💗 **THIS IS A SAFE SPACE—KINDNESS IS KEY.** We appreciate honesty and candor, and we talk about all sorts of things, hence the community name. This is also a community made by friends for friends, so if you are invited to the community we consider you a friend and trust you. Feel free to talk openly and honestly about things that interest you — we are not here to judge you by any means. We are a *judgement free* space. All we ask is that you keep an open mind and be respectful of others and their experiences, and we encourage food-for-thought. **Kindness is a must here — nothing more and nothing less**. 

🚫 **NO DISRESPECT**. We are all fans of the same stories here. Please respect your fellow fans. Any sign of disrespectful behavior or trolling will be immediate grounds for suspension/ban from the community (aka. getting kicked out) 

🚫 **NO TROLLING.** Please respect the community and its members. Do not start any "controversial" discussion or leave any comments that might begin a flame war, and any sign of *INSULTS, NAME-CALLING, CURSING, NEGATIVE PROVOCATION*, etc. will result in being blacklisted and banned from the community. We encourage food for thought but not if it is meant to insult or provoke a rise out of our members in any way. Please treat others the way you would like to be treated.      

 ⚠️**PLEASE RESPECT THE 🔞 NSFW WORK.**   This community is made for adults. We allow nudes and any sexual intimacy as long as they are depicted artistically and tastefully (although tastes may vary — for the sake of argument we shall define tasteful as being easy to digest.) Please keep out any EXTREME VIOLENCE, HORROR GORE, PORNOGRAPHIC NUDES or HARDCORE SEX, OR SHOCK-VALUE WORK, Mods reserve the right to decide what is considered extreme and downright tasteless (anything considered to be breaking the law, for example).  If you are not sure about any artwork you want to submit that depicts these themes feel free to send @shadowsphere21 a note with a link to the work and I will advise. If you feel your work needs a disclaimer by all means please feel free to add one. If you have any questions regarding this rule let us know and we will be happy to answer them.

 ⚠️ NO AI (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) ART ALLOWED. We are a community of artists who have honed out skill through decades of training, practice and development, and the use of AI spits in the face of all that. AI generation relies on unethical means to create work by scraping data from millions of sources that have not consented to have their work included, and many people who use AI in their work have been shown to be unscrupulous and disrespectful in their means, thus we take NO CHANCES. We have a duty to protect our community from the ravages of AI and the unscrupulous users who use them. If it is revealed that you use AI you will be banned without question. Until legislation regulating the use of AI is introduced and people learn how to behave and not take advantage of other artists, this will be the policy regarding AI moving forward.

**WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REVOKE ANY INVITATION OR MEMBERSHIP IF THE INVITEE OR MEMBER DOES NOT MEET OUR POLICY STANDARDS.**

To protect yourself from AI we recommend the following programs: 

Glaze: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/what-is-glaze.html 

Their web version for those who cannot download: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/webglaze.html

Mist: https://mist-project.github.io/index_en.html

The moderators for this community are:

shadowsphere21