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1. What is your penname/nom de plume/author name/alias/handle?

Maxwell Pink

2. How did you choose it?

It started out as the name for my muse band. They got tired of it after awhile so I took it. It was back when women were really starting to get harrased on the internet. I thought it was a cool name since one couldn’t really be sure if I was a male named Maxwell Pink, or a psuedo Japanese fangirl named Pink Maxwell.

3. What fandom(s) do you write for?

Well…. I have muses from MMPR, Pokemon, Gundam Wing, Harry Potter, Yu-Gi-Oh!, GetBackers, Yu Yu Hakusho, Rurouni Kenshin, and Drawn Together, but the fandom I stick to mostly (character-wise) is Gundam Wing. The others usually appear as “Bishi Harem fanfictions”. I wonder if it possible for a fandom to form around them?

4. What fic(s) are you currently working on?

Do we really want to go there? I have a number of unfinished projects that I want to finish, but I just haven’t had time. AU has priority and damn it all to hell if I don’t get it finished!

5. What fandom did you start in?

Mighty Morpin’ Power Rangers (I also wrote some tripe involving Barry Manilow as a teen).

6. What is your deepest darkest fic-writing secret?

I suffer from severe May Sue-itis. This, combined with Great Minds Think Alike Syndrome, is probably why I can’t seem to get anything written. By the time I convert the daydreams to something that doesn’t scream Mary Sue, somebody else has already beat me to the idea.

7. Do you have any particular quirks/habits to your writing?

While it’s a bitch to transfer (and cuts into my writing time) I prefer to handwrite my stories as I feel it helps with the creative juices.

8. Do you have any fanfiction pet peeves? (Anything that appears in fiction that irritates you, anything at all)

Fangirls who want to look knowledgable by using Japanese words and phrases willy nilly, or use big words they don’t fully comprehend, or can’t spell to save their lives, or write huge author notes (usually bigger than the story/chapter) in which they repeatedly stroke themsleves…..

9. Do you have an OTP?

I have a harem of muses. Unless that stands for “Orgy Taking Place” then no.

10. If you could get someone to write a fic for you right now, what would it be? (please include fandom, characters, scenario, as much detail as possible).

After getting blown off by jade1x2 on a GW 2X4 she promised to write for me EONS ago, I’ve learned not to make requests for fics.

Which is the worse earworm?

The theme from the Teletubbies, or BNL’s “What a Letdown”?

Cut for Flist

First literally, now figuratively.

Last night I was informed that someone managed to acquire my business’ check card number and was attempting to go on a spending spree. Luckily they put a hold on the card, however I didn’t find this out until I actually tried to use the card. It was very embarassing to say the least. They cancelled the old card and issued a new one, which I now have to wait for.

Last week, as some of you may remember I had to swap out a bad DVD burner that disliked my Gundam Wing videos. Well the new one seems to be being a bitch, too. Frequently I will take one disk out and put another in and the drive still thinks the original disk is there. It will even run the program if you click it, completely ignoring the disk that IS in there. So, after a week of this I decided I had the time to call Dell again. I spent two hours on the phone with a techie, and despite the fact that the problem started immediately after the drive was installed (when we first tested it the drive wouldn’t acknlowedge any disk until the computer had been rebooted, so we thought the computer hadn’t recognized the drive right away), he insists that it’s a software problem (XP is corrupt), so I now have to back up everything AGAIN, and re-install everying AGAIN.

And to think I chose Dell over home built to avoid this shit!

Of course to add to the madness, I tried to pack up the bad drive to send back and discovered Glenn threw out the return label!

I am so not a happy camper.