Tuesday, November 18, 2003

More Bitterness
So, anyway, I've now got a blogspot account, in case I have an updates for the Bitter Sweet website.

I've learnt some more things about CSS and HTML, so there'll be a couple of changes. Nothing too drastic.

And guys? Please write something. My work is starting to become dominant over everyone else's, which isn't really what I want. I'd really like more authors. I'm creating profile pages, which is pretty hard to do, when you only have two authors. *puppy dog eyes* So get creative?
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Friday, October 24, 2003

Oh, Not Again
Depressed Stuff. Now, I first posted in this thread on Thursday, and, at the time, I didn't think it was at all inappropriate. I mean, I showed interest and tried to encourage him to write, and such. And then someone replies to practically flame me for 'passing off [his] emotions for angst'.

Now, I had mentioned that he'd his the 'teenage angst' stage right on time, but I was never referring to his emotions, except for one sentence, where I said something to the effect, 'Don't worry, the teenage years only last another six years!' At that point, I was referring to the fact that hormones run rampant in the teenage years.

So when I get this message: did you know teens hate it when you pass all of their emotions off as angst? I would know, I cut and was suicidal for years. It doesn't help. Its just telling them that their pain is less important. If you ever wanna talk, Akabane, email me at chichiri_toya@sailormoon.com. i almost never check my account here. I'd rather listen to you than my mom, anyway.

in reply, I was actually quite confused. I wasn't trying to pass off all his emotions as teen angst. I wasn't even trying to adress his emotions. I was talking about his poetry.

So I replied and told WiccanSamurai that if he wanted to continue this discussion, he could PM. I don't see the point of wasting someone else's thread to talk about whether I was referring to Akabane's emotions or his poetry.

So, I'm hoping my reply was suffiecient, polite, and got my message across.
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Thursday, October 2, 2003

Backgrounds and Bitterness
This blog seems rather stagnant, doesn't it? I'm not really posting much at all. Of course, I'm not posting much in my other blogs either, so I suppose it's sort of even. Not so much stagnant as fair, really.

Oh, there I go again; justifying my laziness. I'm so bad at that! I always do it, and it's just terrible of me.

Anyway, I suppose some information about myself can't hurt.

I'm an Otaku-ite -- I'm currently an Otaku Idol over there. [To see what Otaku Idol is about, go here.] My name is actually Kathryn, but people mostly call me Rae, Lady Asphy, Asphy. Sometimes, if you're Sara, it's Miss Asphy. Heh.

Rae originated in the Newbie Lounge. The Newbie Lounge was the introduction forum -- the Newbies came and posted introduction threads in the Lounge. A group of people answered these threads and tried to make them feel welcome. However,it's hard to reply to 'Hi, I'm new,' so in the end there were big conversations between the welcomers (Into which, read 'SPAM'). Anyway, Sere Tuscumbia [you won't see her around much anymore -- she's 'outgrown' Otakuboards, or something] and I became the 'Newbie Forum Patrol' -- we welcomed everyone to post a thread in the Lounge. Now, at this time, I was involved in an RPG called SYF: Garrotted Threats, which was created by liamc2. In the RPG, my character's name was Raellyra Stanton; Rae for short. Sere Tuscumbia started calling me Rae, and it caught on. Everyone started calling me Rae. It was easier just to get them to call me Rae than explain to them why everyone was calling me that when it wasn't my name.

And that's the story of how I became Rae. As for the Asphy things, it's because I'm Lady Asphyxia on Otakuboards.



I have just finished my first webpage, designed completely with HTML and CSS. No Frontpage, no geocities, just a lot of swearing and juggling things around.

My web page is an Archive (by which I mean you send in a story to me, I host them. There's no PHP.) for Original Fiction -- no fanfiction. Much as I love fanfiction, there are enough archives for it already.

Anyway, my web site is called Bitter Sweet.

Cheers,
Rae
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Saturday, September 6, 2003

Harry Potter
So, right, I'm a fanfiction writer, among other things. This means that I write fanfiction. Now, I don't often bandy it about, because chances are that if you're a fanfiction writer, and you tell someone, they're going to laugh in your face. Especially if it's Harry Potter fanfiction. It just seems so...geeky.

The thing is, most of the fanfiction I write is [and i'm being ever modest] very good. Really good, in fact. And it's dark, and quite simply, good. And, while I might not give out the adress to many people [okay, almost no one] I really take pride in my work. And I should.

While some of my stuff is quite squicky, and some people won't like it, it's still artsy. And it annoys me when people are so...closeminded about things like fanfiction.

And, yes, there are a lot of odd pairings. Slash, Femslash, incest, and so on. I know people who pair Hagrid and Dobby, for goodness sake.

And while I don't really...appreciate...certain pairings, if I'm reccomended to them, I can look at the writing and like it, even if I don't like the pairings and so on in the story. This whole 'Totally intolerant to slash' thing is rather...annoying.
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Tuesday, September 2, 2003

I've been browsing on Otakuboards, and I've just come across the Private/Catholic Schools thread. Now, I have nothing against people who don't like Private Schools, but honestly, it really annoys me when the complain about it. 'Oh, it made you sign an agreement.' Sure it did. That's so that if you do stupid things like drink on the school grounds, it can through you out without having a lawsuit slapped on them.

And sure, they may be strict. And you may have to wear a 'crappy uniform'. But in Australia, almost everyone has to wear a uniform and have their hair correct, and generally look good. A private school is one of the better places to go. That's right -- one of the better places. Because it's both tax and people paid, it means that it can offer all types of courses. My school offer apprenticeships, gives courses in Welding, Photography, and so on.

And, to be honest, it annoys me when people complain about going to a Private school when their parents are paying for it.

And, despite my complaining about my school in my blog, to me, a private school it better than a public school, anyday.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Okay, so here I am. With the whole, myOtaku thing...so what do I do now?

Well, I suppose the first thing is that my actual blog is called Immortal Soul.

Well, I'm going to see Mars.

Cheers.
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