hello~ I am extremely slow with updates, so I am sorry if that irritates anyone. Though I AM alive, and I DO intend to finish all the stories that I have started!
Also, OCs DO sometimes appear in my stories, but do not worry! None of them will be a major character in any of them. They are there mainly for the convenience of the plot, or they are sometimes just there to be part of the setting.

8/5/07 - I actually have quite a few pages for the next chapter for all my stories except for "kenshin's journal". However, as a rule I never post until I get at least 7 pages! I'm almost there for "everyone's 10!" and halfway for "it's not over." Since I JUST finished a chapter today and posted for "tenkousei!" I don't have anything yet.

3-30-08 Oh heck... although I used to not be so fond of romance stories, now I actually seem to be enjoying some of them. Perhaps my interests matured as I grew older these past few years? Anyhow, I mostly like canon pairings, and I find myself disliking the ones that don't happen (i.e. ShinShiho) Oddly enough for RK though, I find myself quite annoyed with the KaoruKenshin couple(although they obviously are one, considering they get married and have a kid at the end of the series), but I absolutely adore the TomoeKenshin couple.

Hmm… what else? Another exception is with Bleach. I find the OrihimeIchigo pairing to be tolerable(too bad this doesn't actually happen in the series), and I just love the RenRuki couple(hopefully this one works out in the original work!)

To be truthful, I used to be rather horrified and sickened with homo pairings(ducks rotten tomatoes), and most of them still do disturb me quite a bit. Even one that seems somewhat workable(as with Hiei and Kurama in YYH...actually, nvm it won't. it just WONT! i think they'll just kill each other), it still kinda makes me shudder inside.

There's ONLY one non-het pair I like(surprised I actually do), and I say only one! and that would be the perfect pair from PoT. (but they're completely canon! at least in the anime anyway) because they're absolutely perfect! \(>_There are soo many blatant implications(some so blunt they're rather declarations than implications!)
- Such as the ai-ai-gasa thingie... omfg, and it's a Japanese show. And in Japan, that IS a big deal..I mean... a HUGE deal
- Tezuka and Fuji's color preferences in the anime. although Tezuka wears light purple, in Japanese, there is a specific name for that shade of purple. it's called 'fuji'. yes, he wears 'fuji-iro' iro, meaning color. and i'm being serioius, it's the exact shade. and Fuji always wears green or blue, and those happen to be Tezuka's favorite colors. even each of their rooms are that color! tezuka's is fuji-colored, and fuji's is green and blue!
- Even in the actual manga! 'when i close my eyes my heart sees you' or something? ... damn(xcuse me)
- Also, after Tezuka comes back(in the manga) it seems he and Fuji are always together. almost like they're suddenly great friends!(compared to their pretty less than frequent association with each other in the beginning)
- Tenipuri family! gawd... this made me chuckle. actually, this might not be so applicable, as who ELSE could play grandpa and grandma?
- one of the chibipuri ones where it was the 'wild west' or something. when atobe asks the lady fuji 'are you guys together or something?' and it's not denied?! is that even allowed in the official anime? XD fuji was so OOC in that one, but it was nice for a perfect pair fan like me. lolz.

Maybe it's just me, but does anyone else get the impression Tezuka is like... a dad to Ryoma? similar? he disciplines him, commands him, and looks over him. it's like... a parent! definitely!

anyway! 5/6/08.
recently posted a new story! This, I think, will be one of my better stories. Truth be told, I've already written about four chapters and nearing the end of the fifth. But I've only posted one chapter so far. perhaps I'll post the next chapter next week. trying to buy meself some time here, so I can write the chapters up! -_-;
I was almost done with the next chapter of 'tenkousei', and it was actually kind of a cool chapter too! but my computer froze.. and it was gone... motivation level plummeted. :( but i'll get writing to it soon. it's almost summer break! yes!
'it's not over' yes, i'm actually still working on this freaking story! omg, every time I read this sucky title, i want to smack my head on my desk. but then again, that's what earlier stories are supposed to do.

8/9/08

NOOOOO!! My computer crashed, and stupidly, I never backed up my files... T_T this is sad... especially since I had already written about two extra chapters for "First Years" and and... NOOOOOO!!

Anyhow, I'll still be writing I guess... sorry for the late(or practically nonexistent) updates

(NOO school is approaching and I still have tons of summer work left to do!! :( :( :( oh well, guess it's my fault for being lazy)

Okay... done complaining for now. Working on some drabbles for PoT for lack of imagination. nyahaha...

SPOILER ALERT

Also, anyone notice that with the "three monsters" of Seigaku, who wins over who is completely opposite from the manga(original work) and the anime?(which I felt COMPLETELY ruined the ending..complain complain). In the manga, Tezuka never wins against Fuji(and it is implied, though not made clear, that Fuji had completely surpassed Tezuka), Ryoma never wins against Tezuka(although Ryoma wins against Yukimura, it is implied that Yukimura had never beat Tezuka), and Ryoma also never wins against Fuji(it is said that the one time that they DID play against one another, Fuji was playing around while Ryoma was straining).

However, in the anime, Tezuka beats Fuji, and Ryoma beats Tezuka. And although Ryoma and Fuji never finish their match, it is said in the anime that Ryoma had actually been a challenge to him, and one of the few opponents worthy of him to actually be serious about.

It really bothers me that the anime had done something like that(especially with the weird thing about Ryoma going to the US Open, which is plain ridiculous btw, the match between Tezuka and Fuji, and Tezuka's defeat against Ryoma). It completely ruins the flow of the plot for the nationals, in where the undecided match with Tezuka and Fuji is actually pretty important, and in which Ryoma is supposed to be in(which he ends up being in anyway, which makes me wonder what the huge deal with the US Open thingie was supposed to accomplish in the first place). Also, in the anime, Ryoma becomes somewhat Mary-Sueish by the end, which is a terrible, terrible thing. Yes, he's good. but it gets ridiculous.

The way the anime had completely changed the Rikkai thing where Ryoma doesn't go against Kirihara but Sanda instead before their actual competition, and the fact that Fuji beats Kirihara only because he got pissed off and not because he wanted to play seriously for once, did not bode well with me that well either(the blinding thing and the flashback was really really important for the development of his character and the plot!)... but the ENDING! the Rikkai thing was only slightly disappointing, but oh gawd... how could they screw up and twist the end of the series so badly that way?!

... I guess I wasn't done complaining. But oh well... sorry for whining so much, but I just HAD to express my opinions here... :/

Well anyway, don't get me wrong I don't hate the anime. Some parts of it I like(like the fillers...except for the Jousei Shonan one). But the Kirihara thingie and the weird ending did upset me a bit, so I'll be utilizing the original plot for my ffics. :(