Hello! Welcome!

The name's Kristen, although really I respond to anything not offensive and/or crude. I'm 24, and though I'm a quieter fan than most (I've tamed over the years), I still have a fierce little love in my heart for my old-school fandoms. I take on projects much bigger than myself - my eyes and dreams are bigger than my stomach (or my patience and abilities, it would seem sometimes!).

I've been in the military for five years now. I'm back in sunny California, and I'm ready to go wherever the Navy chooses to take me. Hey, it's a bit like being a wandering monk, only my uniform is nowhere near as cool and I don't get a shiny shakujou.

Phoenix Ashes isn't dead. I will finish it. I'm just kindasorta slow. Really slow. Real Life has a tendency to get in the way...

UPDATES

27Apr2013
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I'm horrible, I know. This story has been on my mind since I was 15 - it pops up in the weirdest ways. I'll be playing with my dogs and then get a thought of "wouldn't it be funny if Chichiri were scared of dogs? I could work that into PA!". Or I'll be working with one of my docs and think "hey, wouldn't it be interesting if Mitsukake were this kind of doctor?"

I just...haven't put it on paper. I suck. I'll try to fix that.

STORIES

Phoenix Ashes: Chapter 6 is the one I'm working on; it's been my beast for the last few years because I can't seem to figure out what the characters want to do next. I have the ending of this story planned out, I'm not abandoning it, but getting there has been a bear! The other chapters are likely to be edited off and on as I see fit but none of the edits are likely to be anything bigger than me changing a sentence or fixing the rare and occasional typo I miss. I never stop editing, so mentioning it when it happens would get really old really fast.

The Original Phoenix Ashes: Discontinued, years ago. Seriously, why would you read that anyway? It's crap. Really badly written crap. Phoenix Ashes is the same thing only about five times better. As soon as I'm beyond where I stopped in this story, I'm going to delete it; it's only on the site so that you can see where my original ideas came from.

Moments: Written as I get inspiration. This one's more just for fun than anything, since the drabbles are all under 1,000 words.

In mind for the future...I really want to attempt a Rurouni Kenshin 'fic -- I've wanted to for years but I don't quite feel confident enough in my knowledge of canon to do it. And the Harry Potter fanfic bug has finally reached me, although I'd probably use a different account for that. I loved The Hunger Games and would kill to attempt a re-imagining in the Fushigi Yuugi universe. One day I'll get back to Bad-Luck Charm, my original story. Maybe; I have another idea for an original story, kinda based around the idea of Fushigi Yuugi but different enough to keep lawyers off my back :P

Le Fin.