
"Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person"
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another, each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object. Philosophically considered, therefore, the two passions seem essentially the same, except that one happens to be seen in a celestial radiance and the other in a dusky and lurid glow."
-The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthore
News:
Interesting addition to my fictional harem...
-7/7/08
Shippings:
I am a HUGE JOTT fan. (For those of you who don't know, that's Jean and Scott from the X-Men).I'm also a HUGE CxC supporter (again, Cornelia and Caleb from W.I.T.C.H.). In regards to Twilight, I ship EdwardxBella (because I want Jake for myself :D)
About the Name:
The origin of the name 'strayphoenix' is this: As most people do, I have an alter-me. She's a mutant (Mary-Sue I might add) that lives in the X-Men universe by the name of Stray. Cat humanoid, looks like me, Scott's adoptive sister and host to a cosmic entity similar to the Phoenix. Fun stuff, you should check out my brain one day. Anyway, 'stray' was taken so I went with my two favorite X-Men combined and henceforth developed 'strayphoenix'. As an after thought, it also plays into the concept of Jean as the 'Rouge Phoenix' and it still allowed me to sign my reviews as 'stray' :)
Favorites:
Officially, I have two favorite books, both tied in first place :). They are "A Ring of Endless Light" by Madeline L'Engle and "The Dream Thief" by Shana Abe. I HIGHLY recommend them both. "Wuthering High" and its sequels, "The Scarlet Letterman" and "Moby Clique", by Cara Lockwood come at a close second. Again, highly recommended for all fanfiction authors who want to consider writing. "Twilight", "New Moon", "Eclipse" and whatever else Stephanie Meyer comes up with are up here too. The Harry Potter series is a given. Finally, I must say I'm a Gallager Girl too and love the world Ally Carter has come up with!
My favorite X-man of all time is Phoenix. I hate Emma. (srry Emma fans...if there are any) My second favorite X-Man is X-23 and my third is Cyclops. Favorite W.I.T.C.H. characters in order are Cornelia, Caleb, and Will. Twilight: (besides Edward and Bella) Jacob, Jasper and Angela.
My favorite things of all time are: doing anything related to my fanfic categories, Runaways, Wicked the book as well as the musical,writing fanfiction, and anything and everything that Joss Whedon has done, is doing, and will ever do.
The LIST:
I have compiled a list of all my fictional husbands (with probably more to come):
1. Zane from The Dream Thief (the one and only :D)
2. Heathcliff from Wuthering High (novel, not movie. maybe him in Heights too but haven't gotten far enough to tell yet)
3. Caleb from W.I.T.C.H. (I'll take either one :D)
4. Edward Cullen from Twilight (again, one and only. meeeow!)
5. Chase Stein from Runaways (how can you not love him?)
6. Adam Eddington from A Ring of Endless Light (too cute for his own good. and an animal lover besides)
7. Scott Summers from X-Men (not so much comics but more of evolution and movie. If it were to be in comics, before Emma affair)
8. Fiyero from Wicked the Musical (he's different in the books. like 'em both)
9. Ron Weasley from Harry Potter (Rupert Grint is my hero! Hermione's so damn lucky...)
10. Jacob Black from Twilight (I've discovered lots of you hate him after Eclipse. I love hime more!)
11. Simon Tam from firefly/Serenity (HOW did I forget him! Who CANT fall in love with a sexy space doctor?)
12. With his permission, koolkame is now in my harem! Well, his fictional self, anyway. MUCH LOVE!
Links to Awesomeness:
Check me out on deviantart here: www.strayphoenix.deviantart.com and on fictionpress here: www.fictionpress.com/~strayphoenix
Myl avatar image is provided to you courtesy of mehcouchi aka itsa-fact found here: www.mehcouchi.deviantart.com and www.itsa-fact.deviantart.com
My brother and I have an account that we share and we'll be posting Charmed fanfiction there. Check it out here: whitexslayer
Charming Mutants: There's a new demon in town and the Charmed Ones are going to need all the fire power they can get. And what they get, in twist of fate, is Phoenix Firepower. XMen/Charmed crossover.
When pottersmistress6391 and I post our joint story, "The Importance of Being Harry", it'll be here under this name: hermykneeandtuna.
On my deviantart page, I've posted an Original Character Interview I found online and filled out for Jessica Summers ('Grandchildren of the Atom'), Jenna Prant ('Eclipse of the Heart'), Vernacula ('Vernacula'), Ivan Madrox ('Grandchildren of the Atom'), and Valin ('Vernacula'). Feel free to leave a comment there if you have a deviantart account or PM me here if you don't. Enjoy! http://www.strayphoenix.deviantart.com/journal/
The Awesome koolkame and I have an interesting sort of "OC Exchange Program" going on where original characters from our stories intermingle in both his works and mine. Vernacula and Valin (both from 'Vernacula') will be chilling out in his DJINN:The Way to Home and 'Dark Gossamer Wings'. His sexy, beautiful, and deadly Belantha (from 'Dark Goassamer Wings') will weave her way further into Vernacula soon. Check it out. For realz.
Also, for anyone who has ever seen the Hayao Miyazaki movie "Spirited Away", my good friend Kikyo-Pyroana-Sulane is writing a wonderful sequel to the movie that I'm beta-ing for her. In total honesty, I don't think Miyazaki could have done a sequel better himself :D. Check out Reign_of_the_Elements for the return of Chihiro and the spirit gang as well as some fresh new faces.
