Name: James (and my last name is...none of your business)

Usernames: shadowreploid, Fanfiction.Net (duh!); shadowblade3, deviantART (think I've got a shadow thing going on here, or what?)

Nicknames: Jim, Jimmy, Jimbo, Jimmy-boy, Jimbogarian, Jimbogarian Bucket of Cheese (no clue how that one happened, it just did, okay?), Unca Jimmy, Crazy Jimmy...(the list goes on and on)

Likes: Reading anything well-written/amusing, spending time with family (some parts of it, at least), peanut butter (again, the list goes on...)

Dislikes: Flames, haters, people getting all pissy about absolutely nothing, hypocrites (this one is too damn long to even consider putting the entirety up)

Hates: Yaoi, pairings that make no sense whatsoever (for instance, Harry/Draco, Hermione/Snape, Omega/Copy X [And yes, I really have seen a fic with that pairing. I had absolutely no clue what it was actually about until it was too late. The trauma!]), Twilight (sparkly vampires? Seriously?) and a whole lot of other stuff

Personality: I'm usually pretty relaxed, but when I get pissed, I stay that way for a while (unless there are Oreos available for consumption, preferably with some Dr. Pepper; it make the world taste better ;) ). I'm highly protective of the people close to me, to the point that I can be overprotective. I tend to imagine the worst case scenario, so that when everything works out, it exceeds my expectations. I sometimes have difficulty discerning whether someone is being serious about something or not. Admittedly, people have the same problem with me. Also, I have a tendency to be a little snarky. (I love that word!)

Favorite Anime/Manga (eternal work in progress)

Fullmetal Alchemist (manga) Brotherhood (anime)

Inuyasha (manga)

Ranma 1/2 (manga; still need to watch anime)

Hellsing (manga) Ultimate (anime)

Negima: Magister Negi Magi

Rosario Vampire

I'm working on a MASSIVE crossover story at the moment. Only problem being, I've also got a serious case of writer's block going on. It is on hiatus at the moment. I am still working on it, it's just very...slow...going...

Quotes to Remember (another eternal work in progress)

"Sweet Mother of Jefferson Davis!" Cookie, Atlantis: The Lost Empire

"Yippee kai yay, motherfucker." John McClane, Die Hard series

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anybody can start today and make a new end." Unknown

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." Unknown

"Don't keep your mind so open that your brain falls out!" Kevin Crush, friend

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us." Ralph W. Emerson

"Far greater is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt

"You can start livin’, or you can start dyin’." Unknown

"You got a friend in me..." Randy Newman, Toy Story

"Put that thing back where it came from, or so help me!..." (long, awkward silence) Mike Wazowski, Monsters, Inc.

"And when we meet the enemy, we will rip their heads from their spines, and toss 'em away, laughin'! Am I right, Marines?!- Sir, yes sir!- Uh-uh. Damn right I am. Now move it out, double-time!" Sergeant Avery Johnson, Halo: Combat Evolved opening, normal mode

"You stupid goose!" Ike, Fairy Fails by Pikana

"The epicness shot past 9000, and it's still going!!!!" James Crimson (awesome guy, btw)

"You know what? I could blow up the whole god-damned world with this thing." Church, Red vs. Blue, talking about the Scorpion tank

"Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal." Benjamin Franklin

"I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it." Don DeLillo (White Noise)

"I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay." Bob Dylan

"I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street." Virginia Woolf

"If you aren't failing at something, you aren't succeeding at anything." Jonathan "Damien Darkside" DesRoches

"I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life." Paulo Coelho

"We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls." Bill Bryson

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." Agatha Christie

"In that book which is my memory, on the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you appear the words, 'Here begins a new life'." Dante Alighieri (Vita Nuova)

"When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed." Marilyn Manson

"We have guns. "
"No, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty I'll no longer be standing, because if I am you'll all be dead before you've reloaded." V from V for Vendetta

"Always forgive your enemies - Nothing annoys them so much." Unknown

"The object of war is not to die for your country, it's to make the other bastard die for his." General George S. Patton

"Did you know that life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% fatality rate?" Unknown

"Cheating: The Plan B of winners for over 2000 years." A very smart person

"Grammar is important. Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse." An English teacher (I'd be willing to bet forty bucks)

"There's a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think that I walk that line every day of my life."

