My Muse sits forlorn
She wishes she had not been born
She sits in the cold
No word she says is ever told.
Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy?
She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy
When I am happy I live and despise writing
For my Muse this cannot but be dispiriting.
- Stevie Smith, My Muse
You're here because...?
a) You're Jenny and you needed a link to your own profile.
b) I've just updated "There's a Time and a Place"
c) I reviewed something of yours
d) You though my username looked interesting.
e) I've written a new story. (Damn.. I'm sposed to finish TaTaaP first.)
f) I've updated Take Me Away... gee, thats likely
g) You've seen me on someones favourite stories/authors list. Even more unlikely.
h) Some weirdo directed you here.
i) You have no idea how you ended up here, and you're already beginning to regret it.
If you're here for another reason, let me know. It might get on the list.
Bio
Name: Hannah. (Aka Han, Ham, Hannag, Hanneh, Hanana Banana, Francis, Shanks, Bitch)
Penname: StealerOfDreams comes from the Doctor Who book "Stealers of Dreams" by Stephen Cole. You might also see me around (like on tv.com) as MonstersInside or on deviantART as art-of-destruction.
Place: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Faith: Christian
Fanfic Interests: Dark Angel, Doctor Who, Mercedes Lackey, Mutant X, NCIS, Numb3rs, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: Voyager, Supernatural and Veritas: The Quest.
Animes: Bleach, Digimon, DNAngel, Fruits Basket,Fullmetal Alchemist, Full Metal Panic!, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Saiyuki, and Yu-Gi-Oh!
Pets: Three cats (Milly, Bandit and Charky), a rabbit (Toms), a guinea pig (Ellie). The two fish (Claude and Jean Luc) often played a part in my reviews, but I fear they have left this mortal coil. I at one time had a rabbit called Riley whom had five kittens named Biggs, Bill, Algernon, Jonas and Tate. As you will notice, they can and are often named after television characters.
Siblings: Four sisters and a brother. All older. God help me.
Stories: Currently writing two multi-chaptered stories, There’s a Time and a Place, and Take Me Away. TaTaaP is coming along, slowly, and I have an ending in mind. TMA I’ve got no idea, but it wont be picked up again until TaTaaP is finished.
Current Excuse: So, having now completed year twelve, I no longer have an excuse for not picking up TaTaaP. I will force myself into it one of these days. I suppose I can use the work excuse. (K-mart!) And a constant distraction by Star Trek.
Ships
Alias - Sydney and Vaughn, Lauren and Sark, Will and Francie (Pre-evil), Nadia and Weiss
Angel - Doyle and Cordelia, Fred and Wesley, Gunn and Gwen
Bleach - Ichigo and Orihime.
Buffy - Buffy and Riley, Willow and Oz, Xander and Anya, Spike and Drusilla
Charmed - Cole and Phoebe, Andy and Prue, Leo and Piper, Kyle and Paige
Dark Angel - Alec and Max. Logan and Asha? She seemed to like him. I'm not against the idea of well written OCs with Max and Alec, either.
Doctor Who - Ninth Doctor and Rose... Jack and Rose isn’t bad... OT3 if its good. I'm not biased against Ten and Rose
Farscape - Crichton and Aeryn
Friends - Chandler and Monica, Phoebe and Mike, Rachel and Ross, even if he really annoys me.
Grey's Anatomy - Izzie and Denny, Burke and Christina. I was a Meredith/George shipper till they slept together… I purposely didn’t watch that episode because the idea freaked me out.
Lost - Jack and Kate
Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Kyon/Haruhi, Koizumi/Mikuru Asahina
Mercedes Lackey - Vanyel and Stefen, Firesong and Silverfox, Amberdrake and Skandranon friendship.
Mutant X - Brennan and Emma. Shalimar and that Feral that was in one of the first few episodes. (sigh) From what I've seen, anyway. I've never seen "Lexa." She can have Jesse!
