Before anything else, I should really point this out while I still possibly have your attention: towards the bottom of my profile, I have a whole bunch of story ideas that I've had at one point or another. The ones in bold are up for adoption, so if you're interested, check them out. Also, I have a few other stories that I've written and posted a chapter of, but then almost immediately put up for adoption, so give those a look, too.

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I now have a TV Tropes page! Sort of. I have a troper page that I'm using to catalog all of the tropes that appear in my stories, the link for which is . . . here!

http:///pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Dukeofpoorplanning

I invite anyone and everyone to give it a look and to contribute any tropes that they notice me using; it's nowhere near exhaustive, since I mostly just wrote it up in an hour I had the other day when I couldn't log in here. I've always wanted a tropes page for my stuff, and now I have one. *sniffle*

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Wow. Um . . . I don't really know what to do with this. I guess I'll talk about the stories I have planned? Right now, I'm mostly focusing on a single HP story: it was originally a re-write of the entire series with an OC, though it's shifted now into a post PoA rewrite with said OC. Now, I know what you're almost definitely not thinking: those are lame. Normally, I agree with you. I've seen more stories than I can count where some random OC (normally Harry's twin sister or Sirius' daughter) is added, and nothing actually changes.

I've seen stories where the entire thing is just the book being copied over onto almost verbatim. I've seen stories where the only changes being made are grammatical errors that weren't present in JK's stories (well they might have been before they were edited out; I wouldn't know). I've seen stories where the dialogue in certain conversations is literally exactly the same as it was in JK's stories, only it's being said by different people.

My story isn't that. I'm not saying that it'll be wicked awesome or anything (though I hope it will be). I'm just saying that, while most stories with the same concept that I'm using wind up being near identical to the originals, I'm working hard to ensure that that isn't the case with mine. It'll still be really derivative (can you say "Sword Art Online?"), but it at least will be worth reading in addition to JK's stories, not as a pale imitation to be read in their stead because you can't be bothered to swipe the books from your local . . . I mean . . . borrow them from a library. Yes. Borrow. Legally. But I digress. In fact, the story didn't even have an OC in its original draft, but her presence was inspired by a story I read that basically made me stop and say "that was terrible. I could do this so much better than this author did."

I actually have a little test to determine whether or not an OC rewrite is worth reading: if I can skip a few books in a series like that, then start reading a later one and understand everything that's going on, the series isn't different enough from canon for me to consider it worth reading. (That test is actually the reason why I've re-worked my story to start at book four, since the changes made in books one through three are mostly minor enough (with a few major exceptions) that they can be handled via narration and flashbacks.) I won't name any names, but I've read a few stories like that, and I've never been able to force myself to do more than skim them, looking (in vain) for any divergences from canon. What a sad life I lead, yes?

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Obvious question: what sorts of stories do I like to read? For one, I tend to really like stories where Harry goes back to Hogwarts for his seventh year. Let's be honest here, the poor guy's earned a break by then; he deserves to kick up and just be a normal student. And to be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if everyone were required to redo that year. Think about it, what with the Carrow siblings, the muggle-born registration nonsense, worrying about the outcome of the war, and really everything else going on, nobody learned anything that year. Especially if the teachers were devoting more energy to protecting the students than they were to teaching them, which they canonically were. Seventh year stories just make sense to me, yah know? I also like the idea of an AU series starting in sixth year where Voldemort dies in the Ministry (even if it does mean messing around with the idea of horcruxes a little), but I've never actually seen one.

As far as one shots and shorter stories go, I don't usually like anything that has Voldemort in it, usually because it either doesn't get resolved, or Voldemort goes down way too easily. The exceptions are fics where Voldemort isn't the focus, which usually only works for me if he's replaced with another villain who makes things personal for the protagonists, or stories where he's mentioned, but not really relevant to the story being told.

As far as novel-length fics go, I mostly only read ones where significant changes to core things are made. There's not much point in reading a "Harry ends up in Slytherin" fic if he makes one male friend, one female friend, and most of their conversations are just being copied over from the novels with the Daphne Greengrass' name replacing Hermione's and Blaise Zabini's replacing Ron's.

