Hello, all! For anyone wondering, my penname is a play on my real name (and maybe a subconscious play on M. Night Shyamalan. :P I've enjoyed dreaming up fanfiction since I was a little girl, but very rarely got any of it down in tangible form. My time-management skills are... practically non-existent, so while I come up with TONS of cool ideas for stories, it's very rare/hard for me to actually get them written. :( Still, the call of this site was too loud for me to ignore forever, so I finally decided to give in and make an account. :P I don't write much fanfiction, but what I DO write I pour my heart into (and I'm a perfectionist, to boot), so I hope any readers I manage to draw in will find what little work I publish to be reasonably high-quality. :) I am 20-something years old, a Christian, an anime fan, an unashamed lover of exceptional children's stories, and a wannabe bookworm/gaming geek. Alas, through every fault of my own, I don't have enough free time to sink very deep into dorkdom. :( Naturally, I love writing, and I aspire to be a novelist one day.

My sister is the user Lucinda Cottontale, and we help each other out with almost all our fanfiction projects. :) Right now I'm helping her with her novelization of Minecraft: Story Mode. Check it out here: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11897530/1/Set-in-Stone

Here's the link to the DeviantArt home of the AWESOME cover art that Lucinda Cottontale drew for Saving Tobey (replace spaces with dots):

lucinda-cottontale deviantart com/art/When-Morning-Comes-608710253

And here's the link to the equally awesome art that she drew for Time to Go Home:
lucinda-cottontale deviantart com/art/The-More-Things-Change-644005694

If you're reading/participating in 26 Letters, here's the current status of the alphabet. Letters listed below have been locked in, and I am no longer accepting suggestions for them. All other letters are still free game.

A B C D E F M O X

Things That I Believe:

- There is a God, and the Bible is His love letter to humanity.
- Harry Potter is not the Devil.
- Men and women are very different, but that doesn't mean we can't learn to understand one another.
- Stories, even fictional ones, have the power to change people, and that is why we should all be very careful what we read, and even more careful what we write.
- Sports are not dumb, pointless wastes of time... but they are SO not my thing. XP
- You should never judge a book by its cover, a movie by its trailer, an anime by its title, a video game by its hype, or a fanfic by its blurb (unless its blurb says something like "Reed my storee RITE NAO!!!" XD).
- The customer is NOT always right.
- The cancer afflicting humanity is not terrorism, schism, or intolerance, but willful ignorance.
- Music is the voice of the soul (which goes to show that some souls are tonedeaf).
- Nobody is perfect, but those who try anyway come the closest.
- Love is not an emotion. It's a choice.
- Yaoi is disgusting.

My Favorite (that I can think of at the moment)...

Movies:
The LEGO Movie (this movie has so much of my heart in it, I can't even...! X3)
Coco (no movie has ever made me cry as much as this one T-T)
Pixar movies in general (WALL-E is my second-favorite :3)
Dragonheart
Death Note trilogy
Lord of the Rings
TMNT (2007)
I Am Legend
Balto
The Neverending Story
The Magic of Ordinary Days
A Walk to Remember
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
Wreck-It Ralph
Captain America (I like all his movies :3)
This Beautiful Fantastic
The Book of Henry
Tangled
How to Train Your Dragon
Megamind
Meet the Robinsons
The Secret of Kells
Galaxy Quest
And a bunch more I can't remember at the moment...

TV Shows:
Star Trek: Voyager
Burn Notice
Sherlock
Psych
Avatar: The Last Airbender
WordGirl
Danny Phantom
Gargoyles
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
The Cosby Show
X Men: Evolution
Teen Titans
The Powerpuff Girls (just for nostalgia's sake)
Invader Zim
Ninja Warrior (XD)

Anime:
Saint Tail
Fantastic Children
Princess Tutu
Lovely Complex
Fullmetal Alchemist
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Gunslinger Girl
A Little Snow Fairy Sugar
Buso Renkin
Kodocha
The works of Hayao Miyazaki (except for Porco Rosso, which I didn't get at all #_#)
Full Moon O Sagashitte
Elemental Gelade

Manga:
Manga Messiah (and the rest of the series)
Fullmetal Alchemist
Buso Renkin
Death Note
Naruto (pre-Shippuden, anyway -_-)
Ultramaniac
Kitchen Princess

Books:
The Bible
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan
Alcatraz VS the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Being a Christian Without Being an Idiot by Brad Stine
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle (and its sequels)
Broken Sky by Chris Wooding
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Video Games:
Ratchet & Clank: Future (duh XP)
Minecraft: Story Mode
Ever 17
ICO
Shadow of the Colossus
Dark Cloud 1 & 2
Darkened Skye
Mirror's Edge
Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force
Dance Dance Revolution
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1 & 2 (I can't play, though; I stink too bad. :( I just watch my little brothers)
Tropico
Majesty
Sim Theme Park

Music:
Melanie Anne (check her out on Youtube!)
Relient K
Thousand Foot Krutch
David Hodges / Trading Yesterday / The Age of Information
Owl City
Safetysuit
Anberlin
Francesca Battistelli
Abandon
Skillet
Switchfoot
Superchic[k]
Red
Jump 5
ZOEgirl
The Newsboys
Switchfoot
Toby Mac
J-Pop :P

If you're tired of scrolling through profile pages that consist mostly of endless badgering to paste things in your profile, paste this in your profile. (Ha! Take that, peer pressure! XD)