"Nope, no matter how bad things seem, they can't be any better, and they can't be any worse, because that's the way things fucking are, and you better get used to it, Nancy. Quit yer bitching."

"Yep, hand to hand combat is the old school way to kill your enemies. Killing a man with your bare hands says 'We're all equals as men except I'm slightly more equal because I'm still alive and you're dead.' Of course dropping a nuke on them from 50 thousand feet is totally acceptable. I mean let's face it, there just not enough time in this world to show everybody the courtesy of a good strangling."

"Shotgun to the face is a great contingency plan! Wanna see how it cures insubordination?" Sarge - Red vs. Blue

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"You should never avert your eyes from death, never look away from the lives you have taken. And you should never forget the people that you have killed, because I can assure you they will never forget you." Solf J. Kimblee - Fullmetal Alchemist

"Insanity is relative to personal normality." Kenchi618

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Rules of Fanfiction (Credit goes to Kenchi618 for the original rules; some have been modified in order to be universal in meaning, and also so that they match my personal views)

1. Pissing off your readers is a double-edged sword. If it's a damn good cliffhanger, or something that sets up an antagonist for future comeuppance then great, fire away! As long as the pay-off is well worth it then that is what the creative process is all about. However, if you just delight in butchering whatever integrity the original storyline had and the amount of flames you get is equal to 1/4 of your entire review count then there is something seriously wrong.

2. NO FREAKIN' YAOI!! None! Now I'm not homophobic, I'm actually very chill with gay people, one of the coolest guys I know is gay, to each their own I always say. But I will not fucking read anything that even has the possibility of dude-on-dude action, fuck that shit, I have enough nightmares. Now since I'm a dude, yuri, maybe, but don't go overboard with it. Remember: Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should, and just because you should do something doesn't mean you will.

3. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. If you want reviews then fucking review on the stories of others. If you like a story, tell the writer what you like. If you don't like it, tell them what you don't like or you think could be improved. It's common courtesy damn it! A decent review takes one minute max, because you have a well thought-out opinion by the time you finish reading, so share the love.

4. Grammar and punctuation are actually very fucking important. If I read a story that I could've written better in the third grade then that is a problem. It really takes away from the story, it truly does. You can have a kick-ass premise and a great plot all set out, if you type a like second grade remedial english student then I won't read it damn it. Come on! You go through thirteen years of public school and learn how to write properly for a reason, because shitty writing pisses people off! No text writing either. Slang is okay, as long it is coherent and most know what the fuck you just wrote then by all means go forth. Even good grammar and spelling in your story summary can be the difference between hits and reviews, trust me.

5. Bashing is okay... to an extent. If the entire point of your story is to just shit all over certain characters and make another look like God's gift to the world then you can do that, but you won't be getting many thumbs up for your masterful storytelling. Be justifiable and flexible on your bashing, because just like in real life, things can change easily. There a very small number of exceptions to this. The primary one being any Twilight characters. And if I need to explain that, get off my damn profile.

6. Listen to the people. Yes, it is your story, that's cool. And in the end whatever happens is up to you. I'm not saying let them plan out the plot or anything, although if you're lazy then go for it. I'm saying that if enough people say something, like a certain thing sucks, or they talk about something that you didn't or can't explain, address it and/or try to fix it. If you are anything like me then reader response is like crack, showing you don't care is basically saying 'fuck this story' and that will not end well.

7. OC's are not God! OC's cannot do everything! They can fix stuff, yes! They can train people up, yes! They can be potential pairings, again, yes! But OC's cannot fix everything. Addendum by SR: there are potential exceptions to the above, at least in my book. However, they had damn well better be well written, and there had better be one fuckin' hell of a balance for the OC. Like death, of either them or someone they really care about. Or something like that. Also, this only adresses OC's who are friendly/neutral to the protagonist(s). Enemy OC's are another matter entirely. They can be as fuckin' overpowered as you want. After all, the bigger they are, the harder they fall.

8. Have extensive knowledge about the subject you are writing on. It really helps the quality of your work if you know what the hell you're writing about in the first place. For example, don't attempt crossovers if you don't have equal knowledge of all elements being used for the story. Either know what's going on, or have one hell of a reference tool at your disposal... as a matter of fact, you should have that at hand regardless because people tend to forget/overlook shit.