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Episodes / Did you get my form?

« on: April 15, 2011, 12:18:25 PM »

Name: Hal
Email: hal - at - color-trap.net
Subject: Bleach episode 287
Form Type: Finished

Sent the form in just now! Thank you for checking! :)

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Characters N-Z / Characters N-Z: Did you get my F/U/C form?

« on: March 28, 2011, 07:22:55 PM »

Name: Hal
Email: hal - at - color-trap.net
Type of Form: Closed, for all three
Date: Just now

Subjects:
Saiyuki: Gensomaden Saiyuki: Nataku Taishi
Saiyuki: Saiyuki Gaiden: Nataku Taishi
Saiyuki: Saiyuki Gaiden: Tenpou Gensui

Oh my gosh, I think I am going to cry.

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Episodes / Did you get my form?

« on: March 19, 2011, 03:08:10 AM »

Name: Hal
Email: hal - at - color-trap.net
Subject: Bleach episode
Form Type: Application

Sent it in just now, too! Thanks!

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Characters N-Z / Characters N-Z: Did you get my Application?

« on: February 15, 2011, 12:14:50 PM »

Name: Hal
Email: hal - at - color-trap.net
Date sent: Just now (February 15, 2011)
Action: Check

Very nervous about this one, so thank you for checking! D:

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Hot Topics / Latest Rejections

« on: October 20, 2010, 01:37:35 AM »

Got turned down for Strong World.

But that's really okay. I said I would swear off anymore OP listings if I got it (pretty much, it > other listing I wanted), so I'm happy Strong World has a home. I love Strong World and really wanted it, but part of me almost feels it's for the best because now it means two subjects I feel deserve fanlistings can have them. Thank you for the very kind rejection letter. It made it that much nicer, because it means someone else wanted it, too. I really am very happy about that. :hyper:

I congratulate whoever got Strong World! I look forward to joining it when it's done. :bounce:

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Characters 0-M / Characters 0-M: Did you get my F/U/C form?

« on: August 24, 2010, 12:11:47 PM »

I'm really sad to do this it means it's final (ToT), but... if you could please check if you got these...

Name: Hal
Email: hal - at - color-trap.net
Type of Form: Closed
Subject: Bleach: Division 5
Date: Today, August 24

Name: Hal
Email: hal - at - color-trap.net
Type of Form: Closed
Subject: Fairy Tail - Dreyar, Laxus
Date: Today, August 24

Thank you very much. :)

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Fanlistings Chit-Chat / TAFL Survey!

« on: July 02, 2010, 09:30:31 PM »

I ACTUALLY FINISHED THIS. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS!

01. Your name
I've actually gone through a few names, and they're all for me to know. <3 But currently I go by Hal, and have for a few years now.

02. Total number of TAFL fanlistings
12. (There will be more in the future, I know this.)

03. Do you have an FL collective?
Back to unnamed, it can be found at fan.color-trap.net. While I do like my fanlistings in, and will keep them in, the fan sub-directory; I'm actually considering whether or not I want to make a full-on 'collective' (with name and design, etc.) or just link to them all at Color-Trap.

04. Who/What got you into TAFL?
Way, way, way back in the day (2002 or 2003), and it took quite a bit of remembering: but I think it was the then-manga fanlisting. Because manga-ka provide the greatest form of art. (I know, lame of me? But they're such wonderful, talented artists away from their stories, too. Stunning is the detail Oda Eiichiro and Minekura Kazuya, respectively, put into trees and plant life.)

05. Which fanlisting owners inspire you the most?
I can rack my mind and shower people with love and devotion, but, next to Marie, the first thing that comes to mind is, "Anyone who can actually have a lot of fanlistings and actually keep them MAINTAINED," and you have my absolute admiration. I've got on 13. I'm back to only 13 listings, and it can be a chore even trying to add more. So anyone who can have a lot and keep up with them, I salute you.

Marie is also like the ultimate owner. Look at the passion towards her own listings, and listings in general. That's inspiring.

06. Which fanlisting owners blow you away with their designs?
I really need to look around a bit more, because there are a lot of designs I like and I know they're all owned by the same people; but I do constantly recall being blown away by Sarah and Giada for their designs.

07. What's your favorite category?
Ironically... Series. You would never guess, would you? But there's just something so inspiring about the Series category to me. I don't fully understand it myself, though I try to rationalize it as, "I just really love seeing fans of a whole series." Series are amazing. I love stories.

08. Which category do you have the most fanlistings in?
Characters. See above.

09. What's your favorite part of the fanlisting process?
Is it shallow that I really like approvals? My brain usually starts flooding with ideas, really, with the approval letters. Nothing more than a flood of ideas that makes me happy.

