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**Please note, this journal is NOT appropriate for children** If you are under 18 please DO NOT READ the occasional fiction story that is clearly labeled NC-17 only. While most of my stories are not R rated, if I could block the ones that are R rated from being read by minors then I would do so.

2015 Bio: Welcome to my catch 22 lifestyle.
I feel compelled to write All The Time because I'm also juggling kids and a very full time job with a hellish commute. If I gave up the job or if my kids were grown and I had free time I bet anything that all of a sudden the momentum will wane. It's almost demonic: my desire to write persists as a passion that consumes me, and as a balm for my soul and as a release valve when stress overwhelms me. It will do so for as long as it serves to tear me up inside by splitting my focus at work and breaking my heart as a mother.

When I'm too old to be of use to my young children/too wizened to bear any more/actually have a happy ever after of my own rather than writing about one/no longer working in a job with the potential to help people, then the seething consuming urge to write fic with every waking moment will be all "SEEYA my work here is done, enjoy your retirement in your empty nest, cat lady!" and I may never write again.

Before I knew this was all just another stone offered as bread, here is where it all began:

2009 Bio:
Here I am fangirl, and hopeful writer. Friending policy: I love friends, you don't have to ask to friend me. Here is my policy on LJ friends: If you add me and we have communicated in some way (and you aren't an obvious hater!) I will add you back, and then you can see about 95% of my fic. So if we have not yet communicated in any way at all but you would like to be LJ friends then simply comment here: http://sykira.livejournal.com/132469.html

Nonetheless, there is some stuff locked to people who I have gotten to know well because they comment and I reply (and when they post fic or life stuff to their own LJ, I comment there and then they reply to me) and we establish a mutual friendship. People who leave me comments on my fic have pretty much kept me going through some hellish times in my life. I hope you can understand that a few of my stories are just too personal to share with people I don't yet know. But by all means friend me, I'm looking forward to getting to know you too!

I made this journal to post fic, but now I've made all these lovely friends ::pets f-list:: My nom de plume needs a nom de plume.

Looking for the fic?
(VERY) Incomplete masterlist here: http://sykira.livejournal.com/28704.html
All unlocked fic can be found here: http://sykira.livejournal.com/tag/fic

Please feel very free to leave critique on my fic--if (when!) I have typos and grammatical errors, I very much welcome a chance to fix them. If you want to comment on plot and other stuff that bothers you too, go right ahead, I can take it ;)


This has become a holding ground for quotes that grab me.


I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton

Angelus: "So that's it, huh? No weapons, no friends, no hope. Take away all that, and what's left?"
Buffy: "Me."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"She’s dying now Doctor. A death of the soul."
http://community.livejournal.com/doctor_donna/882779.html

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
George S. Patton

"When you hold on to your history, you do so at the expense of your destiny."
TD Jakes

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt


To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell


I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
Giacomo Casanova


The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross


It is actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value.
— Jonathan Ive


People might impose subjects and philosophies on you because it interests them and while you must acknowledge their suggestions, the wise thing to do is delve deeper into what rejoices your own heart and mind.
With a smile on his face Shukla says, “In the last days of their life a lot of people can’t speak, walk or communicate with others with as much ease as they could, earlier. So, they turn inwards. And start to remember the things that made their heart sing once, things that they cared to learn more about over the course of their life, which enriches their days now.”
http://upliftconnect.com/12-life-lessons/