As for individual story elements that I tend to look for, I'll happily read most anything that has Slytherins realistically portrayed. "Realistically" here meaning that they aren't all prejudiced buttmunches. I don't even understand where the idea that Slytherin never gets halfbloods or muggleborns comes from. Think about it: Hermione claims that "[the Death Eaters] can't all be pureblood. There aren't enough pureblood wizards left. I bet most of them are halfbloods, pretending they're pure." If there aren't enough purebloods for all of the death eaters to be pureblood, how could there be enough to represent a quarter of Hogwarts' population, plus all the other purebloods that aren't in Slytherin, such as James Potter, Neville Longbottom, Sirius Black, Susan Bones, etc, etc? I mean, I get that most fanfics don't follow every letter of canon to a "T" (the're wouldn't be much point if they did), but this has always struck me as something that most people don't even think about, just taking it for granted that because the Slytherins we see in the story are pureblood jerks, they all are.

Phew! Sorry about that. I kinda have a thing about anti-Slytherin stuff. It's just, my brother's a Slytherin (sob), and its really hard to (hiccup) live with all the prejudice that entails (takes several minutes to compose himself before going back to writing his profile). Anyways, I also tend to like fics where Sirius is free and exonerated by the ministry. It just makes for a nice slap in the face to Fudge, and let's face it: the dude deserves it. Hate that guy. I also love anything post OoP where Umbridge gets her comeuppance, though it kind of annoys me when she tends to become a Death Eater in these fics, since that's just not how I've ever seen her character. I've always seen her as someone who loved the Ministry fanatically, and loves abusing her power, but would only do it if she knew that she had the might of the ministry behind her. I'm also not a fan of how punishing Umbridge tends to be the focus of such fics, since it tends to feel like wish fulfillment, punishing Umbridge for her crimes against Harmanity. (That's like crimes against Harry combined with crimes against humanity.)

Some things I generally try to avoid: Bashing for one (it seems a tad hypocritical, given that the first story I ever posted to this site has a Ginny bashing warning on it, but bear with me here). A crackfic with bashing? No problem. One of my favorite fics on this site is a one shot about an insane Dumbledore and his unhealthy obsession with lemon drops. Fairly understated bashing? Not too bad, I guess. Ridiculously over-the-top Weasley and Hermione bashing? Yeah, not so much. It changes everything that we were ever shown about the characters in canon, and it usually only does it as an excuse to get Harry away from his old life and into a new circle of friends. It's lazy writing, that, and it just annoys me.

A few other things I really can't stand are "overly-manipulative Dumbledore" (I get it. Writing Dumbledore to be just manipulative enough while still having ultimately good, if misguided, intentions, is difficult. Doesn't really excuse it, though.), "suddenly Harry's best friend Malfoy" (I don't care what Harry goes through, he and Malfoy aren't becoming friends overnight. Hell, it'd take them a few days at least just to be able to tolerate each other) "Mary Sue OC Harry's girlfriend" (Hi! I just happen to be gorgeous, a metamorphmageous, incredibly smart, the bestest spellcaster everer, really good at everything, adored by everybody in history, and the entire story is first person narration from my perspective! Do you hate me yet?!") and "overly reasonable Snape" (Snape hates Harry for being James 2.0. Harry isn't even remotely close to being James 2.0. You do the math).

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Let's talk shipping, yeah? I ain't got nothin' against Ginny personally, she's a fine character and all, but I just don't see her and Harry hooking up. What exactly is the impetus behind their relationship? Harry has a weird chest thing and Ginny's had a crush on Harry since forever ago. It's not well written, it's not well paced, it's just not a good romance. In fact, the way the entire thing is written (at least for the entirety of book six, not so much in seven), it seems more like a high school crush (like Harry's on Cho) than a lasting romance. Which is fine, but just because they dated as teenagers, it doesn't mean that they have to marry as adults.

