Fannish projects
Jun. 23rd, 2005 12:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaI'm thinking of implementing ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tsutanai's suggestion from way back and turning the Mirage of Blaze website I'm maintaining into a wiki, so the half dozen people I know who're reading the books right now can upload their own summaries and translations and glosses and scans and whatnot - it's all very well and good to claim that I'll do the collection and formatting but realistically there's not a snowball's chance in hell when I can't even get around to finishing my own translations, so technology and communal goodwill must need step into the breach. ^^; Suggestions for software? PHP/MySQL, easily templatable, able to handle Japanese language input and images.
The other thing I'm thinking of doing is starting an lj-comm-based zine - as perabsenceofmind's suggestion this time - for cliched original BL one-shot stories. Like BeBoy Zips or those various All Yomikiri Bimonthly Summer Special 100 Extra Pages!! phonebooks, only text-based, writing to form and dispensing with pretenses of literary merit. XD Minimum of 1500 words and one sex scene, happi endo, and if/when it takes off there can be wacky themes like Sempai Bondage Month. The authors get to have fun - if it's not the sort of thing you usually write it'd be actively challenging, I think, or at least it would be for me - and the readers get to be happy consumers. With every issue there would be a layout change centered around a faked!magazine cover in stroboscopic colours and katakana.
Anyone who's ever worked for a school paper, however, is acquainted with the fact that an amateur editor's real job is to write a whole bunch of stuff under deadline crunch and send it to print under pseudonyms to fill the gap, and we all know how well-suited I am for that role. XD;;
EDIT -- I forgot to mention that if the thought of putting your name to a story that resembles the last utterly retarded yet really hawt yomikiri scanlation you read in which a high school student who is actually a pop idol millionaire in disguise kidnaps his teacher and keeps him as a sex slave in the broom closet or something inhibits you with deep shame, you would definitely have the option of submitting anonymously, as long as you made up a fake Japanese mangaka pseudonym for the front cover. XD Bonus points for stupid puns like "Motoni Modoru".
tsutanai's suggestion from way back and turning the Mirage of Blaze website I'm maintaining into a wiki, so the half dozen people I know who're reading the books right now can upload their own summaries and translations and glosses and scans and whatnot - it's all very well and good to claim that I'll do the collection and formatting but realistically there's not a snowball's chance in hell when I can't even get around to finishing my own translations, so technology and communal goodwill must need step into the breach. ^^; Suggestions for software? PHP/MySQL, easily templatable, able to handle Japanese language input and images.The other thing I'm thinking of doing is starting an lj-comm-based zine - as per
absenceofmind's suggestion this time - for cliched original BL one-shot stories. Like BeBoy Zips or those various All Yomikiri Bimonthly Summer Special 100 Extra Pages!! phonebooks, only text-based, writing to form and dispensing with pretenses of literary merit. XD Minimum of 1500 words and one sex scene, happi endo, and if/when it takes off there can be wacky themes like Sempai Bondage Month. The authors get to have fun - if it's not the sort of thing you usually write it'd be actively challenging, I think, or at least it would be for me - and the readers get to be happy consumers. With every issue there would be a layout change centered around a faked!magazine cover in stroboscopic colours and katakana.Anyone who's ever worked for a school paper, however, is acquainted with the fact that an amateur editor's real job is to write a whole bunch of stuff under deadline crunch and send it to print under pseudonyms to fill the gap, and we all know how well-suited I am for that role. XD;;
EDIT -- I forgot to mention that if the thought of putting your name to a story that resembles the last utterly retarded yet really hawt yomikiri scanlation you read in which a high school student who is actually a pop idol millionaire in disguise kidnaps his teacher and keeps him as a sex slave in the broom closet or something inhibits you with deep shame, you would definitely have the option of submitting anonymously, as long as you made up a fake Japanese mangaka pseudonym for the front cover. XD Bonus points for stupid puns like "Motoni Modoru".
