Iggy_lovechild

I have a lot of stories that I'm quite pleased with but if I'd have to pick just one, right now, I'd have to pick Undiscovered Flesh I'm very happy with it because I think it explores Albel's issues without him coming off terribly angsty and emo-bratty. The prose is very elegant and a bit more dreamy than my usual style. I guess it was because I was being heavily influenced by Poppy Z. Brite at the time, so much so that I consider the dream sequence that opens the story a bit of an homage. The smut is also exceptionately good, some of my best. (Must be noted: It is yaoi.)

Before the...dark time, before AFF had all those problems, I regularily got reviews, but since the site's been running they've dropped off a lot. I do get more reviews for my anime based fanfiction, though. That much I agree with from a previous post. My current fandom doesn't get me many reviews (despite my high hit count ) even though the pairing I write for is quite popular.

Ah...it's one of my favourite userpics that I'm using at lj right now. I do do love the upload large avvie option over here. Err...explain it? *coughs* Well...just some silly Albel Nox perviness. Picture seems to be from the regrettable SO:3 manga, but gosh the art seemed to be quite lovely....

I actually don't usually worry much about pretty sigs anymore, but the picture caught my eye while I was surfing the net. An Albel Nox chibi that didn't look totally obnoxious?! Right the fuck on! The line under the picture is pretty obvious I think. The rest are links to my AFF profile page and Media Miner story listing as well as my live journal (the link labelled as "Obsessive Behaviour").

Pretty much anything by Type O Negetive, particularily "Christian Woman", "Black No. 1", or their cover of "Summer Breeze". Also may I suggest a certain remix of Marilyn Manson's "Torniquet" that you can find on "Remix and Repent"? Ooh! And anything by Switchblade Symphony. I hope you don't mind that most of my suggestions are kinda goth-y. Er..."Penetration" on Iggy and The Stooges' Raw Power is also nice and slow and dirty. Gods...! I could go on...but I'll stop now.

Hmmm...Letsee...Let's try to make this orderly: InuYasha Sess/Rin, mostly because, ew, he's like a father figure for chrissake! Sess/Inu, insest is not my bag and really...it doesn't work for them.... Hellsing Alucard/Seras, just...no. It doesn't work anywhere except for the crappy anime and even then.... Alucard/Anderson, it's always bothered me for some reason even tis a wierd vibe between them. Maybe it's cos I've always secretly preferred Anderson/Maxwell. Cowboy Bebop Jet/Spike, it's the crackiest of crack pairings imho....

I love you so much right now. Damn, now I want to read Trainspotting again (and then end up talking a Scottish accent for two weeks ). Interesting thing: My boyfriend and I are in gross disagreement on marriage. He wants to get married and doesn't understand why I'm so cynical about it. He's just as pagan as I am (okay, that's a lie. I'm a Satanist. Sometimes I just say I'm pagan so as to not scare people. Anton would be so disappointed in me...), but he has the concept of marriage meaning something. He goes by the old ways, and believes in marriage being the binding of two souls. Sweet, isn't he? Frankly, I can't be bothered by that kind of romantic bullshit, even if I am a bit of a romantic in my own way. I guess I more believe that I shouldn't need a fucking ceremony to prove my love and loyalty to someone. That love is so much more than hearts and flowers and a goddamned peice of paper. *sighs* At least we agree on breeding (ie: fuck that).

Have you considered joining livejournal? They have a lot of communities for fanfiction out there and it's actually quite a nice set-up with the comments and all. You can actually reply to your reviews and readers. Believe me, I write for a very small fandom right now and have generated a small fanbase because of posting on an lj community. It's been making it a lot less frustrating to write for such a small fandom and otherwise not get many reviews. I know, so off-topic. Sorry....

*chuckles* Makes me glad I didn't get into RP-ing with this girl who contacted me thru yahoo messenger. Mind you, I'm seldom on messenger, so it was weird when she IM-ed me out of the blue. I think she remembers me back when I was an InuYasha writer. I haven't really been seriously active in the fandom for quite awhile now, nearly a year. So it was odd. Glad I don't use AIM.

*sighs* But IY yaoi pairings are so hard to write (except for Jakotsu/Bankotsu, whose relationship is obvious even in the manga). At least for me. InuYasha's too straight and clueless for it; Miroku's painfully straight, as is Koga...as is most of the hot bishies. Sess and Naraku are the only ones in question and I'd say they'd go well together, but Sess really does hate him (and not in the sexy way). I secretly would like to read a good IY/Koga fic. (*hinthint* Anyone know any?)

Come now, we all know the crazier and more fucked up a character is, the sexier he/she is percieved in the world of fanfiction. Unless of course the character in question is ugly.

You're not alone. I've had to teach myself to carefully concentrate on what I'm reading when I'm editing or beta-reading my own stories (sometimes I have other people beta for me, but since my current fandom is so small, trying to find one is a pain. That and I'm too impaitent. Once I have a story finished and typed up, I'm like: Okay, I wanna post noooowww). And I still sometimes end up posting with typos! (Which I usually fix asap depending on their severity. I must confess if it's something small, I can ignore it for a long time, but if it's this huge glaring problem, I fix it right as I notice it.)

