I've been meaning to put this section in here forever. I never seemed to get the chance to... Heh. OK, well, for those of you who like to e-mail me and ask me about myself, here you go! A page all about StarFire!

• StarFire's Bio A bio done in the style of those on the character pages, with a few things added, and a few taken away. More about StarFire than you probably wanted to know.
• StarFire's & The Mattousai's Big Announcement! Some of my older visitors know this already, but it's here for those of you who don't!
• StarFire's Identity Crisis A few of my stranger quirks...
• StarFire vs. Star-fire: Battle To The Death! StarFire's name rant... Don't worry, it's short!
• Say What?! StarFire's Anime Emoticons In Action Confused by all the =^_^='s, -_-()'s, and o.O's? Find out just what StarFire is always trying to say with those weird symbols!!
• StarFire's All-Time Favorites Want to see a list of some of StarFire's favorite stuff? Ranging from favorite anime series, to favorite seiyuu, Jpop groups, and anime characters, this is some of the stuff that makes StarFire a happy, happy person. (Most of the time.)
• StarFire's Computer a.k.a. "The POS ToastMaster™ 5000 Plus". Find out how her computer got it's highly interesting nickname...
• Contact StarFire How to get in touch with StarFire...
  
  

StarFire's Bio

Name:  StarFire (I know that's not my real name. But it's what you can call me.) Birthday:  January 28, 1981 Age:  You figure it out. Astrological Sign:  Aquarius Blood Type:  O Height:  5'6"-ish Eye Color:  Dark brown Hair Length/Color:  Very long, wavy, and subject to drastic and sudden color changes (previous colors have been neon pink-, dark green-, turquoise-, and navy blue-streaked)... Currently back to somewhat-normal very dark brown with reddish highlights...

Hobbies:  Anything with her computer, HTML, maintaining her various sites, Photoshop, reading, and writing Favorite Color(s):  Dark blue, silver, black School Attending:  Graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh Major:  Multimedia / Web Design Degree Acquired: Associate of Specialized Technology Favorite Subject:  Anything involving HTML or Photoshop Least Favorite Subject:  Math. I suck at it. And gym. I suck at that too. Favorite Food:  Chinese food (General Tso's chicken!!), anything with chicken, chocolate, mint chocolate-chip or pistachio ice cream, and baked potatoes with all the fixin's Least Favorite Food:  Asparagus (makes me gag) Excels At:  Photoshop, web design (so I'm told), and learning languages (computer or spoken - I pick up both pretty quickly) Likes:  My fiancé the Mattousai (::BIG hug::), cats, typing, penguins, computers, my evil little kitten Mouse, anime, and web design Dislikes:  Spiders (I'm incredibly arachnaphobic), mean people, needles, X-rays (make me nauseous) Favorite Gemstone:  Diamond, dark sapphires, and garnets. Favorite Metal:  Platinum, silver (HATE yellow gold, and am allergic to white gold) Web History:  I started my very first site, the predecessor to this one (Sailor StarFire's Sailor Moon Page), back when I was a sophomore in high school, in 1995/96. (I started building it in 95, but didn't advertise or make it very public until more around 96.) Since then I've loved web design. I attended college for it, and have two part-time jobs in it, one as a freelancer for The Immuexa Corporation, and one redeisgning the website of a church I attend. I now have more sites than I know what to do with, and co-run a multimedia site that receives around 300 hits a day (Anime Revolution). I'm still looking for full-time web work, but I don't think I'll ever stop doing things with my existing sites. I love making new ones, too, so expect to see a bunch of things in the future.