That's not to say that Ginny and Harry shouldn't've ended up together, just that their relationship should have been handled better than not at all. Seriously, the entire thing happens off-screen. Ginny's character development that allows her to look past the image of Harry the Savior? Off-screen. Whatever it is that causes Harry to start fancying Ginny in the first place? Off-screen. All of everything in their actual relationship? Off-screen. They have, like, one scene together in the Gryffindor common room, then the plot kicks in again, Harry goes on an adventure, they talk a bit after Dumbledore's death, Harry stupidly breaks up with Ginny over Voldemort, they kiss at the Burrow, they argue a bit at the battle of Hogwarts nearly a year later, then they get married at some point between said battle and the epilogue. That's pretty much my entire understanding of what happened between them, although I should probably point out that it's been a while since I read the books, so there's that.

You wanna read a good Harry/Ginny romance? Read Taking Control and Free Life by fake a smile. Two great fics (even if the second probably won't ever be finished) that have believable development for the two of them and shows a genuine friendship before and after they start dating, all while still putting the focus on the larger issue: the battle against Voldemort.

As far as other ships go, I personally am of the opinion that Harry should have ended up with a Slytherin, if only to show that they aren't all evil bastards, or a Hufflepuff, since they're never given any attention in canon (except to point out that they're never given any attention, which isn't really any better. Actually, so much attention is paid to how little attention is paid to Hufflepuff that Hufflepuff winds up being paid more attention than Ravenclaw. Trippy, huh?). Given the Slytherins in his year that leaves Pansy Parkinson (yeah . . . no.), Milicent Bulstrode (the only things we know about her are that she apparently doesn't like Hermione and has a cat; given what we were shown about Slytherin, that probably means that she's got something against muggle-borns as a whole, so also no.) Daphne Greengrass, Tracey Davis (neither of whom ever say or do anything), and Lily Moon (who also does nothing and could be, according to the HP wiki, in any house other than Ravenclaw) Morag MacDougal, Sally-Anne Perks, Sally Smith, or Sophie Roper, (any of those last four could have been in any house whatsoever (no indication is ever given for any of them being in any specific house, and any one of them could just as easily be a Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, or Hufflepuff)). Then there are the Slytherins in other years, but since none of them so much as have names (save for the all-male quidditch team), they aren't really a thing. (That said I do have a Harry/[OC Slytherin who's a year below him] fic (cough shameless plug cough) called "Harry Potter and the Annoying Slytherin" for them as wants to give it a look-see.)

Given that all of these characters pretty much only exist in fanon (or at least only have personalities in fanon), I'm gonna hafta say that there weren't any canon ships that I woulda been happy with. As for specific pairings . . .

HP/HG: Harry and Hermione never had any romantic chemistry. Ever. Their relationship was always much more familial, so having them as a romantic couple just seems kinda weird to me. Also, I like the fact that Harry has such a close relationship with a girl without either of them either looking at the other romantically. I dunno why, but I just think it's kinda cool that the two of them never even think of each other in that way.

HP/GW: Thoughts on this are above. Unlike Harry and Hermione, I have nothing against this pairing in theory, but I find that, in practise, it's rarely done well.

HP/CC: Harry had a crush on Cho, but what did they really have in common beyond quidditch? Also, when they went out in Order of the Phoenix, I can't help but wonder how much of Cho's interest in Harry stems from her seeing him as a way of getting closure on Cedric's death, rather than as a potential boyfriend in his own right.

HP/DM (and HG/DM): My objection to this pairing (these pairings. Whatever) stems more from the fact that it makes no goddamn sense than anything else. Think about it: Malfoy is incredibly immature, arrogant, bigoted, and doesn't think for himself. The Harry (and Hermione) that we saw throughout the series would never go for someone like that. (Again, I have a (shameless plug) fic with an OC that I wrote as a response to the first pairing, but it isn't all that good, and the rewrite isn't very high on my priorities list at the moment.) If the idea is that two people disliking each other with the intensity that Harry (or Hermione) and Malfoy do equals belligerent sexual tension which equals romance, that's a really weak basis for any sort of positive relationship. If the idea is lots and lots of hatesex, then I can understand it, but any sort of actual romantic relationship between the characters as they were presented for almost all of canon (the epilogue being the sole exception) would be impossible without a lot of character development.

