Anything Goes NERV Unauthorized Extension
Submission Rules And Crap Like That
DURRrrrr, What's This Captioning Thing Again?: If you've heard of MSTing, just think of Captions as one-shot MSTs. If you don't know what the hell MSTing is, I'll have to explain.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST 3K) started a trend a very long time ago called "MSTing" (pronounced either "Emm-Ess-Tee-ing" or "Mist-ing"), where they would sit down with an old (usually over twenty years old) and corny (meaning very badly made, though vegetable metaphors could be made about the acting) movie and make fun of it, either by obstructing the screen slightly to perform actions or by making varying exclamations, either sarcastic or just witty. MSTing wasn't a precise science and it could really drain someone to make fun of EVERY aspect of a movie with no pause, so there were occasionally breaks for the crew to set up some sort of skit which would usually insult the movie they had been watching or might only relate to the time period that the movie was set in.
Eventually, as bad fanfiction moved to the internet, fans of the show took it upon themselves to project this MSTing upon that bad fanfiction, making fun of the really bad. MSTing wasn't always intended as an insult. Sometimes, it was commentary mixed with witty banter.
Captioning, getting back to the point, is basically taking a snapshot or a scan from a manga (sometimes enlargements are necessary if it's too small) and doing a very short commentary on the now separated picture. That's Captioning in a nutshell.
So, What Is Allowed In My Captioning?: Okay, listen, there are limits to what you can say and do, even on the 'ha-ha-ha' border free internet. So, words like ass, breasts, crap, shit, penis, vagina and such are fine. If the word can be said in a public high school without a hushed tone or without a verbal warning, then go right ahead and say it. The word 'fuck'... I think people over use that word altogether, but that shouldn't keep you from using it if you think it fits the punchline.
Can I Submit My Personal Fan Art Instead Of A Caption Or A Caption Idea Instead Of An Actual Picture?: Hell yeah. If you do personal fan art, then what you want to do with it is up to you, but if you're doing a caption IDEA, then try and be as specific as you can. Saying, "you know, that one scene in that anime. Yeah." is just going to get you ignored.
What Series Is Allowable?: "What series isn't" is the harder question. You can NOT submit any picture that involves the three taboos: Pedophilia, Necrophilia and Extreme Mutilation. Characters and captions REFERING to such things are tolerable (if you can somehow make them seem hilarious), but _pictures_ of such things are NOT.
What counts as Pedophilia or Extreme Mutilation when there are plenty of things that seem to fall into category in anime?
Pedophilia is sex involving kids.
Extreme Mutilation is anything involving removal of body parts or actual tearing of flesh.(I just think it's gross) Blood is okay, but anything from Grappler Baki or Fist of the Northstar may not make it if it's too extreme, but more likely it'll probably be taken down because the joke isn't funny enough.
Piercing, tattoos and such are tolerable, but I'm probably going to get queasy looking at them.
What about anime, like Sailor Moon or Pretty Sammy (OVA Version) which have flashes of naked kids? This is the problem with those sorts of things, it's officially fine, so long as there is nothing of a sexual nature in the picture. I assume this only because there are shows like Photon, manga like Aqua Knight (by the creator of Battle Angel Alita) and then there's the whole Sailor Moon series that made it over here. Twirl all the sparklies and flash all the colors you want, Moonies, the instant a girl goes from one outfit to another, she's naked.
For a further example, Sailor Moon's Chibi-Usa or Hotaru, if they appear younger than 14, must be clothed. Wicked Lady or Mistress 9 are technically 21, so they are fine.
So, naked teen-looking characters are okay, naked kids are NOT.
What About The Truly Obscure?: Stuff from comics that only made it to the first issue or the ones that never make into the double digits as far as lifespan are still acceptable, though we will probably ask about where the hell it came from.
Acceptable Behavior. This part probably brought a lot of confusion for visitors on their first visit, so I'll try to re-explain. What we have here is a raunchy series of pictures that poke fun at society, at the pictures themselves, at the series they came from, etc. among other things. We are not trying to keep you from poking fun at language differences and such, because there's really nothing wrong with informing people that they don't make much sense. However, we are trying to keep from being totally offensive.
Still don't understand? Hmm, what _I_, the man writing this webpage, am trying to get across is this: There's a fine line between comedy and just being stupid and insulting. We're trying to keep on the higher side of morality while delving into the lower side for raw material.
Why? There are about fifteen reasons, most of it has to do with trying to offend the least number of people, which is my life goal. The last five have to do with heavy flooding.
Complexity Versus Simplicity: Having an series of pictures is fine and so is having only a single picture and reusing it. If you have a long series, we maybe need to make a whole new folder for you. But make sure there's a joke. If you're just going to make pictures that have no jokes whatsoever or worse, just rant, go find yourself a mailing list or get your own damn website.
What About The Series? Does It have To Be A Listed One? Hell no, if you've got a series, submit it. We'll create one around yours, so don't fear.
Does It Need To Be Pornographic Or Use Bad Words? Absolutely not. If you can make a clean joke or have a silly idea, go right ahead and submit it.
Got your own that you'd like to add here, commentary and all? Here's the e-mail addy to send it: akun16@hotmail.com
And for golly-gosh sakes, I get tons of spam, both pornographic and normal in nature. Don't just say "Hi" or "RE: your inquiry" or nine times out of ten, it'll be deleted. Jack Steckel's e-mail had the words "a submission to your web site". This is fine, but try to add the word AGNERVUE or something to identify it from the hundreds of other e-mail.
This is to got back to the AGNERVUE opening page.