Supernatural.tv Newsletter

Issue #10 | 13 May 2009

Members of the Month

ilaria -- April

DeanBean -- May

Lo -- April
mummyluvr -- May

Click on their names to see some of their work.
The board staff at Supernatural.tv chooses forum members who have shown significant progress or outstanding work in fanart and fanfic to be the Artist of the Month and the Writer of the Month.

Announcements

• This year's Supernatural.tv Awards are quickly approaching and the team is looking for input on how to make it bigger and better! If you have any suggestions, we would love to here them, just visit our suggestion thread on the forums here.

Supernatural News

• Supernatural has been officially accepted back for its 5th season!! This will be Supernatural's final season before going off air. :(

• The Winchester Family Business has posted an article entitled, "Reality Check: Why Fan Efforts Won't Help Supernatural's Budget ". An interesting read for fans.

• Supernatural Final is tomorrow night (Thursday May 14)!! Make sure you tune in for what is sure to be an amazing ending to this year's season!!

Board Updates

• Currently we have the voting for a new Fanart Challenge up called the Good Vs. Evil Wallpaper Challenge. The challenge was to create a wallpaper that focuses around the aspect of Good vs. Evil in the Supernatural Universe. Oh, and how could I forget to mention, this was our first wallpaper challenge in two years! Please click the link above to go cast your vote for who you think should be the winner!

• Also, LIMS (Last Icon Maker Standing) has started up again for this year's competition. It's too late to enter and be one of the Icon Makers, but everyone is welcome to participate in the voting rounds and help select the Last Icon Maker Standing! Click here to check out the forum and see what's happen.

• A new and interesting game is being introduced to the board called, "Wolf" (a.k.a. Mafia). This new and exciting game is a game of psychology and logic. Set to a Supernatural theme, the game will consist of two sides, the human townspeople and the demons. In general, the goal is for the humans to try and figure out who could be the demons and vote to eliminate a player every day from the game, and it is the goal of the demons, who hid in secret amongst the human population, to eliminate as many humans as possible without drawing suspension to themselves. The game ends when either the townspeople have eliminated the infestation of demons or when the demons have eliminated the humans (this is to say when the human population equals that of the demon population because then the demons would control half the vote.) We're very excited to bring this new game to the members of supernatural.tv and we hope that you all will have a lot of fun with it! If the game is popular enough, we would like to expand it and open it up to even more possibilities such as various themes (like Harry Potter or classic Mafia style), have multiple games going at once, etc. If you would like to learn more about the game and have an interest in taking part, please check out our Wolf forum where Grkgrl has posted a resource thread explaining the game and also my intro to the game.

Show Offs

Greeting fellow fans,

I'd really like to try and give a new idea a try. In the old issues of the Newsletter we've had the "Speak Up" section where grkgrl would usually post a topic to which members could write about and their opinions would be included in the next issue. However, with me being more of an artsy kind of person, I'd like to add my own segment to the newsletter called "Show Offs".

In this section I would like to show off the amazing talent of our Supernatural fans. Everything from fanart, fanfiction, and fan videos. Just email us with one of your amazing pieces of art, make sure to include the name you would like to have credit given to (alias, username, real name, etc.), and in the next issue I'll include as many of these as I can. I will not allow people to use this as a promotion base. So please do not try to include a site URL with your email asking to include that as your name to give credit. Also, if you can keep URLs out of the piece that would be wonderful, too, however I do understand that some artists use their site URL as a watermark, which is allowed.

Standard rules apply, basically meaning all the rules found under "Contribute to this newsletter." I plan to have this section and the "Speak Up" section going on and off. Some issues will have this new "Show Offs" section, especially if there are no replies to the "Speak Up", but I plan to switch off between the two.

I hope this works out and I hope that you all enjoy it. I can't wait to see what you all can come up with, and I can't wait to share the amazing talent of our fans with all the other fans!!

Thanks,

.::~Seth~::.

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Tell us what you think

Now that you've read this issue, do you have any ideas or suggestions for future issues? Contact the Sn.tv staff through the board or send feedback to sntvnews (at) yahoo (dot) com. We'd love to hear your thoughts!

Note from the Editor:

I'm deeply sorry for being so behind in getting this issue out to you all, but it's been a very crazy year. I hope to maintain a more monthly approach to sending out issues of the newsletter, so you guys won't have to wait two months again. :) Also, I'll probably be sending out a few special issues over the spring, summer, and fall as we do the awards to keep you up-to-date on those.

On another side note, I would greatly appreciate help collecting Supernatural News. I do pretty good keeping in touch with what is going on at the forum, but I don't get a lot of what is going on in general Supernatural News…as may be apparent from my Supernatural News section in this issue. So I would greatly appreciate it if you some of you could just send in links to news articles you find about Supernatural. Not every little thing, but if you see a kind of big article that you think every fan might enjoy or find interesting, send me a link and it'll probably end up in the next issue.

Thanks, and I hope you have enjoyed this issue of the Supernatural.tv Newsletter!

.::~Seth~::.

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