FMA-AU: Submissions and Rules and other things.

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Published: Apr 2, 2012

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Attention all FMA-AU group members, this is IMPORTANT. Please read.

Hey everyone, I don't mean any disrespect to anyone in this blog post but it has come to my attention that a lot of people have been submitting deviations unrelated to what this group is targeted towards, or they submit deviations that defy the set of rules in this group.

As you can see, the title of the group is FMA-AU, which means; Fullmetal Alchemist - Alternate Universe.

I have made a list of rules for this group, I know some of them sound unreasonable but really, every rule has a purpose behind it and they are not there because the founder (me) wants to be a killjoy.

I will mention the rules that were most often overlooked:

Photographs of drawings: This one is self-explanatory. I think we can all agree that a scanned drawing looks much more pleasing than a photo of it. If you don't have a scanner at least don't take crooked pictures and make it obvious that it's a photograph. Take a straight photo where the lighting is good and make it look like it's actually scanned or if you are talented enough, digital. I can do this with my crappy camera and edit on my computer to make it look as if I really scanned the drawing. I'm really bad at photo-editing, so if I can do that I'm pretty sure other people can too.

Fullmetal Alchemist fanart that isn't Alternate Universe or a Crossover: This is also pretty obvious, and I mentioned above that the title says it all. Artwork of Edward and Alphonse walking in Central City isn't Alternate Universe and definitely isn't a crossover. An example of AU would be Fullmetal Alchemist in High School or Steampunk. An example of Crossover would be Fullmetal Alchemist in Hogwarts or in Mordor. If you're still confused, here are links explaining Alternate Universe and Crossovers.

Original Characters (OC's): Alright, this one may seem a little unreasonable, but the reason why OC's aren't allowed in this group is because you are already bending FMA over to other universes and including characters from other fandoms, I feel that OC's will just cause things to be complicated. It does state in the rules that an artwork must contain at least one FMA character, and an OC isn't an FMA character therefore OC's don't count. Not going to name any names but I've had people submit artworks of solely their OC's without any actual characters in the picture. Another reason for that being is that I find that there is a lot of FMA OC's on dA as it is, and because it is after all my group, and the co-founders agreed with me on that, I decided it's best to keep them out of here. The same doesn't go for minor OC's in fanfics or in pictures. If it's a background character that isn't the main focus, that's fine. I'm sorry if this offends anyone, I know there is a huge debate over OC's on deviantART but I'd like to keep it out of here so please just accept the rules as they are. Start your own group if you really want Alternate Universe Fullmetal Alchemist with OC's.

I made this group with a focus because I know a lot of people enjoy alternate universe FMA, like me. Please scan over the rules before you submit so I won't have to post any more blog-posts full of mean words and nagging towards group members, it only takes five minutes.

Also, if anyone wants to become a contributor, tell me. I feel that this group needs quite a bit of work done and not all of the administrators have time to work on it too much (including myself) and I feel that if more people joined it would be easier for each person to just give 5 minutes a day to help improve this group.