If two male characters so much as look at each other funny, they are most certainly gay and want to jump each other's bones.

I know how you feel (and I have read a bit of your writing and even left a review. You're very good). I think the only thing that keeps me writing is the fact that I must or go mad (or start drinking on a daily basis again *chuckles*) and that I have a small, but strong fanbase on a certain community at live journal. It still frustrates me, to pour my life's blood into my stories and be practically ignored while hacks and the far less talented are showered with praise. Even though I don't like admitting to it because it makes me sound petty, you're not the only one who's bitter.

It's a little peice of gorgeously rendered "Hellsing" smut. Pairing: AlucardxIntegra. Thanks, I'll prolly check it out and join up when I have more time on my hands. I don't relish the idea of having to upload everything all over again. I can be far too lazy for my own good.

I just hope this doesn't make sites like photobucket more diligent with their member's content. I have a bit of hentai in my account, particualrily a very graphic doujinshi....

I actually read this really great IY/Mir fic not too long ago...Shit, I can't remember what it was called but it was damned good. Surprised me, too. I've never been entirely fond of the pairing. (Bankotsu/Jakotsu ftw!)

I don't know about everyone else but all those things that the article was citing as "little known" historical facts about America...Yeah, I knew that shit. Now mind you, while I'd been in school, I'd never paid much attention to American history. I'd found it boring, not nearly as interesting as the stuff that went down in Europe. Still do somewhat feel that way, but I'm starting to get over it. Anyway, what I'm suriously wondering is if it's just the education in this day in age. I know sex ed has become laughable, perhaps history and everything else is not so far behind?

Well, the majority of my fics in the anime section are for Hellsing. For awhile I was getting a decent amount of reviews, but these days, not so. I also have one fic for Cowboy Bebop, but that never had a lot of reviews, and one fic in the InuYasha section, a re-post of an old fic that I'd always been fond of and felt that it belonged on AFF. Er...Since it's for a less popular pairing (Sess/Kagura), it doesn't get much attention. These days I'm mostly writing for SO: 3, a pitifully small video game fandom, and though I write for a fairly popular couple, I'm lucky to get one review for any one of my stories. And yet I have great ratings. It's so frustrating. I just want to strangle my readers sometimes. I don't give a damn about the stupid little stars. If you're reading it and liking it so goddamn much then review me, dammit!

Honestly I don't know that people really pay atention to the rating. I don't rate stories and I don't pay any mind to the stars. It's rather meaningless when nearly every single fic that I run into is rather with four or five stars with plenty of them being undeserving. Doesn't seem to attract more readers either. All of my fics are highly rated (not bragging, just stating), but only a few have actually been reviewed. Or maybe I'm just not attracting people who like to review. *shrugs* Ah, the joys and agonies of writing for smaller fandoms.

Oh gods what a horrible thought! And I'm thinking this because I co-wrote "When Arthur Comes" *twitches* Bad, bad pwp. Thanksfully, I had been 18 at that point, but the quality! The horror! *feels ill*

Shame on you! Thought you had better manners than that. Hey, I've been burned out on the fandom for ages now and I still made nice.

I've been vaguely sex-obsessed for as long as I understood what it meant. Honestly, I don't know why. My mom was never open about it, not so much due to any religous revulsion (though I was raised primarily Catholic, we were a rather secular family and as my mom grew older and the world grew more fucked up, she started questioning God a lot) but due to...Maybe she never thought it mattered? I never got the proper birds-and-bees toalk and learned about sex through school and books. I must confess, I was writing smutty fanfiction before I knew about sites that catered to such things. I was 13, it was "Star Wars", I'm sure it was awful. When i was around 16, I finally discovered the internet and through randomly surfing for "X-files" websites, I discovered a privately run fanfiction site catering to the Mulder/Scully pairing that included smut as well as tamer fics. Naturally, I was more interested in the erotica. I recall posting a few fics there as well; I think I was 17. No one asked any questions about age. By the time I got seriously into fanfiction, I think I was legal. Good thing too since I was obsessively writing Arthur/Curt slash for the "Velvet Goldmine" fandom. As for AFF, I didn't even know about the site until recently and I'm quite legal now.

Oh, I just remembered another reason why I was convinced that M.C. was a bot. Within an hour of posting a chapter for a story on A Single Spark (a Sess/Kag shipper site, for those not in the know), I'd have a review by her sitting in my e-mail's inbox. What does she do? Have a million windows open at once?! Is it some kind of radar?! I say this because I know that both A Single Spark and AFF lack story update alerts. So how does she respond so quickly?! Surreal. I started working on my contribution. Don't know when it's going to be done since I'm still working out the precise details. (Particularily how she will die...)

I'm rather fond of labelling as well. It's seriously no fun to run into a paring that make you retch. What I hate even more is when a summary is misleading! I fucking hate that. Oooh...or lack of warning for a love triangle. I hate love triangle fics, they're often so badly written and you can always tell who ends up with who long before the story ends.