HG/RW: I just don't see it. To quote a youtube video that, unfortunately, seems to have been taken down, "Ron and Hermione's relationship has always been somewhat shaky and based on emotional manipulation." While I don't necessarily agree with that second part, I can't argue that, throughout most of the series, it seemed like the only thing they really had in common was being friends with Harry. I just don't see how the two of them could live together without one or both of them ending up murdered.

HP/OC: Said OC's have an unfortunate tendency to be Mary Sues. Otherwise, I like the idea, since, as I've been trying to convey throughout this whole shipping rant, there aren't any characters in the series that I think were particularly good matches for Harry.

HP/[DG, TD, LT, SB, HA, LM, etc.] : So little is known about most of Harry's year mates that these characters might as well be OC's, so see above.

HP/PP: Why would Harry ever date Parkinson? Really? Why? And why would Parkinson date Harry?

RW/PP: Why would Ron ever date Parkinson? Really? Why? And why would Parkinson date Ron?

HP/LL: Apparently, Daniel Radcliffe ships it, so that's something. I guess. I just never got a romancey vibe from their interactions, and Luna is notoriously difficult to write (if I have to read one more fic where she talks entirely in "it's just like [made-up creature]" I'm gonna explode), so I just don't see it. Sorry. That's not to say that it can't be done well, just that I haven't seen it done well.

RW/GW: Evidently, this is a thing. Like, an actual thing that people ship. I guess that, if you want to, you can read Ron's annoyance with Ginny's various boyfriends as possessive jealously rather than overprotective jerkery, but I can't see a single reason why anyone would ever.

HP/TMR (and variations thereupon): Voldemort is a sociopath. He is literally incapable of forming the sort of attachment that's necessary for a romantic relationship. If it's a mind-game thing, I can kinda see that. If Voldemort's character is changed (significantly), I can kinda see it (minus the almost-fifty year age gap). Under any other circumstances, it's impossible.

HP/SS: Ewwwwwwwwwwwww. Seriously, who ships this? Snape is a terrible person! He's twenty years older than Harry! He has creepy obsessions with both of his parents which colours literally every single interaction the two ever have! Who ships this?

I gotta be honest here: my OTP (with regards to Harry Potter) is Harry/[whoever the last Slytherin in his year is]. Like I said above, it's either Lily Moon, Morag MacDougal, Sally-Anne Perks, Sally Smith, or Sophie Roper: each house has exactly 10 members in Harry's year with five boys and five girls. Since we know that Pansy Parkinson, Milicent Bulstrode, Daphne Greengrass, and Tracey Davis are all in Slytherin, that means that there's only one more girl in their year, and I think that "Lily Moon" is the most Slytherin-sounding name out of the unsorted females in their year.

With regards to Parkinson's "gang of Slytherin girls," I've always assumed that Bulstrode is more-or-less her Crabbe and Goyle while the other three want nothing to do with her; she just positions herself so that it looks like she's leading them.

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Maybe I should talk about how I personally write? The best comparison I can come up with is that it's kinda like what Alton Brown did on Good Eats: he would listen to a recording of himself talking about the key points he wanted to explain while he did the actual take. It's probably really dumb to do it this way, but I mostly write on the fly: what I do is I write out a plot outline of everything that's going to happen in the story, I sit down, and I write.

From there, I let the characters say and do what I feel they realistically would, and let things go from there. As you can probably imagine, this is pretty difficult and requires a lot of editing and careful consideration. I always have to be sure that the characters are given the exact right amount of information so that they don't figure something out twoyears before they should, but they also aren't left completely in the dark.

It also means that I have to go through about seven drafts for each chapter. At first, I was planning on having the OC in my uber AU fic be Harry's twin sister (overdone? Yes. Rarely, however, is it done well.), but then I changed it to Sirius' daughter (also ridiculously overdone, but much less so, and I don't believe I've ever seen a Sirius' daughter fic worth reading past the initial few chapters). I've worked through the final battle scene more times than I can count (I've been writing anachronistically). I tried at least six different ways of introducing the main antagonist (who isn't Voldemort, believe it or not) before I found one I actually liked. So yeah. Maybe it's a bit irresponsible, but it's how I do.

