Name: Amaruk (that's uh-MAR-ook) Wolfheart

Age: old enough to drive, not old enough to drink

Daemon: Seraffis (unsettled)

Alter Ego: Hedge, who lives in my head

Race: human; allied with Wraith

Politcal Stance: I am pro-non-human rights. Prawns are people too and they deserve equality!

Pets: Numerous fishies

My works as a whole are dedicated to My Girls, Sammy and Jade, the sweetest rats the world has ever seen.

Uh, yeah, hi. Nice to meet you, I'm sure. This be me Page of Randomness! Watch out for any sanity; it tries to invade sometimes. (shudder)

I am primarily a writer of Stargate Atlantis fics (usually oneshots) with a couple of Abarat ideas, but as you can see, I tend to put up oneshots from a sprinkling of other fandoms as they come to me. So take a look. You can never be quite sure what - or who - will pop up next.

I love... Yu Yu Hakusho (Kurama) & various other animes/mangas, Stargate SG-1 (Daniel), Stargate Atlantis (McKay, Steve, Michael, Todd, the Wraith in general), Space: Above and Beyond (I'll never forgive it for only getting one season - Col. T. C. McQueen for life!), the musical CATS, Edge Chronicles, anything written by Brian Jacques/Tamora Pierce/Garth Nix/Phillip Pullman, Inheritance cycle, Clive Barker's Abarat series (Christopher Carrion), Phantom of the Opera (book, musical, & movie - extra-specially the musical!!), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (older & newer movies, book), Harry Potter (Severus Snape), Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy (Sparrow's cool and Barbossa's cooler, but I love Norrington!), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (musical & movie), Labyrinth, Ladyhawke (one of my all-time favorite movies), Repo! The Genetic Opera (Graverobber), the Jurassic Park books by Michael Crichton (Ian Malcolm), Fragment, District 9, and animals in general. Especially rats. Especially my rats. And we all love J. Go J! WOOHOO!

My OTPs: Daine&Numair (Tamora Pierce's Tortall books), Navarre&Isabeau (Ladyhawke), Danica&Zane (Kiesha'Ra series), Will&Lyra (His Dark Materials series), Sabriel&Touchstone (Abhorsen trilogy), V&Evey (V for Vendetta), Sophie&Howl (Howl's Moving Castle), Jareth&Sarah (Labyrinth)

Quick note on yaoi/yuri/shounen ai/shoujo ai/slash: I'm not a huge fan and I'll prolly never write it, but I don't hate it, and if the story has a good plot, and everyone's in character, etc., I'll read it. There are some pairings I'm sort of phobic about though...(but that goes for het pairings, too, so...(shrug))

And on lemons/limes/citrus: I definitely don't write 'em (coz I can hardly even write romance in general) but I'll read fics that aren't smut from beginning to end (again, so long as everyone's in character and the plot's fun).

Steve Plush Dolls have been awarded to... Raquedan, NalanaSpinderOfSouls, Queen of the Red Skittle, Feral Geek, Port-of-Seas, Splitbeak, Cainwen the Warrior, Titan5, devonis123, kiku65 (formerly Gingercake), Mardahin, LadyWraith1

CCTA Ch. 6 & 10 Anger Management Quotes Links: www.anger-management-techniques.org and www.allaboutlifechallenges.org/anger-management-techniques.htm

CCTA Ch. 8 Anger Management Quotes Links: www.angermgmt.com

SQUEE!! :D The lovely Red Stockings, author of several Abarat fics herself, has drawn a Carrion and the Cat-inspired picture for me!! I feel so honored. I love it! Everyone should go see it here http://redstockings.deviantart.com/art/Carrion-and-the-Cat-108620394 or by going to her profile and clicking on her homepage, which is a link to her deviantart profile. WOOT!

Random Personal Note as of September 2, 2009: Okay, good news! Chapter 10 of Carrion and the Cat will be up in the next day or two! Finally! (grin) It's exciting, I know. (And Peru was awesome, btw.) So hang in there a little while longer, if anyone's still out there after an eight-month wait. (guilty cringe)

Stories...In Progress: I'm planning on working on Carrion and the Cat for some time. (Yeah, like fifty years...) It will have 15 chapters when all is said and done, including the prologue and epilogue. Or...maybe...16??

...Pending: Two possible Abarat fics, surprisingly. I'd thought CCTA would be pretty much it! However, nothing's coming up till it's done. A group of oneshots from various fandoms will be written...eventually... Got a SGA oneshot for Gingercake's challenge coming up (when I find my first draft...). Data Seeker has made two SGA requests of me, one Todd & one Ellia. Port-of-Seas is also prodding me for a Michael fic, so we'll see how that turns out.

...Co-written: Daine Weirynsra will have the YYH story Hiei's and Kurama's Wild Adventure updated eventually. I'm writing it with her, and it's still in progress, but more should hopefully be posted soon. Ditto for the Revised LOTR series.

