Salvete! Hello Everyone! I apologize in advance for any spelling/grammar errors.

As of 1/20/2010 - I'd first like to say Happy New Year to everyone! Secondly, as you can probably guess, my confidence is still really low - no posts in the near future for anything. I've decided to turn most of my stories into one-shots, because I just get overwhelmed when I try to write anything more than 20 pages... But, besides my near constant writers block, I've accumulated quite an extensive library of fan-fictions outside of fanfiction.net that I've decided that people should know about. Some of the authors are on this site, but I feel that people should be able to read the full versions of their work(s). This is my homage to them. I'm going to hyperlink the best below (with appropriate warnings as needed) and let you all do the rest. Read what you like - I'm no expert, but from what I've read these authors have real talent. Hope you all enjoy them. ;)

As of 9/5/2009 my stories and profile are going to undergo a complete revamp. I might drop Kunai: Double Edged Blade because I've lost interest - but not to worry! The Banal Excuse will be continued.

As a short explanation of why I've been on a two year hiatus, I simply lost my drive to write. I took a rigorous writing class in school and when my papers came back with hundreds of marks on them, I became more than a little discouraged. But, as a result I am a much better writer now than I was then.

Even though I might still get constantly frustrated, I'm going to try and start writing again. Over the past few years I've thought up many new stories that could possibly make it here. So, sit tight, because it might take me a while to post anything...

Anyway - onto my profile! =)

A little about me:

I love to draw and paint, but I've recently begun to pick up a camera. If you have any desire to see my work, please go here:

Favorite Things:

Anime/Manga:

Fullmetal Alchemist, Naruto, Immortal Rain, Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, Howl's Moving Castle, My Friend Tortoro, Ponyo, Castle in the Sky, Flower of the Deep Sleep, Immortal Rain, Rurouni Kenshin, and Emma. I like some Fruits Basket and InuYasha - but they usually get on my nerves.

Movies:

Must Love Dogs, High Fidelity, The Goodbye Girl, The Butchers Wife, G.I. Jane, Kiki's Dilivery Service, Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Sky, My Friend Tortoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Nausicaa, Underworld, Amelie, Ponyo, Contact, Mansfield Park, BCC's Pride & Prejudice... I could go on and on...

Books:

Blood and Chocolate By: Annette Curtis Klause; The Chanters of Tremaris Trillogy By: Kate Constable; Howl's Moving CastleBy: Diana Wynne Jones; Angels and Demons By: Dan Brown; The Mediator Series By: Meg Cabot; The Grimm Brothers Tales; Edith Hamiltons Mythology; Cup of the World By: John Dickinson; Widow and the King By: John Dickinson; Valliant; Tithe; Ironside (all By: Holly Black); Persuasion By: Jane Austen; Jane Eyre By: Charlotte Bonte and Sense and Sensibility By: Jane Austen. I think I might be missing a few...

Heroes:

The Flash, Cat Woman (even though she's not really a hero), The Goblin King (for the same reason), Hellboy, Rorschach, Rogue, Gambit, and Batman.

Artists:

Claude Monet, Alphonse Mucha, Manet, Renoir, Rembrant, Mark Rothco, Mondrian, Mary Casatt, and some Pollock.

Quotes/Poems:

"Anything we're not is the thing we're taught to fear." - Vivian, from the movie Blood and Chocolate.

"Strike a glass; and it will not endure an instant; simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years." -G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

"There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." -Louis L’Amour

"Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it." -Steven V. Thulon

Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.

Strephon’s kiss was lost in jest,
Robin’s lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin’s eyes
Haunts me night and day.
-Sara Teasdale, The Look

When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things,
And learned that compromises wait
Behind each hardly opened gate,
When I have looked Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange--my youth.

-Sara Teasdale, Wisdom

forefathers gave me
My spirit's shaken flame,
The shape of hands, the beat of heart,
The letters of my name.

it was my lovers,
And not my sleeping sires,
Who gave the flame its changeful
And iridescent fires;

the driftwood burning
Learned its jewelled blaze
From the sea's blue splendor
Of colored nights and days.

-Sara Teasdale, Driftwood

I hope you enjoy reading! Please, let me know what you think.