janecarnall (janecarnall) wrote in au_keptverse, @ 2009-01-11 09:24:00 |
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About the community
Hello. My name is Jane Carnall, and I'm your moderator.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about in the next paragraph, skip right over it to the fourth paragraph.
This community is for meta and stories in the FPS AU to poisontaster's Keptverse. The main community for this is on Livejournal (*hack! spit!*) but poisontaster backed everything up onto IJ not long ago during what was then the most recent LJ scare, so all the links from here to whatwekeep will be to the IJ mirror - though a lot of the links from there will just go straight back to LJ.)
Back in July 2008, poisontaster started writing a WiP story set in a universe where the United States of North America (USNA - this world's US, Canada, and Mexico) is entirely inhabited by actors from prime time TV series and blockbuster films, and where debt slavery is real. This is A Kept Boy (link goes to Chapter 1).
By October 2008 it was clear that lots of other people wanted to play, and poisontaster started a community, whatwekeep, and posted FAQ and the stories so far.
I'd been reading "A Kept Boy" since darkrose rec'd me to it when she started writing her fabulous Keptverse series.
I posted the first section of my Keptverse story, The Games. But because RPS makes me neurotic, I'd started to write a story set in an AU to the Keptverse where the USNA is instead entirely inhabited by the characters from TV series and films.
This provides some odd, interesting factors that would be fun to play with - for example, though no one openly discusses it, California is rife with vampires and demons, indeed all the demons from Supernatural are real... an asteroid fell in Smallville with a lot of odd effects, presumably Spiderman is up and swinging in Metropolis....
Other than debt slavery, the main social difference between the Keptverse universe and our own is that everyone takes the normal human range of sexual orientation for granted: any couple can marry, and no one thinks anything of it.
This community has been set up to let people who want to read and discuss and post meta about this AU to the Keptverse. I'm going to write up what I know about the AU Keptverse for another post, and also post links to all the FPS I'm aware of (mostly, mine) in a story so far post.
So, the main rules are:
1. This community is for fictional-person-stories only. For RPS, you need to go over to whatwekeep. I'm not going to be way stringent about this, we don't need to pretend RPS doesn't exist, but stories have to be based on the characters from TV series/films, not the actors, and discussion/meta should focus on FPS Keptverse.
2. This is primarily a slash community. I don't have a problem if people want to post het, and I'm not about to disentangle the distinction between slash and gen when writing in an AU, but: If you have a problem with reading stories in which two men or two women have sex, you should not be reading here.
3. This is primarily a slash community. Stories may include explicit sexual content. (They are not required to do so.) If you personally consider this immoral, or if it is illegal for you to read such stories, you should not be reading here.
4. This is a slavefic community. Stories may therefore include rape, dubious non-consent, BDSM that is not safe, sane, or consensual, etc, and need not provide warnings: this is your warning. (Writers may provide warnings, if they wish, but they are not obligated to do so.) If you find such stories triggering or upsetting or objectionable, you should not be reading here.
5. Everybody is to be reasonably polite to and about each other. Violations of this clear policy may result in discussions being frozen, or your comments being deleted or you yourself being banned from commenting. Severe violations may result in this happening without warning. I do not object to strong disagreement, but I do object to personal abuse.
6. Rule 5 does not mean that any story must receive praise or nothing. Criticism of a story is allowed: criticism of the writer is not. Abuse/insults are still banned.
7. There is no rule 7.
8. I'm the community moderator: my decision is final.