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Welcome to rec.arts.anime.creative

Copyright 1996-2005, Brian Edmonds
$Revision: 1.16 $ $Date: 2005/02/28 14:04:14 $

The latest version of this document can be found at
* http://www.robomod.net/rec.arts.anime.creative/
* post to the newsgroup or mailing list with the following text in
the subject (without the quotes): "send file: guidelines.txt"

Any inquiries, comments or suggestions should be sent to the group
moderators at raac-moderator@robomod.net.
_________________________________________________________________

Contents

* Introduction
* Charter
+ Interpretation: fanfic
+ Interpretation: artwork
+ Interpretation: other
* How to submit a post
* What to expect after posting
* Archive site
* How you can help
_________________________________________________________________

Introduction

The newsgroup rec.arts.anime.creative (RAAC) was created in May 1993
as rec.arts.anime.stories. In March 1996 it was renamed to its current
name to better reflect the content of the group (ie. not just
stories).

No introduction would be complete without a big tip of the hat to
Megazone who put in much work from the early 1990s on in developing
both the fanfic archive and newsgroup. Zoner retired in the summer of
1996, and while he's not gone from anime or the net, we'll miss his
energy on RAAC. (Actually we're hoping he'll have more time to work on
Hopelessly Lost and other Eyrie stuff now...)
_________________________________________________________________

Charter

From the newgroup creation message as stored at ftp.isc.org:

This moderated newsgroup serves as a place for the posting of fan
created works. For any anime or manga related fan work including
stories, parodies, original scripts written by fans, poems, song
lyrics, and original artwork. Only the actual fan works will be posted
here -- any discussion regarding these works should be posted to
rec.arts.anime.fandom.

Interpretation: fanfic

Fan fiction falls into one of these categories:
1. An original story within one or more established commercial
series, sometimes with original characters.
2. An original story within an original world, but with an anime
style or feel. Considerable latitude will be given in determining
just what "anime style or feel" is.
3. Poetry (including song lyrics), either directly about, or inspired
by an anime series or character.
4. Parody of either a commercial series or other fanfic. In the
latter case, some sensitivity is advised in not being too
caustic...

Scripts or song lyrics from commercial works are not covered in the
above, though limited (and acknowledged) borrowing from such is
acceptable under "fair use". Plagiarism of commercial or other fan
works is unacceptable in any form.

Interpretation: artwork

Fan artwork is either an original rendering of characters and/or
situations from a commercial series, or a completely original work in
manga style. Again, considerable latitude will be given in determining
just what constitutes "manga style".

Some use of commercially available images may be acceptable for parody
purposes if the parody element makes a significant contribution to the
work. This decision will be made on a case by case basis by the
moderation team or its appointed representative. In any case, straight
scans of commercial images will never be considered acceptable.

Interpretation: other

Announcements related to fan projects are also welcome. This can
include pointers to fan works ftp/web sites and mailing lists. Most
followups to posted works should be sent to rec.arts.anime.fandom, but
carefully prepared reviews and guides to collections of works will
likely be accepted on RAAC.
_________________________________________________________________

How to submit a post

In general you should be able to post to RAAC just as you would to any
other group, and software should take care of the details of mailing
it to the proper submission address. If your news system is broken and
can't handle this properly, submissions can be mailed to
rec-arts-anime-creative@robomod.net.

Please try posting first and only mail your submissions if that does
not work. You should also bring any problems to the attention of your
local news administrator, and direct him or her to contact the RAAC
moderation coordinator if help is needed fixing things:
raac-techmod@robomod.net.

Textual works must be submitted in plain ASCII format, with lines
wrapped somewhere between column 60 and 79; 72 is recommended. In
multi-part works be sure to indicate clearly what part each piece is
in the subject and both at the start and end, and be consistent in how
you label parts. It is annoying to try and piece together a work
consisting of Part 1, Chapter II, Ep. Three, Story iv, and so on. It
has been suggested that in multi-part works starting with a "What has
gone before" blurb is a good idea, but RAAC has no official policy on
this. If it has been more than a month since the last installment, you
may wish to consider it.

The common language understood by the vast majority of readers of RAAC
is English, and works in any other language are unlikely to be
accepted. Some use of Japanese within stories is an obvious exception,
and in general fragments of other languages (with English translation)
in a larger work are fine. For short works, poetry in particular,
other languages may be accepted as long as an English translation
accompanies the submission.

Artwork must be in JPEG or GIF format, and may be uuencoded or
attached as a base64 MIME attachment. You should also sign the work.
Including a short "explanatory note" as a preamble to any artwork
posting is highly recommended, particularly as such information is
useful to people later browsing the archives.

All posts to RAAC must be tagged to indicate the series on which they
are based (eg. BGC, Ranma, SM, etc.), and the type of work (eg. Art,
Fanfic, etc). It is also traditional to add a Lemon tag if the work
contains material of a sexual nature. Please tag your posts
appropriately before submitting them. For examples of such tagging,
see the newsgroup itself.

Please try to finish stories before posting them. Feedback while
writing may be nice, but it's a lot easier to go back and make changes
in earlier parts if you haven't already sent them out to the whole
world. Also, far too many authors simply vanish from the net halfway
through writing, leaving people looking for the rest of their story
even years later. Finally, give your work a title, as otherwise it's
hard to figure out where to put it in the archive.
_________________________________________________________________

What to expect after posting

If you submit your posting with a valid return address, you should
always receive mail in response from the moderation server. If you do
not use a valid address, please be sure to read the last paragraph in
this section. If you do not hear anything back from the moderation
server within a few hours, then you should contact the group
coordinator at the address given at the beginning of this document.

If the moderation software does not detect any problems with your
submission, then it will send an acknowledgement that your posting has
been received. If it finds any problems then it will return the entire
post with an explanation of the problem(s) it observed. If you have
trouble understanding or correcting the problem, please contact the
group coordinator.

Once your submission has been accepted it will be placed in the
submission pool, from which moderators request work. Depending on how
busy the moderators are it may be handled in anywhere from a few
minutes to a few days. If more than a week passes and you do not
either hear from a moderator or see your story posted to RAAC, feel
free to contact the group coordinator to inquire.

Your submission should also show up in the archives within a couple
days of being posted, although some moderators collect archive updates
and process them in a bunch every week or more. If you feel an
excessively long time has gone by after your submission appeared on
RAAC and it is not yet in the archives, feel free to contact the group
coordinator to inquire.

If you post from an invalid address, you can still receive mesages
from the moderation server if you register a valid address with the
server (a munged registration). You can read more about address
registration at
* http://www.robomod.net/register.html
* post to the group with the text "send file: register.txt" as the
subject
_________________________________________________________________

Archive site

All fan works posted to the newsgroup will be archived; if you don't
want your work archived, do not post it to RAAC. The primary archive
for the group is located at
* ftp://ftp.gweep.ca/pub/anime/anime-fan-works/

Works can be found in directories under there, by series, with the
larger endeavors in directories of their own under the series
directory. In the case of huge crossover works, such as Undocumented
Features, they will be in a directory of their own at the top level of
the archive. Smaller crossovers will probably be stored in one of the
represented series' directory. Works based on a show which does not
yet have its own directory can be found in the Miscellaneous
directory.

Images are in their raw binary format. Most text files are stored in
gzip (.gz) format. You can either have the server decompress them for
you while downloading (request the file without the .gz extension), or
you can get a copy of gzip to do so yourself. On Windows platforms
winzip is rumoured to have this capability.

Generally, a new directory will be created for a series (or a large
work within a series) when more than three distinct pieces of work are
available. Individual stories will generally be archived as a single
file unless they are very large (>200kB compressed) or are episodic in
nature, rather than chapters in a single continuity.

Work is planned as time permits to create a network of archive mirrors
as well as a web interface to the archive. Details will be added here
when known.
_________________________________________________________________

How you can help

If you're an author, take care when posting to the group to follow all
the guidelines above. A properly formatted and tagged post takes very
little moderator effort to deal with, while one with problems can hold
all the rest up. In particular, know your news reader, and be careful
of such things as MIME encoding, 8-bit characters, and automatic line
wrapping, any of which can wreak havoc with what you thought was a
properly formatted submission.

The group is pretty well provisioned with moderators, but interested
parties are always welcome to get in touch with the group coordinator.
The moderation software has gone through a number of revisions over
the years, and is now pretty user friendly, though some familiarity
with the format and contents of news headers is beneficial.
_________________________________________________________________

Brian Edmonds
$Date: 2005/02/28 14:04:14 $

Posted In: rec.arts.anime.creative

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Welcome to rec.arts.anime.creative

Copyright 1996-2005, Brian Edmonds
$Revision: 1.16 $ $Date: 2005/02/28 14:04:14 $

The latest version of this document can be found at
* http://www.robomod.net/rec.arts.anime.creative/
* post to the newsgroup or mailing list with the following text in
the subject (without the quotes): "send file: guidelines.txt"

Any inquiries, comments or suggestions should be sent to the group
moderators at raac-moderator@robomod.net.
_________________________________________________________________

Contents

* Introduction
* Charter
+ Interpretation: fanfic
+ Interpretation: artwork
+ Interpretation: other
* How to submit a post
* What to expect after posting
* Archive site
* How you can help
_________________________________________________________________

Introduction

The newsgroup rec.arts.anime.creative (RAAC) was created in May 1993
as rec.arts.anime.stories. In March 1996 it was renamed to its current
name to better reflect the content of the group (ie. not just
stories).

No introduction would be complete without a big tip of the hat to
Megazone who put in much work from the early 1990s on in developing
both the fanfic archive and newsgroup. Zoner retired in the summer of
1996, and while he's not gone from anime or the net, we'll miss his
energy on RAAC. (Actually we're hoping he'll have more time to work on
Hopelessly Lost and other Eyrie stuff now...)
_________________________________________________________________

Charter

From the newgroup creation message as stored at ftp.isc.org:

This moderated newsgroup serves as a place for the posting of fan
created works. For any anime or manga related fan work including
stories, parodies, original scripts written by fans, poems, song
lyrics, and original artwork. Only the actual fan works will be posted
here -- any discussion regarding these works should be posted to
rec.arts.anime.fandom.

Interpretation: fanfic

Fan fiction falls into one of these categories:
1. An original story within one or more established commercial
series, sometimes with original characters.
2. An original story within an original world, but with an anime
style or feel. Considerable latitude will be given in determining
just what "anime style or feel" is.
3. Poetry (including song lyrics), either directly about, or inspired
by an anime series or character.
4. Parody of either a commercial series or other fanfic. In the
latter case, some sensitivity is advised in not being too
caustic...

Scripts or song lyrics from commercial works are not covered in the
above, though limited (and acknowledged) borrowing from such is
acceptable under "fair use". Plagiarism of commercial or other fan
works is unacceptable in any form.

Interpretation: artwork

Fan artwork is either an original rendering of characters and/or
situations from a commercial series, or a completely original work in
manga style. Again, considerable latitude will be given in determining
just what constitutes "manga style".

Some use of commercially available images may be acceptable for parody
purposes if the parody element makes a significant contribution to the
work. This decision will be made on a case by case basis by the
moderation team or its appointed representative. In any case, straight
scans of commercial images will never be considered acceptable.

Interpretation: other

Announcements related to fan projects are also welcome. This can
include pointers to fan works ftp/web sites and mailing lists. Most
followups to posted works should be sent to rec.arts.anime.fandom, but
carefully prepared reviews and guides to collections of works will
likely be accepted on RAAC.
_________________________________________________________________

How to submit a post

In general you should be able to post to RAAC just as you would to any
other group, and software should take care of the details of mailing
it to the proper submission address. If your news system is broken and
can't handle this properly, submissions can be mailed to
rec-arts-anime-creative@robomod.net.

Please try posting first and only mail your submissions if that does
not work. You should also bring any problems to the attention of your
local news administrator, and direct him or her to contact the RAAC
moderation coordinator if help is needed fixing things:
raac-techmod@robomod.net.

