Romana: Imi cer mii de scuze, voi mai intarzia putin cu niste comentarii literare pe care le asteptati de la mine... Am avut un deces in familie, si imi e greu sa ma concentrez la asta, cu toate care se intampla... Inca o data, imi cer scuze si sper sa ma intelegeti.

*MOOdy013

English: I am deeply sorry, but I'll be running a little late on literary comments expected of me and other such stuff. A relative has passed away, and it's hard for me to focus on such things with all that's going on... Again, I am sorry and I hope you will understand.

*MOOdy013

Intrari in concurs/Contest entries (detalii concurs mai jos/contest details below)


1. *drefeyja


2. ~AmunDei


3. ~I-wuv-you


4. ~noidoipunctcom


5. ~DystopianHeaven


6. ~Kiralyna


7. =innocencedied2nite


8. ~SweatyToothedMadman


LIMBA ROMANA:

In primul rand, sunt *MOOdy013, ca sa stiti cu cine vorbiti.

CONCURS

Tema: Pentru ca am avut numai o ilustra propunere, o s-o aleg EU, pentru ca dupa ce va trantesc tema asta, data viitoare sigur o sa am voturi mai multe de frica mintii mele bolnave.

Deci tema este FICTIUNE.
ATENTIE! Prin “fictiune” nu inteleg ceva ce se incadreaza in categoria fiction. Inteleg conceptul in sine. Spuneti-mi o poveste despre cum fictiunea a distrus si depravat un artist pentru ca realitatea nu putea sa compenseze in nici un fel cu bogatia si frumusetea imaginatiei lui, si a ajuns sa traiasca numai in fictiune. Scrieti-mi o poezie despre geneza fictiunii in sine, despre ce de am ajuns sa avem nevoie de ea ca refugiu si realitatea nu ne era suficienta. Orice. Fiti originali, dar TINETI CONT DE IDEE. Sa ma tortureze sapte legiuni ale Intunericului, si daca nu am nici un entry, NU VOI ACCEPTA CA INTRARE IN CONCURS NIMIC CARE NU RESPECTA TEMA DATA.

Logistica:
NU se accepta lucrari postate in galeria artistului inainte de data postarii acestui jurnal. Altfel zis, trebuie sa fie realizate special pentru acest concurs, sau sa nu ma prind eu ca s-a intamplat altfel.

Pentru a participa la concurs cu o lucrare, se trimite NOTE, pe adresa clubului evident, cu titlul “Concurs”.

Fiecare membru are voi sa participe cu UNA BUCATA LUCRARE. Nu e Loto “Mai multe numere, mai multe sanse de castig.”

In principiu, concursul de incheie in data de 30 Aprilie (2008 ). Daca insa vad ca va lalaiti si nu am entry-uri, mai prelungim. Incercati sa nu ma apuce vara cu acest concurs, totusi...

Fiecare lucrare trimisa pentru concurs vine cu bonus: comentariu literar scris de subsemnata.

Castigatorii, locurile I, II si III, se vor alege de catre “autoritatile inalte” ale clubului.

Premii... Ehe, baieti si fetite... Sa mor de eu nu v-as da subscription pentru locul I. Chiar as da. Dar nu am card dintr-ala cu figuri, si nu-l pot freca la melodie pe =skt-mdz incontinuu. Asa ca:
LOCUL I: Feature in shoutboard la clubu’ care este pana cand se va organiza urmatorul concurs + feature in jurnalul clubului timp de 3 saptamani + feature in jurnalul meu care sunt timp de 2 saptamani si in shoutboard timp de 3 + o bere cu mine cand dati prin Bucuresti sau cand vrei voi daca sunteti deja de aici, pe care o platesc eu cu conditia sa nu vreti s-o beti la carciuma unde imi vand un rinichi pentru ea. Sa mor, altceva nu stiu ce-as putea sa va mai dau.
LOCUL II: Feature in shoutboard la clubu’ care este timp de 3 saptamani + feature in jurnalul clubului timp de 2 saptamani + feature in jurnalul meu care sunt timp de 1 saptamana si in shoutboard timp de 2 + o bere cu mine cand dati prin Bucuresti sau cand vrei voi daca sunteti deja de aici, pe care o platiti voi, ca beau d-aia “eftina” la halba.
LOCUL III: Feature in shoutboard la clubu’ care este timp de 2 saptamani + feature in jurnalul clubului timp de 1 saptamana + feature in shoutboard-ul meu care este timp de 1 saptamana + o bere pe care fiecare o bea acasa la el si vorbim pe mess.

