Hey, so who here likes getting presents?

I DO, I DO!

Who likes giving presents and making other people happy? I DO, I DO! Especially when I don't have to go to a crowded mall and spend a lot of money to get them!

So give and get some awesomely awesome and supremely creative gifts over at sm_fanswap. It's a fan swap where you sign up to write a fic or draw some art for a fellow fan, and get some from another fan in return! Everyone's happy!

Sign-ups end the 21st, so hop to it-- and tell 'em the_sweet sent you!

I'm already signed up, so anyone who comes from SMRFF and is still into the fandom (even just a LITTLE bit, for nostalgia's sake) can expect a fic from me!

...Yeah yeah, total advertisement. But I figured since it's totally related (you know, Sailor Moon + fanfiction), I might garner some attention here. Hope everyone's well. Spread the word!

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Hello to all of my fabulous fellow SMRFFers! [If I didn't float this properly on top of the page for new members, then I apologize to everyone currently viewing it on their FL--please ignore!]

To submit anything to the list, be it fanfiction, comments, etc, all you have to do is send an email to:
smrff @ yahoogroups.com

All that you have to do is start an email the same way that you would when replying to me, sending an email to a friend, etc. Just..instead of emailing lady_baine @ yahoo.com, you`re going to email smrff @ yahoogroups.com. Does that make sense?

Also, you can just hit REPLY to any e-mail from SMRFF and you will automatically get our e-mail address.

There are a couple of ways that you can submit stories, etc.

You can either ATTACH your fic or imbed it in the email. If you attach the story, some readers might not read it because they`re afraid to get a virus. Most of the time, we imbed our stories. Some people do it both ways so that others have a choice. To imbed your story, all you have to do is go to Microsoft Word or wherever you`ve saved your file, and highlight everything that you wrote.
1) You can either do this by dragging your mouse over each page or by hitting the CONTROL button (CTRL) and the "A" button on your keyboard at the SAME TIME. This highlights everything at once and takes less time.

2) After you`ve highlighted everything, either go to Edit/Copy or thit the "CTRL" and "C" buttons on your keyboard at the same time. Now you`ve copied your text!

3) Go to your email account and hit Compose New E-mail (or whatever it is that Hotmail and other groups use). Address the email to smrff @ yahoogroups.com. Make a subject. For example, this month if you submit a holiday fic, you would write [Holiday]"Lighting the Candles" Chapter 1/1." For Holidays, we put the name of the holiday in the subject (aka, we recently put [TAFFDAY] ]so that members know that the writer wants this fic is participating and should qualify for awards, etc. If the chapter is NC-17, please write NC17 in your subject line so that people can skip over it if they choose to do so. If the fic isn't for a holiday, you don't have to put a special section in your subject line about that. You can choose to write [FANFICTION] or [CHAPTER 1/5], etc. If you have more mature content, though, remember that you must ALWAYS add that to your subject line and warn readers!

4) Click on the body of your email and hit the "CTRL" and "P" buttons on your keyboard at the same time, or, if Hotmail lets you, then it is also possible to go to Edit and hit Paste. Some emails let you, but some don`t.

5) Now you`ve copied and pasted your text into an email. Add anything else that you want--author`s notes, edits, etc. Click "SEND."

6) Congratulations! You have just imbedded your story into an email!!

~Does that make sense? Let me know if it got too convoluted. You can always send me an instant message, a comment, or an e-mail! I will warn you that I`m currently in Japan, so I`m 13-16 hours ahead of the United States, if this is where you live. When it is 10 a.m. on Saturday morning here, it is 9 p.m. on Friday evening in Pennsylvania (EST). Most of my friends usually only see me on when it is their Friday or Saturday nights. If they`re online earlier in the morning, they might see me on because it is night-time for me. But feel free to catch me if you see me. E-mail also works, but it`s not as "in-the-moment" and I`m afraid of confusing you further!!

Comments, questions, suggestions? Let me know!

