Earnestly, I suck at writing fanfiction. It hurts my little pride to admit it, but I really lack imagination and sense of language to write decent stories.

I'm a grateful reader. If I find a story really good, I make every effort to let the talented author know what I think. I believe it's unfair to review fanfition with just "I liked it!", or "Wow, that was amazing", or "Write some more!" Any story is an individual creation and deserves an individual approach. I honestly try to do justice to the authors of my favourite ficlets. I'm sorry If I fail to convey what I really feel about a story sometimes. But be assured, if I write a review, I find the story at least above average.

Being rather realistic and somewhat conservative, I do not favour OOCness, AU stories, and, God forbid, Mary Sues. Original characters have to be recognizable, their bevahior and interaction credible, otherwise it I would rarely bother reading such a story. Unless it is an ueber-hilarious crack fic or I'm being hungry for certain thematic fanfiction, especially when I want more romantic development between my favourite pairings than the original offers. But I easily get sick of soapy overfluffed romance.

Alongside with credibility, another mostly welcomed thing - and rarely found - is good humour. To all people with good sense of humour, you can't imagine how much I admire you!

I don't think angst is bad. It can add contrast and be necessary for a successful silver lining. A good story always plays upon the reader's emotions, and angst is probably the first instrument to do so. But I avoid multiple chapter fics containing death of main characters, unless it happened or was implied in the original.

Fics with mature content are fine for me, when it's clear from the nature of the relationship that such interactions are possible. Actually, the deeper the story goes into a relationship, the more expected and desirable such things are. Yet sex-centered fics - mostly being one-shots - are a matter of mood. Who doesn't feel horny sometimes?

OCs are fine with me, if they are well elaborated, well integrated in the flow of events and don't take up the whole stage. I don't like Yaoi or Yuri as a genre, I hardly read any stories containing Yaoi or Yuri pairings if they are not implied in the original. Since manga goes before anime in my preference list I tend to read manga-based stories. But if a story is good and credible it doesn't matter where its roots go.

~ My profile ~

Occupation: balancing between last days of a careless university student and a working grown-up life

Music: Yuki Kajiura, Joe Hisaishi, Yann Tiersen, Cowboy Bebop OST, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Norah Jones, Katie Melua, James Blunt, Josh Groban, Rosenstolz, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Rakhmaninov, J. Gershwin et cetera.

Currently obsessed with: Getting nervous about my graduation paper, procrastinating important stuff, making plans of what to do with all the free time after graduation, pondering over what to spend my salary on, FMA and Royai.

Currently reading (books): "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod, Folge 3" by Bastian Sick.

Currently reading (manga): Fullmetal Alchemist (Obsessed with it), Fruit Basket (the manga is still my number one shoujo), Glass Mask (why does the mangaka like to go on hiatus so much?), Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori (Anatolia Story), Berserk, Ritter der Königin (Queen's Knight), Bakuman (Love it!), Vampire Knight (I can't believe I still read this girlish stuff! I even don't like vampires), Ouran High Shool Host Club

Looking forward to: graduating from university, a new book of the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins in 2010; a new Glass Mask, FMA, and Bakuman chapter.

Favourite manga (anime): Fullmetal Alchemist, Fruit Basket, Glass Mask (Garasu no Kamen), Bakuman, HanaKimi, xxxHolic, Nodame Cantabile, Kino no Tabi, Cowboy Bebop, Honey and Clover (the anime is a masterpiece, no less!).

Favourite couples: Maya & Masumi (Garasu no Kamen), R. Mustang & R. Hawkye (FMA), Mizuki & Izumi (HanaKimi), Haruhi & Tamaki (Ouran).

Favourite characters: Honda Kyoko, Sohma Yuki (Fruit Basket); Himekawa Ayumi, Kitajima Maya (Glass Mask), Tamaki ~ kawaiiii! ~(Ouran), Kimihiro Watanuki, Yuuko (xxxHolic), Nodame (Nodame Cantabile), Edward (Fullmetal Alchemist), Kino (Kino no Tabi).

Have You Ever

Shot A Gun:Does a toy gun count?
Been In Love: Not sure if it was love.
Sat On a Rooftop: Yep

Been on a Plane:Yes

Do You

Sleep with stuffed animals: No
Take walks in the rain: Yes, but I rarely do it intentionally.
Want to get married: Not now. I enjoy my freedom.
Want to go to college: I’m graduating from the university now! Though I sometimes feel like studying for a second degree.
Want to have children: I sometimes think about it. Though I said I enjoyed my freedom, I’d like to give my love to somebody very close to me. Men are not an option. But the sane part of my brain tells me I at first need to learn to stand on my own feet.
Sing in the shower: Rarely. I prefer daydreaming or making up stories (which never turn into fanfics :(
Get along with you parents: Yes, with my mom. Our view and tastes are so much alike! I’ve never talked properly with my dad though. We never argue but this is not ‘getting along’.
Get along with your sibling/s: Rather yes than no. But I rarely see my younger brother, I live far away from them. Still, I think he is a great guy!
Color/highlight your hair: No.
Wear makeup every time you go out: No.
Have glasses or contacts: both
Have a cell phone: Yes
Have a camera: Yes

Been in the Emergency Room: No
Passed Out: Yes, during my school graduation ceremony. It was terribly stifling and hot. And once I nearly passed out during a class with a private teacher. Don’t know why.
Broken a Bone: My arm (don’t remember which one). And the nose, twice.
Cut Your Own Hair: No.
Smoked: No.
Drank: Yes. But not that I’m addictive or something… Just drinking red whine with great people on off-days and holidays.
Been on stage: Yes. And I realized I was not made for it.
Slept all day: Yes.

~ Random stuff ~

Windows haiku error messages

A file so massive?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless others exist.

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.

Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
So beautifully.

With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.

The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao-until
You bring fresh toner.

Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.

A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.

Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

Printer not ready.
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?

Login incorrect.
Only perfect spellers
May enter this system.

Did you know...

It is impossible to lick your elbow.
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years,
no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
More than 50 of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Horses can't vomit.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
Over 75 of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.