Me?
I'm Beth and I'm the person behind this madness. To the right see an artist's rendition...
Contact me:
Please contact me with any concerns, thoughts, ideas, random comments, etc. through my e-mail: quisalas777@hotmail.com.
AIM screen name is Tenseiga42, but despite my best intentions I'm almost never logged on there.
Me (elsewhere) on the web:
I hang around on Gaia sometimes, if you want to chat me up there.
I'm a new face on Mangatude, a manga trading site, for anyone who's interested.
And if you ever wondered what anime I've seen, check out My Anime List where I've also tried keep track of all the manga I've read, with varying degrees of success.
About me:
A Yankee by birth, I currently live in North Texas, part of the greater DFW metroplex. I live with two cats, both of whom were indirectly named after characters in stories I was reading at the time. I have degrees in English and Information Science. I'm something of a grammar nazi, but conversely have always been a poor speller. I'm a huge fan of words and their origins, but conversely have been terrible at gaining conversational fluency in any language I've studied. I love music, and listen to it almost constantly in all of its various forms. (I've gotten to the point where I even like rap... some songs anyway.) I'm unreasonably proud of the fact that my music collection features at least five languages other than English. I spend as much free time- of which I have progressively less and less- as I possibly can reading everything I can get my hands on. I'm fairly easygoing and open-minded; some of the extremely short list of things that I do not under any circumstances like would be: hateful people, zombies, and people whose cell phones go off during public performances.
Some of my favorite things...
Book: The fact that I can narrow it down to just 3 I believe to be an accomplishment: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas; Dragon Bones by Patricia Briggs; The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Author: Rob Thurman
Manga: Saiyuki by Kazuya Minekura
Movie: My favorite movie to watch is probably Galaxy Quest, but if we're going for movies that I think are well made I'd probably have to say Fellowship of the Ring or Shichinin no Samurai
Anime: Toshokan Sensou/Library War
Online novel: Blurring the Lines by S. A. Payne
Shakespearean line to quote: "That truth should be silent I
almost forgot." -Enobarbus, Antony and Cleopatra
Song: After much thought, I think I can say that my favorite song
of all time is "Learn to Be Still" by The Eagles
Band: It's hard to say, because I tend to like songs more than bands, but I'd probably go with U2, The Goo Goo Dolls, or The Dixie Chicks
Character: I tend to like characters who are outcasts on some level; particularly those who are outcast from society beacuse of mixed parentage (like Inuyasha, from the series of the same name, and Cal Leandros, from the book series by Rob Thurman). I also like characters who change or evolve (like Wesley, from Angel, or Zuko, from Avatar) and I really admire those who have been able to retain a generally positive outlook on things despite a seriously rough life (like Elrond, from LotR, and Nightcrawler, from X-Men). I'm also drawn to cocky bastards in general, especially if they secretly have serious issues (like the entire cast of Saiyuki, Roy Mustang from Fullmetal Alchemist, or Ayame from Fruits Basket).
...That's it on the random info for now.
About the site:
Why kitsunegari? Well, it started with an episode of X-Files where a man drank blue paint and proclaimed a "fox hunt" on Mulder. Soon after I saw this, I started getting into anime and began to develop my fascination with the Japanese language. And so it stuck... Particularly since Yu Yu Hakusho was the first anime that I really got into, and, as with most fangirls, Kurama was one of the first characters I really liked. The 42 is also an X-Files reference, though technically the reference is to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, and is also Mulder's apartment number.
What and why I write? Mostly, I write what I want to read because I can't find it anywhere else written the way I want it. This of course changes as my tastes change. I find it interesting to see how my writing has developed, changed, and grown through the course of my writing career as I myself have grown.
I'm usually an unforgivably picky reader and I tend to not read anything in the fandoms in which I write as a general rule. I'm also an unforgivably slow writer, particularly since I don't do this for money so everything else in my life demands precedence. However, the muse responds favorably to all types of attention, including praise, criticism, gifts, and nagging.
I enjoy hearing from fans of my work, and also- since I agree that most of it could use some work- I like to hear from those who aren't precisely fans as long as they can express themselves intelligently. I appreciate people letting me know if there is a problem with any part of the site. I try to double check everything before I upload it, but I'm only human and I miss a lot. This includes broken links or even just if you noticed a typo or spelling error. Thanks!
Welcome to my site! It's mostly just my writing, but please check out whatever else there may be that interests you, and then feel free to head on out for parts unknown.
Cheers and- as always- enjoy.
Beth's Quotes to Live By:
"Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart."
-- Basil Rathbone
"The problem with reality, Elizabeth, is that it's never as good as what you imagine."
-- D, Pet Shop of Horrors
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
-- Erasmus
"It's the simple things in life you treasure."
-- Fred, Galaxy Quest
"God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him."
-- 1 John 4:16b NIV
"Do not dare not to dare."
--Aslan, The Horse and His Boy
"Your opinion of me weighs less than sunlight."
-- Illyria, Angel
"Once you've let [a work] be released, in a certain sense it doesn't belong to you anymore but to the world. Pour your heart into it, dress it up, walk it to school, and then let it go and let it take its knocks."
-- Steven R. Boyett
"We're not simple creatures. We all have God and the devil in us."
-- Frank Miller
"The intrinsic duality of human nature- our intense and perpetually antagonistic desires for, on the one hand, experiences of a sublime, elevated, purely spiritual variety and, on the other, for sensations that appeal sheerly to our earthy and even prurient selves- is a phenomenon that has posed a profound moral dilemma to philosophers throughout the ages... [T]he co-existence within the human bosom of these seemingly irreconcilable impulses suggests a novel, perhaps even heretical, idea: viz. that the cultivation of one's fullest humanity depends, not upon the suppression of either one's spiritual or sensational desires, but rather on the judicious indulgence of them both... In short, it may well be the case that, for the higher self to achieve its full fruition, the lower must be permitted its own gross, if stimulating, nourishment."
-- Nevermore, Harold Schechter
"I learned a very valuable lesson in my travels, Tucker. No matter how bad things might seem... they can't be any better, they can't be any worse, because that's the way things fucking are, and you better get used to it Nancy, quit your bitching."
-- Church, Red vs. Blue
"Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?
Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
Have you felt so proud to get at the meanings of poems?
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origins of all poems,
you shall possess the good of the earth and sun (there are millions of suns left),
You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead nor feed on the spectres in books,
You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself."
-- Walt Whitman, from "Song of Myself"