| Name: Lady Shinigami Real Name: Not Important Age: Old enough to VOTE, which I did Height: 5' 1" Weight: Roughly 125 lbs. Eyes: Indigo (not for real) Hair: Brown with red-gold highlights, usually in some form of braid (for real) B-Day: September 2 Hopes: To be a Marine Biologist or 2nd violinist in an orchestra and write novels in my spare time Current Crush(es): Sesshoumaru from Inuyasha, Kakashi and Iruka and Yondaime from Naruto, Amidamaru from Shaman King (no, I'm not a necro, I just like him a lot) Likes: Watching anime, playing RPG video games, dolphins, cats, dogs, horses, dragons, milk, cookies, candy, chips, classical music, 80s music, certain current music (Evanescence, Linkin Park, dance/techno), reading, writing, biking, swimming, walking, and sleeping Dislikes: Pot pie (and most of what's in it), the majority of vegetables in existence, excessive cursing (as in the use of the f-word where it isn't needed), bad drivers, and kids in suped up four-cylinder cars who think that street-racing is some new invention made up by the people who did The Fast and the Furious. Stop racing by my house, you losers! My dad's 30-year-old muscle cars could eat your pregnant rollerskates without trying!! Now that's power!!! Anime: The majority of what I watch on television anymore is anime. . You'll have to find it in your heart to forgive me for my heinous crime. I would like to update this little bit, as I have now changed from a dubbie to something between a dubbie and a raw fan. Whatever that makes me, that's what I am. Here I will list all of the anime/otherwise Japanese-related stuff that I have been exposed to just in case anyone is interested. Be warned: I say 'exposed' because I'm listing everything I've ever seen/read/played, which doesn't necessarily mean I've read/viewed/played the whole series/game, whether through choice or because I'm at the mercy of book stores/TV stations/game developers. Manga (Shonen Jump): Yu-Gi-Oh! Prince of Tennis Dragonball Z Eyeshield 21 Shaman King Whistle! Naruto Death Note Hikaru no Go Zombie Powder Manga/Graphic Novels (not SJ): Chobits Kingdom Hearts Trigun .hack//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet Fullmetal Panic! +Anima FullMetal Alchemist Girl Got Game (Power!!) Videogames: Xenogears Kinetica Final Fantasy IX Star Ocean: Till the End of Time Xenosaga Devil May Cry Final Fantasy X FullMetal Alchemist: Broken A. Xenosaga II Devil May Cry 2 Brave Fencer Musashi Fullmetal Alchemist: Crimson E. Legend of Dragoon Devil May Cry 3 Samurai Legend Musashi Kingdom Hearts Suikoden YGO!: Duelists of Roses Kingdom Hearts II Ecco the Dolphin: DotF Castlevania: LoI Micro-/Miniseries: Blue Submarine 6 Immortal Grand Prix (a.k.a. IGPX) TV Series (English): InuYasha Gundam Wing Shaman King Sailor Moon Saint Seiya: KotZ Trigun G Gundam Dragonball Pokemon Ronin Warriors Cowboy Bebop Gundam 0083 Dragonball Z Digimon Zoids: Chaotic Century Big O Gundam Team 08 Dragonball GT Hamtaro Zoids: Guardian Force Neon Genesis Eva. Mobile Suit Gundam Cyborg 009 Blue Gender Zoids: New Century 0 Escaflowne SD Gundam Kikaider Card Captor Sakura Zoids: Fuzors Yu-Gi-Oh! Boogiepop Phantom Samurai Champloo Witch Hunter Robin Case Closed Duel Masters Yu Yu Hakusho Dual!: PTA .hack//LotTB Naruto Shinzo Paranoia Agent Chobits Last Exile s-CRY-ed .hack//SIGN Silent Mobius Astro Boy Crest of the Stars Eureka Seven Read Or Die Soultaker Wolf's Rain Banner of the Stars I Rurouni Kenshin BERSERK Ghost in the Shell: SAC FullMetal Alchemist TV Series (Japanese): FullMetal Alchemist Fullmetal Panic! Trinity Blood Naruto Midori Days Hellsing BERSERK D.N.Angel Trigun D.N.A Squared Neon Genesis Eva. Chobits Haibane Renmei Elfen Leid OAVs/OVAs and Movies (English): Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz InuYasha (three) Final Fantasy: Spirits Within Cowboy Bebop: Heaven's Door Escaflowne Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Dragonball Z (about half, I think) Read Or Die Ghost in the Shell Pokemon (first four) Metropolis Akira Digimon Steamboy Yu-Gi-Oh! Sailor Moon (parts of two) X Princess Mononoke Kiki's Delivery Service Spirited Away Castle in the Sky Nausicaa: VotW Whisper of the Heart OAVs/OVAs and Movies (Japanese): Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Final Fantasy VII: Last Order FullMetal Alchemist . . . I guess that's all I can think of for now . . . What I'd Like To See: Howl's Moving Castle Samurai X (or is this the RK OAV?) the rest of the Dragonball Z movies the rest of the TV series Escaflowne (curse Fox for taking it off the air!!) and Card Captor Sakura and Neon Genesis Evangelion and Yu-Gi-Oh! and Naruto I'd also like to see Xenogears made into a TV series. I know that this is never going to happen (Xenosaga doesn't count as a replacement, though I am curious)--especially not in America--because of the conflicting religious elements and such, but over half an hour of hand-drawn animation was included in the game and it was sweet. Favorite Pairings: Okay, here's where you find out how 'weird' I am! My weirdness depends on whether your opinion of me doesn't change or if you begin to view me to be a servant of the devil because guess what?! While I read het fics all the time, I also LIKE SHOUNEN-AI/YAOI AND I'M STRAIGHT!! Whew! Some of you--and you know who you are, so you may as well not bother denying it--may find that to be a surprise, but it's true. However, while I like shounen-ai/yaoi and occasional undertones of shoujo-ai/yuri, I don't like slash or femslash. Maybe it's the differentiation between live and animated people, but I haven't been able to appreciate slash/femslash like I do shounen/ai/yaoi/shoujo-ai/yuri. Go figure. ^_^;; Favorite pairings are as follows: Naruto: Het: As much as they clash, I prefer SasuSaku over either of them with anyone else (though I have found a few good NaruSaku and KakaSaku despite how I doubt they would really go that well together). I also like NaruHina because as opposite as they are, I think Naruto would teach Hinata to be more aggressive and not so shy and in return, from what she had learned from him Hinata would really be able to calm Naruto's hyperactivity down while still encouraging him to pursue his dream of being Hokage. Shounen-ai/yaoi: Okay, I'm a dead wringer for KakaIru. If either of them are with anybody else I can't even bring myself to read the fic (except for past reflections of ObitoKaka and MizuIru). I also like SasuNaru because I've found it in my little black heart to imagine that their hatred is just a cover-up for their true feelings. I don't give a hoot who's seme and who's uke in any pairing; that's never really been as important for me as it seems to be for some people. Yu-Gi-Oh!: Het: I like mostly SetoShizuka (SetoSerenity for the dub fans out there) fics and a few of the MokubaShizuka (MokubaSerenity) fics. I like JouMai (JoeyMai) and I like YugiAnzu (YugiTea) but definitely not as much because I already have my shounen-ai pairings worked out. Shounen-ai/yaoi: I love the common yami/hikari pairings--which means Yami/Yugi, Bakura/Ryou, Marik/Malik--and Seto/Jou. They're my favorite and I'll pick them over everything else. I'm also relatively fond of Bakura/Malik, Malik/Ryou, and Yugi/Ryou, and recently I read this really good Yami/Bakura/Malik threesome. Like with Naruto, I don't care who's seme and who's uke as long as they're together. Gundam Wing: Het: Since there are so many great shounen-ai/yaoi fics, I never read much het, but I go with the common pairings--Heero/Relena, Duo/Hilde, Trowa/Catherine, Quatre/Dorothy, Wufei/Meiran (or Wufei/Sally), Zechs/Noin, and Treize/Une. Shounen-ai/yaoi: Since I can't stand Relena unless she's written OOC (i.e., as a mature teenage girl like in Endless Waltz and not some spoiled rich brat like in the series) and Dorothy just scares me (it's those eyebrows), I turned to shounen-ai/yaoi pretty fast. My first foray into shounen-ai/yaoi, actually, since the fandom is loaded with it. Again, I go with the common pairings: 1x2, 3x4. I also like both 5x6 and 5x13 and I even read a good 5x6x13 and 1x2x5 once. Again, I don't care who's seme and who's uke. Final Fantasy VII: Het: Totally a CloTi, ZackAeri fan. I'm okay with BarretTifa and Clerith, but I really think Cloud and Tifa--as far as something must-have-a-pairing goes--work