DISCLAIMER: Nu luati in nume de rau gluma cu berea, nu o ziceam pentru a jigni pe cineva. Serios vorbind daca totusi are cineva placerea unei discutii la o bere, poa’ sa-si revendice si partea aia de premiu


Trebuia sa mai fi zis ceva? Daca ceva nu se leaga, comentati si spuneti. SPOR LA SCRIS!


Alesul saptamanii

“The chosen one” este ~SweatyToothedMadman. Incepem de saptamana care vine cu implementarea dupa noile reguli. Dear, de luni ora 12:05 am, astept lucrarile tale de comentat.
Pe ale celorlalti membri, oricand vreti voi sa le trimiteti e ok cu mine



ENGLISH:

First of all, so you know who you are talking to, I am *MOOdy013.

CONTEST

Topic: Due to the fact that I’ve only had one suggestion from the members, I’ll choose the topic. That will ensure you WILL suggest topics next time, if only to avoid dealing with what my sick mind can come up with.

Thus, topic si FICTION.
BE CAREFUL! By “fiction” I DO NOT mean something submitted under the fiction category. I mean the concept of fiction. Tell me a story about how fiction destroyed an artist because reality could not in any way compensate with the beauty of his imagination, and he ended up living only in fiction. Write a poem about how fiction was born, about why we ended up needing it as a refuge and why was reality not enough for us. Be original, but RESPECT THE TOPIC. I’d be surrendered to eternal damnation in the dimensions of darkness, even if I am left with not a single piece, I WIL NOT ACCEPT AS AN ENTRY ANYTHING WHICH DOES NOT RESPECT THE GIVEN TOPIC.

Logistic:
I WILL NOT accept work submitted in the artist’s gallery prior to the posting of this journal. In other words, they have to be especially made for this contest, or I have to not be able to find out they aren’t.

To participate, send a NOTE with the title “Contest”.

Every member has the right to participate with ONE piece.

Theoretically, contest submissions will be closed on the 30 th of april (2008 ). If, however, I see there aren’t enough entries, I will postpone the closing. But try not to hold me up with this contest until mid summer.

Every contest entry comes with a bonus: literary comment from yours truly.

‘ Powers from above’ will decide the winners. (places I, II and III)

What you win.... Whehehellll now. If I had a card I’d buy 1 st place subscription. But I don’t. Thus:
1 st PLACE: Feature in club shoutboard until the next contest will be held + feature in club journal for 3 weeks + feature in my journal for 2 weeks + in my shoutboard for 3 weeks. If you ever visit Romania, one beer’s on me
2 nd PLACE: Feature in club shoutboard for 3 weeks + feature in club journal for 2 + feature in my journal for 1 week and in my shoutboard for 2 + a beer on you if you ever visit my country.
3 rd PLACE: Feature in club shoutboard for 2 weeks + feature in club journal for 1 week + feature in my shoutboard one week + virtually drinking a beer with me (on YM)

DISCLAIMER: Beer jokes did not mean to offend anyone!

Let me know if any info is missing! GOOD LUCK WITH THE WRITING!


The week’s chosen one

... is ~SweatyToothedMadman. Starting next week, 12:05 am Monday, we’ll living by the new rules, and I’ll be waiting for her work to be commented. Rest of you, send notes as you please and when, keeping in mind the 3 a member/week rule.

