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I'm going to continue the 30 days of anime and manga meme but I find that I don't have substantial things to say. It's better to be quiet than say empty words, right? So I post this instead.

Deadlbreakers:
Anything that needs a major AO3 warning.
Torture
Partner infidelity and betrayal.
Grim Dark. If I want to lose all my hope in humanity, I will read the news.
Character bashing. Just no. If you don't like the characters, just don't write about them.
Conforming to -isms. No need to explain.

Red Flag
First person narration. I tolerate it better in original fiction, but I prefers 3-rd person limited.
Gritty realism. See grim dark.
billed as Artistic/transcend the genre. It jut sounds snobbish to me.
Work in progress. I will only read those written by people I trust to finish it.
Non-con embarrassment
Villain protagonist. I like decent, characters that I can root for.
Brooding. Too much of it and it gets annoying.

Love at First Sight
A sense of wonder. A world to be explored. e.g. Kino's Journey, Kieli, Bandit King Jing, Planetary
Family by choice.
Clueless/Pining. Yes. I have been converted to a pairing because it promised to have years of pining, more than once.
Competent characters.
Tragic hero. Fighting the good fight not because they'll win, but because it's right.
Hope in the daunting time.

1. I write another Belle/Esmeralda that they 're both mages, just different kinds. Read it on AO3.
2. Boss Death is a very good song, making an one-sided argument interesting. I keep wanting to write a RPG AU based on this song.

Here's a meme: a list of a hundred awesome female characters that I remember. (no specific order)( Cut for the 100 awesome female characters )

How I get into tabletop rpg.

I discovered tabletop rpg on my own on the Internet. The game is Top Secret S.I., a 80's spy rpg game. It's my first love - I plays with the character generation for minute. My first game, though, was a super game that I played with my brother using rock, scissor and paper to decide on result. I was GM then, and the trend continued.

generic or specific system?

Both have their place, I think. It depends which one is suitable for the setting I'll use

Fantasy or sci-fi?

Sci-fi. Because I like to explore the future and technology in games.

random or point-buy character generation?
I like to have some control in the character, so I prefer point buy. But random power for superheroes can be fun too.

crunchy or rule-light?
I'm lazy so I appreciate anything without much prep-work.

Style or substance?
I am know to be lured to RPG with good layout, but I also happen to think the brievity of GURPS book is a great style, so.

Narrative or simulationist?
I prefer narrative more because I can wing more things easier.

GM or Player?
I want to be simply a player, but so far I can't find people to GM for me.

Day One: Favorite lead female character: Sailor Moon. Its the first time I see a teenage girl saving the world with her friends, and the first anime I seriously follow. I'll always have a weak spot for her.

Day Two: Favorite supporting female character: Hightower in Mentalist. She's smart, capable and she shows that evil boss is kind of a lazy writing.

Day Three: A female character you hated but grew to love. I don't recall hating female characters, actually. Eh... Elizabeth Weir in SGA. I'm kind of indifferent to her initially, but the fans let me see how great she can be ----- a civilian idealist diplomat leader who abides by her principle.

Day Four: A female character you relate to: Ami (Sailor Mercury) because I am also book smart and quiet.

Day Five: Favorite female character on a male-driven show: Amanda on Highlander. She's such fun to like.

Day Six: Favorite female-driven show: Cheung Gum

Day Seven: A female character that needs more screen time: Astrid Farnsworth on Fringe.

Day Eight: Favorite female character in a comedy show: Jane in Drop Dead Diva

Day Nine: Favorite female character in a drama show: Kalinda in Good Wife

Day Ten: Favorite female character in a scifi/supernatural show Teyla from Stargate: Atlantis

Day Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show: Bianca from Huge

Day Twelve: Favorite female character in a movie: Lucy Mcclane in Die Hard 4

Day Thirteen: Favorite female character in a book: Susan Clarke from I, Robot

Day Fourteen: Favorite older female character: Professor Macgondel in Harry Potter

Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc: Cheung Gum in Cheung Gum

Day Sixteen: Favorite mother character: Luke's mother in Marvel Adventures: Avengers. She 's just awesome.

Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character: Teyla in SGA

Day Eighteen: Favorite non-warrior female character: Pepper Potts in Iron Man. Because she shows that you don't need super power to be awesome.

Day Nineteen: Favorite non-human female character: It'll be a cheat if I say human-shaped alien, right? But I can't think of any other than that.

Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist: Emma Frost in X-Men

Day Twenty-One: Favorite female character screwed over by canon: Peggy Carter

Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates: There's no everyone in the fandom, but I'm all right with Keller and Kate in SGA when a lot of people don't like them for being Rodney's love interest. .

Day Twenty-Three: Favorite female platonic relationship: Misty Knight and Colleen Wing, and of course Marvel has to break them up.

Day Twenty-Four: Favorite female romantic relationship: Sumo and Kendappa-ō in RG Veda

Day Twenty-Five: Favorite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship: Kate Bishop and her sister. They're so different, yet they still accept each other.

Day Twenty-Six: Favorite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like): Nu Wo in Chinese mythology. She creates the world.

Day Twenty-Seven: A female character you have extensive personal canon for: Miranda Rand, because there's an epic about her not yet written in my mind.

Day Twenty-Eight: Favorite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.): Agatha Christie

Day Twenty-Nine: A female-centric fic rec: Letters Never Sent (The Girls, Girls, Girls Remix)

Day Thirty: Whatever you’d like!: favourite female version of canon male character: Natasha Stark in Earth 3490.

I made a crhomatic Marvel comics icon post and a Sailor Moon icon post to a challenge.

Do you ever participate in writing challenges? Which ones?
Yes. Yuletide, remix redux, Junetide cap-ironman winter exchange and two bigbang.

Out of all the characters you've ever written, which one is your favorite? Which one has surprised you the most?
Xi Yue. She's just fun to write. Ult. Steve surprised me most because I'm told that I get his voice.

Do you use unreliable narrators? Why or why not?
I did, when I'm writing horror. It enhanced the atmosphere.

What do you like most about writing? What do you dislike?
I like it when a good idea comes through. I dislike it when I need to scrap my word count.

Give some examples of how various story ideas have come to you. What forms did they come in?
Sometimes I read others prompts and just obsess about it. Then I elaborate it, mold it until it became a new one. Sometimes I put the characters into a new setting to see what'll happen.

How much detail do you usually leave out of a story?

A lot. Sometimes I leave out the entire back story. I say it's because I want to give space for imagination. Another reason's my writing is quite bare bone.

Where do you turn when your research is coming up with nothing of value to the story?
My friends.

Optimally, how many times does your work go through the revising process?

Two: through me and my beta.

Do you make literary or cultural references in your work? If so, what sources do you usually draw on? How do you decide whether to make (or keep, when editing) a particular reference?
I sometimes make reference to books and tabletop rpg I like. I let them stay if they don't obscure the story.

What repeated themes do you see running through your work?
Hope

stolen from jjhunter

Why do you write?

I write often because I have some specific idea that I don't see people writing them. They just need to be written, my mind says. So I comply. I also like write to prompt. Someone has an idea and I can develop it. It makes me happy. The built-in audience doesn't hurt.

What piece of writing are you most proud of?
The Tale of Young Iron Fist from Kun Lun.It's fun to write, fun to read, and I love the characters. It also makes me want to write a sequel to it, which seldom happens.

How often do you write? Do you have any writing rituals? Say, certain locations, beverages, background music, times of day, target word counts, etc.?

It comes and goes. I try to keep the discipline of writing to a certain goal, but some days is harder than other.

How much of the story do you know before you start writing it? Do you use outlines?
I usually know the beginning and ending. For some reasons, my story goes out of control despite my outline, so you can say I don't use outline often.

What tools do you use to write? Audio recordings, pen and paper, computer software, other methods, some mixture thereof?
gdoc/zoho writer

The list is batantly ripped off from kyriacarlisle, stultiloquentia, tkp, damned_colonialkindkit, aliya, melannen, twtd( You can click to see my rambling. )