That said, I've been making more of an effort to plan out the plots ahead of time, since doing so with said AU would probably have saved me at least fifteen hours of writing content that I would never use in any form, as well as editing content to the point where it could be used. Hopefully, with this new approach, my writing will be much easier.

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Random note: in order to keep my stories interesting and diverse, I like to change up details about the HP universe from one story to the next: for instance, I'll sometimes have the Wizengamot as a Parliament-esque body where its members are either elected or appointed, and at other times, I'll have the seats be hereditary, like in the House of Lords. (After doing a bit of research, I realised that the House of Lords isn't what I assumed it was, which was just a body of old white dudes who passed their positions onto their sons, who are born as forty-five year old men so that, when the time to step up and become a member comes, they're already in their seventies. Shame.)

Another thing I like to do is change up the relationships between characters: in one of my earlier fics, I have a scene of Harry, Ron, and Hermione sitting together and enjoying a peaceful evening in their fifth year, while a later story of mine has Hermione bossing Harry around and trying to strong-arm him into a relationship with Ginny. Another thing that I'll change depending on the story I'm writing is Ginny's feelings towards Harry: for instance, I'll normally have them as close friends with no romantic feelings for each other, but I'll also happily write a one-sided attraction on either end.

For me, exploring various aspects of a given universe is one of the main points of reading and writing fanfiction, so keeping certain details constant throughout all of one's stories (unless it's a minor detail or there for comedic value; for instance, pretty much everything I write about Harry has him as being a major coffee fiend, partially in despite, partially because of, the fact that it has no bearing on anything whatsoever), for me at least, seems like it's somewhat counter-productive.

So if you read one of my stories, then read another and go, "hey, this thing is totally different from how it was presented in another story you wrote!" that's why.

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Code Geass shipping: I don't understand it. Or rather, I don't understand why people ship Lelouch with CC and Kallen. Personally, I'm a Lelouch/Shirley shipper, which, for whatever reason, is a really unappreciated pairing in the fandom. It's not just that CC is somewhere around a thousand years old, which makes her having a relationship with a teenager more than a little creepy, and it's not just that the only "ship tease" moments between Lelouch and Kallen were either based on physical proximity or could be just as easily explained by platonic attachment to each other. It's that, really, Shirley and Lelouch make a much more natural pair than either of the two main ships.

I have a link to an explanation that I rather like (http:///6552.html), but the general idea is that they both have similar ideals (which aren't shared by CC or Kallen), Shirley has a much greater impact on Lelouch's character, and it's much harder to look at Lelouch admitting that he doesn't know if he loves Shirley or not without seeing anything between them then it is to see Lelouch telling Kallen to live on after his death without one's mind jumping to a romantic attraction.

Then, there's also how Lelouch reacted to Shirley's death (having his soldiers murder a whole bunch of scientists who were only tangentially related to her death), and the fact that he explicitly states that he has "nothing left to live for" after Nunally dies, despite Kallen and CC still being alive.

As for CC, I've always seen their relationship as being largely familial, almost like a surrogate mother/son thing. For me, the biggest moment that made me go "there might be something there" between them wasn't actually either of the times that CC kisses Lelouch (on the lips both times, no less), it was the moment at the end of the show where they have a few minutes of peace during the final battle right before Kallen bursts in and tries to blow them both up. With Kallen, there was never any point in the entire show where I thought that Lelouch was romantically interested in her. There were a few moments where it was made obvious that the reverse was true (the scene where she escorts him to the UFN meeting after he becomes emperor springs to mind), but it is possible for love to remain unrequited. Suzaku and cats, anyone?

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Imma talk to yall about Sword Art Online, and, more specifically, the alleged Mary Suedom of Kirito. Let me get this out of the way first: Kirito is not, in any way, shape, or form, a Mary Sue.

