I've been more active on here than I ever have this last week, I swear. Anyway, to the meat and potatoes of this journal: I'm accepting requests! Depending on how this goes, I might expand it into taking commissions. I just want to see how capable I am of actually giving people what they want before I start charging money for it. I want to be more active on here, and since I'm between my big projects in my real life, I've got a lot of writing energy that needs to go somewhere. My biggest hangup is usually a lack of ideas, but with commissions/requests, the customer's going to be supplying the main idea, and I just need to form a story around it.

The rules:

1) I'm most likely to accept a request that lines up with my own fetishes, but I realize mine are pretty niche, so I'm willing to incorporate others. I do have veto power, though, if it's one I'm not comfortable working with, either because I just don't think I can write it well enough to actually do it properly, or if it squicks me out. My biggest worry is that I'll get squicked out by a lot of stuff, but we'll just have to see how this goes. I'll do my best!

2) I will need a little information from you. Characters (or character types) and at least a general sense of what you'd like to see, enough for me to build a story around. If your fetish is one I'm not familiar with, we might need to have a conversation about it, so I know which aspects of it are actually attractive to you and work those in.

3) Length. For requests, I'm not going to worry about it too terribly much, as long as you know it might be short. It'll all depend on what the story I come up with in my head will require; I'm not going to cut anything short just for funsies. I'm going to do my best to do my story justice. If/when I open up commissions, then I'll have to do a price-by-word-count thing, but that's a problem for later Alias. For now, just know that it might be short, but it'll never be shorter than it deserves.

4) Writing takes time. For requests, I'm not going to set myself any deadlines. I'll be using them for data points, though, to see how long it generally takes me to fulfill a request, and I'll adjust my deadlines for commissions accordingly.

5) I've got permission to publish these stories on my own page too, if I so choose. Unless you ask pretty please, then I might leave it up to you entirely. When/if you post it, please do link to me to help me grow.

6) About editing: I'll do as many drafts as I think it needs, then I'll send it to you. You can tell me to make any changes you want, up to and including a full re-write if you're not happy with it. I'll redo it, draft as necessary, and after that we can keep tweaking until we land on something we like.

There we have it. If all of that seems copacetic, then hit me up, and we'll see what we can do together. I'm hoping this goes well, and that it'll help me grow as both an account and a writer. Bear in mind, I'm doing this because I'm between projects in my real life at the moment, so once I get back into those, my speed here might slow down. But that's yet another problem for future Alias. They've got a lot on their plate. (Fun fact about Alias here: despite the testosterone practically dripping down my account, I'm actually nonbinary! I do still consider myself gay, though, thus the... well, the everything.)

Cheers, everyone.