Third time writing this profile... I hated my last one.

Uh... I'm canadian, I'm a girl of average height and weight, I'm 21. Brown hair and brown eyes, though my hair tends to get dyed red or purple most months. And I'm a brand new mommy. Well, baby was born on July 16th... So if anyone is wondering about the lack of updates... yeah baby is eating my time. She was born at 12:30 in the afternoon weighing in at 8 lbs 15 oz. and 58.5 cm long (23 inches). Had her naturally, no epidural... though I really wanted one. Oh well. She's happy and healthy. Growing like a bloody weed. Just grew out of her feeties. Her name is Toan Nathalia.

I write for yaoi. I read yaoi. I love yaoi. But yuri is good too. Nothing like a little girl on girl action to get you going. I have to admit, I really don't read het. As a general rule, any story that I read must be yaoi as a main pairing... or eventually yaoi... actually, this is how I find stories to read.

Must be: Over 10000 words

have at least 5 reviews per chapter.

the rating doesn't matter

the summary must not have spelling or grammar errors.

when I go into the story, the type must be nicely spaced. Not a paragraph taking up one whole page... (it hurts my eyes)

MUST BE YAOI. (I'll read pretty much any pairing... as long as it isn't squicky...)

So there you have it. I'm really picky. Too bad my writing sucks. But I try to stick to my own criteria at least.

Things I love: reading, drawing, music, food... wait. I like so many things its hard to list them all... how about I say what I hate and end with that? I pretty much like anything else.

Things I hate: cleaning, brussel sprouts, asparagus, hypocrites, germs, rude people, lazy people, most teenagers (because they weren't spanked as children), men (not as a general rule... but so few are the exception to it. Gotta be responsible at the very least), racism, mary sues/gary stues... I think that's it.

I read a lot. As in, if I didn't need to work to support myself, I'd never leave home and I'd have books shipped to me. I taught myself how to read when I was around the age of 4. I got really sick of people telling me I didn't need to know what something said every time I asked... so I stole my brother's hooked on phonics and taught myself. Sounds impossible, but I was a little girl with a mission, and I was determined to accomplish it. Because of my rather early start (kids nowdays have started learning as early as 9 months! Isn't that insane?) I was always the head of my class for reading projects and spelling and such. My mom actually had to write a note to each of my teachers every year that I really DID read more than three hours a day and I DID infact read material that was considered too high for my grade level. She got rather sick of it all I'm sure. Anyway, enough tooting my own horn here. I just needed to get that out as an explanation for my completely anal analysis of other people's fanfics. I've stopped reporting spellng errors at all. I used to do it WAY too often.

Oh, and I rarely ever have a beta for my own stories... so if there's spelling errors, my eyes are too tired to catch them.

Scarily enough, English wasn't my best class. Math was. And music. Go crazy musical mathmeticians.

Um... nothing really to report at all. Oh, check me out on Deviant Art if you're so inclined. I do fanart for fics I read occasionally... and other random things. DuetMaoim is my DA name. A lot of the stuff on there is a lot older... so be kind if you look at it. I was young and thought I was good. I don't have the heart to take stuff down as I can no longer find the original copies. Go figure. The packrat loses stuff like there's no tomorrow.

About my fics: Anything other than Relearning the Steps, I'm no longer updating. I lost all my original chapters and plot/planning files on my mother's old computer. I finished Fake Smile... a little while ago. Its a monster of a failure, but I felt I needed to finish it for my own sake. Sorry for anyone who actually liked those other fics... I just can't even remember where I was going with them at all.

Much love,

Shinimegami7