Okay, so some things have come up for me. I wasn't able to make the post on Sunday (obviously) and I can't do much of anything this weekend. I'm going on hiatus until this Sunday so that I can get life sorted out!

WHAT THIS MEANS FOR THE NEWSPAPER:

I'll be making the IC post about it either this Sunday or Monday. Submission deadline has been changed to the 1st. Thank you to those of you who sent your submissions in already! For those of you who didn't know how to submit them, there's a submission post here, in Karkat's journal.

I'm sorry about the last-minute changes! I'll see you all in a few days!

Sorry for posting so much, guys! In regards to the newspaper Karkat will be starting shortly, submissions are now open!

The submissions page can be found here! The business page can be found here!

The business has been accepted and posted to the business community, so we're gonna get the ball rolling on this ASAP. The submissions need to be in by February 24th. The first run of the paper will be released on the 26th, and will run every other Sunday after that. This means that submissions, from then on, will need to be in by the Friday before it prints in-game. The IC post will go up probably this weekend, on Sunday or something, because I want to give people enough time to submit shit.

NOTE: We aren't accepting Letters to the Editor or questions for the Advice column until the second run of the paper. The first one will have an introductory article for both of these things, so that characters ICly know they're there.

Also, feel free to keep going with discussions and suggestions on the first post about this! That baby's not closed! Go go go!

(check back occasionally! this post is getting edited a lot as new information pops up!)

REMI HERE, WITH AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE ENTIRETY OF ASGARD!!

We have, under construction, ASGARD'S COMPOSITION OF WRITTEN THEMED INFORMATION REPOSITORIES.

In other words, Karkat's starting a newspaper.

I'm extending a hand to all of you, for ideas and to see whether or not anyone wants their characters to be involved! There's been a little bit of plurk discussion about this, but I definitely want and need more!



ABOUT THE PAPER: It'll be an IC business, but mostly nonprofit. There'll be a subscription fee to help pay off the loan, but the workers are going to be volunteers. Karkat is feeling the need to be in charge of something, and he thinks the people in Asgard need to be better informed about... just about everything. It'll be a weekly paper, IC, meaning that it'll be every two weeks OOCly. I'd like to be releasing it every other Saturday.

WHAT THE PAPER HAS: We already have several positions filled, but there's always room for more!

For columnists, we have:
Karkat Vantas (crabby) will be running an advice column
The Eleventh Doctor (amajestictale) will be running a column on building things (kind of like a Do-It-Yourself section, only about things no one is going to understand.)
England(unionjackass) will be anonymously submitting English recipes
Madoka Uehara (basesloaded) will be running a segment including love tips
Luna Lovegood (eccentricities) will be submitting entries to a mystical bestiary segment
Xavier Martez (spaghettiole) will be in charge of a weekly drawing tutorial
Conan Edogawa (holmes_fanatic) will be submitting crime reports
Bianca de Sainte-Coquille (luxuries) will be running a gossip column
Yuri Petrov (judgmental) is running a column about Law and Justice
Suzuya Tohzuki (cookingmaman) will be doing a food column
Rarity (shares) will be running the fashion segment
Inara Serra (withaheartof) will be in charge of the Horoscopes
Shigure Sohma (pervertedly) will be running the featured world segment!

We have three field reporters! (we are not accepting any more field reporters at this time)
D33 (d33tached)
Apollo Justice (attorneyatloud)
Momoka Oginome (rewrites)

We also have four comic artists!
Davesprite (birdtier)
Dave Strider (sup)
Terezi Pyrope (synesthesic)
Cheriour (clockeyes)
Philip J. Fry (themightyone)

And our delivery girl will be Celty Sturluson (helmets), who will be running deliveries on her mystical-horse!motorcycle-turned-normal-horse, Shooter.

EDIT: There's gonna be a section that will also be dedicated to the coming and going of Asgard's residents! Since the characters have access to a list of names of people in the city, they'll be posting who has gone home and who has come into town each IC week.

WE ALSO WILL HAVE A LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SECTION, where you can attack Yozora for bashing your favorite book, or Karkat for giving horrible advice, or Eleven for chattering on about things you have absolutely no understanding of.

oh yes. also gamzee makara (honky) is the official paper-folder.

WHAT THE PAPER NEEDS: I'm looking for more columns! I'd like to have a little more variety. If anyone has any ideas, bring 'em up here, and I would LOVE to get them out there.

The positions I have that need to be filled, currently, are:

Someone to run a possible gossip column Acquired!
Up to two (2) field reporters. We need one more, now! DONE.
ANY MORE COMIC ARTISTS WOULD BE FINE, MOST OF THESE PEOPLE SUCK.
And someone to run the following columns!
Fashion
Food (something more specific than recipes since we have that, but i'll leave that up to your imagination!)
Horoscopes (can be hilariously bullshitted. karkat would so go for it.)
Featured World (would require the character to interview a person from a different world each run of the paper)

The columns and comic artists are pretty much self-explanatory. Field reporters are basically going to find things in the city to report on. It can be on different places (He~llo IC advertising for other businesses!) or it could be on events that have happened in that week! If there's something going on with a player-driven mini-plot, that could be something to report on, as well! This one will require a little bit more in-depth playing, as you may need to have your character interview other characters involved in the events they're reporting on.

EDIT #2: Any comic arists have the option of actually submitting little comics. c: You don't have to, obviously, but if you want to, that would be really awesome, and it would make the paper pretty hilarious and colorful.

WHEN DOES THE PAPER START? I'm intending to have Karkat make a post about it in a week or so. I've got another post planned for him beforehand, and I'd like to give the two members of this paper who haven't intro'd yet time to slip in and make their appearances before throwing this at them. It'll probably be starting the first Saturday after we have everything for the first run of the paper set up.

HOW MUCH WILL SUBSCRIBING TO THE PAPER COST? It's super cheap! Only one copper rune every run of the paper! Celty will probably be asking for payment every time she delivers. ♥

CAN MY BUSINESS BUY AD SPACE? Absolutely! We're gonna have the price set at three (3) copper runes per line. We can work out how it'll look OOCly when I'm making the paper.

EDIT #3: (because i suck) I AM GOING TO BE LAYING OUT THE PAPER IN PHOTOSHOP. It'll actually be an image! So ad space is gonna be charged by how it fits onto the page, and you'll be able to see when Terezi defaces the margins/photos taken for the actual articles.





That's all I can think to add on to! If anyone has any suggestions, please, I am extremely open to this--it's why I'm posting this in advance! Throw your suggestions and your questions here!