Hello all! You may remember me as Pog Mahon, but my sneaky insulting days (see end note if you don't get the joke) are over. Now I'm Craic Agus Ceol, or just Craic. The correct pronunciation of my penname is "CRACK OGG-iss KYOHL". It means 'fun and music' or 'fun and singing', and that's how I choose to define myself. I love music, and I love having fun!
Saying something along the lines of "That was some good craic" can get you some strange looks from English-speaking types who don't know their Irish. It's fun to screw with people's heads...
You can also call me Fedora Jim, which makes little to no sense considering I'm actually a female. Fedora Jim was born on a recent camping trip I went on with a few of my friends, and I wore my fedora the entire time--even in the In n' Out we stopped at on the way up. I commented on the fact that the cashiers probably didn't see a person in a fedora very often, and my friend said "No, just Fedora Jim who comes every Tuesday." And since the day we were there was Tuesday, it was established that I was Fedora Jim. And thus, my alter ego was born. You might see him at an In n' Out on a Tuesday. Haha. (and in case you've never heard of In n' Out, it's an awesome burger chain in California. I hesitate to use the term "fast food", because it's so much better than, say, McDonald's or Burger King or any other fast food joint.)
Anyway, I'm a college student in the United States, and I'm studying to be an English major (big surprise there!). I despise my job as a salesperson at a clothing store. I'm currently working on a novel that I hope to publish someday, if I can ever stop rewriting the first four chapters. I also have another original story in the works, but I haven't decided if that's going to be a serious project (i.e. I'll try to publish it) or I'll simply post it online for your viewing pleasure.
I simply adore hurt/comfort, angst, and whumping, and I cannot get enough of it. I have a tendency to latch onto a particular character in a book/TV show/movie and I will wish all sorts of pain and misfortune on them, so long as they don't get whacked in the end. Unfortunately, I also have a tendency to latch onto whatever character is marked for death, and I become highly emotional during said death scene.
I originally stumbled onto fanfiction quite a few years ago when a friend of mine recommended a Harry Potter fanfic of the humor variety. I'd been writing fanfiction long before I found the website, and I hope to never, ever see any of that writing again (it involved quite a bit of vulgar humor. That's all I'm going to say). Anyway, Harry Potter was never exactly my cup of tea, and I ended up spending quite some time in the LotR area. I wrote some mediocre humor fics for that (though I think some people might disagree) befor moving into "National Treasure", of all things.
As for now, I think I'm starting to move into something a bit scarier for me: TV shows. I've always been apprehensive about TV fanfiction, but I have a "Dark Angel" fanfic or two up my sleeve. But I'm not abandoning "National Treasure" entirely...I still have to finish "Alphabet Soup" and I have a bit of an angsty epic in mind that's based on an episode of "Crime and Punishment" I watched in my Gov class last year.
And don't forget to say "howdy" to one of my best friends, Rhiannon Aurorafai. Rhia helps when my vocabulary utterly fails me or there's a bit of renegade grammar, and generally polishes up my chapters for me before they wind up on the site. My recent lack of updates is simply because she's actually more busy than I am (GASP!)!
If you ever have the morbid curiosity as to what goes on in my psycho little head, you can look me up on fictionpress.com as Fedora Jim. There's not much posted there at the moment, but you never know when I'll have inspiration strike me at 5am. It happens more often than you might think!
And remember, "is minic a gheibhean beal oscailt diog dunta!"
(this is an Irish phrase meaning "An open mouth often catches a closed fist". Hahaha!)
~Craic
PS-As for my old penname? It was a phonetic spelling of 'pog ma thon', which means (and I'll use the polite version), "kiss my butt".
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