Welcome to my profile!

- Icon credit goes to ME; fanart credit...
not so much...

Okay, well, it's been a
while since I last decor-
ated my profile, so:

Version 4.0...

But now watch as I rise to a whole new height,
And now my battle cry will be heard all night...

--"Shadow Games" by Trixie Reiss,
Yugioh! The Movie Soundtrack

I have a name, but knowing it is irrelevant because here on ff.n we have a
little something called a 'pen name.' I'm in college, but have no idea what I'll
end up getting a degree in. To make up for this I just take as many general
classes as I can. I have fangirl tendencies, and a hunger for fanfiction that
is never satisfied. I aspire to be something great in life, regardless of what-
ever that turns out to be. Creative writing is a hobby of mine that I take a
professional pride in, though I believe my own abilities to be mediocre, at
best. Anime is something that an older friend of mine got me into when I
was but a wee middle schooler, but I've clung to it ever since. I enjoy watch-
ing Death Note, Digimon, YuYu Hakusho, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Burst Angel,
Claymore, Serial Experiments Lain, FLCL, and (above all), Yugioh!, Gundam:
SEED, and Vampire Knight. I've been a member of ff.n since 2003, I think, and
I've been writing and reading fanfics for longer than that, so at least I can say
I've been around the block enough to know my strengths and weaknesses. I
am a night owl by nature, so I tend to post all of my stories during the late
hours. I don't see myself giving up fanfiction any time soon. It's an addiction I
just can't seem to kick. Feel free to e-mail me if you wanna chat. I check it at
least once every day.

Random Request!: Please feel free to send me some ideas for my story You Know
You Wanna, as it desperately needs them. Otherwise, it's headed straight for the
recycle bin.

Pleasant Things (with italics!): At the top of my list, there are the two fan-
doms that currently hold my attention, and those are Yugioh! and Gundam:SEED.
I heart Yami Bakura with a viscous passion. He is the jelly to my peanut butter;
and he also tastes best when paired up with Yami Yugi. Darkshipping = OTP, kids.
I mostly ship yaoi couples in the anime I watch, but I'm up for anything orientation-
wise. In GS I ship AsuKira and YazkFllay, and I'm a sucker for the Kaname/Yuki/Zero
trio in Vampire Knight. Aside from anime, I love some relatively normal teenage things,
like rock music (all types), boyfriend, and free time. My favorite cities are New York and
Baltimore ('cause they're the only two I've ever been to). I want to live in a city one
day. You'll often see city-like settings in the stories I write, because humans naturally
want what they don't have. I love grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and every-
thing about the English language. I write for fun, not attention (but reviews are nice).
I love winter - snow (specifically), and my birth month, January, which I share with my
boyfriend. Vampires have the tendency to make my panties wet - and those are two
of my favorite subjects to watch in anime, along with guns. Reading fantasty/science-
fiction books can calm me down more than a warm cup of chai tea, but it's nice when both
are present. ZOMG, raspberry tea! (Any tea actually.) I think shortness is an asset, and
Starbucks is magical. Pizza Hut is also magical, but not as much as Starbucks (I did work
at a Pizzaz Hut for a little while). I love working, too, believe it or not (presently at
Radioshack with the coolest people you'll never meet). Night driving is one of my more
recently acquired pastimes, but that's only enjoyable if I am alone if there is music
present. MUSIC! How the hell could I forget music?! Definitely my most favorite thing
in all the world. I play flute and guitar, and I occasionally sing. Without music, life would
not be nearly as colorful.

Displeasing Things (italics too?): This paragraph probably won't be nearly as big
as the "Pleasing Things" list, but here goes nothing... Bands = Coldplay, Rascal Flats,
Metro Station, Kenny Chesney, Hollywood Undead, and The Jonas Brothers. Their music
is just bad. I dislike (extremely) ignorant and/or belligerent people; the Twilight movies,
for ruining a book series and a genre that I loved; the rain - one of the most depressing
phenomenons on this beautiful Earth; growing up; paying a shit-ton of money to go
to college; over-sleeping, being late; toothaches; atheism (my boyfriend is agnostic;
drives me nuts); war, hate, and violence; LIARS of any kind; and being fake.

Ja ne,
~;~Shaku

I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning
Help me to breathe
I am hurting, I have lost it all, I am losing
Help me to breathe

--"Duvet" by BOA,
Theme song for Serial Experiments Lain

Cassandra Cassidy

Snare-chan

RobinRocks and Narroch

Jensti

Zosocrowe

Ramza Lionheart

Erik's Champion

anja-chan

Phoenix From The Ashes

YenGirl

Clue-Sama

Thank you guys, for teaching me a little bit more about myself;
you're the heroes of the of the underground writing subculture.

Explanation/Apology:
Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be updating any of my earlier fics anymore (like
Artemis Fowl: Blue Eyes or Black Eyes of AI). Sorry... The muses for them are
long dead and gone. However, if I decide to write them over, I will update them
with new chapters. But only if. Sorry again - I know there were probably still a few
people out there who were interested in my crazy stories. Maybe someday...

Updates:

May 29, 2009
Bakura-centric one-shot posted. I love him so much... To be a psychotic villain,
he sure does make you want to cuddle him and give him lots of kissies. This
one explores how he might have reacted if he actually had a conscience &
realized how evil he truly had been in the past. My interpretation was that the
cemetery symbolized him going insane, not necessarily 'dying.' (Because seri-
ously, who's gonna die from a dream? And then there's shadow magic...o.O)
Please feel free to give me your thoughts and opinions on my loveable favor-
ite character. =D

~;~Shaku

June 3, 2009
A new darkshipping fanfic, posted for anyone who wants to give it a few minutes
of their time. It's basically a battle between Bakura and Yami that sets up a deal
in which the winner gets what they want. I've promised a lemon in the second
half if I get enough reviews and feel up to writing it. If you're into that, you
should check it out.

~;~Shaku

June 28, 2009
Good news and bad news, folks. The bad news is that my motherboard got fried
in a thunderstorm and I no longer have a desktop computer. The good news is
that my harddrive was spared, and all of my stories are fine; I just have no
current way of working on them. Some more good news is that I have ordered
a laptop that should arrive this weekend. I'm sorry for the delay, but I promise
to post the one I mentioned last week as soon as Cassandra Cassidy finishes
reading it.

~;~Shaku

June 29, 2009
The lastest and greatest (in my opinion) of my darkshipping stories has just
been posted. If CC agreed that it was a fun and interesting idea (and she did)
then it must be a downright dandy little fanfic. Feel free to give it a glance-
over.

~;~Shaku

July 26, 2009
Second part to Ultimatum has been posted. I hope you all like it because it
certainly wasn't what I was expecting. (It gets a lil' emotional.) Ja ne,

~;~Shaku

August 16, 2009
I finally posted my latest Darkshipping ficlett. It's a short, very mundane
piece about our favorite moody thief getting his hair cut. Yay. Also, I hope
to finish up my Arrogantshipping fic this week so Jensti can finally proof it,
and I've also started on a new Puppyshipping one-shot for anyone who
reviewed 'The Things You Do'. I've been busy busy busy, but that only
means you guys have that much more to look forward to.

~;~Shaku

September 3, 2009
Been reading a bunch of Vampire Knight fanfiction, but not really writing
much of anything. I'm terribly sorry... Writing these fan-stories is quickly
becoming too much of a consuming hobby to hang onto while trying to
attain a degree in English. I seriously need to start writing real stuff...
If I post anything, it'll probably be the stuff I've already mostly finished.
Again, I'm sorry. I'll see what I can do. (Reviews might help)

~;~Shaku