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Wee…it’s been a while since I last posted here! Anyway, I come bearing a (small) news :)
About a month ago I was picked to be the new owner of the Raito/Light Yagami (Death Note) fanlisting, which is now up and running:

I was very happy to be approved not only because Twilight will be partnered with Ab Intra, my Light shrine, but also because Light is without a doubt one of my favourite male characters. (Blond? Check. Pretty? Check. Villain? Check. Smart? Check. How could I possibly not like him? :3)

I’m going to update Oh Poison! soon with both the about page for Light and a new round of adoptions. I still haven’t made a definitive list, but I’m looking forward to adopt out around 2/3 fanlistings.

Mirrored from Hello Jupiter.

Even though the whole injured wrist problem isn’t solved yet, I don’t have to wear a brace any more…hurrah for having my hands back :D Now that I’m finally brace-less, I managed to put together the very first update of 2012.

I took a short break from the general series shrine I’m working on, to fix a few things over Oh Poison!. Most of the changes were done to the back end, so they cannot be seen, but I also made some changes to the front end:

• the KIM script was replaced and the whole page was updated. The members list got lost during the transfer, but I luckily had a partial list on my HD (with names and email addresses) so all the KIM listers were notified and asked to re-join. Obviously everybody is free to join…all it takes a a few minutes to compile the form :)
• I did a general link check on the adopted/closed fanlistings pages as well as on the affiliates. I removed a lot of broken links in both sections. Affiliation is still open so if you have a fanlisting collective and want to exchange links with Oh Poison! contact me
• the joined page was merged with the network’s joined page so cliques, webrings, rotations and fanlistings can now be found on the same page. I also managed to show the latest fanlistings joined, something which I was never able to do with the script I previously used

Talking about single fanlistings…the Sora fanlisting was moved from http://sora.sohryu.nu to http://fan.sohryu.nu/sora/. While I still plan to make the shrine (the reason why I originally put the fanlisting on a subdomain when I opened it years ago), I prefer to keep all my fanlistings under the same directory and separated from their respective shrines, as I already did with Nocturne and Blitzartig.

Mirrored from Hello Jupiter.

Sohryu Projects was updated to reflect all the sites updates I did starting from my graduation, back in April, up to now. All the sites under the high and mid priority categories were moved under the low priority category, while sites formerly on low priority have now become either high, or mid priority.

Let’s start from the new low priority sites. Here is a quick run-down of what I did during the past months and what is the current situation of the following sites:

• I Miss You: HD screencaps from The Nightmare Before Christmas were added to Silhouette.
• Odi et Amo: the biography section, along with a few other sections such as quotes or episode guide, was updated to cover all the 26 episodes of the series. Contrary to what I had originally planned, no new pages were added in this update. I did however do a complete link check and all the pages in story section feature caps.
• Shades of Grey: watched season 3 and re-watched season 2 to gather material for new pages.
• Weird: Weird, Sohryu.nu‘s new entry, is, like all the previous shrines, on low priority…mainly because I’ve just opened it and it will be a while before I update it since other shrines come first.

The situation of active and inactive sites hasn’t changed. Oh Poison!, Hello Jupiter, Navi, The Wired are all active. Nymph and :nocture:: instead, are still inactive as is Project E. Project E was actually meant to be on high priority. However, although I have many Evangelion-related projects on my to-do list, right now my focus is going to be on a certain Final Fantasy game…. Sohryu.nu is inactive as well, as I said before it will remain in this status until two or three shrines are 100% complete.

The new high and mid-priority sites are:

• Blitzartig: I have two Final Fantasy VIII-related projects on which I’m currently working, so I figured it is a good occasion to update Blitzartig with new pages and/or media.
• Ab Intra: Light’s shrine is very incomplete and I’d like to add a few pages (probably the ones I had already began to draft, but couldn’t finish for the marathon’s deadline).
• Silhouette: with Weird and I Miss You images added to the gallery, Silhouette‘s status is quite good. There is still a lot of media content from the other shrines to be added of course, but that’s not going to happen now. What I plan to do instead, is to give this site a facelift with a slightly more elaborate layout.

Also…I finally got around to make the status buttons and add them to all the sites on the network (I was supposed to have them already up before launching Sohryu Projects…*cough*…small delay ^_^;;;). The buttons are meant to be a quick indicator of each site’s current status. You can visit any of the links above to see them in action…or just take a look at Hello Jupiter‘s sidebar ;)

Mirrored from Hello Jupiter.

Short preamble: I was supposed to publish this post back in September, but then I got busy with some IRL stuff so…I forgot it -__- Anyway, here it is now.

