I've finally got around to revamping this profile page, a long over due update.

j_mercuryuk:

Age: 22

Occupation: Student of Japanese Studies and Anthropology (just back from a year in japan and about to enter my final year)

Likes include: Journies, rain and beginings

Dislikes include: Storms, butterflies and the way my home town always gives me a cold whenever I'm back for more then a weekend (I've was back in the country for half a week and I got one. Am I the only one here thinking that that's more then a little unfair; 'Welcome back to England! Here's a box of chocolates, a bed-bet you missed that, oh, and you're complimentary cold' Arseholes).

Hobbies: Reading, writing, drawing-http://jmercuryuk.deviantart.com/, anime, manga, Gaming.

A quote that perfectly sums me up: "Distraction from distraction by distraction." - T.S. Eliot

j_merc fanfiction-wise:

Preferences: In regards to reading, I tend to lean most towards family fluff and dark fics. If they include both, then that's the fic for me. In regards to writing, well, you can see for yourself, but I tend to dip in and out of things.

Pet hates: Here's one, not really to do with Fanfiction, but profiles. I hate it when people's profiles are filled with so much crap that has nothing to do with fanfiction what-so-ever, or even much to do with the writer, that you have to scroll down for two minutes just to see if they have any stories, and in some cases they don't have any. People who write more in their profile then in their entries. If it has something to do with fanfiction, then fine, otherwise please just keep it to your blog. :spots one reading and grins nervously: Hello there. :wave: I'm not having a go at you; In fact I'm sure you're all lovely people, but please, next time just think 'Do I need to put the lyrics to my favourite songs in my profile' or 'Do I really have put down every single anime I watched that I like' (favourite is not code for just like), or 'do I have to copy and paste something into my own profile because it seems deep and meaningful'. I accept that you have a right to put whatever you like in you're profile, please; put some info on you and your fics. I'm just saying; there's a purpose for a blog and there's a purpose for your FANFICTION.net profile page.

Random Japanese in fanfics. Sorry, I really hate this. I've seen different languages used well in fanfiction, when full sentences are used to show a change in language, rather then 'squeeee, I know what arigatou mean 'cause I've seen Naruto subbed. This will so make my fanfic sound more Japanese,' sorry it doesn't. If anything it disrupts the flow by drawing attention to the fact that it isn't Japanese. I always go on the assumption that characters living in Japan (or Middle-Earth, or wherever they live) are speaking their native tongue, and the fact that it's written in english is merely a translation, so to speak, as most can't read or write Japanese, and so why put in a random word in Japanese in an English sentence? Does it mean that that word is said in English (which wouldn't actually be too far fetched). To be honest, it just looks a little silly. Like an anime theme tune with random English words stuck in every now and then. I mean, if you really wanna see how it seems, go watch an episode of 'Basara', where one of the characters speaks random words in English every now and then. I was pissing myself with laughter because it sounds so ridiculous.

A favourite fanfiction quote:

"Squall was eating lunch in the Cafeteria at the time. Martine just barged right up to his table and gave him the order, hundreds of students around him. So Squall calmly finished his sandwich, stood up, and did the verbal equivalent of tearing Martine's nuts off."

I made a promise (in my favourites) by InstigateInsanity

Upcoming fanfiction with a few taster lines (All of these are pre-beta'd and pre-checked over, so they may differ later, for a start the spelling and grammar mistakes will magically be tranformed. Also, please excuse the use digits instead of words for numbers in places)

Kingdom Hearts:

Bye Bye Beautiful-There was so much I wanted to play about with from MoH that I had to do a prequeal (and is in no way just a way to write Laguna and Squall scenes...maybe...):

'"Does it matter?" he muttered

His face was jerked to the side and he opened his eyes to look at his very pissed off father.

"Does it matter?" his voice was dangerously low, "Six inches Squall. Six inches lower and you'd be dead. I may have lost my wife to fate, but I'll be damned if I lose my son to stupidity."'

Celtic Verse- (yeah...this needs a title. An AU KH fanfic in Celtic setttings. I really wanted to do a Celtic story, couldn't think of an orginal story, but after listening to 'Mordred's Lullably' my muse started messing around with it. It's now grown from a single fic to a whole verse containing coming onto 100 FF and KH characters).

'Heistently he reached out, rested his hand on the other boys arm, ignoring Zell's call to be careful, and shook him.

"Hello? Are you...," and for lack of anything else to say, "...alive?"

Nothing.

"Is he alive?"

He looked at the boy and felt a jolt of surprise run through him, "I think so."

"Why?" It was Quistis.

His eye's never left the boy's, "Because his eyes are open."'

Final Fantasy VIII:

The-fic-that-so-totally-doesn't-exist-no-honest-it-doesn't-but-if-it-did-exist-it-would-be-called-'Their Law'- Another AU, set in a world where the gangs run the outer city and Squall is the leader of one such gang.

'Esther was once a great country; strong, beautiful, and above all, whealthy. Then the war came. A war between the three most powerful nations in the world, each determined to destory one another. It last 25 years, and there was no winner, and not in the 'war has no winners, only losers' sense. 25 years of warfare and natural disaisters had crippled two nations and destoryed the third. The remaining enemies called a truce, and retreated, licking thier wounds. 87 years later, Esther is still paying.'

A great BMT forum: http://blackmagiciangr.14.forumer.com/index.php