Hello, my name is swartzvald and I'm a "shipper" and I'm a guy! I understand that's fairly rare, or at least that's what it seems like, lessee literary influences? largely comic fantasy Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett with a smattering of Simon R. Green (who isn't comic fantasy but is none the less one of my favorites who I heartily recommend if you haven't heard of him.)

I have a weird relationship with the series I write about: I only write about shows that annoy me in some way, it's kind of odd.

anywho couples i support:

Ryoga/Ukyo: Ranma 1/2 (duh...I could go on a whole long scree about this but I think its annoying when other people do that, so doing it myself would be slightly hypocritical)

Neji/Tenten:Naruto ( they just go well together, at least in fan-fiction, canon Tenten is a bit of a blank slate.)

Seres/Alucard:Hellsing (there's a whole Master/servant D/s thing going on there. It's sort of hot.)

Ichigo/Tatsuki (Bleach) (This couple hits all my weak points, childhood freinds, tomboy, underused backgroud charachter, It's uncanny.)

MShep/Ashley (Mass Effect) I've done all the romantic intrests for both the games and Ashley is still my favorite, was very dissapointed in her role in the second game, almost annoys me enough to write a story for it...

there are lots more but this is too long already, on to the next bit!

things I dislike:

RY or UK with anybody else, seriously, it causes me actual physical discomfort, so just don't do it!

high school fics; I've always thought that one of the advantages of the linear progression of time is that I am constantly getting further away from high school.

yoai; shudder

Yuri; I was surprised too,

Retcons; (lets change everything about the characters except the names, wheee..).if you want to write an original story, don't post it here, it belongs on fictionpress.net.

ok I'm done,

go, read something...

I've got fanart! FangirlLynHibiki did this pic of ch 8 http://fangirllynhibiki.deviantart.com/art/No-Depression-Bath-112411626