FAQ
What is SPANTENNA?
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Spantenna is a revision of the My Favorite Shows website that was started in 1997 by WebMistressGina. The initial idea behind the original site was to showcase the writings she had been doing for the Get Smart mailing list, though mostly it was to showcase her own original works. With the distractions of real life, the site began to change into a fan site, with close attention to Get Smart and Scooby Doo. The first MFS (as it was nicknamed) had four sections – Get Smart, Scooby Doo, The Monkees, and Dangermouse.
As she wrote more and more for Get Smart and doing more with Scooby Doo, sadly the Monkees and Dangermouse sections began to falter. Finally in 2001, WMG scrapped the last two sections and replaced them with Reboot, a show she had recently discovered. GS and Scooby didn’t change.
Around 2005, WMG began to get an interest within the Knights of the Old Republic series of video games. Feeling a sense of disappointment with how the ending of the second game went, she began work on the story Force of Echos. Following a second playing of both the original and the second game, she began Knights of the Old Republic III: Revenge of the Sith, with more attention being spent on the entire Star Wars mythos as it related to the games. This was then followed by the official launching of a KOTOR section within the MFS.
With the introduction of this reinvention of the MFS, a new section has joined the MFS legacy and that is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. While the majority of the site is either fan fic or original works as the driving force, there are future plans to re-add the Scooby Doo section, despite never having any writing within it. With the addition of a Scooby section, only two areas of the original MFS will have been continually been featured on every reincarnation of the site; the other being Get Smart.
Who is WMG?
WMG, which stands for WebMistressGina, is a native of Arizona and currently an office manager in her place of business. WMG has enjoyed a very long career in pursuing a creative writing ideal. The writing bug began in second grade, when her class made homemade story books. The first thing she wrote was entitled, “My Dog Fluffy”. Her first major work considered for publishing was “Deadlywood – a Bailey Hicks Mystery”, an English assignment that took on a life of its own.
Since 1997, WMG has written in many fandoms, including Reboot, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, DragonBall Z, and the show that began it all, Get Smart. Her many fictions can be found on various sites, including Fan Fiction.net, The RB Corner, and the KOTOR fan media site. Members of the Get Smart Fan Fiction list have enjoyed a wide variety of things that Gina has not published to the masses. Though she is using canon characters and locations, WMG had not only created her own characters, but her own universes that fit within the areas she’s writing.
Does WMG do anything outside of creative writing?
Yes. WMG, under her true name, is a freelance writer for many websites and companies. She has written for such sites as Free Movies Online, Bright Hub, Break Studios, and Triond. To view some of her articles, please see the important links section on the About Us page.
What’s the rating of the site?
The site in general is pretty much friendly to everyone, however there are cases where some stuff probably isn’t appropriate for the little tykes and those under 13 and some stuff might even be better for those 18 and up. You can check the general disclaimer to find out more.
The text is so small! Can you make it larger?
If you are having troubles reading all the text on the site, depending on your browser and computer, you can make the text bigger. please note that these instruction are geared primarily to those using the Windows operating system. If you are a Mac user, please feel free to send instructions pertaining to that OS and I'll gladly print it.
If you're using any of the newer browsers, like Internet Explorer 8 or Opera 10, at the bottom right side you should see a small box with the number "100%". You can change how large or small the text will be.
If you're using an older browser, trying hold down the control (ctrl) button and then hitting the + or - buttons. Same thing - it will either make you text bigger or smaller, depending on preference.
The site looks really cool! Who designed it?
The current website was designed by Spydersoft, LLC and is hosted by Adiuvo, LLC. For information about these companies, please click on their links to visit their sites.
I think Spantenna is awesome and I want to be an agent! How do I do that?
Hey, thanks! Agents are essentially authors, regardless if they are writing original works or fan fiction. To become an agent, all you have to do is ask by sending ‘Agent 66’ an email. Please include what you’d like to be called and what you’d like in your profile section. If you have your own website, please include the link so that the agents can include it or if you have a story hosted elsewhere (like fan fiction.net or rbcorner.com), please provide the link either to your profile page or the story itself. This can be done by going to the page, selecting and copying the link in the address bar, and then pasting it within your email.
What? No Scooby?
No, there will be Scooby, just not at the moment. This is because WMG is trying to bring back the focus for the original site in the first place and that was for everything that she wrote and unfortunately, Scooby didn’t have anything. Once she feels she's gotten to the point of having that section up, I will post it.
Hey WMG, are you ever gonna bring back Wiggles & Giggles? What about the Mike Show?
Ah…Wiggles, Giggles, and Mike…ha. Good times with those three. Truthfully, I haven’t decided. Like with Scooby Doo, those were more of a fun side to the original site (or the insane side) and only had the purpose of sorta…freeing my mind from all the heavy stuff I was writing.
But I’d feel ultra bad if I just gave up on those guys, so…let’s say that once I feel the site is where I want it, I’ll talk to their people.
EDIT: Wiggles & Giggles are returning to the Get Smart section, along with the MiSTs! News at eleven!
Can I become an affiliate of the site?
Sure! Just add a link to your website if you don’t already have one. For those of you that have one for the old site, please change it to reflect the new site. This also goes for any webrings that My Fav Shows was a part of.
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