Hello hello! This is SSS club moderator coming in to you LIVE from SAN FRANCISCO!

So, our club has been quite dead for a year, and we extend our apologies. Gomen nasai! *bowbow*
I've taken on the task of sorting things out with the club's work load. I'll be sorting through join notes.
Because the club has been untouched for so long, a lot of of things have piled up. Any art submission requests will have to be resubmitted.
I hope there are still some of you members out there, because the SSS club should be up and running again soon!! So please have patience!!

Koka
~korotoni

~ HOW DO I JOIN?~

Before joining PLEASE READ the rules and FAQ (as seen below).
To join you have to send a note to the group asking to join and after that you will receive a welcoming message with further information.



~ RULES OF THE CLUB~

If you have any questions about the rules, please refer to the FAQ below!



~FAQ~



:!:~CURRENT CONTESTS~:!:



~SUBMITTING TO THE GROUP ~


~REVIEW .A R C H I V E.~



~AFFILIATES & MEMBERS~


"Click to view entire member list

New Affiliate(s)! To Be Anounced!

Newest Members To Be Anounced! Not all our notes are sifted through yet, gomen- nasai!

Administrator
+ Moderators
Special thanks to the club Founder ~Tattered-Angel

~SHAMELESS*SHOUNEN-AI*SUPPORTERS!~

Welcome to the SSS page, the largest Shounen Ai club here at dA! This is just a simple fan group full of boys and girls who are crazy over shounen ai!
Only you can prevent hetero manga!
So join the cause and spread the shounen-ai around! ;

(for joining info and other information please read further)

~NEWS & UPDATES~

LOOK! OMG Our subscription is back, and there's a good chance some of you knew before I did. >_>; Our generous donater was ! Everyone feel free to rain your love upon her in one way or another. I'm sorry our journal is not more updated... We have even more notes since last time... and.. well- You know how iit goes! I'll be doing a whole journal just on all the people who joined, and anyone one else who needs to be added to the members list.

I really like the members list, and I feel it's a very shiny part of a club. I'll go hunting for pics to post soon. Thank you everyone for your love, patients and support durning this time. You are what make this club awsome, for sure.


~rio-armare



~ HOW DO I JOIN?~

Before joining PLEASE READ the rules and FAQ (as seen below).
To join you have to send a note to the group asking to join and after that you will receive a welcoming message with further information.



~ RULES OF THE CLUB~

If you have any questions about the rules, please refer to the FAQ below!



~FAQ~



:!:~CURRENT CONTESTS~:!:
The current contest themes are:
Tropical Fruits # of entries: ???
Naughty Cosplay # of entries: ???
Take Out Your Pens # of entries: ???

that's Better! I saw some submissions in my recent mess of notes.



~SUBMITTING TO THE GROUP ~


~REVIEW .A R C H I V E.~



~AFFILIATES & MEMBERS~


"Click to view entire member list

New Affiliate(s)! To Be Anounced!

Newest Members To Be Anounced! Not all our notes are sifted through yet, gomen- nasai!

Administrator
+ Moderators
Special thanks to the club Founder ~Tattered-Angel

Howdy!!!


Administrative updates

The World Cup gets the best of me every 4 years! So I’ve been away for a while.

Summer is here though! For the most of us, anyway, for some it’s winter and that’s a pretty good season too, me thinks. I actually prefer winter O_O… call me crazy if you will

We are approaching 800 watchers! 783 now! Domo arigato gozaimashita!!!

But there are some really naughty watchers who keep adding the club’s subs to their favourites. PLEASE DON’T DO THAT!. If you liked the art enough to add to your fave, then go to the artist page and fave it from there! Make them happy with a nice comment, with a fave, with a pageview… ok? Please? *begs*



Yaoi News

Yaoicon
Look for our lovely staff ~korotoni at Yaoicon in 20th October 2006. I can’t go because I’m in Britain . Just to call your attention to a competition that is taking place there. It’s a writing contest and if your story is good enough, you get it published. Check out their website. The deadline for that is the 7th July, so if you think your story is good enough, get it to them SOON.

Their special guest this year is Ajia Watanabe ^^. I don’t think you will find any of her comics or publications in English. But her art is brilliant. Works include Candy and Chou yo Hana yo and lots more, since she’s been publishing professionally since 2002.

