(Updated: 11/15/18)

hi!! it's lumosify :D

I kinda went missing for like...four-ish years, huh? I've changed a lot since then, and I guess what came along with that was a change in interests and fandoms. Don't get me wrong, I still love Harry Potter and the occasional HP fic now and then (same goes for all the other fandoms I was involved in back then), but I have all these new interests, fandoms, hobbies, and so on. Each year a new hobby catches my eye, and it's been hard balancing all of those things in combination with my academic life and other pursuits.

I dropped writing because I did not have time for it, and the newer hobbies I had acquired were also more convenient and publicly acceptable (by that I mean: it's really awkward to write fanfiction next to other people). I really do want to get back into writing, and for all I know I might end up writing a Harry Potter fic or PJO fic or Warriors fic, but all the ideas I have right now are for a different fandom. As such, this account is somewhat like an archive of my writing 'mindscape' back in 2014, and less reflective of me as I am now. I will likely be abandoning this page. (I kind of already have.)

I am so so so grateful for all the time I spent here, I was really able to cultivate what I might consider to be the first hobby I ever took seriously; that will always mean so much to me. I still get notifications for the forum threads I used to frequent, and story updates from the authors I absolutely adored. I also get messages alerting me that people are still following and favorite-ing my stories, and regardless of however bad those stories may seem to me now, it really warms my heart to know that people are getting some enjoyment out of the stuff I worked so hard to write. When I get reviews, I am so excited to read them. Even if they're critical, I still get so nostalgic and still appreciate that they took the time to read my story. This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to write again, after abandoning the craft for so long.

I am planning to move to AO3 (because, let's be honest, this site is basically a sinking ship and where are the people running this place??? they obviously don't care about us anymore). It will be under a new username and I will probably cut off all ties with this account. That said, if anyone would like to find me there, please PM me! I haven't made the account yet, because I'm super indecisive about usernames (and also AO3's super long approval[?] process), but I hope to be there soon!

If you want to talk about anything at all, also feel free to PM me! I still get notifications and I love talking to the people here; you're all so nice. :)

best wishes!!

lumosify

p.s. might update profile again, but this is it for now

MY PROFILE PICTURE IS MY ARTWORK.

Monthly Message

(Last Updated (M/D/Y): 11/29/14)

Dear Stalker (thanks to Magnus Lightwood (Magenta) for that one...),

Hi there! Call me Lumos. Apparently I should put what I want people to call me on my profile, so stalkers can find it easily. How convenient!

Whee! I've just started becoming active! And...now I have to go hide in a hut in the middle of the sea, with only a banana and a pack of chips for company. Oh, the horror!

I have a lot of things I've written but haven't posted, it's going to take a while but it'll be posted eventually. I'm just a lazy buttface who likes to think she has no time when in reality she just likes wasting the time she does have. But don't we all?

I'm a part of many different forums. You should go check them out, there are links after this message.

I'm trying this new thing where I draw some of the pictures for my stories, so we'll see how that goes. No idea when the pictures will be posted, but I'm a little tired of using other people's pictures when I can draw some of them myself.

Lots of Lovely Fangirl Love,

--Lumosify

P.S. All the pictures I have are not mine. I just played with and edited them. They do not belong to me. My profile picture is indeed mine, however.

PLEASE, PLEASE CHECK OUT MY FAVORITED STORIES. I AM QUITE PICKY WHEN I CHOOSE STORIES AND I THINK YOU'LL FIND THAT MOST OF THE STORIES IN MY FAVORITED SECTION ARE WELL WORTH THE READ.

MOST OF THE AUTHORS I'VE FAVORITED HAVE WORKED LONG AND HARD TO MAKE THE PERFECT FANFICTION AND ALL THEY WANT IS FOR SOMEONE TO READ IT.

IF SOMETHING CATCHES YOUR EYE, THE LEAST YOU CAN DO IS GIVE IT A TRY.

