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June 28, 2002

FANFICTION CONTEST WINNERS!!!!

Best Overall

Oceans and Skies by Fallen Angel

Action/Adventure

1st Place - Oceans and Skies by Fallen Angel
2nd Place - The Line by Reciprocity Failure
3rd Place - Someday You Will Find Me by Crystal

Angst

1st Place - Great Expectations by Lady Scarlet-Une
2nd Place - Baby Amy by KMF

Alternate Universe

1st Place - Seduction by KMF
2nd Place - At Once a Prelude by Cassiopeia
3rd Place - The Panther by Moonkitty
Honorable Mention - Oceans and Skies by Fallen Angel

Comedy

1st Place - When Nuns Attack by Lauren
2nd Place - Heero's Rough Day by Mandy
Honorable Mention - Heero's Naughty Daydream by Moonkitty
Honorable Mention - A Theme Song for Relena by Foole

Drama

1st Place - A Darkening Dawn by Ancient Lady
2nd Place - Starman by Wsprs*nd*dark
3rd Place - The Panther by Moonkitty
Honorable Mention - Someday You Will Find Me by Crystal

Lemons

1st Place - A Darkening Dawn by Ancient Lady
2nd Place - Every Breathless Whisper by Zapenstap
3rd Place - Of Demons and Angels by Sari
Honorable Mention - Heero's Naughty Daydream by Moonkitty

One-Shot

1st Place - At Once a Prelude by Cassiopeia
2nd Place - Midnight Moonlight by Sailor Celestial3rd Place - What I Really Meant to Say by Violet Fairychild

Sap

1st Place - Seduction by KMF
2nd Place - Starman by Wsprs*nd*dark
3rd Place - At Once A Prelude by Cassiopeia
Honorable Mention - What I Really Meant to Say by Violet Fairychild

Series

1st Place - Oceans and Skies by Fallen Angel
2nd Place - Seduction by KMF
3rd Place - The Panther by Moonkitty
Honorable Mention - Legacy of Avalon by Star Phoenix
Honorable Mention - Stolen Memories by KMF

Songfics

1st Place - What I Really Meant to Say by Violet Fairychild
2nd Place - Superman by Lady Saffir
3rd Place - Why Don't You Stay by Violet Fairychild
Honorable Mention - One Caress by Shira
Honorable Mention - You Were Always by Fallen Angel

The Best Overall Category is still undecided. The judges are being polled as they vote for one of the 14 individual fics that won 1st or 2nd in one of the above categories. Results for that will be coming asap.

In the meantime, Stella and I chose some special awards to recognize fics which didn't place in any particular category, but we thought stood out none-the-less:

The Bard's Choice Award (he's such a sweet and sensitive guy):

Hope by K.T.

Three Lashes with the Noodle of Death (er, it's an award, really):

Undercurrents by Cinpii

The Spanish Inquisition Award (for excellent Heero torture mwahahahaha):

All it Took by Winggirl

The Wails of Scottish Moors Award (angsty and beautiful):

Slumber's Waking by Tomorrow

The Punch and Pie Award (for a good story written by a promising author):

You Stand Here With Me by Love's Angel

The Flying Boss Monkey Award (Not sure when Stella and I got the "flying" attached to our collective nickname):

Unexpected Gift by Obsolete Love

The Shooting Star Award (We still have hope Relena will recover/live longer than the 2 years):

The Stars Came Falling Down by Moondog

Thank you to everyone who entered. We immensely enjoyed reading everyone's fiction. Stay tuned for the next contest, coming really really soon - and will not be quite so formal (and judging won't take as long either).

~Rose, Stella, Sphinx, and the Blissfuljudges - thank you judges!!!!

June 19, 2002

Author Archive pages Ancient Lady, Fallen Angel, Goldberry, Lady Saffir, Lauren, Melodrama, Tomorrow, and Moonkitty are complete minus recent updates, and the banner addition for Goldberry's page. Neesah's fics and KMF-chan's fics have been uploaded, but need to be linked from the homepage. Have received some fanart that needs to be posted, and will be getting to that asap. Author pages yet to be completed: Black Rose, Luvspook, Stella, Violet Fairy Child, Winggirl, Wsprs*n*dark, Zapenstap, Silent Moon Sphinx Shevey Once those pages have been "loaded", then we can go forward with inviting other authors. I apologize this process is so slow in coming, but the fanfiction contest judging is coming to a close and I have been trying to keep up with writing fics, too. In the meantime, our forum section always has something new. And the showcases are open to everyone to post appropriate fics. Thanks! ~Rose

May 1, 2002

Our Lemon section will remain as the original format due to ratings issues and general lack of lemons (compared to other Heero x __ couplings that seem to have thousands written...).

Added today:

Reflections by Death Angel GW

April 25, 2002

Yes, I know some of you were skeptical I'd ever pull it off, but here it is - the newly redesigned Blissful Ignorance!!!!

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The new site is primarily a do-it-yourself sort of interface, where our invited authors and all our visitors can upload fics at any and every time of the day (and have been already). Check out the Forums link (in your left hand side menu) from the main menu to go directly to the new fics.

Until I have moved the current archive, and made a few more decisions about where content will go, you can access the old site here:

Also, check out Stefy's new gallery: EffimereIllusioni

If you have questions about how to post or reply in the forums area, please shoot me an email. I'm doing my best to put together a list of instructions and answers to frequently asked questions.

In order to post a fic (ie New Topic), you must click on the link to the forum you must be a registered member. Click on the Forum you want to post to, and on the page with the listings of all the other fics, there will be a link in the top right hand corner labeled NEW TOPIC. Click on that, then paste your fic into the text area of the form that comes up. Click Submit to upload it to the site.

To Reply to a fic (leave a review), you must be a registered member. You click on the Forum to go to a listing of fics (topics). After clicking on the fic you want to read, you are taken to the page where the story is displayed. Again, in the top right hand corner will be a link labeled REPLY. Click on that, and then type the message you want to send in the text area of the form that comes up. Click Submit to upload your reply to the site.

Questions and Comments can be addressed to me: the Black Rose

I'm happy to hear your suggestions and concerns. ^__^

There are still some changes being made, but for the most part, they're going to be fairly minor. Shifting of already archived content to the new archive listings by author, and reorganization behind the scenes, etc. etc.

Check out the Nominees Page,

for some fantastic entries in our Fanfiction contest!!!

(Submissions are closed. Judging now in progress)

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