how many miles to babylon?
three score miles and ten.
can i get there by candlelight?
aye, and back again.
if your feet are nimble and light,
you'll get there by candlelight.
Random stuff that you probably don't care to read about but volunteered yourself for by opting to view my profile:
Name: Kaye (but you may address me as 'Admiral')
Fandoms: Naruto, Bleach, FAKE, Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, Firefly
Location: Watch 'Napoleon Dynamite' and you'll know.
Music: 30 Seconds To Mars, Sick Puppies, My Chemical Romance, Panic! At The Disco, Regina Spektor, The Killers, Third Eye Blind, Goo Goo Dolls, Damien Rice, Roisin Murphy, Better Than Ezra...
Movies: The Karate Kid (1, 2, 3, and 4), Moulin Rouge, The Illusionist, Serenity, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, Alexander, Smoke Signals, Constantine, Zoolander, Mystery Men, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride...
Authors: Holly Black, Phillip Pullman, Ray Bradbury, Ellen Hopkins, Milan Kundera, Charles de Lint, Maurice Sendak...
Random quote:
"Wait . . . what happens when you press L and R?" - Julianna (a.k.a. The Mathletic Inferno)
"I'm expressing myself! I'm expressing myself!" - Hayden
"Liar, liar pantalones en fuego!" - Some football player in my Spanish 2 class
What's that? You want to know about some of the pairings I ship?
NARUTO:
(Yaoi)
Sasuke X Naruto
Gaara X Neji
Kakashi X Iruka
(Yuri)
Sakura X Ino
Temari X Tenten
(Het)
Shikamaru X Temari
Kiba X Hinata
Neji X Tenten
Ino X Sai
Ino X Chouji
Kurenai X Asuma
Sakura X Gaara
BLEACH
(Yaoi)
Ichigo X Renji
Ichigo X Uryu
(Yuri)
Orihime X Tatsuki
I heart . . .
Writing. It's been a huge part of my life for as long as I can remember. Hey, maybe you'll even see my books on shelves one day!
Art. I can't draw to save my life, but if any of my fics inspire you, please send me a link to what you've created, so that I might bask in its awesome-ness and share it with others through my profile. I've always wanted to collaborate with someone on a doujinshi . . . anyone interested? Send me a message and we'll talk a bit.
Friendship. It's just about my favorite thing ever, for true! I couldn't live without my friends, all of whom are extremely dear to me. You know, the whole friendship-thing is probably why I'm such a huge fan of Naruto. The bonds that tie us together are a major part of the story. Shikamaru and Chouji, Sakura and Ino, Kakashi and Obito . . . deep-rooted bonds! Friendship! Yosh! Sasuke and Naruto have a particularly special bond that I won't go into here because you probably already know all about it and thinking about their friendship makes me cry. I'm tearing-up a little right now just thinking about it . . .
Music. My iPod and I are tight like licorice. I sing in one of the four choral ensembles of my high school, and I've been singing on-stage in talent shows, choir concerts and 7th-grade musicals since I was eight years old.
Reviews. Yes, I know, shameless self-promotion. No matter how many views one of my fanfictions gets, it just isn't as satisfying as a real, substantial review. If you take the time to read one of my fics, please take another few seconds to leave a quick review.
Embarassing facts about me so that you might have a hearty chuckle . . .
I can't ride a bike. Yes, I know it's outrageous. Yes, I know it's embarassing. Yes, I know if there was a zombie invasion and all forms of motorized transportation were rendered useless and, in order to save my life, I had to either run like crazy or hop on a bike, I would be able to do neither (I tend to trip when running under pressure) and would be promptly eaten and/or zombie-fied.
I can't swim. There is a logical explination for this: I don't go near large bodies of water because I can't swim. I can't swim because I don't go near large bodies of water. It's a vicious circle, I know. My experiences with water consist of kiddie-pools in the summer, heavy rainfall, baths (showers make me feel like I'm drowning, so I try to avoid them when possible) and drinking water to prevent dehydration and/or death. I kid you not when I say that every single friend of mine that knows I can't swim has promised to take me to the lake in the summer and teach me. Every. Single. One. As you might've guessed, it's never happened.
I have three Pokemon CDs on my iPod and listen to them regularly. I pride myself on being one of the last true Pokemaniacs. In case you're wondering, the CDs in question are a mixed-CD I got from my sister that I fondly refer to as the Pokemix, the soundtrack for Pokemon: The First Movie, and the mystical, magical CD that I got at Wal-Mart, Pokemon X: 10 Years of Pokemon. One night, when I thought I was all alone in my room, I was listening to my iPod --- specifially, the Billy Crawford version of the first Pokemon theme. Little did I know that, as I was rocking out, my mother was watching me from the doorway. Apparantly, the sight of me dancing and singing along was amusing --- that is, until I launched into an air-guitar version of the guitar solo . . . that was when she stopped me.
