I'm not a native speaker of English and only recently found a beta, so almost all of my earlier material has various grammatical mistakes. Apologies for those: I take corrections well, so if you want to send any, please do :)

My favourite pairings:

Severus Snape/Hermione Granger from Harry Potter

Eric/Christine from Phantom of the Opera

Javert/Cosette from Les Miserables (or Javert/Eponine, occasionally)

Jorah Mormont/Daenerys Targaryen and Sansa Stark/Sandor Clegane from ASoIaF & GoT

Eowyn/Grima Wormtongue from LotR

I publish a bit more on AO3, where my name is the same, TheTitaniumSerpent.

I detest self-insertion. If I write a PotO Christine, she's a blonde. If I write a Sansa, she's a blue-eyed red-head, Daenerys is a lilac-eyed silvery blonde and Hermione Granger from Harry Potter is a bushy-haired brunette swot. (And Lily Evans-Potter was a red-headed b*ch who didn't die soon enough). I'm actually quite far from the characters I enjoy writing both externally and internally, and prefer it that way. That said, I won't make the male characters any prettier either, so don't expect any Snape to look like a male model, and Erik won't be a muscled boy-toy with a few tiny blemishes and a half-mask. So nope, you won't see me as an OC or self-inserted character in my texts. If I were to write myself, I'd write myself as a ghost: unseen, unheard and having no interaction with the characters whatsoever.

About messages:

I don't really do requests unless it's one of my favourite pairings (see above), and even then I'm picky with themes. I have two long WIP's under process and two more planned, so I have very little extra time, especially for long, multi-chapter fics. Also, please do not PM me with just "hi" or "how are you" or send me requests for role-playing, I will not answer those.