Since the last update two marathons were held at Amassment and, needless to say, I participated to both of them. I combined the results of these marathons in one post since they both dealt with shrines.

For the banner trade marathon the following shrines received new buttons: Ab Intra; I Miss You; Nymph; Odi et Amo; Shades of Grey; Weird. A special thanks goes to Ava; Crystal; Destinie; dubiousdisc; Juhi; Michelle; and Stefi who donated the buttons.

For the link drive meme instead, many shrines of mine either received new affiliates or made link exchanges with other shrines. Here is the complete list:

• Ab Intra is affiliated with Artificial Sweetener, a Misa Amane shrine.
• Blitzartig, Nocturne and Nymph exchanged links with 1000 Words; All Creation; Roses Have Thorns; Royal Crown and Wishing Star.
• Nymph also has two “old school” affiliates: Somewhere Only We Know is a Sabin’s (Final Fantasy VI) shrine and This Fateful Hour is a Magus (Chrono Trigger) shrine.
• Odi et Amo exchanged links with two couple shrines: Everything to Gain (Kyouya/Haruhi from Ouran Koukou Host Club) and For All it’s Worth (Jyou/Mimi from Digimon).
• Shades of Grey is affiliated with Silent Lucidity, a shrine dedicated to Boomer/Athena from the Battlestar Galactica series.

Outside the link meme, but still regarding affiliation, Nocturne was affiliated with Lunar Shadow, Brittany’s Yuna shrine, which I already had on my link list.

All the shrines mentioned above have also been added on The Wired. I may left out one or two sites, but they will be added soon because I’m planning to do a quick link update/cleaning in between the other things I have on my (incredibly long) to-do list. (Sigh…so much to do, so little time ;__;).

Fanlistings affiliations (both done trough the meme and outside the meme) will be covered in another post (along with some *tentative* adoptions…maybe :P).

Mirrored from Hello Jupiter!.

After many years spent giving away many of my fanlistings and making a huge downsize operation, I happened to come across two removed fanlistings I couldn’t resist to apply for. And I was lucky enough to be approved for both /yay for me :D But first a short announcement regarding an old fanlisting.

Browsing :tfl:, I noticed a change in Aeris/Aerith’s “official” name. The name now adopted is no longer Aeris, but Aerith. After all Aeris it was used only in the English version of Final Fantasy VII, while Aerith was adopted in all the other :ffvii:-related videogames. In order to reflect this change I moved the fanlisting and it can now be found at: http://fan.sohryu.nu/aerith.

Members still have to be notified about the change, but I have already sent an update info form so the change should soon be made official :) I didn’t change the codes, though. I know some fans want to use Aeris so I left the codes with “Aeris” as they were, at least for now. I haven’t decided yet whether to change them or make a few new batches of codes with different images.

And now for the new fanlistings…

Archimage, the first fanlisting, is dedicated to Rydia and it is partnered with my Rydia shrine, :nymph:. I was actually approved a few months ago (April, I think), but I never plugged it because…*cough* the layout was terribly hideous =__= Or rather, I didn’t have enough time to properly finish it and it ended up being quite rough. It looked as if something was missing so a few days ago I decided to improve it and I’m now very pleased with the outcome!

I also added two new series of buttons, in all the common sizes: 50×50, 75×50, 88×31, 100×35 and 100×50.

The second fanlisting, Bin Bons, is dedicated to British actor Ben Barnes, who you might know for his role of Prince Caspian (and later King Caspian), in the Narnia film series. Since I spent most of August making buttons for :amassment:’s Banner Trade Meme¹, I didn’t have enough time to make many buttons in all the sizes usually used. I did however make 10 buttons in both 50×50 and 75×50 and, of course, I plan to add matching buttons in all the other sizes very soon.

Both fanlistings are open to affiliation requests so if you own a related fanlisting (:finfan: series/characters for Rydia; general actors, films in which Ben has starred or characters related to the ones he portrayed on screen), mail me :)

:ohpoison:’s owned page has been updated to include these new fanlistings and each of them has its own about page. Speaking of :ohpoison:…remember to sign up on my KIM list if you would be interested in running any of the fanlistings I own.

I must say I’m satisfied with the ones I now have in my collective, but with these recent, wonderful, approvals I might let one or two go. And even if I don’t do it now, people on my KIM list always have first dib. I don’t normally post at the :tfl: board if I already have a good number of people interested so getting listed definitely improves your chances of being chosen in a future adoption scenario ;)

1. Awesome meme by the way, I wonder what was I doing last year at the time it was held…:/ [↩]

Mirrored from Hello Jupiter.