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Welcome to the FAQ!!!

Hiya!!!! well the club has a faq now!!!!!...all the doubts you have, you can clear them reading this faq!!!
n_~

Actually, there's some ppl that are new in DA or in Clubs so they get 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


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November(09/11/2008)


1.- What's a club?
A: A club it's a place that was created to gather pictures in the whole Deviantart about a commune 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 Yaoi+Furry/Anthro/Animal, so you can find picture related to that 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 without the consent of the artist, so when they're members we can add they picture to club, but only if they ask 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, you can participate in contests, challenges, give you opinion 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,Permissions,Affiliate and Submit:

6.-What is accepted here in this club?
A: Art about Furry and Anthro with yaoi as topic, to know more about what this club accept, you'll find it here:Rules,Join,Permissions,Affiliate and Submit:

7.-Can I be a member?
A: Of course!!!, if you love Yaoi + Furry/Anthro/Animal :3

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 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 take to another page. It'll say: "Send a Devious Note" there you'll find this:

"Recipient(s)": Here you'll find the name of the person that you'll send the note...in this case the club's
name.
"Subject": Here you've to write the title "Submit" (if you already a member and want to send a note to add you art).
"Message": Here you write these (this is a rule for the submission):

Title: Example: Fantasies or Sleepy Night...etc..you choice.
Link: http.......here goes the link to you art.
Style: Digital or Traditional.

"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.

"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 receive 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 submit art?
A: Because it's the easier way to know that you want 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 took 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.

15.-If I've opinions or complaints about the club, were can I say them?
A: By the time been, if you have some, please send a note to me: *Ludra-Jenova

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 beginning you can't submit them here in DA it's against the rules.Terms of
service. Sorry

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 comments 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 giving us the credit for doing it and we didn't...so please do it in 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, YF, PPL, Y!G?
A:This:

DA: The initials of Deviantart
OP: The initials of Yaoi<F>urry (is the club's name :3).
PPL: In English, ppl it's a contraction of people, so to save word I wrote it (if I wrong please let me know).
Y!G: The initials of Y! Gallery

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

27.-Do you created this club?
A:Yes I did. Actually because I haven't see any club about Yaoi Furry/Anthro...so I said: well..let's do it!!!...and that's how the club born :3

28.-Can I contact the founders?
A:Yes you can :3 my main account is: *Ludra-Jenova

29.-How can I be a mod?
A:Go to the main page so you can see what mods I need and what do you need to ask for it :3

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 :3

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.

34.-What is a permission art?
A: Permission art are something that you must write in you artist comments so we can display you picture here in the club. DA make a new rule about this, so for us the clubs need to have the permission of the artist to show his/her pics in the clubs, if we don't have it...DA will think we stole it and the club can get banned for it...so for the sake of the club, please add that permission :3

35.-How can I do a permission art?
A: You can find it here: Rules,Join,Permissions,Affiliate and Submit:


And that's all for now...if there're more I'll add them with the time :3

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TERMINOLOGY
UPDATE:-11/09/08-


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

FURRY:
Is a fandom distinguished by its enjoyment of anthropomorphic animal characters. Examples of anthropomorphism in the furry fandom include the attribution of human intelligence, facial expressions, and often anatomy, speech, bipedalism, and the wearing of clothes. Art and entertainment celebrated by furry fandom includes fictional work that employs the concept of animal characters with human characteristics, rather than any particular type of fiction. For this reason, any work, in any medium, may be considered part of the furry genre simply by inclusion of an anthropomorphized animal character, although such characters are most often seen in comics, cartoons, animated films, allegorical novels, and video games. The science fiction and fantasy genres make frequent use of anthropomorphism.

Since the 1980s, the term furries has come to refer to anthropomorphic animal characters. Although mammals are the most common, anthropomorphized reptiles, birds or aquatic animals may also be known as furries (sometimes "scalies", "avians," or "aquatics," respectively).

ANTHRO/ANTHROPOMORPHIC:
Is the attribution of uniquely human characteristics and qualities to nonhuman beings, inanimate objects, or natural or supernatural phenomena. Animals, forces of nature, games, and unseen or unknown sources of chance are frequent subjects of anthropomorphism. The term is derived from two Greek words, ἄνθρωπος (anthrōos), meaning human, and μορφή (morphē, meaning shape or form. The suffix '-ism' originates from the morpheme -ισμός or -ισμα in the Greek language.

KEMONOMIMI:
Kemonomimi (獣耳 animal ears) is an anime and manga terminology describing humanoid characters that possess animal-like features. Unlike kemono characters who appear primarily animal-like, kemonomimi characters typically appear human except for added animal-like qualities, such as an added tail and ears. Often, these animal-like characteristics are part of the character's attire and can be removed at will.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 shonen-ai was Tanbi. Shonen-ai is usually less sexually explicit than yaoi, and the characters involved in shonen-ai are generally of a much younger age. Shonen-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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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).

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)

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."

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.

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"

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.

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.

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. Although some yaoi fanatics dislike the idea, there're a lot that love it and the men that get pregnant are always the ukes. Almost all the times they get pregnant by different ways: magic, biological or technological.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 and terminology 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!!!! :3

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