AND IF YOU LIKE TO READ MANY STORIES FROM THE SAME AUTHOR, YOU CAN ALWAYS TAKE A LOOK AT MY FAVORITED AUTHORS. I THINK YOU'LL ENJOY THE TALENT AND SKILL THESE PARTICULAR AUTHORS HAVE.

REMEMBER THAT ALL AUTHORS WANT IS FOR SOMEONE TO ENJOY WHAT THEY WRITE. YOU HAVE THE POWER TO GIVE THAT TO THEM.

THANK YOU.

I, Lumosify, have challenged myself! I'm proud to be a part of the HPFC forum.

I am proud to be a student of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft Wizardry (Challenges Assignments) forum!

I, Lumosify, have challenged myself! I'm proud to be a waterbender on the AtLAFC forum.

I'm a proud member of the Tutshill Tornadoes on the QLFC forum! May the odds be ever in our favor. :P

I am proud to be a member of the Diagon Alley II forum!

Awards and Recognition:

Taking Action - Earned a place in The Hall of Fame: Story of the Week thread on Diagon Alley II Cents Make No Bloody Sense - Nominated for Best Humor in the 2014 Hallows Awards on Diagon Alley II Confession - Selected as the Beater 1 Judge's Pick for Round 10 of the QLFC

Some Awesome People:

Hollyleaf1243 - The first person I PMed with (and since then we've discovered we're extremely similar). We met through my first Warriors fanfiction (a collab).

PhoenixPatronus - An absolutely AMAZING humor writer with a passionate love-hate-thing for Turkish education systems. We met through her story (humor and romance, an unstoppable combination) and although we don't talk as much, we tend to blame the Turkish education system for that.

The May Waters - A Hinny shipper, a Jily shipper, and my rant buddy! We met through her stories. We rant all the time about whatever we hate, and then we try to convince each other to like certain characters or certain pairings. It doesn't really work, but we get some serious character analyzing done. I could write an essay with everything I've written to her, seriously.

Michal - We met through HPFC, and aside from being TZBs (Time-Zone Buddies), Michal invited me to be a part of the Tutshill Tornados in the third season of the QLFC.

Javier - The dude whose arm has been injured from the time we met on HPFC (I kid you not), Javier here also likes Pretty Little Liars (something that just makes him 20% cooler), and has similar drawing problems. Oh, and his wifey Jinny reminds me of Ginny, which makes me think of Hinny, which just makes me happy in general, so that's cool too.

Sunny - We met on ForeverClan! Sadly the forum has kinda died. But we have rather similar interests and we still talk, so it's all good. We bond over our mutual crazy complicated emotions.

(TO BE CONTINUED!!!)

MULTI-CHAPTER STORIES:

- The Blue-Furred One (Previously known as Blueflame and the ShadowClan Threesome) (Multi-chapter)

STORY PROGRESS: NOW ON allasophy's ACCOUNT. NOTES: I am no longer a part of this collaboration. It's all allasophy's now.

- Break In - A Sirius Black Story (Two-shot)

STORY PROGRESS: COMPLETE! NOTES: I finally got that second chapter done and posted!

- Plotbunny Central (Multi-chapter)

STORY PROGRESS: Chapter Two Posted! NOTES: This is a collection of drabbles and oneshots with no specific aim, simply to either a) exercise my writing during Writer's Block, b) get the runt plot bunnies out of my head before they either disappear or drive me crazy, or c) all of the above.

- Soul-Bound (Multi-chapter)

STORY PROGRESS: Chapter Three has been posted, but it may be a while before I post anything else. NOTES: This is NOT a romance story. It sounds like one, but it's not, I swear. It's a time-travel story. The story isn't entirely planned out, and there's a lot that needs to be tied up, but it'll happen eventually. Just might take some time.

A big thank you to all the readers, reviewers, followers, and favoriters out there! And to all of those readers (and maybe even writers) without accounts, I was once one of you! Keep reading and writing, and one day get an account!

-Lumosify