Allo, poppets! Welcome!

The name's Kristen, although really I respond to anything not offensive and/or crude. I'm 19, I've been a closet anime fan for a Very Long Time and a fanfiction writer for about the same length of time (something like 7 years I think...which, in the world of fandom, is a Very, Very Long Time!). I love my old, dead fandoms with a passion. I tend towards the epic (hence my only offering below on the site) and I also have trouble finishing anything I start.

I'm very chatty -- feel free to bug me! I like being bugged = I'm one of those crazies that joined the military (and I'd really appreciate the debates over the military and politics to remain at a minimum, they get tiring), and I'll be a glorified nurse in a few months. Way off in the future, I'm gonna be that cool music teacher you and/or your kids fawn over and moonlight as a nurse. It's like being a superhero, with a mild-mannered alterego and everything!

I still haven't decided which job is the "superhero" job and which is the "alterego". I'm open to suggestions.

Phoenix Ashes isn't dead. I will finish it. I'm just kindasorta slow.

UPDATES

25 April 2009
Oh god, nine days until I leave. I would be a liar if I said I'm not freaking the heck out right now! Chapter 5, however, is chugging along, and I hope to squeak it in riiiiiight before I leave, so as not to leave a seven-month (or longer!) wait between chapters. That said, there's a tiny snippet from the very beginning of this chapter in my LJ!

STORIES

Phoenix Ashes: Chapter 5 is the one I'm working on. The others are likely to be edited off and on as I see fit but none of the edits are likely to be anything bigger than me changing a sentence or fixing the rare and occasional typo I miss. I never stop editing, so mentioning it when it happens would get really old really fast.

The Original Phoenix Ashes: Discontinued, years ago. Seriously, why would you read that anyway? It's crap. Really badly written crap. Phoenix Ashes is the same thing only about five times better. As soon as I'm beyond where I stopped in this story, I'm going to delete it.

In mind for the future...I really want to attempt a Rurouni Kenshin 'fic -- I've wanted to for years but I don't quite feel confident enough in my knowledge of canon to do it. And the Harry Potter fanfic bug has finally reached me, although I'd probably use a different account for that. One day I'll get back to Bad-Luck Charm, my original story.

Le Fin.

((Full discloser: I am a bleeding-heart, California born-and-bred hippy-dippy tree-hugging hippie child. However, I possess a brain; I refuse to identify with any one party, because I also strongly believe in choosing the correct law or person for the given job/situation regardless of party or affiliation, and I've found that "choosing a party" generally means "voting along party lines" and I refuse to do that. I take my voting rights seriously, and if you really feel the need to engage me in debate be prepared to debate like a mofo. I joined the military for a myriad of reasons, and most all of them are highly personal, but none of them had any basis in my political biases or beliefs. Also, anything written in any of my stories, author's notes, or this profile do not represent the views of the United States Navy or any of it's subsidiaries -- they are wholly mine and should be treated as such.))