Now I shall torture you with quotes! (demonic cackling)

Random Odd Quotes

"So live your life to the best every day. Don't forget to tell the people you love that you love them, and don't forget to spit on the people you hate."
-my mom

"'You’ll never believe what happened to Umbridge last night,' Minerva said primly. 'Apparently she was chasing after the Headless Hunt. Said they didn’t have a permit or some such nonsense. They ran her down. She’s in St. Mungo’s now with a permanent hoof print on her forehead. Must have concussed her good - she can’t remember a thing. They put her next to Lockhart.'
'Good God. Let’s hope they don’t reproduce,' Snape said dryly."
-Onatah1's Eternity (Harry Potter)

"It's 7 o'clock in the evening and he's already in bed. It takes three nurses, two orderlies, and a f-ing partridge in a pear tree almost half an hour to strap, buckle, zip, clip, lock, and tie him into a bed that must come with a manual the size of a phonebook."
-piratestripes's Mad Season (Batman Begins)

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially."
-Ernest Hemingway's Farewell to Arms (esp. when applied to Roland Roucy de Bram in Catherine Jinks's Pagan's Scribe)

"I get where he's coming from, I just don't get where he's going."
-my brother

"I hate Walden! I'll find the stinkin' pond, tie a cannonball to the book and sink it! There, Walden will be home at last and Thoreau can ramble to the fish until they can't take it anymore and finish him off!"
-fellow authoress Lauren on the joys of required summer reading

“Trouty, you were a horrible trout and an incompetent door stop. I didn’t ask for you. I didn’t want you. You broke my foot. I’m going to blow you up. Enjoy fish hell.”
-James Wilson in chapter 7 of sydedalus's Worst Foot Forward (House MD)

"I'm thankful for my characters, but they are not very thankful for me..."
-a Thanksgiving quote from my friend & fellow authoress Lauren

"Oh my God he swallowed a save point."
-my brother (while watching me play the videogame Okami)

"Silly Yoko, pancakes are for smart people!"
-Amaruk Wolfheart and Daine Weirynsra

(while watching Harry Potter & the Sorceror's Stone, when Norbert hatches)
My brother: So what's wrong with him having a dragon?
Mom: It's illegal. Like marijuana.

"I need some ice cream for the depressingness of this topic. (grabs carton) It's falling apart. Don't betray me, ice cream!"
-Daine Weirynsra (while revising an old, bad fic with me)

"Telephone Number: _ (If you do not have a telephone number, leave this item blank)"
-a standardized test

"We're still quote unquote friends...but...she hates me."
-my brother (after breaking up with a girlfriend)

"And about Karasu. HE'S DEAD! KURAMA KILLED HIM AT THE DARK TOURANMENT! HE AIN'T COMING BACK! so all ya Karasu fans cry your tears and GET OVER IT!"
-Koritsune Dragonrider

"Ye gods, you need professional help. Like maybe a straitjacket."
-Hedge

"I’m still trying to understand how you thought it was a good idea to test this device by having someone throw you off a balcony."
–Elizabeth Weir (Stargate Atlantis)

"If Dumbledore were a band he'd be the Beetles, because all he needs is love."
-Daine Weirynsra

"What is this ominous light that threatens to engulf us?!"
-Regal (Tales of Symphonia)

"'...you don't look right in that suit,' Lloyd whined. Indeed, Kratos looked very scary. He looked like a sinister leader of the Cruxis Mafia. It was disturbing."
-chapter 5 of Amazon Bunny's What is this thing called Love? (Tales of Symphonia)

"Oh my God! The Phantom speaks Spanish, French, and English. He's trilingual!"
-Daine Weirynsra

"You know, there are only so many times I can call you an idiot."
-Hedge

“'Accurate?' Screw 'accurate!' Holy crap, this is terrible! It looks like Kavanaugh wrote it when he was high on caffeine or something!"
-Rodney McKay in chapter 7 of nightfynix's Stargate Atlantis: The Musical (Stargate Atlantis)

"A Wraith conga line with fuzzy pom-poms dances across the stage singing the Macarena."
-chapter 7 of nightfynix's Stargate Atlantis: The Musical (Stargate Atlantis)

"By the time Potter was in his second year as Defense Professor, he and Snape had blown up the Potions laboratory four times. Then Granger got involved with one of their experiments and they blew up the entire dungeon, causing Headmistress McGonagall to ban them from testing their creations in the castle proper, so they built a shielded laboratory on the grounds near the Whomping Willow. Ron Weasley promptly started a betting pool among the staff for how many times the thing would be demolished each year."
-chapter 13 of Jocelyn's Dumbledore's Men (Harry Potter)

"Don't swat the fly! DON'T SWAT THE FLY!"
-Daine Weirynsra

"Sometimes I just want to put you out of your misery."
-Hedge

Seraffis: Are you talking to the wind?
Amaruk: Yeah. I talk to everything.
Seraffis: ...Should I be offended?
Amaruk: Don't be. You're the only one I expect to answer back.

"I feel like crap on toast."
-Michel Gerard (Gilmore Girls)

"Lucius Malfoy: With Harry Potter so close to Slytherin house, would he not be a more powerful ally?
Voldemort: Fool, this is not Star Wars! I want him dead! CRUCIO!"
-chapter 3 of Solo Shodan's Harry Potter the Musical (Harry Potter)

"Light knew that when Matsuda suggested a ‘team party’, he was going to suffer. ... he resigned himself to a night of tiresome socialization, during which L would undoubtedly try and find some way to link his playing pin-the-tail on the donkey to the chance that he was Kira."
-chapter 1 of katie-elise's 7 Minutes in Heaven (Death Note)

"You are new to the scene. When you have been with us a little longer, nothing will amaze."
-Willy Wonka (Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Roald Dahl)

"You put THAT on your bio!"
-my brother

Random Odd Chapter Titles

"Seto Kaiba and the 'Evil' Modem Socket"
-Ch. 8 of user Lilo's ElimiDate (Yu-Gi-Oh)

"Something Hinky This Way Comes"
-Ch. 25 of user OXBastetXO's A Shot in the Dark (Stargate Atlantis)

"When the Cat Is Away, the Students Dance on Legolas’s Undergarments"
-Ch. 38 of user Camilla Sandman's (aka Miss Cam) Once More Into the Urple Depths of OFUM (Lord of the Rings)

That'll be all for now. Don't worry, more strange things as well as me stories to run rampant in the future! (nod nod) Thanks fer paying meh blather any heed, fellow writers, and I shall shut up now. ;-)

Remember: "We are Wraith. We shall always feed."