Yes, it's still Hopeless. I just had to change my name for safety reasons.

Books/Novellas I've read (ones in bold are my favorites): All seven of the Harry Potter books, Anne of Green Gables, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, A Monstrous Regiment of Women, A Letter of Mary, The Moor, O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, Language of Bees, God of the Hive, Twilight, A Study in Scarlet, The Red-Headed League, A Wrinkle in Time, Dying for Chocolate, Pipi Longstocking, Beezus and Ramona, Ramona Forever, Henry Huggins, Henry and the Paper Route, The Phantom of the Opera, The Mysterious Benedict Society, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, Fear Street: Killer's Kiss, Goosebumps: Say Cheese and Die!, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Thief of Always, Weaveworld, The Hellbound Heart, Coraline, The Circle(very thought provoking, but the main protagonist and the ending sucked), Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (SO much better than the movie in my opinion, by the way!) and Good Night Mr. Holmes.

Books I ought to finish: Anne of Avonlea, The Lovely Bones, The Scarlet Gospels, The Hiding Place, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Sign of Four, and Beekeeping for Beginners.

Books I refuse to read: Phantom of Manhattan (damn you, Forsyth!), anything written by the Marquis de Sade (Mom's orders), Fifty Shades of Grey (bad Twilight smut fanfiction that should have stayed a bad Twilight smut fanfiction; plus, from what I can tell, it promotes abusive relationships and doesn't understand how BDSM actually works)

Movies I Like (in no particular order): Mary Poppins, Wreck-It Ralph, Hitchcock, Saving Mr. Banks, My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks, Silence of the Lambs, the Devil's Carnival, Repo! the Genetic Opera, the Hellraiser series (except for the last two), Remains of the Day, Sense and Sensibility, the Great Mouse Detective, Exorcismus (a diet Exorcist film that's actually quite good), Wishmaster, the Phantom of the Opera (1989), Dolls, the ABCs of Death 2, and more that I'll put later.

Movies I Don't Like: Drag Me to Hell, the Mole Man of Belmont Avenue (boring, annoying, a complete waste of my time and a waste of Robert Englund's talent; KILL WITH FIRE.), Proteus (hopefully the only truly bad non-Hellraiser film Doug Bradley was involved in)

Films I Have Mixed Feelings About/Am Indifferent to: Maleficent, Hellraiser: Deader, Bram Stoker's Dracula, the ABCs of Death, the Gerard Butler version of the Phantom of the Opera, Saw series (boyfriend made me watch it)

Films I Want to Watch: the Nightmare on Elm Street series (So far I've only seen the first one), V for Vendetta, Candyman, the Phantasm series, Magic, Big Hero Six, Coco, Pretty Much All the Disney Movies I haven't seen yet (with some exceptions)

Film I'm Hesitant to Watch: Suspiria (lots of blood and the US trailer nearly gave me a heart attack, but the sets look amazing)

Films I REFUSE to Watch: Fifty Shades of Grey (same reason as the book. Also, I've heard that the lead actors didn't get along very well and were disturbed by what they had to do and the director was frustrated with Ms. James' "vision." Same goes for the sequels [please don't let her write anymore books or direct anymore films].), Escape from Tomorrow (or at least not until I've gone to Disney World myself), Where the Dead Go to Die (both the Mysterious Mr. Enter and AniMat have told people to stay away from this film because of how f*cked up it is. If you're smart, you'll stay away from it, too; in fact, don't even look it up)

About my important OCs:

Hellraiser:

