Name: Philip David Elthorpe
Age: 32
Sex: Male

OK, That's the profiling done, now let's discuss why my update schedule is like the one for a 3D Realms Duke Nukem game. Main reason is that I've got into collaborative writing, and also have someone who requests heavy writing projects off me very often, sometimes too often. The secondary reason is that I am easily distracted, and sometimes forget what I was meant to be doing.

Beyond Ranma's Gambit, pretty much everything on this profile at the moment will be restarted, and I promise to work on it when I can. Yes, I know I'll still be working on the classic 'when it's done' philosophy of 3D Realms, but tough.

UPDATE -

I've literally dusted off some stuff of mine with 2004 copyrights for public consumption. If they leave a bad taste, fine. I might continue them properly if I get good reviews.

My Fanon and Canon Rants

1. What's so f-ing good about Hero/Nemesis pairings, and so gloriously overwhelming good about GAY Hero/Nemesis pairings?

Right, The next person who throws a Naruto/Sasuke, Ranma/Ryoga, Ranma/Kuno, Harry/Draco, Harry/T.M.Riddle, Negi/Fate or similar story at me, I have a pet dragon. His name is Bunsen T. Burner, and he likes stuff like that. The problem with these types of stories is simple.

They ruin the story, overall, for those people who like the battle between good and evil, not good deciding to go out with evil, date them, suddenly, more often than not, turn gay, forget the hot girls who want to date them, and that's suddenly writing gold. I also hate Draco/Hermione, Hinata/Neji, Sasuke/Itachi and other pairings which are similar cases of 'What the fuck was the writer smoking'?

Anyone who wants to write one of these stories, look at canon. Is there a shortage of more appealing pairings? If you say so, and write a Hero/Nemesis story in Ranma or Negima as a result, please, please, please, GET SOME GLASSES OR STOP THINKING GAY PAIRINGS ARE 'FOR THE WIN!'

Now, if you'll excuse me, I personally like Harry/Hermione, Harry/Luna, Harry/Tonks, any combination of the three above, Cannot reveal who I like for Ranma, Negi/Nodoka, Tenchi/Kiyone and finding fault in stories.

2a. 'Oh no, Sasuke is weaker than Naruto... THE STORY IS RUINED!', i.e the Hero must be weaker than his nemesis to curbstomp levels

This is 2a since it's one of several fanfiction tropes that is annoying the hell out of me. Naruto gets a Infinity Sword. Sasuke magically discovers the secret location of the Infinity Plus One Sword that can break it in two the moment they clash. Oh and it's a guarantee that they will.

There's several examples of this trope, where the hero can't gain a noticeable power increase without some other character, usually one who acts like or is their nemesis, getting a equal or more powerful increase in their own abilities, so they end up ruining the great power that the hero got.

Ranma and Akane, Shinji and Asuka & Naruto and Sasuke are the most noticeable irrecoverably linked pairs in this setup. This links to the second part of this rant-fest, so we'll deal with that there. The Naruto and Sasuke one though, I wish to bring up something right now.

Naruto is the host for the most powerful demon known in the Elemental Countries. It's full power supposedly could destroy legions of ninja. Yet everyone, including, I have to admit, Kishimoto, has Naruto curbstomped EVERY TIME by Sasuke when they fight, and he has recently had someone admit to him that he lost out on a lot of the power due to how the Kyuubi was shoved in him.

Look, writers, Can ONE of you, please, please, please, show me a story where Naruto can fight opponents like someone from a Koei Warriors series games, rather than being curb-stomped by everything that moves?

2b. 'Oh no, Shinji is ignoring Asuka in favor of Rei! THE STORY IS RUINED!', i.e The Hero MUST take notice of THIS character, or the story can't work!

Ranma MUST go to the Tendos on Day One of arriving in Nerima, and must go through all the crap with Akane, or the story is a failure.

Naruto MUST work alongside Sasuke and let him turn into a ronin before wasting most of his time trying to find him, or the story is a failure.

Shinji MUST give Asuka his undivided attention the moment they first meet, or the story is a failure.

I've read numerous time loop stories that start off brilliantly, then, when the hero brings, intentionally or not, the person whose whole reason for existing in the story is to make their life hell seemingly, and the wonderful chance they had to solve everything falls apart, but that's not this rant.

What this rant is, really, is asking why Ranma must beat up Akane's crowd of suitors, why Naruto must always be in the same Team 7, and Asuka always will rope Shinji into being her lapdog.

I've seen several places in all the stories where improvements could be made by removing that hero/nemesis angle, and seen too many stories where people ignore them, and make the same mistakes. Look, Ranma has other good options instead of going for the Tendo Contract, Naruto could work well with Hinata or Tenten, and Shinji is with Rei for much longer than Asuka.

This request for writers is to PLEASE stop assuming that ignorance of that character who belittles the hero means the story can't work. It can, because the hero no longer is getting told they're useless when they need supporters.

2c. 'Oh no, Harry actually changed a event in his past! THE STORY IS RUINED!', i.e The Butterfly Effect is strong in fanfiction!

OK, I'm writing a story where Shinji decides to stop Third Impact. Right, first things first, he must... ignore Rei's living arrangements and accept the forced offer of living with Ritsuko?!?...

Or... I'm writing a Naruto story where he has been thrown back in time. He ends up... doing the extra credit assignment with Mizuki to get more points on the exam he barely passed due to using Shadow Clones?!?...

Or... I'm writing a story where Ranma has used the Nanban Mirror to go back in time, so the first thing he does is accept the Tendo engagement unquestionably as safe?!?...

Or... I'm writing a story where Harry Potter has gone back in time to stop the second coming of Voldemort, so he decides to continue to be friends with Ron from the beginning?!?...

All four of them are moments where I go 'WHAT THE SMEG?' and wonder where it went wrong. Every single one of them is a single change that would, yes, change everything after it, but are the whole point of writing a time travel story! Far too often, Several very avoidable events are allowed to go unchallenged purely due to a little thing called the Butterfly Effect.

I'll leave it at that, but think about this, if you do write a time travel story. THINGS WILL CHANGE.

Don't assume that time travel means that your hero must walk on eggshells and ensure everything beyond one event goes as before. Have them experiment, and find that several events changed... will solve a lot more than what they wanted to solve.

Read '30 Minutes That Changed Everything' for a perfect example of how, really, the Butterfly Effect can solve more than it destroys.

That's all my ranting for today. See ya soon.