-Thursday, February 25th, 2010

I was determined not to wait until almost eight months later before I updated in the new year, so just a quick update. Uni's giving me stress, as is my new job, and my writing appears to have come to somewhat of a halt since the plots are not forming as I wanted them to. There's so much to do and while I'm trying to figure out how to do one thing the others intrude and nothing actually gets done. I don't want to mess up the next chapter of A Slight Mishap which is why it's taking so long, but I am hoping to get it up within the next month. I'm thinking of not putting it up until I have a few chapters done, in actual fact, so it updates faster and people aren't waiting so long. I will these stories finished, of that I know :) I just ask for a little patient. I certainly have abandoned nothing and hopefully the next chapters are on their way!! I'm also thinking of refurbishing my profile, but that will have to wait for now.

-Monday, October 12th, 2009

Rightio then! I was just looking at my profile with my sister and I noticed that there are an awful lot of things that are wrong since I haven't updated it ages. I mean, I'm still saying that I haven't seen Stargate Atlantis when I'm nearly finished with the fourth season... oops?

So, yes, I shall get to that straight away. First I shall let you know my status on the stories. I have decided to definitely update Seeing Is Believing from the beginning, because the story just isn't ringing for me anymore and I think I need to change it to suit my writing style now. The next chapter of A Slight Mishap is 90 and I'm aiming to have it finished by the end of the month. And I'm Still Here... is, as of yet, nowhere near where I want it to be...

Take heed though! This month has been all about writing for me. I was very sick recently and once I was better a story that had spent a year on 16 pages is now suddenly on 45 after four days... I'm very proud of myself. Nothing has changed in the Pokemon department, though I've written a few things I will consider putting up when they are finished.

Well, that's it. Hopefully next time I update I'll have something done! :)

-Friday, June 19th, 2009

Right.

Well... here I am?

What with University and everything else I've needed to do lately I have not had any time at all to work on fanfictions. Rest assured, however, that I have not given up and I am now on holiday and quite determined to get at least a few chapters out on the three outstanding stories I have. In fact, I was looking at I'm Still Here and Seeing Is Believing today, and part of me is quite amazed at what my writing was like two-three years ago. I've certainly come a long way, a progression that I love to look back on in A Slight Mishap. I have not given up on any of the three, so don't worry about that - I put them all up and I'm determined to finish them!

I actually have a one-shot I'd like to publish, but I've told myself I'm not allowed to until I have put up a chapter each of my stories. Same goes with a new story I want to put up. I am bound and determined to do, so just watch me!!

On the same not, I haven't given up on my newest obsession yet, either (though nine months later doesn't exactly class it as 'new', does it?) As such, you can probably expect a few Pokemon fanfics out eventually too... I tried to stop myself, I really did, but, you know, there's no arguing with the plot bunnies. They can be right scary when they want to be...

-Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Alright, firstly, I'm still working on my stories, unfortunately (I'm actually working on A Slight Mishap right now, and I've been working on ideas for the other two as well). I'm hoping to get the chapters up as soon as possible, though uni work has gotten in the way a little. I was on a two-week holiday, but I start back next week, though the work load won't be as much as usual thankfully. In any case, I'm having a slight problem with my characters wanting to do things differently to how I want them to do them.

Also... well, I have a very sheepish smile on my face at the moment because there is another reason for the lack of update. See, I've currently hopped onto Pokemon fandom as well. Well, it's not like I meant to, it's just I was thinking about the characters in Pokemon and comparing them to the characters in Harry Potter just for fun, and then I was reminiscing on my favourite episodes and then I realised there were more seasons so I started watching them... and, yeah, I read a little fanfiction, loved it, and started writing a little of my own which I'm seriously considering posting. Anyway, that's how it happened (well, it was a long time in coming, I always did love Pokemon, and I say you're never too old to enjoy it!)

Well, that's all, and hopefully I'll have my next chapters out soon!

-Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Soooooo... it's been awhile since I've been back to my page. However, I'm here now, so that should count for something, right? Actually, it was only in March that I was last here, so that's alright. Probably the last time I had update A Slight Mishap... which I've actually updated now! And I'm Still Here and Seeing Is Believing are still not ready, but the next chapters are definitely in the process of being written now! I just got to actually work up the will to get to them. Anyhow, I thought I'd come by and update my profile, most particularly the Ideas section, not to mention that I really detest poor spelling (in myself), thus I am going to go through and correct all the poor grammar and spelling that my overly-conscious-of-it thoughts managed to pick up.

