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:::FAQ:::

Mon Jan 15, 2007, 10:28 PM
  • Mood: dA Love
  • Listening to: "Arigatou I love you" - One Piece
:mangapunksai: Hiya!!!! well the club has a faq now!!!!!...all the doubt you have you can clear them now reading this faq!!!
n_~

Actually, there's some ppl that are new in DA or in Clubs so they're lost, they don't know how to do something and do
errors because of that, to all them, this faq was born!!!! Hope this will help you all :floating:

1.- What's a club?
A: A club it's a place that was created to gather pictures in the whole Deviantart about a comun topic (anime
pairings, chibis, darkart, blood, horror, videogames, etc), its existence it's to help ppl to find pictures about what they love.
Example: This club it's about LuZoro as a couple, so ppl that love this pairing can find pictures about them here.

2.-If a club only gather pictures...so why are members?
A: The club by its own doesn't have pictures and also can't add picture by it's own. We need members so they
can let as show their art here in the club. We can't add picture whithout the consent of the artist, so when they're
members we can add they picture to club, but only if they as for it.

3.-What's a club's member?
A: It's a person in the Deviantart that join to a club. They want to share their art to the club or only to show that
they support the topic of that club.

4.-What can I do as a club's member?
A: It depend of the club you've join, but in this club you can ask to add you art about LuZoro, you can
participate in contests, challenges, give you oppinion and also win prizes.

5.-This club has rules?
A: As any well club yes we have. You can find the rules here: Rules, Join, Affiliate and Submit

6.-What is accepted here in this club?
A: Art about LuZoLu as a couple, to know more about what this club accept, you'll find it here:Rules, Join, Affiliate and Submit

7.-Can I be a member?
A: Of course!!!, if you love LuZoLu you can join.

8.-How can I be a member?
A: You need to watch the club, add the club's icon to you journal or to you sign and send a note to the club with
the title "Join" with a link where the icon shows...after that, if you did what we ask, you'll be accepted as a member.

9.-How can I watch the club?
A: In the first part of the club (the club's status) you'll find a link that will say: "Watch this deviant" if you click
there you'll watch the club.

10.- How can I send a note?
A: As the watch thing, down you'll find a link that will say: "Send a note" if you click there you'll be taked to
another page. It'll say: "Send a Devious Note" there you'll find this:

:bulletred:"Recipient(s)": Here you'll find the name of the person that you'll send the note...in this case the club's
name.
:bulletred:"Subject": Here you've to write the title "Join" (or submit if you already a member and want to send a
note to add you art)
:bulletred:"Message": Here you write whatever you want to say...you can say: I want to join...or please I want to
join...etc.
:bulletred:"Preview note": If you click there, you'll can see how you note will show when it's send, if you want to
edit the note, click there once more and you can change it.
:bulletred:"Send note": When you finish, click there to send the note.

11.-Why do I need to watch the club?
A: Only with the watch you can know what happen in the club. Also you can see the new additions as: pictures or events.
You'll recive journals updates to know about the changes in the club, contest and also problems if they are.

12.-Why do I need to send a note to join or submit art?
A: Because it's the easier way to know that you want to join and it's the only way that we can know that you
want to submit art...we don't read minds, you know.

13.-How long it tooks to answer my note?
A: Well it depend on how busy I am, but I'll try to answer them as soon as I can. When I read it, I always send a
reply so you'll know that I received it.

14.-Who is on charge of the club?
A: You can see it in the club's main page. And also we're a team.

15.-If I've opinions or complaints about the club, were can I say them?
A: The club has a journal specified for that, you can find it here: Opinions and Complaints

16.- Do you accept any format of a picture?
A: Yes. We accept formats as: JPG, PNG, GIF and BMP

17.-Do you accept NC-17 pics?
A: Well, actually we do, but pictures with explicit sex it's not allowed in DA, so in the beggining you can't submit
them here in DA it's against the rules.Terms of
service
. But we'll accept them in Y! Gallery, in our club LuZoLu there you can submit you explicit art.

