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Didn't even post it yet, I had a little time to go online and double check submission guidelines. Just as a reminder, I work 9 hour days so I would rather not be rushed especially since I'm concurrently working on this, intro to Battle Spot, OPs, and the CCAT thread in my free time.
That's why I asked if you wanted me to do it since I'm pretty much free all day ^^;
That and I've done a few smog articles already so I know what to put in the approval. What you posted is perfect actually, haha. (You can actually get by with way less, they are pretty easy on approving everything)
Sorry if I came off as an ass lol >.> Was not intent at all. I wanted to write the pitch because 1) I added EnGarde and 2) wanted to get the writing juices flowing.
I literally took me about 2 months to get my first pitch approved (well it was Birkal who had to do it so I guess that's understandable hehe). I'd recommend asking a staff member, Flora and Toast++ are the most helpful in my experience.
Did you legally get a name change to Karous Obvious or do you just like to use that as a pen name or something?
Also the rules look fine to me haha, I don't think you missed anything but we can skim by other forum's rules to see. We can also edit it later so it's all good
Not yet legally but I go by it in all instances except for the ones that require my legal name. It's fairly expensive to get a name change - $500 in court fees, plus paying for counseling on papers and running classifieds in the newspaper (CA requires you to run classifieds announcing the name change for 8 weeks iirc). As soon as I get some more saved up though ;)