Textual works must be submitted in plain ASCII format, with lines
wrapped somewhere between column 60 and 79; 72 is recommended. In
multi-part works be sure to indicate clearly what part each piece is
in the subject and both at the start and end, and be consistent in how
you label parts. It is annoying to try and piece together a work
consisting of Part 1, Chapter II, Ep. Three, Story iv, and so on. It
has been suggested that in multi-part works starting with a "What has
gone before" blurb is a good idea, but RAAC has no official policy on
this. If it has been more than a month since the last installment, you
may wish to consider it.

The common language understood by the vast majority of readers of RAAC
is English, and works in any other language are unlikely to be
accepted. Some use of Japanese within stories is an obvious exception,
and in general fragments of other languages (with English translation)
in a larger work are fine. For short works, poetry in particular,
other languages may be accepted as long as an English translation
accompanies the submission.

Artwork must be in JPEG or GIF format, and may be uuencoded or
attached as a base64 MIME attachment. You should also sign the work.
Including a short "explanatory note" as a preamble to any artwork
posting is highly recommended, particularly as such information is
useful to people later browsing the archives.

All posts to RAAC must be tagged to indicate the series on which they
are based (eg. BGC, Ranma, SM, etc.), and the type of work (eg. Art,
Fanfic, etc). It is also traditional to add a Lemon tag if the work
contains material of a sexual nature. Please tag your posts
appropriately before submitting them. For examples of such tagging,
see the newsgroup itself.

Please try to finish stories before posting them. Feedback while
writing may be nice, but it's a lot easier to go back and make changes
in earlier parts if you haven't already sent them out to the whole
world. Also, far too many authors simply vanish from the net halfway
through writing, leaving people looking for the rest of their story
even years later. Finally, give your work a title, as otherwise it's
hard to figure out where to put it in the archive.
_________________________________________________________________

What to expect after posting

If you submit your posting with a valid return address, you should
always receive mail in response from the moderation server. If you do
not use a valid address, please be sure to read the last paragraph in
this section. If you do not hear anything back from the moderation
server within a few hours, then you should contact the group
coordinator at the address given at the beginning of this document.

If the moderation software does not detect any problems with your
submission, then it will send an acknowledgement that your posting has
been received. If it finds any problems then it will return the entire
post with an explanation of the problem(s) it observed. If you have
trouble understanding or correcting the problem, please contact the
group coordinator.

Once your submission has been accepted it will be placed in the
submission pool, from which moderators request work. Depending on how
busy the moderators are it may be handled in anywhere from a few
minutes to a few days. If more than a week passes and you do not
either hear from a moderator or see your story posted to RAAC, feel
free to contact the group coordinator to inquire.

Your submission should also show up in the archives within a couple
days of being posted, although some moderators collect archive updates
and process them in a bunch every week or more. If you feel an
excessively long time has gone by after your submission appeared on
RAAC and it is not yet in the archives, feel free to contact the group
coordinator to inquire.

If you post from an invalid address, you can still receive mesages
from the moderation server if you register a valid address with the
server (a munged registration). You can read more about address
registration at
* http://www.robomod.net/register.html
* post to the group with the text "send file: register.txt" as the
subject
_________________________________________________________________

Archive site

All fan works posted to the newsgroup will be archived; if you don't
want your work archived, do not post it to RAAC. The primary archive
for the group is located at
* ftp://ftp.gweep.ca/pub/anime/anime-fan-works/

Works can be found in directories under there, by series, with the
larger endeavors in directories of their own under the series
directory. In the case of huge crossover works, such as Undocumented
Features, they will be in a directory of their own at the top level of
the archive. Smaller crossovers will probably be stored in one of the
represented series' directory. Works based on a show which does not
yet have its own directory can be found in the Miscellaneous
directory.

Images are in their raw binary format. Most text files are stored in
gzip (.gz) format. You can either have the server decompress them for
you while downloading (request the file without the .gz extension), or
you can get a copy of gzip to do so yourself. On Windows platforms
winzip is rumoured to have this capability.

Generally, a new directory will be created for a series (or a large
work within a series) when more than three distinct pieces of work are
available. Individual stories will generally be archived as a single
file unless they are very large (>200kB compressed) or are episodic in
nature, rather than chapters in a single continuity.

Work is planned as time permits to create a network of archive mirrors
as well as a web interface to the archive. Details will be added here
when known.
_________________________________________________________________

How you can help

If you're an author, take care when posting to the group to follow all
the guidelines above. A properly formatted and tagged post takes very
little moderator effort to deal with, while one with problems can hold
all the rest up. In particular, know your news reader, and be careful
of such things as MIME encoding, 8-bit characters, and automatic line
wrapping, any of which can wreak havoc with what you thought was a
properly formatted submission.

The group is pretty well provisioned with moderators, but interested
parties are always welcome to get in touch with the group coordinator.
The moderation software has gone through a number of revisions over
the years, and is now pretty user friendly, though some familiarity
with the format and contents of news headers is beneficial.
_________________________________________________________________

Brian Edmonds
$Date: 2005/02/28 14:04:14 $

Posted In: rec.arts.anime.creative

no comments

Reply

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Last-modified: 2005/02/28 14:04:14
Version: 1.16
URL: http://www.robomod.net/rec.arts.anime.creative/


Welcome to rec.arts.anime.creative

Copyright 1996-2005, Brian Edmonds
$Revision: 1.16 $ $Date: 2005/02/28 14:04:14 $

The latest version of this document can be found at
* http://www.robomod.net/rec.arts.anime.creative/
* post to the newsgroup or mailing list with the following text in
the subject (without the quotes): "send file: guidelines.txt"

Any inquiries, comments or suggestions should be sent to the group
moderators at raac-moderator@robomod.net.
_________________________________________________________________

Contents

* Introduction
* Charter
+ Interpretation: fanfic
+ Interpretation: artwork
+ Interpretation: other
* How to submit a post
* What to expect after posting
* Archive site
* How you can help
_________________________________________________________________

Introduction

The newsgroup rec.arts.anime.creative (RAAC) was created in May 1993
as rec.arts.anime.stories. In March 1996 it was renamed to its current
name to better reflect the content of the group (ie. not just
stories).

No introduction would be complete without a big tip of the hat to
Megazone who put in much work from the early 1990s on in developing
both the fanfic archive and newsgroup. Zoner retired in the summer of
1996, and while he's not gone from anime or the net, we'll miss his
energy on RAAC. (Actually we're hoping he'll have more time to work on
Hopelessly Lost and other Eyrie stuff now...)
_________________________________________________________________

Charter

From the newgroup creation message as stored at ftp.isc.org:

This moderated newsgroup serves as a place for the posting of fan
created works. For any anime or manga related fan work including
stories, parodies, original scripts written by fans, poems, song
lyrics, and original artwork. Only the actual fan works will be posted
here -- any discussion regarding these works should be posted to
rec.arts.anime.fandom.

Interpretation: fanfic

Fan fiction falls into one of these categories:
1. An original story within one or more established commercial
series, sometimes with original characters.
2. An original story within an original world, but with an anime
style or feel. Considerable latitude will be given in determining
just what "anime style or feel" is.
3. Poetry (including song lyrics), either directly about, or inspired
by an anime series or character.
4. Parody of either a commercial series or other fanfic. In the
latter case, some sensitivity is advised in not being too
caustic...

Scripts or song lyrics from commercial works are not covered in the
above, though limited (and acknowledged) borrowing from such is
acceptable under "fair use". Plagiarism of commercial or other fan
works is unacceptable in any form.

Interpretation: artwork

Fan artwork is either an original rendering of characters and/or
situations from a commercial series, or a completely original work in
manga style. Again, considerable latitude will be given in determining
just what constitutes "manga style".

Some use of commercially available images may be acceptable for parody
purposes if the parody element makes a significant contribution to the
work. This decision will be made on a case by case basis by the
moderation team or its appointed representative. In any case, straight
scans of commercial images will never be considered acceptable.

Interpretation: other

Announcements related to fan projects are also welcome. This can
include pointers to fan works ftp/web sites and mailing lists. Most
followups to posted works should be sent to rec.arts.anime.fandom, but
carefully prepared reviews and guides to collections of works will
likely be accepted on RAAC.
_________________________________________________________________

How to submit a post

In general you should be able to post to RAAC just as you would to any
other group, and software should take care of the details of mailing
it to the proper submission address. If your news system is broken and
can't handle this properly, submissions can be mailed to
rec-arts-anime-creative@robomod.net.

Please try posting first and only mail your submissions if that does
not work. You should also bring any problems to the attention of your
local news administrator, and direct him or her to contact the RAAC
moderation coordinator if help is needed fixing things:
raac-techmod@robomod.net.

Textual works must be submitted in plain ASCII format, with lines
wrapped somewhere between column 60 and 79; 72 is recommended. In
multi-part works be sure to indicate clearly what part each piece is
in the subject and both at the start and end, and be consistent in how
you label parts. It is annoying to try and piece together a work
consisting of Part 1, Chapter II, Ep. Three, Story iv, and so on. It
has been suggested that in multi-part works starting with a "What has
gone before" blurb is a good idea, but RAAC has no official policy on
this. If it has been more than a month since the last installment, you
may wish to consider it.

The common language understood by the vast majority of readers of RAAC
is English, and works in any other language are unlikely to be
accepted. Some use of Japanese within stories is an obvious exception,
and in general fragments of other languages (with English translation)
in a larger work are fine. For short works, poetry in particular,
other languages may be accepted as long as an English translation
accompanies the submission.

Artwork must be in JPEG or GIF format, and may be uuencoded or
attached as a base64 MIME attachment. You should also sign the work.
Including a short "explanatory note" as a preamble to any artwork
posting is highly recommended, particularly as such information is
useful to people later browsing the archives.

All posts to RAAC must be tagged to indicate the series on which they
are based (eg. BGC, Ranma, SM, etc.), and the type of work (eg. Art,
Fanfic, etc). It is also traditional to add a Lemon tag if the work
contains material of a sexual nature. Please tag your posts
appropriately before submitting them. For examples of such tagging,
see the newsgroup itself.

Please try to finish stories before posting them. Feedback while
writing may be nice, but it's a lot easier to go back and make changes
in earlier parts if you haven't already sent them out to the whole
world. Also, far too many authors simply vanish from the net halfway
through writing, leaving people looking for the rest of their story
even years later. Finally, give your work a title, as otherwise it's
hard to figure out where to put it in the archive.
_________________________________________________________________

What to expect after posting

If you submit your posting with a valid return address, you should
always receive mail in response from the moderation server. If you do
not use a valid address, please be sure to read the last paragraph in
this section. If you do not hear anything back from the moderation
server within a few hours, then you should contact the group
coordinator at the address given at the beginning of this document.

If the moderation software does not detect any problems with your
submission, then it will send an acknowledgement that your posting has
been received. If it finds any problems then it will return the entire
post with an explanation of the problem(s) it observed. If you have
trouble understanding or correcting the problem, please contact the
group coordinator.

Once your submission has been accepted it will be placed in the
submission pool, from which moderators request work. Depending on how
busy the moderators are it may be handled in anywhere from a few
minutes to a few days. If more than a week passes and you do not
either hear from a moderator or see your story posted to RAAC, feel
free to contact the group coordinator to inquire.

Your submission should also show up in the archives within a couple
days of being posted, although some moderators collect archive updates
and process them in a bunch every week or more. If you feel an
excessively long time has gone by after your submission appeared on
RAAC and it is not yet in the archives, feel free to contact the group
coordinator to inquire.

If you post from an invalid address, you can still receive mesages
from the moderation server if you register a valid address with the
server (a munged registration). You can read more about address
registration at
* http://www.robomod.net/register.html
* post to the group with the text "send file: register.txt" as the
subject
_________________________________________________________________

Archive site

All fan works posted to the newsgroup will be archived; if you don't
want your work archived, do not post it to RAAC. The primary archive
for the group is located at
* ftp://ftp.gweep.ca/pub/anime/anime-fan-works/

Works can be found in directories under there, by series, with the
larger endeavors in directories of their own under the series
directory. In the case of huge crossover works, such as Undocumented
Features, they will be in a directory of their own at the top level of
the archive. Smaller crossovers will probably be stored in one of the
represented series' directory. Works based on a show which does not
yet have its own directory can be found in the Miscellaneous
directory.

