Mirage-Shinkiro

So, before I begin, let me just thank _cmdrtekk (https://www.deviantart.com/cmdrtekk)  for giving me DA points!  She's made the resurrection of my custom page possible, which has restored my interest in spiffing it up.  So a heartfelt (sparkfelt?) thanks to her!  :hug: Now, for the updates. What happened?  You vanished briefly! Well, sadly, November's sucked up to this point.  For an entire week and change, I had no muse at all.  For most of that week, I was crashed on the couch, disconnected from the world (when I wasn't at work).  I suppose it was a mini depressive episode.  I won't burden you with the details, but I can say I feel some better now.  (I'm still a bit wob

I am joining !glacierSCIENCE (https://www.deviantart.com/glacierscience) in her rant against the meme, which I also took just to prove that the stereotypes involved are ridiculous.  Several of these things are personal preference or personality dependent and not gender-controlled, not to mention that the expectations concerning gender vary between cultures.  In fact, I think these particular gender "roles" in this meme are specific to a very certain kind of man and woman and totally ignore the true variety that can be found in any country. I think society would be much healthier to ignore assumptions and constraints like these, frankly. YOUR BOY SIDE [x] you wear hoodies [x] y

I just posted a beta version of a quick guide to writing fanfic (culture, jargon, grammar, etc.), and it uses Transformers as its base.  I'm going to see what kind of comments and suggestions I get here before posting it elsewhere.  The guide is supposed to be a helpful tool, not an end-all and be-all.  Therefore, if all it does it attract flamers because of some of the concepts it discusses, I'll yank it and be done with it.  (I put up with more than enough melodrama in real life.) Here goes nothing.