girlyhero

1. How about a brief introduction of yourself? SB Patterson, girlyhero on dA. I'm a couturere and costumer. I enjoy drawing, writing and rping. I'm married, 26. I live in Murfreesboro, Tennessee (US). 2. Fabulous! And what got you into fanfiction to begin with? Fuck me, that was a long time ago. I originally started writing silly little stories on a word-processor when I was about 8. Mortal Kombat and Sailor Moon were usually involved. 3. I see, so what kind of fanfiction do you like to write? I'm a bad kid. I used to write FF7 yaoi in high school, but I was a closet Predator fan. I became more open about it with my close friends and still accepted, I openly write the stuff. Even my parents know I write it. My dad keeps telling me, I need to apply the plots to my original works. Quite honestly, the fanfics make a good template for that. I'm finding that the Star Wars fanfics are easier to convert however. I love my Predator too much anyway and some of them are already stock characters and can be if not already are used in other stories. 4. Do you tend to write the same pairings/characters? Or are you a fandom whore? Absolute fandom whore. In the Predator fandom, a human woman and a male Predator are the popular types of pairings. I'm all over the place. F-human/M-Predator, M-Predator/F-Predator, fuck it-- I'll get kinky... M/M-Predator, F/F-Predators, and the rarely seen M-Human/F-Predator. And who ever said it has to stop with two? 5. What is your more popular fanfic and why do you think people like it so? The Fighting Irish part 2. It's hit just over 1300 views. Not alot, but I'm not the most well known author on there. Also, the part 1 was sexless and sometimes that's frowned upon. No one gave two shits about the original tid-bit I posted. 6. Forget other people, what is the fanfic you've written you're most proud of? TFI part 1. It was the start of a complete rewrite of the original crappy fanfiction, rearrangement of characters, settings, and plot. I love it. 7. Do you find writing easy? Hard? What are the most difficult aspects of writing you struggle with? Keeping up with the story and the time. I keep day-jobs when business is slow, so it's not like I get a butt-ton of time to write when I'm not sewing. I'm a slow reader ironically. So when I'm trying to get on with the show, I have to go back and review details that are important. I have a million stories in my head, so it's hard to keep up with them all. My original work suffers too. 8. Write a few sentences of so of your favorite pairing or character. ...I have this "stock" character, the dark sorceror archtype who kinda sways on the good and evil sides. His name is Seddar. He's been depicted as a human, elven, Predator, and an original other-kind creation. His personality remains constant, though. He's a bit of a snob, but holds friendship very dear. He has strong goals and lets little to nothing stand in his way. Occassionaly, he becomes a family man and his children are very important to him. Oh, yeah, did I forget to mention he goes insane and tries to conquer and/or destroy the world/universe/dimension/what-have-you/&t.? 9. Are there any fanfiction trends/clichés you can't stand or are just sick of? Mary Sues of course. Also, and I'm even guilty of doiing this, but I don't like the weepy little chic characters who cry to get their way. I mean, I get the damsel in distress thing, but come on. It's like the age of independance, ladies. Suck it up! My chic tells Predators to fuck off all the damn time... she gets bitch slapped sometimes for it, but that's just botching your Intimidation check. If nothing ever bad happened to Jesse for chewing one of them out, she'd be a Mary Sue, though. There's a fine line, and I recognize that it takes a certain level of talent to balance it. 10. Are you guilty of any of the fanfiction trends/clichés you now hate? Or any other ones? I have to catch myself when I write Jesse Danes. She's a beyond normal human, that was her "playable character design." She was designed so I could creep her into the Urban Arcana system (extension of D20 Modern rp system for those that have no clue of what I'm talking about. Google it) and give her a few good psionic abilities. I try and hide that, if not literally crack out the D20 and ask "Alright, show me Diplomacy!... that's a 4...." It keeps her in check though! Otherwise, she would be Mary-Sueing all over the place. 11. What was the first fandom you wrote for? Do you still like/participate in it? I thought I answered this.... Here, I'll answer it like this. The first fandom I posted on the internet was Star Wars. I don't really write it anymore, but I read it if anything catches my eye. There's alot of the same stuff out there now that disinterests me. 12. Name your OTPs or most frequently written pairings/characters and explain what it is about them you love to write. With the Predator fandom, or at least what I write in it, there really isn't a pairing. Usually you get the Lex/Scar crap which I'm not a fan of. What I miss however is the Machiko pairings. There used to be a shit-ton of them when I first joined; it was the main reason I did join. Then they sort of disappeared and I was all *sad face*. Machiko/Shorty is always fun-- the hate-fics. Then the Machiko/Dachande pairings are always nice. 13. What would you call your writing "style"? ...Haphazard. 14. Do you read other people's fanfic? If so, what do you find yourself reading the most? Predator stuff. 15. Name one thing you'd LOVE to write, but have been too afraid or shy to do. ... shit, what's more closet than Predator? 16. Do you have trouble taking criticism? Or worse yet, do you have the dreaded bloated ego? I constantly think my shit is shit, so I usually am not surprised by criticism and welcome it anyway especially in writing as that I can easily develop. I do crave positive affirmation, not gonna lie. 17. When you write, is there anything that helps? Music? Quiet room? Repairing toaster ovens? Music. Lots of music. 18. What inspires you? My husband actually. We've been together for over ten years and there are a million silly events to apply to pairings. That biting-the-boob-thing for instance-- he's done it. 19. Lastly, how would you sum up your fanfiction experiences and yourself as a writer? It's been touch-n-go. I write more original work than fanfiction, but I have not finished many of the original works either due to a block or overflow from another story. I've been writing since I could spell. I have been writing fanfiction since '94, my own work since '91. Some of the silly three paragraph stories I typed up on a cartrage typewriter when I was in the first grade are the basis for my larger works now. One writes, one develops. It's a skill when used strengthens. I'm not so strong with my vocabulary, but I own updated dictionaries and thesauruses to help me through failures. I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly Haphazard. 20. Tag some friends, because they'll have you for it. IDk.