better than Cloud and Aerith, because I'm definitely sure the majority of Cloud's affection for her is a remnant of Zack's heart. Shounen-ai/yaoi: Either Seph/Cloud, Zack/Cloud, or Seph/Zack/Cloud. They're pretty much the only pairings I've delved into, though I have read a few good Cloud/Kadaj. Seme . . . uke . . . Doesn't matter. Final Fantasy VIII: Het: Irvine/Selphie is really the only pairing I see (and enjoy) with any consistency. I do like to see Zell/Quistis or Zell/Rinoa, but I don't go looking for them. I say nothing of Seifer/Rinoa or Squall/Rinoa because in my (admittedly narrow so far) search I have yet to find something that's any more than mindless smut. Not good character development, if you know what I mean. So it's either the pointless smut or Rinoa's an OOC witch for the sake of the first pairing below. Shounen-ai/yaoi: Seifer/Squall. I don't know why. Probably because they're at each other's throat so much that it's fantastic practice for any writer and I, as a writer/reader, like to check out other peoples' efforts. Some do very well and others . . . use Rinoa as a plot device to get them together. Or suicide. And some people can make either (or both) of those work, but many can't. Moving on . . . I've read a few good Seifer/Irvine/Squall fics (few = two). Also, until just now I was a closet Laguna/Squall fan. I swear it's not my fault. I usually don't go for incest in any form, but the one responsible wrote it really well and I can't help myself. Seme and uke? Second verse is same as the first. Kingdom Hearts: Het: SoKai, RiKai, RiSoKai (only the one fic), RoxasNamine. I also seem to be mildly partial to "Squiffie" (I love that so much . . . *giggles like idiot*) for some reason. Aside from those KH1 = Clerith, KH2 = CloTi (I realize how inconsistent that is, but the Hollow Bastion scene during the credits of KH1 was just way too sweet to ignore). Shounen-ai/yaoi: RikuSora, CLC. Both are my happy crack. AxelRoxas, too. I've also read a couple of good RoxasSora (is that narcissism?) and very few SephCloud ones (am I missing them or do they just not exist?). I'm also a mild LeonSora fan--this also was not my fault. If some people didn't write it so well, it wouldn't be so damn convincing. That's basically it, as those are/were the fandoms I got into the heaviest. Randomly, as taken from the shows themselves or a fanfic I discovered by accident, I like the Amon/Robin pairing from Witch Hunter Robin, Van/Hitomi from Escaflowne, Yuusuke/Keiko from Yu Yu Hakusho, and Jimmy/Rachel from Detective Conan. In-Depth Me: . . . You're kidding, right? You actually want to know more about me? That's rich . . . Nobody's supposed to care about the author, only about what he/she writes. Of course, I suppose if you came this far you must hold some kind of interest for me and hopefully you don't plan to stalk me or something . . . Okay, I guess I'll start with the basics. Anime kicks my ass--I must have my fix or else I get cranky (if this is some kind of an exaggeration, it's not much of one). I write fanfiction because I have this problem where the tiniest things will inspire me to write, so . . . yeah. I am trying to write original work to publish, but that's not coming along so great because I'm so wrapped up in fanfiction. Go figure. I seem to be incapable of writing anything short--in six years of writing I've written one one-shot. That one was for Harry Potter and can be found under the care of my sister, Lady Zephyr, on Schnoogle. I have another in mind for Yu-Gi-Oh!, but it might be blossoming into another chaptered monster. The longest single story I've ever written (Xenogears) was over five hundred pages and at five pages per chapter had one-hundred-ten chapters. Major writing/reading pet peeves include bad grammar, bad spelling, a total lack of proofreading, a lack of research, not writing out the date or time or any number below one hundred, writing in script format when it's not a screenplay or theatre performance, and authors who have utterly meaningless conversations with characters/people that don't exist just because the author thinks he/she is being cute. Get over it, silly children--it's