I once tried to snort a Pixie Stick. I'm telling you this so that you might be informed on the dangers of Pixie Stix. They're like crack for children! I don't advise trying to snort one . . . it burns like nothing else, and you'll sneeze blue for a week. I also don't reccomend mixing them with Coca-Cola. It doesn't taste as good as you might imagine.
Can you say, "A soundtrack of sorts for And Though You May Have Butchered Us"? I think you can!
As the heading suggests, this is where I will keep a track-list for the music referenced and/or featured in And Though You May Have Butchered Us. It will be updated in tandmen with each chapter posted, for those of you that want to download the soundtrack, wink-wink.
#1) "Bethamphetamine (Pretty Pretty)" Butch Walker And The Lets Go Out Tonites
#2) "Camisado" Panic! At The Disco
#3) "Doll Parts" Hole
#4) "White Rabbit" Jefferson Airplane
#5) "Teenagers" My Chemical Romance
#6) "White Houses" Vanessa Carlton
Let's talk about fanfictions:
Chapter Fics:
The Thirty Mile Fire: No, I haven't given up on this fanfiction. I'm just currently waging war with my anti-muse and will get back to it. Eventually.
And Though You May Have Butchered Us: Chapters 1-thru-5 posted. In the way of Chapter 6 (which I'm currently working on), I have one word of description to get you excited: sleep-over.
One-Shots and Drabbles: I started writing a Zuko/Sokka fic a few days ago. It's currently resisting my various attempts to write it, but I'm sure that it will tire eventually. There's hope for the future! I've also got a Sakura-centric fic in the works, as well as a Sasuke/Naruto. If you add in all the plot-bunnies I'm struggling with in regards to the Connections series, I'm going to be a very busy girl over the next couple of weeks.
The "Connections" Series:
Section #1: The Background!
So, I've been doing a bit of thinking, and I've decided that, as soon as the final part of Blue Ruin is posted, I'm going to start work on another fanfiction that takes place in the same universe. I've got plans for several two or three-part fanfictions (the length depends on many variables, it seems), all of which will take place in the same universe and have various connections to each other; hence the title of this little series. If the fics turn out the way I want them to, then each one will expand upon the one that came before it, if only slightly.
Anyway, I'll probably keep a list of the fics in their chronological order (that is, the order they were written in) so you can keep it all straight. I hope this sounds like as grand a time to you as it does to me!
Section #2: The List!
#1) Blue Ruin. Three-part. Shikamaru X Ino and Shikamaru X Temari.
Some more of that sweet, sweet randomness:
01.14.08 - This will sound a little odd compared to my usual profile-tangents, but a very sad thing occured today. This afternoon I learned that a boy that attends my school, Lane, died early this morning. He had been battling cancer for a long time and recently took a turn for the worse. I didn't know Lane, but I know people who did. He was very popular, it seems, and many people were either absent or struggling through their classes crying today. There's something very numbing about this news. I'm not sure why it's affecting me as much as it is. The only good thing that I can take out of this is that on Friday, our school won the "Fight for the Fish"; a yearly basketball game against our rival high school that's more about good sportsmanship and school spirit than it is about the actual game. It's a very important event, and I was pleased to hear that Lane was presented with the Fish on Saturday. I can only hope that it gave him a little joy before he passed. I'm sure that I'll be thinking about Lane for a very long time.
11.15.07 - I absolutely adore the new Stats feature here at FF.net! I check my user and story stats every now and then, and, today, I was very pleased to discovered that three of my fanfiction (Different in the Moonlight, Do You Know That You're Beautiful?, The Thirty Mile Fire, and And Though You May Have Butchered Us) all have over 1,000 hits! I've been squeeing with joy ever since I found out, and will probably continue to do so over the weekend! Thanks, guys! You've made a fanfiction author very, very happy!
10.27.07 - For some reason or another, I haven't been keeping up with the new season of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I totally spaced on it for a long time, and only started watching again this morning (I set up this week's episode to record and finally got around to watching it). So I suffered all the way through Book Three, Episode Five, "The Beach", wanting to harm myself the whole time. As the end credits rolled, I found myself groaning, "Why me?! Why me specifically?!"
My reason for all of this angst? Avatar has seriously gone downhill. These are the horrors I witnessed in just one episode:
#1) Mai and Zuko as a couple. There was a brief re-cap of the two of them sitting on the beach. Zuko turned to Mai and said, "You're so beautiful when you hate the world," to which Mai replied, "I don't hate you." "I don't hate you either," said Zuko. Cue passionate kissing that made me gag.