Is he the very best (like no one ever was!)? Yes. Is he ridiculously OP? Not really. Think about it some: why is he so good at MMO's? Because he threw himself into them headfirst to avoid his family. Why'd he do that? He was uncomfortable with his family after he found out that he was adopted. That doesn't sound like a Mary Sue, which, need I remind you, is a moniker given to unrealistically flawless characters.

I would argue that he isn't really a wish fulfillment character either. Unless, of course, you actually want to be a self-loathing mess who spent a year avoiding everyone and actively trying to get yourself killed because you blamed yourself for the deaths of all your friends, as well as the girl you liked. Not to mention the fact that you were forced to watch them die. Remember the scene in episode five where he tries to stab himself in the hand with a weapon to see whether or not it can hurt or kill him inside a safe-zone? That's not an action taken by a reasonable person.

Furthermore, the example most people use when trying to say that he's really overpowered is the scene from episode four (in case it's not obvious, I'm referring only to the anime here; I've never even read the light novels) where he effortless defeats seven other players. If you actually think about it though, the result there would have been the same if any frontline player fought a group of players hanging around the lower floors. It's not that Kirito is ludicrously strong, it's that he's ludicrously strong compared to mediocre players, as any other player who worked hard would be. He just happened to be the only frontliner to actually try to help take down Titan's Hand. Also, he's as strong as he is (in-game) because he works much harder than most of the other frontliners.

So yeah. Hard, extremely dangerous work to get to where he was, combined with near-crippling depression and self-loathing that drove him to said hard work (which he was hoping would get him killed), plus the fact that he spent the entire first season pushing people away because of said self loathing (which set in before he even started to get into MMOs) and the fear of loss the Black Cats debacle left him with. I'd say he's not a Mary Sue.

And his relationship with Asuna? Nothing to do with her. It's all about the Moonlit Black Cats (isn't everything with this guy?). I'm sorry to say to all you adamant Kirito/Asuna shippers (if there actually are any), but their relationship is a lot less about actually liking each other (which isn't to say that they don't, because they do) and a lot more to do with being unhealthily codependent. You remember his reaction when he thought she died? Remember how he had no idea what to do with himself? That's not normal!

If he met Liz and had that adventure on the 55th floor before he and Asuna got to actually know each other? He'd've gone out with her in a second. And you wanna know how that would impact the overall story? It probably wouldn't. Kirito never joins the KoB, Kuradeel never tries to kill him. EVERYTHING ELSE IS THE SAME. Well, I suppose the final battle would go differently, too. And Fairy Dance wouldn't've happened. Hm. I think I may be onto something here. Why do people hate Liz, again? But I digress.

That isn't to say that SAO is a good story, or even a good anime, because it's neither. It's a terrible story and a decent, though tremendously effective, anime. That said, with a number of small changes, and much better thought-out characters and story elements, it could have gone from "passable" to "amazing." While I personally enjoy SAO, it isn't for what it is, it's for what it so easily could have been.

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I recently had a somewhat perplexing conversation about genderswaps, so let's talk about that, I guess. During this conversation, it was alleged to me that any fic that contains a character whose gender is different from what it is in canon should feature said character as being transgender, rather than their being a cis dude/chick who just happens to have been gifted with a different set of chromosomes than they were in canon. This . . . is not a belief that I share. Glossing over my initial response of "most families will raise a boy differently from how they would raise a girl, so having, say, Draco Malfoy as a trans woman is very different from having Draco Malfoy as a cis woman," I just don't understand the argument being made.

Given that the world as a whole is very trans-phobic (if you want to argue that point, feel free; just know that you're wrong) having a trans character either means glossing over other people's thoughts about them being trans or giving a lot of focus to the issue. Particularly for a franchise like Harry Potter (which was the context in which this was brought up in the first place), people would have very extreme reactions to a trans person. So you either dedicate time to addressing that, as well as how the character deals with it, or you don't treat the issue realistically. Doing the latter is pointless, and doing the former, unless it's a primary focus of the story, focuses the attention of both the readers and the writer to something that is largely incidental to the plot.