18.-Can I fav a picture of the club?
A: No you can't, it's DA's rules. But you can go to the original picture and fav it there. In the coments you'll find a
link to the picture. Please don't fav in the club if you do, you'll get a warning note and if you have three warnings notes
you'll be banned form the club. So don't do it.

19.-Why can't I fav a picture in the club?
A: Because DA don't allow it and also because we're a club, we aren't the artist that do it, so if you fav a picture
here it's like you're given as credit for doing it and we didn't...so please add the original, the links are there so you don't
need to look for it.

20.-You only say pictures...that means I can fav fanfiction?
A: No, I say that word because 90% of the submission of the club are images than writes, but that doesn't mean
that you can fav the fanfiction in the club.

21.-What's a warning note?
A: It's a note that the mod on charge will send to the ppl that fav pictures here in the club. It'll say to you that fav
it's not allowed and you must unfav that picture and if you do that again you'll have until the third warning to be banned
from the club.

22.-What happend if a fav more that three times and I already received warnings notes?
A: You'll be banned from the club.

23.-What means be banned from the club?
A: That you won't be part of the club's members and you'll be blocked, so you can't received anymore notice
from the club, see the pictures and also can't submit art here.

24.-What if I've fav here and I'm not a member of the club?
A:You'll be blocked, you can't see the pictures and won't be a member if you ask for it.

25.-What means DA, OP, PPL, Y!G, LuZoLu?
A:This:

:bulletred:DA: The initials of Deviantart
:bulletred:OP: The initials of One

iece

(the anime where belong Luffy and Zoro).
:bulletred:PPL: In English, ppl it's a contraction of people, so to save word I wrote it (if I wrong please let me
know).
:bulletred:Y!G: The initials of Y! Gallery
:bulletred:LuZoLu It's a way to say that we accept the two ways of the pairing. Wich are:

"Luffy/Zoro" Luffy it's the seme in the relationship and Zoro it's the uke.
"Zoro/Luffy" Zoro it's the seme in the relationship and Luffy it's the uke.

In terms of uke and seme, using LuZoLu, means that Luffy it's seme, but can be uke and the same to Zoro. It also means
that anyone can be Uke and Seme. Better explication in "terms"

26.-If I want, can I contact to the owner and the mods?
A: About me you can, but I can tell you if the mods would like, although I think that they won't mind.

27.-Do you created this club?
A:No I didn't, the ones that did that are the founders and you can see them in the club's main page. The ex-owner
give me the club.

28.-Can I contact the founders?
A:I can't make sure that, but I think they won't mind.

29.-How can I be a mod?
A:By now I don't need mods, but if I need them I'll tell it by the journal update. You need to read the news to
know if I need one.

30.-If I want to affiliate, do I need a club?
A: Yes, only clubs can affiliate. So if you have one, please affiliate.

31.-Why do you affiliate the club to others?
A:Because it's a way to make other ppl know about the club, it's like publicity.

32.-Why do I need to add the club's icon to my journal?
A:Because it's a request to be a member and also with that you can make us publicity, so we can expand and have
more member for the club. More members = more art.

33.-I want to participate in a contest or a challenge, how can I do it?
A: For that, you need to go here: Contests and Challenges so there you'll know what do you need for it.

And that's all for now...if there're more I'll add them with the time :phae:

:damphyr:TERMS:

:mangapunksai: Here's a list of terms that you maybe didn't know or you did, but not so much. This is to help ppl that
aren't familiar with them n_n

:snowflake:UKE:
In Japanese martial arts, the uke (受け, uke) (pronounced oo-keh like the ou sounds in "you") is the person who "receives"
a technique. The action is called "taking ukemi (受身, ukemi?)." In anime and manga, especially shounen-ai, yaoi and
hentai, uke is a general term for a partner in a relationship who is or is intended to be predominantly effeminate, a bottom,
and/or submissive. The equivalent for top is seme.

