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Rules Changes and Survey
Mar. 25th, 2018 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acequeenking Works have been revealed and our congratulation posts are slowly rolling out through both last week and this one. With that in mind, things are drawing to a close, and we’d like to make two brief announcements for next year:
1) Please take this survey and give us feedback about this year! Feedback helps make us improve each year so knowing what you like, what you didn’t - all of that is like catnip to us. The survey is short, completely anonymous, and all questions beyond the first are optional - but the more information we get, the better we can make SpecRecs for next year.
CLICK HERE TO TAKE OUR SHORT SURVEY!
2) While we may have more rules changes depending on feedback, we do have two rule changes we are making up front for next year:
- Please do not place works into collections other than SpecRecs2018 until after Author/Artist Reveals! When you place it into a collection of your other works, it is easy to deduce who the author/artist is since other, non-anonymous works will have your name on it. Please feel free to add it to any collection after reveals, however; this is
purely to preserve anonymity on works during the opening week.
- Please do not write extreme kinks that your
recip does not ask for without double-checking with the mods! We don’t want anyone think we’re going to morality police on this, but we’ve noticed a bit of an uptick in people getting more extreme kinks than they asked for and people not exactly knowing what those kinks are. Extreme kink when asked for - yes, please, all the more!
As for what we define as extreme kink, it is somewhat of a nebulous term but would roughly include things that are not in the common, fandom vernacular in regards to sex. For example, Turians having hidden genitals is something that most people who read E-rated fiction featuring turian characters would probably be comfortable reading. However, writing Turians having hidden tentacles that slowly devour their lovers (ie vore tentacles) might be a bit left-of-field for your recipient. We ask people to use common sense and to always be comfortable asking through the mods if you’re not sure, and definitively to continue doing a great job tagging your kinks.
Again, this rule is to help both authors/artists and theirrecips make and receive something both can enjoy, not to make you feel bad for writing extreme kink (PLZ, we love it) or to play morality police. If yourrecip asks for Thorian tentacle mind-control porn, by all the means, write it for them!