Name: Katherine "Kari" Cotton (various stories that I have in mind)
General/Technical Age: 13, though she does age a bit if she stays in the Labyrinth long enough.
Species: Mostly Human
Origin: Daughter of Kirsty Cotton and Xipe Totec AKA Pinhead (Clive Barker, PLEASE make this couple part of canon!)
Appearance: 5"3, curly brown hair, blue eyes, and large ears.
Family: Kirsty, Pinhead, her doppelganger Justine, most of the other cenobites, Larry Cotton, Katherine Cotton (Kirsty's mother and Kari's namesake), Frank Cotton, Julia Cotton, and Trevor Gooden (The last three of which no one wishes to talk about)
Friends: An artistic anime fan named Aluf, his younger sister Lavada (also artistic), Elliot Spencer (in the event of her father becoming two people), Tiffany, Joey, most of the cenobites, Justine, Leviathan (when he tries to help her), and her three-legged cat named Inese.
Enemies (depending on circumstances, ordered in likelihood of hurting her, whether on purpose or by accident): the Harroweres, Frank, Pinhead (mostly retribution for defiance), Channard (even if he did stop trying to kill the other cenobites, he's still insane), Leviathan (when it turns out what he told her was a lie), Angelique, and Justine
Love Interest: Chatterer (the guy needs some more love)
About her: She is a young child who is unaware of who her true father is. She is very fond of her mother and will put everything second to her mother's happiness and safety, but she can be reckless and doesn't take time to consider the consequences of her actions.
Roll in Stories: Protagonist, love interest, innocent child
Likes: Reading, analyzing and admiring art, symbolism, playing with her cat, spending time with Aluf and Lavada, her mother, and puzzles.
Dislikes: Vanity, liars, arrogance, traitors, and unnecessary torture.

Name: Justine (appears in most of the same stories as Kari)
General/Technical Age: Appears to be in her mid-twenties both physically and mentally, but is actually ten years younger than Kari when it comes to existence.
Species: Mostly Cenobite
Origin: As repayment for saving his life during one of their missions, Xipe promised Angelique the darkest part of his first born child's soul. On Kari's 10th birthday (in my main story for her, shortly after Kirsty disappears), he took most of Kari's anger (usually directed towards him) and her desire for fairness in the world and created an exact clone who was named Justine, meaning justice.
Family: Angelique (served as a maternal figure to her), Pinhead (who is still technically her father), Kirsty (who she has great respect for, even though they don't see each other often), and Kari (since they are connected).
Friends: Nikoletta, Chatterer, Butterball, Dreamer (they both agree that Pistonhead is annoying), the Chatterbeast, Elliot, and (oddly) Julia (I like to think that after Hellbound, she changes her ways and makes an effort to make amends to those she hurt in the past).
Enemies (same order as before): the Harroweres, Frank, and her own god Leviathan (when he plans something that will harm the cenobites and other beings in the long run).
About her: A cenobite in training who does everything she can to please Pinhead, but can be sidetracked from her missions when complications arise (i.e. Kari does something reckless). Unlike Kari, Justine is careful and thinks of all possible outcomes that could happen because of her choice, and she rarely is wrong. Usually very calm, but when she gets truly angry, that is when she's the most dangerous.
Roll in Stories: Anti-heroine, foil.
Likes: Reading, writing, and fighting for what is right.
Dislikes: Sinners, hurting innocent people, and hypocrites.