Also, if you ever have any ideas for the list, let us know! We're always looking for things that are innovative and new to get the blood flowing. Also, remember to tell your friends who are SM Writers or your favorite authors about SMRFF! The more active members that we have posting stories, the more there is to read and the better our holidays will be.

Happy December, everyone!

~Baine
---------------Please help us (small faction of SMRFF though we are) in revitalizing our mailing list!! Ask your friends to join. Ask your favorite author to join since, y'know, it's all about reading works that we enjoy (especially when well-written!). Spread the wealth. Spread the love. SPREAD SMRFF!

Happy New Year, everyone!

To start it off with a bang, I'm thinking that it's time for another holiday!

Since our beloved Holiday Mod is busy with finals before she leaves to return to the States, it has fallen to me to light the flame beneath your butts so that you get hopping....and yes, I *AM* that sadistic and cruel.

I want to see everyone's charred butts next month when it's time for our annual WAFF Day Challenge!

What is WAFF Day, you ask?

Or maybe....what is WAFF?

That's an easy question that I'm more than happy to answer for all of our newbies and all of our aging old farts who are getting Alzheimer’s [and yes, I AM looking at you, thelonepig! ^.~].

WAFF is an acronym that stands for "Warm and Fuzzy Feelings." This past October, we had our annual TAFF Day, which stands for "Twisted and Fuzzy Feelings." SMRFF was one of the first to incorporate these acronyms (did we create it?), and the terms are still seen in the SM fandom more than they are anywhere else!

TAFF is the angst that has us on the edge of our toes while we read a fic while WAFF is full of the warm, gooey moments. Be it a first kiss, a declaration of love, or something equally sweet and sappy, we can always use some sugary romance in our lives.

I know that a lot of our newbies write WAFF, so I'm expecting to see great things, y'all!

The who, the what, the when, the why, the how.

WAFF Day is celebrated on February 14th every year because Valentine's Day is the day of looove. You get one week to post your fics!

Posting will start on WEDNESDAY, February 7th at 12 a.m. PST, and end on WEDNESDAY, February 14th at 11:59 p.m. PST.

You have one week to post one-shots, chapters, complete fics, song fics, fan art, drabbles, etc! You can even post old fics that you've written before as long as you revise them!

The only stipulation is that the fics have to be WAFFY! You can utilize any pairings that your little heart desires--though we do hope that nobody ever writes another bestiality fic after our one and only travesty all of those years ago (I'm showing my age, aren't I?). Anything that is rated M/R/NC-17/etc must have the rating in the subject line, because we have both minors and adults who don't wish to read certain things on the site. If you write yaoi/slash/etc, it is preferred for that to go into the subject line as well.

If we get a lot of participants, we will hold our annual polls to choose winners! In the past, we have had categories such as Best Kiss, Best Overall Fic, etc. If we have enough for only an Overall category, we can do that, too. Winners will get lovely prizes!!! If we don't have enough participants for a poll, we will still give out participation banners.

HOWEVER!! You have a month to write something, so I expect to see good things. PLEASE don't let me down. Remember how much you love me. Remember how much you love SMRFF. Let's revive our list, at least for the holidays. We had a good holiday for TAFF, but we will have a BETTER holiday for WAFF, because we have more time....RIGHT!?

....Plus, if we can get the enthusiasm back into the group, then we can have our annual WAFF vs. TAFF showdown in April! I have a storage closet full of chocolate-covered Mamo-chans clothed only in loin-clothes, picket banners, a beautiful fence just waiting to be sat on, cans of angst and fluff...........so many goodies, just waiting to be utilized!

If you have questions or comments, please don't hesitate to e-mail me or the group! My personal e-mail is lady_baine @ yahoo.com and the group e-mail is smrff @ yahoogroups.com. If you are a new remember and don't know how to post stories to the group, please look at this website (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smrff/message/2705) for a prior notice that I sent regarding how to do this. I have also uploaded the information into a Word document, available here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smrff/files/.