10. What's your least favorite part of the fanlisting process?
The opposite of the above. When the flood of ideas STOPS, and you're like, "Oh crap, what am I going to do now?!" A lot times my schemes are so grand, I normally can't get them made in the time frame, so have to settle for less.

11. If you could apply for anything, no rules attached, what would it be?
A fanlisting for the whole of the (One Piece) Skypiea arc. Manga arcs aren't allowed, from what I recall asking ages and ages and years and years ago, I think it's because there are simply too many scattered around? I don't know, and can hardly remember. But I would love to have the Skypiea arc listing, here. I love One Piece as a whole (haha, pun), but Skypiea... just everything about Skypiea. I hate the word "fantastical" (sounds redundant, and like one of those words that shouldn't exist), but fantastical is a great word to describe Skypiea. It's incredible. The whole thought of it is incredible. One Piece is a story about pirates, but Skypiea is a real pirate story in the midst of an incredible story about pirates.

12. Favorite fanlisting layout?
Minekura is the newest, and coded with a Strict DTD (since I want to take web design a bit more seriously, even if I violate a few other rules (*3*). So I'm happiest most with it right now.

13. What’s the first thing you do when you sign on the boards?
I don't have a set routine. (Like, "Okay, sign in, and then I go here, and here, and then here.") I usually sign in only when I want to post something, and the signing-in is done from the forum/thread I'm interested in posting in.

14. What is your favorite forum?
Don't have one in particular. Wherever something interesting is.

15. What's your favorite avatar?
As of early July 2010, something about Emcy's has always intrigued me. Maybe it's its geek chic? Clover's also amuses, sadly, because it says "splat", and I am pathetic and think that's overly hilarious. The word "splat" just makes me laugh.

16. What's something you’ve always wondered about TAFL &/or fanlistings?
Since I have never specifically wondered something and not asked (that I know of), off the top of my head: layout update? Is there eventually going to be one in store?

I like the watermelon layout, too, but TAFL is one of those sites - one of those sites that have the ultimate potential to have the world's most kick-butt layout, because it has the content to back it up.

Just wondering...

17. Did you know...?
What you can't see, in my mind, is far more important than what you can. My fanlistings are obsessively organized; and, with the updates I have in store for them, they're only going to become more organized.

Also, in 2008, the (One Piece) Buggy fanlisting, ironically, was suppose to be the companion to my Garp fanlisting. Unfortunately, issues arose keeping my friend from completing it. ):

18. Which do you prefer: applying for adoptions or applying at the Network?
I have a lot of fun with adoptions, but applying at the Network is much less nerve-wracking. I can really write, at that, and if someone says, "Sum it up in a short/no longer than a five sentence paragraph," I'm screwed. There is no way I can compress my passion into five sentences, or even one short paragraph. I write until something feels complete, and exactly like I would say it to your face. I love the one-on-one of adoptions, but sometimes the luck-of-the-draw I normally pose with TAFL is easier.

19. If you could make any one thread at TAFL, what would it be?
Depends on the manner in which you mean. If it's for fanlistings, it would be a Manga Arcs thread, for people to apply to for their favorite manga arcs. This is because there is an opposite to people who can easily get a hold of anime - those of us who can't. When you're a self-professed manga whore, life's tough...

20. You associate (member/group) with (subject) ?
I had never thought about this until I read people posting about it, and I think the idea of association to mythical beings is so neat. (I'm jumping on myself, and claiming Uzume before anybody steals her. (XD)

21. Have you been through the adoption process?
A few times. <3 Ukitake and Nii were kindly given to me by Laura and Kim, while the Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden and May Chang fanlistings I adopted out to Krystal and Kibumie. <3 I also don't mean any disrespect to Laura and Kim, because Ukitake and Nii were BIG wishlisters: but Marie also adopted Wanted! to me, and that's a One Piece fanlisting. I still feel so special and flail about at the thought like I'm a flamingo, it would take a while to calm down enough to issue the great big bear hug you'd normally receive from me over something like that. ^^; An honor is impressing somebody who can admit being hard to impress [in respect, especially, to One Piece].

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Manga-ka & Directors / Manga-ka & Directors: Did you get my F/U/C form?

« on: June 24, 2010, 03:06:30 AM »

Name: Hal
Email: hal - at - color-trap.net
Subject: Minekura Kazuya
Type of Form: Finished

I sent it just now, 6/24. Thank you! :D

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Manga-ka & Directors / Manga-ka & Directors: Did you get my F/U/C form?

