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The Slash Pile is devoted to original slash recommendations of everything from fiction to art and webcomics.

1. Be respectful of other members.
2. When making a post to the community follow the posting format found below for tags and recommendations.
3. Posts not following the rules below will be removed without notice.
4. If a member is found repeatedly disregarding the rules, he or she will be banned from posting.

Any recommendations pertaining to original slash can be posted here (art, fiction, etc.).

Each recommendation should go in a separate post. However, recommendations should only be posted once, even if there are multiple chapters. Making a post for each chapter of a story clogs up communities making it difficult to find other stories.

When posting, please use the following format:

Subject: The subject of your post should be the same as the title of the recommendation.

Title: The work's title.
Author: The work's author.
Format: What type of work this is (ex. Webcomic, Novel, Short Story, etc.)
Length: Approximate word count.
Status: WIP (unfinished) or Complete.
Rating: The work's rating. (Ex. PG, NC-17, etc.)
Warnings: Warnings, if any.
Link: A link to the work.
Summary: A summary of the work.

Review: Your feelings on the work. Writing out a full fledged review detailing what's good and bad about the story would be excellent although it is not required.

Not all of the above fields are required to be included. However, posters are urged to include as much information as possible. For your convenience the information above is provided below with formatting. Simply copy and paste what's in the textbox below and paste it to a journal entry to fill in.

<b>Title</b>: <b>Author</b>: <b>Format</b>: <b>Length</b>: <b>Status</b>: <b>Rating</b>: <b>Warnings</b>: <b>Link</b>: <b>Summary</b>: <b>Review</b>:

This community allows recommendations of original works pertaining to fictional gay men. This includes recommendations for published gay fiction, gay themed movies and webcomics, art, and websites that recommend these works. Discussion on this topic and other posts pertaining to original slash are welcome.

Posters are allowed to recommend their own work as well as works the moderator has recommended elsewhere so long as these works are original gay fiction and have not been posted to the community before.

While rewrites of classics such as Greek myths and fairy tales are allowed, readers should be able to understand and enjoy these works without the reader having knowledge of the original work.

Spoilers should not be posted.

Please use tags. Recommendations posted should be tagged with the following (in bold):

1. WIP or Complete. WIP stands for work in progress and indicates the work is unfinished while 'Complete' indicates it has been finished.

2. Rec'd by: YOUR USERNAME. This helps members to find recommendations by a certain user.

3. Fiction, Art, or Webcomic. Works of fiction should be tagged as 'fiction', webcomics as 'webcomic', and art as 'art'. New tags may be created as other works are posted here.

4. Short Story, Novella, Novel, or Series. Other tags are available for misc. works such as webcomics. If not provided, they can be created. Please do not create multiple tags for the same works.

Short Story: Less than 20,000 words.
Novella: 20,000-40,000 words.
Novel: 40,000 or more words.
Series: Indicates the work is part of a series.

5. Author: AUTHOR NAME. This can be used to find fics by certain authors if an author has been recommended multiple times.

6. GENRE: _____. The blank should be filled in with one or more of the genres here.

7. Language. Works in languages other than English need to be tagged with the appropriate language. For example, if you want to share a work of fiction that's written in French, you would simply tag it 'French'. Works in English do not need to be tagged.

If you would like a recommendation to be put into memories, please comment to the recommendation's entry with a request for it to be added to the memories. Posts will be added to the memories only after the post receives three comments asking for it to be added to memories. If this work has three comments after a week and still has not been posted to the memories, contact the moderator by one of the means listed below.

Questions, comments, and suggestions can be put to the mod here.

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The community's moderator Potatoe, or potatoe1988, can be reached through the following means:

MSN: potatoe1988@hotmail.com
E-mail: potatoe1988@hotmail.com