I ACTUALLY FINISHED THIS. YOU HAVE
NO IDEA HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS!
01. Your nameI'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 fanlistings12. (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].