#2) The Out-Of-Characterness. In "The Beach", Azula was portrayed as a lonely, mildly apologetic girl that just wants a boyfriend and managed to screw it up for herself (for the love of God, she and that Chan guy were kissing after less than two-minute's conversation!). Zuko was a foxy, muscular hottie with shaggy hair that all the girls went crazy for and was extremely jealous when it came to his girlfriend. Ty Lee... well, she was actually fairly in-character, considering how little we've seen of her. Very few complaints on that front. Mai was as indifferent and bored as ever, except this time, she had a boyfriend that she had the audacity to try and break up with. The nerve! The gall!
#3) Near the end of the episode, Zuko, Azula, Mai and Ty Lee all sat around a fire and angsted together. They poured their hearts out and revealed all of the secrets of their troubled childhoods and why they're all as freakin' crazy as they are. Zuko actually had the line, "I'm angrier than ever and I don't know why!" By the end of the episode, they all seemed to have talked through their emotional issues and may even be able to function as human beings in future installments. Am I the only person who sees something dreadfully wrong here? Oh, Zuko... you used to come in 31 flavors of angst... now what do you have?! Nothing!
This statement may be a bit over-dramatic and premature, and I may retract it in the future, but, as it stands today, I am no longer a fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
9.15.07 - I started school last week. I'm a freshman this year (oh, joy...). Though I'm quite pleased that I've been making it to all of my classes on time, I'm still lamenting the absence of all my dear, dear friends that happen to be attending a different high school. More than anyone, I've been missing Julianna Kamps (see her quote above), whom you may or not know as The Mathletic Inferno. She's the best friend I've ever, ever had, and the best friend I ever, ever hope to have. We talk on the phone almost every night, so it's not like we're doing some dramatic drifiting-apart... it's just wierd, not having her around. I'll have to get used to not having someone to talk to every time I have something to angst about during the school-day... On the upside, I've made a few new friends:
Shelby - Emo extrodinaire. She has this awesome pair of pants... they're black with shiny chains dangling from them that jingled together when she walks... they're so large-and-in-charge! I lurve them! I lurve them with a U-R!
Hayden - Quite frankly, he's the cutest thing since Hello Kitty. I must've looked extremely pathetic last Wednesday in gym class; because he felt prompted to approach me and introduce himself (Bless him! Bless his little heart!), and now, tada!, we're friends! The Homecoming game/dance is this weekend, and he spent all of Friday carring around a big blue pompom (blue and white are our school colors) and 'instilling school spirit' by smacking people in the face with it. Oddly enough, after he smacked me, I did feel a small surge of spirit... and a small urge to take his pompom away. Throughout the day, you could hear Hayden shouting as he waved his pompom: "I've got spirit! How about you?"
8.06.07 - I've been working hard on And Though You May Have Butchered Us, as well as on some original work that will probably never see the light of day. I recently finished Black Like Me and am wondering whether or not I'll be able to suffer through all 400 pages of Ivanhoe... In addition to this, I learned yesterday that my very dearest friend will be gasp! attending another high school in the fall (which is all-too-rapidly approaching). After taking this new information into account, it seems to me that - seeing how just about everyone that I enjoy the company of will be attending another school - I will have virtually no friends. This is horrible because, though I don't have much trouble actually making friends, I seem to be a freak-magnet, and will most likely attract all kinds of strange folk. I hope I can find some emos to hang around with... Oh, what am I doing?! I shouldn't be unloading all of my angst onto you poor people who have stumbled across my profile! I really need to get a Livejournal... Oh, and one more side-note: the rhyme I just added to the top of my profile is courtesy of Mother Goose. Forgive my lack of captials - I thought it would be nice to mix things up a little bit.
7.05.07 - Well, I'm finally updating my profile, even though, in all likelyhood, no one will ever read it. Depressing thoughts aside, I'm having a very good day. Why, you ask? It seems as though they actually make T-shirts that say 'I LOVE JARED LETO' on them! For those of you that don't know this, Jared Leto (lead singer of 30 Seconds To Mars and actor in such films as 'Alexander', 'Panic Room', 'Requiem For A Dream' and 'Girl, Interrupted') is my passion. I plan to marry him as soon as it's legal (of course, we could just move to Canada...) whether he likes it or not. Of course, by the time I'm 18 he'll be 40, but if he's still as much of a smexicle by that time then I'm not worried.
I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.
I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.
I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.
We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.
I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.
I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.
I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.
We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.
I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.
I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.
I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didn’t have to always deal with society hating me.
I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.
I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love
.:Repost this if you believe homophobia is wrong:.
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