« on: April 23, 2010, 04:45:06 PM »

Name: Hal
Email: hal - at - color-trap.net
Subject: Minekura Kazuya
Type of Form: Apply

Thank you. <3

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Episodes / Did you get my form?

« on: March 27, 2010, 03:14:08 PM »

Name: Hal
Email: hil - at - simple-type.org
Subject: Naruto: Episode 101 - Mitai, Shiritai, Tashikametai: Kakashi-sensei no Sugao
Form Type: Update

And it was sent just now (March 27). :heart:

Thanks.

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Fanlistings Chit-Chat / Upcoming Goodies

« on: March 26, 2010, 01:35:51 AM »

Somebody got approved for the Marco (One Piece) fanlisting. I could probably kiss whoever that is.

It's about time more of the Whitebeard pirates started getting some love. ;~;

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Episodes / Did you get my form?

« on: September 25, 2009, 04:10:33 AM »

My gosh, working with screen caps kicks my butt. D:

Name: Hal
Email: haru - at - simple-type.org
Subject: Naruto ep 101
Form Type: Finished (sent just a few minutes ago! (:3)

Thank you. XD

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Episodes / Did you get my form?

« on: August 17, 2009, 10:44:32 AM »

Name: Hal
Email: haru - at - simple-type.org
Subject: Naruto ep 101
Form Type: Application

Thanks. <3

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General Questions and Discussion / Suggestion: Category named in confirm. for Sent Forms

« on: January 21, 2009, 03:23:27 PM »

Yeah, I know, and I normally do. (I normally post here because it's quicker than a contact form, because I know your emails must be swamped.) :3

Only this is the first time I didn't. I've been busy and it was close to the deadline; but I've sent in several forms over the last few months and each one of them had been received. Getting cozy in that notion led me to feel confidant in the form's reception at the email, something that has happened to everyone I would imagine, so I thought it was fine to not check just this one time... and it didn't make it. D:

Since it's been exactly two weeks and two days since I sent in my initial finished form that spurred this idea (:3), I think it'd be a little silly to write up the other categories and ask if I accidentally sent it there now. (What do you do with misdirected emails? Do you keep them? Forward them to the poor person? Just delete them? I don't even know if they'd remember, either way.) But with the category listed on the confirmation page along with the other details, it'd rule out or in a misdirecting right then and there. :33

I would also imagine not everybody checks up on the status of their forms, too, (I honestly feel like such a bother asking about them, even (another reason for why I use the board over contact form), so just overall knowing you sent your form (at the least) to the right category would plain just be a load off them.

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General Questions and Discussion / Suggestion: Category named in confirm. for Sent Forms

« on: January 20, 2009, 06:19:06 PM »

Not trying to lay any guilt (I have no hate for you Buruma, Mercedes!! Please don't feel bad!! (D:), but because I was recently put on trouble in the Songs category because my finished form wasn't received... I started wondering if it might have been my fault, too, like if I had accidentally submitted it to the series or toys/collectibles categories... (I don't know if you respond to those to correct people, so.)

Since you don't send out confirmation emails anymore, every time I send in a form I copy the confirm to LJ (handy little thing, really) right afterwards as to keep a date/time record. Looking at the records, none of the confirms, in either applications or finished, and perhaps even other things, tell you which category you submitted your information to. In fact, for the finished forms at least, the confirmation for Characters reads identical as it does for Songs.

Finished, from Characters 0-M
Thank You, {Name}!

Your finished form for the {Series}: {Chara} fanlisting has been received. A staff member will process the form and you should hear back within 2-3 weeks (hopefully sooner!). :)

Finished, from Songs
Thank You, {Name}!

Your finished form for the {Series}: {Title} fanlisting has been received. A staff member will process the form and you should hear back within 2-3 weeks (hopefully sooner!). :)

Because I was busy and I thought the form would get to you, I didn't double-check here if my finished form for my song listing went through. But because, also, the confirmation is identical to that of finished form's confirmation for Characters, I also don't know if I even sent it to the right category.

I don't know how your contact form works specifically, but is it possible to get the Categories-to-which-you-submitted listed in the confirmations, like you do with the sender's name and what subject the submitted for? Kinda like this?:

Application
Thank You, {Name}

Your application for the {Category}: {Series}: {Subject} fanlisting has been received. A staff member will process the application and you should hear back within 2-3 weeks (hopefully sooner!). :)

Please note that we have turned auto-responders off due to load on the server. Consider this your auto-responder. DO NOT RESUBMIT your application. Thank you.

Finished
Thank You, {Name}!

Your finished form for the {Category}: {Series}: {Subject} fanlisting has been received. A staff member will process the form and you should hear back within 2-3 weeks (hopefully sooner!). :)