So you've been all over FMOCT and you thought it was only one person running the page... But you keep stumbling across sentences that say "StarFire decided to share her creations with fellow Sailormoon fans"... You figure, "So, if StarFire decided to, it must mean there's someone else doing the writing for that part..." Confused? OK, yes, I often speak in the third person. I can't help it. (I even do it in real life! -_-() My friends have all gotten used to it by now, I think. =^_^=) Unfortunately, sometimes I'll switch to third person in the middle of a sentence or paragraph. Sorry if I confuse people! It is only me running the page. =^_^= Also, I don't know if it's because of the way I act or talk or what, but some people have been e-mailing me lately (which I don't mind, don't worry! =^_^=) asking what gender I am. Despite my tendency toward saying "she" instead of "I", I just want to clarify that I am, in fact, of the female part of our species, that being the human race (for most of us, anyway). =^_^=

This might seem a little childish, but I'm sick of people getting my name wrong. It's StarFire, all one word, S and F are capitalized. Not Starfire, Star Fire, Star-fire, or Starfighter (as I've gotten a few times). Please take the time to spell it right!! You have no idea how much this bugs me! It's a weird thing for me to go ballistic over, but trust me - it makes me nuts. It's another of my quirks. There are a few people who call me different things (such as my friend Rosey who calls me "Sutaa-chan"), and that doesn't bother me, but I hate people spelling my name wrong. So unless you type in all lowercase letters constantly (which I do on some of my sites, though usually I still spell StarFire capitalized), I'd appreciate people spelling StarFire correctly if you're going to talk to me or about me. Thank you!

Emoticons are graphic representations of expressions and feelings people put on their pages. If you've explored pretty much any portion of any of my sites, you'll notice that I tend to use a lot of them. (In this layout, I've edited out many of them in an attempt to make the site a bit more professional...) My personal favorite is the cat face. =^_^= I know a lot of people familiar with anime pages will probably be able to figure most of these out, but for those still confused, I've compiled a little list of the various emoticons you'll find on my pages, along with descriptions of what they're supposed to mean... -_-()

• =^_^= The traditional anime-kitty-smiley-face. I use this one a lot. (It's hilarious when I'm trying to write a "real" letter - I always want to put one in, but it just doesn't work out quite as well on paper...besides, I don't think my aunt would have any clue what it was supposed to be. -_-()) This is the all-purpose anime emoticon you've probably seen on any number of pages on the net. There are about 400 variations of this one, ranging from >^_^< to ^_^ to ^.^ and many, many more.
  
  
• = -_^= The winking anime-kitty-smiley-face. Pretty self explanatory...
  
  
• -_- This one confuses a lot of people. It's sort of like the cat face with the eyes squinted shut. Basically, it's the expression most people would have on their faces when they're saying, "D'oh!" or "Oh, man!" This can also go with a sheepish sort of smile. Heh.
  
  
• T_T - This is a more unusual emoticon. This is supposed to be a crying face, showing extreme sadness or disappointment. (The tops of the T's are the eyes closed, and the bottom of the T's is supposed to be tears.) Often in anime, characters that are crying are shown with two big round tears suspended from their eyes. (A lot of times they'll swing like pendulums on a clock.)
  
  
• o.O - Another confusing one. This is basically the equivalent of raising your eyebrow really high. Generally accompanied with the comment, "Ohhhh my..." or "Did he/she/I really just do that?!"
  
  
• () - The anime "sweatdrop". The sweatdrop usually appears on a character when they're in a state of disbelief, chagrin, or when something weird or funny happens onscreen. (A lot of times the character will "facefault," or fall over, twitch, or shoot off into the air to bounce around the room as a more extreme reaction to tension.) This is usually shown with another of the above emoticons to show extra emotion... There are quite a few variations of this one as well, ranging from =^_^=; to -_-i and the like. More than one sweatdrop means that much more emotion.
  
  

Well, I hope this helped you understand what I'm trying to say, at least a little... It's kind of difficult to explain them, but a lot easier to just use them.

Interested in some of StarFire's favorite things? Here's a few lists of my "favorites" (in no particular order...except where Ogata-sama is involved!) This is by no means a comprehensive list of my favorites, just some of them as they came to mind. (Hey and it even includes a few LEAST favorites...)

Favorite Favorite People of All Time

• My fiancé the Mattousai
• Ogata Megumi-sama
• Creeby (you know her as ChibiCree!)