I'd just like to make a few statements on the WITCH franshise: I'm as die hard a Caleb/Cornelia fan as I am a Scott/Jean one! I've read books 1-26 and have seen the entire TV series. Will/Caleb makes my heart bleed just as badly as Scott/Emma and Hay Lin belongs with Eric and no one else! Will and Matt make a cute couple in the books and in my opinion, Irma and Taranee are up for grabs. Aldarn/Cornelia is intriguing and Elyon/Cedric is just weird (she's underage! AND he's an evil snake thing!) Magneto is worse of a villian than Phobos but he's still pretty manancing. Cedric looks sexy in human form but his snake transformation in the series in just freaky. Lastly, I think that the whole part in every TV episode where the girls go Guardian and call out their powers takes FOREVER.
Also, I would just like to comment on my feelings on next generation Guardian stories in general:
1. It is illogical to think that all five WITCH girls will have daughters
2. It is illogical to think that all five WITCH girls will have kids at all
3. It is also illogical to think that all five WITCH girls 15-20 years into the future will marry boyfriends they had when they were twelve and thirteen
4. It is illogical to think that all five WITCH girls will get married at all
5. It is illogical to think that all five next generation Guardians will have any relationship at all with WITCH
(that was the case with CHYKN with the exception of Yan Lin)
6. It is illogical to think that all five next generation Guardians will even be from Earth. There are infinite dimensions (Ex. Orube)
7. (sigh) However, since this is a fictional cartoon and next generation stories are fictions based on these fictional cartoons, logic really has no play in it at all and you can do whatever the hell you want. This is probably just me :P
8. If your looking for good ones though, ‘Guardians of Eos’, ‘POWER’, and ‘DJINN: The Way to Home’ are exceptional in addition to my own, ‘Eclipse of the Heart’.
Now, my favorite quotes from my favorite things (mentioned above :D)
X-Men
Emma: There hasn't been enough time for grass to grow on her grave before that tart has the audacity to come back to life! ...Again!
Scott: That 'tart' is my wife.
Beast: She's got a point Scott. Jean usually has the fortitue to stay dead for at least a year before coming back.
Collossus: I was dead for five!
Scott: Let's not get into that again.
-Phoenix Rising (animated spoof on Phoenix Endsong by Matt Gardner on newgrounds.com)
X23: I can do the pipeline too.
Lorna: You surf?
X23: No, I can kill you five different ways in the constrictions of an underground pipeline.
-My Story, Just Friday (to be published)
W.I.T.C.H.
Taranee: Guys! Trouble!
Cornelia: We're 800 feet underground in a prison guarded by man-eating cockroaches. How could there possibly be trouble?
-Season One, Escape From Cavigor
Caleb: I thought you’d gotten over your ‘assassinate me in my sleep’ phase
Valin: Well, duh! You’re not, like, sleeping are you?
-My Story, 'Vernacula'
firefly
Inara: I can't guarantee they'll handle it particularly well, but...
Nandi: If they've got guns and brains at all...
Inara: (thinking) They've got guns...
-Heart of Gold, Season 1
Zoe: If I'm going to wear a dress, I want one with some slink.
Wash: You want a slinky dress, I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress?
Jayne: I'll chip in.
Zoe: (through her smile, to Jayne) I can hurt you.
-Shindig, Season 1
Serenity
Simon: (to River) If there's any fighting, you fall down or run away.
(pause; regarding the rest of the crew)
Simon: It's okay to leave them to die
Simon: In all that time on the ship... I've always regretted... not being with you.
Kaylee: With me? You mean to say... as in sex?
Simon: (smiles kindly) I mean to say.
Kaylee: To Hell with this! (cocks gun) I'm gonna live!
Runaways
Getrude: (after kissing Chase) I was reventilating him. Anyone who says otherwise gets fed to my 'F'ing dinosaur.
-Volume 1, Issue 16
Gert: I tried to raise Old Lace to be just like me and now she really is!
Chase: Jewish?
-X-Men/Runaways 1 (Free Comic Book Day)
The Dream Thief
"How long have you known?"
"Precisely as long as you have," she retorted. "Approximately two and one-half hours. So sorry, it seeems my timepiece was recently incinerated. I suppose it might be a tad longer"
-Zane and Lia, pg 125
"My dowry is thirty-five thousand pounds...a year"
His brows climbed. "You're joking."
"I would never joke about money with a notorius thief. Just image, in a mere two years you're at a profit."
"How I adore a woman who does mathematics in her head."
"I can forge signatures as well."
"Splendid. Exactly the bride I've been hoping for."
-Lia and Zane, pg 272
Twilight
Edward: And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...
Bella: What a stupid lamb.
Edward: What a sick, masochistic lion.
-TwilightEmmett: Hey, Bella! Fall down again?
Bella: No, Emmett. I punched a werewolf in the face.
-Eclipse Edward: Well, I figured if I'm going to Hell, I might as well do it thoroughly...
-Twilight
My Quotes
SP: (on phone with friend) Gee, you seem awefully happy for midterms week.
F1: (cheerfully) I'm not happy. I'm delusional from lack of sleep!
Mrs. Teacher: So do you know why I succeeded? Do you know what I had that all the other men in my class didn't?
SP: (thinking) Ovaries?
...thank you for your time.You can read my fanfictions now. :)