As some of you may have noticed, I have not been around here as much as I used to be. I have been busied by many things. Homework, places that I've had to go, and basically "Summer Fever", which was pretty much me wanting to lay down and relax most of the time.

But, also among the things keeping me away from here was all the anime I watched over the summer. Here's a list:

-Chobits

-xxxHolic

-Lucky Star

-The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

-Akage no Anne (this is just an anime version of the novel "Anne of Green Gables") and BTW, I've only watched the first episode

-Mermaid Melody

I think that's about it. So, yeah, that's mostly what was keeping me from here. I don't really think anyone's gonna care, so if you do read this, feel free to just go back to your own profile. I just needed to blog...

*sigh* I'm going back to school tomorrow. And already I feel like I'm having problems. For one thing, my backpack is heavier than usual. It's nothing I can't handle, it's just, I wish I didn't have to carry everything. And I already tried to keep the weight lowered, but it isn't going well. Second, I have to wear socks in this heat. I really don't want to, but I have no choice. Anyways, I also found out the first two days are going to be on a 'modified schedule' so now a few of the things that I needed to get done during free period are gonna have to wait. And I still don't know my schedule! Why couldn't they just give it out on registration like last year??????!!!!!!!!!!!

If it sucks already, I fear what is to come next.

*sigh* So my summer vacation is almost over. Thursday of next week I'll be back at school. Today was registration.

What sucks:

-My hair looks horrible on my new school ID

-I haven't finished my summer homework

-I have no idea what schedule I have

What rocks:

-My new locker is close to where the bus drops me off in the morning

-I get to go on the bus for free (for the first month anyhow)

-I'm most likely getting the elective I chose, which in my case is art

So, it's basically evened out. As for going back to school, I'm not really dreading it, because I expected it. And my friend will finally shut up about how she wants summer to end quickly because she's been so bored. Grrr...At least she didn't have any summer homework! *sigh* I know that I brought onto myself the fact that it still remains unfinished, but it still feels well...meh...

I guess this was bound to happen sometime soon.

Really, I've been wanting to do this for some time. *sigh* These are my personal thoughts on fanfics, and how they seem to be going down the drain these days.

Well, first of all, back before FFNet existed, it was hard to find fanfics (or so I assume. I dun really know, as I've only gotten my 'hunger' for fanfics recently, if you count about two years recent). But anyways, they were probably harder to find before, because they were hosted on private sites that used HTML programming. As such, chapters were much longer, and the people writing them put a much better effort into it.

But, nowadays, with FFNet, MediaMiner, DevArt and other sources, writing and posting fanfics online has gotten considerably easier. And as such, the quality of fanfics has slightly dropped. Often, you can find stories filled with errors, grammar and punctuation mistakes, text that should be limited to IMs and text messages and general annoyances, such as Mary-Sues and the like.

All in all, it seems that because these new privileges have been given, people have become lazy in keeping up the quality. I mean, do fanfic writers these days have no dignity? If you write something that the whole world may very well see, don't you want it to be the best that you can do? I know that I do.

Case in point, because I don't wanna sound like a prissy know-it-all, I'll tell about myself and my own 'history' in fanfic writing. When I first got started, I had seen a lot of fanfic writers who did those cutesie script thingies at the beginning and end of their stories. I'd also seen some of them doing that "REVIEW OR I'LL DIE!!!!" thing. Naively thinking that that was all it took to be a good fanfic writer, I used those types of things in my fanfics while the story itself seemed to be less-than-qualitable. I finally realized when I was forcing myself to write a new chapter and after receiving some slightly unnerving, but sensible criticism; I really needed to change a lot of things around. So now, I am currently rewriting my still unfinished story, in hopes of making myself and the story not sound like blatant idiocy.

I was able to save myself from making too many mistakes to count. But, I feel like there may be hardly any hope for other fanfic writers who constantly write this literary garbage. I'm sorry if I sound cruel or mean, but it may very well be true. I love fanfiction, but if it continues on like this, I'm beginning to feel like it will be destroyed.