Hi, I'm sapphire_angel_gem and I like to write stories, obviously. Else I wouldn't be here, would I? Once I found out about fanfiction, though, I decided that this was the perfect opportunity to see how well I write! So any constructive critisim you can give me would be much appreciated.

Anyway, just so you know, I'm one of those people that actually like rambling on pointlessly and telling people everything, so my profile should match that. I like to talk about all sorts of different things and if you get me onto a subject I like and am passionate about... well. Let's just say you'll be standing there for awhile. However, I have tried to magically transfigure my ramblings into enjoyable pieces of information! Hopefully my profile is a source of amusement, at the very least, and I'll update it every now and then. So, as I often say at the beginning of my stories (actually, I think I always say it...), Enjoy!

Complete

Baking Trouble- A fluffy one-shot in which Ginny makes a slight on men cooking and Harry takes offense to it, resulting in some unexpected consequences that would usually be involved with working in a magical kitchen and having no idea what to do with it.

Domino Effects- Set after fourth year. The Weasley boys are unsatisfied with the git Ginny had chosen to date, and believe that to keep their sister safe, there is only one git for the job.

Ignorance is Bliss- Set in the Slight Mishap universe. Severus Snape really wants to know how a two-year-old boy, namely one Harry Potter, could have made a rather intricate healing draught. Getting the information he wants is tricky, but when he gets it, he decides that he could really have done without knowing it.

Explanations of the Smaller Kind- I'm not entirely sure if this isn't pointless, but it was fun to write. It occurs in Chapter Eleven of A Slight Mishap and is about Albus Dumbledore finally explaining about little Harry's three lots of memories in terms Harry can understand.

His Secret- 'If there was any one thing you should know about my best friend it was that he liked to keep secrets. Big secrets.' Ron goes to see someone to get a lot of things off of his chest and to talk, in particular, about how worried he is about his best friend. May have a sequel. Slightly angsty.

His Mind- This is the sequel to His Secret. 'I have learnt that the best thing I can do when dealing with him is to keep my mouth shut'. This is an angsty one-shot from Hermione's point of view as she deals with the puzzle that is Harry's mind.

His Love- Sequel to His Secret and His Mind. 'Love is like a butterfly that doesn't want to be held down. Loving him is even more so'. Possibly the deepest one yet, a one-shot from Ginny's point of view as she talks about just how hard it is to love Harry when he doesn't understand how she could. Very angsty.

The Matchmaker- Albus Dumbledore finds that Valentines Day is quite boring, to say the least, considering there's really no one to talk to at all, and nothing to do. So, when he figures something out from a conversation between Ron Weasley and Harry Potter, he decides to give himself something to do. Humorous and slightly pointless, but fun none-the-less!

Weird Circumstances- Harry is having a really weird day, beginning when he sees rocks turning over of their own accord. From their the day gets progressively stranger, right up to the point where he meets Lord Voldemort in a muggle park. This was most definitely pointless... the only point of it is that it is funny and that it cheered my friend up when she was down!

Work-In-Progress

A Slight Mishap- In a desire to see something embarrassing happen to his most hated student, Professor Snape forces Harry to test an Ageing Solution that he knows is not complete. The result is a two-year-old Harry who is quite confused. Humour fic set in Harry's sixth year. The next chapter is almost finished and plans for another two are underway!

Seeing is Believing- The day before his birthday Harry opens his front door to find that he has a quite unexpected visitor who has come to take him to London for the day. While crossing a busy road an unexpected accident occurs that should have been fatal, but the fates would not allow it. Bought back to life, they'll have to wonder if maybe they hadn't been better off dying anyway compared to what they've started seeing... Starts holidays before fifth year and continues on into Harry's fifth year. Romance, humour, a little angst, action-adventure. I am considering re-doing this story from the beginning.

