A picture is worth a thousand words, and a story is worth a thousand images – MM/Spleefmistress/CultOfStrawberry

Hi! I am Cult of Strawberry (also known as Spleefmistress and Spleef). I have been writing for a LONG time, with original works, fanfiction, and poetry, though most of it remains hidden as I am never truly satisfied with it, LOL. To see more of my works or artwork, you can go to my homepage. Please enjoy what I have to offer. :) I have fanfiction as well, over here... (mainly Avatar: the Last Airbender, but with a couple of other genres)

A bit about me - I am a redhead who has a fetish for tomato soup, toesocks, and world domination. My biggest fandoms are Frank Herbert's Dune series (and none of that 'new' Dune shit that Bri Bri and his little fuckbuddy Kevin write) along with Mr. Herbert's other works, Robert A. Heinlein's works especially the World as Myth series (Lazarus Long is so cool!), Sheri S. Tepper's works, and Avatar: the Last Airbender, though I also like Anne Rice (before she converted), V.C. Andrews (not the tripe that her ghostwriter churns out), Strangers in Paradise, Lady Death, Heroes, Cyborg 009, Kabuki, Sailormoon, Osamu Tezuka's works, the TV show Desperate Housewives, and a whole bunch of other stuff. I read a LOT, as I will read almost anything as long as its well written.

I'm also a big fan of old-school style video games. Forget X-Box, PS2/3, Wii, Gamecube, and all that newfangled crap. I'll stick with Atari, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and Sega Genesis. My favorite games are Tetris, Super Mario Brothers (For the NES/SNES), the Legend of Zelda Series (up to and including Ocarina of Time), the Final Fantasy series (mainly I-VI), and the Sonic the Hedgehog series, of which I also collect the comic books, and miss the Sonic of the 90's where it was just him and a few other characters, instrad of the huge clusterfuck that the Sonicverse has become.

I dislike fundamentalists/Creationists/religious whackjobs, Suethors, and rednecks as well as seafood, most of the crap on TV, and Paris Hilton. I can simply ignore one of the 6 (seafood), but the other 5 need to simply be killed/destroyed with fire.

A Very Important Note about my Guide... 'Spleef's Guide to Being Evil' was published WAAAAY back in 2002 on my website, which is now long since dead, and then on Fichaven.org, which is now also defunct. I have gone through many of the chapters, tweaking, polishing off, etc. I will not be posting chapters by order, as some later chapters are done, and some have yet to be fleshed out or written. So don't be worried if you can't find a chapter - it is not yet up. I will try to post more chapters in a timely manner.

This Guide was written entirely by me, and when I had my own site, there was also a contributor-based part that basically consisted of ideas and tips provided by people who emailed me, and were accordingly credited. I cannot post that here, as these tips were written by my fans, and not myself. However, I will be using some of these tips. To those of you who were around to contribute or read that Tip List, could you tell me a good place where I could host that, and link here?

When I had this on my site, I had pictures accompanying the Guide to add to the pleasure of reading it. I am unable to do that here, though I may post a pictures-included version to my new homepage. I hope you enjoy what you read, and please leave feedback! Also, as I still consider my Guide an WIP (Work in Progress/unfinished), I will be welcoming suggestions, ideas for what should be added and feedback on chapters that are already up here. Really. :)

I also appreciate and welcome feedback and concrit for 'Beyond the Sunset', 'Worthy of Love', and 'Darkness Becomes Her'. I have these original stories also posted on AFFNet here. These stories will have intimate scenes in them, but these scenes will be cut out before posted here at FP, and can only be found at AFF. I have other original works in progress, but these unpublished works will not be posted online, since I also plan to turn these into novels, and do not wish to have ALL my original works posted (for security reasons) Upon completion of what I do have posted, I will edit these based on feedback revceived, and submit these along with my other originals for book publication.

If for any reason you ever want to contact me, feel free to do so at coltofstrawberry AT gmail DOT com. Don't send me PMs... seriously. The email here is different than the one I use for this FP account, so if you send me a PM, I might not read it for weeks. If you want a guaranteed response, E-MAIL ME. I cannot stress this enough.