You can look for me online, too--my info is in my signature. Be warned, however, that I'm living in Japan at the moment and may not be on when you are unless it is the weekend.

Have a great week. Happy New Year! I expect great things from SMRFF!!!!! [And we WILL remind you about this holiday, so WATCH OUT!!]

~Baine
---------------Please help us (small faction of SMRFF though we are) in revitalizing our mailing list!! Ask your friends to join. Ask your favorite author to join since, y'know, it's all about reading works that we enjoy (especially when well-written!). Spread the wealth. Spread the love. SPREAD SMRFF!

baine and I are doing a timed Sailor Moon fic challenge - it starts at 9 p.m., EST... sign on AIM, and poke me at ladyaishuu if you want to play.

Hey, I have a Sailor Moon-related question. Sure, it's not fanfic, but it's indirectly related to my current (!) Sailor Moon plotusagibunny, which is not entirely Usagi x Mamoru (it's actually a whole lot of Usagi x Seiya please don't shoot me I love you!), so it might never see the light of SMRFF. And hey, just to start discussions, I might just post my input for alt.fan.sailor-moon here (later on), about the 200 Days of Sailormoon project. We're on episode 27 or so right now.

Anyway, my question:
Does anyone know where I can download some international versions of the Sailor Moon songs? I mean songs like the German "Colors of Love," or any others? I know Beej has the LIST of them, but SailorMusic.Net doesn't host them, and neither does SailorSS. Anyone have any ideas? Or if you have a copy... *_* I would be eternally grateful. Matter of fact, my SM site has been dead for so long, it's way overdue for an OVERHAUL, and I'd love to host anything that I was looking for that I didn't have before. I've already got much of the Sailor Moon Memorial Song Boxes (thanks baine!) and even some cool remixes of songs, the Another Story game soundtrack, and plenty more.

Okay wait, I have another question: Does anyone know of a good MPA -> MP3/OGG/WAV converter? I currently use Cheetah, which does fine for converting OGGs and the like, but I have many international SM theme songs in MPA, and I'd like to convert them to something of a higher quality. Short of re-recording them, I don't know how to do that. Freeware is best, though... :D

..Actually, now that I think about it, I'm probably a big idiot for converting so many OGG songs to MP3s and deleting the originals. Yes, it's much easier for me to drag and drop into iTunes that way... Actually, I have a plug-in that lets me play/burn/convert/drag & drop OGGs just as if they were MP3s. I'm a dummy. OGG POWER, MAKE UP!

No freakin' way.

We all know that Geena Davis, once upon a presidential baseball game involving dreary midnights time, thought Sailor Moon was amusing enough to state that she wouldn't mind playing Queen Beryl. Yeah, like that ever went anywhere. Nonetheless, conversation is stimulating (and something this comm. sorely needs), so why not discuss this latest article.

Animage IS a well-known Japanese mag., but...
a) who's to say that Animage really talked to Movie Hotties?
b) they weren't yanking MH's chain?
c) Animage wasn't pulling an April Fool's joke that hit the States a few months too late?
d) all of the above and then some/other

Still, I keep thinking... "Well, what kind of villain would Jennifer Garner play?" Note they didn't say WHICH villain, if they chose to use one from the series. Personally I think some semblance of Stars is long-overdue here in the English-speaking world. Not sure if they ever dubbed it in any European languages, but with a somewhat more open-minded world out here since 1995, I'd like to think that today's kids might be able to handle sex-changing senshi, or "transvestite" teens searching for their alien princess. I mean, if it hasn't been done in anime before, surely it's been done on the WB, right!?

Methinks if they HAD to pick a good villain from the series for Garner to play, she'd make a killer Galaxia. (Hence the whole rambling about Stars.)

But if not... which villain do you think she'd play? The article says "The Main Villain," and personally, I don't think Lohan can pull off a convincing 15 year old. So if they bumped up the ages of the Senshi, or even did a "continuation from SuperS that isn't Stars," then it's likely SM and Co. would be facing a brand new enemy that we've never even heard of. If such were the case, how would YOU write her?