I'm Still Here- This is an alternate fifth year story, with significant changes to it. It will be, above all else, a story almost riddled with angst, though I will still have happy, and perhaps sometimes even humorous, moment in it, because too much angst is sometimes very hard to bear for me. The true point of the story is that something shall happen that means Harry might not quite make it until the end of the year, but I won't tell you why yet. If all goes well I might consider making a sequel to it. Maybe. I don't know how it'll happen, or why, but maybe.

Ideas

This is quite possibly one of the parts of this profile that changes the most because my feelings on my tentative ideas change and waver and whatnot, so I have to try and decided what I actually really want to be putting up later or whatnot. I've combined the Tentative Ideas with the Ideas Being Worked On sections... because, really, they're just the same section under different names these days. So now it is under Ideas.

To Tell A Lie- Ron decides a solemn Harry needs to loosen up a little and attempts to brew veritiserum, only he botches it up without realising it and the castastrophic results for poor Harry quickly makes him realise that it wasn't such a good idea after all.

His Life- Sequel to His Secret, His Mind and His Love. It is the last in the series. 'They all think there is something wrong with me. But there isn't, I swear there isn't'. An angsty one-shot from Harry's point of view as he talks about the hardships of his life and how he refuses to believe that there is anything wrong with him.

Wolf Child- I have decided to attempt to redo the Harry Potter series but with a twist. When Harry was five he was attacked by an un transformed werewolf, causing strange effects and he is forced into captivity until he finally escapes weeks before he is due at Hogwarts. A look into the life of an innocent, untrusting, wary, half-werewolf, Slytherin Harry who still manages to attract trouble and good friends. And with Voldemort already back to life, what else can this author's mind come up with?? (This is possible the one that I will put up next... it's already over a hundred pages! If you're reading this, let me know if you think it is interesting and I'll base what I do off that. If no one says anything... well, I'll think about it.)

Drawing Fate- Divination is an imprecise art that only those with certain gifts can truly understand. Harry Potter was never any good at Divination, but then he finds that he does have a gift for one form of the art. Yet, it isn't a gift he particularly wants... after all, who wants to predict how they're going to die? -hums innocently- I very much like this idea. Because its got lots of twists and turns and poor Harry has to try and figure them all out before it's too late.

Currently Un-named- There's no title at the moment, just an idea, inspired by my latest addiction. I was just sitting, wondering one day; 'what would happen if the Harry Potter characters met the characters from Pokemon?' And, here's the result... When Voldemort suddenly acquires aide from a different dimension Harry needs to watch out. But it shouldn't matter, because aide has come to him as well. Beating Voldemort and Giovanni should be a cinch now, right? ... Well, if Ash and Harry can learn to work together that is...

Alright, let's see what else I can put in. A booklist!

Favourite Books

Now, this is a rather long list, so I shall cut it down to be all time favourites, which is going to be quite difficult. Due to this list you shall also find out my favourite authors!

-The Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling

-Artemis Fowl and sequels by Eoin Colfer (also I love The Wishlist and The Supernaturalist by the same author)

-Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini

-The four-book Troy Game series by Sara Douglass (though I can't say much for her endings)

-The Ill-Made Mute series by Cecilia Dart-Thornton (though she too has endings that make me want to throw the book at the wall. I have recently discovered the Crowthistle Chronicles, which are good too)

-Deltora Quest and, even above that, Rowan of Rin series by Emily Rodda (something about Rowan of Rin appeals to me more than Deltora Quest, though they're both excellent!)

-The Alex Rider series and The Power of Five series by Anthony Horowitz

-The Rhiannon's Ride series by Kate Forsythe

-The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke

-The Giver by Lois Lowry

-Anything by Tamora Pierce

-Epic by Connor Kostick

-The Book of Lies and Master of the Books by James Maloney

Right, I noticed that this was completely out of date so I've scrapped it and started again :) The list above is just a few of my all-time favourites; as previously stated we would be here all night if I had to mention every single one, and I'm pretty sure fanfiction might even reject the overly long profile! Currently my book count is 322, though that's set to change very soon, as soon as I add the books I got for my birthday and the ones I had to buy for university English.