Name: Laveda Amaniah AKA "The Artist"
Age: 13, though she would have been 16 in Blood Trials if she hadn't died before her transformation
Species: Cenobite
Origin: Laveda had the misfortune to overhear some of the Harrowers' plans and was saved by the cenobites so they could find out what she knew. To keep herself calm while in the Labyrinth (she technically died, so she couldn't leave), she began to paint on the stone floor of the room she stayed in using her own blood. Xipe noticed this and decided to let her take out her frustration on a Harrower they just captured. Leviathan was impressed with what she did to the Harrower and a few days later, transformed her into a cenobite known as "the Artist." He also allowed her to remember her human life and assigned the task of Puzzle Guardian to her brother, Aluf.
Family: Aluf, her brother and one of the Puzzle Guardians, Hugh (father; deceased), Diane (mother; deceased).
Friends: Dreamer, Nikoletta, "The Angel," Demeter, Hecate, Katherine Cotton, and Kari
Enemies: The Harrowers
About her: Laveda lives with her brother, Aluf, at his art studio. Aluf and her parents taught her how to paint when she turned five and she continues to improve her skill to this day. As a cenobite, she wears a leather smock and pants, often covered in human blood, carries sculpting tools that are sharp enough to be used as weapons if needed, and has ink pen tips on the end of both index, middle, and ring fingers connected to cartridges that hold three different types of blood in each, allowing her to draw pictures and write out messages. With the help of Hecate, she can use some of her drawings to attack the Harrowers (the "Drawn and Quartered" segment of the Vault of Horror movie can give you a good idea about what she can do). She often wears her human skin to help Aluf find people to open the box at public events such as art festivals. She is very upbeat, friendly, and quite proud of her work, both as a human and a cenobite. However, she does not take kindly to those who decide to mock her work rather than offer constructive criticism or threaten her and the people she cares about where she can see it, especially when she has a chisel in her hands.
Likes: Making art, admiring art, spending time with her friends and family, critics who actually know what they're talking about, receiving praise
Dislikes: Unfair/Worthless criticism, online trolling (extra hate points if they're the kind that send death/rape threats and decide to post addresses online and try to use "just kidding" or "freedom of speech" to get out of trouble [try pulling that on one of the cenobites you threatened moments before opening the box, I doubt he/she will forgive you for that]), perverseness (which is why she can't stand Pistonhead), unwarranted violence, destruction of art

Name: Aluf Amaniah
Age: When Leviathan made Aluf a Puzzle Guardian, he decided to stop him from aging at 19 so his sister wouldn't have to see him grow old and die. Aluf can make himself look older (with the right clothes and make up) when needed, however, so he's allowed to drink at a bar if he wants to.
Species: Human Puzzle Guardian
Origin: Aluf was horrified when his sister didn't come home one night, and the large pool of blood found in an alleyway that police identified to be hers drove him into despair. The only other thing found at the scene of her apparent death was the Lament Configuration that had her fingerprints on it. Aluf tried to move past his grief by transforming his sadness into art, but this only made him more upset to the point where he considered taking his own life before reminding himself that suicide wouldn't help him, and that his family would've been upset if they knew he even thought that was a reasonable solution. One night, he began to play with the box found and the cenobites came into his home. He was scared until one came up to him and claimed to be his sister. Looking at her, he recognized Laveda and hugged her tightly. Shortly after their reunion, her new god Leviathan gave him the task to guard the box from the Harrowers and give it to anyone else who seeks it.
Family: Laveda, his sister who has been turned into a cenobite, Hugh (father; deceased), Diane (mother; deceased).
Friends: Dreamer, Nikoletta, Pistonhead (one of his first customers before he made the studio and can give useful advice sometimes, though they still have disagreements), "The Angel," Hecate, Demeter, Katherine Cotton, and Kari
Enemies: The Harrowers, anyone who looks at his sister the wrong way (while she is now a cenobite and can easily defend herself, he still worries about losing her again)
About him: Aluf is a young artist running an art studio called "Dreams Illustrated," where he takes commissions from various people and creates what they want to near perfection. His parents were a huge influence on him and Laveda when they were younger, encouraging them to be creative and introducing them to the cultures of different countries such as France, Japan, and Africa. After they passed away, Aluf was left with the responsibility to take care of himself and his sister. He struggled for a few years until Laveda became a cenobite and he became a Puzzle Guardian. By selling the box to those who came for it (as long as they weren't Harrowers), he raised enough money to turn their house into an art studio and pay for necessities if commissions are slow. He is very nice and laid back. He knows exactly what to say to make people feel welcome and trust him. He also likes watching anime, sometimes using the shows he watches as inspiration for future work (he even gets commissioned to make fan art for anime online). He does not feel comfortable talking about sex, though, and can be overprotective of Laveda; if he sees someone give her a threatening or lecherous look, he won't hesitate to report him/her to the police.
Likes: Making art, admiring art, spending time with friends and family, anime, meeting new people
Dislikes: Hentai, torture porn, pedophiles and ephebophiles, unwarranted violence, any creeps who look at Laveda in a weird way, destruction of art

My Announcements:

11-30-10
Community

Hey, I decided to make a community for the stories about the people from the Institute in the Mysterious Benedict Society section. If anyone here is a fan of that series, do you think you could help me? You can help by writing more stories about the people of the Institute (Mr. Curtain, McCracken, Martina, Jackson and Jillson could use some stories written about them and it wouldn't hurt to add more S.Q. stories.) or by becoming a member of the staff. (I'm the only one working there, please help me!) If you want to be part of the staff, just PM me and I'll send an invitation if you want to call it that.