Images are in their raw binary format. Most text files are stored in
gzip (.gz) format. You can either have the server decompress them for
you while downloading (request the file without the .gz extension), or
you can get a copy of gzip to do so yourself. On Windows platforms
winzip is rumoured to have this capability.

Generally, a new directory will be created for a series (or a large
work within a series) when more than three distinct pieces of work are
available. Individual stories will generally be archived as a single
file unless they are very large (>200kB compressed) or are episodic in
nature, rather than chapters in a single continuity.

Work is planned as time permits to create a network of archive mirrors
as well as a web interface to the archive. Details will be added here
when known.
_________________________________________________________________

How you can help

If you're an author, take care when posting to the group to follow all
the guidelines above. A properly formatted and tagged post takes very
little moderator effort to deal with, while one with problems can hold
all the rest up. In particular, know your news reader, and be careful
of such things as MIME encoding, 8-bit characters, and automatic line
wrapping, any of which can wreak havoc with what you thought was a
properly formatted submission.

The group is pretty well provisioned with moderators, but interested
parties are always welcome to get in touch with the group coordinator.
The moderation software has gone through a number of revisions over
the years, and is now pretty user friendly, though some familiarity
with the format and contents of news headers is beneficial.
_________________________________________________________________

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$Date: 2005/02/28 14:04:14 $

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Welcome to rec.arts.anime.creative

Copyright 1996-2005, Brian Edmonds
$Revision: 1.16 $ $Date: 2005/02/28 14:04:14 $

The latest version of this document can be found at
* http://www.robomod.net/rec.arts.anime.creative/
* post to the newsgroup or mailing list with the following text in
the subject (without the quotes): "send file: guidelines.txt"

Any inquiries, comments or suggestions should be sent to the group
moderators at raac-moderator@robomod.net.
_________________________________________________________________

Contents

* Introduction
* Charter
+ Interpretation: fanfic
+ Interpretation: artwork
+ Interpretation: other
* How to submit a post
* What to expect after posting
* Archive site
* How you can help
_________________________________________________________________

Introduction

The newsgroup rec.arts.anime.creative (RAAC) was created in May 1993
as rec.arts.anime.stories. In March 1996 it was renamed to its current
name to better reflect the content of the group (ie. not just
stories).

No introduction would be complete without a big tip of the hat to
Megazone who put in much work from the early 1990s on in developing
both the fanfic archive and newsgroup. Zoner retired in the summer of
1996, and while he's not gone from anime or the net, we'll miss his
energy on RAAC. (Actually we're hoping he'll have more time to work on
Hopelessly Lost and other Eyrie stuff now...)
_________________________________________________________________

Charter

From the newgroup creation message as stored at ftp.isc.org:

This moderated newsgroup serves as a place for the posting of fan
created works. For any anime or manga related fan work including
stories, parodies, original scripts written by fans, poems, song
lyrics, and original artwork. Only the actual fan works will be posted
here -- any discussion regarding these works should be posted to
rec.arts.anime.fandom.

Interpretation: fanfic

Fan fiction falls into one of these categories:
1. An original story within one or more established commercial
series, sometimes with original characters.
2. An original story within an original world, but with an anime
style or feel. Considerable latitude will be given in determining
just what "anime style or feel" is.
3. Poetry (including song lyrics), either directly about, or inspired
by an anime series or character.
4. Parody of either a commercial series or other fanfic. In the
latter case, some sensitivity is advised in not being too
caustic...

Scripts or song lyrics from commercial works are not covered in the
above, though limited (and acknowledged) borrowing from such is
acceptable under "fair use". Plagiarism of commercial or other fan
works is unacceptable in any form.

Interpretation: artwork

Fan artwork is either an original rendering of characters and/or
situations from a commercial series, or a completely original work in
manga style. Again, considerable latitude will be given in determining
just what constitutes "manga style".

Some use of commercially available images may be acceptable for parody
purposes if the parody element makes a significant contribution to the
work. This decision will be made on a case by case basis by the
moderation team or its appointed representative. In any case, straight
scans of commercial images will never be considered acceptable.

Interpretation: other

Announcements related to fan projects are also welcome. This can
include pointers to fan works ftp/web sites and mailing lists. Most
followups to posted works should be sent to rec.arts.anime.fandom, but
carefully prepared reviews and guides to collections of works will
likely be accepted on RAAC.
_________________________________________________________________

How to submit a post

In general you should be able to post to RAAC just as you would to any
other group, and software should take care of the details of mailing
it to the proper submission address. If your news system is broken and
can't handle this properly, submissions can be mailed to
rec-arts-anime-creative@robomod.net.

Please try posting first and only mail your submissions if that does
not work. You should also bring any problems to the attention of your
local news administrator, and direct him or her to contact the RAAC
moderation coordinator if help is needed fixing things:
raac-techmod@robomod.net.

Textual works must be submitted in plain ASCII format, with lines
wrapped somewhere between column 60 and 79; 72 is recommended. In
multi-part works be sure to indicate clearly what part each piece is
in the subject and both at the start and end, and be consistent in how
you label parts. It is annoying to try and piece together a work
consisting of Part 1, Chapter II, Ep. Three, Story iv, and so on. It
has been suggested that in multi-part works starting with a "What has
gone before" blurb is a good idea, but RAAC has no official policy on
this. If it has been more than a month since the last installment, you
may wish to consider it.

The common language understood by the vast majority of readers of RAAC
is English, and works in any other language are unlikely to be
accepted. Some use of Japanese within stories is an obvious exception,
and in general fragments of other languages (with English translation)
in a larger work are fine. For short works, poetry in particular,
other languages may be accepted as long as an English translation
accompanies the submission.

Artwork must be in JPEG or GIF format, and may be uuencoded or
attached as a base64 MIME attachment. You should also sign the work.
Including a short "explanatory note" as a preamble to any artwork
posting is highly recommended, particularly as such information is
useful to people later browsing the archives.

All posts to RAAC must be tagged to indicate the series on which they
are based (eg. BGC, Ranma, SM, etc.), and the type of work (eg. Art,
Fanfic, etc). It is also traditional to add a Lemon tag if the work
contains material of a sexual nature. Please tag your posts
appropriately before submitting them. For examples of such tagging,
see the newsgroup itself.

Please try to finish stories before posting them. Feedback while
writing may be nice, but it's a lot easier to go back and make changes
in earlier parts if you haven't already sent them out to the whole
world. Also, far too many authors simply vanish from the net halfway
through writing, leaving people looking for the rest of their story
even years later. Finally, give your work a title, as otherwise it's
hard to figure out where to put it in the archive.
_________________________________________________________________

What to expect after posting

If you submit your posting with a valid return address, you should
always receive mail in response from the moderation server. If you do
not use a valid address, please be sure to read the last paragraph in
this section. If you do not hear anything back from the moderation
server within a few hours, then you should contact the group
coordinator at the address given at the beginning of this document.

If the moderation software does not detect any problems with your
submission, then it will send an acknowledgement that your posting has
been received. If it finds any problems then it will return the entire
post with an explanation of the problem(s) it observed. If you have
trouble understanding or correcting the problem, please contact the
group coordinator.

Once your submission has been accepted it will be placed in the
submission pool, from which moderators request work. Depending on how
busy the moderators are it may be handled in anywhere from a few
minutes to a few days. If more than a week passes and you do not
either hear from a moderator or see your story posted to RAAC, feel
free to contact the group coordinator to inquire.

Your submission should also show up in the archives within a couple
days of being posted, although some moderators collect archive updates
and process them in a bunch every week or more. If you feel an
excessively long time has gone by after your submission appeared on
RAAC and it is not yet in the archives, feel free to contact the group
coordinator to inquire.

If you post from an invalid address, you can still receive mesages
from the moderation server if you register a valid address with the
server (a munged registration). You can read more about address
registration at
* http://www.robomod.net/register.html
* post to the group with the text "send file: register.txt" as the
subject
_________________________________________________________________

Archive site

All fan works posted to the newsgroup will be archived; if you don't
want your work archived, do not post it to RAAC. The primary archive
for the group is located at
* ftp://ftp.gweep.ca/pub/anime/anime-fan-works/

Works can be found in directories under there, by series, with the
larger endeavors in directories of their own under the series
directory. In the case of huge crossover works, such as Undocumented
Features, they will be in a directory of their own at the top level of
the archive. Smaller crossovers will probably be stored in one of the
represented series' directory. Works based on a show which does not
yet have its own directory can be found in the Miscellaneous
directory.

Images are in their raw binary format. Most text files are stored in
gzip (.gz) format. You can either have the server decompress them for
you while downloading (request the file without the .gz extension), or
you can get a copy of gzip to do so yourself. On Windows platforms
winzip is rumoured to have this capability.

Generally, a new directory will be created for a series (or a large
work within a series) when more than three distinct pieces of work are
available. Individual stories will generally be archived as a single
file unless they are very large (>200kB compressed) or are episodic in
nature, rather than chapters in a single continuity.

Work is planned as time permits to create a network of archive mirrors
as well as a web interface to the archive. Details will be added here
when known.
_________________________________________________________________

How you can help

If you're an author, take care when posting to the group to follow all
the guidelines above. A properly formatted and tagged post takes very
little moderator effort to deal with, while one with problems can hold
all the rest up. In particular, know your news reader, and be careful
of such things as MIME encoding, 8-bit characters, and automatic line
wrapping, any of which can wreak havoc with what you thought was a
properly formatted submission.

The group is pretty well provisioned with moderators, but interested
parties are always welcome to get in touch with the group coordinator.
The moderation software has gone through a number of revisions over
the years, and is now pretty user friendly, though some familiarity
with the format and contents of news headers is beneficial.
_________________________________________________________________

Brian Edmonds
$Date: 2005/02/28 14:04:14 $

Posted In: rec.arts.anime.creative

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Misato returned to the living room to find the new arrivals seated
together on the second couch and prodding Shinji into a description of
his last mission.

Asuka's eyebrow twitched, a warning sign if Misato had ever seen
one. "Eh, not bad," she allowed.

"But you could've done better," Han supplied the unspoken part of
Asuka's comment.

Asuka shrugged. "Sure. Look at the next time Ayanami went out.
That tin can shouldn't have been able to touch a well-handled Eva, but
look what happened."

Shinji looked mutinous at that remark. "I don't see how you could
have, in an Eva you'd never piloted before, with half its weapons
offline," he replied quietly.

"I'd start by not standing still in front of God and radar inside
my enemy's effective range!"

"She didn't have much choice," Nami broke in. "We tried it
afterwards in a sim, and neither of us could hit the joint reliably on
the move."

"Evas don't seem to be very good gun platforms at a dead run," Han
added dryly.

Misato took advantage of Asuka's annoyed sidelong look at the pair
to head off further discussion. "Speaking of, your qualifiers will be
this Wednesday afternoon. You'll hear more tomorrow at the official
orientation."

"What are we being tested on?"

"Pretty much like you'd expect. Marksmanship, basic maneuvering,
some melee." Misato grinned wickedly. "But that's just the warm-up.
Afterwards, you have the Challenge Course." At their curious/worried
looks, she continued with relish. "It's a something we cooked up as a
kind of final exam, sort of a cross between an obstacle course and a
shooting house, to test everything you're supposed to have learned
before you came. I hope you studied," she finished with a low chuckle.

"We were going to run you through just as a baseline reading about
six weeks ago, but..." Misato answered Shinji's questioning look, too
quietly for the others to catch, and shrugged.

Shinji nodded in understanding. The Fourth Angel. After that
he'd been pulled out of class for nearly two weeks for a crash course
in Eva piloting, often being given 'special' attention by the very girl
sitting not a meter from him, even now beginning the story of her
latest, and first, mission. And of course after that there'd never
seemed to be time.

