Just a sixteen year old girl with a laptop and far too much Time on her hands. Sadly the fact that he, Time, is sitting on my hands occasionally makes me type things that are beyond stupid.

Please excuse any cliches, purple prose, and just all around fifth-rate writing on my part.

Basic Info You Didn't Want to Know~

Name: I am called 'Under the Elder Tree'. Just call me Elder or E. Tree or "Hey, you!" Whatever flies your airplane.

Age: As stated above, 16. My mental age tends to vary between 5 and cranky-old-woman, though.

Why I Joined This Site: Because if I didn't have an account on here with all the time I spend reading the stories posted -- Well -- I'd feel like a major non-lulzy troll. Yep. (And maybe because I may end up posting some of my own horrid stories. im in ur intorwebz raepin ur fandom)

Likes: Slapstick humor and cheesy references, classic rock-and-roll, zombies, history, mythology and folk lore, TV Tropes, rainy days, and strange slang.

Dislikes: Vampires, predictable plots (despite the fact that I can't write a good plot to save my life), Did Not Do The Research, stingrays, and rap.

MORE Stuff I Like: One Piece, Dresden Files, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes (not just the movie), Fullmetal Alchemist, The Scarlet Pimpernel, House MD, Fringe, Rurouni Kenshin, Doctor Who, The Princess Bride, Quentin Tarantino films, Tim Burton films, Death Note, D. Gray-Man, YGOTAS, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, OCTs, and so on and so forth...

As A Writer, I DO NOT: Write smut. Write yaoi. Write something just because someone asks me to. Write fast-paced, romance-centric stories. Ship rabidly. Alter cannon characters dramatically to suit my needs. Contradict the cannon unless the story is AU or a "What if?" story.

As A Writer, I TRY TO: Uphold the cannon story and stick to the cannon rules as much as possible. Keep characters as in-character as my ability as a writer allows. Do the research, always do the research. Know what the hell I'm talking about. Be unbiased.

As A Reader, I DO: Read the occasional yaoi, but only rarely. Read something if someone asks me to and read it the whole way through, even if it's bad. Not read smut, I just don't like the stuff. Try and review if I have something useful to say, if not I keep my trap shut. Call you out if you bullshit. Read OC stories just to see what people come up with, those clever bastards.