Sup, my little ducklings. Whilst I'm not 100% sure why you're here on my profile page - I beg you to enjoy yourself. And by that, I mean stalk my favorite stories page. There's some cute little hidden gems in there.

Alright-y, let's get this started, I'm Akari-chaan, writer, and all around bored-person. In real life, many more people call me Beca. I'm blonde, blue eyed, and Australian. I'm not sure what kind of mental picture I'm trying to produce here, but follow me on Tumbler: Akari-chaan . Maybe it'll bring a clear picture.

On a side note, find me on; deviantart! -- http: // akari- chaaaan. deviantart. com/ --(You might want to remove the spaces, Fanfiction somewhat hates website links).

~Akari-Chaan

xox

Hey hey guys, the amazing TheBlackBand actually drew Willow from my story 'Ain't Never Had A Friend Like Me' and posted it on Deviantart! It looks amazing and they’ve captured Willow perfectly! If you want to see it, this amazing piece of work, here’s the link! (Remove the spaces!)

http :// www. deviantart. com/ art/ Ain-t- Never- Had- a- Friend- Like- me- Willow- Potter- 583486642

"What if we're all just the figments of someone's imagination?" He mumbled, eye's pondering the question; lips upturned as if he was contemplating something that required immense thought.

"...Then I fear for the sanity of that person," she replied, shuddering with horror. After all, who could think up people so twisted?

There is something I would like to say here, something that I feel needs to be thought about when we write comments onto people's works. The validity of what you're writing as a review. As a community, I've found this site by far the most rewarding in helpful comments, and defiantly the worst in flames. What's a flame you ask? It's an an attack, whether it be personal, or just general comments that attack/criticize a story.

For example, a flame could be something like; "Your writing sucks." "This story is boring." "The main character is stupid/a Mary(Gary)-Sue."

Things like this are not only detrimental to the growth of a budding writer that is using Fanfiction as a way to express the words in their heads on paper, but it cuts the small confidence any new writer actually has. It is difficult to publish something you've written online. It's hard to think someone might not like something you could've slaved over for hours, it's insulting when you spend days planning and writing out a story just to get a comment that says, "its sucks." Do you realize how much that can affect a person? The first flame I got, was 'you should quit writing, your writing is shit'. It left me completely devastated, because I loved writing. It was my only hobby at the time, and to have someone dismiss me like that? It quite literally, stayed on my mind for days. Of course, I'm stronger now and it takes more than 'your characterization sucks' to tear me down.

Though, if you feel the need to flame someone I doubt I can stop you with this. I will however, allow some of you to know that many of you will think that saying this is just 'their opinion', which, technically is true. Though I will tell you, that your opinion, in this case doesn't matter and you should go get a life.

Instead of these mindless flames, I have a few suggestions of saying that in a way that is actually constructive and not at all that demeaning. Using the above examples, you could instead write; "You have a few grammatical errors in this chapter, you need to watch your use of commas." or, "I've noticed that you tend to stick to far into cannon without changing much, maybe you can have Harry steal Snape's potion supplies, I bet it would be funny!' or even, "Your character Alice is a bit too perfect for my liking, she never gets anything wrong. The best characters are the one's we can find flaws in, and relate to."

Can you see the difference? One is helping a writer improve, one is destroying an authors confidence to write.

If ANY of you EVER get a comment like that, a mindless flame and you happen to be reading this; and if you want me too, I'll be happy to read your story and give you a few REAL and CONSTRUCTIVE comments that will help you as a writer. I don't care if its a fandom I don't normally read, character's I hate, or anything. Just PM me, I'm really nice, I swear.

You know you're an author when...

You talk to yourself a lot. (Most tend just to look the other way now.)
You talk to yourself about talking to yourself. (I feel that it scares off potential friends.)
When you talk to yourself you often talk to yourself like you're talking to someone else. (I find I give myself the best feedback.)
You'll check your e-mail every day of the week and then disappear off the face of the earth. (There will always be a complaint about how long it takes me to reply.)
No matter where you are in a room you never have to get up to find a pen/pencil and paper. (My dad is consistency telling me to 'clean it up',"
The letters on your keyboard are wearing off. (My backspace button doesn't exist anymore...)
You constantly start talking in third person, present or past tense. (It's the best way to really get into a story.)
You start thinking about making lists like this and start giggling for no "apparent" reason. (They just don't understand the wicked scene I just invented in my head.)
Your friends stopped looking at you funny for no apparent reason a loooooong time ago. (They have learned their lessons."