----------

"So let me make sure I understand." Han asked some time later, in
a neutral voice suspicious to anyone who knew him. "After Ayanami took
me down, you continued to pursue Testarossa."

"Of course," Asuka agreed, frowning at Nami's light touch on his
hand, ceasing only when withdrawing to pick up a drink. "I couldn't
afford to lose contact with her. Besides, she was still engaged, there
was every reason to think you were still in the fight," she continued in
building outrage at the implied criticism.

"Like the total lack of communications?"

"We've had comm failures before!" Asuka snapped at Han.

Misato broke in before he could retort. "That's enough. Everyone
makes mistakes, the trick is not to make the same one twice," she
finished with a significant look at Asuka.

The doorbell chimed in the lull, and Misato's voice carried from
the entryway once she and Shinji had answered.

"Well, well! The prodigal Doctor arrives at last!"

"Some of us actually do something about it when our inbox is
overflowing," a female voice replied in a tone that just had to have an
amused smirk attached. "Hi, Shinji."

"Hello, Doctor Akagi." Shinji continued more shyly, "Hello,
Ayanami." Nami unsuccessfully fought a urchin-like grin at the second
greeting, Han merely raised an eyebrow at her.

"Good evening, Ikari," a soft, flat voice replied, "Major
Katsuragi."

"Come in, come in. We have goodies for all." Misato replied
cheerfully over the soft rustle presumably of Shinji taking whatever
outerwear the two women had had.

"And enough beer to float a battleship, I'd imagine." the blonde
replied over one shoulder as she entered the living room, lacking only
her white lab coat from her usual attire of a blue sleeveless zip top
and black skirt. "And speaking of. Welcome to Japan, Asuka."

Asuka replied automatically, locked onto the girl trailing behind
Misato. The bluenette in question was looking around the Major's
apartment in mild curiosity, dressed in what Asuka devoutly hoped to be
a school uniform of some sort, and not a demonstration of utter tone
deafness for anything resembling fashion. Misato handled introductions
again, while Shinji fetched drinks for the new arrivals.

'So, you're the wunderkind they sent instead of me.' Ikari had
been bad enough, but at least she could console herself with the
knowledge that the first two Evas weren't capable of handling her. 'But
Eva-02 wasn't that far behind -06 readiness-wise, and Stuttgart is a
-hell- of a lot closer to Moscow than Tokyo is!'

The effusive praise Ayanami had gotten afterwards had only
soured a bad situation further. -She- could've hit the damned cannon
and then peeled open that mech like a lobster!

Instead, she got to hear about not only the deadly Third Child,
but -also- the First's 'coolheaded response to a perilous situation' and
'commendable refusal to endanger innocent lives.' Asuka snorted. 'As if
those pilots and commandos hadn't known what they were getting into when
they signed up.'

Ayanami ignored Asuka's baleful look and took the seat between her
and Ikari, before responding to Han's question about Eva-00's readiness.

"Commander Mardukas believes it would be worthwhile to upgrade
Eva-00 to combat standards, given it is already in the process of being
repaired. Though given the additional mass of its skeleton, he was not
optimistic about its performance." The decision to use readily available
and cheaper, though heavier, materials in the prototype seemed to have
bitten them once again.

"Better some Eva than no Eva, I guess," Misato sighed. "But if
nothing else we'll be at nearly full strength once it's ready."

"Why is it taking so long to fix? -01 and -06 were both a lot
faster than that," Nami asked, coloring slightly once she realized how
the question could be taken.

"Part of it is that Eva-00 was never designed for battle."
Ritsuko answered with a small smile to put her questioner at ease,
before she shot Misato the look of a craftswoman watching another misuse
-her- tools. "So it isn't designed with any 'plug and play' abilities
the way the others are. Eva-01 does have them because it was the
testbed for most of the essential systems of the production models."
Ritsuko continued, anticipating her follow up question. 'In more ways
than one.' "Also, steel is an excellent heat conductor, unlike the
production grade armor. Much of the musculature was damaged as a
result, and that takes time to repair."

The new pilots nodded understanding. Asuka saw Shinji shiver
slightly at what being an 'excellent heat conductor' had nearly meant
for the girl between them.

"But, that's enough Nerv for a while." Misato announced. "We'll
all be sick to death of it soon anyway," At the unspoken question in
her listener's expressions, she smirked in a way that awoke old and fond
memories in both blonde and redhead.

"What -I- have in mind is a little game called SongStar," she
continued with an evil cackle, producing a microphone from under the
couch. "Its time to get this party started!"

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Author's Notes

Before the screams of 'Mary Sue!' get too loud, I'd like to
state for the record that Tessa's missile trick was taken directly from
life. David Morris in _Storm on the Horizon_ describes an incident
during the first Gulf War in which a Saudi missile gunner engaged and
destroyed an Iraqi tank by curve balling his missile past several palm
trees and around a street corner. What can I say, truth is stranger than
fiction.

I'd like to thank Himonky of Evafics.org for proofing this
chapter, I can confidently say it wouldn't be nearly as good without his
help.

I'll also say it will be hot day in Antarctica before any warship
in one of my stories is named 'Over the Rainbow,' never mind a fleet
flagship. To cover this grave breach of sanity on Gainax's part, I
borrowed from one of my favorite sci-fi series. All of the ships listed
by name in this chapter, excepting Othello, are ones Honor Harrington
served on at one time or another.

Finally, my other comment is that the theme for Asuka's battle
should really be an instrumental version of "Ride the Lightning" from
the same album, but since that version doesn't seem to exist you get
what's listed below.

Until next time.

Soundtrack
0000- Pat Benatar "Invincible" _Greatest Hits_
0593- Glen Larson & Stu Phillips "Battlestar Galactica theme" _100
Greatest TV Themes_
0947- Metallica "The Call of Ktulu" _Ride the Lightning_
1276- Sammy Hagar "I Can't Drive 55" _Unboxed_
End- Joe Satriani "Big Bad Moon" _Live in San Francisco_

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5:30PM Local Time

Asuka lay on the issue bed wedged into one corner of the
windowless, somber room she'd been assigned in the geofront's dormitory
'pending final quartering arrangements.' One slim hand was tangled in
long auburn hair near the old style interface clip she used to hold it
out of her face.

The other paged through another catalog, purses and handbags this
time, which did its best to distract her from the mix of crushing
boredom and maddening 'jumping out of her skin' itch she'd felt from
practically the moment she'd stepped from Eva-02's entry plug almost a
week ago. Admiral Takaya had been the soul of courtesy as the crippled
force limped the rest of the way to Japan, in spite of her destruction
of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment between dumping
half his air group in the Pacific with her landing, the divots she left
in his flight deck, and the assorted damage she'd done to several of
Fearless' escorts. Of course, saving the -rest- of his fleet in the
process of all that hadn't hurt.

But once she'd changed back into 'mufti', she became just another
pretty teenage girl in a dress. Not necessarily to the Fearless' crew,
many of whom had saluted with real respect when she passed them in the
flagship's passageways, never mind she was a civilian and half most of
their ages, and she basked in it like a lizard on a sunny day. But the
feeling was related to the reason she was never without her headband,
and why she'd kept her plugsuit in her closet when it made as much sense
to leave it in the Eva.

She was the Second Child, Pilot of Eva-02.

Everything else, the glow of other's adulation, the adrenaline
rush of launching herself into battle with the foes of humanity, the
pride of being the best there was at a difficult and dangerous job, and
a thousand and one other feelings all boiled and swirled together in a
complex, heady brew, but the kettle that held it all was as simple as
its cast-iron counterpart. Without it, the rest was as nothing.

Which in part explained why, when Misato knocked on her door,
she all but launched herself at the handle before reining herself in and
proceeding the last meter at an almost bored pace.

"Evening, Misato."

"Heya, Asuka. Ready?"

"Are you kidding? Let me out of here," Asuka snorted as she
turned and locked the door.

"That's the spirit!" Misato chirped. "A nice, friendly..."
'Read: boozy' Asuka mentally substituted, having visited similar events
in Germany, "party should be just the thing to get everyone off on the
right foot," Misato nodded to herself while they walked to the
escalator to the parking garage.

The two women engaged as in a spate of polite chit-chat as the
escalator carried them along, catching up until they arrived at Misato's
parking spot.

"They let -you- have one of these?" Asuka grinned delightedly at
the sight of the Alpine 310 occupying it. "But what's with the duct
tape?" Asuka frowned and leaned closer to examine the strips holding the
headlight lens in place, complemented by the strips wrapped around the
driver side mirror and, she saw as Misato unlocked the door, some of the
upholstery.

"It's all the rage in Japan, you see it everywhere," Misato
replied with a sour look.

"Uh huh," Asuka spied the cracks in the door frame not covered
and replied, "What really happened?"

"I -don't- want to talk about it," Misato grumbled as the Alpine
reached the exit ramp. With a wave at the guard in the kiosk, Misato
cruised past the striped barrier, turned onto the ring road circling
Tokyo-3, and put the pedal to the floor.

//Sammy Hagar "I Can't Drive 55" _Unboxed_//

Asuka replied with a joyous whoop. "I could never convince Hilde
-this- is how you're supposed to drive!"

Misato laughed over the wind noise from the rolled down windows.

----------

Shinji wished, not for the first time, that his guardian had a
wider selection of beverages than 'beer, beer, and Mesozoic-era tea' in
stock, the latter found in the back of a cupboard and likely left over
from the last tenant. Of course, springing the idea on him about an
hour ago hadn't helped the situation.

'At least she's paying for all this,' the allowance his contract
granted him was decent, but still. Regardless, he did feel a little
proud of his efforts, even though most of it had consisted of buying
assorted snack foods and beverages and some last minute cleaning.

The distinctive ping of the elevator at the end of the hall
announced the first arrivals, most likely Misato and Eva-02's pilot,
Asuka Soryu-Langley. Fighting the urge to fidget as the sound of
footsteps grew outside the door, he listened intently.

"...on in. Shinji's done a nice job with the place," Misato
remarked just before the door opened.

"So it's just dirty instead of a pit?" a girl's voice answered her
as Shinji rose to greet them in the entryway, unsure whether to flush at
the compliment or frown at the response. He rounded the corner to find
his roommate in the familiar routine of hanging up her red uniform
jacket and beret in the hall closet, leaving her in her usual short
black dress. Her companion was another matter.

The somewhat dated file photo for Asuka Soryu-Langley showed an
auburn haired, mostly Caucasian girl of about twelve, sky blue eyes
focused sternly on the camera, who might have been cute if not for the
intensity of her expression. What greeted him now was a leggy, trim
figured girl his age in a yellow sun dress, hair held back with some
sort of headband that reminded him of nothing so much as a pair of shiny
red horns, with a sardonic smirk at Misato's sideways glare from her
previous comment.

"Ah, here he is," Misato took the opportunity to change the
subject. "Shinji, this is Asuka Soryu-Langley, Eva-02's pilot. Asuka,
Shinji Ikari of Eva-01."

Shinji bowed a polite distance. "Pleased to meet you," he greeted
her, managing to speak the formal phrase without stammering under her
keen gaze.

After a long moment, Asuka finished her examination of her
counterpart, from neatly combed hair to sock covered feet, with black
slacks and an unbuttoned dress shirt over green t-shirt in between. All
in all, not much like the case-hardened fighter she'd expected.
"Boring," she finally decided before she stepped past him into the
apartment's common area.

Shinji turned a somewhat hurt look at Misato, receiving a
sympathetic shrug before following.

----------

"When are the rest coming?" Asuka asked as she selected a soda
from the cooler and plopped down on the sofa. Misato raised a mental
eyebrow at Asuka's behavior. In Germany she'd been better mannered than
most of her classmates at the University, this was definitely new. And
intriguing. 'A little insecure, are we Asuka?' Misato smirked behind
a can of brew she'd retrieved from the kitchen fridge, pretending not to
notice Asuka's none too subtle efforts at ignoring her 'rival,'
currently sitting on the opposite side of the couch nursing a soda of
his own.