Favorite Anime Series

• Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon
• Card Captor Sakura
• Saber Marionette J, J-X
• Yu Yu Hakusho
• Rurouni Kenshin
• Kyuuketsuki Miyu (TV)
• Shoujo Kakumei Utena
• Haunted Junction
• Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040

Favorite Anime Characters

• Tenoh Haruka / Sailoruranus (Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon)
• Kurama (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Tsukishiro Yukito (Card Captor Sakura)
• Yue (Card Captor Sakura)
• Kenshin (Rurouni Kenshin)

Favorite Seiyuu (Voice Actors)

• Ogata Megumi (Sailoruranus - Sailormoon, Tsukishiro Yukito - Card Captor Sakura, Kurama - Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Koyasu Takehito (Hotohori - Fushigi Yugi, Aya - Weiß Kreuz, Hanagata - Saber Marionette)
• Mitsuishi Kotono (Sailormoon - Sailormoon, Katsuragi Misato - Evangelion, Arisugawa Juri - Utena, Excel - Excel Saga )
• Tomokazu Seki (Ken - Weiß Kreuz, Kinomoto Touya - Card Captor Sakura)
• Shiratori Yuri (Mokona - Rayearth, Yukina - Yu Yu Hakusho, Cherry - Saber Marionette, Nanami - Utena)
• Orikasa Ai (Ryoko - Tenchi, Quatre Winner - Gundam W, Shizuru - Yu Yu Hakusho)

Favorite Jpop Artists (Solo)

• Ogata Megumi / ém:óu
• Hamasaki Ayumi
• T.M. Revolution
• Aikawa Nanase
• Hitomi
• Sakamoto Maaya
• Utada Hikaru
• BoA Kpop
• Onitsuka Chihiro
• MINMI

Favorite Jpop Artists (Groups)

• Porno Graffiti
• Surface
• MOVE
• V6 (20th Century & Coming Century)
• S.E.S. Kpop
• Two-Mix
• Malice Mizer
• Earth
• MAX
• Janne da Arc

Favorite Non-Japanese Artists

• Metallica
• Creed
• Staind
• Linkin Park
• Sarah Brightman
• Enya
• Dido
• Natalie Imbruglia
• Savage Garden
• Godsmack
• Nickelback

Favorite Non-Anime TV Shows

• WWE SmackDown! / RAW (how gay is the whole WWE thing? - this is the new ritual for the Mattousai and I - chill every Monday and Thursday night and watch sweaty men grapple in skin-tight Speedos... Wait, that just makes it sound so much nastier than it is...)
• Whose Line Is It Anyway? (either US or British version, but esp. US)
• So Graham Norton
• Charmed So what if it's a little corny? I still like it.
• Trading Spaces / Changing Rooms / While You Were Out / Surprise By Design
• Monty Python's Flying Circus (even as only reruns it's hilarious)
• Pretty much anything on Discovery, TLC, The History Channel, or BBC America
• Forensic science shows like FBI Files, The New Detectives, and such

WWE Superstars (Why? Because it's my page and I can.)

• Triple H (LOVE him!)
• The Rock (he's hilarious)
• RVD (absolutely tons of fun to watch - some of the moves he can do...!)
• Stone Cold Steve Austin (used to piss me off, but now he's funny...What?)
• Maven (he's gotten sooooooo much better)
• Al Snow
• Randy Orton
• Lita & the Hardy Boyz
• Bubba Ray Dudley

LEAST Favorite WWE Superstars

• Kurt Angle
• Chris Jericho
• Christian
• Tajiri (used to be on my fav. list cuz of his awesome moves, but he's turned into a punk)
• The Undertaker (sold out and now stupid)
• Chris Jericho
• The NwO
• Stephanie McMahon
• Billy & Chuck and their damn "stylist" (his name escapes me, but the only memorable thing about him anyway is his dead-animal sideburns)
• Chris Jericho
• D-Von Dudley (dumb as a box of rocks)
• Vince McMahon
• Paul Heyman & Brock Lesnar
• Ric Flair
• Chris Jericho
• Anyone who hangs out with Chris Jericho

