Okay, I made it

bb_shousetsu

There's nothing there at the moment. I called it Shousetsu Bang*Bang, actually, because well. Spade's a spade. Not what I'd've picked but it's by popular acclaim, and I like. The graphic design possibilities are vast, as are the stupid catchphrase possibilities. Oneshot? Two shots!

...I have to make rules. ^^; Lower bound of 1500 words and one sex scene (at least a soft R) still stands, mostly because I think one'd need at least 1500 words to write a decently descriptive sex scene to begin with. XD; No strict upper bound, but a novel is not a oneshot. Happy end rule is more like a strongly suggested guideline, because I think 95% of the oneshots I've ever read are happi endo. Wacky mangaka pseudonyms are for style points. No limit on numbers of stories submitted, if you're the sort of writer who can turn out two or three of these a week knock yourself out and know that I hate you on principle. Eventually if I start getting dozens of submissions a week like a real magazine I might start exerting some form of editorial - no, who the hell am I kidding, I'm way too lazy. No theme to begin with. Shota is okay, furry mpreg is okay, non-con orgies with elves are okay, it's all okay. Today is June 24 so the first issue will come out on August 24, and everything I receive before then will appear in said issue. Please comment here if you intend to participate, just so I know how many stories to expect. Also, join comm so I can bug you with announcements.

How to format an issue? Now that's a question. fst style, where everyone is responsible for posting their own entry within a given time period? But I do want to compile an "issue", with all the content going up at the same time, and each story has to be a separate entry because they'd have to be memoried by author afterward. Except if I post ten entries all at once, wouldn't that flood people's flists? Would people mind their flists getting flooded? Something to consider.

The computer

AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH

...Okay. (This will only be of interest to dipping_sauce but) I've pinpointed the problem: something's corrupted msimg32.dll, which is a library of elemental GUI functions. Over the weekend it went from working to "not found". Even when I run Windows XP repair from the CD, essentially reinstalling Windows, it refuses to copy that one specific file.

Programs that do not consider msimg32.dll mission-critical work fine. SmartFTP is one of them. Thus everything is currently being backed up to a temp folder on the Dansanna site server in preparation for me reformatting the bloody hard drive and starting from scratch, because I just cannot be arsed. Now taking bets on whether I can get the scanner to work afterward.

Should never have turned off System Restore. (But that was necessary to get Norton working after Danny overwrote it. So really this is all HIS fault. >:E *casts about for scapegoats*)