Bookworm Gal, also known as A.R. Jones, is a fanfiction writer on FanFiction.Net (and recently on Archive of Our Own) who writes for a variety of fandoms, including their most popular story, Never Had a Friend Like Me for The Fairly Oddparents. Several of their works have their own trope page while others appear on several Fan Fic Recommendations pages.
All of their stories can be found here
or here.
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Fandoms
- Aladdin
- Beetlejuice
- Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
- Casper
- Coco
- Danny Phantom
- Darkwing Duck
- Digimon Tamers
- The Dresden Files
- The Fairly Oddparents
- FernGully
- Freakazoid!
- Good Omens (2019)
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002)
- Hocus Pocus
- Inspector Gadget
- Kingdom Hearts
- Knight Rider
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Legends of Tomorrow
- Lilo & Stitch
- The Lion King
- Masters of the Universe
- Megamind
- Monsters vs. Aliens
- Mulan
- Mummies Alive!
- The Mummy Trilogy
- Mystery Skulls Animated
- Myth Adventures
- Night at the Museum
- Octodad
- Ratchet & Clank
- Sofia the First
- Spider-Man Trilogy
- Thor
- Tin Man
- Transformers: Animated
- Transformers Film Series
- Wreck-It Ralph
Works with Trope Pages
- Aloha: (Lilo & Stitch)
- Black Crayons: (Transformers Film Series)
- Child of Moonlight: (Night at the Museum)
- Harmless: (Danny Phantom)
- Instinctively Family: (Kingdom Hearts)
- Like a Gentle Refrain: (Coco)
- Magic and Mayhem: (Casper / Hocus Pocus Crossover)
- Never Had a Friend Like Me: (Fairly Oddparents)
- Opposites Destroy: (Aladdin)
- Revenge of the Energy Vampire: (Buzz Lightyear of Star Command)
- Say It Thrice: (Danny Phantom / Beetlejuice Crossover)
- When Did I Become a Parent?: (The Lion King)
Commonly Used Tropes in Their Stories
- The Atoner: Shows up as a character type in a few stories, like Impmon or (in Harmless) Vlad.
- Backstory: Provides them for several characters in various stories who lack them in Canon. Child of Moonlight is focused on crafting an entire backstory for Night at the Museum.
- Cheerful Child: Another commonly used character type
- Curiosity Causes Conversion: Aloha, Never Had a Friend Like Me, and Say it Thrice (or, more specifically, Say it Again) all have the key plot point that a dangerous otherworldly being is bewildered by the nature of this unusual little girl who's unfazed by the abnormal, which provokes curiosity that slowly turns to care.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Claims that they prefer happy endings. But the characters often have to suffer and work for it first.
- The Four Loves: Enjoys using and focusing on the importance of forms of love other than romance.
- Hidden Depths: Due to their fondness for Plucky Comic Relief, these types of characters often have the chance to show their worth.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Shows up in Black Crayons and Never Had a Friend Like Me, for example.
- Interspecies Friendship: Stitch and Lilo, Annabelle and all the Autobots, Norm and Amanda, Timon, Pumbaa, and Simba... Yep, this shows up a lot.
- Killed Off for Real: Not afraid to do this, even to characters they like.
- Mechanical Lifeforms: Based on some of the fandoms they write for, they seem to enjoy working with non-biological or not-completely-biological organisms.
- Morality Pet: Either takes advantage of an already existing one or creates one.
- Nice Girl: Annabelle Lennox from Black Crayons and Amanda Adams from Never Had a Friend Like Me, and Lilo in Aloha all qualify.
- Papa Wolf: Loves this trope. Timon in When Did I Become a Parent?. Ironhide in Black Crayons. Jumba in Aloha. Norm in Never Had a Friend Like Me... Yeah, this is a recurring character type.
- Parental Substitute: Shows up pretty often, especially for the Papa Wolf characters...
- Plucky Comic Relief: Several of their stories involve giving screen time to these types of characters from Canon.
- The Power of Friendship: A huge fan of this. Wrote Never Had a Friend Like Me partially as a challenge to redeem Norm without resorting to making him fall in love with another Mary Sue Self-Insert teenage human Love Interest. It was instead done through the friendship of a child.
- Shown Their Work: A lot of information researched during the course of writing tends to show up either in the text or in the author's notes. Especially when it involves researching Egyptian Mythology and other interesting topics.
- Worldbuilding: Bookworm Gal repeatedly states they enjoy this.
