- What got you into shrines?
Uuuh I remember I was still into fanlisting quote a lot at the time, and I was rejected for my most favorite female character ever - Yuuko from xxxHolic, so I decided I didn't need the fanlisting to show how much I love her and stated working on the shrine. Still missing few sections ages later
Butterfly
- What is a shrine to you?
Its a way to show my love for the subject and write mostly my opinions on the subject aside giving the basic information. I find it as a personal site to show my love and maybe interest someone into the subject.
- What are your top "must haves" in your shrines?
Well, it depends what kind of shrine it is, I always need to have the basics of the subject, be it series, character, relationship whatever I'm shrining, I will give something about the world/history of the place they come out, and then it depends on the subject, some things need more sections some less, but yeah never missing is credits and about the "world" that the subject is part of. And if there are some specifics, like for example my
Oscar shrine has stuff about French revolution as it's a big part of the story, or My
Bunnymund/
Jack Frost have added myths about Easter bunny or Jack frost, same goes for
Mugetsu
- What do you like to see in other people's shrines?
I love seeing the personal view on the subject that i know, because I want to see how different it is and how much alike it is. On the other hand when I don't know the subject, I still like the personal view of the creator along the basics, which makes me want to read/play/watch it.
- What advice would you have for someone who is making their first shrine?
1. start with what you are comfortable with, now don't drop to much content that you don't know how to share. start small, and then along the lines add stuff, make it grow, start simple and then slowly tackle the more complicated
2. When deciding the subject and how to write the content, decide from what part you want to tackle the subject, what is you want to show with your shrine. When working on subject think what it makes it special and try to integrate that into the shrine
3. It is your shrine, it will show your side of the story, and even if there is already a shrine for the subject, doesn't mean it got all the information on it, and you just need to get a personal way of dividing the content.
4. Remember about your readers, some will know the subject some won't, so you have to write it in a way that will be easy to read for both type of readers.
5. If it helps you before starting working on content write down a list of topics you want to write about. I always have all sections written down and then I start writing, after I subdivided them. For example now I'm working on the Hikaru shrine, and I divided the shrine in 10 major topics (Series, Baiscs, Personality, Appearance, Combat, Mission, relationships, symbolism, trivia), it's easier to write, and while you write this way, you can get back to the other topics to add things, or just make a note to a topic you haven't started to just remember when you will be writing it.
6. Most important - do the shrine the way that is most comfortable for you.