"Fei and Lin are due soon. Ritsuko, Dr. Akagi, is supposed to
bring Rei if she can pry herself from her desk in time," Misato rolled
her eyes heavenward. "Roberts and Testarossa's flight was delayed, so
they only got in this morning and might not make it."

Shinji winced in sympathy, twelve time zones worth of jet lag was
no joke.

Asuka tipped her can back and nodded.

Misato took the pause in conversation to congratulate herself on
her plan's success. She'd had the idea for a meet and greet for the
pilots some time ago, but had early on decided to conduct a small
experiment. Specifically, testing what would happen if she dropped the
idea of a social gathering on Shinji with no notice, and thus no time to
work himself into a panic. Looking at the comprehensive selection of
snacks and drinks, the unusual even post-Shinji neatness of the living
room and kitchen, and the new outfit he'd changed into, all without more
than the barest suggestion he 'set things up here' she felt justified in
a little maternal pride.

Shinji had apparently scrounged up enough nerve to ask Asuka about
her Eva, since she was declaiming its superiority at length. "Of course,
it was designed to correct all of the mistakes made in the prototype and
test models. -And- it avoids the 'bells and whistles' approach of the
-other- production models," she bragged to the politely attentive pilot.

"A real pilot's machine, then." Misato supplied, deciding to
reenter the conversation. "We'll have to get the others checked out on
it," she nonchalantly added, pretending not to notice her target's
nostrils flare in anger. Suppressing a smirk, she turned to Shinji.
"Which reminds me, how'd your latest test go?"

"Good. I came up a point."

"From what?" Asuka asked with studied indifference.

"Sixty-three."

"Decent," Asuka grudgingly allowed, taking a sip from her soda.

"Not half bad for someone who only started about two months ago,"
Misato agreed wholeheartedly.

And up the soda went. "What! How could he possibly have improved
forty points in that time! That's impossible!" Asuka protested as she
futilely tried to control the fizzing in her sinuses.

"He didn't," Misato replied seriously.

"Then how..."

"He started at forty-one."

----------

Asuka turned to stare incredulously at the quiet boy seated beside
her. 'That's half again my starting score! And he's only been doing
this for two months?! But that must mean...' "Your first mission. It
was also your first time to pilot."

"Yes," Shinji confirmed with a shrug. "I've gotten better."

"That's," Asuka struggled a moment, recalling the footage she'd
seen. The first thirty seconds or so had been an unmitigated disaster,
Eva-01 had stumbled around like a drunkard and got its ass handed to it
by the Angel, but given the aggressively competent counterattack he'd
launched right afterwards she'd put it down to control problems in the
demonstrably unstable Test type. Though the dog's breakfast he'd made
of the second attack made a lot more sense... "Well, at least we've got
a -real- pilot on staff now."

"I'd say he and Rei have paid their dues, under the
circumstances," Misato corrected. "But no one is happier than I am to
have more minions," she chuckled.

"Empire builder." Asuka muttered.

The doorbell's chime signaled the next arrivals. "Come on,
Shinji. Time to play host," Misato nudged him with a foot as she
unfolded herself from the beanbag on the floor.

---------

"For heaven's sake Han. Its a party, not a funeral," Nami
complained not for the first time, eying the small bouquet her
boyfriend carried. "Or a date."

Han maintained a stoic silence and pressed the doorbell. Before
she could make another, admittedly only half serious, complaint the door
slid open to reveal their new lady and mistress.

"Hiya! Oh thank you! I've got a vase perfect for these." Misato
exclaimed on seeing the small bundle of mixed tulips and sprigs of some
small white flower Nami didn't recognize offhand. Taking them from Han,
she turned to lead them inside. Nami stole a glance as they removed
their shoes in the entryway, in hopes of catching any victorious smirk
at her expense. Han, unsurprisingly, was solemn as a judge.

No fool he.

-----------

Shinji caught his first face to face look at his new comrades as
Misato turned away from the door. Nami smiled a greeting once she'd
removed her shoes, and introduced herself and her companion. The boy
was dressed in khaki slacks and a white button down shirt similar to
his, a brown leather belt completing the picture. The girl had,
unusually, though Shinji was unaware of it, chosen a brown knee length
skirt and light blue blouse combo, her ponytail swaying from her turn
to face him.

Shinji responded in kind, not quite sure how to continue the
conversation.

Fortunately, Nami had it covered. "Hey, we're glad to be here.
It's not every day you meet a hero."

"I..."

Nami steamrolled right over Shinji's stammer. "Anyone who even
climbs aboard one of those monsters is already brave, but if doing it
three times to go into combat, with no backup, doesn't qualify you
then I'd like to know what would!" she finished indignantly.

'I forgot to say something. You did a good, brave thing today.'
Shinji shook off the memory of the first real praise he'd gotten in
Tokyo-3 and thought to reply.

Misato beat him to the punch. "Hey, no hogging the guests!" the
lady in question called from the kitchen.

Shinji started, and gave an embarrassed smile. "R-right, come
in."

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September 10, 2015.
1:30PM Local Time

Rear Admiral Izuo Takaya leaned against the rail surrounding the
wing of his carrier's flag bridge, forty meters above the white-capped
waters of the western Pacific, short black hair blowing in the breeze
generated by the ship's passage. Sipping hot tea from an engraved mug
his daughter had bought him for his fiftieth birthday, and which he had
refused to part with in the years since, he surveyed his command.
Spread before him was a large minority of the UN Pacific Fleet's
firepower, though his entire force numbered less than a dozen ships.

Officially, and most of the time in practice, the UN Peace
Enforcement Forces functioned more as extremely well armed and trained
police rather than a traditional military. The naval branch was no
exception, most of its approximately one hundred vessels were destroyer
size or smaller, sailing in squadrons of around half a dozen to show the
flag and provide a small quick response force should a crisis break out.
The Fearless' battlegroup, and its sister formations centered around
Terrible and Nike, were the 'muscle' their smaller comrades called upon
when a more measured response had failed.

The Admiral's staff kept busy inside the glazed in confines of
his domain, familiar with their boss' after lunch ritual. A pair of
young lieutenants arranged the manila folders containing the routine,
and most likely eye-wateringly dull, briefing concerning proposed
changes to fleet maintenance procedures.

Izuo turned at the sound of the hatch opening to the wind swept
outside deck. "I trust we're ready to begin, Josef?"

"Yes sir," The Hungarian captain responded as one dark brown
eyebrow rose ironically. "Commander Simmons promises we'll all be
enthralled for the next hour."

"Coming from him, that's much less than reassuring," Izuo
grimaced, knowing well his chief of staff's perhaps excessive enjoyment
of his work. "Best be..."

A tremble in the deck plates beneath them stopped him mid-
sentence. Seconds later, the scream of tortured metal and 'crump' of a
collapsing hull reached them from the outer escort ring surrounding the
carrier and its companion transports Othello and Wayfarer. Izuo and his
staff stared in mute horror at the grave of the destroyer Hawkwing,
before he wrestled his gaze away and barked "Well?! Are you planning to
stand here all day?" The others sprang towards their stations like
magnetized billiard balls.

After sloshing his mug's contents over the rail, he followed at
a more sedate and, hopefully, confidence inducing pace. 'It seems its
going to be one of -those- days.'

----------

Asuka was spending one of her comparatively rare moments in her
cabin aboard Wayfarer when she noticed the first tremor. 'ASW practice,'
she surmised, remembering the last fleet exercise pitting the three Kilo
class submarines accompanying the fleet against a squadron of its
escorting frigates and destroyers. Again, the eighty thousand ton
freighter trembled, this time enough to swing the light fixture hanging
from the deckhead. She lowered the catalog she'd been perusing.
'Either the UN's taken to putting N2 warheads on its practice torpedoes,
or...' She leaped off of her bed and dove for the closet.

----------

"Tempest reports breaches across all decks, abandoning ship,"
The speakers in the carrier's Combat Information Center reported
dispassionately. "Osprey reports heavy damage to aft engineering
spaces and is losing speed."

Izuo tuned out the litany of the destruction of his command, and
focused on the illuminated plasma display making up most of the darkened
room's sole table. "All ships accelerate to flank speed and maneuver
independently, make sure they watch their separations. Jozef, turn us
into the wind and get the air group launched," he looked up at his chief
of staff. "Find out what Osprey's best speed is, and if they'll
need assistance. And contact Sydney and request N2 authorization," he
finished calmly.

He swore behind the iron mask of his expression as his aides
carried out his orders. The news of an Angel, and that's what this
almost had to be, striking so far from Japan would hit Pacific Fleet
headquarters like a thunderbolt, and that was all but certain to slow
any useful response. Napoleon Bonaparte had famously said, 'ask me for
anything but time,' and it was as true now as it was in the wars that
bore his name.

A sidebar on the screen listing remaining weapons in inventory
blinked slowly lower as he waited for his opponent's next move. So did
the shorter list of the ships in his care.

----------

"Activating first stage connections." Asuka muttered while her
view screens blinked to life and promptly hazed with static from the
inactive sensors. "Battery status...nominal. Core online. Life
support standby. Active sensors to standby. Optical array online.
Second stage connection...set." She reported out loud by sheer force
of habit, continuing her extremely abridged startup checklist.
"Propulsion self-test suspended." She took a deep breath, and
instinctively felt outwards along the traces of her connection
to her steed. "Third stage connection in two...one...synchro start,"
she firmly pressed the green button so marked on her console.

"All right, let's go," she murmured, and Eva-02 rose from its
slumber. The scene greeting her was a nightmare of pillars of smoke
rising to the heavens, with the blazing trails of weapons fire mingling
with the flames of burning fuel oil oozing from the wreckage of a once
proud fleet. Even as she watched the Angel locked onto the Wayfarer, a
Harper's Ferry-class transport accompanying Fearless. Streaking in at a
speed belying its bulk, the absurdly manta ray-like creature flicked
almost casually against the vessel's port side. For a long second, the
ship rolled drunkenly, but appeared unharmed. Only then did Asuka
notice the steadily widening breach becoming visible from below the
waterline. As the ship began to list ever more alarmingly, an ugly
blossom of soot streaked fire bloomed from its crippled side.

'The point defense missile magazine must have let go.' Asuka
realized numbly. 'My God, there was an entire battalion of Marines
aboard that ship.'

Eva-02's tactical system had automatically tracked the Angel,
now it directed her attention to the creature skimming just under the
sea surface like some sort of aquatic missile. Right for her.

She commanded her communications system to connect to Fearless.
In a clear, steady voice she announced, "Signal to the Flag. Eva-02
online. Launching."

//Metallica "The Call of Ktulu" _Ride the Lightning_//

The Angel didn't bother with any fancy tricks this time, it simply
rammed Othello head on, and the bow of the lightly built transport
crumpled like a soda can as the massive transport shuddered to a halt as
if it had run aground. Eva-02 was long gone. After leaping from her
doomed ship, she'd twisted midair to land on the forecastle of a UN
destroyer holding station nearby, smashing its forward 127mm gun to
scrap with her armor shod foot.

'I think I need a bigger boat,' Asuka murmured before spotting the
Angel coming around for another pass at her new and precarious perch.
She leaped again, this time smashing a frigate's helicopter pad in
passing on her way to Fearless. 'I'm going to look like such an ass if
this doesn't work,' a detatched corner of her mind commented at the top
of her ballistic arc, terminating at, she hoped, the flagship's flight
deck. "Eva-02 inbound, clear the deck!"

Two bus sized feet sledgehammered into the carrier's deck backed
with 750 tons of metal and mean, deforming the armored surface down
over a meter. After a harrowing moment correcting the rolling her
landing induced, she returned her attention outside. Her foe had
obligingly followed her, and even now was arrowing in under a rooster
tail of spray.

Asuka had never been a religious girl, but a psalm was on her lips
as she watched the Angel approach.

"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
fear no evil. For I drive the biggest, baddest, meanest motherfucker in
the whole damn valley!"

With that, she deployed a progressive knife from its forearm
sheath, her beloved pistols most likely on the bottom of the Pacific by
now, and set herself to meet the Angel's charge.