More info about YaoiCon here: [link]

Bankruptcy
As you know, Biblos was one of the biggest boy’s love publishers in Japan, and it declared bankruptcy recently. Apparently the artists wont be affected and the licenses with American publishers like Tokyopop (Fake), Kitty Media (Skyscraper of Oz), Be Beautiful (Finder Series), DMP (Our Kingdom), etc will continue until the contracts are over.

EDIT Our member ~Kiyone1989 just informed me that Biblos was bought. However it won't run under the same name, but the important thing is that they are still active.

*sighs* Said that… Be Beautiful also filed bankruptcy, which closes the American boy’s love publisher. This is nothing related to Bibles though. Be Beautiful holds license for titles like Golden Cain, Kizuma and Finder Series.



Shameless Appeal

I should make this section constant in the journal. As you know to keep the club as subscribed costs money, sometimes it would be nice if someone helped with the it… 3 months, 1 month… anyway T_T

You can get the clubs t-shirt here [link] , but only until the end of June, after that, there won’t be a shop anymore.



New Contests DEADLINE POSTPONED

In the end I had to delay the deadlines of the contests. Many people were taking exams, travelling back home for summer holidays etc. So we have almost nothing coming in. The deadlines changed to 30th August for all 3 contests!

As usual, if you have sent something and would like to work a bit more on it, let me know and I will ignore the work you sent.

Here they are:


... Tropical Fruits ...

This will be our summer contest, so I’ll give you until mid July to send in your work.

RULES
> The central theme has to be one or more tropical fruits and, of course, shounen-ai.
> Has to be 2 original characters
> Fanart is NOT accepted in this contest.
> Deadline is 30th August.

Reminder: Not every fruit is a tropical fruit! So research!

PRIZE

> Feature Deviation up to the end of the summer!


... Naughty Cosplay ...

Here is your fanart contest, but it’s a little different. You have to choose a character from a series and make him cosplay another either from the same series or from another one. Remember that it’s still shounen-ai, so you will need either 2 characters or something really powerful to show it’s shounen-ai related.

RULES
> One or more characters from a series cosplaying characters from the same or other series/
> The cosplay has to be obvious, of course. So work hard!
> Only fanart accepted
> Deadline is 30th August.

Reminder: If you are playing to draw one character, work hard on the theme to make sure it’s shounen-ai somehow!


PRIZE

> Feature Deviation in the club until the voting of the Tropical Fruits contest


... Take Out Your Pens! ...

As the title says, let’s get writing! Finally a literate contest … You thought you would get away with only drawing uhm? Well, you were wrong. Now you have to write. I decided to have an exclusive contest for writers because it seems unfair for them to participate with drawings.

The theme is free! Yes, of course, it has to be shounen-ai or yaoi… if you want to write something explicit, is up to you. Just make sure you are legal .

To avoid votes from people who hasn’t read the story/poetry , this contest will be voted by SSS’s staff.

RULES & GUIDELINES
> Fanfic or Original accepted
> Theme: Shounen-ai or yaoi
> We will be looking for creativity, writing skills and yummy ness XD
> Free genre! Humour, drama, action, pure naughtiness… you decide!
> Judged by SSS staff only, so no voting.
> No more than 10 pages, font 12.
> Deadline is 30th August.

PRIZE

> 1 month subscription!

Remember: Check your spelling before sending it in!

IMPORTANT NOTE: To enter any of the contest you have to note the club and the title HAS TO BE THE NAME OF THE CONTEST, otherwise I wont accept it.



Manga News

Guys, Yellow wasn’t been released yet! I don’t know what DMP is up to!

If been buying some great boy’s love manga recently.


Shout Out Loud by Satosumi Takaguchi (Blu): <sub>Whether this is or isn’t considered shounen-ai, we will have to see in the next few books, I’m not sure how long this series is, but Blu has the license for volumes 1 and 2.

The story is about this young man, Shino, who’s a 33 year old voice actor. His long lost son, who’s 17, just shows up one day after his mother’s death wanting to move in with the father he was meeting for the first time. Shino is a cry baby and happily accepts. However, the anime series he is voicing is ending and he needs more money, since his son will be staying over. Super responsible, he tells his agent he is going to do whatever job there is… and funnily enough the only job is yaoi CD drama! . At first Shino feels weird about it, but then he accepts and start recording. With his soft gently voice, he can only be the uke. A sexy voice actor shows up to voice the seme. All this tension adds with with his son trying to get used to his father and learning how to deal with his own teenage life from now on.

Artwise, I would give it a 7. Is not that good… kinda reminds me a little of Fuyumi Soryo (MARS), but less detailed. It does the job though.

