gender just because you don’t want your story to be Yaoi or Yuri!”
I say, "Stop changing the characters gender just because you want your story to be Yaoi or Yuri!"
I say, "Stop changing the characters gender just because you think it would be funny (because it really isn't)!"

This is MY opinion! I have been watching far too much Foamy Cartoons as of late (go yell at Wicked Woman: she's the fucking cause), and I am sick and tired of the people on this site ruining (yes, I said it) stories for me with their incessant 'changing of the couples'. Don't get me started on the plotlines of these sickening stories; we'll be here all day and all night.

If you don't agree, then that's your choice. This is my opinion, and don't go flaming me because I am expressing myself because you will make me very VERY angry.

Fucking sick bastards.

Queen000’s Honourable Mentions:

This section is dedicated to the people who inspire me in my writing, who give me encouragement or who just plain put up with my constant whining whenever I get stuck on a specific point.

Peter J. Marcroft: He’s acknowledged me as his editor for Curse of Memory, and he’s my editor for Rise of the Tyrant. He’s helped me a lot throughout the progress of the novel, especially when it comes to technical stuff I can’t wrap my head around, titling some of the chapters, a lot of the riddles during the Tomb Arc, or just plain hitting me upside the head when I critique myself too much. After all, that’s his job.

Mom: Okay, cliché, I know, but she definitely is my biggest supporter. She doesn’t like video games at all, and yet she’s putting up with me shoving the novel in her face whenever I’ve finished a particular section (I give her complete sections to read since of course I don’t want to die if I leave her on a cliff hanger). Her favourite character is Quistis, and I still laugh when I remember her asking me why Squall was acting like an asshole to her.

Tanin and Avion Jade(no, those aren’t their real names): My two best friends in real life (not to say you’re not one of my best friends, Peter!). Met them both while I was stuck in highschool (Tanin when I was in the 9th grade, Avion in the 11th) and they were both behind me when I decided I wanted to start fanfiction. Actually, it was Avion who gave me the final push to post my first (admittedly horrible) piece of fanfiction. Ever since then, she's always reading my stuff and always telling me what makes sense and what doesn't, and we hammer out ideas together, working out what works and what won't. Tanin helps me work out the kinks on characters and will even help me work out the specs for a totally new character (he helped me out quite a bit in my 'Not Selphie' story) despite the fact that he hates Final Fantasy 8. He was also the one who worked out a lot of the puzzles (he’s my DnD expert and also my Dungeon Master :D). I just tweaked them so they could fit in the FF8 world. Finally, he's helping me sort out bits and pieces of a little something that will come about in the Novelization. Unfortunately, it's still a long time coming, so you won't know about it for quite a while yet.

Ashbear: C'mon. It's friggen' Ashbear were talking about! How can I not be inspired whenever I read anything written by this woman?! She's fucking amazing! I admire the seemingly effortless skill she puts into each and every one of her chapters. She makes me want to become a better writer, and no matter what I'm doing, whenever I recieve an email with her penname (be it a response to a review I gave or to announce that the next chapter has been posted) I stop doing whatever it was and sit myself down in order to read what she has to say or the next installment of her story. That's right; she's just that awesome!

Queen000’s Story Progress

Like the title dictates, this is the section of my biography where I tell everyone how things are going with the stories that are incomplete that I'm working on.

Day of Disaster: Revised!:
Chapters: 15
Status: Incomplete; On hiatus
Reason: I’ve come to a snag when I was planning my outline. With the way things are going, the story will come to an end at least two chapters before I’m ready for it to end, so I have to do some rethinking on it before I start posting again. It may even come to the point where I have to take the whole thing down again and start from scratch again. Sorry about that folks.

Final Fantasy VIII: Requiem of Chaos:
Chapters: 24 + 2 Prologues
Status: Incomplete; Main Focus
Reason: I've already shelled out the first part, so why not continue with a second part. I've split up the story mainly because of how long RotT was getting, so thus there will be three parts. The reason for this story is the same as RotT; mostly a guide and for my own entertainment but my family and friends encouraged me to share. Finally started posting this new monster. Also, I'd like to thank Chosenoneknuckles who actually came up with the name. I guess it goes to show that an outside perspective can be handy. Thank you Chosenoneknuckles!

Coalescence:
Chapters: 2
Status: Incomplete
Reason: It's detailed in the first chapter, but more or less it was a result of an idea that came to me in the event Dissidia flopped. It didn't, but I posted it anyway.