----------

Izuo stared in rank disbelief at the monitor reporting the
spectacle unfolding on his flight deck. Though he'd been courteous, if
distant, to his two passengers, within he'd been bitter at the
assignment his fleet had been handed by Sydney, a mere delivery run for
a jumped up civilian agency's newest toy. About the best that could be
said for it was that he'd have plenty of time to work out the rough
spots in some of his crews.

Five ships, and hundreds of lives later, he was a believer. His
fleet had engaged with everything from 65cm torpedoes from his
submarines to 152mm shells from the ex-Kirov, now Broadsword. He'd have
done as well to throw his coffee mug at it.

And now, it had come for him at last. With the transport
Destroyed and losses mounting, it was now pointless to continue the
engagement. Izuo had been on the edge of ordering the fleet to scatter
and clear the area for a nuclear strike when the girl had started her
insane hopscotch run to Fearless. Her machine stood with its left foot
behind the right and turned ninety degrees to one side, mass centered in
a knifefighter's stance, gripping its enormous boxcutter-like weapon in
its right hand icepick fashion. The monster unerringly homed in, and at
the last instant leaped for the Eva like a breaching whale, its massive
bulk seeming to impossibly float on the air as its jaws filled with rows
of monstrous fangs gaped wide.

Quick as thought, the Eva moved. A single shuffled step to one
side and a lightning fast duck got her below the Angel's trajectory,
followed by a twist of the hips and torso to place the full power of
its artificial muscles behind her blade to send the monster sailing past
trailing a streamer of bluish ichor into the sea off the carrier's port
side.

The order was out of Izuo's mouth without conscious thought. "All
ships! Time on target, now!"

----------

"Good thinking, Admiral. But it's not enough." Asuka opined as the
remaining ships abruptly ceased maneuvers and opened up with every
weapon that would bear, the concentrated firepower of the fleet ripping
at the Angel's AT field. Her foe staggered, but still forged ahead at
reduced speed. Gravely wounded, but obviously still game for a fight,
the Angel passed under the now rather ragged escort ring and reversed
course, bearing down on her once more.

Asuka was willing to oblige. Staring intently at her enemy as it
closed, she vaguely remembered seeing something very interesting as it
rose from the waves. If she was right, there might be a way to end this
quickly yet.

The Angel was a quick study. Disdaining attacking the Eva directly,
it scorched in just under the surface, intent on disabling Fearless. As
the jaws opened once more to slice the warship from stem to stern below
the waterline, Asuka saw it. Deep within the inky darkness of its maw,
a ruddy glow.

The escort's fire slackened as the range to the flagship dropped,
as did the waterspouts from the explosions against the Angel. Asuka
once more set herself, gauged the range, and threw.

Her left side Type 2 progressive knife sliced through the air, warning
light still glowing as it splashed into the sea at a significant
fraction of the speed of sound, and struck the Angel's core with the
force of an 18 wheeler.

Moments later, the ship lurched and rolled once more, forcing the
Eva to its knees.


Tokyo-3
September 11, 2015
9:00AM Local Time

Nami stood with her nose literally pressed against the glass of
the tram car as it circled the geofront walls towards Central Dogma.
The morning sun lit the interior of the artificial cavern in brilliant
shafts through the light collectors in the mountains, giving an almost
ethereal quality to the scene. She turned to Han for his reaction, to
find him sitting stiff as a board on his bench, staring fixedly at the
seat ahead of him.

"Han~!" she complained. "You've got to see this! Come on!" she
took him by the upper arm and tried to drag him to the big Plexiglas
window making up the front of the car.

"No~, no I don't," he argued quite emphatically in the same voice.

She gave up trying to pull someone nearly twice her mass and
Stepped back, hands on her hips. "Why not? It's a beautiful view from
up here and..." her gaze sharpened at his suppressed shudder. "You're
afraid of heights," she pronounced with the certainty of Solomon. "But
that can't be, you've climbed a rope and used a drag line plenty of
times, I've seen it," Nami continued in disbelief.

Han's lips tightened in a grimace. "I can keep it under control
most of the time, especially if there's something underneath me," he
admitted slowly. "But yes." 'Here it comes,' he winced inside.
'First she rips a strip off me, then she drops me like a rotten onion.
Well, having a girlfriend was fun while it lasted.'

Nami snorted to herself, Han's thoughts plain on his face. It was
obvious that should she so much as snicker, it would crush him. 'Idiot.
As if a coward would volunteer for this job. He must have been scared
out of his mind for some of the things we went through, but I never
would have known he was more than just a little nervous about screwing
up.' Nami thought in unalloyed admiration. "Well, we can't have
-that-," she held out her hand in invitation. "Come on. I'll be right
here."

Han looked up from his study of the seat back in front of him, and
into the gently smiling girl swaying automatically against the motion of
the tram. For a long moment he stared into a pair of chocolate brown
eyes. Finally, he took her hand.

"Ok, but this had better be worth it," he warned her with a
self-mocking smile.


Nerv-3
Boston
7:00PM Local Time

Tessa stepped out from the showers, scrubbing her hair with
the towel before putting it back into her accustomed braid. Upon
dressing back into the t-shirt and exercise shorts that were her and
Sam's unofficial uniforms, she proceeded to the small conference room
Mao used for their end of the day debriefing.

"Right, now that we're all here, I've got a special announcement
for you," Melissa began, privately relishing the swiftly hidden dread
on her trainee's faces. "The good news is, Director Walkerton tells me
Eva-03 passed its final checks with flying colors this afternoon."

"And the bad news?" Tessa asked after a moment's pause.

"None. The Atlas we were waiting on is due to arrive from Wichita
the day after tomorrow, so you two have that morning to pack and be
ready to roll by noon. Because we have a bit of time on our hands,
though, we're going to go ahead and do Eva-03's activation test later
on tonight."

The pair's eyes widened slightly. With an unconscious synchrony
born of eight weeks of living in close quarters, the pair turned to
each other. "One, two, three, shoot." Tessa called, her hand forming
'paper.' She repeated twice more, forming rock the next time and paper
the final one.

"Huh. Well, that's life," Sam shrugged resignedly. "When do you
need me, ma'am?" he asked his bemused training officer.

Melissa's eyes crinkled at the edges, the sole sign of amusement
she'd allow herself in front of her charges. "Cute. But not what I
had in mind."


11:30PM Local Time

Sam stared up at the gargantuan form of Eva-03 from the waist
level catwalk in something approaching awe. It was easy to forget while
riding inside one the sheer scale of an Eva, especially since all of the
equipment in Nerv-3 was of matching size. Turning away, he glanced
upwards to the shoulder level bridge leading to the entry plug. Tessa
stood in her tan and white plugsuit talking to the Eva's crew chief,
before clambering aboard the entry plug racked nearby. After taking a
final look at the navy blue mecha, he ambled over to the small elevator
at the end of the bridge.

----------

The stars twinkled above Nerv-3, and the glow of Boston's light
pollution was just visible on the horizon. A series of rotating hazard
lights complemented by the mournful wail of a warning siren spoiled the
calm of the night. Seconds later, the massive doors built into the
side of the hill hiding the Nerv facility began to rumble open.

Waiting behind the massive doors was a platform on rails of equal
size, bearing the prone Eva through the gate trailing a thick gray
power cable. Once the assemblage had cleared the gate, a quartet of
hydraulic rams on the platform began to slowly tilt the upper surface
and its cargo perpendicular to the ground.

Tessa scanned her display panel after the thump signaling her
machine was in position. "Confirm platform deployed. Standing by," she
radioed after completing the last few items on the checklist.

"Roger that, Eva-03. You are go for first stage connection."

"Copy. Beginning now." Tessa's right arm reached around to the
side of the seat and closed a knife switch that had previously been
interrupting any signals from the plug to the Eva. With that, the
cockpit displays sprang to life in a series of test patterns before
settling down to the familiar logo of the OS starting up. Once the
center display of the stock, single seat, plug arrived at the default
screen depicting battery life, a compressed top down view of the
surrounding terrain, currently displaying only the geographic data it
had on-board, and power status, currently blinking 0:00 in red for
battery life and that external power was connected in green. The two
flanking displays were still dark, awaiting her choices in their data.
"So far so good," she murmured "though of course that's what the jumper
said as he passed the 10th floor," she finished one of Melissa's
favorite lines. "First stage connection complete. Power connection
nominal. Batteries offline," she informed the controllers still within
the base, and on the other end of the datalink to Tokyo-3.

"Very well. We confirm all monitors within tolerances. Begin
second stage at your discretion," Melissa responded, not even a whisper
of tension in her voice.

Tessa acknowledged, and tapped the controls bringing up her
external sensors, the big wraparound displays on the inner wall of the
cockpit flaring through their own test patterns before settling on a
crystal clear view of the outside world, a few data tags popping up
moments later as the tactical systems identified some of the radio and
infrared emissions from stored files. 'The 3:10 to Yuma is running
late,' she absently noted the European built airliner climbing from the
rebuilt Logan international, its passengers oblivious to the events
below them.

"All passive sensors online. Active systems powered up and on
standby. Fire control offline. Master arm safe," she double checked
the large white switch on her control panel with its distinctive red
cover, indicating the Eva's weapons were powered down and unable to
fire. 'Nothing in the guns anyway, but we might as well be thorough,'
Tessa quirked a pale imitation of her usual cheerful smile. "Core
powering up in 3..2..1...Second stage complete."

"Copy, Eva-03," A long pause broken only by the low, almost
inaudible hum of the power cable communication line. "We show a green
board here. Initiate final connections."

Tessa very deliberately did not think of a certain previous
post-refit activation, and keyed her microphone to acknowledge the
order. "Confirm go for final connections," she replied. Closing her
eyes, she laid one hand gently on the green button covered by its own
shield and took a pair of deep slow breaths, clearing her mind.
Finally, she pressed the button flat.

In previous simulator runs, she and the other pilots had
experienced many times the cardinal sensations of synchronizing with an
Evangelion. Transient nausea, disorientation, and a feeling of being
somehow stretched were by now so familiar as to be beneath notice. That
only made the -new- ones all the more intense. On the heels of the
initial nausea came a rush of a bone-deep warmth, as if she had just
stepped into a summer sunbeam from the chilly New England fall. Mixed
within the overriding sensation were strains of comfort and safety,
flickering across her emotional landscape before vanishing under the
overriding theme.

Slowly, she opened her eyes once more, the pinpricks of light
sparkling above her greeting her upturned gaze. "Eva-03 here," she
radioed after a long, quiet moment. "Synchronization complete."

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Welcome to rec.arts.anime.creative

Copyright 1996-2005, Brian Edmonds
$Revision: 1.16 $ $Date: 2005/02/28 14:04:14 $

The latest version of this document can be found at
* http://www.robomod.net/rec.arts.anime.creative/
* post to the newsgroup or mailing list with the following text in
the subject (without the quotes): "send file: guidelines.txt"

Any inquiries, comments or suggestions should be sent to the group
moderators at raac-moderator@robomod.net.
_________________________________________________________________

Contents

* Introduction
* Charter
+ Interpretation: fanfic
+ Interpretation: artwork
+ Interpretation: other
* How to submit a post
* What to expect after posting
* Archive site
* How you can help
_________________________________________________________________

Introduction

The newsgroup rec.arts.anime.creative (RAAC) was created in May 1993
as rec.arts.anime.stories. In March 1996 it was renamed to its current
name to better reflect the content of the group (ie. not just
stories).

No introduction would be complete without a big tip of the hat to
Megazone who put in much work from the early 1990s on in developing
both the fanfic archive and newsgroup. Zoner retired in the summer of
1996, and while he's not gone from anime or the net, we'll miss his
energy on RAAC. (Actually we're hoping he'll have more time to work on
Hopelessly Lost and other Eyrie stuff now...)
_________________________________________________________________

Charter

From the newgroup creation message as stored at ftp.isc.org:

This moderated newsgroup serves as a place for the posting of fan
created works. For any anime or manga related fan work including
stories, parodies, original scripts written by fans, poems, song
lyrics, and original artwork. Only the actual fan works will be posted
here -- any discussion regarding these works should be posted to
rec.arts.anime.fandom.

