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Vash's "Killing Time" song from the anime Trigun. At least, those are the lyrics as I remember them.... Morbid, but if you've ever watched Trigun, you know Vash was bluffing.

Oh? Okay. Hm. I'll have to look and see...but not tonight. 's way past bed time, since I have to be up tomorrow morning. *shrug* I don't think it's a problem to edit posted chapters. Just, as you said, let the readers known in A/Ns. Anyway, every story is a work in progress until the writer hits the end and is satisfied.

I do have some Bleach works (yaoi) that I'm working on, if you have the time to spare. If not, that's fine, too. I also have some Naruto yaoi one-shot ideas spinning around in my head, and I've got a bundle of one-shots (written and still to go, M/M, F/M/M, F/M/M/M, some explicit and some not) for the game Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, but I'm not sure you're into that. Anyway, PM me if you're interested and we'll go from there.

Do I have topics I will not write? Hm.... Explicitly, yes. Am I willing to mention most topics and how I feel about them in my writing, as shown through characters and their emotions? Yeah, I think I can safely say that. I come from a really open-minded family, where it concerns the blood relatives and adopted ones. This has influenced me quite a bit. I don't care about sexual preferences of any sort because if they're not doing sexual things with me, why should it impact me at all? Race doesn't matter to me, nor do culture or religion. Pedophiles are slightly different, but my views differ somewhat here from the legal perspective in the US. In the first place, I know there are places where the age of majority is 14. Secondly, there are, for example, celebrity marriages with 20 or more years between their ages, so if the minor is of age to be sexually active anyway (not 7-9, because I see that as the age of experimenting and that would be a gross abuse of authority over a child, but more...14-17, depending on how mature the kid is and if the family isn't trying to push the kid into it), then it seems hypocritical to me to call it pedophilia. If you go by US law, relationships with minors are borderline acceptable even with four years or less between them, unless both are minors. This being the case, why then would it not be pedophilia for anyone to be in a relationship with someone five years or more their junior? My parents are both in relationships with a 10 year age gap. This would make, in the one case, my dad's wife a pedophile. In the other, it would make my mom a pedophile. But they are all consenting adults (however much my dad's wife doesn't act like an adult toward me, which I don't understand as she's 36 years older than I am, but I guess that, just as some people never grow old at heart, some people never grow up in truth) and far be it from me to meddle. Mostly, I suppose I am saying, I think that if a person is mature enough to make adult decisions, mature enough that they could be emancipated, even if they aren't, then I don't see it as pedophilia. (This may also have something to do with my own somewhat precocious maturity, due to my being the older sibling and the way the families raised me. I'm not saying everyone has to see it that way, just that I do.) Scat play and similar things don't work for me, so I avoid them. I have an overly active imagination and a nose that's gotten rather picky after three sinus infections, in addition to my hereditary ear sensitivity. Nothing against anyone who likes it, I would just rather not read it myself. Bestiality doesn't bother me. This probably has to do with the fact that I like the animals I meet much more than I like the humans, on average. I don't mind that other people dislike bestiality. I'm sure there are things they like that I don't, too, and that's just a fact of life. Violence and gore...well, I grew up in a family of hunters, with two male cousins and then my younger twin brothers closest to me in age. I have a much different view of "violence" than most girls I know. I get told that I hit too hard when I'm giving a playful or friendly swat to a shoulder. And, what with the hunting, my usual reaction to guts is, "That smells. Let's get it out of sight soon, so the bears and scavengers don't wander too close." Do I think there is any content which is allowed here and should not be? No. I think this site is set up in a way that has created a haven for all of us whose needs don't quite fit in with modern society, wherever we live, and that trying to get even one thing banned would alienate those involved and make the rest of us oddballs, misfits and outcasts suddenly start wondering about whether we'd be banned next. It's Adult Fan Fiction for a reason, if not more than one. Minors in general have a bad tendency to flame and otherwise act immature, which makes me glad they're banned from here. Those of us allowed here for the most part mind our manners, keeping in mind that we haven't liked it when we've been banned, flamed, trolled, or spammed on other sites. To my mind, the simple fact that it's a kind of haven tells me, "It's okay to be and share who you are. Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind can just find something else to read. That's what we do here." And part of why it's a haven is this: the mods and admins respond quickly, use the same rules for everyone, and refuse to tolerate the kind of senseless, flamer-ridden arguments that now infest, for example, YouTube. So, no, I don't think there's anything that should be removed from this site that isn't already. I've never understood why anyone would read something they know they're not going to like anyway, same as I've never understood why people on YouTube go to videos or songs they know they're not going to enjoy, only to complain that the music, the genre, the artist, the person who posted the video, or the viewers as a whole are crap, are pathetic, are-- We all know the list goes on. It's why I'm thankful that such poor behavior is not allowed here. Isn't that kind of haven worth having to avoid the tags you don't like?

