You use purifying-the-jewel or monk-in-pain to describe a certain shade of red.
You have saved all of her stories onto your hard drive.
You have printed out all of her stories, punched holes into the paper and neatly stored them into a notebook so that even if there is a thunder storm, you can still read them.
You light up like the Foruth of July when you recieve an e-mail notifying you that Sueric has updated.
You begin to get canon and Sue's ideas mixed up. I caught myself thinking that the whole full moon/new moon fertility thing was canon.
You tweak your friend when they've said or done something you didn't approve of.
You're carrying on a conversation about Inuyasha, but you refer more to one of Sue's stories than the actual shows.
You've confused the latest chapter with a new episode, and instead of discussing the actual new episode, you discuss the chapter!
You create a list of "you know you love Sue's stories when"s
You spend all of your spare time checking this forum for teasers and such.
You have read each story 5 or 6 times and still burst out crying/laughing every time.
You plan your morning around making sure you have time to check for a new chappie.
You realize that you should have been in bed hours ago... but, your not. Because you're reading or cruising for teasers.
You get ideas from her lemon scenes to spice up your sex life.(If that's pathetic, then I'm proud to be pathetic...heh heh.)
You live at her forum.
You can quote her stories.
Your daily ritual is to read/check for new updates of her stories.
Seeing an e-mail alert for her stories makes you giddy with joy.
You find yourself comparing all the men/women you meet to the characters that she's lovingly created and find them sadly lacking compared to her characters.
You plan to one day name of your children after one of her characters. (I am so going to have a daughter named Bellaniece)
You find yourself drawing fan art that is inspired by her stories.
Your friends, who don't even read InuYasha let alone Sue's stories, can give a detailed summary about any one of her stories because they've heard you talking about them enough to be able to do so.
Friends know that if you are on the computer, you are probably reading one of Sue's stories.
Friends/family/mates complain that they distract you for hours at a time.
You now know how to edit and help flow others stories from reading they extremely well done chapters in any of Sues stories.
You start talking about/defending the characters like you know them personally.
You spend an evening on vacation...searching out the hotel computers to print out the days chapters to beta.
You spend several hours...sitting in a chair...next to the wall...phone plugged into the charger...AT A BAR...talking on the phone to Sueric. All while reading the chapters you printed out.
You doing both of the above...JUST to torture an urned one....
Finding out torturing an urned one...is so much more entertaining....IN PERSON
Said Urn'ed one sits in bar... drooling... contemplating ways to commit harry carey to said Beta... becase said Beta is torturing you with the fact that she has chapters... in her hands... within arms reach of you!
You can't look at a picture of a monkey without have to surpress or involuntarily cry out "Monkey Shakes"
McDonalds Bannana Milkshake have the same effect as the point above.
You risk horrific torture in a pickle poo pit to get a taste of Teh Hawtness.
You miss 3 days of stuff on chapters/forums/etc and you spend 2 days just catching up ~.~
You feel withdrawls from not reading/posting/etc from those 3 days and have itchy fingers around a friends computer only to not remember your password and can't sign on...
When you can name all the Betas by real names, forum names, and their Beta nicknames.
When "balls" slips from your tongue is naturally as it would from Ryo and Kich.
You go out and buy ring pops for you and your friends.
You call Sueric while at a convention cause your computer connection in your room won't work and have her read the current chapters she's working on to you out loud.
You spend hours and hours and hours giggling over the word BALLZ.
You can't wait to get home from work so you can share the GIN moment you had today with your online friends.
You read the Lemons at work! To h*ll if anyone catches you!
You find yourself saying things like OI! (okay so that could be a general yasha thing too)
You laugh when people say things and you commit it to memory to tell Sueric cause it would be soooooooooo funny if Kich said that.
You find yourself calling people a**-monkey's at work.
You spend the day giggleing over Nez calling Toga kinky.
You get into the habit of making sure your cell phone is charged LMAO.
lol when you become the "Pinky" to Sueric's "Brain"
You sign onto the computer Just to see if there is an update.
You go into withdrawals for not being able to check for story updates.
If an update/e-mail alert comes in while you're on the internet - You squeal loud enough to scare the dog.
You see an update come in just before leaving the house for a family party, that you're already late for, and take the time to open the link and print the chapter just so you can read it at the party -
You print chapter after chapter of 'bertha' in hopes of getting caught up while traveling for a vacation. Thus, leaving pages and pages of the story in all the trash cans along the internet.
You still mutter "CZ, BZ, CZ, BZ, CZ, BZ, CZ, BZ" in your sleep.
Having a dream where you are in one of the stories (freaky O_o)
You start to imagin the guy you like having cute little yasha ears (could be for all yasha fics but meh)
You start matching your friends personalities with Gin/Cain/Belle/Kich ect...
