Fannish projects

[petronia]

I'm thinking of implementing 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".

Comments

[akatonbo.livejournal.com]

Not only would I read that LJ comm, I might even actually be able to write for it. XD

[perseid.livejournal.com]

*raising hand* oh yeah, i'd subscribe. ^^

[akatonbo.livejournal.com]

...I would write cliched pr0n just so that I could HAVE a Japanese mangaka name that was actually a horrible pun. XD

[dipping_sauce]

Bonus points for stupid puns like "Motoni Modoru".

I only speak the English, please to be explaining.

(And the comm idea sounds great! I'd be tempted to submit stuff, if you did set it up ^_^ )

[quixotic-sense.livejournal.com]

I'd join in. :D

[akatonbo.livejournal.com]

*looks it up out of curiosity* Oh, that IS a bad pun.

元に戻る (moto ni modoru) apparently = (roughly) return to the beginning

But then, sometimes I think half the reason why I enjoy Japanese is the puns. (Says the girl who now uses 23801 when I need some random digits to tack onto a password, and I don't even really like brotherslash.)

[sjdr.livejournal.com]

Mediawiki (http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/).

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

You know I'm in for Shota Month. Wait no, every month is Shota Month and Animal Month. And, and probably others.

[starlighter.livejournal.com]

[sesame-seed.livejournal.com]

In if you are. :)

[tokkitsu.livejournal.com]

I'd so write if I didn't have problems writing even 500 word drabbles. But I'd definitely follow it, yes. <3 XD

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

XD I see you have solved the oft-bemoaned problem of your lack of non-elevated inspiration? And the possibility of pseudonymity.

[twylise.livejournal.com]

I'd sign up for sure! BL manga cliches are da bomb! XD

[smurfmatic.livejournal.com]

Bleh. To me, it's as if you ceased to exist, as I don't see you in person, and all your online life relates to fandom....

Ok, for wikis, I'm not sure, but I can tell you which one I've been a user of... At CTF, we have Twiki (http://www.twiki.org/), but it's suited for small companies rather. At one of my labs, we had something called SnipSnap (http://www.twiki.org/). Indeed, like the person who suggested MediaWiki, maybe you can find something on SourceForge that's being thoroughly used. That's that.

-C

[ayatsujik.livejournal.com]

Mirage website wiki! Brilliance! Ditto for bad pr0n pesudonym LJ-zine. Count me in if you do for both. ♥

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't complain! How is this surprising when the basis of our friendship essentially consists of eating out and you are on the other side of the planet! But I will make a post about what I have been doing this week JUST FOR YOU.

[lazulisong.livejournal.com]

Dude, I'd totally contribute.

[smurfmatic.livejournal.com]

:D