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I wrote this as practice for college essays. I use it now for pondering and reflection. The prompt:

Describe a personal habit that defines you as a person.

PLEASE NOTE, parts of this are still being used in my college statements. If any plagiarism searches for anything written by "RIDDHI SHILPI" have led you to this page, that this person is me, and I have not plagiarized my own work. If it is in bad judgment to put my statement up, please let me know and I will take it down.

If a plagiarism search for something written by someone other than "RIDDHI SHILPI" has led you here, they're thieving liars and you should drop-kick them out the door for stealing someone else's work and trying to pass it off as their own.

This is my answer.

( Handwriting )

And, here is a picture of my handwriting (the first paragraph of this essay to be exact) to go with this post:

( Handwriting Sample )

Crossposted to

nano_muse.

Okay, so, between some anonymous comments which I probably shouldn't have deleted but did anyway, and some messages I've gotten both on here and at FFN (no, I won't reveal identities of who or what), all over of the course of the last several months to about a half-year, I've been wanting to clear up a lot of stuff about my fics, my journal, and my personal life. I just realized it might help for me to do it all in one place.

( On kinks, judgments, fics, and politics. )

Now that we have dealt with the directly-related-to-fic issues...

( Fandom, and yes I've left it before - and I'll do it again if needs be. )

And lastly, my personal life.

( Emphasis on the )

TL;DR

Your kink is not my kink, so stop asking me to write it.

My personal preferences are not judgments of you, and they are not judgment calls in general.

My fics have intended meanings, and while how the meaning came across is always up for literary debate, the intention still stands. You have no right to claim you know what my intentions are - you are not in my head.

My fics do not necessarily reflect my political opinions or any other personal stances.

I am in fandom to enjoy myself by both reading and writing fic, and I have no compunctions about leaving without a trace if it stops being enjoyable.

My personal life is at my discretion to discuss. Whether or not you agree with it is none of your business, just like whether or not I have issues with your personal life, and/or how much you reveal or discuss of it, is none of my business.

*sighs* For the rest of you on my flist - you are all awesome people. I don't think I can say this enough, so I'll leave it at just once more: you're all awesome people.

THE ULTIMATE SILENCE
October 12, 1998

Listen to the mustn'ts, child.
Listen to the don'ts.
Listen to the shouldn'ts,
The impossibles, the won'ts.
Listen to the never haves,
Then listen close to me ...
Anything can happen, child.
Anything can be.

~ Shel Silverstein

Eleven years ago, Matthew Shepard was murdered for being homosexual.

What will you do to end the silence?

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The recent suicide surge in America has led to the rise of the It Gets Better Campaign.

While creating many, many teachable moments, this has been particularly harrowing coming just before October, which is is also the GLBT History Month in the U.S.

Some important dates are:

October 11 - National Coming Out Day
October 12 - 11^th anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death
October 18-22 - Ally Week

It Gets Better. We are here for you, and we will love you no matter what.

Gay or straight, we can all work together and make the world a better place for us all.

I have a new Twitter here. I'm going to see if it's actually as useful as people say it is (with a 140 character limit, I rather doubt it, but let's see...) I'm probably going to use it as an update tool on my other accounts and things.

I also have a brand new Tumblr! Slightly more exciting, as you can use more characters, plus other things and more conveniently. My "nyxelestia" tumblr will be about writing - fanfiction, original fiction, and writing in general. It has an "asking" function, though you can also ask me anything you want on my new Formspring.

So, there has been an issue raised about my BDSM fic, This Play Between The Sheets, surrounding safety and consent issues, in one of the reviews. I decided to post a full response here as well as to the commenter to stave off potential trouble. If anyone had any questions about that fic, this is the place to bring it up. (Please note: spoilers for fic will be behind the cut).

( Issues Being Addressed This Way )

If you do not approve of LJ's new feature allowing you to crosspost comments on your locked posts to Facebook and Twitter, go here and let the LJ staff know!

Please, do NOT link my LJ entries to Facebook.

I seriously cannot afford to let my fanfic become public to the people of my offline life, for both social and legal reasons. Please do not make me revert to f-lock.

LJ better make a way for people to prevent their posts from being linked to FB...

Okay, so, because RL is a bitch, I couldn't finish my Big Bang fic for

paperlegends. But!

itzcoatl made some awesome art for me, which she will still be posting. One of the two paintings is of a specific scene I had written, and I am posting it here for her to link to from the art so she can give said painting some context.

( Excerpt from 'Lay Siege To The Eyes of Camelot' (Rating: PG-13) )

Prop 8 has been overturned!

(For those who don't know, Prop 8 was the legal measure in California that prohibited gay marriage. And now it's dead!)

Join the squee!

Grabbed from

lady_drace on my f-list.

1) Go to google and type in "You know you're from [your area] when..."
2) Cut and paste the list.
3) Bold, italicize, or put an asterisk next to items that apply to you.

( You Know You're From Los Angeles when... )

...41 out of 50 of these apply to me...which is like 82%, I believe?. Wow, that's sad...

Check out my pretty new header, made by the wonderful

arithilim herself! :D

THANK YOU, BB!

For all things BBC Merlin.

Fandom: Merlin Tag - All posts with the tag for the Merlin Fandom.

One-Shots | Smut | Chaptered Stories | Series Index

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Dude...I haven't even been in this fandom for a whole year and I've already written over 142,000 words. *headdesk* ~~And that's just the published stuff...~~ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is 107,000 words. Twilight is 115,000 words! Jesus fucking Christ I need to get a life...

ETA: Not only that, but I've got a further 46,00+ words of clippets and 30,500 words of notes on my hard-drive. And this is still not including all the stuff in my notebooks or on GoogleDocs! @_@

So, before I start on that, a brief blurb on my personal history.

I don't really have much of an idyllic childhood, but then, many people don't. I dealt with it with poetry.

A lot of my poetry has violent and depressing themes. I'm not going to shoot out my school, or kill myself, or others. Please, do not take it seriously, just like people don't take my fic seriously - for me, the dark writing is a sign that I don't have problems because I have found a healthy outlet in which to release all that emotion - my writing.

Now, the poetry!


Poem	Type	Subject / Summary
War	Couplet	War, a war, any war - what you really need to know about it (a soldier's heart).
Freedom	Monorhyme Quatrain	Thought of the Emancipation Proclamation while writing this.
Do You Remember?	Simple 4-Line	Young love, honeymoon phase of love, early love.
Courage	Haiku	The real definition of courage.
The Truth About Men	Simple 4-Line	Comedic misandry (sorry, gents, I love you I really do).
Strange Species	Simple 4-Line	My perceptions of how humans are so easily capable of healing and of hurting.
Triple Limerick of "Love"	Limerick	Arthur/Merlin smut.
Epic Adventures in King Arthur's Bed	Spenserian Sonnet	Arthur/Merlin smut.

So, welcome to the LiveJournal of Nyxelestia.

Call me Nyxie.

I could go with a little blurb of who I am, but you don't actually care. I could go with a history of my writing, but it's actually rather irrelevant.

So what am I doing here?

You know, that's actually a good question...let me get back to you on that...