For instance, if you want to write a fic where Ron is a chick but is only a minor character, you have three options: have Ron be a trans woman and have people react to that how they realistically would given the setting, have Ron be a trans woman and have people react unrealistically given the setting, or have Ron be a cis woman and skip over an issue that could potentially derail the plot for very little pay-off from a narrative standpoint.

From the reader and writer's perspective, it adds rather a lot, since there pretty much just aren't trans characters in fiction, but from a more pragmatic "don't add story elements that don't add anything to the story" perspective, I just can't agree with the argument that was made to me. I don't mean to be a jerk, and I don't mean to be transphobic, but I don't see why "genderswapped character = trans" should be held as a constant.

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Alright, last thing, I promise (I have no intention of keeping that promise, though): You know what I hate? And when I say "hate" in this instance, I mean well and truly despise. What I hate is a plot bunny for a series that you know will take for-freakin'-ever, that will not leave you alone, even though you're working on two other series. Seriously, guys, I'm working on a novel length story right now, as well as a series of seven other novel length stories. I don't freakin' need all these random ideas distracting me from those! I well and truly do. freakin'. not. Nor did I hit Lisa. Oh, hi Mark.

Can you tell I have ADD and an unhealthy fixation on The Room?

(Before I go any further, I should point out that any abrieviations along the lines of HPatYaddaYaddaYadda refers to one of the stories that I've posted to this site, so if you wanna know what I'm going on about, just look through the stuff I've posted to see what's what.)

Like, check this out: I had this idea for a marriage contract fic where Harry learns everything (including the fact that he's a horcrux) after the whole thing at the Department of Mysteries, and he becomes totally withdrawn and emotionless, focusing literally all of his energy into the war. That summer, Daphne Greengrass finds out that there's a marriage contract between the two of them, and the only way that it can be cancelled is if one of them dies. She goes to Harry, who assures her that it will never be activated, and in the process of trying to figure out why (because he refuses to outright tell her), she tries to find out what's wrong with him and eventually decides that someone needs to look after him (since he's brushing off his friends), so it might as well be her. Brilliant, right? I certainly thought so.

Then I had this other idea for a fic where Harry kills Voldemort at the Ministry after Sirius dies, becomes a vampire on his sixteenth birthday (conveniently), and the main conflict is that, because of the way that Voldemort died (he was briefly fiendfyred, which is now a verb because I said so), he's permanently dead, despite his horcruxes. Harry flees Britain in shame and goes to a magical school in a country that isn't England under the pseudonym Bedevere Black where he meets and falls in love with another vampire because convenience. Then, Voldemort's horcruxes start being all evil and it's up to Bedevere and his new girlfriend to track them all down and destroy them. Also pretty cool, right? Right?

Then I got this idea for my crackfic (Intoxicated Decision Makers), and I just couldn't ignore it (before I wrote a single chapter and promptly began to ignore it). I don't know what's wrong with me. Then less than a day later, I got this idea for a series of Percy Jackson fics that end with Perachel being a thing (because nobody writes Perachel), and I'm having a hard time ignoring that idea, too. It's like every time I get an idea that I think is even remotely cool, something in my brain says "You're trapped now, kid. Obsess over this." And like the pathetic child I am, I just passively agree. Sigh. Not to mention the fact that I'm still working on that yet-unnamed Harry Potter fic that covers all seven years with an added OC and a whole lot of AU. And then there's the sequel to that, which would be at least a trilogy (starring Harry's twin grandsons as the protagonists, because nobody ever writes post-Voldemort stories with conflicts of Voldemorty proportions) and may or may not get another sequel set in the far future (that one'll be a detective story, because there really need to be more auror detective stories on this site). Somebody help me.

