My blue rose is: in her late 20's, Californian, a cannon purist, a Reformed Baptist, has a B.A. in Anthropology and is married to a rocket scientist.

My blue rose finds joy in many ordinary and esoteric things, including but not limited to: books, metered poetry, theology, children, philosophy, archaeology, bluegrass, fantasy, ethnobotany, ethics, fiction writing, paleopathology, alternative metal, epic poetry, scientific journal articles, metaphysics, string quartets, science fiction, geology, special education, history, herbal medicine, Reformed dogmatics and writing about herself in the third person.

Things My blue rose doesn't like: Out Of Characterness (OOC) My blue rose reads fanfiction because she likes how the original creators made their characters. She also dislikes the spelling and grammar mistakes that, despite her best efforts, still manage to appear in her stories.

My blue rose's notes about her story update schedule:

My blue rose updates her stories approximately, whenever she feels like it (Reviews help motivate). She promises to update sometime between now and when she dies.

Some Quotes My blue rose likes:

"85% of internet statistics are completely made up. Just like this one." - My blue rose

"Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk." -Henry Jenkins, in Textual Poachers: Media Fans and Participatory Culture

“Some people call it fanfiction. I call it story-internal literary criticism.” ~ Dreamflower

“Pseudonyms are a good way of creating an identity, communicating something essential about yourself.” - Anonymous

Blue roses symbolize an appreciation for the enigmatic and inexplicable: the tantalizing vision that cannot be totally pinned down, a mystery that cannot be fully unraveled. Since it does not occur in nature, the blue rose also symbolizes the impossible, or the unattainable. A flight of fancy, an irrepressible imagination is what the blue rose is all about. - The Meanings of Blue Roses at

"Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will." - Goethe

"Fairy tales are more than true, not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten." - G. K. Chesterson

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." GK Chesterton, Defendant, 1901

"The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense." -Tom Clancy

“Like all art, fiction is a language for communicating a type of reality that can't be communicated in any other way: the interplay of human consciousness with itself and the world.” - Andrew Klavan

"There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth." - Alan Moore.

"Use your imagination. Trust me; your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down."
- W. B. Kinsella

"Yes, killing evil people who deserve to die is good, true and beautiful." - Brian Godawa

“There cannot be any ‘story’ without a fall – all stories are ultimately about the Fall,”- Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, “Letter 131 to Milton Waldman”

"Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific verity. On the contrary. The keener and the clearer is the reason, the better fantasy will it make." - J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories

“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” - Abraham Lincoln

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." - Edmund Burke (1729 –1797) in Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents

"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." - Lord Acton

“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical,” - Thomas Jefferson

"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics." - Thomas Sowell

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." - Rev. Martin Luther King

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” - George Orwell

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." - John F. Kennedy

“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.” - Robert A. Heinlein

“Liberals are all for diversity, except for diversity of ideas.” ~ Bernard Goldberg

"I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. - H. L. Mencken, "Why Liberty?" 1927

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength and my redeemer. - Psalm 19:14

My blue rose's notes about her stories:

If you want to read Island in a Sea of Sand and Island in French, Claire-de-plume has translated the story here: www.fanfiction.ws/s/11206081/1/Une--dans-une-mer-de-sable -- she is also translating Island in a Sea of Sun in French here: /s/11206081/1/Une-île-dans-une-mer-de-sable

Any story that is currently on hiatus is so because My blue rose doesn't have an outline written for it yet and, as such, she has no idea where the story is going to end. These stories are not abandoned (My blue rose doesn't keep abandoned stories on this site) but they will not be updated until she has finished writing an outline for them.