Interpretation: fanfic

Fan fiction falls into one of these categories:
1. An original story within one or more established commercial
series, sometimes with original characters.
2. An original story within an original world, but with an anime
style or feel. Considerable latitude will be given in determining
just what "anime style or feel" is.
3. Poetry (including song lyrics), either directly about, or inspired
by an anime series or character.
4. Parody of either a commercial series or other fanfic. In the
latter case, some sensitivity is advised in not being too
caustic...

Scripts or song lyrics from commercial works are not covered in the
above, though limited (and acknowledged) borrowing from such is
acceptable under "fair use". Plagiarism of commercial or other fan
works is unacceptable in any form.

Interpretation: artwork

Fan artwork is either an original rendering of characters and/or
situations from a commercial series, or a completely original work in
manga style. Again, considerable latitude will be given in determining
just what constitutes "manga style".

Some use of commercially available images may be acceptable for parody
purposes if the parody element makes a significant contribution to the
work. This decision will be made on a case by case basis by the
moderation team or its appointed representative. In any case, straight
scans of commercial images will never be considered acceptable.

Interpretation: other

Announcements related to fan projects are also welcome. This can
include pointers to fan works ftp/web sites and mailing lists. Most
followups to posted works should be sent to rec.arts.anime.fandom, but
carefully prepared reviews and guides to collections of works will
likely be accepted on RAAC.
_________________________________________________________________

How to submit a post

In general you should be able to post to RAAC just as you would to any
other group, and software should take care of the details of mailing
it to the proper submission address. If your news system is broken and
can't handle this properly, submissions can be mailed to
rec-arts-anime-creative@robomod.net.

Please try posting first and only mail your submissions if that does
not work. You should also bring any problems to the attention of your
local news administrator, and direct him or her to contact the RAAC
moderation coordinator if help is needed fixing things:
raac-techmod@robomod.net.

Textual works must be submitted in plain ASCII format, with lines
wrapped somewhere between column 60 and 79; 72 is recommended. In
multi-part works be sure to indicate clearly what part each piece is
in the subject and both at the start and end, and be consistent in how
you label parts. It is annoying to try and piece together a work
consisting of Part 1, Chapter II, Ep. Three, Story iv, and so on. It
has been suggested that in multi-part works starting with a "What has
gone before" blurb is a good idea, but RAAC has no official policy on
this. If it has been more than a month since the last installment, you
may wish to consider it.

The common language understood by the vast majority of readers of RAAC
is English, and works in any other language are unlikely to be
accepted. Some use of Japanese within stories is an obvious exception,
and in general fragments of other languages (with English translation)
in a larger work are fine. For short works, poetry in particular,
other languages may be accepted as long as an English translation
accompanies the submission.

Artwork must be in JPEG or GIF format, and may be uuencoded or
attached as a base64 MIME attachment. You should also sign the work.
Including a short "explanatory note" as a preamble to any artwork
posting is highly recommended, particularly as such information is
useful to people later browsing the archives.

All posts to RAAC must be tagged to indicate the series on which they
are based (eg. BGC, Ranma, SM, etc.), and the type of work (eg. Art,
Fanfic, etc). It is also traditional to add a Lemon tag if the work
contains material of a sexual nature. Please tag your posts
appropriately before submitting them. For examples of such tagging,
see the newsgroup itself.

Please try to finish stories before posting them. Feedback while
writing may be nice, but it's a lot easier to go back and make changes
in earlier parts if you haven't already sent them out to the whole
world. Also, far too many authors simply vanish from the net halfway
through writing, leaving people looking for the rest of their story
even years later. Finally, give your work a title, as otherwise it's
hard to figure out where to put it in the archive.
_________________________________________________________________

What to expect after posting

If you submit your posting with a valid return address, you should
always receive mail in response from the moderation server. If you do
not use a valid address, please be sure to read the last paragraph in
this section. If you do not hear anything back from the moderation
server within a few hours, then you should contact the group
coordinator at the address given at the beginning of this document.

If the moderation software does not detect any problems with your
submission, then it will send an acknowledgement that your posting has
been received. If it finds any problems then it will return the entire
post with an explanation of the problem(s) it observed. If you have
trouble understanding or correcting the problem, please contact the
group coordinator.

Once your submission has been accepted it will be placed in the
submission pool, from which moderators request work. Depending on how
busy the moderators are it may be handled in anywhere from a few
minutes to a few days. If more than a week passes and you do not
either hear from a moderator or see your story posted to RAAC, feel
free to contact the group coordinator to inquire.

Your submission should also show up in the archives within a couple
days of being posted, although some moderators collect archive updates
and process them in a bunch every week or more. If you feel an
excessively long time has gone by after your submission appeared on
RAAC and it is not yet in the archives, feel free to contact the group
coordinator to inquire.

If you post from an invalid address, you can still receive mesages
from the moderation server if you register a valid address with the
server (a munged registration). You can read more about address
registration at
* http://www.robomod.net/register.html
* post to the group with the text "send file: register.txt" as the
subject
_________________________________________________________________

Archive site

All fan works posted to the newsgroup will be archived; if you don't
want your work archived, do not post it to RAAC. The primary archive
for the group is located at
* ftp://ftp.gweep.ca/pub/anime/anime-fan-works/

Works can be found in directories under there, by series, with the
larger endeavors in directories of their own under the series
directory. In the case of huge crossover works, such as Undocumented
Features, they will be in a directory of their own at the top level of
the archive. Smaller crossovers will probably be stored in one of the
represented series' directory. Works based on a show which does not
yet have its own directory can be found in the Miscellaneous
directory.

Images are in their raw binary format. Most text files are stored in
gzip (.gz) format. You can either have the server decompress them for
you while downloading (request the file without the .gz extension), or
you can get a copy of gzip to do so yourself. On Windows platforms
winzip is rumoured to have this capability.

Generally, a new directory will be created for a series (or a large
work within a series) when more than three distinct pieces of work are
available. Individual stories will generally be archived as a single
file unless they are very large (>200kB compressed) or are episodic in
nature, rather than chapters in a single continuity.

Work is planned as time permits to create a network of archive mirrors
as well as a web interface to the archive. Details will be added here
when known.
_________________________________________________________________

How you can help

If you're an author, take care when posting to the group to follow all
the guidelines above. A properly formatted and tagged post takes very
little moderator effort to deal with, while one with problems can hold
all the rest up. In particular, know your news reader, and be careful
of such things as MIME encoding, 8-bit characters, and automatic line
wrapping, any of which can wreak havoc with what you thought was a
properly formatted submission.

The group is pretty well provisioned with moderators, but interested
parties are always welcome to get in touch with the group coordinator.
The moderation software has gone through a number of revisions over
the years, and is now pretty user friendly, though some familiarity
with the format and contents of news headers is beneficial.
_________________________________________________________________

Brian Edmonds
$Date: 2005/02/28 14:04:14 $

Posted In: rec.arts.anime.creative

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Welcome to rec.arts.anime.creative

Copyright 1996-2005, Brian Edmonds
$Revision: 1.16 $ $Date: 2005/02/28 14:04:14 $

The latest version of this document can be found at
* http://www.robomod.net/rec.arts.anime.creative/
* post to the newsgroup or mailing list with the following text in
the subject (without the quotes): "send file: guidelines.txt"

Any inquiries, comments or suggestions should be sent to the group
moderators at raac-moderator@robomod.net.
_________________________________________________________________

Contents

* Introduction
* Charter
+ Interpretation: fanfic
+ Interpretation: artwork
+ Interpretation: other
* How to submit a post
* What to expect after posting
* Archive site
* How you can help
_________________________________________________________________

Introduction

The newsgroup rec.arts.anime.creative (RAAC) was created in May 1993
as rec.arts.anime.stories. In March 1996 it was renamed to its current
name to better reflect the content of the group (ie. not just
stories).

No introduction would be complete without a big tip of the hat to
Megazone who put in much work from the early 1990s on in developing
both the fanfic archive and newsgroup. Zoner retired in the summer of
1996, and while he's not gone from anime or the net, we'll miss his
energy on RAAC. (Actually we're hoping he'll have more time to work on
Hopelessly Lost and other Eyrie stuff now...)
_________________________________________________________________

Charter

From the newgroup creation message as stored at ftp.isc.org:

This moderated newsgroup serves as a place for the posting of fan
created works. For any anime or manga related fan work including
stories, parodies, original scripts written by fans, poems, song
lyrics, and original artwork. Only the actual fan works will be posted
here -- any discussion regarding these works should be posted to
rec.arts.anime.fandom.

Interpretation: fanfic

Fan fiction falls into one of these categories:
1. An original story within one or more established commercial
series, sometimes with original characters.
2. An original story within an original world, but with an anime
style or feel. Considerable latitude will be given in determining
just what "anime style or feel" is.
3. Poetry (including song lyrics), either directly about, or inspired
by an anime series or character.
4. Parody of either a commercial series or other fanfic. In the
latter case, some sensitivity is advised in not being too
caustic...

Scripts or song lyrics from commercial works are not covered in the
above, though limited (and acknowledged) borrowing from such is
acceptable under "fair use". Plagiarism of commercial or other fan
works is unacceptable in any form.

Interpretation: artwork

Fan artwork is either an original rendering of characters and/or
situations from a commercial series, or a completely original work in
manga style. Again, considerable latitude will be given in determining
just what constitutes "manga style".

Some use of commercially available images may be acceptable for parody
purposes if the parody element makes a significant contribution to the
work. This decision will be made on a case by case basis by the
moderation team or its appointed representative. In any case, straight
scans of commercial images will never be considered acceptable.

Interpretation: other

Announcements related to fan projects are also welcome. This can
include pointers to fan works ftp/web sites and mailing lists. Most
followups to posted works should be sent to rec.arts.anime.fandom, but
carefully prepared reviews and guides to collections of works will
likely be accepted on RAAC.
_________________________________________________________________

How to submit a post

In general you should be able to post to RAAC just as you would to any
other group, and software should take care of the details of mailing
it to the proper submission address. If your news system is broken and
can't handle this properly, submissions can be mailed to
rec-arts-anime-creative@robomod.net.

Please try posting first and only mail your submissions if that does
not work. You should also bring any problems to the attention of your
local news administrator, and direct him or her to contact the RAAC
moderation coordinator if help is needed fixing things:
raac-techmod@robomod.net.

Textual works must be submitted in plain ASCII format, with lines
wrapped somewhere between column 60 and 79; 72 is recommended. In
multi-part works be sure to indicate clearly what part each piece is
in the subject and both at the start and end, and be consistent in how
you label parts. It is annoying to try and piece together a work
consisting of Part 1, Chapter II, Ep. Three, Story iv, and so on. It
has been suggested that in multi-part works starting with a "What has
gone before" blurb is a good idea, but RAAC has no official policy on
this. If it has been more than a month since the last installment, you
may wish to consider it.

The common language understood by the vast majority of readers of RAAC
is English, and works in any other language are unlikely to be
accepted. Some use of Japanese within stories is an obvious exception,
and in general fragments of other languages (with English translation)
in a larger work are fine. For short works, poetry in particular,
other languages may be accepted as long as an English translation
accompanies the submission.

Artwork must be in JPEG or GIF format, and may be uuencoded or
attached as a base64 MIME attachment. You should also sign the work.
Including a short "explanatory note" as a preamble to any artwork
posting is highly recommended, particularly as such information is
useful to people later browsing the archives.

All posts to RAAC must be tagged to indicate the series on which they
are based (eg. BGC, Ranma, SM, etc.), and the type of work (eg. Art,
Fanfic, etc). It is also traditional to add a Lemon tag if the work
contains material of a sexual nature. Please tag your posts
appropriately before submitting them. For examples of such tagging,
see the newsgroup itself.

