Hello. If you are reading this, you may have read one of my stories. I hope you liked the one you read.
I am Grumbles.

If you're going to review a story, I encourage you to make an intelligent and constructive criticism about the story. Maybe you can't find something you think is wrong with it, and that is fine. But authors need good criticism in order to get better at their craft. "Good" criticism does not mean mindless praise. Pointing out grammatical and spelling errors, punctuation, and things like that. Or maybe some part of the story doesn't really work that well. Whatever the case may be, it is helpful to present these issues to the author so they can make future stories with better quality. You don't have to be cruel and merciless about it, just point out something you find wrong in a story. Who knows? Maybe you'll be wrong and the author was right, and then you will have learned something. Everybody wins!

I discourage flaming. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean you are entitled to assault an author. I hold the same stance on overly critical reviews. Pointing out the flaws of a story is one thing, but doing it in a way that tells the author "you're no good" is not okay.

At the end of the day, if something bothers you so much, just ignore it. It can't bother you if you don't read it.

If you are the kind of person who only reads stories, I encourage you to go out and write one of your own. You never know what you can do until you try.

I enjoy drawing as well as writing. By going to my DeviantArt account - search for grumbletron - you can see my renditions of the characters (almost exclusively from UDP). But since each person perceives the events in stories differently, I am curious to see how you visualize characters in my stories. If you have some skill with the pen or pencil (or one of those new-fangled tablets), feel free to doodle these characters. Sometimes I have a tough time imagining what a character would actually look like, and then someone shows me what they think and BAM. There it is. If you do draw pictures and upload them to an image-hosting site, I will put links to those pictures in my profile. You can see examples below. Those are links to DA pages. If you upload them to a site that has no such identification, I will credit you with your FFN account.

Here is some information on existing and upcoming stories:

1) =Halo= Red vs. Blue: The Master Chief Saga- description: Our favorite Red Team was not in the best of shape at the end of Season 4. Donut was seemingly crushed under the arrival of the new Pelican Dropship, Shiela had our heroes pinned behind a bunch of rocks and O'Malley had gone missing. How would machinama's finest soldiers fare if, rather than Grif's sister, the Master Chief himself had joined the squad? Watch as the hunt for O'Malley escallates from a search-and-destroy mission to a quest to save the galaxy. Intense battle sequences, mild language.
Status: COMPLETE

2) =Danny Phantom= Ultimate Danny Phantom- description: Basically a do over of the original series with a bunch of twists and new plot devices and whatnot. Is not related to the Ultimate series from Marvel Comics, however, that was an inspiration for this story. You'll laugh, you'll cry (maybe not), but hopefully you'll enjoy.
Status: UNDER HEAVY REVISION

Fanart:

Ultimate Youngblood
Proximus
Vanessa Masters
Ultimate Amorpho

5) =Danny Phantom= Iron Man- description: Alternate Universe piece. A mysterious man falls from space. His body is solidified by Earth's magnetic field and he waits in stasis until the day he can free himself from his personal prison. Dr. Tucker Foley, a living legend in his field of extraterrestrial and paranormal research and Dr. Samantha Manson, a molecular biologist with beauty second only to her brain, work to discover the secrets this Iron Man contains. Based on the song by Black Sabbath.
Status: COMPLETE