About me/my stories:

I've been on this site for what feels like forever now. I started as a young teenager reading large amounts of Harry Potter fanfics in-between the books. Then, after the first Lord of the Rings hit the cinemas, I read the books, the teenage fanfics, and ended up trying to write some epic Mary Sue-ish story myself. And because most of the fanfiction I read was in English, I decided to try writing my story in English as well. The unicorn is still filled with spelling and grammar errors and ended up abandoned not too long after.

I gave up on writing for a while but always kept reading, and when my interest was peaked by Hikaru no Go I gave it another cautious go. At least my English had improved a bit by then, so I suppose the results were bearable but the story is still unfinished. The Tower is pretty much stalled. Two for two on the unfinished stories list.

When I got into Twilight, I had at least wizened up that perhaps shorter stories suited me better. The stories themselves aren't that special and also rather short, but the writing experience was very helpful and made me more confident in my writing and of my grasp of the English language.

The Promise of a New Dawn is yet another attempt at a longer story. While there were already a bunch of 'Harry sent to Arda as an elfling' stories out there when I started writing, none of them were quite to my tastes (containing slash, far too many references to torture and abuse or they were just too short). So I wanted to try a less over the top version myself. When I started writing I was already hesitant because it is a multi-chaptered one and I'm not too good at keeping those up, but in the end I thought 'why not give it a shot?' and didn't find an answer that was a sufficient deterrent.

It is still not abandoned, though it has been years since I updated it.

AnimeIceFox provided the cute little picture of Elfling Harry which I have used for my cover. Thank you so much :)

Also, new Tonksie has started writing a translation of The Promise of a New Dawn in Polish that can be found here: Obietnica Nowego Świtu.

About my most recent stories I can tell you two things:

1) I love writing crossovers and

2) I prefer to write short stories and one-shots. Because I'm horrid at updating a story once my first writing burst about an idea has run dry.

3) Except when a wonderful reader made me fanart that I could use as cover image, I generally 'make' all my covers in Paint... by removing the background of an image I want to use with a tiny eraser and then copying it onto something else. It is, of course, an utter waste of time, but I get so giddy when I stare at my little collection of stories on my profile page that it's so worth it. Inside I'm still about twelve years old. XD

I'm a very slow and sporadic writer - any story that is not marked as complete (and a few that are) might be continued at any time, but I wouldn't hold your breath. Generally I write whatever I'm inspired to write, from whatever fandom I'm currently ferociously reading fanfiction in. It's a fun hobby that I've grown to love but I have always been more of a reader than a writer and I don't think that that will ever change.

Lastly, I want to thank my reviewers, who completely blow me away with their enthusiasm for my stories.

Special thanks to Lekaiel for the artwork for Fly! She has also made me a picture of Griffin!Harry and Captain America after their battle with the droids that can be found on deviantart under her name (unfortunately outside links don't work here). Please drop her a line as well to tell her what you think!

Little Storm 97 has translated one of my HP/Avengers crossovers into Spanish! It can be found here: Searching for Home.

And a huge thank you to Mooncrown for her artwork for Building a Castle, which is absolutely amazing. You can find it on her Tumblr page (tajmah) or on the first page of said story on AO3.

Favorites:

My list of favorite stories on this site has become very extensive over the past years, but my absolute favorites remain mostly the same:

The two most humorous, complete and lenghty stories that I've come across are A Black Comedy » by nonjon (Harry Potter) and Bella Swan: Kidnapper » by Kambria Rain (Twilight).

A few other of my favourites are Whispers in Corners by esama (Harry Potter/Sherlock Crossover), The Hidden Life of Morino Ibiki » by Illegitimi (Naruto) and I See The Moon by hctiB-notsoB (Harry Potter/Avengers Crossover).

I also enjoy reading Time Travel stories, especially in the Naruto fandom. Some of my absolute favourites are backslide by black.k.kat and The Lives Worth Saving by cywsaphyre, both of these feature an older Naruto going back in time to help Konoha and his younger counterpart, with a fluffy main dish of Team Seven. There are tons of other time travel stories in my favourites list, but I like these ones best.

Possibly my all-time favorite fanfiction story is The Glass Sandal » by Darma Druid (Lord of the Rings); a lovely Cinderella retelling!

My favorite "mini-'verses" are the stories from shirebound in the Quarantined series (Lord of the Rings) which focuses on a gentle friendship between the hobbits and Aragorn pre-LotR, and the Hiraku Kazama series; From the Ashes » and Rises the Flame » (Naruto) by peppymint, in which a betrayed Naruto becomes an audacious missing-nin.

My favorite Hikaru no Go stories can be found in my community.

There are many, many other great fanfiction stories that I would certainly recommend, but since I can't exactly list everything here you'd just have to sift through my favorite stories list to find them.

Disclaimer:

It should be blindingly obvious from the context (this being Fanfiction.net) that none of the ideas, few of the characters and little of the specifics I use in my stories belong to me. It is also quite clear from the category in which each story is placed to whom the characters that I use actually do belong. I am not going to write a disclaimer for each of my stories so this one should be enough to count for all of them: I do not own the characters, ideas and other aspects of my stories. They belong to the writer of the original work(s).

Other sites:

I've also created an account on ao3, where I've uploaded most of my stories as well. I've somehow ended up writing a story that needed a rating higher than permitted on this site, so that can be found only there (I know, I surprised myself too). My pen name there is also WhisperingDarkness.

You can also find me on tumblr under whisperingdarknesswrites, where on rare occasion I might post some drabbles that are too unfinished or short to post as an actual story.