Weathered faces, lined in pain,

Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hands.

Vincent, by Don McLean.

Kia ora, fellahs! Welcome to my profile! :)

My name is Ali, though I'll respond to Jo (my last nom de plume was JocastaBleedsInk). I'm from New Zealand, and am a normal human being just like you. If you want to talk about my stories, your stories, someone else's stories, or, hey, something else entirely, message me. I'll be delighted to hear from you in any way, shape, or form.

I have a lot of favourite books, so I'll just give you a few: The Fault In Our Stars, The Intentions Book, The Killing Floor, Zoo City, the Night Circus, Hawksong, the Lizard Cage, the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, Pride and Prejudice, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, the Hunger Games, Jane Eyre, Child 44, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, the Tempest Tales, the Throwback... and I'll add more next time I get bored. Oh! 'Her Son's Hero' also gets a shameless plug because it's awesome and also because it was written by the amazing Vicki So from right here at fanfiction! TV shows I like are Sherlock, Supernatural, QI, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Avatar the Last Airbender, Being Human, Bones, Doctor Who, Castle, Moonlight, Criminal Minds, and the Mentalist.

Where else I can be found on the internets: fictionpress.net (ff.net's sister-site) as 'JocastaBleedsInk', deviantART as the same, and tumblr as 'chopstickhead'. Do drop in and say hi, I don't bite! :)

I'm now a betareader. If you need one, look me up - I'll be happy to help!

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I just got my first ever review! Thank you, Little Hopper - you made my day!!

Special thank you to the lovely JadeKurosaki for helping out my poor bumbling self when it comes to the intricacies of technology on this website!

To all my lovely reviewers - I know you may never see this, but I just need to tell you how happy it makes me that you all took the time out of your day to write to me. Ayler.xo, Sesshomaru092, A person, randombookworm, nikkeeknyte @ aol . com, Little Hopper, Ski October, SeraphielSong, goddessa39, Kimberly T., Wamakai, AnnaAza, maggs, Orlissa92, tfobmv18, JadeKurosaki, Charmed-Ravenclaw, Stingmon, XrhiaX, emalizabeth, CosmoSpiritVarie147, Sherherazade, lila (I'm sorry I made you cry! I didn't mean to!), tyt, and someone with no username, I LOVE YOU ALL. Forget making me smile, you lot make me do the nerdfighter happy dance! (DFTBA, fellahs)