Another guestbook flame! When you read this entry, at first it seems too polite to be a real flame, but I call it a flame because when you look closer it does have some aspects of a real flame, such as rudeness (albeit a badly veiled type of rudeness) and a host of misconceptions and bad assumptions: Guest: Tsukino Ai Sele (using Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; AOL 4.0; Windows 98), 152.163.201.69) Date: 4 August 1999 18:18 Alias (if any): Believer in the Hope of the Future, Child of Destiny Gender: Female. Birthdate: 29 July 84 My Zodiac Sign: Leo (July 24 - Aug. 23) Homepage: n/a I Come from: A Vision...the past and future...eternity This is my first time signing this guestbook. I found this site in a unique way and I think your HTML work deserves a B-. I came to see Ganymede's Tuxedo Kamen Shrine, and the site I liked best is a dark, horrible secret. ... I'm very unresponsive, Japanese cuisine is my favorite food, and the grasshopper yowls at midnight. :P It would seem that this guestbook doesn't want me to sign it because the first time i had an entry it got deleted, as well as the second time! Well! Here I go again, and I hope the saying "Third time's the charm" stays true for me. I intend to write an e-mail that will correspond to the comments made in this entry, and will serve as suggestions/corrections to better your page. To most people, I think you would seem self-righteous, arrogant, rude, overly-opinionated, etc. Since I do not know you in real life, however, I refrain from making that judgement. What I do know is that I gave you a B- because, although you have a good handle on the mythology/astrology and you cover the characters thoroughly, your information had some gaps that would serve to strengthen/weaken the character being described to the reader. I think it is a webpage owner's goal to further the knowledge of the guest he or she is hosting. I myself recently have been trying to learn more about different anime and certainly would not appreciate receiving incorrect or only partial information. Instead, it would be nice for the webpage owner to give me all the information they have and knowledge, to the best of their ability. The e-mail I am writing to you is to help you with that. I have been reasearching Bishoujo Senshi Sera Mun for quite a while, and my only wish is to give others an understanding for the genius creation that it is. It seems from the amount of criticism for characters on your page that you don't even like the BSSM series. I do not have a webpage but, when and if I ever do create one, I will certainly try my hardest to ensure that my readers receive the best information. I will also link webpages that have the same intentions and good final outcomes. Please read my e-mail when you receive it. This is not a flame, merely an extension of a helping hand. I wish you luck with your future endeavors. Sincerely, Tsukino Ai Sele ---------- WOW. This is a keeper. XD *L* Here's my reply: <<To most people, I think you would seem self-righteous, arrogant, rude, overly-opinionated, etc. Since I do not know you in real life, however, I refrain from making that judgement.>> In other words, you're saying: "To me you are self-righteous, arrogant, rude, overly-opinionated, etc., but since this is a public guestbook entry I'm going to feign politeness and pretend that I just didn't pass judgment on you one sentence ago." *L* Please, you don't fool me. You basically passed judgment and then tried to make yourself look like the good guy by trying to say that you aren't passing judgment. Also, if you're calling me overly-opinionated, you've obviously missed the point of these pages. These are OPINION pages! *rofl* Wake up, please. :p <<your information had some gaps that would serve to strengthen/weaken the character being described to the reader.>> I state from the very beginning at the main page of the Citadel that this page only contains astrology and mythology information, and that even then the information is limited to that which is relevant to each character I am discussing. I also state quite clearly that I do not have any information on the characters' birthdays or hobbies or what have you. That is the point of this site being a mythology-and-astrology-ONLY site, with opinion pages thrown in for good measure. There are plenty of wonderful information pages out there that say the same old thing, such as: "Tsukino Usagi is a Cancer with blood type O (born on June 30) who hates carrots and whose hobbies include eating and sleeping." I wanted to make MY Sailormoon pages unique, and in order to do that I decided to focus on what I knew best, which was the mythology and astrology. I know mythology and astrology well enough that all the material at the Citadel related to those two subjects came directly out of my brain and out of my memory, as opposed to some book or website I could have copied generic information from. <<I think it is a webpage owner's goal to further the knowledge of the guest he or she is hosting.>> Me too. That's why I try to educate my readers on how the mythology and astrology behind each Sailor Senshi is actually relevant to and indicative of that Senshi's characteristics and personality. <<I myself recently have been trying to learn more about different anime and certainly would not appreciate receiving incorrect or only partial information. Instead, it would be nice for the webpage owner to give me all the information they have and knowledge, to the best of their ability.>> Well, I can say without a doubt that none of the astrological and mythological information at my Citadel is incorrect, and I have already explained here and at the Citadel's main page that this site is focused on the mythology and astrology behind each character and nothing more. I make it clear from the start that this is NOT a full-on, hard-core Sailormoon info site, and that it is just a place for me to analyze the mythological/astrological aspects of each character and give my opinions on them. There are TONS of wonderful Sailormoon information sites out there, so much that they're practically a dime a dozen. Anyone who wants to visit one of those sites and get more information before reading my mythology and astrology pieces are welcome to do so. <<It seems from the amount of criticism for characters on your page that you don't even like the BSSM series.>> Your assumption is totally off-base. Just because I don't like many characters and critically analyze certain aspects of every character doesn't mean I dislike the series (and besides, I love all the Outer Senshi, Tuxedo Kamen, half the Inner Senshi, and various side characters). You're one of those people who thinks that in order to love something, one cannot criticize certain aspects of it or talk about it in an analytical fashion. If I didn't love the show, would I have spent THIS MUCH TIME writing about the obscure astrological and mythological connections that each character has? Please. <<This is not a flame, merely an extension of a helping hand.>> Actually, your veiled rudeness, your misassumptions, and your implications that my webpages are not good enough simply because they focus only on certain information and do not give you summaries of all two hundred episodes and pages and pages of the same information that you can find at hundreds of other Sailormoon websites lead me to believe that your entry is indeed a flame, or something quite close to it. It certainly is in no way a "helping hand." ---------- ^^;;; I'm sorry I don't have TONS and TONS of information, but my forte has always been astrology and mythology, and my major is marine bio, not Sailormoon... *rofl* XD