I'm very into Japanese animation; it started as a love of Pokemon, then I found that I loved to sketch Manga, and I'm almost good at it these days :). I've branched into the realm of one-page comics at any rate. My love of anime has branched out though to include other shows. Currently at the top of the list (not including Pokemon... that one's a given) are Bleach, Air, Sakura Card Captors and the fourth season of Digimon. I shall also reluctantly admit to liking Dragonball Z - funnily enough I didn't like it when I was younger, but I've been watching it with my dad and siblings and I've enjoyed that. So it will go on the list.

I don't watch much tv, and what I do what is usually anime (shhh) but I do have a few shows that I enjoy or enjoyed. I fell in love with Merlin and cannot wait for the second season to come out. I also absolutely adore Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis. Carson Beckett is awesome, as is Rodney McKay from the second series, and I loved Jack's sense of humour from the first series. I used to watch Heroes and Smallville, but not anymore.

Quirky Little Sayings

-When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.

-If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving is not for you!

-Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he eats for a lifetime.

-Who is more the fool? The fool? Or the fool who follows him? (I really don't like Starwars, but I was in my room one day while my siblings were watching it, and I heard this. Don't know which movie it was from though.)

-A beautiful person without kindness is like a flower without a scent. (My best friend came up with that one.)

-A simple friend will bail you out of jail. A true friend will be sitting beside you saying "well, we screwed up, but we had fun!"

-I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerate, and kindness from the unkind. Yet, strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

-If you don't know what you don't know, then ask! (A history teacher; took me awhile to realise what it meant...)

-If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. (Apparently Albert Einstein said this.)

-He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not is a fool forever.

-It is better to be thought an idiot then to open your mouth and remove all doubt. (Hmmm, strangely that differs completely to the above saying!)

-Think of it not that I am a strange individual, merely that the rest of them are odd. (Albus Dumbledore, from my unloaded story Harry's Fifth Year.)

-Don't follow in my footsteps; I walk into walls.

-Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

There, a nice collections of little sayings (though no where near the collection I have floating around my room...) And now I'll give you a collections of some of my favourite sayings (ahem... not really, I suppose, they're more ones that I loved and that really caught my eye as I was reading the past couple of days =) ) from some random stories that I picked up!

Random Sayings from Equally Random (though Real) Stories

Once a moderately jolly wizard camped by a dried up water hole under the shade of a tree he was completely unable to identify. And he swore as he hacked and hacked at a can of beer, saying, 'What kind of idiots put beer in tins?'

-The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett

'A soft-boiled-egg tree?'

'Yes,' said the Senior Wrangler. 'Nicely runny. They're quite good with breadfruit soldiers.'

'You'll be telling me next he found a spoon tree...'

'Of course not.'

'Good.'

'It's a bush.'

-The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett

Even by Harry's low standards in Divination, the exam went very badly. He might as well have tried to see moving pictures on the desktop as in the stubbornly blank crystal ball; he lost his head completely during tea-leaf reading, saying it looked to him as though Professor Marchbanks would shortly be meeting a round, dark, soggy stranger, and rounded off the whole fiasco by mixing up the life and head lines on her palm and informing her that she ought to have died the previous Tuesday.

"Well, we were always going to fail that one," Ron said gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he had told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in his crystal ball, only to look up and realise he had been describing his examiner's reflection.

-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

"I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment," Dumbledore said to Uncle Vernon, "but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness."

-Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say there was little to choose between the two way, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

-Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

"...You don't usually ask so many questions about the limo driver. That's four in the past fifteen minutes. Will Maria be picking us up? Where do you think Maria is right now? How old do you think Maria is?"

Artemis rubbed his temples. "It's this blast puberty, Butler. Every time I see a pretty girl, I waste valuable mind space thinking about her. That girl at the restaurant for instance. I've glanced in her direction a dozen times in the past few minutes."

Butler gave the pretty girl in question an automatic bodyguard's once-over...

Butler patted his young charge on the shoulder. "It's normal to be distracted by girls. Natural. If you hadn't been so busy saving the world these past few years, it would have happened sooner."

"Nevertheless, I have to control it, Butler. I have things to do."

"Control puberty?" snorted the bodyguard. "If you manage that, you'll be the first."

"I usually am," said Artemis.

-Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer

FRIENDS/BEST FRIENDS

FRIENDS: Will comfort you when he rejects you.

BEST FRIENDS: Will go up and ask him, "It's because you're gay, isn't it?"

