The Mechanics of Desire

A Guild for Slash Writers and Roleplayers



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IMPORTANT: Read EVERYTHING here or your request to join will be denied.

What Is Slash?
According to Wikipedia.org, slash is “a sexual or romantic relationship between two same-sex (originally only male) characters… "Slash" once referred to fan fiction in which one or more media characters were involved in an explicit adult relationship as a primary plot element. Now it is simply the term used to refer to any pairing between characters of the same sex.”

What Is Allowed?
We love to see original slash and fandom slash of any and all genres. We encourage creativity, discussion, and writing, as well as the posting of character art. Really, all we ask is this: that the primary pairing of your posted story or roleplay be a slash pairing.

Rules:
-Treat others with respect. (Experience is no excuse to be a jerk.)
-Follow the Gaia TOS.
-If necessary, use the quoting format when replying to threads.
-Write in proper English when posting. That means using correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

How to Join?
How do you join? Well. Click User Image Unfortunately, you must have a legit reason for joining the guild. Tell us who you are. What do you like to do? What kind of slash do you enjoy? Are you in a fandom? We'd like to get to know you. It doesn't have to be long, but it does require one thing: please insert the word in quotations in the following paragraph somewhere into your request.

Why Is This Guild Hidden?
This guild is "hidden" because people post work here they don't want plagiarized or stolen. The main page will give you information about what you cannot see. If you would like to know more, feel free to PM our Guild Captain, Vice Captains, or any of our moderators.

A Bit About Subforums:
Since you can’t very well take a look for yourself if you’re not a guild member, we’re going to list a few features of our forums here so you get a better idea of what’s inside.

Main Board: for introductions, birthdays, donations, spam, rants, quotes, and more

Sub-forums:
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  • Artist’s Corner(a place to post character art, story/roleplay illustrations, and other artwork)
  • Character Profiles (a place to post profiles of your characters)
  • Meme Board (for surveys, quizzes, and memes taken by or related to your characters)
  • Blind Date Board (a place for your characters to interact with no strings attached)
  • RP Writer’ Ads (for those looking for one x one RP partners)
  • RPG Corner (for posting, discussing, and reminiscing about roleplays)
  • Writer's Corner (a place for members to discuss writing and post questions)
  • Written Works (Stories and poetry are posted here)
  • Writing Prompts Board (for title games, song prompts, Round Robins, and other writing challenges)
  • Collaboration Central (for people to seek partners in collaborative projects)
  • Competitions Arena (for guild- and member-sponsored contests)
  • Beta Board (the place to get writing checked, and to offer up editing services)
  • Links Board (for recommending fics, writing and roleplay sites, and promoting personal webpages)


Donations:
This guild is a free guild, but we do encourage donations—sub-forums are expensive! Also, it’s more fun to have guild-sponsored contests when there are prizes to give to the winners. So even if all you can spare is a random crumpled newspaper or 1g, we would love to have what you can give.

Donations should be sent to our guild treasurer, Tauntinghope and not directly into the guild account. This is because donations sent to the guild the normal way can only pay for sub-forums and not guild prizes. If you would like to know what’s happening to your gold, just check the stickied announcement threads.