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I have terrible spelling, always have, since back when I was 10, reading at a 16 year old level and spelling at a 7 year old level. I'm improving, slowly. Punctuation, on the other hand, is slightly above average.

Favorite Tv Shows: Heroes, Firefly, Star Trek (Ds9 and Enterprise), Big Bang Theory, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Torchwood, Doctor Who (Especially the new episodes- I've never been scared by a Dalek until the episode 'Dalek').

Favorite Manga: Ranma, Gold Diggers, Psychic Academy, The All-new Tenchi Muyo! and the original Ghost in the Shell

Favorite Cartoons: X-men- Evolution, Wolverine and the X-men, Avatar: The Last Airbender, South Park, DCAU (Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman, Static Shock, Teen Titans, Batman: Beyond, The Zeta Project)

Favorite Books: Battletech, Perry Rhodan, His Dark Materials and anything by David Eddings, Terry Brooks, Anne McCafrey

Favorite Anime: Negima!, Negima!?, Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell, Kiddy Grade, Cromarte High, Slayers, Macross Frontier, Digimon Tamers, Gundam Seed (I actually downloaded it- decided it was awesome, and three days later went out and bought the DVD box set. Even though I paid 120 for something I had gotten for free, it was worth it- it's really that good)

Favorite Games: Final Fantasy 4,5,7,8,9,10,X-2, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Galactic Civilizations 2: Dread Lords, Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries/Black Knight/Vengeance, Halo series, Half series Life, World Of Warcraft, Pokémon, The World Ends With You

Least Favorite Things: The Spiderman Movies, Harry Potter movies, Rap, Reality television, religious intolerance, hatefics.

Most awaited things: Kiddy Grade 2, Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0, The Subtle Knife(movie)

Things which I thought would suck but didn't: The Golden Compass (I expected this movie to suck harder than the first Harry Potter movie. It was a book I grew up with, and I expected the movie to be an hour and a half of sodomising my childhood love, like the Transformers movie. It wasn’t. The plot was great, the scripting was great, the actors were AMAZING, and it really FELT like the Northern Lights), The Dark Knight

Things which People hate but aren’t actually that bad: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
People like to bash this movie. They say it sucked, that the dialogue was shit, and it was just a brainless action movie. NEWSFLASH: It’s a movie based on a cartoon about talking robots which are also cars. You’re not going to be able to make that deep and meaningful no matter how hard you try. The movie was, frankly, better than I thought it could be, and it fixed all the problems I had with the first movie.

I can usually be found at http://www.Fukufics.com, under the same name as here. I always post my fics there for C&C about three days before I post them here.

SOMETHING WHICH IS AWSEOME: Whately

http://www.crystalhall.org/

Crystalhall was actually a collaboration by seven transgender (no, keep reading, trust me) authors, writing a superhero round robin.

What they did was dream up a world- a world Marvel would be proud to call their own. Unlike Marvel or DC, they planned things out from the start. What powers can do. How they work. How they interact with society.

They figured out a way for mad scientists to be able to create such amazing inventions, yet not have those inventions able to be copied all over the world. They worked super powers into the history of their world, and the natural repercussions they had on history. They had a good reason for code names. They took the government into account.

The result is actually pretty awesome. There are about 11 authors there now, and they coordinate very well. Check it out if you want something to read- you won’t regret it.

http://www.crystalhall.org/

Hellfire Days and Wild Knights is my main story, and will be getting the most attention.

Note: due to university, my writing has slowed considerably. I do still work on my stuff though, I haven’t given up.

.WOW//SIGN is on hiatus, indefinitely. I had a whole chapter ready to go, and some punk stole my laptop- with my disk of .hack//SIGN in the drive! Unless someone can point me in the direction of transcripts of the first 5 episodes, there is almost no chance of me being able to continue it.

Growing of a SeeD is currently suffering from writers block. I know where I want to go, but right now it's like doing a pressup- I know I should be able to, but for the life of me I can't manage it.

Wildhorse-verse: A set of stories set in a post- DCAU world, Anime mega crosover.

WildHorse, the Man of Steel

Batwoman: Legacy

Cheetah: The Flash

There are a hell of a lot of good fics out there that arn't on Fanfiction.net. Hell, I read dozens of good fics before I came to this site.

http://www.shadowchronicles.net/ This is the single best fic, EVER. It's a Ranma story, though the latest arc, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, is a VERY good Sailor Moon Crossover. I cannot stress enough how good this guy is, even if you just skip to the last arc.

