FAQ

1. What is this?

Answer #1: This is what happens when characters don’t shut up and go away when they’re supposed to.

In the beginning, there was “The Fortune-Telling Doll.” Which was supposed to be a Shousetsu Bang*Bang one-shot. Apparently the part of my brain I’d allocated to that story did not understand the phrase “one-shot.” Because after I was done with that, it just kept right on chugging. And, well, who am I to ignore chugging brain parts?

Answer #2: This is the continuing saga of a mostly normal guy named Jeff, his author/ghost hunter boyfriend Kenny, his socially retarded best friend Ray, an assortment of demons, ghosts, fantastic critters, and cursed trinkets, and the occasional piece of cursed fan mail.

2. What’s with the red-symbol demon things?

Chapter 8 tells us that the symbol is actually a number. Chapter 10 will tell us what it means.

3. What happened to Kenny’s files?

Taken down for now; I’ll put that section back up when there’s actually more than one bit in it. It just didn’t make sense to have a section that only had one thingy in it.

4. Why are your two main characters gay?

Well, nobody’s really 100% sure why it happens, some experts think it might be due to a difference in brain chemistry, some think it’s–oh, wait, you meant “why did I make them gay?” Because a) that’s kind of what SS*BB is about, and b) because I felt like it. NEXT

5. But there aren’t actually any gay people in Texas, are there?

NEXT

6. Will there ever be vampires? Vampires are awesome.

Vampires are kind of played out and lame, actually. This will not stop me from having them maybe once or twice.

7. Will there ever be Western demons?

Yes. We saw one in chapter 9. This will not be the last one, not by a long shot.

8. Will there ever be [insert your favorite beastie here]

Okay. While all of this is subject to change at any time, the current game plan features a lineup of critters including but not limited to: cockatrices, more Western ghosts, Asian ghosts, a trickster god or two, pixies, the Boggy Creek monster, will-o-wisps, a serial killer warlock, chupacabras, kitsune, zombies, vampire pumpkins, and magical girls.

9. Will there ever be girls?

Oh hell yes. One was introduced (though not actually seen and won’t be for a while) in chapter 6. Another was introduced at the end of chapter 7. There are at least two more recurring female characters slated to appear later.

If you’re asking because you’re planning on going “EW GIRLS” when they show up, please GTFO.

10. Isn’t this kind of like Supernatural?

Well… aheh. I’m not going to lie–Supernatural is definitely one of the big influences at work here (the other being John Dies at the End).

As for the monsters themselves–there are only so many ways you can do demons, ghosts, and vampires, but I think and hope I’ve managed to not make my take on them a cookie-cutter copy of Supernatural’s or anyone else’s. For example: some Western demons will possess humans, because that is kind of what they do, but they will never ever ever leave a trail of actual sulfur residue or have eyes that turn black, red, yellow, or any other weird color to indicate that. There will be other markers, though.

11. Are you ever going to write 100 Candles/Supernatural crossover fic?

Although I think it would probably be hilarious (particularly because Kenny would fuck with Dean so bad and probably vice-versa while Sam and Jeff just kind of stood off to the side all “okay, well, we’ll just be over here GETTING SHIT DONE, let us know when y’all get done spewing testosterone all over everything”)… most likely, no.

12. What about 100 Candles/JDatE?

Christ, don’t tempt me.

13. Can I post chapters on my website?

Sure–if you’ll take a look at the bottom of the page there, you’ll see a Creative Commons license logo. You can repost wherever you want, in full or in part, as long as you give credit (to Sara Sakana) and a link (to http://100.chaobell.net).

14. Can I write fanfic/draw fanart?

OH GOD YES PLEASE DO ♥

15. What is Bacon’s real name and how did he get that nickname?

I don’t know, and I don’t know.

16. Are we ever going to see Gary again? And is he going to be nice to Jeff and co. now?

Oh yes, we will see him again. As for the second half of that question… aside from a grudging respect for Jeff, Kenny, and Ray? No, not really. He might not be as much of a dick directly to them, but no, he didn’t really learn his lesson. And he might not ever. Some people just can’t be trained.

17. Um, I’m here via a Google search for some financial shit, why am I seeing a bunch of stories about gay demon hunters?

Short answer: because my webhost fucked up, and I don’t like it any more than you do.

Long answer: a while back, my webhost moved all my crap to another server. Which was fine. Except one of the side effects of that move was that for about 24 hours, chaobell.net pointed to some sleazy-looking venture capital website. And apparently, that was just long enough to make Google associate this site with their shit. So now I’m getting bombarded by hits from people searching for financial shit following links Google is barfing up to pages that don’t even fucking exist. If there was a way I could fix this, I would, believe me.

But since there’s nothing I can do about it, my only suggestion to you is this: if you are here because Google told you there was financial advice here, kindly use your damn back button.

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