You begin to feel torn between your eternal love for teh puppy ears........and your sudden uncontrolable desires for TEH FLUFF
You're watching a new episode and you randomly think "Where's Cain?" Like he's actually going to walk onto screen any minute. (That's how vivid my mental picture of him is.)
You sit up at night, frothing at the mouth, ranting to your husband about the immorality of the world. Stomping through the house, saying things that would make a sailor blush and a trucker wet his pants...
Because ANYONE would dare to infringe upon the beautiful world Sue has created. Because someone would have the audacity to tear into Sue's soul and rip precious characters that she has worked so hard to create, out and then drop them into the middle of a selfish "crap fic".
And then squeal like a kid on Christmas morning... because of another beautiful teaser.
You cant sleep at night because you keep daydreaming about what is going to happen next and how it will all finish up in the current story.
You are horridly sick but still have to check the forums to see whats happend since you left.
You get mad because hanyous never get sick like this and wish you were one now that you seem to have *pauses to count and decides there are too many* lots of 'friends' you hear about everyday who cant get sick. And you only think this because you are too far gone to remember its a story and not the real world. (which I've decided is overrated)
When you watch an episode of Inuyasha, you expect them to already be together and for the new episode to be about Gin/Kich/Bell/Ryo/Cain/Nez/Sierra/Toga, ect.
You're are late for work every day for an entire week, because you just had to get online before you left, to catch up with P4, since you got a way behind when you went on vacation. (And it's still worth it even though your boss yells at you every time it happens. Which is quite often since Sue seems to update every night while I'm sleeping so you have to read the new eps in the morning too.)
Instead of paying attention in class, you are drawing hearts and writing in them Toga+Sierra, Cain+Gin, etc. in the margins of your textbook
You spend your time daydreaming how the story will turn out or what happens next. (Especially when you really should be doing work instead....)
You giggle at something that reminds you of one of Sue's stories then get strange looks from your friends.
All you have to do to explain the random giggle is that it reminded you of a story you read, in which they immidiatley agree cuz you will get in an involved explaination if they dont.
You can just think of one of her stories/chapters and start either, smiling, laughing or crying.
One of your mantras for life is "Sue loves happy endings."
You have a 'reminder' on you computer at work, reminding you to check for Sueric updates.
When you read and or add to the YKYLSSW forum thread.
You add many many items to the afore mentioned thread... over many days...
When you walk down the street and see a person and think, 'God he reminds me of Cain.'
You find yourself writing when you suddenly notice that you've written reference to one of Sue's original characters, or are actually writing them into the story...I know, I know: Bad Asil...I get it. Don't worry, I fixed the mistake!
You seriously contemplate dyeing your hair silver and dressing up as Gin for Halloween.
Reading them gives you the confidenceto post jour own idea for a ficie!
You start "Pfft" llike Cain when you're talking or texting someone. (I kid you not. I have started doing that. Ask any of the girls who chat with me.)
When you expect to turn on the TV to watch the newest episode of her Purity series....I have done it twice this week!
Stay up the whole night crying and laughing whilest re-reading one of her stories.
You wish Purity was a TV series. That would be soo awesome. (But then again, who needs tv when you have these angsty, dramatic, 'suck you in' stories?)
You live in her forum .
Post soo much that there needs to be whole new catagories (*Cough* Yukiko-chan *Cough*)
You have all of the stories book marked.
You talk about Sue like you see her every day .
You talk like every one here are your best friends and practically family.
You get confused when people dont know who Cain, Gin, Bell, and Kich are.
You have a dream about Gin and her strange pregnant cravings and wonder if she WOULD actually eat a deep-fried candy bar.
Your friends sit down you for an intervention because they think you have a 'problem' because you spend way too much time behind the computer screening, alternating between giggling, awwwing, and crying for hours at a time.
When your friend says she's going to go see Chronicles, and your first reaction is: "How can you go see Sue's story?"
You get dazed by them so much that when you are IMing your friends on the internet, all you can say is 'okay' and 'yeah' so you can continue reading; and then have them ask you what is wrong and say 'nothing...I'm just reading Sue's stories.'
Or when you are taking quizzes on myspace and there's a question that asks: "When's the last time you cried." And your reply is: 'Earlier today, because of Sue's stories.'
Your emotional and mental state of being are on the verge of cracking into disrepair, life catches up to you, and when you feel tired of it all, these stories, their angst, friendship and love give you hope things will get better and inspiration to keep going.
When you walk into the cingular store and the poeple there want to take your picture for useing more minutes then anyone else that has ever walked into their store because you spend ALOT of time on the phone with your fav fic author giggleing over story ideas....~from Mel a.k.a Teh Ballz Beta