:snowflake:SEME:
In Japanese martial arts seme (攻め, せめ, Seme) is the person who "attack." In anime and manga, especially shounen-ai,
yaoi and hentai, seme is a general term for a partner in a relationship who is or is intended to be predominantly butch, a
top, and/or a dominant. The equivalent for bottom is uke.

:snowflake:SEME/UKE:
When you want to know who is who in a relationship, you write the seme's name first and then the uke's name. This it's
more used in fanfiction and doujinshis, also you can use it to make others know who is on charge and who's the bottom if
you wish.

:snowflake:SEME/UKE/SEME or UKE/SEME/UKE:
They way you put them it's no problem, because it means that the one that it's seme can be change to be uke or the one
that it's uke can be change to be seme...this term it's used in two ways:

1.- You use it to make others know that you don't care who is who, you accept both ways.
2.- You use it to make other know that the seme someday or sometime will change the rol to be the uke and the uke will
be the seme.

Here in this club I use the first one, we accept both ways n_n

:snowflake:SHONEN-AI/SOFT YAOI:
Is a term referring to anime or manga that deals with love between young men, especially of the bishōnen variety.
Originally, the genre dealt with romanticized but non-sexual relationships between young men. The predecessor of
shōnen-ai was Tanbi. Shōnen-ai is usually less sexually explicit than yaoi, and the characters involved in shōnen-ai are
generally of a much younger age. Shōnen-ai is very popular in Japan, especially among schoolgirls and housewives. It has
also found a strong audience in America, especially among 18–24 year old heterosexual women and homosexual men.

:snowflake:YAOI:
Is a genre which originated in Japan and often encompasses manga, dōjinshi, anime, and fan art. It focuses on homosexual
relationships between male characters and is generally sexually explicit. Strictly speaking, all three vowels should be
pronounced separately, yielding a three-syllable word, (ya-oh-ee).he English letters form a backronym of the Japanese
phrase 「ヤマなし、オチなし、意味なし」 (yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi), often translated into English as, "no climax,
no punch line, no meaning," or as the catchphrase, "No peak, no point, no problem." Most yaoi is created by women, for
women. At least one anthropologist has suggested that yaoi is a product of the intersection of two fairly universal cultural
taboos: homosexuality and women's freedom of sexual expression

However, most ppl think that yaoi it's hardcore or only explicit sex...that's wrong!. Yaoi is the most complete form,
because it embraces from the tender love until the sexual thing, like a normal relationship would be. It's not only tender or
sexual, it's both and the plot here it's important.

:snowflake:HARD YAOI/NC-17/HARDCORE:
Misinterpreted as Yaoi, Hard yaoi or Hardcore it's the part that only show sex, it doesn't care about plots, the important
matter here is the sex. It's related to rape, non-con and also BDSM.

:snowflake:OC:
original character, or OC, is a character created by a fanfic author or roleplayer for an established canon storyline. For
instance, if someone were to write a story set in Tolkien's Middle-earth, but focused on a person who was not in the
original novels, the new character would be an OC.

Alternatively, this term can be applied to a character created for an original universe.

Subspecies of OC include:
-OFCs, original female characters,
-OMCs, original male characters,
-OW, Original weapons
-OST, Original Stages and Towns etc.

-Mary Sues/Gary Stus, which are author insertions into the story that outshine the canon characters. These "canons" are
the characters that appear in the original work.

When a fan character is created it can be created from a real character on a serie.

