Hello to you all; my name is Sosai!

If you're reading this, you have the great sense to have clicked on my profile at this point. Welcome! (1) (2)

You can call me Sosai -- Japanese pronunciation, ソサイ、"soh-s-eye." I'm not new to fandoms, and I'm not particularly new to MLP FiM. I'm in a lot of fandoms, and news gets around. I want to write some fanfiction here, but at this point I don't feel like I know the fandom (and enough bronies/pegasisters) enough to plunge right in. I'm doing some pending (3) for a story, but it's all background work right now. Right now, all I'm focusing on is pending and reading.

So! If you're reading this, you probably clicked on my name somewhere along the line. Go ahead. Admit it. You did it on purpose. I doubt you got here by accident. (Or maybe it was Hideaki, my muse. Who is semi-real. And shows up a lot.)

ANYWAY. I review. I want to be a YA author someday, so I might as well get some practice in and be honest about what I like and don't like. I will read JUST ABOUT anything, even 18+, about any characters. The happier and sunnier a piece is, the more likely I will read it. I normally don't read horror or angst. I go through enough crap in one day with my five-hour work commute, and the last thing I need is another Debbie Downer. (If requested, and I know who you are, your odds of me reading your story is a lot higher.)

I also beta! Give me your poor, tired, huddled stories, and I will take them on the Staten Island Ferry with me and gladly tear them apart. You are free to volunteer the same services for my stories, although flames will be used to bake muffins. (I received a nice slice of humble pie earlier this month about a book I'm writing; see (2) below.)

If I end up biffing something, I am kind of new to the fandom; that's why I'm here READING first. Lots of love and lots of hugs and muffins and everything else. I'll probably post a lot here, so keep your eyes peeled.

Sosai, over and out.

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(1) First thing: I do a LOT of footnotes, mostly because I'm so ADHD from my FF.net days. I've found that it keeps my notes off to the side, though I only do it in blog posts (parenthesis work wonders in my own wreckords).

(2) At this point, I am wondering, "who am I typing in?" One of the characters in my GYAN (Great Young Adult Novel) talks in this font. (checks) Comic Sans! It's Pretzel. You'll hear a lot about Cosmic, I'm sure. Too bad this font is going away tomorrow.

(3) 'Pend' is an old-school term I used back in my FF.net days (we're talking 2003) to describe that the main story path and details were worked out on paper, from start to finish. Now, it's used for all of the pre-planning details, including that and 'snowflaking.' Ten bonus muffins if it's all done in bright pink pen (hence the popular SOSI/Cap-Sid term "Pink pens for pink pends!")