2-9-11
Video

Well, with help from my sister, the Jar of Hearts video is complete. It's not exactly the same as the story but it's finished. I did the directing, my sister did the editing. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh09t9ifs7Q

Enjoy! =)

1-2-14
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Princess Luna (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) I love this show! =)

Stories that I definitely WILL be doing: Say My Name

Category: Sense and Sensibility
Pairings: OC/OC, Colonel Brandon/Marianne
Genre: Mystery/Fantasy/Romance
Rating: T (Language, situations)
Summary: After catching her boyfriend cheating on her, Sarah Beth makes a wish to find someone like Colonel Brandon. When she wakes up, she finds herself in the time and place of Sense and Sensibillity, her friends and family playing the roles of the characters from the story and that everyone belives her to be Marianne. According to the real Marianne, the way to get back to her own time is to say the real name of the man who represents Colonel Brandon. The problem is, she doesn't remember him. Now married to the mysterious stranger in a dream, she tries to figure out more about the man and to remember where she had seen him. Is this man the one she has been looking for all along

Horror Fortress 2 (Actually 1, But Who Cares?)--(Series of Chapters)--Considering Canceling it Due to Loss of Interest in TF2 and very little feedback; still want to do a multi-crossover thing though.
Category: Movie Crossovers
Genre: Horror/Humor/Action
Rating: T (Generally, anything that could happen in a horror movie/fighting game that little kids shouldn't be exposed to.)
Summary: Team Fortress 2, only with horror movie characters. Cast below:
Heavy-Jason Voorhees (in this story, totally NOT mute, and in addition to the machete and his bare hands, he will also have a gun like the heavy weapons guy; I'll let you guys pick a name for it, just don't pick Sasha, otherwise... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfOtbGTpyFI )
Spy-Xipe Totec a.k.a. Pinhead, and other cenobites. (for shape shifting, being able to sneak up behind you without you noticing, and some other things that I'll let you figure out for yourself)
Soldier-Freddy Krueger (simply for lines like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buJ3w-r8wZQ, tell me they don't sound like something Freddy would say)
Scout-Ghostface (meh, I think any trash-talking killer would do, but I decided to go with this guy since usually, there is another guy in the same costume that pops up in another place, cornering the victim)
Engineer-Erik Destler a.k.a. the Phantom of the Opera (since he builds traps all the time)
Sniper-The Tall Man from Phantasm (I honestly can't think of one GOOD slasher that has used a gun/bow and arrow, so I'm using this guy since he did send balls with spikes flying after people and more often than not, they hit their mark.)
Pyro-Michael Myers (as far as I know, he never talks and I really don't know what goes through his head half the time; maybe he was trying to give people lollipops when he killed them?)
Medic-Dr. Hannibal Lecter (self-explanatory)
Demoman-Pennywise (for exploding blood balloons)
More Classes/Characters can be added later; I take requests.

