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Fandoms: Harry Potter, Supernatural, Lost, Once Upon a Time, Pirates of the Caribbean, (I'd add the original Star Trek, but, between fan fiction and a gazillion authorized paperbacks, it's already been done to death; also the original 1966-1971 Dark Shadows series, except that it's too likely to be confused with the 1991 reboot or that horrible 2012 Tim Burton/Helena Bonham Carter/Johnny Depp parody) Favorite characters: Castiel, Crowley, Rowena, Ben Linus, Severus Snape, Rumplestilskin/Mr. Gold, Captain Guyliner/Hook, Dr. Nicholas Rush, Sir Malcolm and Kaetenay from Penny Dreadful, Magua from Last of the Mohicans (1992), Captain Barbossa, Loki (mainly Tom Hiddleston in The Avengers movies ... although Richard Speight was fun too on Supernatural), Spock, Q, the original Barnabas Collins from the original 1966 TV series Dark Shadows (played by the late, great Jonathan Frid, NOT Johnny Depp) due to a severe case of Johnny Depp fatigue and the insult to the memory of Dark Shadows that 2012's parody/mockery was Ships: Rumbelle (sort of--it's getting tired and boring at this point except as background canon that either they really are a couple or Belle forgot what she saw in Rumple when she married him); Rumple/Hook; Castiel/Crowley; Snape/Lily (almost the only pairing I think worthy of Snape although I often ponder what might have transpired between Snape and Peter Pettigrew at Spinner's End due to my crush on actor Timothy Spall!); Ben/Rousseau; Ben/Annie; Ben/Sayid; Barnabas/Victoria Winters Other favorites (esp. for shipping purposes): Sayid Jarrah, Charlie Pace, Peter Pettigrew, Dean Winchester, Ragetti ("My eye!"), Archie Hopper, Belle, Hook, Season1!August, Ariel, Tinker Bell, Danielle Rousseau, Sybill Trelawney (LOL, yeah, the nutty ladies! What does that say about me? Best not to think about that.) Squick!!!: Adult/child pairings (e.g., Snermione, Snarry), chan, incest, rape, bestiality (including werewolves in anything resembling wolf form and "furries"), mpreg, femslash (nothing against RL F/F relationships; I just don't want to read about them for entertainment; I saw enough of it taking place in my office on the file cabinet at work!), Regina Mills (a.k.a. The Evil Queen) and any relationships involving her, likewise with Zelena/The Wicked Witch, Mary Sue/original characters I love well-thought-out, canon-based theories/character studies as well as porn with plot; dub-con OK only if it's clear that the dubious consenter is actually willing, but no outright rape. ("No means no.") And definitely no minors, no matter how consenting, because that makes the adult character I like into a pedophile--squick!!! (For example, it's OK for teen Hermione to have a crush on Professor Snape, but not for him to reciprocate, much less initiate anything.) Not interested in OCs, although AU stories can be good as long as they're believable from a canon POV. Open to crossover fics as long as the characters remain true to their own canon. Very picky about characterization, e.g., Ben Linus calling Hugo "Hurley" or Hurley not responding like, "Like, dude, did you just, like, call that thing?" (unless an explanation for the uncharacteristic behavior or speech is part of the story). Excessive spelling/grammar errors will usually render a story unreadable for me. As you can see by most of my favorite characters, I also love a good villain, and by "good," I mean that, while on the surface, they may come across as villains, they are well-developed, complex characters who may not have bad intentions, who in fact may actually have very good intentions they can't reveal and/or are victims of tragic circumstances they can't escape, but are presumed by certain actions or their appearance to be evil. (For example, SPOILER ALERT FOR THE FIRST PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN MOVIE: Captain Barbossa is automatically presumed to be a villain, while Jack Sparrow is presented as a lovable rogue, though both are pirates (robbers at sea) and have the same goals. But Barbossa (who's actually less sneaky about it) is made a villain via the explanation that he was Jack's first mate and led a mutiny against him. In real life, Barbossa, being a pirate, would not have been considered a mutineer if he had the majority of the crew behind him, as he appears to have on the Black Pearl, because pirates--most of them having suffered harsh cruelty by spoiled officers as deck hands on Naval ships--were very egalitarian-minded, and, according to the standard real-life rules that all pirates had to sign upon joining a crew, called "Articles"--as opposed to the fictitious universal "Code" referred to in the POTC movies--captains could be (and frequently were) replaced at any time by a simple majority vote of the crew. Think of "The Black Spot" presented to then-captain Long John Silver in Treasure Island. Robert Louis Stevenson knew his pirate history. END OF SPOILER.) Anyway, I love stories that reveal the complexity of questionable villains, if only to us, the reader. (The foregoing also tend to be "fun" villains due to some particularly entertaining character trait, such as a hilarious but deadpan sense of irony ... or in Rumplestiltskin's case, his completely uninhibited displays of what appears to be dangerous lunacy ... although he's actually crazy like a fox and as patient as a(n) [insert clichéd simile here]. Actor Michael Emerson has often described his character Ben Linus as "damaged and dangerous." Nonetheless, Ben seriously believes he is (and wants to be) "one of the good guys," and I don't believe he is beyond redemption.) "Yeah, yeah, so where are your brilliant stories that meet your own criteria???" I hear you asking. I'm working up to that, insecure perfectionist--forever glued to the Internet or other reading material, when not asleep dreaming up my own fan fiction to be instantly forgotten upon awakening--that I am! I don't get enough time to keep up with fanfic, so I'm still getting a feel for what's acceptable and what the ratings mean (e.g., is NC-17 OK again?) as I don't see any of my favorite fics from way back on here anymore (if here is where I even saw them), but I'm starting to see NC-17s pop up since my last login. And they probably don't all meet my own criteria or yours. Just sayin' what I like to read and contemplate--and a lot of you are much better writers than I am. As of then. according to FanFiction.Net's guidelines at http://www.fanfiction.net/guidelines/, "Please note FanFiction.Net does not accept explicit content, Fiction Rating: MA, and the rating is only presented for reference." Well, that explains why none of my old favorites are here, but they don't seem to be turning away NC-17, so I may be back more often! Anyway, at least I have an account now so I can keep track of, read, and favorite my friends' work. Warning: I'm a painfully slow reader as well as easily distracted (OMG, look! ADHD! Shineeee!!! Let's ride bikes!), so even if you're one of my favorite authors awaiting a review from me, it might take me a while to get to and finish reading your story. (But trust me, when I do, it will be well read!) I'd love to beta anything that fits with my preferred reading described above, and I think I'd be pretty good at it, but I haven't yet published anything, let alone the required, "at least 5 stories on the site OR have published entries totaling at least 6000 words." Maybe someday when I finish the rest of the Internet ... |
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