Posting Guidelines

[toujours_nigel]

• General Guidelines:

1. Have fun.


2. Don't have fun at the cost of others. Make your point with as much vehemence and rhetorical flourish as you choose and at whatever length you choose, but do not descend to name-calling or bashing. You might love or detest a particular character or novel, or how one member behaves might be irritating you no end, but it's petty to resort to personal attacks, and awfully uncreative. For personal reasons, mods are sensitive to misogyny, homophobia, and racism, and may not immediately recognise other forms of attack, but please tell us if you feel unsafe or targeted. That said, please don't confuse what characters say for the belief-system of any member; conversely, don't use the characters as sock-puppets for your own bigotry.


3. Renault's novels are not always easily accessible, and this is especially the case with her Ancient Greece novels. Linking to scholarly (or other) articles and essays dealing with the period under discussion (whether in a fic or meta post) or simply talking about the same is encouraged. If you know a lot about Alexander the Great, or the Athens Socrates lived in, or exactly what Ariadne was holding that morning, please do share. However, we know archaeology and anthropology have moved on from where they were in Renault's time, and have left her historical novels (particularly the Theseus duology, but also much that informs divinity and magic in her other texts) resembling fantasy rather more than they did when published. Consequently, the fanfic based on the same novels might not fall in line with current anthropological or archaeological knowledge.

• When posting fiction:

1. Put the fic-title and fandom in your header.


2. Use content notes. If you're writing underage sex or incest or BDSM, sign-post that. If you're writing canon-compliant fluff, sign-post that as well. Do not call it a warning in either case: some of us avoid stories based on content and others look for it on the same grounds.


3. Tag. Tag for fandom, characters, pairings, era, content, style, canon compliance and divergence, character death, injury, PTSD, AUs of all kinds, gods, magic, deus ex machinae, anything you can think of. Do try and avoid Tumblr-style chatty tags; gush in the Authors Note instead. You can also leave posts untagged if unsure, in which case the mods will do the tagging for you, or contact the mods to find out what tags to use.


4. Use a cut-tag when posting fic above 100 words in length. While you can choose what to put above the cut, please mention fandom, character(s), pairing(s), rating, and content notes; a summary would be nice but is optional.