"Someone shoulda beat you with a tricycle years ago!"

This is Mr Light Chicken Bulbs here! Welcome to my glorious profile where you'll get to know a little about me.

Personal Crap

I'm not one of those paranoid people who are afraid to give out any personal information . I am currently 16 years of age and have just finished grade 10 of high school. My residence is in Ontario, Canada, near the GTA (if you know what that is then you'll know it's a really huge area). In my possession is a G1 driver's license, so I can drive but with a lot of restrictions on it. I'm about 5'9.5", not sure what that is in centimetres even though those are one of the units of measurement for this country. It just goes to show how much influence our neighbouring country has on our life. I'm in the 130 lbs area, an average and healthy weight.

I am a gamer and a writer, thus the reason I'm on this site to begin with. I own an N64, a PS2, a Gamecube, a Wii, a Gameboy Pocket and Colour, and a DS. That's actually very little compared to what I've seen some people owning...

My current gaming focus is Pokemon Platinum. If anyone wants to play online then send me a message.

The Name

Mr. Light Chicken Bulbs is a very strange name, isn't it? There are several factors contributing to that name.

First of all, I am a male. That is the Mr.

I had chicken for dinner the night I registered on this site, about ten minutes prior actually. This is the chicken.

I was staring at the light bulb above my head while thinking. That is the light bulbs.

Mix it up and you get Mr. Light Chicken Bulbs.

Update Rate

I have recently started to write when each chapter has been put up on my updates. Those should tell you my regular rate up uploading new chapters, but for those who don't feel like checking I update whenever I get inspiration. This could take from a few days to a few months. My chapters are usually 1500 to 2500 words, sometimes longer but never shorter (my more recent ones at least, older ones are usually around 1000-1500). I'll tell you now that I try to update as fast as possible and usually start writing the next chapter the same day the previous one is published, but if I can't get any inspiration I'll hold it off.

FanFiction Things I Hate

Badly written stories
This is probably the biggest thing I hate on the website. Stories with bad grammar, punctuation, spelling, and whatnot, it just makes things unreadable. What I hate even more are how popular some stories like this are, I've seen loved stories where the author doesn't even do speech right. You use a comma at the end of speech if it's leading into "Blah said" and never a period! The stories I wrote when I was 13 may have been bland, but at least they were well written.

"You haven't wrote any stories so you can't say mine is bad"
I've seen this plenty of times in response to criticism, and every one makes me laugh. That's like saying that since I've never created a video game, I can't say that ET was a bad game. You don't need to have done something to be able to criticize it, you just need to know what's good and what isn't.

Polls
Ugh, I hate polls. Sure, it appeases the majority, but personally I like it when I'm in control of my own story. This one is more of a personal preference, I'm not saying polls are bad, I just don't like them myself.

Unconfident authors
"My first story, please be nice." If the author says in their summary or anywhere else that even they aren't confident in the story that they've posted then I'm not bothering to read it. Why should I be confident in something that even the person who made it isn't fully supporting? If you think it's bad enough to have criticism, don't post it. You should be fully confident in what you've written, not think that it will be put down.

The FanFiction clichés
How I hate these so... These are concepts that are so overused and so bland that just having them can ruin a story. They are things that started off okay but were never really great, but now so many stories find the need to have these unrealistic things as plot devices. I'll let you identify these on your own.

Random Japanese in English stories
This is very common in the Anime section. For some reason, people decide to put random Japanese words into characters sentences or even entire phrases for no reason, even though the story has been completely English up to this point. WHY?! It doesn't make you look smart, it doesn't make the story better, it is annoying. They're almost always translated in brackets or at the bottom of the chapter, so what's the point when you could have just as easily said it in English? It's distracting, especially if you have to scroll to the bottom of the chapter because a character decided to say an entire sentence in Japanese... WHY?!

Bland, unrealistic characters
Otherwise known as one dimensional characters with forced dialogue. This ties in with badly written stories. This is when characters an situations are so flat and boring and forced that it makes you hate the story. I've seen a story where someone had to kill their spouse and next paragraph they had barely reacted at all. Concepts that also fall under this section are when things are all dialogue and actions with pretty much no emotions from the characters.

Authors who don't care about the readers
I get really confused when this happens. Sometimes some authors say stuff like they don't care what you say, or actually insult the reader when they're trying to discourage flamers. No matter what your intentions are, you can't make the reader hate you! The point of stories are to entertain the reader!

Every story must have a romance!
Not every story requires a romance! If it fits it should have it, but sometimes not only are romantic relationships completely out of place and unnecessary, but they seem like they were thrown in at the last moment. I have seen very good stories where the romance is so sudden in the last few chapters and completely out of place. It just seems to happen because the author wanted it. Sometimes the characters had only had one or two interactions even!

Criticism=Flaming
This is when a writer receives criticism and, instead of taking it into consideration or even just making any form of polite reply, they go over the top and talk as though they were just flamed or insult the critic. I see this so much, and it really pisses me off. No one is perfect, so if someone gives advice don't flip out on them and make a multiple paragraph author note making this person seem like the worst person on the planet while ignoring the things they pointed out.

Remember that this is my personal list, on my personal profile. I'm just venting rage on these hated subjects so if I somehow angered someone I apologize.

And yes, I'm not making up most of the unnamed example stories mentioned. I have read one or more stories like those mentioned.

To Do List

-Finish 'things I hate' list