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December 23rd, 2005
stepps
 | 10:33 am
Warning from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) femmequixotic's journal: According to </a></b></a>estepheia, a hacker's going in and setting loose a Trojan virus in archives that run efiction. So if you're using it (and I know a couple of you are), you better check your author list to see if shader has registered. More details here.
I thought it was relevant, and better to be cautious. icybeach, I will be emailing this to you as well, in case you don't see it here.
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August 17th, 2005
icybeach
 | 09:52 am - BM.net Archive Beta Launch!
Finally! Yes, finally the archives will be opened. But before we do if officially, we'd like our members to gain access first and beta it for us :)
Archives
We'd love it if you could read a fic, review it, and generally look at the archive and see if anything could be different.
The official launch will be next Sunday, if nothing goes wrong.
We currently know of one problem, and that is that an empty warning window pops up when you click a fic. This came up after I changed the rating system (G/PG/PG-13/R/NC-17 is not allowed, since it's in private property and other archives out there have had problems with this).
Please let us know what you think in this thread: Beta Launch (if you can't access, try going to the forums and look there under Moste Potente).
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/confused.gif) confused
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February 16th, 2005
kait2289
 | 03:06 pm - BM News Update!
Forum News:
We received only one entry for the BM.net Valentines Fic Challenge. It’s called Bitter Chocolate by the very special (and appreciated) Gem Dandi. Please read and review, and think about participating in our next challenge. So far deense has a goal of four entries next time! Please help us achieve this.
In honor of Valentine’s Day, and because stepps loves rare pairs, she'd like to draw your attention to the Snape Rare Pairings thread. You can discuss your feelings for rare pairs, but also if you really love one pair in particular, don't hesitate to create a thread specifically for that ship.
Member News:
Sticky Chocolate Cakes With Lots Of Candles for deense and RedShira! Deense turned 29 on Saturday the 12th, and RedShira turned 25 on Valentine's Day. We hope you both had great days!
Alas, we have no new victims members this week. Pimp us to your friends, in your forum signatures, and in your LJ user info! Buttons for linking to us will be made available shortly, or by PMing Icybeach, or by leaving a comment to this post.
If anyone should have anything they think should be highlighted in an update like this, please PM Steppenwolf or email steppenwolf at bewitchedmind dot com.
Have a good week Bewitched Minds!
Current Mood: informative
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February 9th, 2005
stepps
| 11:04 am - BM.net News Update
Forum News:
Bewitched Mind has passed the 100 members mark! This is exciting because it means that we are still growing. Look forward to the 133 mark, and then the 300 mark!
The BM.net Valentines Fic Challenge deadline (Friday 11th Feb) is fast approaching. Please have your entries to deense, icybeach, hazyjayne, or kait2289 by then.
A current hot topic is Snape! Be my Valentine... What does Severus think of Valentine's Day and romance?
Archive News:
Sigune has given us permission to archive all of her Snape-centric fanfiction! icybeach in particular is very excited about this. Other authors that have given us permission to archive their work are snapesforte and awelkin (Catherine), and of cause our own Icy.
Member News:
gretchystretchy receives a Sticky Chocolate Cake With Lots Of Candles this week because she turned 16 on Tuesday! Best wishes from the Bewitched Minds, Gretchy. Another birthday of note is Arthur Weasley's, which was posted on JKRowling.com as the 6th of February.
We have two new members this week. Please make Skool and Lumos P. Nox feel welcome by posting in their introduction threads.
Of interest to Snape fans: scribbulus_ink has posted a Snape/Lupin resource list with fic recs for the new shipper, communities, sites, and other useful things.
If anyone should have anything they think should be highlighted in an update like this, please PM Steppenwolf or email me at steppenwolf at bewitchedmind dot com.
Have a good week Bewitched Minds!
Current Mood: brilliant!
Current Music: Hooberstank - The Reason
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February 3rd, 2005
stepps
| 09:09 am - BM.net News Update
If anyone should have anything they think should be highlighted in an update like this, please PM Steppenwolf or email me at littlehowl at gmail dot com.
Forum News:
Remember the BM.net Valentines Fic Challenge! The deadline is February 11th, so that we can have the fics (or art, if you like) posted by the 14th, Valentines Day. As yet we have only heard from one member about an entry, so get inspired!
