hello all!

[gantai.livejournal.com]

welcome to the community dedicated to the pseudo-horror victorian-themed manga and anime, kuroshitsuji. the purpose of this comm is mainly for discussion, news, speculation, etc. basically our aim is to be a resource for everything officially kuroshitsuji related. :3

currently, there are only four mods: newspaper, unpure, spacexat and gantai.

as of now, membership and posting are open. if everyone follows the rules there shouldn't be any problems. :)

for now, we've worked out some basic rules, and it is highly suggested you read them:

01. play nice.
this should really go without saying, but treat others as you would like to be treated.

02. no fanworks.
there is a community specifically dedicated to fanworks already: phantomhive. fanworks comprise of fanart, fanfiction, icons, etc. pretty much, if it is not official content, it is a fanwork and not appropriate here. if you post a fanwork here, it will be removed, and you will be asked to repost it on phantomhive. if you are in doubt on whether content is appropriate, ask one of the mods, we don't bite. :)

03. no intro posts.
they simply are unnecessary. everyone should be able to get to know each other and make friends without them. the only exception to this is if and when a new mod is selected, in that case they will make a post so you may recognize who they are.

04. spoilers go under a cut.
this is self-explanatory. if you do not know how to make an lj-cut, this helpful kitty will show you.

05. about merchandise posts...
reviews are wonderful and highly encouraged! so is the sharing of sources to buy official merchandise.

however, if you are making a sales post, only official merchandise is allowed to be sold. we understand you yourself may not know a piece of merchandise is not legit (such as with those false nendoroids floating around) and in these instances you will be notified that that is why your post was removed given one of us mods can tell the difference. on the flipside, if you have merchandise that is not official and you would like to make a post helping people recognize that it is bootlegged or to warn other users of sites that cheat customers this way, that would be fine.

on top of this, no more than one post advertizing merchandise post will be allowed for every two weeks. you may have a single image no more than 300x300 in size as a header, to give users a visual idea of what you are selling. everything else goes under a descriptive cut or link to a personal sales post.

06. please tag posts accordingly.
right now, we have these tags, please use them! if a post falls under numerous categories, please use all tags. (for example, a sales post falls under both "merchandise" as it generally features merchandise as well as "merchandise: selling" as it features merchandise for sale.) if your post is not tagged correctly, a mod will comment on the post asking you to please add them. :)

however, all tags with an !exclamation point in front of them are for mod use only, so please don't use those.

07. please do not delete comments/posts.
this way we can keep track of everything and not have people asking, "what happened to that one post...?" this also means all the resources within or spurred on by a post and comments will also remain.

now, since we are still a relatively new reincarnation of a community, i'll ask you members if there are any concerns or ideas you may have. newspaper, unpure, spacexat and i will be responding accordingly and having council with each other to try and figure out the best fit for all the members of this community. if there's anything we missed or anything you may have a problem with, don't be afraid to let us know! any feedback would be of considerable help. :)

last but not least, i will be editing this post as new ideas pop up, so please check back occasionally in case something has changed.

also, thanks to capitol for our layout, and newspaper for funding our rename.

Comments

[gumi.livejournal.com]

newspaper probably already told you I was cool with being a mod. I still want to make a header for the layout too, I've just been working this weekend and am super tired.

If you want me to make any sort of graphic for the userinfo as well, I have no problem doing it. I'll probably be able to get everything made tomorrow once I get home from work.

[gantai.livejournal.com]

awesome. a banner and userinfo profile would be lovely if you could find the time! i'd also appreciate it if you could message me with your thoughts on current policies. :3

[astrokittie.livejournal.com]

I have a question about sales posts. Would it be ok to list doujinshi for sale?

I won't be selling anything, nor do I even have KS doujinshi, but idk, it seems safe to allow the sale of that?

[gantai.livejournal.com]

that is an excellent question! i'll say for now that i personally don't see anything wrong with that, but let me consult with the other mods and see if they feel the same way.

[naisscence.livejournal.com]

Glad ya gaiz are back <3 <3 <3

[galatea79.livejournal.com]

Hi hi! Hey, we missed you a lot!! I'm glad you're back!!! ;-)

[gantai.livejournal.com]

we're glad you're glad, haha. :)

[xeohe.livejournal.com]

Ahhh... sooo... we'll have to look for the manga scanlations and animes on our own then...?

What if someone posted about knowing where to get links to these, and instead posted the link in THEIR LJ account and not here and made an announcement about it here? Is that alright? Or would that still count?

[gantai.livejournal.com]

for the time being at least.

ah, you mean a post saying, "click this link to find another post with a link to the source"? technically that would still be associating as this community could still be deemed as providing a source, so that would still be no, haha.

i will go ahead and state that this shouldn't be much of a problem as now the new community has been around a while, so in the (possible near) future we probably are going to retract this rule completely.

[mr-pop.livejournal.com]

woh! I haven't been around the kuro fandom in a while now since the scanlations weren't around, but, I did enjoy the discussions lj kuro comm had.. were they all deleted? (insert sad face ): ) all those highly informative and interesting discussions ):

[gantai.livejournal.com]

yes, they're all gone now. ):

that's the worth thing about it, to me. hopefully we'll be able to have some in-depth discussions here, though! :)

[asinankurus.livejournal.com]

Uwaa~ So glad we have this community back again!
I'm so happy and excited! Whee~ <3333 XDDDD

[randomdiversion.livejournal.com]

Just discovered this anime on Netflix and watched the entire thing over the past 3 days or so.

Ciel's disposition seemed more demonic to me than Sebastian's.

[metamorcy1.livejournal.com]

I got a question. It was asked above and you said that you were going to consult other members. For sales, are doujinshi allowed?

[gantai.livejournal.com]

ahhh! thank you for bringing this up again, it sort of fell into the background. this one's sort of tricky since it's merchandise, but not official merchandise. :x

but since this is the community for sales posts as opposed to phantomhive, yes, doujins are allowed for sale as long as the image you post of the cover isn't too risque, and a rating/shota warning is displayed.