FYSJS Admin Applications
Hey y’all, it’s Admin Mara. Well, this was going to happen sooner or later. So, FYSJS is opening up admin applications...again! There’s basically no limit to how many people can be accepted, because we need all the help we can get. Applying is open to all who believe they are worthy. Prove your worth at any time between today (February 24th) and the end of time. We will be looking at applications as they come in, and sending out emails notifying people who have qualified for the trial run, so that there’s less work for both of us. But I won’t say any more here. Requirements are below; good luck, and happy applying!
You must:
find time to write every single day, and prove it in order to stay on the blog.
Admin Karen and I will organize a trial run of sorts for new admins to test their competence. During this trial run (which may last a few days to a week depending on our final decision) potential new admins will be required to fill a certain number of prompts in a certain amount of time. Stories that are well-written and appropriate will be posted to the blog as a way to introduce new writers to our readers, so first impressions are crucial! The requirements will vary with the number of applicants who are accepted; if there are a lot of applicants who are accepted, these conditions will become more lenient, and vice versa.
be familiar with Super Junior and their personalities in order to write realistically about them.
be able to write under stress, and write well.
keep up with our tagging system and general blog rules.
communicate with the other currently active admins (myself and Admin Karen) if you need to do so for any reason at all.
be able to meet all of these conditions easily. If you find that you cannot do so, do not apply.
IMPORTANT: If you are accepted, but anything changes at any time during the year that renders you unable to write, you must let me or another admin know that you wish to either leave the blog or become an inactive admin. Do not strain yourself. Taking care of yourself is far more important than running a blog, because other people can run the blog but you are the only one who can take care of yourself.
To apply:
1) Fill these 3 prompts. Each should be at least 3 sentences in length, but no more than 5. This should not come as a surprise if you are familiar with how the blog works.
Siwon/Donghae. We can get a little crazy.
Kyuhyun/Ryeowook. Flirting.
Heechul/Han Geng. War zone.
These are prompts similar to the requests sent in by our readers; in fact, the first prompt is an actual reader request that hasn’t been filled yet. Most prompts provide a general concept of what the reader wants, like a setting, an event, or a thematic word or phrase. As an admin, you will be expected to write for a variety of situations. The good thing is that if you can’t fill a prompt, someone else will likely take over. It is rare that a prompt goes unanswered, but it does happen and it will not be the fault of any one person. This blog is a collective effort and our posts are written to the best of our ability.
2) Write 2 more stories of your choice. There are essentially no restraints on the length (be reasonable though!) or content of these, because they are your chance to show me and Admin Karen your style and creative limits. Write about the zombie apocalypse. Fulfill your ultimate coffee shop AU. Show us your most bizarre crossover ideas. Bring in SHINee and Girls’ Generation and Changmin, because Changmin usually shows up at some point anyway. Surprise and shock us.
I will make a note here, though: If you write something that I or Admin Karen deem inappropriate for the blog, we will still consider it as part of your application, but it will not be posted on the blog. You can still be accepted as an admin if the story is well-written, but there are sensitive topics (rape, suicide, overly graphic kinks, etc.) that some readers may not wish to see. I understand that there are blogs out there that write some pretty extreme stuff, and I respect that and everything, but FYSJS is not one of those blogs. (I also realize that I may be eating my words soon, because FYSJS may very well have posted stories with rape/suicide/overly graphic kinks in the past, before I joined the blog.)
3) Write a paragraph or so about yourself and your writing style. Tell us who your OTPs are, what fandoms you’re in, what books/movies/shows/music you like, what your favorite ice cream flavor (or anything-flavor) is, what the best/worst smut you’ve ever read/written was, what country you’re from, what you order at Starbucks, whatever you like. Be as brief or as thorough as you wish. This is my introduction to any of you who may be interested.
i’m mara. mara is not my real name. it’s an online alias i created for privacy purposes. i am in my third year of high school (the rough equivalent of sixth form, for any brits out there) and, let’s be real, i’m quite in over my head. why do you think fysjs is opening admin applications? i curse a lot in real life and a bit more on tumblr, although i try to tone it down on this blog (key word: try). i am aggressively short and asian and aggressive. i will poke out the eyeballs of my enemies with a pair of chopsticks. i am a grammar nazi who dislikes capitalization. i am on my way to either being a bitter old cat lady or a hip cat lady who writes books and travels the world. i am that overly protective mom friend everyone has, even though i never want to have kids. i read a lot of smut and i like to pretend i can write it too, but hey, you can’t have everything. i am responsible for a large percentage of the short stories on this blog because i have trouble being concise. look at the length of this paragraph. can you not tell i am unnecessarily verbose and loquacious to compensate for my height? i’m gonna stop writing now before this gets out of control.
And this is Admin Karen’s.
Hi all! I’m Karen. I’m actually the same age as the majority of Super Junior, and I like to remind my boyfriend that if any of them were to propose marriage to me, I don’t think I could, by law, refuse. I mean, it’s practically illegal in some countries and/or universes. I have a reputation of being unusually nice, even though I want the world to burn most days. I’m a feminist. I have an insatiable thirst for random bits of trivia and adorable vinyl toys. I sometimes speak in exaggerated caps lock. Apparently, I also like lists, because I can’t seem to summarize my personality in paragraph form without giving you my life story, and I just don’t have that energy. I am a shy, awkward duck most days. I have seen most of SJ in person. When I did, I took that opportunity and dived behind the nearest pillar, because it seemed like a better option than falling over and flailing at the time. So I’m probably never getting a marriage proposition from a K-Pop star in the near future. I remain a law-abiding citizen.
Submitting your applications:
You can do this in two ways.
1) Submit box. Here. I have added a rules section for applications that I won’t repeat here because this post is long enough as it is.
2) Email. If you wish to email your application to either myself or Admin Karen (or both of us!), send us a message on our personal blogs, and we’ll give you our emails. It is advisable that you still read the application rules on the submission page, because most of the same rules apply for email applications. (One variation is that, in lieu of a submission title, you should have the subject of your email be your name and your url.)