"I Want My Goodbye Back" in my pants. A Ty Herndon song.

Not guilty. Though I had a classmate who was snowboarding and nearly bit his tongue in two. He was one of my cousin's friends. Have you ever had a slip of the tongue that you just can't live down? For my aunt, this is her "blonde moment" (though she's a brunette) where she called cattle guards "cattle cards." For me...well, to be quite frank, usually my slips of the tongue turn into running jokes or nicknames, or just random words that everyone has fun saying, so I don't think of it as being unable to live it down. (My own slips of the tongue, at least. I still can't live down some of my bf's....)

Not guilty...I think. The only person I know has earned quite a name for his-/herself, and whom I have met, is Patricia Briggs. I was introduced by my...it would be great uncle, right? Grandma's brother...because he's a friend of hers and in her writer's circle, if I remember right. Or at least he was, before she moved to Montana. (Patricia Briggs, for those who don't know, is an author. She has two ongoing works, her Mercy Thompson series and Alpha And Omega. I don't know if she's going to continue any of her other works, but as it stands the rest appear to be finished--and she told me, when I met her, that she preferred to keep her stories short, a mere two or three books.) Have you ever reread complicated, involved books just to find out if there were any implications (foreshadowing, in other words) that you missed the first time around? I have done this, though not often. Mostly, when I'm rereading a story, it's because I enjoyed it or I want that specific kind of humor or darkness.

"Living On Love" Alan Jackson

"Carrying Your Love With Me" George Strait

"All Right Now" Puddle of Mudd CD: Re:(disc)overed

I'd like to know dates on this stuff, too. Yes, over-the-top discipline is...well, to my mind, more abuse than discipline, and I've seen how my mom and step dad went from too little to too much with my brothers...and it just flat didn't work. Now they're spoiled almost-twenty-year-old brats and it's going to take a hard knock to bring them to their senses. I can understand why you're so wary of becoming a father--but just because your parents and/or your siblings made parenting mistakes doesn't mean you have to make the same ones. And if you ever want advice, there are plenty of us here to talk to. Parenting is really a work in progress, anyway, and the main thing is to find a person you want to share that experience with. (Which is not to say that your tastes in--women, I presume?--don't matter, because they do.)

"Too Cold At Home" Mark Chesnutt

Juvenile Electrician Wishes Extra Love, Roulette Yesterday (No idea why it came out like this....) E X T R A P O L A T E

"It's Alright to be a Redneck" in my pants Well played, that Alan Jackson.

Snide N00b Emulates Ass Kissing, Ensures Ridicule C H A S I N G

Well, good luck finding what you need, anyway.

Really? Huh. I didn't know that.

I wouldn't say "dumb".... "Forgetful" is a much better description. Everyone has moments like that, so it's not like it's a big deal. I'm not much into Harry Potter, sorry.... Good luck finding people to help! (Should be fairly easy, with how big the HP fandom is.)

What category are you talking about?

Guilty. And yes, it does. Ow.... Ever had a pet that was not merely a family pet but a part of the family itself? My first dog, Buddy, was like that. He was a blue heeler--and unlike a number of blue heelers I've known/heard about, he could be trusted with any kid whatsoever. We took him to job sites with us (my dad and grandpa did concrete and construction) and he met all sorts of new kids, no problem--probably because he grew up with a number of kids, between my family and our friends. But he was also a member of the family because, in addition to going everywhere with us, he also at one point saved my grandpa's life, which rather cemented his position as a family member, not just a pet. Of course, Buddy also had this odd trait: he'd let kids hang all over him, tug his ears, his lips...hell, we fell on him sometimes too! And the worst he would do was growl and walk away, which, for a dog in particular, is a nice way of saying, "Okay, that's enough." That dog never even threatened to bite kids. (Though he bit my dad once, during hunting season, for not feeding him. That was funny. Buddy waited just long enough to be sure my dad wasn't going to get the dog food out for him, and then he walked up--not stiff at all, his ruff wasn't even raised--and just...bit his arm through the jacket. "Look, you're supposed to feed me and you already forgot once today. You won't get away with that again." He only let go because my grandma gave me some of the elk steak she was cooking to give to him.)