Hmm, what to say?

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.

SOMETHING WHICH IS AWSEOME: Whateley Academy

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. It updates weekly, and the whole universe weighs in at over a million words.

http://www.crystalhall.org/

Hellfire Days and Wild Knights is on hiatus. I still have the plot outlined, and half a chapter written, but my writing and taste have evolved to the point where I'm not happy with the story at all. If I do continue it, I'll first have to rewrite it.

.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

In Progress: Magical Effect, A Nanoha/Mass Effect crossover. This story is posted over at Spacebattles.com, but I'm not posting it here untill I'm sure I'm happy with it. Still, you can find it here:

http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=183295

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. Consistently exceptional writing, combined with an excelent plot. Change a few names, and the Author could have published this story professionally.

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/seifertv/toth/The very first fic I ever read. It's a Ranma 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 Gold Diggers fics. Seriously, since Marvel started doing mega-crossovers every 6 months, Gold Digger has become my favorite comic. Yet there is almost no fanfiction for it here- though there is quite a bit on Anime Adventure.

General Musings:

Villains. Every show, book and game has them. After all, conflict is what keeps a story going. Sometimes those Villains are people, some times they're something else- like a plague or a storm. But the Villain, whatever they are, is the source of the conflict, and as such they are at the very heart of the story.

So I hate the fact that so many Villains, to put it frankly, suck. Even those that couldn't have been taken out of an 80's children's cartoon are still usually an embarrassment.

A Villain is suppost to be a threat. Maybe to the hero's life, maybe to his happiness, but at the end of the day, a Villain needs to be someone or something that the hero has a good reason to want to defeat, and he needs to be dangerous enough to explain why he hasn't already LOST- but he also needs a good explanation for why he hasn't already WON.