Let me pose a hypothetical: If I'm writing a story wherein one of the characters is a female nudist, but apart from mentioning that she is naked, I don't go into describing...anything, is that something people would consider "mature content?"

I'd be happy to read more on your separate, Tumblr-only project, Deck...

I think the argument of canonicity vs noncanonicity makes sense, though, as a rationale for keeping the two separate. You can take advantage of that freedom in a way that we can't--or at least in a way that we never really intended to at the beginning.

I can't decide if that would be interesting or gimmicky... That's actually a much greater concern for me than the acceptability.

Now, of course, if it comes time for me to illustrate the story, it might get tricky, but I think you can do it tastefully rather than exploitatively. Not like the nude has never appeared in art before.

And I'm not against storing it to my hard drive along with the other JacexLiliana pictures I have >_> <_< >_>

I don't know that it's different rules. We've already said a whole lot of mature content is already OK for the boards - it's one of the biggest reasons the whole, dragging out discussion about a Mature Forum is a waste of time.

Out-and-out porn, obviously, is no good. but here's one of my posts from that thread on Meta:



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We've already said there are some pretty wide guidelines, with a whole lot of stuff that would be considered "Mature" in the "OK to talk about" list. And... I actually am willing to have some slight differences in some places than others. Specifically, I'm quite willing to give creative threads a bit more leeway to allow somebody to express themselves.

So while "Chandra/Jace" doesn't mean a darn thing to me, I'll go ahead and say I'm OK with mature content, within these guidelines:

- No explicit nudity in art (to use a bad example: playboy? Maybe OK. Hustler? Not a chance. More to the point, if it's art that happens to contain nudity, I'm OK with it - inside a spoiler and clearly labelled NSFW. If it's nakedness just to be nakedness, then I'm probably not OK with it.)

- Fiction shouldn't have graphic descriptions of penetration. Actually, strike that. Fiction shouldn't have any descriptions of penetration. If a writer can't get across the fact that two people are having sex without describing how the dude is plunging in and out, he/she is a bad writer.

- Similar to the line for sex, are the lines for gore and violence. Pictures do not need to show a dude ripping somebody's heart out of their chest while blood splatters everywhere; stories don't need a three page description of a torture scene.

- Finally, for my standards... anything that include coercion - anything that can be viewed as rape - I would look at with a much closer eye. And such items should have a "trigger warning" and be inside a spoiler.

Now, all that said, this is just my opinions. If Bun is against it, then it's out - she's da boss. If Bun is OK but the majority of the mod crew are against it, I would have to re-think my position.