How about a brief introduction for yourself?

Greetings Earthling! I am LeDiz, and I'm sure you all know me well enough to know better than to keep reading.

Fabulous! And what got you into fanfiction to begin with?

(this meme is not responding well to my responses) I was scoping out XME, looking for pictures and failing rather miserably. I was very bored and had no desire to go to sleep that night, and fanfiction kept popping up, oh, you know, EVERYWHERE. So eventually I caved and my first author was Internutter of all people, and things kind of fell apart from there

I see, so what kind of fanfiction do you like to write?

Mmmm... I have ridiculous love for writing long, usually chaptered stories that are often AU, make huge changes to my characters' lives, or inevitably end up right where they started, with just some tiny little difference that IMPLIES change. I have to think that would be annoying to read, but I have readers, so... yeah.

Do you find writing easy? Hard? What are the most difficult aspects of writing you struggle with?

Ohhh... it depends? I can write and write and write... and then I suddenly look up and think "who the hell would read this crap?!" and abandon it to the laptop. Then, even when I go back to it, I can't get started again because, well... who would read that crap. So I have trouble with extended motivation. Technical-wise, though, description doesn't come naturally to me - I used to tend to write dialogue and let the reader work out the rest - and so action (the older I get, the more I want to write action surrounded by intense plot. Anime fan? Who, me? Nah...) is also hard. But I'm trying! I really am!

Write a few sentences or so of your favorite pairing or character.

Right now, at this exact second, my favourite character is probably Bumblebee from TFA, but he's... for a character with such supposedly flat motivations, he's extremely complicated. I can never decide whether he's really arrogant, really insecure and overcompensating, or just painfully eager to prove himself to people he doesn't need to prove himself to. I don't usually have this much trouble with characters, dammit, I need canon backstory to help me out! -bangs fist against the desk- Now, dammit!

Are there any fanfiction clichés or trends you’re sick of or just can’t stand?

I am such an elitist, these days. I hate myself, I really do. But unrelated to that, I think the one thing that frustrates me is when people write non-canon pairings or even platonic relationships but don't explain how the relationship came about, even on an offhand aside. It's okay if the author has written that fic before, and this is supposed to just be another installment of their fanon, or... whatever, but... yeah. I'm an elitist. -hangs head in shame-

Are you guilty of any fanfiction clichés you hate? Or any other ones?

Oh, god yes. Usually I justify it to myself by saying 'oh, I've written some form of the earlier fanon before!' but sometimes I really haven't. Shh, don't tell my fangirls! I love writing cliches, as well, but I make no apologies for that, because that's usually the basis of my most successful ficcages, so... yeah!

What was the first fandom you wrote for, and do you still like/participate in it?

Uh... well, when I was younger, I would play games with myself or my toys, acting out stories that, had they been written down, would have been fanfics. So technically, there was Carebears, Rainbow Bright, Sonic the Hedgehog, Max Steel, uhh... But officially, it was X-Men Evolution, and I would if I could, but I always get stuck on the sixth page, so I don't.

Name your OTPs or most frequently written pairings/characters and explain what it is about them that you love to write.

-groan- This'll take a while.

Yugioh
Yuugi/Yami, because I am a sucker for happily-ever-afters-that-weren't. They're both ridiculously flawed and I don't think they're capable of healthy relationships, and I also think that even if they did get together, they would spend most of their lives having to save the world (and never having it occur to them that they'd saved the world) and so never really get a happy ending. But whether romantic or platonic, no one can make them as happy as they do each other, so isn't that technically a happy ending?
Anzu, because she's sad and she's sweet (and I knew her complete...) and she knows she missed her chance. She's not the bitch a lot of people write her as, but I don't think she's a nice person, either. She's a little bit cruel, she is a typical teenage girl, and therefore more than a little self-obsessed, and I don't think she thinks everything she does through, but she works so hard, and she's loyal to what she knows is right. I think she'll grow up to be a wonderful person, and you gotta admire that.
Seto, because Jay made me write him once and I realised he's so sad and pathetic and he just wants someone to love and love him back and...! -flail-