Each week I am going to try to feature a discussion thread of interest. This week it's the Need help with your plot? thread, where you can smooth out the kinks (wrinkles, that is), patch up the holes, and find the right direction for your *coughValentinesChallengecough* fic :D
Archive News:
Remember, to recommend your favourite Snape fanfic, art and essays, go to these threads:
Fan Fiction Archives
Art Archive
Essay Archives
Each week I am also going to highlight a fic, piece of art, or essay that we are hoping to archive. Alternatively I will highlight something Snape-centric of interest such as a community, challenge at another site, icons, or an intersting LJ discussion. This week it's fic: We have permission to archive Bewitching the Mind, Ensnaring the Senses by RJ Anderson. If you like it, please review it when the archives are open (which will of cause be as soon as possible)!
Member News:
This week has been a big week for BM Birthdays! Madeline turned 16 on the 31st of January, BucketofRibs turned 27 and Jewl turned 17 on the 1st of Febraury, and our own Legiliments (mod) Miss K turned 16 on the 2nd of February. We hope you all had great days. Go to the Sticky Chocolate Cake With Lots Of Candles thread to give these Bewitched Minds your birthday wishes.
Our newest member is nigeline! Please go say hello and introduce yourself at nigeline's introduction thread.
Have a good week Bewitched Minds!
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January 27th, 2005
stepps
| 01:14 pm - Bewitched Mind News Update
BM.net has been going through a few changes and improvements as of the new year. One of those changes is that we'd like to make use of all of our resources and keep all of you informed of what we're doing to get the fanfiction, art and essay archives up and running, and the activities, discussions and events that are occuring in the forum and our member's worlds. For that reason we (myself specifically, as Head of Public Relations) will be making weekly news updates on this journal. If anyone should have anything they think should be highlighted in an update like this, please PM me or email me at littlehowl at gmail dot com.
Forum News:
This week we have a Management Update. We have four new areas of management to help things run smoothly, which are Head of PR (stepps aka Steppenwolf), Head of Archives (hazyjayne), Head of Posts (deense), and Head of Events (icybeach).
We have also been doing some spring cleaning on the forums, which include the merging of some forums and the renaming of others. Details of these changes can be found in the Management Update.
Archive News:
We are off cause still looking for good Snape fanfic, art and essays. To recommend your favourites, go to these threads:
Fan Fiction Archives
Art Archive
Essay Archives
Member News:
deense has had a big week this week! Deense was promoted from Legiliments (moderator) to Occlumens (administrator) on the 19th of this month. Deense then annonced that she was engaged to her Australian boyfrined! Congratulations Deense, from all the BM staff! We're so excited for you, and hope all of your plans go smoothly.
In other member news, I have had my plans to go to Germany for a year confirmed. I leave in February.
Important Fandom News:
Joanne K Rowling has had a baby girl! Congratulations JK!
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January 17th, 2005
deense
 | 10:07 pm
Well, this is it. The first real Bewitched Mind Fic Challenge
The theme: Valentine's Day (and you can take that however you want, it doesn't have to involve romance even...)
The length: 1000-2500 words
Due: February 11th, with the hope of having it judged by February 14th (we cut things close here don't we...)
The idea... How would Snape spend his Valentine's Day??? It can be past, present or future, involve any sort of pairing or non-pairing that you so choose. If we get enough NC-17 fics we'll do another category for them.
Submit your fic to myself or IcyBeach
Any questions, feel free to PM me or any of the other mods/admins!!!
Cheers
Denise
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December 18th, 2004
deense
| 11:22 am - Our first fic challenge!
Let all know that this is officially our first fic challenge!
The theme: Snape and Christmas/New Years Eve (my personal change)
The length: under 2500 words
The deadline: Well, let's make it December 27th, which gives you over a week, and yes, is just post Christmas, but should let us have it decided for the New Year!
LINK HERE
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September 8th, 2004
icybeach
| 08:04 pm - HPANA Top 100 Sites
BM.net is taking part in the HPANA Top 100 Sites list. Please vote, by clicking on the button, if you haven't already done so :)
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September 6th, 2004
bm_mistresses
| 09:09 am - Donations
Donations to Bewitched Mind
Bewitched Mind's operating costs are currently $130 per year ($120 for website hosting, $10 for domain registration). It may not seem much, but the owner of the site is a poor university student, and would be very grateful for any donation. Bewitched Mind is a non-profit site, so any additional funds will be used for IPB service ($65 a year), Live Journal costs, additional software, and/or saved for the next year's operating costs. The money will not be used for personal purposes.
For the time being, the only option to donate is through PayPal. PayPal accepts credit card payments, and is a very secure way of money transfer.
Every little bit helps, and is very much appreciated.
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August 22nd, 2004
icybeach
| 05:44 pm - Partnership
Bewitched Mind is now partners with snapesforte's Designer Potions, which is the best site I've found featuring all sorts of information about Snape; his physical features, speech, character sheet, all of his quotes from the books, cool avatars, posters, essays and much, much more.
