Building and Maintaining your Malevolent Organization

Greetings,

If you have found your Villainous voice, and have acknowledged that indeed you do wish to pursue your opportunities in the underworld, congratulations! You’ve taken your first step on the road towards Metavillainy.

As we all know (because you’re here), blogging can be a crucial first step in the Villain finding his voice, his identity, and with the help of his audience and their feedback, refining the quality of his or her Evil presentation. Consider blogging, your resume. With that in mind, and following the examples of so many more qualified Villains than myself, I’ve compiled a partial list of resources, to assist your development in this endeavor.

Hotmail Email Accounts. If you can type and agree to the terms, you can have an email account. This should be your starting point, as many other systems ask you for this account. It will also assist you in your malevolent correspondence. Expect the Heroes to find this, and add your address to every porn mailing list in Thailand.

Google Blogger. It’s free, and requires only that you have an email address. Garnering an audience requires work and patience.

Youtube. Wants an email address, and offers blogs and an opportunity to be both informative and entertaining. You must have charisma, talent, and a gift for performance. It does reach a large audience though, and can be interlinked to your other offerings. You will also want a costume, mask, background, special effects, etc.

Facebook. Villainous networking? Free again.

Website. Domain Registration can be as little as ~$ 20/yr, w/hosting being a few dollars every couple months. They have site builder tools which will allow you to modify templates. If you have web authoring skills, you can excel.

An avatar – artwork that you have created. To own your identity, you should have crafted an original name, persona (voice) and appearance. Myself, I haven’t done this, but in my defense, it’s on the to-do list.

The Holy Grail might just be Wikipedia.

When the time is right, and you’ve established yourself in the Villain community, you’ll want to find an Arch Nemesis, before you begin hatching plots to bring your vision to fruition. Some resources to consider;

http://reallifesuperheroes.org/wordpress/?p=51

http://www.freewebs.com/heroesnetwork/

and of course;

http://www.reallifesuperheroes.org/

Youtube also has many Superheroes to choose from. May I suggest Phantom Zero? He appears to have a refreshing go-getter attitude about who he can “Arch”, and how to arrange that. It’s so matter-of-fact, it’s inspired. The rest of his work will have you laughing. Sometimes at him, but more often, with him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-life_superhero

There will be more (Iphone app – Minions, get on that), but this should help as a basis. In future we will want to develop strategies to apply your particular brand of Villainy to the problems of the world, as you see them.

With Splendid Horror Unfolding,
-M