not funny any more. Notice that ninety-five percent of the serious writers don't do it; that's because it makes you look and sound stupid. I play the violin. I'm good at it, but I'm not a prodigy. I like being a second violin because we don't get enough credit for our importance and one day I'm going to make the people that live around here see that. I've been to Music in the Parks three times and performed twice (I was a 'chaperone'--and I use that term loosely--the third time) and participated in five All-County Music Festivals (a harrowing but still delightful experience each time) and done some concerts for the public both as a class grade and because we were requested (not because we were that good, but the school system is too damn cheap to pay for outside entertainment). Anyway, I had fun and that's the most important part, right? Exactly. Don't do it if you don't like it. I love dolphins (including orcas/killer whales because they are also dolphins) and I love whales. Last August I got to meet Chubby, a thirty-five-year-old dolphin at Marineland in Florida who, really, didn't look particularly chubby to me. I got to feed him cold, dead fish and pet his soft tummy (saw his belly button!!) and feel him breathe and kiss him and held onto his dorsal fin while he towed me half way around the pool . . . That's power right there, folks, even more so than the fluid grace of horses. Pure, natural God-given power. I would suggest a dolphin encounter for everyone--it's soothing, surprisingly inexpensive, and the memories will last until you die. ^_~ I love roller coasters. I'm not an adrenalin junkie like my sister's friend, but I like them all the same. I don't like the beginning, be it a hill or one of those instant starts, because it makes my stomach go flippity-flop, which doesn't feel very good. On the other hand, I have an iron stomach and my family has always eaten right before we've gone on rides and we've never had a digestive fatality, if you get my meaning. Some favorite rides include Avalanche, Rebel Yell, Anaconda (from Paramount's King's Dominion in Virginia), Loch Ness Monster, Big Bad Wolf (from Busch Gardens in Virginia), Sidewinder, Super Duper Looper, Trailblazer, The Great Bear, Lightning Racers (from Hershey Park in Pennsylvania), Kraken (SeaWorld in Florida), Two-Face, Joker's Jinx, and Batwing (from Six Flags America in Maryland). Some not-quite roller coasters that I love are Mission: Space and Test Track (Epcot Center in Florida). When I was five--I barely remember this, but if you ask my parents I'm sure they'd be delighted to tell you the story--my family went to Washington, D.C. for sight-seeing. My parents got on the wrong metro train and didn't know it, but I told them so and informed them (correctly, it turns out) of which color metro line we should have taken to get back to the van to go home. That was over ten years ago and my parents still love to tell it to anyone who will listen. When I was sixteen I went to New York City with my fifteen-year-old sister to visit our twenty-year-old sister for four days. Yes, without our parents. Once there I learned the clear difference between the New York subway and the D.C. metro, saw the Statue of Liberty, rode the Staten Island Ferry, crossed part of the Brooklyn bridge, saw Rockefeller Center, went to the Empire State Building, and was inside and on the observation deck of the World Trade Center. I've been back to NYC at least three times since then for a single-day visit, all times with maternal supervision (this year with maternal and paternal supervision), and went to the WTC Ground Zero. I hurt. I cried. I prayed. Then I wrote. I'm a Virgo with Aries rising and Aries/Taurus moon (it's on the cusp). For those of you who don't know what that means, that's okay because it's not that big a deal. For those of you who do know, is your mother commanding you to learn astrology like she is me? If not, you're very lucky. I appreciate it, as I see its benefits, but Mom can get a bit overwhelming at times. If you're one of those people who only works out relationships and stuff through your Sun Sign (Virgo is mine, like I said) because