Plotwise, it’s a 10! I loved the idea, and knowing Blu’s comics, there will be something more going on. I know that on volume 2 there will be more ‘semes’ going after Shino, and even his son’s friend will get closer. It’s very funny and entertaining.

My opinion, it’s a ‘must-have’. So go for it.</sub>


Man’s Best Friend by Kazusa Takashima (Blu): <sub>Takashima-sensei is so so brilliant! The same creator of Wild Rock, she could only come with sexy semes and cute stories. But this one is so funny. Ukyo finds this stray dog and takes him home. Little he knows that when excited, the dog, who he named Kuro, turns into a human!! Keeping his ears and tail… so for those with a fetish like that, this is the best manga . They end up spending long time together, but Kuro falls in love for his master and, being a seme, he licks him and wants him all for himself.

Artwise?! How can you wonder that? It’s a 10!! Fantastic, yummy, sexy. All you could want in a yaoi manga. But beware!! This is for 18+… it contains explicit scenes, so, sorry kids ><.

Plotwise, it’s funny, I laughed alone in the train when reading it. It’s also cute, since Kuro can’t speak properly. The idea is silly though therefore the story is quite short, but that gives room for another couple of extras short stories.

Personal opinion… if you are an adult GET IT NOW. If you aren’t… then wait ><.</sub>


Make Love Maker by B.T. Azuma (Kousai Comics Japan): <sub>Gee… if you are not 18, stay AWAY from this one. It hasn’t been licensed and probably never will. It’s an SM yaoi manga only found in Japanese language I reckon. The art is great though and if you are into hardcore SM yaoi, this is a good one to have. I can’t tell you much about the plot… because I can’t read Japanese myself >.> … It’s about rivalry between companies. This CEO wants to frame the other CEO and he uses his lover, a cute perverted uke who’s up for ANYTHING really. O_O There are some yucky semes there, but the ukes makes up for them. He is really sexy. There is a bit of shouta though. A wee chapter talking about this uke’s past. Azuma’s art is flawless <3 . I loved it.

O_O does that make me a pervert?</sub>


Golden Cain by You Asagiri (Be Beautiful): <sub>I’ve been recommended this manga by friends and members of the club and I finally got it! I really liked it… the story is so sexy and somewhat weird. I wont say much or I will spoil the plot. Shun’s lives in the shadow of his brother who had a terrible accident. His life is almost ruins as he tries to live up to his memory. From nowhere this yummy model, Cain, shows up and save him from a very strange situation and from then on he takes Shun into a live of perverted love.

Artwise. I must say it’s not my fave kind, but I would give it a 7. Hmm… maybe 8 for the hot explicit scenes. So, said that, you know it’s 18+.

Plotwise. Very weird plotting, but the twist is kinda fun and naughty. I like all the lust surrounding it.</sub>


That's about it for now ^_^

Lots of s
=MauiArt

Howdy!!!


Administrative updates

Gee! It’s been almost a month since I updated the journal! That’s pretty bad. Here is the administrator monthly excuse XD.

I work in a biiiig office and I would always reserve a couple of hours to work on the club. Updating stuff , posting art, checking for new good art on dA, etc. However for more than a month now, my access to dA has been blocked and I can’t log in from work anymore. It’s a pain, especially for me, who really enjoyed my time on dA. So between the Club, my own account, work on my art and comic, my Japanese classes and taking care of my hubby I had to sacrifice the club time ;_; … gomen nasai.

We are 53 away from 800 watchers! Yay! That’s fantastic <3 Thanks for all the love.



Shameless Appeal

As you know, we are a subscribed member and I’m the one who pays for it, usually, but I like asking for member to give a helping hand. I’ll soon become a student again, that means no more decently paid job, yaoi comics, mangas, animes AND subscriptions AND prizes ;_;

So, if you wanna help, please do so, I would you a lot.

There is another way of helping tho! Many people have asked me to make t-shirts for the club ID art, so… >< I DID! X3
I found this cool place called CafePress.com, you can open your own shop there and sell merchandise of your work. So I opened a shop there to sell some of my stuff and decided to put the Shameless Shounen-ai Supporters art there too.
The only problem is… the products are a bit expensive…. I think, cos I don’t really know how much that stuff cost in the USA. Every time someone buys a product I get a tiny little profit out of it… about 2 dollars for products bellow 15 dollars and a little less when the product is over 15 O_o, they charge some stupid tax there.
Once I reach 25 dollars of profit they send me a yummy cheque! ^^ Oh, happy day if that happens .
This way I can pay for a year subscription, and depending how it goes, I can always give away subscriptions as prizes.

