8/13/07

Alright, the recent update warrants an additional update of my profile. As you have hopefully figured out, I am the up-and-coming writer Down-In-Flames.

Right, so I am:

A sixteen year-old Californian.

6'3" and whiter than holy hell in all senses of the word.

Totally into rock and punk music, as well as alternative, ska punk and the occasional techno jam. My favorite bands include: Rise Against, Coheed and Cambria, Less Than Jake, Flogging Molly, The Foo Fighters, Authority Zero, The Prize Fighter Inferno, Rage Against the Machine, Sum 41, Queen, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky, Inquisition, Strike Anywhere, Dropkick Murphys, The Fratellis, NOFX, Anti-Flag, The Offspring, Green Day, Metallica, The Ramones, Sonic Youth, Bad Religion, EleventySeven, The Pillows (Japanese Band), and Farin Urlaub Racing Team (German Band).

Into climbing anything and everything, riding my bike to nowhere, reading, writing, hanging out online, swimming, and daydreaming. I also collect swords and knives and archery equipment, which everyone I've told about so far thinks is kinda scary...

An aspiring graffiti artist in my city of Sacramento. I work mainly with stencils and stickers, but I am trying to develop my own letter style so I can conquer one more medium. I try to keep part of my life DIY (not like HGTV) and make most all my own stickers and T-shirts. I also paint canvas work. My inspiration for my artwork has got to be UK artist Banksy. Look him up at . He's got some sick stencils and some radical ideas.

Into the concept of Parkour as a philosophy and a pastime. I am new to the parkour ways, though, so I am still conditioning my body to the point of being able to finish lengthy runs. I swear, it's times like that I wish I lived downtown instead of in the suburbs...

You will mostly be seeing Digimon Season 3 fics from me, but I also like creating my own digimon stories. However, I might be persuaded to write other stuff as well...

Bulletin Board: Stories that are undergoing writing and contemplation

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Destined to Change - My largest fic in constant production. It chronicles the exploits of my OC, Matt Shephard, and his new Digimon partner, a Renamon named Sasha.

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For You - Renamon/Rika fic to the tune of "In Your Honor" by the Foo Fighters. It is a part 1 of 3, and expect it to be on the sad side.

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Fire of the Phoenix - Alternate Universe fic for Renamon/Rika. Myotismon rules over the land while the citizens starve and wither. Bands of rebels have begun to form, and the people are going to fight for their freedom. But do they stand a chance at all?

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I Think - Rika longing for Renamon to the tune of the I Think I Love You cover by Less Than Jake.

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"It's not the end I fear with each breath,/It's life that scares me to death." - Rumors of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exagerrated; Rise Against

"We're throwing wrenches in the gears,/Our lives will not be lived in vain." - Tip the Scales; Rise Against

"All the words that I say/Will someday fade away./But the messages in these songs/Have kept me sane all along." - PS Shock the World; Less Than Jake

"Sealed with a curse... as sharp as a knife... doomed is your soul... AND DAMNED IS YOUR LIFE!" - Jeff; SCUD: The Disposable Assassin

"Dear my friends/In the time we've spent/Forever after beyond this/When will our nightmare ever end?" - 3 Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow); Coheed and Cambria

"Insanity is a tool, use it well." - Robert Clark

"Government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certaintly isn't you." - Orson Scott Card

"War determines not who is right, but who is left."

"Yesterday upon the stair,
I saw a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish to Hell he'd go away."

"The bee is such a busy soul,
He has no time for birth control.
And that is why, in times like these,
We have so many sons of bees."

"Years go by as we start to see/so many generations torn by poverty and greed./So many whining that their lives are/oh-so-bad, but far better than so many it's sad./Becoming intoxicated by all of the madness/and all of the pain that they've been through,/hoping and searching, a world in despair,/right outside, no more!" - Lying Awake; Authority Zero

"For the days to come watch out/They're taking everything we die for/Like the freedom from this world's disorder/What did they murder you for?/Born in gray eyes up but heads bowed/Our Comrades' songs heard at Stonewall Loud/For every day we'll fight our way through/Or we'll drown in all our past mistakes/Searching not waiting/For our reaction/Don't let them tell you/What you cannot be/All the silent nights you thought/The space between you and the mirror/Telling all the things you couldn't tell us/So afraid the world won't listen/And the ministers fill up the skies/Praying on our fears and lies/Still love is the last thing we've got left to lose/Or we'll drown in all our past mistakes/Searching not waiting/For our reaction/Don't let them tell you/What you cannot be/Searching no longer/For our reaction/Don't let them tell you/Who you cannot love/For all this/You wanted/Don't fall/Names of the fallen/In the wall/Live on/So arm in arm/We'll fight them down/With all our pride/Don't let them tell you/Who you cannot love." - Allies; Strike Anywhere

"So with a wonder and a wild desire, I will crawl from under every weight." - Wonder and a Wild Desire; Flogging Molly

"Here's to the sweet smell/Of all banks burning/All the food is freed/From the storehouse/All the teachers are learning/Fuck the laws/For their Greed/The ratchet's thrown/And we won't bleed/Our true wealth lies in the/Song of the land/Communities freed from/This prison of God and men." - Ballad of Bloody Run; Strike Anywhere

"A spotless domain/Hides festering hopes/She's certain there's more/Pictures of fields without fences/Her body numbs as he approaches the door" - Revolver; Rage Against the Machine

"It may be I'm a pessimist/But I'd say we need an exorcist/The root of all evil's standing tall/Under God and above us all" - March of the Dogs; Sum 41

"Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but rather a hammer with which to shape it."