maculategiraffe

OK! So I'm putting up a second poll for community name, because there was very little consensus and there were some great write-ins in the comments and I personally suck at titling things so I want as much community feedback as possible on this. Technically, original_slavery is tied as the winner of the poll vote for community name with, um, macs_minions, but I'm pretty sure at least some of y'all were kidding about that last one. You know, like I was kidding when I put it in as an option. :P

I am not putting ALL the write-ins as options in this second (and hopefully final) poll, simply because I want to get this community created sometime this week. Orig_slavefic (suggested by morgan_cian) got a lot of support in the comments, and I also really like slave_fiction (suggested by shadowsonthesun, along with nonfan_slavefic and author_slavefic, but I like slave_fiction best). Alternatively, rose_in_texas' suggestion, chainfic, is a bit less "mundane." I also liked the suggestions of slavetolove (thirdsouthobbi) and oc_slavefic (nicky69), but am not putting either of them as options in the new poll, for the respective reasons that not all the slavery we write about may be loving and that "OC slavefic" might be mistakable, not only for fic involving Seth Cohen as a slave to Marissa Cooper, but for fanfiction that involves an original character, like my Wonder Girl fic with Ian, not original fiction altogether.

Also, it was sort of a run-off between votes for various types of moderation and for no moderation at all-- that is, no moderation won, but not by more than votes for the various types of moderation combined. I'm not putting that very well, but hopefully you see what I mean. But of the types of moderation, moderated posting seemed to be the favorite. Bear in mind that whatever we do can be changed later if it starts causing trouble.

So!

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After it looks like most people who've been voting all along have voted here, I will probably go ahead and create the community and start drafting userinfo and community guidelines. Please, please keep the chatter and thoughts and discussion of what we want out of this community coming! I haven't had a chance to respond to comments on the last entry, but I've been reading them very intently, and I love how enthusiastic and creative people are being. I'm really excited about having a community of our own where we can all get to know each other better and share the original slavefic love.

Also, speaking of not having a chance to do everything I'd like to, any intrepid souls out there want to volunteer to be my hired goons loyal henchpeople community co-mods?

Friends, perverts, angst enthusiasts! Lend me your ears! Just for a sec. Thanks very much.

So there is the slavefics community on LJ, of course, which is very near and dear to my heart. Finding it was what inspired me to post on the big scary internet at all, and I originally posted the entirety of Bran to slavefics, and I got tons of lovely feedback that encouraged me to post more and more and more and oh god will Lee ever come to an end probably not. And I've found all kinds of great stuff through slavefics. It's a fantastic resource.

However, I've been pondering lately. I've had several people tell me that reading my stuff inspired them to write and/or post their own, original (non-fandom) slave fic. Now, I love this, because I love reading original slavefic. I've also noticed that a lot of those of us who write it have been sharing readers, who read our comments and follow links and find new stuff they like. So: I've been pondering possibly creating a community solely for writers of original slave fic. It would most likely be a very small community at this point, but the hope would be that If We Build It, They Will Come-- i.e. that in the same way people have apparently read my stuff, gone "Hey! What a great idea!" and proceeded to upturn an endless cornucopia of gorgeous original slavefic upon the internet, yet more people will go, "Huh! A community for THAT? Hey, I totally have an idea for that!" and the internet will be deluged with original slavefic and we shall all dance laughing like maenads, with our hands upheld to the life-giving rain of kink. And stuff.

What I'd like to see on this hypothetical "original_slavefic" (or whatever) community:

-original slavefic (including serial-numbers-filed-off slavefic that was originally written as AU fanfic or whatever-- as long as it still makes sense when you change the names from Harry and Severus to Quentin and Joe Bob, it's cool)
-requests and plot bunnies from people who like to read original slavefic and have great ideas but no time/perceived skill to write
-recommendations for original slavefic found elsewhere on the internet so we can all go and praise it and get the writers to write more
-support, reviews, and (if requested) constructive criticism and beta-ing for our fellow community members

We can be pretty flexible on a definition of slavery-- like, consensual real-life-style M/s should be fine, and fics like 42 where there's no actual slavery but the structure clearly follows the same format as your typical slavefic. (Although that one's a fanfic. But you get me.) Also, it would probably be moderated membership, to make sure people really write original slavefic (or a reasonable facsimile-- see above), and to make sure we maintain a reasonable standard of readability and general decency, to be arbitrarily* determined by yours truly.

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*Not really arbitrarily, but I do reserve the right to not have things that are totally incomprehensible to me and/or totally gross me out posted to any community that I start and maintain.