Okay, look, it's rant time! ::pulls out chair and sits down:: Settle down kiddies, we're in for a long haul with this lil' old update.

Now, I love the Fatal Frame games. They're awesome. I worship them. Makes me kinda wish that I found some haunted place… maybe a bus… and placed it over a hole in the ground and claimed that hole lead to hell. Of course, then I need maidens to sacrifice, and then I'd need to actually have the bus possessed by 'Malice', and I'd die, but it'd be like a real life Fatal Frame game! Wouldn't that be awesome?

Note to self: Write Tecmo about haunted bus.

But, really, you have to wonder. Is there some bondage fetish among the creators? The first game was all about the rope. Binding, pulling, strangling… it was all there. And then comes along the second game and the twins are tied together with a crimson rope. Itsuki hangs himself. Seijiro Makabe is tied up and hung from the ceiling! There is definitely some bondaging going on with the makers. That much rope is just unhealthy.

And then you have to wonder about all these big holes in the ground that lead to Hell. Does the devil hate Japan? "Oh, look at that small island filled with people. Let me knock many holes in it and send my presence through it and kill them all." Wouldn't Japan start sinking by now? What with all those holes knocked it in… And does this mean that all Japanese products are evil? Because they came from the island of Hell?

"You! Put down that Sony DVD player down! I must exorcise it!"

I wish that would happen… it'd be hilarious… hmm, maybe I'll do that one day…

Back to the rant!

Another thing that I've been wondering and that DarkMoonFlute brought up: All the ghosts complain about not killing and not wanting to die, and yet they try to kill you. Best example has to be Azami and Akane. "Don't kill! Let me kill you! But don't kill!" Could they just make up their mind? And quit being so damn hypocritical? Grr. And they're all so whiney. "It hurts, it hurts." So you fell off a building and broke your neck and the pain will never go away because Malice is evil. Quit whining, you bother me!

And off of that note, let us ponder the heroines. Mio and Miku. Just… why are they running through these… evil places hunting down their missing siblings? And wouldn't you be rather pissed if you go through Hell to save them, and in the end they either tell you that they're not leaving or that they want you to kill them.

And who the hell just leaves random book scraps and diary scraps lying around? "Today I met a ghost. It tried to kill me." If I was stuck in a haunted place, that'd be the last thing on my mind to do.

And do all Japanese people have a sixth sense? I'm not trying to be rude, but in the games they make them out like that. And Miku didn't have black hair, it was auburn. Which bothers me, but that's totally random.

Now we begin to see why this is called a 'rant' and not an actual chapter.

And they're all so calm! Mio is like… Oh look, a ghost, I'll just stand here and stare at it and ponder it's existence for a while. Oh look, it's chewing my leg… maybe that's a bad sign. Though Mayu makes up for her. That really irritates me, when you're trying to fight a ghost and Mayu's just standing there not even bothering to run from the damn things and starts whimpering "Get away! Get away!"

Ahh. Okay, I think I've ranted enough. No, wait, I haven't.

And here the rant turns somewhat serious.

I have emailed Fanfiction.net many times about creating a Fatal Frame category. And they've only responded once: "I'm sorry, we already have a La Chocolate movie category." Which really confused me, cause I wanted a Fatal Frame game category, but… okay…

PLEASE join with me and email them! What you need to say is that you wish for a Fatal Frame category to be created, and that it would go in the Game section. Include a brief description of the games ( Girl goes into haunted house looking for brother, girl goes into haunted town looking for sister ). If you've written any stories, tell them so and include links.

There is an IAF category – 2 stories. Arcus Odyssey – 1 story. Astyanax – 1 story! I have written more stories for Fatal Frame than those three categories combined!

Please please please help me with this. Email them at: newcategory@fanfiction.net and please go here and sign the petition: http:// www. petitiononline. com/ ff27/ petition. html. If enough people help with this than hopefully we will not be ignored.

Thanks and love to all!

( I apologize for the link - just copy and paste it and remove all the spaces. FanFiction.net wouldn't have it actually appear in the story if it wasn't like that... grr... I had to fix this four times to get it to work! )