The Dark One's Darkest Dream is my first foray into fanfiction. Please let me know what you think.

Other story ideas floating around thanks to these fine authors:

Joe Abercrombie vs. R.A. Salvatore- Ninefingers vs. (or alongside) Drizzt

Anne Bishop vs. James Barclay- Fun with Dragons

Steven Brust / Anne Bishop / Gene Auel / Jack Whyte / Jacqueline Carey vs. Anyone

Quotes that may give you an insight into my personality and outlook:

"I looked from one to the other, all of us sodden with drink and grief, and felt one of those moments of acid significance, where you're sure you've just realized something important and forgotten it instantly."

-Hal Duncan in "Vellum" 2005

"Throw away your television."

-Words to live by from Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chilli Peppers on "By the Way" 2002

"I've been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding; the cretins cloning and feeding, and I don't even own a T.V."

-Sean Nelson of Harvey Danger on "Flagpole Sitta" from album "Where Have all the Merrymakers Gone?" 1998

(not one of my favourite songs/albums, but definitely an accurate sentiment from my perspective and experience)

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

-Plato (428 - 347 B.C.)

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one learned in school."

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."

-Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."

-Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet 1694 - 1778)

And finally:

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."

-Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

In the spirit of this last quote I will gladly read and consider reviews, and I welcome discussion of plot/characterization. PM me if you have a comment or question, or just want advice on which suspenders to wear tomorrow.