I find this all hilarious either way, because you've got one of Hollywood's either most loved or most hated stars, a kick-ass Mrs. "I can be a spy AND a mother, biatch!" Affleck, the writer of Buffy, and the evil masterminds from FOX. I mean, what a combo... these guys, with the rights to SM? Huh.

Thoughts?

You're Invited You have been challenged by aishuu and baine!! td>

You have been challenged by aishuu and baine!!

Your misson, should you choose to accept it, is to write a challenge in 30 minutes for a theme and fandom that will be decided when we are all together. :-)

Are you in? [Comment to be included!!]


{If enough SMRFFers are interested, we'd LOVE to walk down memory lane with y'all and go back to where it all began!!)


[Yes, I know the picture isn't that great, but I've been really busy!! Deal. :-)]


...[x-posted at baine]

Whatever, you love it.

[Smrff poll!] We're updating the archive, making a new site and doing all sorts of random acts of insanity. We've got a few questions for you, but if you feel like the man is bringing you down and limiting your freedom of expression, you can always expand in the comments, k?

Poll #589107 SMRFF!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Which archive method would you prefer?

Let's party!

No seriously. Are there any new features you'd like to see?

What should be kept/dropped? [Expand in comments?]

Ticky box!

Well~~~

:) Starting today, the SMRFF webpage and archives will slowly come back to life. Granted, all that's up at the smrff website right now is a little graphic SAYING we'll return, but that's a start, right?

As of this moment I'm searching through archive.org to see if I can recover SOME of the info we had on the older pages. Such as: FWA 12 Step Program (Fanfic Writers' Anonymous, if I recall? ---- Then again, my memory's not the best these days).

Hopefully a layout and some content will be up by next week.
*crosses fingers*
Wish us luck?

~Chibi

Oh! PS to Andi and Ely: I wasn't sure whether you guys were working with me on the site and archive, so I put question marks by your names as maintainers (ah--- and for some reason I got carried away and did likewise with my own XD oops?)

PPS Cross-posted to the Y!group mailing list.

baine (surprisingly alive) pointed this little gem out to me today. In case you're not aware, it's Aimee's "The Coldest December," one of the most well-written fics I've read. As far as I know, it's hosted in various archives (I'm 99.9% sure it's still up on ASMR), and even if Aimee doesn't update anymore (anyone know how to get ahold of her), it's still not right to post someone else's work without their permission. If you can't get ahold of someone to post their work on a major archive, then don't do it. It's not your work to mess around with.

Does anyone know how to get ahold of Aimee? If not, just join baine and I in reporting this story, because no matter how much of a fangirl this non-author is, something about this whole situation just screams "unethical" to me.

Okay, so I'm WAY out of the loop with Sailormoon fanfics recently, but cyperian and I were talking and she had an idea. We used to be the good writers, some of us even used to be somewhat (or REALLY!) famous with the Sailormoon online community.

Maybe we should do something to get SMRFF to be a little lively again, and to remind some of the new greats of fanfics that they are never going to surpass the EMSiTs! Muahahahaha!

So, how about we try to organize something for us old school writers? Either a few one-shot stories co-written by several people, or see if we can get everyone to write one SM fic and have them all released on FFN (and any place that is less evil, as well) ASMR and of course the SMRFF list. All the old-schoolers who really don't write anymore, I know most of them are still around. Heck, I even see Patch and Lilac Summers online sometimes!

So? What do you think guys? Organize something massive and get the list jumping again and let others know that we're still alive?

IM me at: kitesareevil if you want as well. ^_^

MINNA, OKITE! (Everyone, wake up!)

*ahem* I did ask for some input a few days ago re: how to work Aria's Ink, but I didn't get any replies... *sniffle-wiffle* So I'll ask again, in case this entry got lost amongst your friends' page entries...

Does anyone know how to work the Aria's Ink Search function? I know it looks all easy and everything, but I tried to find ANY Sailor Moon Stars fics in the archive, and I couldn't find A SINGLE ONE. Somehow I think that's a bit... er, strange. Unless I've got AI all wrong.

