The Mommy Safe Award

As some of you know, as soon as I moved back home for the summer of '98, I began to have problems with the parental units. My parents have many good qualities, and are usually very generous & supportive...but this whole web diary thing brought out their worst fears: that someone was going to stalk me & that I was too loose & degraded to care much. This culminated in early May, when a huge fight ended with my promise to take down my webpage to avoid stalkers & other upstanding Netizens. After 3 weeks of sulking, I eventually removed my diary, the picture of me in a PVC dress & anything even remotely suggestive. The page you're seeing now is thus Tisiphone's Aerie: The Mommy Safe Versh.

And then I thought, Hey! Why don't I use this cute little bunny graphic to designate sites that my Mom would find amusing & non-threatening? And my very first award was born...



Requirements to join:

  1. you must have a webpage (well, duh)
  2. said webpage must not mention sex except in a highly abstracted & repressed Jane Austen/Queen Victoria way
  3. said webpage must not be needlessly violent (intelligent violence is okay...she once sat through A Clockwork Orange twice in one day)
  4. said webpage must be funny & endearing (no exceptions)
  5. said webpage must not be Satanist, Pagan, Scientologist, Jehovah's Witnesses-esque or even Mormon. Judaism is best, although intelligent & non-hysterical Christianity is also good.
  6. said webpage should be more-or-less heterosexual or at least closeted...although this is not a hard & fast requirement
  7. even if your webpage meets all of these requirements, I may reject it for just not feeling right.

Sound exacting? Well, you don't live with her, do you?

If you think you have what it takes, please mail me your URL. If you pass (and I'll try to give you as much latitude as possible, believe me), you'll be added to the exclusive Mommy Safe List which follows:



The Mommy Disapproves Award

Too much for you? Well, you can always apply for the alternate award: The Mommy Disapproves Award. The requirements for this award are merely 2 in number:

  1. you must have a webpage (you'd be surprised how many people don't consider this a base requirement) and
  2. you must run a web page that my mother would disapprove of.

This can be for a variety of reasons. You will automatically get this award if you don't make the rigorous standards of the Mommy Safe award, although you can always decline to accept. But why not be proud that my mom doesn't approve of you? God knows that she doesn't approve of me...

View a list of current recipients of this prestigious award before you decide...there may be real undesirables here, you know! Three recipients as of November 29, 1998. Yes, three!!


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And those of you without images can pick & choose between
{front hall} {about me} {guestroom}
{library} {backdoor}

Visuals by FullMoon Graphics, except for the Varga Girl, which I lifted from a specialty magnet site.

You are the th person to care since the 1998 Vernal Equinox, and I love you for it.

tisiphone@oocities.com