:snowflake:OOC:
Is a roleplaying term, referring to the world of the players, rather than the world of the characters. Is also used to refer to
fan-written literature when a character is portrayed as doing something that the character would not normally do.
Examples include writing a normally docile character as regularly violent and brutish, because the literary portrayal of the
character is not consistent with canon establishment of the character's thoughts or actions. Example of OOC:

Luffy: My way...my destiny...I'm a man in this deep blue sea and I don't know if I go or I came...*Intellectual pose*
Zoro: Ohhh...Luffy-chan♥, love you, when I'm with you a feel so happy...Luffy...*cute face* (Me: Ô.o...hahahahahahaha
XDDDD)

:snowflake:IC:
In Character (IC) is a roleplaying term, referring to the world of the characters. When you use IC, you mean that the
character act the way it will do or will react. In Fanfiction, when you write about a character from a serie you can made
him OOC (Out of character) or IC. Example of IC:

Luffy: Meat!!!!...meat!!!!...yuhu!!!!! *eats Zoro's food*
Zoro: Don't eat my meat you asshole!!! *hit Luffy's head*


:snowflake:AU:
An alternative universe (also known as AU) is a type or form of fan fiction in which canonical facts of setting or
characterization in the universe being explored or written about are deliberately changed.

In Alternative Universe stories, characters' known motivations may vary considerably from their decisions in the
canonical universe. The author of an alternative universe story thus can use the same characters, but send them down
different paths for a different plot.

:snowflake:WIP:
Work in Progress— generally signifies a project that will not be settled in one attempt, or even several. Sometimes as WIP
List, synonymous with a To-Do list.

:snowflake:KIRIBAN:
Japanese キリ番 (kiriban) from 切りのいい番 (kiri no ī ban) - "a number which is a good place to stop", "a round
number".

:snowflake:OEKAKI:
(お絵描き;) is the Japanese term to describe the act of drawing, literally meaning "to doodle". On the Internet, an Oekaki is
a message board system that revolves around computer art created by a local art program. Oekaki artists often post their
art to other websites, such as personal pages or free gallery websites, in addition to the original board. That indicates the
number of visitors, or hits, a particular webpage has received. Once set up, these counters will be incremented by one
every time the web page is accessed in a web browser.

Some websites have been known to offer prizes to the visitor who makes the web counter roll-over to a specific number.
Such an event is known as a kiriban.

:snowflake:BL:
The term shōnen-ai is no longer used in Japan (althout in the yaoi fandom, is still used); the wasei-eigo construction Boys
Love (ボーイズラブ, Bōizu Rabu?, but usually rendered as English, occasionally spelled Boy's Love or Boys' Love, or
abbreviated BL) has largely displaced it, due to associations of the original term with pederasty (which were not associated
into English usage).

:snowflake:SLASH:
Is a genre of fan fiction. The term refers to a sexual or romantic relationship between two same-sex (originally only male)
characters in fan fiction. These pairings are often described in detail as the pairing is likely to be the focus of the story
(though this depends on what genre of fan fiction one is reading – ex. gen or ship). Slash tends to occur outside the canon
universe but does not necessarily oppose canon. "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.

The name arises from the use of the slash symbol (/) in the description of the primary pairing involved in the story, as
compared to the ampersand (&;) conventionally used for friendship fiction.

However, Slash it's like the brother of Yaoi and it's used more in animation that doesn't have nothing to do with japanese
anime style. It' used more often in cartoons, movies and videogames (althout, yaoi is well used in games...because almost
all of them are made in Japan)

:snowflake:FEMSLASH:
Femslash (also known as saffic, femmeslash, girlslash, slash, yuri, or shoujo-ai) is a variation on the traditional definition of
slash fiction — homosexual/homoerotic fanfiction. In femslash, female fictional characters are paired in a romantic or
sexual relationship in fan-written stories. The term originates from the abbreviation of "female."

:snowflake:YURI/SHOJO-AI:
Are jargon terms amongst fans for lesbian content, possibly sexually explicit, in anime, manga, and related fan fiction.

The word yuri literally means "lily", and is (like many flower names) a relatively common Japanese feminine name. In
1971, Itou Bungaku, as editor of Barazoku, a magazine geared primarily towards gay men, named gay men the
"Barazoku" ("rose tribe") and lesbians "Yurizoku" ("lily tribe"). From this, many doujinshi circles incorporated the name
"Yuri" or "Yuriko" into yuri hentai dōjinshi. The "-zoku" or "tribe" portion of this word was subsequently dropped.

