...hi?

I'm that self-centred type of person who really likes talking about herself, but I'm also not delusional, so I know that if I write too much, people will just be like, ugh, boring! So, as brevity is the soul of wit, I shall be brief.

My name is Elizabeth, but you can call me Lizz -- two z's, please. I'm a student at the University of Amazing, with a double major in Awesome and Sexy. I'm a girl (if you hadn't figured that out already though, I'd be a little concerned) and I'm awesome. Arrogant? No. Cocky? No. The most amazing, brilliant, intelligent, stunning person on the planet? YES.

I'm also (usually) a nice person, so please feel free to contact me on a whim (or perhaps with a great deal of premeditation, doesn't matter to me). I'd love to hear from you.

A note on reviews and review replies: I love reviews, both giving them and receiving them, which means that if you read something I've written, it'd be super spectacular if you reviewed it as well. What are, however, equally wonderful are review replies. And this seems to be an uncommonality with a lot of authors, and that makes me sad. I love giving lengthy reviews and hearing what an author has to say in return about their work. Open dialogue about writing is something I truly enjoy -- which means that if you review, I will reply.

Unless I hate you. ;)

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.” -- Franz Kafka

Are you a fan of reading bad fanfic? I am! That's why you can often find me at /r/whatthefanfic. I'd love for you to join me.

You're also welcome to follow and/or stalk me creepily on Tumblr. You can find me here!

BETA WORK: Lily and the HalfBlood Prince by greeneyes117 // Italian Black Widow by BellaPur // Malfoy, The Lingerie Collector by Maegboriel // Chapters 44 and 45 of Gitana Del Sol's Sisters Forever // Written in the Stars by Lady Eleanor Boleyn. I'm also the official beta for The Psychotic House-Elf, who is quite possibly the most amazing person in the world (besides me).

UPDATE: Although it has been a long time -- too long, I know -- Ici-bas is not now, and will not ever be, abandoned or put on hiatus. Writing is, however, very slow, and I'm sorry. I am working on it, though, and it hasn't been forgotten.

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