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/seifertv/toth/The very first fic I ever read. It's a manga continuation, the most believable ever- it sticks to the spirit of the manga.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050305181217/http://www.fire.duncanz.com/ Fire has retired from writing fics, but you can find them archived here. Look out for his Sailor Moon/Wheel of Time crossover espicially. He's also the guy who started the Sailor Ranko series, which at least four authors have continued.

http://www.mediaminer.org/fanfic/view_st.php/73869/1 A damn good Ranma/X-men crossover. Best i've ever seen.

Things I'd like to see:

More Wheel of Time crossovers with well, anything, I've seen a coupple of good Buffy crossovers, a Sailor moon, one or two Ranma's.

More Gold Diggers fics.

More Teen Titans fics featuring Terra(in character)

A Ranma/Misfile (the webcomic) crossover

General Musings:

This site is Fanfiction.net. People on it publish fanfiction. Seems straight forward.

But why, then, does so little of it feel like it's written by fans?

So many stories out there are exactly the same. I don’t mean word for word identical to each other, but they all have the basic plot: Character X is underappreciated. No one likes them. Everyone uses them. Watch as Character X (who has no character faults at all) becomes insanely strong and beats up everyone who slighted them.

These aren’t written by fans. A Harry Potter story where Dumbledore is using Harry as a weapon, made sure he was abused for years to make him easer to control, Hermione and Ron don't like him, are jealous of him. A Buffy the Vampire Slayer fic where everyone treats Xander as useless, drives him away, doesn’t like him, and he gets amazing powers which he uses to kill everything that could be a threat to him while Buffy still thinks he's useless. A Ranma fic where all his fiancée’s only think of him as a possession, don't like him, his father doesn’t love him and only values him to inherit the dojo so he can mooch off him. You've seen fics like these.

And what are they? FANfics? No. They're nothing more than an outpouring of impotent adolescent angst, where the author gets to use Character X as a way of living out their own fantasy of being something other than a useless wimp, a way of blaming everyone else for the fact the author has yet to amount to anything and never will. A 50,000 word excuse to pick one character, and use them to turn every tiny flaw and error the other characters made into hulking abominations.

I'm not saying all fanfiction sucks. There are some amazing authors out there. Black Dragon6 is one of the funniest authors on the internet. Mark's Shadow Chronicles is so good that if not for coppyright isues he could publish it in stores. weebee manages to find an original twist on anything. CSS.Stravag and Crazy-88 write millitary fanfiction better than several popular published authors. Usagi-Hasano can take any series AT ALL and mix it with ANYTHING into something awesome- like taking gravel and bile, and making a delicious cake.

But there are some people- far, far too many- who think that the phrase 'fanfiction' is an excuse to shit all over something that we all love.

The Sandbox Principal:
World famous author Larry Niven is famous for his Ringworld- a giant ring orbiting a star, one million miles wide and 600 million miles long. Stretched out over this ring are millions of races of humanoid- humans who were so separated that they all evolved differently. As it’s relatively shallow, no deep mining can be done, and so the civilizations can only advance so far. Liven liked to call the Ringworld a sandbox- a place where anyone can play, and make their own story- it was just so huge that there was so much room for invention.

Now, there are dozens of anime which create a world which makes an excellent sandbox. A world, developed in just enough detail to be fun, but leaves out enough that an author can fill in the gaps however they please. Yet this world, in the anime, is populated by idiots, and the only fics people write about it are about those idiotic characters- usually pairing them up with each other. Take Zoids as an example. Two nations on a single continent, at war using giant bestial machines. No one knows what’s on the other continent. No one tells the story of the soldiers on either side. All we see are fic after fic pairing up Van with Fiona, Van with Irvine, Van with Raven or Raven with Reese.

Why?!

Sure, you could write yet another Harry Potter fic staring Harry or Ron. Sure, you could write a Naruto fic staring Naruto or Sakura. Sure, you could write a Zoids fic staring Van or Raven. But why the hell would you want to!?

Using lesser known characters like Charlie Weasley or Shino doesn’t solve this problem. Making OC’s who go to Hogwarts with Harry, go to Konoha with Naruto, that doesn’t solve the problem. Writing about Harry’s son (who naturally goes to school with the children of Ron, Hermione and Draco, and ends up dating one of them) doesn’t solve the problem.

Ok, so Harry Potter is about Hogwarts. So what? There are magic schools all around the world- invent a school, and invent a cast there. Have an OC at a DIFFERENT ninja village than Konoha. Have a cast of OC’s somewhere AWAY from the plot of the Book/Comic/Anime/Manga. It’s not hard!