:snowflake:SHONEN:
(少年, Shōnen?) is a Japanese word literally meaning few years which can also have the following colloquial meanings:

1. A typical young male, from elementary school through junior high school age.
2. Used in everyday conversation when referring to the period of youth without regard to gender.
3. Used in wording in laws referencing youth, regardless of gender.
4. The manga anthology magazine Shōnen, published by Kōbunsha.
5. The style or sub-genre of manga and anime that is typically aimed at young males between the ages of about 8 and 18
(e.g. InuYasha, One Piece, Video Girl Ai).
6. As part of compound words (e.g. bishōnen, shōnen-ai) when inferring something to do with youth, youthfulness, or
young boys.
7. To refer to someone considered "pure of heart"

:snowflake:SHOJO:
Shōjo or shoujo (少女, Shōjo or shoujo?), also sometimes written as female child (女の子, onna no ko?) or young woman
(若い女性, wakai jōsei?), is a Japanese word literally meaning young girl or small girl, and can be used to refer to any
female from grade school age through senior high school age. "Shōjo" is generally considered the opposite of "shōnen",
though it was originally coined during the Meiji era as an equivalent to the English "girl." Before this time, the word
shōnen included both male and female children. In the terminology of Japanese juvenile law, the term shōnen continues
to apply to anyone under the age of 20 years regardless of gender.

:snowflake:BDSM:
Is any of a number of related patterns of human sexual behavior. The major subgroupings are described in the
abbreviation "BDSM" itself:

* Bondage & Discipline (B&D)
* Domination & Submission (D&S)
* Sadism & Masochism (or Sadomasochism) (S&M)

Many of the specific practices in BDSM are those which, if performed in neutral or nonsexual contexts, could be
considered unpleasant, undesirable, or abusive. For example, pain, physical restraint and servitude are traditionally
inflicted on persons against their will and to their detriment. In BDSM, however, these activities are engaged in with the
mutual consent of the participants, and typically for mutual enjoyment. (Any "consent" may or may not amount to legal
consent and represent a defense to criminal liability for any injuries caused.)

This emphasis on informed consent and safety is also known as SSC (safe, sane and consensual), though others prefer the
term RACK (Risk-Aware Consensual Kink), believing that it places more emphasis on acknowledging the fact that all
activities are potentially risky. There is discussion and dispute about the meaning or intent of the terms, but in essence,
both terms refer to all participants acknowledging and accepting some level of risk.

:snowflake:MPREG:
Is the initials of Male pregnancy. Mpreg is the carrying of one or more embryos or fetuses by the male of
any species inside their bodies. The majority of all pregnancies in the animal kingdom are carried by the female. In most
heterogamous species, the males produce the spermatazoa and rarely host the zygote. However, examples of male
pregnancy can be found in the animal kingdom, in mythology, and popular culture.

In anime and manga, this is called a fetish, were most women are attracted of the idea of a male being pregnant. This is
more used in yaoi fandom. Althout some yaoi fanatics dislike the idea, there're a lot that love it and the men that get
pregnants are always the ukes. Almost all the times they get pregnant by differents ways: magic, biological or
technological.

:snowflake:FETISH:
The basic idea of sexual fetishism is sexual arousal and satisfaction through an inanimate object, the fetish. The concrete
definitions are not only differing but even contradictory:

In psychology, fetishism is a paraphilia, a sexual psychic disorder. The diagnosis of fetishism is justified only if the additional
criteria of paraphilia are fulfilled, above all only if the affected person suffers or harms other people. According to the
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), fetishism is the fixation on an
inanimate object, while according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), fetishism is the
fixation on an inanimate object or a body part.

In common speech, any fixation on a singular inanimate object, body part, body feature or sexual practice is called
fetishism. Here, fetishism is not an illness but an uncommon but mostly harmless sexual orientation.

