Introductions...my name's Beth aka BatteredChild, and I'm from Sydney, Australia. I haven't written anything in a long while, I think about it all the time but between work and family I haven't been able to write in years. Maybe one day I will get to again and I will get to finish the fics I started. As things stand anything not yet complete is on hold.

My favourite pairings are:

Sarah/Jareth-Labyrinth
Christian/Satine-Moulin Rouge
Buffy/Spike-Buffy: TVS
Erik/Christine- Phantom of the Opera
Jack/Sally- The Nightmare Before Christmas
Daria/Trent- Daria
Victor/Emily-Corpse Bride
Selene/Michael-Underworld
Belle/Rumplestiltskin - Once Upon A Time

Favourite Movies/TV Shows

Phantom of the Opera
Beauty and the Beast
Moulin Rouge
Labyrinth
The Neverending Story
The Secret Garden
Harry Potter (all)
Underworld (1&2)
Pride and Prejudice
Pirates of the Caribbean (1&2)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Xena: Warrior Princess
Firefly
Daria
Grey's Anatomy
House
Grimm
Once Upon A Time

What I Read

Basically I'll read anything that's well written and is about any of the movies/shows listed above. I do go through phases where I read one particular type of fic unless others are being updated. The main ones I read are

Phantom of the Opera: Anything E/C cause I hate Raoul...stupid fop!

Harry Potter: I have been sucked into H/D slash, as long as it's tasteful anyway and actually has a plot. Also a fan of Severitus and Snape mentoring Harry fics.

Daria: Anything interesting and either no pairing or Daria/Trent...I just never liked Tom

Xena: Anything that's well written. Subtext/maintext whatever doesn't bother me as long as it's tactfully done.

Buffy: I like Spuffy fics cause I just love that pairing. Don't like any fic with a Buffy/Angel or Buffy/Riley pairing...it's just wrong lol.

Labyrinth: J/S of course and I like Sarah being tormented throughout a fic, and I know I'm not alone...maybe it's just cause she was mean to Jareth but I dunno, it's just fun to be mean to Sarah. And I'll stop about that now. Anyway like I said, J/S in the Underground with something interesting or original happening with them.

Please read this

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.
I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.
I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.
We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.
I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.
I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.
I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.
We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.
I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.
I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.
I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I did not have to always deal with society hating me.
I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.
I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.
I am the person who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male.

Re-post this if you believe homophobia is wrong. Please do your part to end it