LIMBA ROMANA:

Reguli noi si concurs

In primul rand, sunt *MOOdy013, ca sa stiti cu cine vorbiti.

Explicatii pentru necesitatea crearii unui nou set de reguli AICI, pentru cine le doreste (nu am vrut sa incarc jurnalul pana iese nuvela. Cine vrea sa cunoasca motivele pentru care n-am avut de ales, le gaseste la un click distanta, explicate sincer si din tot sufletul).

Voi reveni cat de curand cu un link catre regulile pe scurt. (acum am simtit nevoia sa explic ce si cum, sa inteleaga toti, dar cine nu are rabdare sau timp, le poate citi in varianta scurta)


Nou set de reguli temporare. Pana gasesc alta solutie mai buna (astept si idei de la voi):

In ordinea “ primul venit, primul servit”, prin comentariu la acest jurnal, in fiecare saptamna va fi cate UN membru caruia i se vor comenta lucrarile trimise spre submission. Care lucrari trimise spre submission pot fi pana la 3 pe saptamana pentru un membru. Asa ca: ala care declara primul ca el vrea saptamana asta comentarii, aluia i se vor comenta lucrarile, si ma voi ocupa NUMAI EU de asta. In rest, din lipsa mea grava de timp, se vor posta lucrarile pur si simplu, fara comentariu. Evident, daca saptamana asta zice primul ca vrea membrul X, saptamana viitoare, chiar daca spune primul tot X, va fi luat urmatorul care s-a declarat doritor, si tot asa. Cate cereri, atatea oferte, numai sa aveti rabdare sa va vina randul. Daca vineva n-a inteles cum merge treaba, intrebati-ma prin comentariu la jurnal.

“Doritorul saptamanii” despre care am explicat mai sus va avea si feature in shoutbord in decursul acelei saptamani. (Ca sa fac o treaba pana la capat! )

Daca cineva se simte cult in cap, in stare sa scrie comentarii literare elocvente, cu suflet, si considerabile ca si intindere, DAR MAI ALES se simte si serios si pus pe treaba, astept CV-uri prin note pe ID-ul meu, *MOOdy013, cu titlul “Admin CV”. In note, scrieti de ce va considerati potriviti, cam ce sititi sa faceti, etc. Convingeti-ma. Si eu va dau un reply si va explic, printre altele, ce pot oferi eu in schimbul acestui ajutor. Aka “salariul”. Pana nu voi gasi pe cineva potrivit, daca voi gasi vreodata, sau pana nu voi gasi alta solutie, regula de comentarii ramane cea de mai sus. Nu va chinuiti degeaba daca nu aveti cunostinte solide de limba engleza.

Orice sugestii pe care, eventual, le veti propune vor fi supuse la vot prin poll. De data asta bilingv. Totusi, decizia finala va fi ‘de la sefi’. Poate sau nu sa coincida cu rezultatul poll-ului.

Daca vreo lucrare mi se pare ilizibil de proasta, nu va fi postata. Glumesc cu exprimarea. Ideea e ca daca vreo lucrare nu respecta niste reguli de baza, nu o voi mai putea posta in galerie. Va intra la Scraps. Vreau sa aducem clubul la niste standarde calitative. Artistul va primi atunci cand deviatia sa nu ajunge in galerie un note explicativ DOAR DACA il solicita, anuntandu-ma cumva despre solicitarea lui. (note, e-mail, comentariu la vreun jurnal de p-aici, venit cu avocatii la usa, etc.)
Ca si guideline: Daca lucrarea ta contine cuvinte inexistente precum “jtii”, “matza”, “sh mam dus”, adica daca nu repsecta niste reguli elementare ale grmaticii si lexicului (nu vorbesc de greseli de tastare, alea le pot intelege, nu-s absurda), NU va fi publicata. Macar atat, cred, ca nu e absurd daca impun. Va fi evaluata si din punct de vedere al ideii, care trebuie macar sa existe. Nu-mi mai trimiteti JURNALE pe post de proza filosofica, ca nu vi le publica nimeni.