FRIENDS: Will be there for you when he breaks up with you.

BEST FRIENDS: Will call him up and whisper, "Seven days..."

FRIENDS: Helps you up when you fall.

BEST FRIENDS: Keeps on walking saying, "Walk much, dumb ass?"

FRIENDS: Helps you find your prince.

BEST FRIENDS: Kidnaps him and brings him to you.

FRIENDS: Will ask you if you're okay when you're crying.

BEST FRIENDS: Will laugh at you and say, "Ha Ha, Loser!"

FRIENDS: Will offer you a soda.

BEST FRIENDS: Will dump theirs on you.

FRIENDS: Will sit at the side of the pool with you at that time of the month.

BEST FRIENDS: Will throw you a tampon and push you in.

FRIENDS: Gives you their umbrella in the rain.

BEST FRIENDS: Takes yours and says, "Run - beep - run!"

FRIENDS: Will help you move.

BEST FRIENDS: Will help you move the bodies.

FRIENDS: Will bail you out of jail.

BEST FRIENDS: Would be in the room next to you saying, "That was awesome! Let's do it again!"

FRIENDS: Never ask for anything to eat or drink.

BEST FRIENDS: Helps themselves and are the reason why you have no food.

FRIENDS: Call your parents by Mr. and Mrs. and Grandpa, by Grandpa.

BEST FRIENDS: Call your parents DAD and MOM and Grandpa, GRAMPS!

FRIENDS: Would bail you out of jail.

BEST FRIENDS: Would be sitting next to you sayin "DAMN!" we messed up!

FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry.

BEST FRIENDS: Wont tell everyone else you cried...just laugh about it with you in private when your not down anymore.

FRIENDS: Asks you to write down your number

BEST FRIENDS: Has you on speed dial.

FRIENDS: Borrows your stuff for a few days then gives it back.

BEST FRIENDS: Loses your stuff and tells you, "My bad...here's a tissue."

FRIENDS: Only know a few things about you.

BEST FRIENDS: Could write a very embarrassing biography on your life story...

FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that is what the crowd is doing.

BEST FRIENDS: Will kick the whole crowds ass that left you

FRIENDS: Would knock on your front door.

BEST FRIENDS: Walk right in and say "I'M HOME."

FRIENDS: You have to tell them not to tell anyone.

BEST FRIENDS: Already know not to tell.

BEST FRIENDS: Are for life.

FRIENDS: Will be there to take your drink away from you when they think you've had enough.

BEST FRIENDS: Will look at you stumbling all over the place & say "Girl drink the rest of that ! You know we don't waste!

FRIENDS: Would read ignore this.

BEST FRIENDS: Will repost this shit!

While reading this section I noticed that my tastes in fanfiction have actually changed over the years, so it is about time I update this too. It's only the next paragraph that is totally different :)

First of all I adore Harry/Hermione. Yes, it is not canon, yes, it will never happen... but there is just something about those two that would make such a good couple! I like Harry/Ginny (sometimes) and Harry/Luna is funny, cute and sometimes really awesome. Sometimes I shall read slash if it is well written; I have nothing against those couples and there are some really good stories out there.

I like humour, and I like angst, which are completely at opposite ends of the spectrum! However, that's my writing, too... I'm very got at humour and I'm very good at making people cry -whistles innocently- not that I mean to. I've also been told I'm quite good at doing the whole evil persona thing in my writing, but I'm not sure about that. I also like stories that go places and do things, even if it isn't out-and-out action. I also quite like suspense, though I don't touch the horror stories.

Also, inspired by my latest obsession, a new part! Currently, all I can tell you is that, though I think May and Dawn are both very interesting characters (note; Dawn is starting to get on my nerves a little bit and I'm starting to think I could do without her...), I'm a firm pokeshipper (Ash/Misty). BRING BACK MISTY!! :) Also, my current favourite episode is that one in the Hoenn region, A Scare to Remember... why doesn't anyone like that episode? It's episodes like that that make me love Pokemon all the more!!

Well, I think I've rambled on and on enough for today, and I better finish before I bore you all to death (those of you that actually managed to make it this far, that is; virtual cookies for all of you who are still reading my profile page!)

Cheers!

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