Will Accept being Called: Krys

Music cleans the soul of the dust of everyday life. There is a fine line between genius and insanity, love and hate, pain and pleasure. For some of us that line is blurred. The trouble with life is there's no background music.

An Ode to Fandom

Fandom is...everything I want and more. Fandom is focus. Fandom is obsession. Fandom is insatiable consumption. Fandom is sitting for hours in front of a TV screen, a movie screen, a computer screen with a comic book, a novel on your lap. Fandom is eyestrain and carpal tunnel syndrome and not enough exercise and staying up way, way past your bedtime.

Fandom is people you don't tell your mother you're meeting. Fandom is people in the closet, people out and proud, people in costumes, people in T-shirts with slogans only fifty others would understand. Fandom is a loud dinner conversation scaring the waiter and every table nearby.
Fandom is you in Germany and me in the US and him in Australia and her in Japan. Fandom is a sofa bed in New York, a road trip to Oxnard, a friend behind a face in London. Fandom talks past time zones and accents and backgrounds. Fandom is conversation. Communication. Contact.

Fandom is drama. Fandom is melodrama. Fandom is high school. Fandom is Snacky's law and Godwin's law and Murphy's law. Fandom is smarter than you. Fandom is stupider than you. Fandom is five arguments over and over and over again. Fandom is the first time you've ever had them.

Fandom is female. Fandom is male. Fandom lets female play at being male. Fandom bends gender, straight, gay, prude, promiscuous. Fandom is fantasy. Fandom doesn't care about norms or taboos or boundaries. Fandom cares too much about norms and taboos and boundaries.Fandom is not real life. Fandom is closer than real life. Fandom knows what you're really like in the bedroom. Fandom is how you would never, could never be in the bedroom.

Fandom is shipping, never shipping, het, slash, gen, none of the above, more than the above. Fandom is love for characters you didn't create. Fandom is recreating the characters you didn't create. Fandom is appropriation, subversion, dissention. Fandom is adoration, extrapolation, imitation. Fandom is dissection, criticism, interpretation. Fandom is changing, experimenting, attempting.

Fandom is creating. Fandom is drawing, painting, vidding: nine seasons in four minutes of love. Fandom is words, language, authoring. Fandom is essays, stories, betas, parodies, Usenet posts, blog posts, message board posts, emails, chats, petitions, feedback, recs. Fandom is writing for the first time since you were twelve. Fandom is finally calling yourself a writer.
Fandom is signal and response. Fandom is a stranger moving you to tears, anger, laughter. Fandom is you moving a stranger to speak.

Fandom is distraction. Fandom is endangering your job, your grades, your relationships, your bank account. Fandom gets no work done. Fandom is too much work. Fandom was/is just a phase. Fandom could never be just a phase. Fandom is where you found a friend, a sister, a kindred spirit. Fandom is where you found a talent, a love, a reason.

Fandom is where you found yourself.

Spread the love of Fandom! Fandom isn't childish, or uncool. Fandom is you. Fandom is what you want, and only that. Spread to anyone, and everyone who has a favorite Fandom, may it be old or new. Show, movie or book. Spread the love, spread the word...

Spread the Fandom.

Ships (that I support on some level):

--Avatar Universe:

Tokka

--HP Universe:

I have technically written Weasleycest (Charlie/Bill) and Twincest (Fred/George) in the past, but I don't really support the ships. I probably won't upload those fics here.

--DN Universe: [Rather new to this one and I technically haven't finished it so the ships aren't quite known.]

Ships I do not support:

Fic Progress:

Claimed: Animal Challenge (Hedwig), OCD Challenge (Percy Weasley), Gross Ships Challenge(Lucius/Voldemort), Random Characters Challenge (George Weasley & Katie Bell), Slash It Challenge (Percy/Oliver), Random Book Challenge (Percy/Oliver), 10 Facts Challenge (Percy Weasley), Valentine's Day Challenge (Peryc/Oliver), New Years Challenge (Percy/Oliver), Suicide Challenge (Percy)

Unclaimed: Poetry Challenge, Scar Challenge, Tattoo Challenge, Insanity Challenge, Too Much to Drink Challenge, House Quote Challenge, Revelation Challenge, 178 Moods Challenge, Feelings Challenge, Calendar Challenge, Beautiful and Broken Challenge, Firsts Challenge, Funny Quotes Challenge, Your Challenge, Reality Challenge, 81 Quotes Challenge, Planetary Prose Challenge, Fluffy Bunny Challenge, French Challenge

Haven't Started Yet; OCD Challenge (Percy Weasley)

Not Complete/Stalled; City of the Damned, Remus at Hogwarts story (been stalled for a while. may never get done), Tokka Week Fics (1 Left)

WIP; Tokka ABC's, (sorta)City of the Damned, Tokka fic (Currently Untitled. I honestly don't know how long it will be.), Slash It Challenge (Percy/Oliver), Valentine's Day Challenge (Peryc/Oliver)

WIP almost Complete; Another HP ABC's, Tokka fic (Currently Untitled. I honestly don't know how long it will be so it may be just a WIP), Random Book Challenge (Percy/Oliver)

Complete; Black Notebook Fics (aka ABC's of Remus Lupin),(technically a Horror Fic) Sweet as Candy, New Years Challenge (Percy/Oliver), Animal Challenge (Hedwig), 10 Facts Challenge (Percy), Random Characters Challenge (George & Katie), Gross Ships Challenge (Lucius/Voldemort), Suicide Challenge (Percy)

Pinky's 5 Days & Senses Challenge has been titled = Five Reasons Why. Alternate Reasons Why (Alt Chapters) only needs one more Chapter uploaded. So it's basically the only one that is actually complete in terms of typing and being uploaded.

As of 6.26.09--Totally complete; Five Reasons Why

Procrastinate Now!