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Reminiscent Designs The Fiction Corner Submission Rules

We have some very basic submission guidelines, so please read them before submitting a story for the first time. These rules were modified from Wraithbait, the Stargate Atlantis fanfiction archive, and Master_Apprentice, the Star Wars/Jedi fanfiction archive, BJFic.net - Thanks to all of them.

You must be of legal age in your part of the world to submit anything to this site, or to participate in it. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the archivists.

This is a part of a whole website, so the owner accept Fictions like CrossOver, Mpreg, Futur Fic, Alternate Universes. The Happy ending, that means Brian/ Justin together is highly recommanded.

All stories submitted to this site must have been at least proofread to check for simple typos and misspellings. Authors are also strongly encouraged to use beta readers to provide deeper editorial assistance on a variety of subjects, such as proper grammar, homonym confusion, plot holes, and characterization issues. Stories that are obviously not proofread (meaning: riddled with mistakes) will not be accepted, although writers are more than welcome to resubmit after proof-reading/beta-editing. If you need a beta reader, click here for members who have indicated they're willing to beta.

Please also use a beta to ensure that non-American words (a.k.a. "Britishisms") are eliminated. Unless you are writing an AU/AR, canon states that Brian and Justin are American males from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They do not use lifts, watch the telly, smoke fags (at least not in THAT sense), talk on their mobiles, eat take aways, call anyone an arsehole, etc. Words like that take the reader out of the story and we'd like to stay in it.

Stories must be written in English, although foreign-language phrases within the main body of the story are acceptable.
If you want to archive German stories here, I wouldn't mind, I will then put up the right category for you!

All stories submitted to the archive must be your own work. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. If you plagiarise, your account will be locked or deleted and you will be named and shamed on the front page.

Stories submitted to the site must not quote substantial parts of works by others and should contain significant original content. Any quoting of works by others must be appropriately cited. If you don't cite what you haven't written, you're at risk of committing plagiarism.
In practice this means that:
- the quoting of song lyrics, poetry etc. must be kept to a minimum. This means one or two lines, perhaps as much as a verse, but certainly not the whole song, poem etc. and you must state in your notes that you have used this material, giving the original source.
- the vast majority of the story should be in your own words (this would include not submitting stories that consist largely or significantly of dialogue from the shows themselves rather than something you've written).
- if the story is based on an idea by someone else, for example a movie or novel homage, this fact must be acknowledged in the author's notes and, again, the story should be original, not the characters saying or paraphrasing the words written by someone else.

Please ensure that you have placed your stories in the correct category or categories. You can place your story in more than one category, for example Future Fic and Crossover. Please try not to place your stories in categories that are mutually exclusive, for example 'Mainstream Canon' and then "MPREG".
- where relationships involve more than two characters in a relationship (Living together, or having sex all together), please put it in the 'Threesomes and Moresomes' category. Triangles - for example Brian/Justin and Brian/OMC in the same story - that don't end in a threesome should be placed in the relevant categories
- crossovers, should have the relevant 'Crossovers' category attached (i.e. one of the Crossovers sub-categories: QAF/Vanished; QAF/ Superatural) as well as any pairing categories.
If you have any questions about where to put your story, please contact one of the archivists.

Stories in a series should be linked using the 'series' option under your account. You can choose to make series closed - i.e. only you can post to them - or open - i.e. anyone can write in your Universe and post stories to it.

We accept works in progress (WIPs) providing that they meet the minimum quality standards of the archive. WIPs must also be updated regularly and stories that have not been updated for three months will be removed from the archive. You are, however, welcome to resubmit once the story is finished.

Warnings: the site uses very basic, high level warnings to make sure no one accidentally reads anything that they don't want to. Please use them. If you are an author who would prefer to give more specific warnings, please use your story notes.

Ratings should always be used, with anything containing explicit sexual details classed as NC-17. Where different parts of a story are rated differently, the first part should be rated at the highest rating, as it's the rating of the first part that shows up in menus and on your author's page. If there's going to be sex - in any part - then rate the whole thing as NC-17.

Authors' notes should not be posted as a separate chapter. Except if they are just as long as a story. There are fields on the submission form for author's notes for the whole story and for the individual chapter. If you don't want to have story notes, then leave these fields blanks. Please do not repeat the same story notes in each chapter.

Author's notes should not be used to thank people for leaving reviews, nor to request reviews. You can respond to reviews individually via your account (Reviews Received) and any requests for reviews will have to be removed before stories are added to the site. If you're not sure whether something is working, then please seek a beta prior to posting rather than requesting readers to comment.

The archive is set up to allow both anonymous and signed reviews. We encourage constructive criticism, but flaming other authors will not be tolerated and may result in you losing your account. 'I think that this could be done better...' is constructive criticism. 'You suck...' is a flame. 'I think your story sucks...' is not a flame, as it is talking about the story not the author, but it is still rude and not constructive, and we're no more fans of rudeness than we are of flaming. Be polite.

Please use basic formatting, meaning DO NOT use smart-quotes or other special formatting that some word processors substitute for hyphens, ellipses, etc. In Microsfot Word, this means finding the Autoformat tab (probably under the Options menu) and turning off the "Replace with Smart Quotes" check box. If you have a fic and need to delete your smart quotes, just turn off the smart quotes feature and do a "Find and Replace." Note that smart quotes include single quotation marks as well. Also, please leave a space between paragraphs. Simply indenting the paragraphs often isn't enough -- tabs can get swallowed and it's much, much easier to read with a space between paragraphs.