Just a small rant observation.
I swear, everytime I type “Lovely Kitsune” or “lovelykitsune” into a search engine, I find 12 more reasons to change my Internet name to something less conspicuous like AzNp3d0FyL3.
Back in 2000, I was young(er) and rather naive about the social stigma of
- picking a girly name
- picking a name of an anime character
- picking a name that is associated with a hairy mammal.
I can deal with #1 because anyone who reads two consectutive sentences written by me will instantly know that I’m a dude. That isn’t to say that I’ve had some awkward brushes with guys who thought that I was the coolest girl on Earth because I watch anime and play video games. Fortunately, that is beyond the scope of this discussion.
#2 isn’t that bad. There are far worse anime character names out there (At least Kitsune means something). I do concede that having a foreign word (especially Japanese) is a giant red flag that I am a huge nerd and only the largest and stabbiest of females will ever find my electronic presence desirable. That’s fine, too, since I’m hardly trying to e-pimp my way out of bachelorhood.
Then we get to #3 and the center of this discussion. A lot of the results that come up when searching for “Lovely Kitsune” don’t have anything to do with me, but “Oh my…” is probably the only thing I can say that won’t seriously offend anyone (humans or our fine four legged friends). You can draw your own conclusions but, to expedite the thought process, let me just type out a few words to show you where I’m going with this.
- Fanart
- Bad fanart
- Bad fanfiction
The words “Lovely Kitsune” are used to describe a drawing or a character in a story. It’s my fault for attaching a superfluous adjective to this name. Well, actually, no… I didn’t make up this name, I stole it from a Love Hina Dreamcast game 7 years ago. Fucking Sega…
At its most basic form, it’s a simple clash of ideologies but no one wants to be associated with something that they don’t agree with. All I can do about it is whine in my little confined space. If you’re brave enough to venture into these sites on your own then you can see for yourself. I’ll just leave it at that.
Love me
Then, of course, there are those who talk about me on the Internet. Through the power of some magical text parsing algorithms, I can stay on top of the Lovely Kitsune watch by typing my own name into a search engine. General public opinion of me seems to be relatively positive. I haven’t really seen anyone totally bash my site so there is some sense of accomplishment on my end. There are a few scattered posts out there that make me facepalm and mash on the backspace key without looking at the monitor, though.
One search result was someone’s blog where he said that the title for his blog came from a thread in my old BBS (Ask LK) and that his style is slightly influenced by mine. That made me feel really good for some reason. For one thing, I loved that thread. “Ask LK” was probably the greatest idea I ever had in my 9 years of website ownership. By the way, if anyone has a copy of that thread saved somewhere, please send it over this way. My old webhost ate it and it’s gone forever.
Coming clean
Okay, I’ll be honest. This entire post, from start to finish, was a clever ruse (everything in the entry is true, though) for me to beg to the masses for a saved copy of the “Ask LK” thread from my BBS. Seeing as how only 10 people ever visited that place, I know that my chances are almost nil but I’m giving it a shot anyways. Please help.