Fanfiction Dictionary for Newbies

AU - alternate universe. This basically means that it can't relate to the TV series in ayway .eg highschool fics and vampire fics
Boy love- gay-ness
ff - lesbian romace
fm - straight romance
Flames - evil reviews
Gary stu - overly perfect male characater. Not really as common as mary-sues.
Girl love - lesbian-ness
Hentai - cartoon p0rn
IC - in character
Incest - really does mean incest. Romance between siblings
Lemon - explicit sex
Lime - not-so-explicit sex
Mary-sue - overly perfect female characters. Each category has a different kind of mary-sue e.g. a beyblade mary-sue will come from that abbey and has a bad past and is a splitting image of Kai.
mm - gay romance
Mpreg - male pregnancy
OC- own character (an authors creation)
OOC - out of character
POV - point of veiw
R + R - read and review
Shoujo ai (sp?) - girl love (lesbian fluff)
Shounen ai - boy love (gay fluff)
Slash - gay or lesbian romance
Yaoi - gay p0rn
Yuri - lesbian p0rn

I hope this helps. (If you spot any mistakes in the definitions leave me a PM.) PS, most of these topics were read by mistake, fanfiction can be evil if you don't know the lingo. Thanks to MommyRogers for telling me what Lemon and Lime meant.

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Zuko and Iroh
DBZ -Piccolo and Gohan friendships
Beyblade -Kai

Check out my favourites list. Most of them are non-slash or have no romance at all. All of the Avatar and DBZ fics listed there are definetly worth reading but you may need to leaf through the beyblade ones.

Current Stories

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Still Here
This is basically a fic based on Zuko's and Iroh's relationship. (Warnings for violence and character death)

The Stranger
A re-write of the episode Zuko Alone but entirely from Li's POV with a few twists of my own.

Amber Stare
Jet's first impression of Zuko and Iroh.

No-one Knows
How Aang and Zuko are actually really similar.

Two Flames
Jeong Jeong's POV. A short glance at when and how Jeong Jeong desserted the Fire Nation but the main storyline is about how Iroh and Zuko stumble into his camp and tell him that fire isn’t as bad as it seems.

No Regrets
Ozai's POV on Zuko. Zuko has been captured and now waits at his father's feet for sentencing. A one-shot on how Ozai feels about the man he once called 'son'. Keep an open mind people. Ozai may not be loving but he's still a father no matter how he acts and besides, not all the times Zuko spent with him were bad. (Warning for character death)

Beyblade (I am completely over beyblade so don't expect anymore fics on it)

For anyone who cares or used to read Spirits Within, I've taken it down. It was an imature, stupid, badly writen load of rubbish and now just thinking about it makes me feel sick. I'm onto more in-depth work now (I hope it's in-depth at least). Thank you so much for your support. You're reveiws made me smile so much and it was a dream come true when I hit 100. Thanks a bunch.

The Song of a Falling Pheonix
A load of angst poetry. I don't have the heart to take it down or re-read it so I can't remember much about it. Again, thanks for all the support on it but I've become lazy and unable to continue anything that I haven't written in one go.

I've got a few more Avatar one-shots on the way

Gentle as a Kitten
My first attempt at a humour! Iroh's POV. Iroh meets six-year old Zuko for the first time but the young prince is proving to be quite a handful.

Boys Still Cry (title may be changed)
Zuko's POV. My take on the 'what-if-Iroh-died-and-the-Avatar-was-nearby' scenario. Trust me though, it's not the same old cliche.

Blood is Thicker than Water (title may be changed)
Zuko's POV. Azula is dying and Zuko realises his true feelings about her but as always, Iroh is by his side for support.

Follow Beside (title may be changed)
Adult Zuko's POV. A continuation of Boys Still Cry but 10 years post-series. Zuko's all grown up now but he hasn't become anything grand like Fire Lord or Leader of the Rebels. He's just a simple messenger who's last errand is to take a 14 year old boy to his mother but when they arrive at her village, they find the Fire Nation has destroyed everything.

Fanstuff

Fanart
As well as an wanabe author I'm also a wanabeartist. If you are a fan of Kai (beyblade) or Zuko and Iroh (avatar) check out my homepage.
www.fanart-central.com is quite a good site. You may not find pictures that you're looking for and the not all the art is of high standards but is rated well with warnings for things like yaoi, nudity, violence and a lot of other things so its youth friendly. Also the site is really friendly too.

Fan vids
www.animemusicvidoes.org is a great site to download AMVs from.
www.youtube.com is also a great site to watch episodes that you've missed. You don't have to be a member to watch them. It takes time to leaf through them all but it's worth it. For all you Avatar fans, every episode aired so far is on that site if you keep searching. I'm also a memember and I've done quite a few Avatar vids.
Check them out: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=stormofinsanity

Fansites (avatar related)
www.firebender.com is the best site every made. Again for the Avatar fans. It has screenshots of every episode air. You could literally make a flickbook of every episode.
www.avatarspirit.net is awsome too. Its got the latest avatar info and transcripts of almost all the eps.
www.bluespiritgal.com has links to almost all the avatar episodes aired on youtube.

oxoxoxo

C2

If anyone's interested, I have a C2 dedicated to friendship and family stories of all lengths and characters but no romance. All of the ratings are below M and there's no mention of rape, incest, slash, Mpreg or lemon. If you'd like to join my staff to track down all these well written pieces. Drop me a PM.