Hello! Ciao! 今日は!

Let's see...I was the varsity lacrosse goalie in high school and 75 was my home jersey, which explains my user :)

Favorite Books: Harry Potter, The Count of Monte Cristo, Battle Royale, The Three Musketeers, A Tale Of Two Cities, A Clockwork Orange, Pillars of the Earth, Great Expectations, Memoirs of a Geisha, Nine Stories, Pride and Prejudice, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Alex Rider, Lucas, Rebecca, Angels and Demons, etc.

Favorite Movies: Harold and Maude, Lord of the Rings, American History X, The Godfather, The Matrix, Seven Samurai, Miyazaki films, Pleasantville, Back to the Future, The Painted Veil, Donnie Darko, The Last Samurai, Charlie Bartlett, In Bruges, Pirates of the Caribbean, Don Juan DeMarco, The Dark Knight, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction

Favorite Shows: Alias. Arrested Development, Dexter, Dr. Who, Entourage, Gilmore Girls, Glee, Gossip Girl, Greek, Heroes, The Office (US), One Tree Hill, Robin Hood, Rome, Six Feet Under, True Blood, Weeds

Favorite Manga (order in which I discovered them): Rurouni Kenshin, Marmalade Boy, MeruPuri, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vampire Knight, Aishiteruze Baby, Her Majesty's Dog, Godchild, Death Note, Sand Chronicles, Yu-Gi-Oh! (Don't laugh on this one - the manga is actually a million times better than the stupid 4Kids garbage), Inuyasha

Favorite Anime (order in which I discovered them): Marmalade Boy, Rurouni Kenshin, Fullmetal Alchemist, Death Note, Black Blood Brothers, Inuyasha, Yu Yu Hakusho, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

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Current Stories

The Unidentified: (Rurouni Kenshin) 4th multi-chapter fic (KK) ON HIATUS.

City Girls and Small Town Boys: (Rurouni Kenshin) A city girl is forcibly plopped into suburbia, where she'll learn a thing or two about life, death, love…you know, the usual (KK…eventually) (29/30)

Trifles: (Rurouni Kenshin) A second collection of oneshots (KK) (84/100)

Footnotes and Annotations: (Gilmore Girls) A collection of oneshots (Literati) (110/?)

Completed Stories

Converse: (Rurouni Kenshin) 1st multi-chapter fic (KK) Currently nominated for the RKRC Awards for Alternate Reality!

Almandine: (Rurouni Kenshin) 2nd multi-chapter fic (KK)

Don't Fake It: (Rurouni Kenshin) 3rd multi-chapter fic (KK)

Shards of Ornaments: (Rurouni Kenshin) A collection of oneshots from 100 Themes List on LiveJournal (KK)

Photographs and Phrases: (Gilmore Girls) oneshot. post season 3, AU (Literati)

Midnight Marauding: (Gilmore Girls) oneshot. during season 2, episode 10 (implied Literati)

Look Back and Lament: (Gilmore Girls) oneshot. post season 4, AU (Literati)

Phone Call: (Gilmore Girls) oneshot. after season 6, episode 9 (implied Literati)

Together We'll Move On: (Gilmore Girls) oneshot. post-series (Literati)

To Be Expected: (Gilmore Girls) oneshot. during season 4, episodes 12-13 (Literati)

Half-Siblings: (Gilmore Girls) oneshot. during season 7, between episodes 10-11 (Jess-centric)

Grand and Subtle Gestures: (Gilmore Girls) oneshot. during season 7, episode 21 (Rory-centric/implied Literati)

The Machine In The Ghost Within: (Gilmore Girls) oneshot. between 4x21-6x08 (Jess-centric)

Musings: (Harry Potter) oneshot. Professor McGonagall's musings about Sirius Black during the third book...

Mischief Managed: (Harry Potter) oneshot. How the Marauder's Map ended up in Filch's office...

Dear Lily: (Harry Potter) James writes a letter to Lily before their Sixth Year, hoping to start a friendship. (4/4)

Like Brothers: (Harry Potter) Sirius and Remus sit and talk for a night. post-PoA (no slash)

Transfiguring Views: (Harry Potter) oneshot. The story of Lily and James through the eyes of Professor McGonagall.

Of Cleaning and Flying Vehicles: (Harry Potter) oneshot. Arthur Weasley and Sirius Black bond over their appreciation for enchanting Muggle forms of transportation. set pre-OotP.