Goodness. Well, I keep telling myself to clean out my playlist, but when you have 300+ hours of music on your computer alone... I at least got rid of the duplicate songs in my Anime OST folder. Speaking of which, if you like JPop and anime soundtracks, Gendou.com is free for downloading music. As far as I can tell it hasn't been targeted for copyright law because it distributes music that is not readily available otherwise. Some good bands are Ali Project, Tommy February, Maaya Sakamoto, Gackt, and Larcenciel (at least I think so). Cowboy Bebop has alot of English music too (i.e. The Seatbelts) if JPop isn't your thing. Just a quick place to beef up your music file. I like all sorts of music. If it's in existence I probably listen to it even on a picky level (my Country file only has eight songs in it, though Cash and Nelson have their own folders). I've been on a pop and rap binge lately, listening mostly to Lady Gaga and Busta Rhymes with Portishead thrown in there to keep the mood subtle. In my playlists over the past month these are the following songs that haunt my playlists: "In the Ghetto" Busta Rhymes ft. Rick James "Fire" Busta Rhymes "Mr. Roboto" Styx "Snakes" Voltaire "Driven Under" Seether "Last One Alive" Vast "India" Deep Forest "Symmetry" Dethklok for Metalocalypse OST "If you seek Amy" Britney Spears "Alejandro" Lady Gaga "Paper Gangsta" Lady Gaga "Only You" (french version) Portishead "Glory Box" Portishead "New Legs" Daniel Licht of Showtime's Dexter OST "Mayonaka no Door" Liu Ye Fei for the Powerpuff Girls Z OST "Rap Name" Obie Trice "Sally's Song" Fiona Apple, rendition of Sally's Song for The Nightmare Before Christmas OSt "Stylo" Gorillaz "Superfast Jellyfish" Gorillaz 1. "Clockwork Orange" Tangerine Dream for A Clockwork Orange OST & "Bloodlines" Dethklok for Metalocalypse OST 2. "Prison Sex" Tool & "Touch Me and I'll Scream Part 2" My Morning Jacket

Nice. Second Level of Hell You have come to a place mute of all light, where the wind bellows as the sea does in a tempest. This is the realm where the lustful spend eternity. Here, sinners are blown around endlessly by the unforgiving winds of unquenchable desire as punishment for their transgressions. The infernal hurricane that never rests hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine, whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them. You have betrayed reason at the behest of your appetite for pleasure, and so here you are doomed to remain. Cleopatra and Helen of Troy are two that share in your fate. I HAVE NO REGRETS!!!!! Funny, I've only had sex with one person and am now married to him. Of course, I'm pagan and I visit Limbo and the 6th level quite often too. LevelWho are sent there?Score Purgatory Repenting Believers Very Low Level 1 - Limbo Virtuous Non-Believers High Level 2 Lustful Very High Level 3 Gluttonous Low Level 4 Prodigal and Avaricious Very Low Level 5 Wrathful and Gloomy High Level 6 - The City of Dis Heretics Very High Level 7 Violent High Level 8- the Malebolge Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers Moderate Level 9 - Cocytus Treacherous Low

There are tons of movie writers, they just don't use the forums it seems. I don't know if it's because they don't have a forum membership or if its because they aren't sure how to use it. I know alot of writers were told to not ask questions at the end of their chapters (opinions on stuff and polls on what should happen next, ect.) to get answers in their reviews because it was clogging up the Archive server; and yet, no one has set up anything. I've been trying to promote the forums in my story at least to cover the overload issue. I think also, no one know how to really set up a good thread for their story. Like I'm starting a trilogy, and the first story would be discussed in "general" because there's no sex, but the second would be elsewhere. The only reason I haven't started a thread is because no one seems all that interested in my story. Then again, those that get the readers don't start threads either.