NCIS - Mcgee and Abby, Tony and Kate (TATEEEEEEEEEe! Death to Tiva and Zony!)
Stargate SG-1 - Jack and Sam, Daniel and Janet. Jonas Quinn/Cameron Mitchell Angst.
Supernatural - Just stick with Dean Angst, hold the Wincest.
Torchwood - Jack/Captain Jack Harkness or Jack/Ianto. This is the one fandom in which I will embrace slash, because well... thats just how the show rolls.
X-files - Mulder and Scully. Who else is there? (Dog and Moronica coughcough)
Avoisions (Yes, I know thats not a word) Of my Writing.
1. For the sake of humanity, Mary Sues. I also refuse to write LikE tHiS. It hurts my soul.
2. Excessive character bashing. I try to give characters a fair go.
3. Characters that suddenly fall in love without reason.
4. Long angst sessions where one character thinks that another character thinks something due to a misunderstood action or inaction.
5. Pregnancies
6. Slash. I have nothing against it… Well, I have something against Wincest. But I won’t try and write it.
7. Chapters that are merely author notes. No need to get anybodies hopes up.
Hannah's Guide to the Most Overused Scenes in Fanfiction
1. All rooms in a hotel/motel with two beds are currently booked, so our two main opposite-gender characters who are currently denying their feelings for each other have to share a bed. They will then wake up wrapped around each other in which case the female of the party will start screeching her head of at the male, even if it was she on his side of the bed.
2. The male/female who are denying feelings for each other will some how trip and fall on top of one another, in which case one of their significant others will walk in and the victim will scream "it's not what it looks like!"
3. One of the main leading characters will be shot, in which case the opposite gender character (not the one the shootee is currently dating) will confess their undying love for the shootee, thinking they are asleep, or dead, when they are in fact, not.
4. In M/A Dark Angel cases, Max will go into heat, sleep with some male (not Logan), have an incredibly angsty and bitchy morning because she refuses to accept feelings for him even though neither of them regretted it till after they thought the other did. God, this show confuses me. Then Max will get pregnant. And Logan will probably go crazy. Or evil. Or die. Or all three.
5. A character will get drunk and confess his love for a character. Alternatively, he will confess he is sick of another characters bitchy attitude.
6. Three words. Complete. Sudden. Amnesia.
Hannah and Jenny’s Guide to the Most Clichéd Lines Used in Fanfiction
1. “And suddenly she saw him in a different light.”
2. "Unbeknownst to both Character One and Character Two, Character Three had accidentally overheard everything" (Jenny: Characters should really take more care to tell life changing secrets in private...)
3. “Man, he looks hot today. Wait, where did THAT come from! This is Character Two we’re talking about!”
4. “Don’t die, I love you!”
5. “She would’ve fallen if he hadn’t caught her.”
6. “Oh no, it was Character Two’s arch nemesis, Antagonist One! He should’ve known!”
7. “Much to Character Two’s horror, Character One had been KIDNAPPED!”
8. “Character One had never felt this way about anyone before.”
9. "It's beautiful," said Character One. "Yes, it is." Replied Character Two, gazing at her. (I, unfortunetly, have played victim to this line.)
10. "I love you so much I just want you to be happy. Even if it is with Character Two," Said Character Four
11. "I thought you were dead!"
12. “I’ll be right there!” Character Four assured Character One. Three hours later he had yet to arrive. Probably because he got beat up or captured along the way.
Overused names author's like to use for Original Female Characters (OFCs), Which often turn out as Mary Sues.
I'm not saying all characters with these names are Mary Sues. Good grief, imagine that.
1. Lexie (ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!)
2. Kit
3. Mary
4. Rachel
5. Donna
6. Becca
I hope no one takes offense if they have any of these lines/names/scenes in their fic, I know I have some of them. Sometimes it makes a fic fun. Sometimes... it doesn't. I'm always looking to extend these lists... so if you know any overused scenes, lines, or names, let me know, and I'll add them in.
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