XME
Kurt, though I think I might have gotten his character kinda wrong, back in the day. I still think he's fun and sad and the nicest guy in the mansion, and if I were to do it all again, I'd want to write the part where he and Rogue go from being angsty teenagers to fun-loving adults, except looking at the future-canon pics, I don't think Rogue ever learnt how to have fun...
Kitty, because she's like, you know, totally not with it, but like, totally smart and completely awesome and how could you not love someone so utterly normal and adorable and the fact that she grows up to be, like, smokin' hot and NORMAL SIZED is, like, ohmygawd awesome! -deepbreath- I like Kitty even more now that I'm older.
Pietro, because... pretty much the same reason I love Seto.

NCIS
Tony (and Michael Weatherly for playing him), because I have so much respect for an actor and character that layers himself so well that I have absolutely no freaking idea whether, every night, he goes out and parties, goes home and listens to Dashboard Confessional, or comes back into the office and just works until dawn. I want to know whether he's mature or not, intelligent or not, light hearted or not, and I have no freaking idea! It's awesome!
McGee, because he's so... McGeek. And he can hold his own against Tony, when he couldn't before. -huggles McGeek- he's all grown up.

Digimon
Kouji, because he's an emo, girly bastard that doesn't hit his best friend, but will shove him around and tell him to freaking wake up to himself! You gotta respect that.
Takuya, because he's the bridge between the worlds, is the only real natural leader that digimon ever had, never stops until Kouji pretty much bashes him over the head, and makes such a kyute little digimon!

TFA
Bumblebee, because of all the beeps, "We're all gonna die, aren't we?", the fact he can look up at Megatron holding a bigarse sword and still crack a joke, the fact that he's SMALL (I have a sad love for short characters) AND YELLOW and probably made from aluminium, rubber and cardboard, is easily pushed around, and yet can be really freakin' cold when he wants to be.
Prowl, because such a logical creature should not be so illogical, and his dialogue with Bumblebee is only describable as 'WIN'., while their relationship is sad and cute and I like it lots.

Inu - you know what? I'm gonna stop now.

What would you call your writing “style”?

My writing style is... uhh... realistic banter? Lighthearted angst? Lazy? I don't know?

Do you read other people’s fanfic? If so, what do you find yourself reading the most?

I want to. But because I'm an elitist, I spend more time searching than I do reading stuff. And that doesn't make sense, because some of the stuff I read is just... bad in a good way. My favourite FMA fic at the moment is an OOC script-recap of all the episodes, and my favourite line is "The plot won't stop until I'm carried out unconscious. Let's Rock!" And, I mean... I love AUs. HOW CAN I BE ELITIST IF I LOVE AUs?! I need to be bricked, rather heavily.

Name one thing you’d LOVE to write, but have been too afraid or shy to do.

Right now? A long fic that I can actually finish and post. For serious.

Do you have trouble taking criticism? Or worse yet, do you have the dreaded bloated ego?

Yeah. I have an inferiority complex about my superiority complex (oh, but that was one of the best scenes to come out of late-series Buffy). It's not so much the flames or the outright criticism, but the constructive ones and the stories where I don't get any response? Yeah... I curl up in a metaphorical corner and wonder at my lack of skill. -shakes head- Is hopeless case.

When you write, is there anything that helps? Music? Quiet room?

Music sometimes gives me ideas, but I can't write with it playing. I get distracted and want to dance.

What inspires you?

Music, plot holes, really bad written cliches, crying clown characters, reading lots of fanfic at a time. Right now, I've been inspired to write about mechanical goldfish, but I can't decide on a fandom, which is stunting said inspiration.

Lastly, how would you sum up your fanfiction experiences and yourself as a writer?

Lazy. Very, very lazy.

Tag some friends because they’ll hate you for it. 
I REFUZZLE!