Wellll, look what we have here. A poorly reasoned, generalized, and mostly false attack. How fucking beautiful. Let's begin.

Jeff, this strikes me as hilarious for several reasons. First, you have had kurai on your links page for a good long time. I really never knew why, I mean, your links are your business, and I won't be surprised if you removed me after this. But I'll be cool with that, if you don't like me, there's no reason for you to link me, is there? Second, I did not create that layout. One of my best, most talented friends, Sally, created it. She is a web design genius, and for you to rip on her work just because you can't reach her level is absurd. To act as though it signifies some sort of pretension is even more absurd.

I have no HTML skills. Kurai's current layout, which, as you can see, is the epitome of simplicity, was made with Netscape Composer. All of my own designs are made with Netscape Composer, and they are all very, very simple. I try to make them look aesthetically pleasing, but I just don't have the time or really the desire to create works of art like my friend Sally. Writing is what I'm at. If you don't like my writing, that's cool. Not everyone is going to, and I'm alright with that. I mean, what the hell am I going to do about it? I can't force anyone to like me, after all. All I can do is try to work harder and get better.

But if you have something to say, you have the fucking BALLS to say it to my FACE and not go behind MY BACK like a fucking PANSY (sorry, I had to let that bit of uncontrollable rage escape). But I'm digressing. Let's get back to the beginning.

You act as though that layout represented some sort of pretension. Possibly you thought this of my previous layouts, many of which were made by friends (who are brilliant with designs). That 'kickass' artwork is, as I'm sure you know, all fanart of my work (one work, actually). I asked Sally to create a layout for me and I told her she could do whatever fancy business she wanted as long as she used my characters, 'cause I know complete artistic freedom makes her happy, as it does anyone. And she created that, and it was good, and it was beautiful, and after much struggling I got it up and how she wanted it. I want to know what the fuck you were talking about with 'pretentious diatribe.' I don't think my quiet little welcome message fit the bill. Here's a cap of the layout so you can refresh yourself on what it said.

And, if you had REALLY read through Kurai, you would have found that I am not a fan of Internet Explorer at all, and in fact, neither is Sally. We are both hardk0re Netscape users. But I use Communicator 4.0 because I'm a reactionary bitch who refuses to upgrade and Sally uses 6.0. So, that shoots down your assumption that this layout was made for the consumption of IE users. Second, my computer, while equipped with a beautiful cable modem, is very old and very slow. He chokes often. He did not choke on that layout, he swallowed it quite nicely. Most computers should. It was a lot of frames, but it was done as effectively as possible while keeping the integrity of the images, because Sally is awesome like that.

Third, the front page is the only page of any complication, if you think such a complication exists. All the subpages take you out of the frameset, and are simple and lead you directly to where you need to go. I run over ten pages, and most of them are squirming with contenty goodness, or, at least, I like to think they are. I firmly believe that you could spend several hours reading all the crap on Kurai. Whether you enjoy it or not is a different question. =P

As for Reve's page.. I don't think I presented that as anything but nonsense. I, personally, do not consider stream of consciousness to be a valid form of fiction, unless your name is James Joyce. Reve's page is a page for Reve to spout off on whatever he wants to spout off about, and of course it's me spouting off too, because all my characters are extensions of myself, somewhat. Reve happens to have opinions that are very close to mine, which is one of the reasons why I let him have his space, because it would be easy for me to get through. It's not valid writing, it's just babble, and nothing I'd submit to be anything of merit. It's also not very long, so I don't know where you getting that 'pages and pages' nonsense from, and there is never any lecturing. The latter half is composed entirely of his angsting over his ickle past.

Now, onto your nonsense about cliques. Pardon my vulgarity, but what the fuck is your problem? I'm in hardly any cliques myself, and I simply arranged the code like I was told to arrange it. There is nothing artsy or elite about the text formatting, I kind of like how it looks myself. You INFERRED that YOURSELF. Stop making moronic assumptions, especially when they're over such petty shit as how a cliques page is arranged. For God's sake.

As to why I have a domain: well, unlike your supremely special self (who seems to have an ad free account), I don't have many other options. I don't want ads, and I want to be free to place whatever content up that I choose. Thus, I got a domain. I got mine when they were still expensive, but the fact is that domains are extremely cheap now. It really doesn't take that much out of your pocketbook to own one. And you know what? I know that people read my work. I don't think that's a pretentious or egotistical statement. They do. Regardless of how much they like it, what it means to them, or whether they'll be coming back, they read it. Regardless of its quality, they read it. Sure, not millions of people. Not even thousands, probably not even hundreds. But a good amount, an amount that satisfies me. I do it for them, and I do it for myself, and I own a domain so that I can do it with as much control and as much freedom as I like.

Now, I know you were making a general attack. But you picked a person who does almost none of what you claim I do. The only bit of my writing you ripped on was the stuff that's just brain spewage. Why don't you discuss Claris, or Clarity, or Karma Slave, or the work in the garden, or the work in Fatal, or my fanfiction, or my poetry? Why not them? Or did you just pretend they don't exist? I'm not saying they're great work, but they are a great deal more coherent than Reve's slice, I think.

And worse, by picking on that layout, you picked on a friend, a close friend, because it's her creation. And you do not fucking go there with me. You DO NOT.

So, in summation:
If you don't like me, don't link me. If you don't like me, tell me to my face. I'm not a fucking two year old. If you don't like me, AT LEAST rip on things I DO instead of general CRAP. AND if you don't like me, DON'T talk about things that MY FRIENDS do. Alright? Alright.