Incarnate Gaps: Remus and Sirius through Hogwarts in a very strange narrative. Sorry I can't really explain this one properly. (Remus/Sirius)

Goodbye! Arrivederci! さようなら!

Some of my favorite quotes...

"A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. Reach out. Take a chance. Get hurt even. But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me a V. Give me an E. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room." - Maude, Harold and Maude

"Forget it! I'm going back to London. And if your Mr. Byrne asks why, you can tell him I didn't like the jelly, so I went home to get some jam." - Alex Rider, Skeleton Key

"Once you've met someone you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return." - Spirited Away

"I give up. I see not point in living if I can't be beautiful." - Howl's Moving Castle

"You cannot change fate. However, you can rise to meet it, if you so choose." - Princess Mononoke

"Like do you know she has six smiles? One when something really makes her laugh. One when she's making plans. One when she is laughing out of politeness. One when she is uncomfortable. One when she is making fun of herself. And one when... she's talking about her friends." - Pete, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!

"Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" - Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

"You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid - we know we're called Gred and Forge." - George Weasely, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

"Ah, of course. There is no need to tell me any more, Miss Granger. Which one of you will be dying this year?" - Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

"Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.
Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.
Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.
Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball." - The Marauder's Map, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

"We're coming for you whether the Muggles like it or not, you can't miss the World Cup, only Mum and Dad reckon it's better if we pretend to ask their permission first. If they say yes, send Pig back with your answer pronto, and we'll come and get you at five o'clock on Sunday. If they say no, send Pig back pronto and we'll come and get you at five o'clock on Sunday anyway." - Ron's letter to Harry, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

"I'll look for him later, I expect I'll find him upstairs crying his eyes out over my mother's old bloomers or something...Of course, he might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died...But I mustn't get my hopes up..." - Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Molly Weasley: "You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"
George Weasely: "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?"

"It unscrews the other way." - Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (She was my HERO in this book.)

"This is how it is - this is why you're not in the Order - you don't understand - there are things worth dying for!" - Sirius Black (RIP), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

"He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit." - Remus Lupin, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

"Merlin's pants!" - Multiple people, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

"...But the fact remains that he can move faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo..." - Fred Weasley, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!” - Molly Weasley, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

"Say 'what' again. Say 'what' again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more Goddamn time!" - Jules, Pulp Fiction

"That's thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten." - The Wolf, Pulp Fiction

"That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence" - Mia, Pulp Fiction

Chuck: Let's take it slow this time. Do it right.
Blair: Chuck Bass is a romantic - who knew?
Chuck: Well now you do. That's all that matters.

Chuck: Don't mock the scarf, Nathanael, it's my signature.

- Gossip Girl (TV show)

"I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me." - Norah, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

(Seeing Sookie cry) “Don’t do that. It makes me feel… disturbingly human.” – Eric, True Blood

Pam: [To Arlene's children] You make me so happy I never had any of you.
Eric: No, c'mon Pam, they're funny. They're like humans, but miniature. "Teacup humans."
- True Blood

"Well, we're all wounded. We carry our wounds around with us through life, and eventually they kill us. Things happen that leave a mark in space, in time. In us." - Brenda, Six Feet Under

"I wish that just once people wouldn't act like the clichés that they are." - Claire, Six Feet Under

(To a homophobic protester) "God hates morons!" - Nate, Six Feet Under

Tracy Montrose: Why do people have to die?
Nate: To make life important.

Gabriel: I was in school today. I just wasn't in American History. I mean, who needs to know that shit anyways?
Claire: Well, somebody who wants to have a concept of how the world works so they can have a fucking chance in life.

"All that lives, lives forever. Only the shell, the perishable passes away. The spirit is without end. Eternal. Deathless." - Nate, Six Feet Under (Bhagavad Gita)

"I Have this theory that every now and then a person should get what they want right when they want it. It keeps you optimistic." - Russell, Six Feet Under

"I wouldn't change anything. If you change one thing, that changes everything. And some things are the way they should be." - Brenda, Six Feet Under

"You looked so intense the way you pointed your little alarm thingy at the car. Like, 'Fuck you, car. Now you're locked!'" - David, Six Feet Under

Review my stories! They make me happy :)

Thank you for the nomination for RKRC Awards! I owe you readers everything!