Please try to finish stories before posting them. Feedback while
writing may be nice, but it's a lot easier to go back and make changes
in earlier parts if you haven't already sent them out to the whole
world. Also, far too many authors simply vanish from the net halfway
through writing, leaving people looking for the rest of their story
even years later. Finally, give your work a title, as otherwise it's
hard to figure out where to put it in the archive.
_________________________________________________________________

What to expect after posting

If you submit your posting with a valid return address, you should
always receive mail in response from the moderation server. If you do
not use a valid address, please be sure to read the last paragraph in
this section. If you do not hear anything back from the moderation
server within a few hours, then you should contact the group
coordinator at the address given at the beginning of this document.

If the moderation software does not detect any problems with your
submission, then it will send an acknowledgement that your posting has
been received. If it finds any problems then it will return the entire
post with an explanation of the problem(s) it observed. If you have
trouble understanding or correcting the problem, please contact the
group coordinator.

Once your submission has been accepted it will be placed in the
submission pool, from which moderators request work. Depending on how
busy the moderators are it may be handled in anywhere from a few
minutes to a few days. If more than a week passes and you do not
either hear from a moderator or see your story posted to RAAC, feel
free to contact the group coordinator to inquire.

Your submission should also show up in the archives within a couple
days of being posted, although some moderators collect archive updates
and process them in a bunch every week or more. If you feel an
excessively long time has gone by after your submission appeared on
RAAC and it is not yet in the archives, feel free to contact the group
coordinator to inquire.

If you post from an invalid address, you can still receive mesages
from the moderation server if you register a valid address with the
server (a munged registration). You can read more about address
registration at
* http://www.robomod.net/register.html
* post to the group with the text "send file: register.txt" as the
subject
_________________________________________________________________

Archive site

All fan works posted to the newsgroup will be archived; if you don't
want your work archived, do not post it to RAAC. The primary archive
for the group is located at
* ftp://ftp.gweep.ca/pub/anime/anime-fan-works/

Works can be found in directories under there, by series, with the
larger endeavors in directories of their own under the series
directory. In the case of huge crossover works, such as Undocumented
Features, they will be in a directory of their own at the top level of
the archive. Smaller crossovers will probably be stored in one of the
represented series' directory. Works based on a show which does not
yet have its own directory can be found in the Miscellaneous
directory.

Images are in their raw binary format. Most text files are stored in
gzip (.gz) format. You can either have the server decompress them for
you while downloading (request the file without the .gz extension), or
you can get a copy of gzip to do so yourself. On Windows platforms
winzip is rumoured to have this capability.

Generally, a new directory will be created for a series (or a large
work within a series) when more than three distinct pieces of work are
available. Individual stories will generally be archived as a single
file unless they are very large (>200kB compressed) or are episodic in
nature, rather than chapters in a single continuity.

Work is planned as time permits to create a network of archive mirrors
as well as a web interface to the archive. Details will be added here
when known.
_________________________________________________________________

How you can help

If you're an author, take care when posting to the group to follow all
the guidelines above. A properly formatted and tagged post takes very
little moderator effort to deal with, while one with problems can hold
all the rest up. In particular, know your news reader, and be careful
of such things as MIME encoding, 8-bit characters, and automatic line
wrapping, any of which can wreak havoc with what you thought was a
properly formatted submission.

The group is pretty well provisioned with moderators, but interested
parties are always welcome to get in touch with the group coordinator.
The moderation software has gone through a number of revisions over
the years, and is now pretty user friendly, though some familiarity
with the format and contents of news headers is beneficial.
_________________________________________________________________

Brian Edmonds
$Date: 2005/02/28 14:04:14 $

Posted In: rec.arts.anime.creative

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Last-modified: 2005/02/28 14:04:14
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Welcome to rec.arts.anime.creative

Copyright 1996-2005, Brian Edmonds
$Revision: 1.16 $ $Date: 2005/02/28 14:04:14 $

The latest version of this document can be found at
* http://www.robomod.net/rec.arts.anime.creative/
* post to the newsgroup or mailing list with the following text in
the subject (without the quotes): "send file: guidelines.txt"

Any inquiries, comments or suggestions should be sent to the group
moderators at raac-moderator@robomod.net.
_________________________________________________________________

Contents

* Introduction
* Charter
+ Interpretation: fanfic
+ Interpretation: artwork
+ Interpretation: other
* How to submit a post
* What to expect after posting
* Archive site
* How you can help
_________________________________________________________________

Introduction

The newsgroup rec.arts.anime.creative (RAAC) was created in May 1993
as rec.arts.anime.stories. In March 1996 it was renamed to its current
name to better reflect the content of the group (ie. not just
stories).

No introduction would be complete without a big tip of the hat to
Megazone who put in much work from the early 1990s on in developing
both the fanfic archive and newsgroup. Zoner retired in the summer of
1996, and while he's not gone from anime or the net, we'll miss his
energy on RAAC. (Actually we're hoping he'll have more time to work on
Hopelessly Lost and other Eyrie stuff now...)
_________________________________________________________________

Charter

From the newgroup creation message as stored at ftp.isc.org:

This moderated newsgroup serves as a place for the posting of fan
created works. For any anime or manga related fan work including
stories, parodies, original scripts written by fans, poems, song
lyrics, and original artwork. Only the actual fan works will be posted
here -- any discussion regarding these works should be posted to
rec.arts.anime.fandom.

Interpretation: fanfic

Fan fiction falls into one of these categories:
1. An original story within one or more established commercial
series, sometimes with original characters.
2. An original story within an original world, but with an anime
style or feel. Considerable latitude will be given in determining
just what "anime style or feel" is.
3. Poetry (including song lyrics), either directly about, or inspired
by an anime series or character.
4. Parody of either a commercial series or other fanfic. In the
latter case, some sensitivity is advised in not being too
caustic...

Scripts or song lyrics from commercial works are not covered in the
above, though limited (and acknowledged) borrowing from such is
acceptable under "fair use". Plagiarism of commercial or other fan
works is unacceptable in any form.

Interpretation: artwork

Fan artwork is either an original rendering of characters and/or
situations from a commercial series, or a completely original work in
manga style. Again, considerable latitude will be given in determining
just what constitutes "manga style".

Some use of commercially available images may be acceptable for parody
purposes if the parody element makes a significant contribution to the
work. This decision will be made on a case by case basis by the
moderation team or its appointed representative. In any case, straight
scans of commercial images will never be considered acceptable.

Interpretation: other

Announcements related to fan projects are also welcome. This can
include pointers to fan works ftp/web sites and mailing lists. Most
followups to posted works should be sent to rec.arts.anime.fandom, but
carefully prepared reviews and guides to collections of works will
likely be accepted on RAAC.
_________________________________________________________________

How to submit a post

In general you should be able to post to RAAC just as you would to any
other group, and software should take care of the details of mailing
it to the proper submission address. If your news system is broken and
can't handle this properly, submissions can be mailed to
rec-arts-anime-creative@robomod.net.

Please try posting first and only mail your submissions if that does
not work. You should also bring any problems to the attention of your
local news administrator, and direct him or her to contact the RAAC
moderation coordinator if help is needed fixing things:
raac-techmod@robomod.net.

Textual works must be submitted in plain ASCII format, with lines
wrapped somewhere between column 60 and 79; 72 is recommended. In
multi-part works be sure to indicate clearly what part each piece is
in the subject and both at the start and end, and be consistent in how
you label parts. It is annoying to try and piece together a work
consisting of Part 1, Chapter II, Ep. Three, Story iv, and so on. It
has been suggested that in multi-part works starting with a "What has
gone before" blurb is a good idea, but RAAC has no official policy on
this. If it has been more than a month since the last installment, you
may wish to consider it.

The common language understood by the vast majority of readers of RAAC
is English, and works in any other language are unlikely to be
accepted. Some use of Japanese within stories is an obvious exception,
and in general fragments of other languages (with English translation)
in a larger work are fine. For short works, poetry in particular,
other languages may be accepted as long as an English translation
accompanies the submission.

Artwork must be in JPEG or GIF format, and may be uuencoded or
attached as a base64 MIME attachment. You should also sign the work.
Including a short "explanatory note" as a preamble to any artwork
posting is highly recommended, particularly as such information is
useful to people later browsing the archives.

All posts to RAAC must be tagged to indicate the series on which they
are based (eg. BGC, Ranma, SM, etc.), and the type of work (eg. Art,
Fanfic, etc). It is also traditional to add a Lemon tag if the work
contains material of a sexual nature. Please tag your posts
appropriately before submitting them. For examples of such tagging,
see the newsgroup itself.

Please try to finish stories before posting them. Feedback while
writing may be nice, but it's a lot easier to go back and make changes
in earlier parts if you haven't already sent them out to the whole
world. Also, far too many authors simply vanish from the net halfway
through writing, leaving people looking for the rest of their story
even years later. Finally, give your work a title, as otherwise it's
hard to figure out where to put it in the archive.
_________________________________________________________________

What to expect after posting

If you submit your posting with a valid return address, you should
always receive mail in response from the moderation server. If you do
not use a valid address, please be sure to read the last paragraph in
this section. If you do not hear anything back from the moderation
server within a few hours, then you should contact the group
coordinator at the address given at the beginning of this document.

If the moderation software does not detect any problems with your
submission, then it will send an acknowledgement that your posting has
been received. If it finds any problems then it will return the entire
post with an explanation of the problem(s) it observed. If you have
trouble understanding or correcting the problem, please contact the
group coordinator.

Once your submission has been accepted it will be placed in the
submission pool, from which moderators request work. Depending on how
busy the moderators are it may be handled in anywhere from a few
minutes to a few days. If more than a week passes and you do not
either hear from a moderator or see your story posted to RAAC, feel
free to contact the group coordinator to inquire.

Your submission should also show up in the archives within a couple
days of being posted, although some moderators collect archive updates
and process them in a bunch every week or more. If you feel an
excessively long time has gone by after your submission appeared on
RAAC and it is not yet in the archives, feel free to contact the group
coordinator to inquire.

If you post from an invalid address, you can still receive mesages
from the moderation server if you register a valid address with the
server (a munged registration). You can read more about address
registration at
* http://www.robomod.net/register.html
* post to the group with the text "send file: register.txt" as the
subject
_________________________________________________________________

Archive site

All fan works posted to the newsgroup will be archived; if you don't
want your work archived, do not post it to RAAC. The primary archive
for the group is located at
* ftp://ftp.gweep.ca/pub/anime/anime-fan-works/

Works can be found in directories under there, by series, with the
larger endeavors in directories of their own under the series
directory. In the case of huge crossover works, such as Undocumented
Features, they will be in a directory of their own at the top level of
the archive. Smaller crossovers will probably be stored in one of the
represented series' directory. Works based on a show which does not
yet have its own directory can be found in the Miscellaneous
directory.

Images are in their raw binary format. Most text files are stored in
gzip (.gz) format. You can either have the server decompress them for
you while downloading (request the file without the .gz extension), or
you can get a copy of gzip to do so yourself. On Windows platforms
winzip is rumoured to have this capability.

Generally, a new directory will be created for a series (or a large
work within a series) when more than three distinct pieces of work are
available. Individual stories will generally be archived as a single
file unless they are very large (>200kB compressed) or are episodic in
nature, rather than chapters in a single continuity.

Work is planned as time permits to create a network of archive mirrors
as well as a web interface to the archive. Details will be added here
when known.
_________________________________________________________________

How you can help

If you're an author, take care when posting to the group to follow all
the guidelines above. A properly formatted and tagged post takes very
little moderator effort to deal with, while one with problems can hold
all the rest up. In particular, know your news reader, and be careful
of such things as MIME encoding, 8-bit characters, and automatic line
wrapping, any of which can wreak havoc with what you thought was a
properly formatted submission.

The group is pretty well provisioned with moderators, but interested
parties are always welcome to get in touch with the group coordinator.
The moderation software has gone through a number of revisions over
the years, and is now pretty user friendly, though some familiarity
with the format and contents of news headers is beneficial.
_________________________________________________________________

Brian Edmonds
$Date: 2005/02/28 14:04:14 $

Posted In: rec.arts.anime.creative

no comments

Reply

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