To my dear friend anubis17

[ty...@my-deja.com]

I think you for your very kind comments. You are most certainly a great guy.
But you give me far too much credit. I am a total web newbie. I've been
online only since Feb. 1999, and I only started writing fanfics when I
discovered Grey. Shortly after that I got my first story A Taste of Danger, A
Touch of GOLD up. There will be a second chapter coming by the way, I just
have writers block on that story. there will also be a chapter 5 to Last
Stand In La Jolla and a part 2 of Cats Inc. I only seem to be more
experianced than I really am. My backround. Learned to read comics before i
even went into first grade. Mostly DC, but some Marvel which were just
beginning to really set everything on fire. I was a voracious reader, my
intrests were the Mythology, after seeing Hercules movies, always fasinated
with the orient and tales of samurai's and kung-fu heroes because these were
also the early days of Vietnam and i wanted to know what was going on in the
world. Anything about Robin Hood, king Arthur, and Zorro. Because I went to
school with a couple of Cherokee boys I had a more sympathetic view towards
Native American Indians than most kids, since they were my friends as well as
classmates. This led me to sometimes root for the Indians except when they
wre being shot by John Wayne. If John Wayne shot him he needed to be shot.
Never got to see Batman or man From Uncle, but I did see 007, Matt Helms, and
Flint movies. I created my first team of super-heroes when I was 7. Even
though I'd read more DC's mine were more like Marvel heroes. Surprisingly
some of my first characters survive even today. I don't remember what I
called them, today I say they were G.O.L.D. 1. The lead character was Edwin
Bearclaw, a Cherokee shamen who gained 'Superman' type powers from a serum.
This was of course a tribute to my friends, but having a Native American as
the main hero and the leader was unheard of back then. Also in the group was
Sam Stone, a retired WW2 hero wo is one of the 3 that still survive. The
other 2 are Golden Girl and Ramrod. Golden Girl also broke the mold of the
day. Heroines of the 60's always had to be rescued. when they did fight it
was the old strike a pose and point. Golden Girl didn't have to rescued by
men. She would punch out male villains, something Supergirl and Wonder Woman
didn't even do. Golden Girl was the influence of my mythology studies. After
Hercules, my favorite Greek god was Apollo the sun god. Golden Girl is a
young(only 1500 years old) goddess, Apella, the daughter of Apollo. She can
fly, has 30 ton strength, no one can lie within 100 yards of her, she has
Superman class heat vision and a magic bow that fires unlmited fire bolts. As
I grew older I got out of comics for awhile. I got back in the early 70's as
Marvel put out an unbelievable product compaired to the stuff I'd read years
ago. The pairings of Captain America and the Falcon, Daredevil and the Black
Widow, hate to admit it but I got a crush on Namorita when she appeared in
Sub-Mariner, ears maybe? And of course the Avengers, Defenders and revived
X-Men. It was then I started writing again. The old heroes didn't work. I
stripped Bearclaw of his powers, bringing him back to a magical hero, which
he'd used sparingly, kept his best friend Twoswords and introduced 4 new
young heroes, Johnathan Lung the China Dragon, Billy Ray a speedster, a
pretty witch partly influenced by Dark Shadow's, and a reluctant super-strong
mentalist who wanted to only be a reservist Questar. Now called GOLD I wrote
stories that only friends saw and read for 3 years. Then i stopped writing
and went into the Navy. After 9 years I was givin an honorable disability
discharge after an accident that broke my back, but fortunately missed my
spinal cord and didn't paralyze me. After leaving the service I bummed around
in various jobs for about a year in so. Calfornia. Then I got my dream job. I
became the manager of a comic book store. During the mid-80's there was a
boom in Black and White comics. I knew guys that became rich and famous
overnight. Including 2 guys that drew turtles. I then tried out for my own
comic, when my nerves degenerated further robbing me of my ability to draw.
There was not much call for a writer who could'nt do his own art. I continued
to manage the store with just enough damage in my hands to kill my dream of
working in the comics industry. It had been during this period that I created
the 3rd team of GOLD that survives to this day with only mior tweaking from
rol-plaing after I had to leave California and move back to this shithole
small town I grew up in. Small town, small minds, no dreams. I believed my
dream dead util this year when a friend told me about web tv. Since I didn't
know anything about computers or the internet, although I'd heard about it, I
also didn't have hundreds of dolars to put into a computer. So I've only been
doing fanfics for a few months. I thank all of you who have written and told
me that you like my stories, my fire now burns hotter than ever. anubis17, if
you ever get over here I'm gonna get you so drunk you'll be talking to the
porcelin god. ha ha. There is a lot more to come from Tyval! hold onto your
hats, dicks, clits or whatever.

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Before you buy.

[anub...@my-deja.com]

My dear friend Tyval:

Thank you very much for this very special post of yours. And I'm really
sorry about your back. Believe me I can perfectly understand the matter
that broken dreams are made of. Glad you could overcome that and keep
on fighting for what you believe in.

I do certainly appreciate your idealist view of the world and all this
mess going on in it. And believe me I could perfectly imagine your
shining and dreaming eyes when writing it.

But OK, enough for this mellow stuff. Glad that you are here with us in
the Grey Archive! And keep always writing!

I myself are a very recent fan of the Web (since March 99, so you are
still my elder). I kept all this months (until November) just browsing
the web, mostly looking for stuff on Science Fiction and Horror (that's
the areas where I usually write when I want to get published); then I
came a cross Joniar's Supergirl photomanipulations (I don't know why,
but she has always been my favorite)and discovered that he had also
some erotic fanfiction.

As I said in my Fanfic History thread, I never thought that I were the
only one writing fanfiction, but then I was appaled by the huge amounts
of fanfics on the web. So I just kept browsing until I found the Grey
Archive and Villain's Lair. The Grey Archive immediately become my
favorite site: it's graphics, it's simple and sober lookout, it's magic
content.... Man!

So I kept coming back for more and believe me I have dowloaded and
printed all the stories in the Archive (yeah Tyval, even yours!)

Then the forum came up, and for a whyle I kept just surveying the
posts, trying to see how newsgroups worked. The first time a post
caught my attention was when someone was asking why so many guys got
turned on by Batgirl (by the way guys, I think it is because she is one
of the few heroines who has her body almost completelly hidden from
view).

Then one day (23.11.99)I posted my first message. From that day on you
know my story.

I am just sorry that I can't show you guys my stories: they tend to be
pretty long and being written in Portuguese would turn my life into a
nightmare just to try to translate them (portuguese is a very
adjectivated language and I have a vert adjectivated style).

So I decided to write a few stories in english just for the Archive. As
you know I am currently working on Reality Asylum and two (yeah two!)
short stories about JLH.

I think you will like Reality Asylum because it deals a lot with
mithology, although I tend to prefer demons to gods; moreover, my
favorite mithologies are from sub-saharan Africa, ancient middle-east
and pop culture (if you can consider this one a mythologie; Suzanne
Barbieri wrote a book defending that Clive Barker was a true MITHMAKER
FOR THE MILLENIUM (1992)).

Anyhow, I will extend myself a little more about me in the next posts
(although I will only be able to post again next wednesday).

Once again, thank you all.

And thank you very much Tyval. I hope you'll keep around (alive,
kicking and writing).

Anubis17

PS. So, a comic store manager, eeh? Maybe I'll accept your invitation.
I also live in a small town with the smallest dreams you can imagine.
Moreover, I live in a country where you can never go very far writing
(even less if you are a comic writer) and we don't even have a film
industry.