Pentru ca am aflat ca e posibil ca ce fac eu aici sa poata fi considerat la limita dintre ok si ne-ok cu legea drepturilor de autor (nu sunt sigura ca e asa, dar era pe acolo ceva cu “ permisiunea scrisa a autorului”, vreau sa va rog sa scrieti in galeria voastra, inainte sa trimiteti spre submission ceva, la artist comment, unde aveti lucrarea, textul “I give
*AngstyWriters permission to publish this in their deviation gallery.” NU voi mai publica lucrari care nu contin textul ala la voi in galerie. NU vreau sa risc in acest sens.



CONCURS:

S-a votat ca cam asa:
72%, adica 21 de oameni au raspuns “Da, dar nu propun nici o tema anume.”

17%, adic 5 oameni, au raspuns “Da, si doresc sa propun o tema pentru el.”
Propunerile aici sunt, in ciuda acestui numar de 5 si in ciuda logicii, doar cea de mai jos. Sa mor daca inteleg cum au zis restul c-o sa ghicesc eu tema de la ei din cap...
~noidoipunctcom cu, citez: “"Embrionic"...luat cuvantul ca atare(clasic si cu trimitere directa la o anume semnificatie) sau extins dupa toate latitudinile si longitudinile intelesurilor sale(ceva intre abstract si modern)..”

10%, adica 3 oameni, au raspuns “Nu.”

Concluzia:
AVEM CONCURS, SE PARE CA VRETI, imi pare rau pentru cei trei care nu vreti, va trebui sa ne suportati. Revin cu detalii despre ce facem pana la urma cu tema, premiere, durata, etc. AZI, cel tarziu maine dimineata. Mai meditez intai.





ENGLISH:

New rules and contest

First of all, so you know who you are talking to, I am *MOOdy013.

For those of you who would like to read detailed, straight from the heart reasons as to why where the changes necessary, click HERE. (I didn’t want to overload the journal and make it into a novel, but for those of you who want to know, the reasons are one click away).

I’ll get back to you soon with a link to the new set of rules explained in short. (for whomever hasn’t the time or patience to read them as so. However, I felt like for start the bla bla was necessary.)

New temporary set of rules. Until I find a better idea. (also waiting to hear ideas from you):

In the order of ‘first come, first served’, one volunteer will be chosen every week to have the work he submits that week commented, within the limit of the 3 deviations per week every member is allowed to submit. I, MOODY, will be responsible for each and every last one of those comments. The rest of the submissions will be posted with no admin’s comment. Thus: thee who wishes to have your work commented this week, hurry up and say so! If, for instance, this week X is the fastest and his work is commented, next week, even if X is fastest at it again, the next volunteer will be chosen, and so on. Thus, as many volunteers, as much bandwidth to submit, you just need to wait your turn. If there’s someone who has not understood how it works, please let me know trough a comment here, and I’ll do my best to explain it all better.

“Volunteer of the week”, which I’ve mentioned above, will also have his work featured in the shoutboard, so as to do a job to the end!

This next rule does not apply for foreigners. I was asking the Romanians to send me a CV if they consider themselves up to the commenting job, so as to get back to the old rules, but we have plenty of Romanian submissions, so you’d have to know both languages for this...

Every suggestion you might have will be submitted to public vote trough the use of a poll, in both Romanian AND English this time. However, final decision will be ‘from above’. It may or may not the same as the poll result.