Queen000's Completed Story Corner

A quick biography on the completed stories I've got posted on FFnet. Feel free to take a look:

Final Fantasy VIII: Rise of the Tyrant:
Date of Completion: April 10th, 2009
Number of Chapters: 39 + Prologue
Reason for Being: Originally it was only meant to be a guide of mine to keep track of events that happen post game, but family and friends nagging got me to post it up. Though now, this thing has somehow become bigger than I could've ever even begun to imagine. Another novelization of Final Fantasy VIII, though I'm hoping mine is somewhat more original than most.

Not Selphie:
Date of Completion: March 3rd, 2008
Number of Chapters: 4
Reason for being: Honestly, there was no real inspiration to this story. It was kinda like the creators of Saw; I envisioned a situation and an ending and when I started writing it, everything sort of fell into place. Personally, I think this is an original story for me, mostly for its plot, but it was a pretty good excerise for me, seeing as how the story was told in the perspective of one person, and that (for once) Squall wasn't the hero who saved the day this time.

Kabuto and Sasuke's Big Scare:
Date of Completion: June 26th, 2007
Number of Chapters: One-Shot
Reason for being: A friend of mine showed me a fan-art comic comprising of the premise to this story. I expanded on it a little bit, pointing out details that would have otherwise been nonexistant, and this was the end result. It was a funny comic and my first (and only) attempt at Naruto fanfiction.

Day of Disaster:
Date of Completion: September 19th, 2006
Number of Chapters: 24
Reason for being: I love 24. I love Jack Bauer and all the characters who have come and gone throughout the last (currently) 8 seasons (all except for Audrey. For some reason I couldn't stand her). That being said, once I'd discovered my love of Final Fantasy VIII, I resolved to have a story with the same outline as 24, that being each chapter encompassed an hour of a whole day, thus resulting in twenty four chapters. My first attempt fell on its face (all my ideas were used up by the time I'd posted the second chapter, and there were characters there that were there for no real reason at all), so I scrapped it and bidded my time until I'd improved my writing a bit more. Day of Disaster was the result.
However, due to the fact that the writing is all over the place in this version, and the revised version is not progressing the way I would like, I have already begun work on it. In fact, it was the big reason why I wanted to start my own novelization (though originally I had absolutely no intention of posting it on ffnet), and will be linked to that universe. Once the novelization parts are completed, then I will be taking down both versions of Day of Disaster and starting anew, probably with a new title. Sorry about that folks.

Coming of the Apocalypse (Final Fantasy VIII):
Date of Completion: May 7th, 2006
Number of Chapters: 19 + Epilogue
Reason for being: At one point in time I was completely obsessed with the idea of Resident Evil. After all, it was the first game/movie (actually I watched the movies first :P) that had zombies in it with an explanation. Being the obsesssive person I am, I decided to combine my two biggest joys at the time and this is the end result. There was supposed to be a sequel written, however due to a bunch of ideas not working out, I will probably change the epilogue into something that will lead more into my newer ideas of its sequel.

Truth of Griever:
Date of Completion: March 9th, 2006
Number of Chapters: 6
Reason for being: When I first played Final Fantasy VIII, I had some ideas that I wanted to utilize in my stories. This was back when I believed Squall was four when Ellone left the orphanage, but recently I've come to believe that this is not the case. This story was actually supposed to be followed by an Alternate Universe fanfiction that I ultimately scrapped in favour of the novelization. Because of this, it's relatively a stand-alone piece, and I may write another prequel based off my novel. It was also my first attempt at writing Squall's character in the perspective of a child and boy was that hard!

Someday:
Date of Compeletion: October 23rd, 2003
Number of Chapters: One-Shot
Reason for being: My God this thing is OLD! This was back when I was writing consistently DragonBall Z fanfiction, and is, sadly, the only story I wrote in the genre that survived my insane editing spree. This was actually written for a contest, and it took maybe a day for me to complete. It was inspired from the Nickleback music video with the same song (I don't normally write songfics, so this is my first and only attempt), where... well, if I said anything else, I'd spoil the story. I edit it from time to time, but otherwise the piece gets left relatively alone.

Queen000’s Stats

This is an upgraded version of the original stats, which just displayed how many readers put me on their favourite’s list and how many have me on alerts.

I’m an author favourite: 82 people have put me on their favourite author’s list!
I’m being watched: 52 people have put me on their author alerts!
I’m going global: There are people in 55 countries that have read my stories! (this one is updated at the end of each month)

Contact me

My email address is queen.triplezero@gmail.com. Feel free to drop me a line, be it about the progress of a story you’ve been reading, or to just say hi. Oh, and I’ve already gotten a biography written up on the Beta Readers profile thingy, so if you wanna have me beta read chapters or a story in general, contact me via there. Also, be warned, I’m excruciatingly picky.