Abandon All Hope
Category: Danganronpa/Horror Crossover AU (Might Replace the Team Fortress 2 fanfic), High School AU (Spoiler warnings for various horror films and for the Danganronpa franchise as important plot points from these will be taken and used for this story); might also post to DeviantArt instead of here since the rules say that you can't have choose your own adventure elements.
Characters: Carrie White, Kirsty Cotton, Hannibal Lecter, Clarice Starling, Herbert West, Ash Williams, Suzy Bannion from Suspiria, Seymour Krellbourn, Nancy Thompson, Esther Coleman, Annie Wilkes, Jennifer Check from Jennifer's Body, Angela Baker from Sleepaway Camp, Freddy Krueger (wouldn't be a true horror crossover without him somewhere), Jason Voorhees (same story as Jason), Bill Denbrough from It, Monokuma
Pairings: Clarice/Hannibal, Kirsty/Elliot (Minor), Kirsty/Carrie (Minor)
Genre: Mystery/Drama/Horror
Rating: M (A whole lot of death and angst ahead, plus potential suggestive moments)
Summary: Carrie was thrilled to attend the newly opened American branch of Hope's Peak and be seen as normal for once in her life, but when a demonic robot bear named Monokuma decided to trap her and fifteen other students in the school and tells them that the only way out is for someone to commit a murder and get away with it, she starts to wonder if she would have been better off staying with her mother. Will she be able to stop the Mastermind behind this sick game and escape the school with her new friends or will she succumb to Despair and lose everything?
I'm kind of addicted to Danganronpa at the moment so I thought why not write this? It will take a while since I need to plan out the murders and trials (only 1/6 have been thought through completely), find talents for Freddy (currently considering either Ultimate Inventor since he made that glove himself [he and Miu would get along well I think] or Ultimate Stand-Up Comedian because of all his one-liners, but I have no idea), Jason (I refuse to make him Ultimate Hockey Player just because of his mask; that's stupid), and Nancy (what talent would you give to someone who uses booby traps to protect themselves?), decide if I should have the Mastermind be the same Mastermind from the first game (which is a cliché in the Danganronpa universe at this point, but easy), pick one of the students to be the Mastermind (which is not an easy task since I have to pick from the students who survived the first five trials which adds more work in planning out the murders/trials and will have to do my best to make sure the Mastermind isn't too obvious) and of course the Executions (for this I'm creatively bankrupt on finding fitting deaths for these characters and I can't commission someone to come up with the executions for me because I'm a jobless college student and I'm going to need the money that I have for food, paying off college debt, and other important expenses when I graduate and move out). If you want to help me with any of these, I'll be sure to credit you for helping me.

Blood Trials (Title Pending)
Category: Hellraiser
Characters: OC, Pinhead, Chatterer, Kirsty, Angelique, and other cenobites.
Pairings: Chatterer/OC, Pinsty
Genre: Horror/Drama
Rating: M (it's a dark Hellraiser fiction: what do you THINK will happen?)
Summary: On her thirteenth birthday, Kari opens the Lament Configuration. The creatures on the other side promise that she will be reunited with her mother and father. However, she needs to pass a series of tests in order to do so, and her father is watching her every move.

Hellraiser: Hellworld Revised
Category: Hellraiser
Characters: Revised!Cast of Hellworld, Pinhead, Kirsty
Pairings: Chelsea/Jake, and some Pinsty
Genre: Sci-fi/Horror
Rating: T-M (don't know how violent it will be)
Summary: A much different (and hopefully better) version of the eighth Hellraiser film, borrowing the same concept of the anime Sword Art Online. Chelsea and her friends have been invited to test a new invention that allows them to be fully immersed in their favorite online RPG Hellworld, a game inspired by the Hellraiser movies and various comics. The invention works, but the problem is that if they die while playing the game, they die in real life. It's up to Chelsea, her surviving friends, and the NPC version of Pinhead, to finish the game so that they can leave.

Couples that I like and I (hopefully) will write about:

Holmes/Russell (Sherlock Holmes/Mary Russell series)-Yay! This is my all time favorite detective couple which definately proves that age doesn't matter. I have a few ideas up my sleaves for them.

Luna/Neville (Harry Potter)-These two should have ended up together in the book, it would have made a lot more sense than Neville marrying someone that only pops up occasionally and Luna ending up with a made up nephew of the person who wrote "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."

S.Q./Kate (Mysterious Benedict Society)-I didn't think of this idea at first but Kahlan pointed out that this is a possible pairing and the more I thought about it, the more I liked it so expect some stories with these two together.

Fluttercord AKA Fluttershy/Discord (My Little Pony)-I honestly think that if Discord were to end up with anyone in the mane six, it should be Fluttershy, since she's the only one who promised not to turn him back into stone with her Element. DisLuna and Dislestia come next.