Moving on, the insanity that is PGSM is finally getting to me, and SHOCK! I recalled that wonderful era known as "The Old Days," when everyone was on Geoshitties or Tripod, and First Love and ASMR were the places to go for HOTHOTHOT fics! I tried looking for First Love again-- all I found were outdated references on Anipike, a dead Geoshitties page with a link to a non-existent domain, and a C2 community on FFnet that won't let me subscribe.

Help? More specifically... help me find some good SM archives! JUST SAILOR MOON.

SANKYUU!

Wow...am I that out of the loop that I didn't know that SMRFF had its own LJ? I must be, because I seriously had no clue.

Basically just typing this up to say hi to everyone, that I've offically joined the community and even thought it's about as lively as the mailing list *pokes the sleeping members* I still look forward to your never ending insanity and all that I can contribute with it.

For those who aren't familar with me, this is Stefanie ;)

And happy birthday Ely-nee-chan! (day late, sue me)

WAKE UP EVERYONE!! Aside from the thrilling announcement that Today is Elysia-onee-chan's birthday!!!

I wanted to revive this LJ community just a bit in order to...
* Get a super-list available of excellent Sailormoon-related resources, be they manga (mangastyle.net), live action (genvid), anime (???), toys, or whatever else (musicals?) together ...
* Get people interested in competitions/holidays once more
* Figure out a new way to revamp the site (tech-wise and appearance-wise)
* Find out what's what with the archive SMRFF has
* Figure out a way to jumpstart the ML
And finally...

get some help figuring out how the heck Aria'sInk works. I ask only because I'm there now, vaguely in the mood to start writing Sailor Moon again, and lost. Why? Maybe it's poor site organization, but I can't find fics based off PGSM, I can't seem to find ANY fics with Seiya in them, and despite all my browsing through FAQs and help files and everything, I have no idea what I'm doing. I know other SMRFFers are on AI, so maybe some of you could help me out?

I've also decided that since I'm off tomorrow, I will have a limited-time, exclusive to this here community in this here and now offer... to make a Sailor Moon icon of your choice!

If you want to partake of this offer, then please...
* Manga/Anime/Live Action/Musicals
* Specify which Senshi (or in the case of musicals, which actor/senshi, since different people play the senshi depending on the musical)
* Any text?
* Animated? (I'll try to put whatever you want on/in it, but remember it's got to be under 40K for LJ!)
* Anything else...

I'll be posting the finished icons between today (this evening) and tomorrow evening, on this post, in a Reply Comment to whoever comments to THIS entry. You are responsible for downloading your icons to your own space and uploading it to your own server, as I'll be deleting them off my account here at LJ within 24 hours, unless they are NOT personalized (user names), in which case they'll go on my Icon Journal.

This offer is ONLY good from the time I post it to 24 hours from that point, Pacific Time!

just thought I'd get on your nerves once again and send out a friendly reminder:

WAFF:



TAFF:





Fencies:







(I know there's more banners and stuff out there. Anyone?)

soo... road trip anyone?

I'm thinking Steffie's wedding.

Sure, it's a year and a half away, but we can always start planning the bachelorette party, ne?

-----

We should at least start planning for WAFF/TAFF day. We let so many other holidays slip by!

April 7th. Be there with your banners and signs. Root for your side!

Think Chat...

Like, Jan. 4. It's a Tuesday. QS is going to show up around 9 p.m. EST.

I've decided that this community is way too quiet. Hehe and I, being...well...me, felt the need to rouse everyone up a little. So WAKE UP!! *grins*

Come on, I've missed everyone. What have you guys been up to? What are your new projects, how are your lives. It would be so great to just catch up with everyone; especially those who have been out of commission for a while *coughs* bej *coughs*. So leave a comment and tell us how you're doing, what job you're in, if you're married. ANYTHING!

*grins*

Anita aka Fin