If I find a piece of work given to submission ‘devastatingly suckie’ (do not be offended by the words I’ve just used, they’re a figure of speech and an innocent joke), I will not submit it. I will evaluate it in terms of grammar (the least we can do is write properly! And I don’t mean type-os. I understand those, I am not absurd.) and idea. Idea has to at least exist. Stop sending me JOURNALS categorized as philosophic prose, because nobody is going to publish those. What will not make it into gallery will go to scraps. Reasons for work not making it into gallery will be available upon request. (if the artist so notifies me in one way or another: note, e-mail, comment to some journal here, lawyers at my door, etc.). This is to build some necessary quality standards. Don’t worry, I will not be absurd or too drastic about it.

Because I’ve found out that what I’m doing here may or may not be ok with the author’s rights thing (there was something there about author’s written permission to publish his/her work), I’m going to have to ask you to post in you gallery, at the artist comment, before sending me the work, the phrase “I give *AngstyWriters permission to publish this in their deviation gallery.”. I WILL NOT publish any work not containing that, I DO NOT want to take a chance.


CONTEST:

It has been voted as nya:
72%, aka 21 people, have said “Yes, but I do not wish to suggest any particular topic”

17%, aka 5 people, have said “Yes, and I wish to suggest a topic.”. However, they must think I am a fortuneteller or something, because only ONE has also commented on the poll to state her topic...
~noidoipunctcom has suggested “fetus”, and from her description we can understand she meant both per say stuff and conceptual stuff. All the word can make you think of.

10%, aka 3 people, said “No.”

Conclusion::
WE HAVE A CONTEST. I’ll get back to you with details on what we do about the topic, what will you win if submitting, etc, etc, later TODAY or, at worst, tomorrow.

To the other admins: Please guys, I just got this to work, don't edit the journal or attempt to update a new one before I tell you where to put what. Even you Ozz, tough I know you've used CSS before. It's more complex then what I've usually seen, stuff has to go in certain places and orders for it to work.

Edit:
Eee of the huge stupidity, me, *MOOdy013, have been kind enough as to translate the poll title for the foreigners, but have been DUMB enough to forget to translate the options! I'm sorry, it's the new 'toy' subscription enthusiasm...
I can't edit it, I don't have the option. If I delete the poll, everyone will have to vote all over again and they'll swear at me so good I'll trip in the bathtub. Thus, the simplest way I've taught of to handle this is to get you all non-Romanian speakers to trust me on what the options mean and vote blindly...
Thus: #1 is "No"
#2 is "Yes, and I would like to propose a theme for the contest (comment here stating the theme and it's description if you vote this)"
#3 is "Yes, but I propose no theme."
Please, please forgive me for this mess, will not happen again. I don't mean to disrespect any foreign members, that's why I translate all my journals, but, but...

Yours in shame,
*MOOdy013

English:

I have found a functional CSS. I can't make s**t out of other people's code, so I had to find one that worked as it was or write one myself from scratch. Since I don't have time for the last one, I found this here CSS. So, if anyone has a problem with the girly-girl fantasy CSS, I am ll open for ideas, but it has to be tested and functional. I am a rocker, this cuteness cramps my style. Kiddin' about that last part. It worked ok and I taught it was neutral, but if you have suggestions, link me up.

P.S.: We're in for serious features now.

Yours,
*MOOdy013

Romana:

Am gasit un CSS functional. Eu nu-nteleg ni-mic din codul scris de altii, asa ca trebuia ori sa gasesc unul care sa functioneze asa cum e, ori sa scriu eu unul de la inceput. Cum de ultima dintre ele n-am timp, am gasit acest CSS. Asa ca, daca cineva are doleante relativ la acest CSS pentru fetite roz, sunt deschisa pentru propuneri, dar trebuie sa fie ceva testat si functional. Sunt rockerita, asta imi strica stilul. Glumesc cu ultima parte. A mers ok si m-am gandit ca e neutru, dar daca aveti sugestii mai bune, astept link.

P.S.: Amu' sa vedeti ce-s alea features.

Cu drag,
*MOOdy013