A note from the mods.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

There have been some changes behind the scenes here at darker_giles. Your current mods are psychoadept and anidada. We'd like to bring up a few housekeeping issues, and make a couple of requests.

First of all, because of the changes in modship, we're missing some of the banners and buttons previously associated with the community. If you saved one of these items to your own computer, please e-mail anidada (LJ handle at gmail dot com) or post it to the community (with credit to the person who created it, preferably) and we'll save it elsewhere so that it isn't lost again. If you would like to make new banners, buttons, or icons, we'd be happy to have them! Please keep in mind the focus of the community -- dark, not fluffy! -- and remember that anything that'll show in an unlocked area should be worksafe. In general, all FRAO/NC-17 work (art or fic) should be behind an LJ cut, labelled appropriately, and, as this is a friends-only comm, f-locked. Our current artwork and layout was a parting gift from selene2.

Second, we've been getting membership requests from people who do not have sufficient information in their profiles (date of birth including the year) or within their public LJ posts in order for us to approve them. This community attracts a great deal of work that falls into the FRAO/NC-17 category. If we can't make a reasonable determination as to your age, your request for membership will not be approved. We will take into consideration your place of residence.

Third, this is a community primarily for posting fic and artwork. We're glad you're here, but as with many other communities, personal introduction posts are off-topic. Going forward, we will delete any such post as it appears. This is only to be fair to all members. We could, if there's enough interest, have a single post where everyone who cares to can introduce themself in the comments -- that way the people who've been here for a while, as well as the new folks, can show their colours.

Finally, let's brainstorm! Give us ideas as to what else you'd like to see on here. A ficathon? An art-a-thon? Challenges? Prompts? Meta discussions? We want to hear from you. Feedback is love. :)

Thanks for reading, and thanks for being here,
--The Mods.