The Rules

General Interaction

• Members must be 18 years of age or older and a legal adult in their resident country. 

• This group is LGBTQIA+ friendly. It does not discriminate on the basis of orientation, identity, race, experience, religion, etc. 

• OOC harassment & hateful behavior/speech are not allowed. 

• OOC and IC are strictly separate. 

  • Characters should be individuals, not simply the player's self-insert. 

  • Characters not getting along IC shouldn't be meant or taken personally.

  • A problematic character does not mean a problematic writer.  

• Keep heavy venting and real-life politics/current events out of the chat. 

• No promoting drama, policing, callouts, vaguing, etc.

• Don't yuck someone else's yum. 

• Disputes between members should be settled with direct, respectful 1x1 communication. 

  • If you are feeling harassed or uncomfortable with someone, and the issue can't be resolved privately, WynBird can be asked to arbitrate.

  • Don't expect people to be mind-readers! Sometimes things are missed, or it's unclear whether there's a genuine conflict. In such cases, mods usually wait to step in until someone expresses discomfort.

• Mature, sensitive, and explicit content must be tagged and rated properly.

• Respect moderator instructions.

• Follow Discord's ToS.

Collaboration & Content

• Emphasis is on allowing individuals to tell stories on their own terms. This means:

  • The passage of time in-universe is left vague when possible.

  • Major factions are large enough to get lost in, usually stable and don't undergo huge, potentially personal-plot killing cultural or political changes.

• 3-3-3, Mature, Explicit, Complex, and/or Dark themes are allowed in fictional works if spoilered, tagged, and rated appropriately. This means:

  • • Villains may sometimes win or escape consequences.

    • Unhealthy and problematic relation-ships may sail.

    • Stories aren't morality lessons, and might not blatantly condemn evil.

    • This group accepts "Dead Doves" - and might contain content you consider offensive, triggering, sexually explicit, blasphemous, indecent, or badly written.

    • Explicit sexual content involving adult TNL characters is allowed in the NSFW gallery.

• Do not attempt to convince anyone to participate in or view plots/content/themes/etc that they have asked to be left out of.

  • • If an unwanted topic unexpectedly arises IC, stop and discuss how to proceed comfortably for all involved, even if that means ending or altering a plot/rp/collab. 

• No powerplay, metagaming, godmodding, minimodding, spamming.

• Common:

  • All naturally occurring wolf (or creature-specific) fur colors

  • Some "hairstyle" is allowed, but this should not exceed Alpha & Omega levels of hair-doing

• Exist But Considered Unusual:

  • Piebald, brindle, merle, and other fur patterns usually associated with domestic dogs

  • Natural looking markings, that do not occur in real-life canines but would not look starkly out of place (i.e. Dun, Boar Spots, Colorpoint)

• Don't Exist:

  • Extremely bright, neon or saturated fur a la rainbow sparkledog

  • Unnatural shape markings like squares, pentagons, zigzags, the Apple Inc. logo, etc. 

• Eye Color (Outside of mutations like Fibro-Melanism & Albinism)

  • Eye irises may be shades of yellow, amber, red, brown, grey, blue, green, or hazel. 

  • Sclera should be yellow, white, or close to white. 

  • Pupils should be black or close to black.

  • Heterochromia is allowed. (Here’s a good example of an Iberian wolf with hetero)

Mutations

• Characters can have realistic(& -ish) mutations.

  • Examples include, but are not limited to: 

    • Color: Melanism, Pseudomelanism, Albinism, Erythrism, Vitiligo, Chimeric, Heterochromia

    • Benign (relatively): Hairless, Curly hair, Kink Curly and Short tails, Floppy ears, Extra toes, Hyperdontia, Anodontia

    • Impairing: Short-skull / Brachycephaly, Cleft Palate, Gigantism, Dwarfism, Short-Spine, Eyeless, Polymelia

Copyright, AI, & Lineart Rules

• Art & writing must not be plagiarized or copyright infringing.

  • Photobashing, photomanips, and tracing photos is allowed as long as it falls under fair use or they are appropriately licensed. 

  • Premade linearts and backgrounds are allowed as long as their license permits it.

  • You can use designs or characters you bought from other people.

  • Make sure to credit your sources somewhere clearly visible!

• AI content is not allowed.

  • You cannot use writing programs like ChatGPT for RP, literature, or character profiles.

  • You cannot use art programs like StableDiffusion (and subsets like dA's DreamUp) for character design, art, or backgrounds/assets.

Tagging Art & Lit

• Common sense rule. If it's something that you would reasonably believe might upset someone, tag it. Violence, sexual themes, suicidal ideation, etc. are all fairly obvious things to tag for! Sharing anything rated mature or explicit should have a content warning filter up and some tags to help people make informed decisions about whether to view

Example:

Rating: Mature

Summary: Mal and Nate go out past their border looking for food, when Janus attacks them
Tags: Violence, Blood, Sadism, Broken Leg