:snowflake:SHOTA/SHOTACON:
(ショタコン, shotakon?), sometimes shortened to shota (ショタ, shota?), is a Japanese term for a sexual complex where an
adult is attracted to an underage boy. In the Western world, it is used to refer specifically to artwork or manga depicting
pre-pubescent or pubescent boys, and sometimes older characters that are considered child-like or otherwise cute. These
works are often sexual in nature, some common themes are yaoi (homo-sexual relationships), cross-dressing, and incest
with an older sibling or other family member. The female equivalent of shotacon is referred to as lolicon.

:snowflake:LOLICON:
(Japanese: ロリコン, rorikon?), in the Western world, is a genre of manga-style sexual artwork involving childlike female
characters. The equivalent genre focused on male characters is shotacon. The term is borrowed from Japan, where it is a
slang portmanteau short for Lolita complex. In Japanese, it refers to an attraction to girls below the age of consent, or an
individual attracted to such a person.

:snowflake:INCEST:
is sexual activity between close family members. Incest is considered taboo, and forbidden (fully or slightly) in the majority
of current cultures. The precise meaning of the word varies widely, because different cultures have differing notions of
"sexual activity" and "close family member". Some cultures consider only those related by birth, while others include those
related by adoption or marriage. Some prohibit sexual relations between people who grew up in the same household,
while others prohibit sexual relations between people who grew up in related households.

Incest can occur between same-sex as well as opposite-sex relatives. It can also occur between related children as well as
between parents and their children. In addition, there have been cases of incest between adult relatives.

:snowflake:DOUJINSHIS:
(同人誌, Dōjinshi?) are self-published Japanese works, usually manga or novels. They are often the work of amateurs,
though some professional artists participate as a way to publish material outside the regular industry. The term dōjinshi is
derived from dōjin (同人, dōjin?), literally "same person," used to refer to a person or persons with whom one shares a
common goal or interest) and shi (誌, shi?), a contraction of zasshi, meaning "magazine"). Dōjinshi are part of a wider
category of doujin including but not limited to art collections, anime hentai and games. Groups of dōjinshi artists refer to
themselves as a circle.

Dōjinshi are made by artists or writers who prefer to publish their own materials.

In Western cultures, dōjinshi is often perceived to be derivative of existing work, analogous to fanfiction and almost
completely pornographic. To an extent, this is true: some dōjinshi are parodies or alternative storylines involving the
worlds of popular manga or anime series and a large portion are adult in nature. However, many dōjinshi with completely
original characters and storylines also exist and only half or less of all doujinshi are Hentai, Yaoi, or Yuri. Due to the
language barrier presented with doujinshi, most collectors in the US and Europe mainly focus on doujinshi that portray
their favorite series.

:snowflake:FANWORK:
Is the collective term for all creative works based on the creations of fans of popular series. It is most often manifested in
fan fiction and fan art, but can be anything where a fan creates something involving a series they enjoy. Other examples
include AMVs, the act of cosplaying in costumes and other expressions of such fanwork, such as fangames.

:snowflake:AMVs:
An anime music video (abbreviated AMV) is a music video consisting of clips from one or more anime television series or
movies set to songs. Most are not official music videos released by the musicians, but rather amateur fan compositions
which synchronize clips with a musical track. As such, they are most commonly informally released, often over the
Internet. Anime conventions frequently run AMV contests or AMV exhibitions.

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I knew all the terms, but I take them from Wikipedia because I didn't want to translate all the terms to english (and also
because I was lazy XP), but there were some exeptions like the way to write who is uke and seme. "Uke/Seme",
"Seme/Uke/Seme", I knew that for experience in Doujinshis and Fanfictions (and also not so much ppl know that).

And that's all!!!! I hope that this Faq was useful for you all!!!...if you still have some doubts ask them here, so I can improve
this faq n_n. Thanks and bye!!!! :phae:

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