Rules and Guidelines for all readers both new and old

Please be aware of the following three rules when reading this book, and any others written by Snappy Cockatiel. These rules are for the comfort of both existing readers who still frequent these books and for Snappy Cockatiel. They are long-standing rules that have been in place (and praised by the reader base) since July 2017. The only thing that changes with these updates are phrasing.

This Fan Fiction is written by Loki-Roki, who has undergone a username change to SnappyCockatiel. This is the same writer, and while updates are horrendously sporadic, these books are not abandoned. Begging for updates won't work, all that does is make me take an even longer time to update.

Please be aware that breaking these rules on a repetitive basis will now simply earn you an immediate muting. Your ability to comment on any of my work will be revoked, and I won't un-mute you. This is across all my books. Any vote or comment from your account will be taken as acknowledgement that you have read and agree to these terms.

At the end of the following rules is a list of frequently asked questions and Loki-Roki's replies to them. Please refer to them before asking what very well may be a question you don't even need to ask, because a lot of people have already asked the same things.

Rule #1 – Limit your comment spam, ESPECIALLY GRAMMAR/SPELLING NAZI COMMENTS!

Comments are well received and I encourage you to engage with everyone else on these books as much as reasonable. However, comments on every sentence and every paragraph will drive not only older readers who have fallen out of the fandom insane, but myself included. If your comment does not contain any point or premise whatsoever on many instances, please refrain from the spam.

As to Grammar and Spelling corrections, just don't. Half of your "corrections" are region differences, not actual corrections on errors itself.

Rule #2 – No Hate, Flaming or excessive profanity

Enough said. Reel your attitudes in, like you are expected to do so in a classroom environment. There's enough messed up trauma in this world right now, so let's leave our online communities as safe havens for people who need to branch out right now.

Rule #3 – No Spoiler Comments

You know those times when you get into a new series, and that one friend / person in class neck-deep in the fandom overhears and proceeds to brag about all the best episodes and tells you the whole plotline in a second? That one person you've wanted to drag across the desk by their throat and smite them with the Hand of God because they took that joy from you?

You do? Excellent.

Don't spoil the books for your fandom-mates.

Don't be like that guy you've wanted to beat the tar out of for ruining something for you.

Keep the details to yourself.

Otherwise...

If you actually have legitimate, constructive criticism that doesn't include blunt one-word remarks about spelling, please, by all means comment away. If your comments are actually honest, I will definitely be taking feedback on board. Just don't be a smartass about it, it saves everyone's patience :)

You can see in the comments that we all like to have fun here.

And if you can't seem to follow what's going on in these books, then perhaps the problem may actually be that you're too young to be reading this (This is written for MA15+, or people 15 years or older).

Frequently Asked Questions and their Answers

Are you still updating this book?

Does the book have anywhere in its synopsis or title that it is discontinued? Has the book actually been MARKED as complete? Then the answer is "Yes". Yes, I am going to update the book at some point, and no I haven't forgotten it. I have spent 3+ years continuously updating one book series even when all I want to do is abandon it due to the endless onslaught of people who clearly can't read.

In short, if it doesn't explicitly say in the info that it's discontinued or completed, then it's going to eventually get updates, whether it's tomorrow, next month or next year.

Can you hurry up with the next chapter?

No. I write for myself and it's a plus for me that people are enjoying it. I don't write for you. So no, I'm not going to belt out a chapter for any random user who I don't know from any other on the internet.

Can you start uploading scheduled updates?

Answer? No. I will not promise a chapter I cannot guarantee will be out on time, and in the 14 years of writing I have been active, I have never followed a schedule. I'm not going to suddenly follow a schedule because for myself, I get angry under schedule, and of course as stated above, since I write for myself and nobody else, I'm not going to do it.

Why do you use apostrophe marks for dialogue instead of Quotation marks? Didn't you study English?

I'm going to be blunt, and maybe a little rude, but more blunt than anything else.

I AM using Quotation Marks.

What you are used to are technically known as "Double Quotation Marks" and what you find in MY work is known as 'Single Quotation Marks'. And guess what? Depending on what country your favourite book book was printed in, that will change what Quotation marks are used. Did you know that?

Just like differences between words like color/colour, Fahrenheit/Celsius depending on country, these "apostrophe" you see? The font families don't show it properly (If you type in font family Trebuchet MS, Times New Roman, etc on Windows, you will see it CLEARLY), but they ARE quotation marks. In Australia and other countries we use Single Quotations for dialogue and Double Quotations for quoting specific words.

In short, it's a geological divergence in Grammar, and neither is wrong. I just use the Single Quotations for dialogue and most Americans aren't used to these differences simply because most media is Americanized.

Why do you jump between UK spelling and US spelling of some words at random?

Simply put, I try to keep my language Americanized to avoid people claiming the UK spelling is wrong, but because Australia uses the UK spelling, it's natural for me to write in UK English. I default, I forget a lot of the time, and I forget to go back and check it all. My Spellcheck doesn't work very well with UK-to-US and vice versa and given how much writing I have on here, I just don't have the time or patience to go back and check everything.

Why are there so many errors in your books?
Bluntly, it's just because they are unedited, and at this point in time I don't have time or want to go back and fix it all. There's at least 3-4 years of work on this site alone that I have uploaded, and while you might not see it this way, I have clocked a minimum of 2 million words across all these books to date. That, is the equivalent of the whole Harry Potter novel series written twice over. That's a LOT of content I'd have to go back and edit, and if you were in my shoes you wouldn't want to do it, either. Ultimately, when I complete a book to its entirety I will get around to fixing those errors, but not right now. You will just have to deal with the errors until the book is completed enough for me to go through it carefully down the track. But I digress. There aren't that many errors in these chapters for unedited alpha-version pieces. Let's not be dramatic about this.

Why are you so against us commenting on older comments in your books?

Because in case you didn't notice, a LOT of those older comments are 2+ years old and unlike you newbies who are just getting into my work, a lot of these people who wrote these comments have moved onto other book interests if they're still here, and DON'T want to have their notification feeds blow up because somebody random has jumped on board and decided to revive an old conversation. It wouldn't be so bad and I wouldn't care if Wattpad had an unsubscribe from thread option like most other sites/apps, then people could turn off notifications. But Wattpad keeps removing all the good features and leaving garbage ideas behind and it makes life on this platform hard when you fall out of fandoms.

I've personally commented ONCE on a conversation way back when I started on Wattpad, and FOUR YEARS LATER it blew up and I was getting spammed with some hundred-something comments because somebody decided to turn it into an RP chat involving incest and other messed up rot. I couldn't unsubscribe from that, I had to go through and MUTE every single person in that conversation just to stop receiving notifications from them (About 5 people at first), and it didn't help that new people kept joining in on it. The book's since been deleted but that unfortunate disaster of a notification spam still haunts me to this day.

Just, please, stop trying to revive old conversations because there are a lot of people on here who abandon fandoms/books that they just fall out of love with, and spamming them with 4-years late replies just drives people more away from their old loves. If it's just "a" reply to a comment, that's okay, that's cool, but don't turn it into giant conversation chains. If you want to do that, then please take it to a PM of yours. Don't bombard people who aren't here anymore.