There's also a new Occlumens in our ranks; hazyjayne. She got promoted a while back, but we've been quite busy lately, so it was never announced. Yes, we've been busy looking for fiction/essays/art for our archives. carissa_lynn is working on the layout/html because she's an expert at eFiction (which is the script we're using).
Icybeach
Occlumens
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August 18th, 2004
unioncityblue5
| 02:05 am
*psst*
It's Order of the Phoenix, not pheonix, which is misspelled on the community's interests.
Madeline
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August 17th, 2004
icybeach
| 10:04 pm - Bewitched Mind Forums Officially open
Finally :D The Bewitched Mind forums are officially open. The archives are not ready, so they'll launch later (much later...), but for now enjoy the discussions. We already have some new members, after being pimped by the ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) daily_snitch.
Have fun :)
Icy
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/smile.gif) excited
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August 5th, 2004
stepps
| 08:36 am - Admin update
Well, everything's going grand. Icy is Teh Mistress when it comes to the technical stuff, so she's working like a fiend on the graphics. We're not really sure what colours we'll settle on for the forum at the moment, but be sure it'll be fantastic.
Icy also tells me that we are practicly ready to open the forums. Be assured that I will be posting an invitation for those interested to join the forums shortly. I don't think we'll open them to the public until the Bewitched Mind front page is ready, but we would like a few members before then to start topics and discussions.
I'm late for uni, so I must fly.
Special thanks to Carissa for the tech help she's giving Icy, and to HazyJayne for volunteeing to seek out smilies for us. We appreciate it so much.
Stepps, Idea Mistress
Current Mood: accomplished
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August 4th, 2004
icybeach
| 01:24 pm - Update
A little update:
I've been working on changing the colours in the forums, mainly grey and purple-ish grey. If it gets too sickening, which I'm sure it will after a few months, I'll change the colours again.
carissa_lynn has been a gem for helping me with the configurations. She's a genious, that girl.
stepps and I have to put some forum rules on paper soon. Any ideas? I suppose we'll have to peak at so other forum's rules. BM is supposed to be a similar site to UR, SQ, TIP and TT, anyway, so the same rules will apply, with the additional 'No Snape flaming' ;P
I'll have to change some buttons and icons, and then Stepps and I will give the Slytherin coloured light.
Are any of you frequent Snape fanfiction readers? And I mean frequent, as in having read so much that you know a good story from a bad one? Please let me know.
Geeze, I'm not finished with the forums and I'm already thinking of the archives o.O
Icy
Current Mood: creative
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August 3rd, 2004
icybeach
| 08:39 am
I just quickly changed the layout and background image, because the old one was really bugging me. What does everyone (milasmith, stepps and hazyjayne - the entire membership while I'm writing this) think of the background? Good enough for BM? With slight modifications of course (I'd try to make it *flow* better, as Stepps put it ;D).
Anyway, the domain name has been secured, http://www.bewitchedmind.net, and I'm setting up the forum today. I ask people to restrain themselves and not join the forum until I give the green light. I'll have to test it first, set up some stuff and well..learn how to be an Admin.
But for now, I'd like to thank everyone who came up with ideas for the site, names and such. They were all carefully considered (except for carissa_lynn's Greasy Git - but only because I knew it already existed...erm...yes...well it does exist.
One last thing: The site welcomes all Harry Potter forum junkies, not just Snape fans. BUT there will be absolutely no bashing of Snape, even though people's opinions are welcomed. Just put them nicely or the Potions Master will stop talking smoothly and start hissing.
Icy
Current Mood: calm
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bm_mistresses
| 05:36 pm
Hello everyone... er, anyone. We are Icybeach and Steppenwolf, and we love Snape.
We (I mean by that, Icybeach, as I'm just the annoying idea girl, while Icy's the dynamic action woman) are creating a site called Bewitched Mind dedicated to Severus Snape in all his canon and fanon glory. We plan to launch a forum first, and later a fanfic and art archieve, as well as some other goodies when (and if) we think of them.
As Icy and I are Draco fans as well, and spend rediculous amounts of time at unredeemed_net, the Bewitched Mind site will resemble that and the Sugar Quill, and follow many of their forum and archieve rules. Many, but not all. More info on that later.
We will let you know of our (Icy's) progress here.
So, from Icybeach, Severus, and myself, "Do shut up and attempt to actually learn something, regardless of how challenging that might be for you pathetic morons."
Current Mood: accomplished
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