Ogata-sama Songs (just to make the obsession as complete as possible... o.O())

• "Sunrise, Sunset"
• Breath
• Hit Man
• Jitensha ni Notte (Card Captor Sakura Yukito image song)
• Koori no Knife wo Daite (Yu Yu Hakusho Kurama image song)
• Mermaid Dream
• Wine Red no Kokoro
• "Dear, My Angel"
• Kaze ni Naru

Anime Songs (subject to sudden change as I get sick of old ones)

• Chou! GALS: Kotobuki Ran - A-i-tsu (sung by Dicot)
• Shin Megami Tensei - Go-Round (sung by Itou Nao)
• Iketeru Futari - Fall In You (sung by Kimura Yuki)
• Gokudou-kun Manyuuki - Wake Up! (sung by Chisato)
• Gensomaden Saiyuki - Open Up Your Mind (sung by Mirai)
• Senkaiden Houshin Engi - Will (sung by Yonekura Chihiro)
• Jungle no Ouja Tarchan - Heart no Keijou
• Inu-Yasha - My Will (sung by Dream)
• Ayashi no Ceres - Scarlet
• Ojamajo Do-Re-Mi - Ojamajo Carnival (sung by MAHO)
• Berserk - Gaats (mostly-instrumental piece)
• Violinist of Hamelin - Kizudarake no Tsubasa
• Card Captor Sakura - Catch You, Catch Me
• Yu Yu Hakusho - Hohoemi no Bakudan

Interested in StarFire's computer? Nicknamed "The POS ToastMaster™ 5000 Plus" (because, in StarFire's phraseology, "It wants to be a toaster," which means that it's a piece of crap that freezes all the time and gives her system errors - though some people think StarFire is surrounded by a strange magnetic field of some sort that interferes with all electronic devices she goes near...), her computer has served her fairly well for all the beatings she's given it. StarFire takes multitasking on her poor Dell to a whole new level. Though now it has reason to run better (even though it doesn't), since StarFire's Dad took pity on her and bought her and the Mattousai upgrades for their computers... (OK, so it was more like he was out buying upgrades for the family computer and just happened to think of us as well. ::hugs::)

(Oh, and incidentally, in case you were wondering, it's set on "Extra Dark" at the moment. StarFire is thoroughly convinced that one of these days the blue screen of death will appear with the following message: IRRECOVERABLE DISK ERROR: Please eject contents of CD-ROM tray and insert slice of bread. This program will now terminate all existing operations on your computer. CAUTION: Metal surface is hot. Do not touch.)

But, alas for StarFire's little sister, since StarFire just got a shiny NEW computer (which still acts like a punk), she got saddled with the original POS ToastMaster. Happy fragging, Schmoo.

*Yes, even though this is no longer, THE POS ToastMaster™ 5000 Plus, I feel the name must simply be carried on into eternity in remembrace of my old piece of crap that now belongs to my little sister.

Need to get in touch with StarFire? Have a question, suggestion, or complaint about the site? Want to report a broken link? Here's how you can get in touch with me! (Please be constructive in your criticism - don't e-mail me and say, "Your site sucks," and then don't tell me why. If you have a problem, please tell me, because chances are others are having the same problem, and I'll try to fix it.)

E-mail: Sailor_StarFire18@yahoo.com
E-mail: StarFire@kazeninaru.net (not working temporarily - best bet is above)

ICQ: 38974687

AIM: sailorstarfire19

NOTE TO ICQ & AIM USERS - I'm almost NEVER on ICQ. No, really. If you've tried contacting me on ICQ and I haven't written back, it's because I don't even have the stupid thing on my computer anymore. I wiped my drive and never bothered to re-download it. I'm not shunning you, I promise. I'm usually on invisible on AIM, since I hate being bugged by random people, but if I should miraculously be online and visible, feel free to talk to me. Just say something right off the bat about the site - like, "Hi, StarFire! I visit your site(s)!" or something, so I don't think you're some random freak talking to me about nothing. I get a lot of those...