that's 'all that's important', you're seriously short-changing yourself and little good's going to come of it. Only using your Sun Sign for astrology is like trying to eat pudding in a cup with that foil top only half pulled off--you ain't gettin' much out of it, in other words. Politically, I have no true affiliation with either major party. However, as of . . . well, at least since my last birthday . . . I am a staunch Democrat and I am, as my mother says, a pilgrim in an unholy land because I live in historically-rich Virginia, which has always been a Republican stronghold. I think Bush is doing a crappy job as President and I am extremely glad to say that I voted for Kerry. If you would like to debate why Kerry is better than Bush, please feel free to e-mail me and explain to me how Bush has done anything worthy of enough praise to get him elected for a whole second term. If you are with the CIA or the FBI and plan to arrest me for exercising my First Amendment right to free speech, I ask that you reconsider because our Founding Fathers gave me permission to speak my mind as long as I was peaceful about it and so far I haven't made a trip to egg the White House. As a parting shot I'd like to share the fact that our first President, the great George Washington, warned his compatriots not to form political parties and not to get involved in foreign affairs and GUESS WHAT Grandpa Washington?! We DID!! And I think as far as foreign affairs are concerned, that farce in Iraq qualifies as what NOT to do. I support all of our troops there and everywhere else in the world, but I DO NOT agree with how things were done--it's that simple. Religiously, I am . . . I don't know. I do believe in Jesus Christ, but I don't go to church, mainly because I live next to one and my family has had nothing but trouble with the attendees since before I was even born. As I'm sure you understand, it's left a bad taste in my mouth and perhaps at some other time in some far away place I will attend a church one Sunday. Until then, I'll just say my bedtime prayers and spare a few quiet moments every day. Oddly enough, although I'm religious (though not heavily so) I believe in gay marriage and I myself am heterosexual! Ha! Imagine that . . . I believe in gay marriage because damn it, gays and lesbians are people too and if they're honestly and truly in love, then they have just as much right to be married as a man and a woman. I also believe in abortion in certain cases (rape being one) because people, if you were that woman, would you want to carry, deliver, and raise something that you couldn't love? I mean, I couldn't look at such a child and offer it the unconditional love it deserves because it would remind me of the horror that I went through. It's not the child's fault, but memory doesn't care about that, does it? As for adoption, as much as I wouldn't want to keep the spawn of something that violated me, I would hope I could find it in myself to love the child enough to have it aborted rather than have it grow up not knowing anything about the circumstances of its conception and thinking, 'Why was I given up? Didn't my mother love me?' I couldn't answer that question. And while I know that not all adoptees ask such questions, I would not want to take that chance. When I try to imagine what it would be like to be a child who knew nothing about my birthparents I have to stop because it's nothing but a circle of bewildering, frantic curiosity. Whether I'm thinking about it too much or not, I wouldn't even want to inflict that kind of possibility on a child. . . . I think I'm done. As you can see from the above, I'm long-winded. As I plan to put up a rants page eventually, you're going to find this out very soon. So thanks for stopping by and congratulations for coming this far. Hope I didn't disappoint you. I guess that's all for now, so see you next time!! ~LS <--Back |
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| About Me My Moment of Brilliance that was conceived on Friday, November 12, 2004 @ 2:19 a.m.: "There's nothing wrong with being second-best as long as you give it your all." Oh, was that good or what? ^_^ |