Clarice/Hannibal (Silence of the Lambs)-Hollywood, why are these two not together?! They're canon in the book so they may as well be canon in the films too.

Pinsty AKA Pinhead/Kirsty (Hellraiser)-A pairing that can go many different ways: Elliott Spenser wants to regain his humanity and needs Kirsty's help to do so, Xipe Totec wants Kirsty to become his bride and is trying to seduce her, or something else entirely. If only it actually happened... *shakes head sadly*

Insurgency!Harley Quinn/Insurgency!Lex Luthor, (Injustice: Gods Among Us)--just listen to the dialogue before and after Luthor's fight with the Joker to see what I mean.

Harley Quinn/Poison Ivy (Batman)--the only lesbian couple I ship at the moment. Even if Ivy can be a bit of a control freak, she treats Harley much better than the Joker does.

Alice/Hatter (Anything having to do with the Alice in Wonderland franchise, except for that Return to Wonderland comic trilogy [why do the comics always suck?!])-This is another pairing that took a while to get used to, since Alice was a little girl and the Hatter was already an adult when they first met, plus, in the original version, they didn't get along very well, but some people have found a way to make it work. They make Alice return to Wonderland/Underland as an adult, Hatter becoming a good friend and the two of them falling in love so I will write about these two.

Couples that I think are okay, but won't write about:

Kaynie or Kate/Reynie (Mysterious Benedict Society)-When my sisters and I were listening to our mother read the story out loud, me and Bev thought that Kate and Reynie should end up together but now I'm liking the pairing less and less. I will still read them but don't count on me leaving a review very often or writing them myself.

Malora or Maleficent/Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)-I thought I was going to hate this pairing at first but I read this one story called "Make it Black" and it was well written and the characters as far as I could see were totally in character. But still, it's not canon and I may suck at writing this. If you want to read the story I mentioned, here's the link here.

Snanger or Snape/Hermione (Harry Potter)-Okay, this was my reaction when I first discovered this pairing as a twelve year old browsing YouTube:
Me: What?! They put Snape and Hermione together? What's wrong with you people!?
Yeah, as you can see, at first I hated the pairing but then I saw a story on this website that had an interesting summary so I decided to read it and I actually liked the story and the author got the characters in character, or at least as in character as they could, seeing as in the books, it was never indicated or implied that Hermione had a crush on her Potion's Master or that dear old Severus saw Hermione as anything but a student, and an annoying one at that. Though, like Malora, it's a pairing I'd probably fail at trying to write and my Mom would ask me why I wrote it. If you want to give this pairing a chance, I suggest you read the stories by this author because she actually is careful to make sure that the characters are more or less in character while most of the others are just winging it.

Pingelique AKA Pinhead/Angelique (Hellraiser)-*sigh* Just read LJ1983's the Monsters' Club (particularly chapters 43 and 44 [the worst chapters in an otherwise good multi-crossover parody story]) and you'll know why I don't like them together. Maybe they slept together and Pinny (to some extent) liked it, but in my mind, his heart belongs to Kirsty. I do like the idea of Angelique being a mom though, so long as it's NOT under the same circumstances as Monsters' Club.

Joker/Harley (Batman)--the guy's an abusive asshole and Harley deserves better.

Pairings I will stay away from at all costs:

Peter/Edmund (Chronicles of Narnia)-Everything wrong with this pairing can be summed up in one word: Incest. At least Aurora and Maleficent aren't related to each other. To whoever thought of this, I hope you have a good time in writer's hell.

Any Actor or Actress/Self-Insert Character-I'm not even kidding, I wish I was.

Challenges

1-15-13
Contest Results

Okay, the contest "It's Elementary, My Dear Wetherall" is closed, and the winner by default is Grammar Defender. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6885617/1/Mr-Curtain-and-the-Case-of-the-Enab-s-Bane I apologize to GreatKateZonkeyMachine and Kahlan Aisling, but it's been over a year now and I saw no entries from either of you, even though you told me you would enter. I will host a new contest once I have the time and the inspiration.