For the Shameless Shounen-ai T-shirts go here [link]




New Contests

I’m running 3 contests ! Why? Because one is fanart, the other is original and the other is a writing contest, FINALLY!

So here they are:



... Tropical Fruits ...

This will be our summer contest, so I’ll give you until mid July to send in your work.

RULES
> The central theme has to be one or more tropical fruits and, of course, shounen-ai.
> Has to be 2 original characters
> Fanart is NOT accepted in this contest.
> Deadline is 15th July.

Reminder: Not every fruit is a tropical fruit! So research!

PRIZE

> Feature Deviation up to the end of the summer!



... Naughty Cosplay ...

Here is your fanart contest, but it’s a little different. You have to choose a character from a series and make him cosplay another either from the same series or from another one. Remember that it’s still shounen-ai, so you will need either 2 characters or something really powerful to show it’s shounen-ai related.

RULES
> One or more characters from a series cosplaying characters from the same or other series/
> The cosplay has to be obvious, of course. So work hard!
> Only fanart accepted
> Deadline is 21th June. A whole month is more than enough.

Reminder: If you are playing to draw one character, work hard on the theme to make sure it’s shounen-ai somehow!


PRIZE

> Feature Deviation in the club until the voting of the Tropical Fruits contest



... Take Out Your Pens! ...

As the title says, let’s get writing! Finally a literate contest … You thought you would get away with only drawing uhm? Well, you were wrong. Now you have to write. I decided to have an exclusive contest for writers because it seems unfair for them to participate with drawings.

The theme is free! Yes, of course, it has to be shounen-ai or yaoi… if you want to write something explicit, is up to you. Just make sure you are legal .

To avoid votes from people who hasn’t read the story/poetry , this contest will be voted by SSS’s staff.

RULES & GUIDELINES
> Fanfic or Original accepted
> Theme: Shounen-ai or yaoi
> We will be looking for creativity, writing skills and yummy ness XD
> Free genre! Humour, drama, action, pure naughtiness… you decide!
> Judged by SSS staff only, so no voting.
> No more than 10 pages, font 12.
> Deadline 30th June

PRIZE

> 1 month subscription!


Remember: Check your spelling before sending it in!


IMPORTANT NOTE: To enter any of the contest you have to note the club and the title HAS TO BE THE NAME OF THE CONTEST, otherwise I wont accept it.



Manga News

Bah… guess what! Yellow 4 has been pushed to June! >< That’s annoying.
But did you get Yellow 3? O_O Wow!

Another sad note. DramaQueen is not releasing Brother 2. They said that the story is not as good as they were hoping, and surprisingly, not even the art is up to the standards they want. It’s a real shame because I would like to read it, even if it wasn’t as good as the 1st.

On a good note, at least for me XD *selfish bitch* … I bought many yaoi/shounen-ai recently and I recommend:

Little Butterfly by Hinako Takanaga (DMP): _{It’s so cute! But it’s shounen-ai, not sex… well, so far! It’s a series though, so you never know! The art is great and the characters makes you wanna hug them better. It‘s a very sweet and sour story, so I expect lots to come from volume 2.}

Wild Rock by Kazusa Takashima (Blu): _{I finally got to read it and I’m sad it’s not a series. Man, what was that Emba guy… my god! u_u SO SEXY ><! . The art is beautiful, it worth the whole experience. The uke is the typical one… but forget the uke! >< Emba is there! You don’t need anything else… oh Emba…Emba.. *sighs dreamily*}



That's about it for now ^_^

Lots of :herat:s
=MauiArt

Howdy!!!


Administrative uptades

Yay! Updated the New Members Icon… you can see it down there. *points to the bottom of the journal*

We are watched by 735 people! Yay! Thanks so much for your love

The new ID in place. Thank you again for the votes. I decided to animate it a wee bit. Just so it doesn’t look TOO boring. Now that I learned how to animate stuff… O_O I can’t stop!




Current Contests

All contests are closed and voted. We have no new contests so if you want to suggest one, feel free :3

CLUB ID


VALENTINE


And the winner with 34 votes is
with


Congrats!! You wont chocos from me! I’m sending you a note X3

2nd place with 29 votes is
by ~AkUmA0828

There hasn’t been more than 150 votes, so no extra prize.




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