Posting Guidelines

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Friendly neighbourhood mod here, with your Posting Guidelines:

1. Put all fics, spoilers, and large images behind a cut. If you don’t know how to use a cut, check this link from the LJ FAQ.

A large image, for the record, is anything over 200 x 200 pixels.

Spoilers are anything from an unaired episode, or content for the most recent episode, up to two weeks after the original air date. Please err on the side of caution, and if in doubt, ask one of the mods and we will be happy to help you out. Season 5 has not aired yet in many countries, so it would be nice if posters take that into account.

2. This community uses a tagging system. Don't forget to tag your posts. Alternately, ping one of the mods, and we can help you out. We encourage self-tagging, though! (Oh, that sounded so wrong.)

3.What your subject line should look like if you're posting a fic:

Your title and part # if applicable, i.e.: 1/?

If your story only has one part, you don't need to include part numbers.

4. A few examples of what your subject line should look like if you're posting fanart, icons, audiofic, or other submissions:

Example #1: Audiofic: [Title Here], PG-13, Sam, Dean
Example #2: Icons: 20 icons from Born Under A Bad Sign

So, put what type of fanwork it is, following that up with your title, rating, characters and/or pairing, (if applicable) as seen in 02.

5. Your header should look something like this:

Title:
Author:
Rating:
Genre/pairing:
Characters:
Word count:
Summary:
Spoilers: (if applicable)
Warnings: (if applicable)
Disclaimer:

Feel free to add any text your heart desires, of course. Author's notes and the like are always a fun bonus.

Here is the header form, treat it nicely, although it's meant as a guideline, not the be-all and end-all. ;)

HEADER FORM
<b>Title:</b> <b>Author:</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Genre/pairing:</b> <b>Characters:</b> <b>Word count:</b> <b>Summary:</b> <b>Spoilers:</b> <b>Warnings:</b> <b>Disclaimer:</b>

Promotions and Announcements:

Community announcements, meme promotions and the like are subject to mod approval, therefore please ask before posting them. Our contact information is listed below.

Questions, Comments, Issues

There will be an FAQ available soon (watch this space!). For anything else, feel free to contact the mods.

Rec post!

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ohsam, as well as providing a place for people to post Sam-focused h/c fics, will also feature rec posts for them. Currently we're going to try for one rec post a month, with occasional exceptions to be made for special themes (episode tags/codas and the like).

There will be recs based on themes, pairings/genres, episodes, insta-recs, etc.

There will be mod rec posts and guest rec posts, depending on our whim and how many people have made recommendations in a given month.

If you have any Sam-focused hurt/comfort fanwork recs of your own that you'd like to be part of the monthly guest rec post(s), please submit them below.

Please don't self-rec here, although self-reccing in the monthly posts is fine and even encouraged. If you have a fic of your own that you want to share, then simply post it or a link to it in the community itself.

Please please please suggest and link to other fanworks that go with the theme, pairing/genre, etc. in the comments to any rec post so that others can check them out. These recs won't be part of the monthly guest rec post(s), but we want them anyway!


How to submit a rec:

If you have any Sam-focused hurt/comfort fanwork recs of any type, genre, or pairing that you'd like to be part of our monthly guest rec post(s), this is the place to do it!

Just copy, paste, and fill out the comment form below as a comment to this post at any time.

At the end of each month, your friendly neighbourhood mods will compile the recs into themed posts, and provide you with a healthy, balanced diet of recs. Or, uh, something. Yes. A monthly rec post, in any event!

FAQ:

Anyone can comment here to submit fanwork recs. You may do so under your username or anonymously. Contributers who leave their usernames will be acknowledged in the rec posts, because reccers need lovin' too!

You may rec as many fanworks as you want, in the same comment or different comments as you discover/think of them.

This may change later, but for now, don't worry if something's been recced before. It will always be new to someone, and if something is recced many times in the same month, I'll just make note of that in the suitable rec post.

Yes, you can totally rec fanworks that have previously been posted to the comm by the author/artist herself.

No RPF/RPS recs, please. This is a Sam-focused community. There are plenty of other communities out there that can cater to your needs in that department.

Again, please don't self-rec here. You're encouraged to self-rec, however, in the comments to any rec post, or else simply post your story to the community!

Mods reserve the right to edit recs for purposes of fixing spelling and grammar and to add summaries, warnings and whatever else we feel like.

Comments to this post are screened, to keep things simple.

Any other questions? Feel free to ping the mods.

COMMENT FORM

<b>Title:</b> <b>Author or artist's name:</b> <b>Genre/pairing:</b> <b>Reccer's comments:</b> <b>Link to fanwork:</b>

Example of how to fill out your comment form:

Title: Untitled works too.
Author or artist's name:
Genre/pairing: Gen or Sam/Dean, etc.
Reccer's comments: What you like about the fanwork, and any other comments you may have about it. Caveats go here too, but please keep it nice!
Link to fanwork: THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. No link, no rec. :)

Ask the Mods and FAQ

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Your friendly neighbourhood mod is back!

This is eventually going to be an FAQ post. Only, as of right now, there aren't any FAQs. So go ahead and ask questions, and we will do our best to answer them. We will then compile the likely-looking questions into an FAQ, and continue answering the others as they crop up.

Have at it!

suggestion box

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We're always looking for ways to make this community as brilliant as it can possibly be. If you've got something you'd like to see - a new rule, a challenge, an fic exchange - drop us a line here.

the tag list

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Under the cut is a list of all available tags. Unused tags are not visible to members, but if you hit "edit tags" after posting, you'll be able to see the full list and pick and choose to your heart's content. For more information on tagging, see this post.

( Tags )

how to tag your posts

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This community has a stringent tagging requirement. Which means you will feel our modly wrath if you fail to obey these rules... just kidding. But it would be nice if everyone tried to tag their fics to the best of their ability so all your wonderful stories are easily accessible and don't end up floating unmoored in the bowels of this community. Because that would be sad.

We've borrowed our tagging system from hoodie_time, which means tag names concern whatever type of torture you're subjecting Sam to in your fic - in other words, tags are named by ailment/malady/injury. Since tags don't show up in the sidebar unless they've been used once, you're going to want to go over here and check out the full list.

( How to Tag Your Posts )