And, as if all that wasn't enough, (it is), I have a whole bunch of random ideas sitting around my hard drive and google docs account: I have a crossover with the MCU where Harry is basically raised by Coulson and replaces Ward on his team in Agents of SHIELD, a crossover with Zelda where Link is sent to Hogwarts a few years after Majora's Mask while looking for another adventure, a Code Geass inspired fic where Harry manages to take Voldemort out in the graveyard at the end of year four before realising, thanks to the way it responds to said event, that the wizarding world needs to change, and that the only thing to be done is to destroy every aspect of wizard society and rebuild it all from the ground up, and a fic where Riddle succeeds in escaping the diary at the end of Chamber of Secrets and Dumbledore uses a series of unbreakable vows to stop him from assisting Voldemort in any way, which leads to him and Harry being forced to room together at the Dursleys', which, in turn, leads to a grudging respect between the two, which then changes into an uneasy truce, which eventually turns into a genuine friendship. Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

I also have a time travel one shot that I would love to turn into a series, but don't have nearly enough time for. I'm still working on the rewrite of HP&tAJ. There's a Gravity Falls AU inspired by Future Diary wherein there are seven journals and Bill Cipher says that he'll grant one wish to whoever brings him all seven, leading to the entire town trying to kill each other to get them all (and, as a side note, it has Pacifica Northwest as a Selina Kyle-type figure, which leads into Dipifica happening). I have a few paragraphs of a manipulative!Harry fic where he's converted to jackassery by seeing just how effective it is for Dudley and Vernon before ever finding out that he's a wizard. I was considering an AU oneshot showing a very different battle at the ministry at the end of year five, but scrapped it almost immdiately (although I've been considering picking it up again).

If you can look past the pairing, I had a . . . Link/Agitha . . . epilogue to Twilight Princess (with slight AU, since Midna didn't destroy the Mirror of Twilight, and decided to hang around Hyrule for a little while longer in her imp form), showing a huge celebration after Gannondorf's death. (For the record, Link in said story would be 17 while Agitha would be 15.) Then, on top of all that, I have vague plans for a Yugioh GX series with heavy AU and a cast made up entirely of (American) OCs, plus stories for Pokemon RBY/FRLG, possibly GSC/HGSS, X and Y, and maybe Black and White, depending. The former would be a fairly normal highschool story focusing on teen-y stuff, but set in Duel Academy, while the latter would basically just be rewriting the games as books, but with much more story and character than the games (by which I mean that the protagonists won't be blank slates, and other characters will be more fleshed out).

And, on top of all of those, I also have a few more things hanging out in various corners of the internet. There's the sequel to EDN26, HP&tYotM (assuming, of course, that I ever go back to it). Then there's a WBWL story where Harry is put with the Dursleys, finds out about the wizarding world early, then goes to Durmstrang before transferring to Hogwarts at the end of his seventh year to keep an eye on his little brother, with whom he's kept in contact (despite doing everything he can to avoid their parents). I haven't given up on VTW, although it'll need some serious reworking before I'm ready to go back to it. I'm still toying with the idea of turning HP&tAS into a series as per my original intention for it, though I probably won't write more than a few paragraphs for it every few months when I'm really stuck on other things. And, finally, I was vaguely considering a Percy/Bianca fic, since almost every single instance of that pairing is more or less exactly the same: Annabeth is a terrible person suddenly! Primordials and stuff! Percy is joining Chaos' army! He's preposterously overpowered! THIS IS THE ENTIRE STORY!!! There are, like, maybe four stories with said pairing that don't follow said pattern.

So yeah, clearly, I'm screwed up. If anyone is interested in taking up one of the fics I just described, PM me and I can send you whatever notes I have on them. The ones in bold are up for adoption, the others I either have concrete plans for or am waiting and seeing what's what before making a decision.

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So Yeah. There are some of my ramblings on Harry Potter and SAO (have you guys seen the first half of the second season? More than makes up for the Fairy Dance arc. The first episode of the second half just aired. I saw the first thirty seconds before giving up on it. Still though, episodes 1-14 of SAO II were pretty damn awesome.). Maybe more to come? Either way, thanks for taking the time out of your day to read the (probably insane) thoughts of some random stranger over the internet. It means a lot to me, and I'm not being (overly) sarcastic when I say that. Duke out!

All that said: HARRY POTTER AND THE BOY WHO LIVED JUST UPDATED!!! REJOICE!!!