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The BLBL Short Story Anthology Event
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Our group, the Brilliant Library of Boys' Love is hosting another event for the BL community on SH: a collaborative anthology of short stories about Boys' Love! All BL enthusiasts are invited to try their hand in it!
The Anthology will release on our group's official SH account here –
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The themes are going to be vaguely season-related and maybe even a bit competitive (but don’t worry! No actual competitions are going on!):
Cozy Autumn / Macabre Fall
You are free to interpret the themes in any way you want as long as your story channels the mood of one or the other. If you can do both in one story, that’s even better ♡.
But just in case, since we’ve had issues with the last anthology and people struggling to stay within the limits of the suggested themes -- we decided to create moodboards to inspire or prompt the authors toward what can fit either of the themes. In short, aim for the Harvest and autumn celebration festivals for the Cozy theme, and aim for Halloween with the Macabre one. It’s easy ^^!
Cozy Autumn Pinterest Moodboard
Macabre Fall Pinterest Moodboard
The ~vague competition mentioned above going on between these two themes is the preparation period for the writing of each story! Authors of either theme are welcome to unite and beta-read each other or advise on the overall theme. The more authors on one theme side, the more likely the theme will win the place on the final cover of the anthology, so make sure your thematic “teammates” know which theme you are choosing beforehand and hype each other about actually writing your stories!
The title of the anthology will be a poll in which all the members of the community can participate, so stay tuned with the BL_P news about it and make your suggestions early so they can definitely end up in the poll!
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Short Stories
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The short story submission period will run from July 17th to September 15th, with the Completed Anthology beginning to release around October 15th.
All stories will have to be submitted on September 15th at the latest to allow for revisions to be made and finalized before the Anthology comes out. The edits and revisions will be accepted up to September 30th, and after that time, no submissions can come through.
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Submission Rules
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Submission Rules
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1. The story must be an original piece of fiction, previously unpublished and unrelated to other works. Fanfiction, AUs, spinoffs, prequels, or sequels of your existing stories are not permitted.
2. Your story cannot be posted anytime within the BLBL Anthology wait period (aka the time period after you submit your story to when we publish it.) Your story will not be featured in the antho if we find it anywhere else during this period. You may post your stories anywhere else after the antho has published them.
3. Multiple entries are permitted, so long as they are not connected to each other.
4. No stories below 1000 words or over 5,500 words will be accepted. This is a hard limit. Editing and trimming help will be offered by the anthology’s mods for stories that exceed the word count limit by 100-300 words -- but anything longer than that has to be cut down and edited by the authors themselves before submission.
All stories must be published as oneshots (so no two-chapter stories). These oneshots can be expanded upon after being published by the antho, but keep it concise for the actual anthology.
5. The closing dates of first submissions and revised submissions are defined as follows:
– the last moment we will accept the first submissions is September 15th, 23:59 UTC +14.
– the last moment we will accept the revised versions is September 30th, 23:59 UTC +14.
6. All submissions must be sent to this profile or to the main account of our BLBL Group on SH – @BL_Palace. These accounts are:
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7. You can send your story through PMs, or by sending us a link to a Google Doc – whichever method you prefer.
8. When submitting, please specify which author's name you wish to publish the story under, the title of your piece, and the link(s) to your account(s) here on SH or SHF.
Mark the title of the PM you are sending with the [ANTHOLOGY] label (example: [ANTHOLOGY] My Story), and specify in the PM that you have read the rules and are aware of the consequences of breaking them.
9. There are no formatting rules, but if you want to use any LitRPG formatting, you must take care of it before submitting the story. The organizers of the Anthology will not be responsible for implementing this type of formatting.
10. All Author's Notes for the stories are welcome and appreciated. Please send them along with the story, and include guidelines of where to put them. By default, all Author's Notes are put at the end of the story, but we will move them if you think they fit better somewhere else. Author’s Notes can only be placed on a story you have submitted.
11. Pictures can be accepted as part of the submission, so long as the picture is not stolen artwork (aka if you have express permission from the artist and reasonable proof of this or have drawn it yourself). Any pictures that may require a Content Warning (such as NSFW or gore) will not be included.
12. Character Theaters, other jokes, and small Fanfic/AUs related to the story in question are also acceptable. These will be placed in Author’s Notes, and treated as such. They must be related to the story you publish and not to other stories outside of it, including your own.
13. You can market or promote your other stories in your Author's Notes, but these promotions cannot be more than one to two sentences, and cannot be all that you have in your author’s notes. If you said less about your Short Story in the ANs than your other books, then you are doing it wrong! ╮ (. ❛ _ ❛.) ╭ This Anthology is all about promoting our BL Authors, but don't overdo it.
14. If your story features content that you feel may be objectionable to some readers, please provide Content Warnings with your submission (we will publish them as you provide them when we release your story). We reserve the right to add more content warnings as we see fit.
15. You can withdraw your submission at any time, even after the final edits. If you want your story to be removed after it has already been published in the Anthology, you must message us about it directly with strong justification. We prefer that you didn't, but we can understand if your life circumstances may demand this change.
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Content Rules
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Content Rules
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1. No “no homo”.
Boys' Love should be an important element of your story. It has to feature at least two men in a ~romantic relationship with one another. One of these men should be the protagonist of the story.
Just having two boys hang out together “as friends” wouldn't count as a Boys' Love story. There has to be at least some “more than friendship” love if you want your story to qualify.
Essentially: bromance and “no homo” friendship =/= Boys' Love.
BL between side characters, or occasional flirting between the main characters that leads nowhere does not count either.
2. No rape. No incest. No pedo.
2.1. We appreciate dark themes and topics, but please refrain from using them. These are SH guidelines, so the Anthology might be endangered on the site if it features prohibited content.
Rape can be discussed as a topic (negatively), but there can be no plot events stemming from rape and no actual depictions of rape within this Anthology.
Non-con falls under this rule automatically, while dub-con will be subject to revisions and strict consideration if it borders on non-con.
2.2. No incest.
2.3. Both your characters in question have to be above 18 years of age for any erotic/NSFW interactions in your story if you want it to qualify for our Anthology.
If your character is 1000 years old but looks like a little boy, we still consider that as “pedo” for the Anthology's guidelines.
All stories that abuse any of these three rules (“No rape, no incest, no pedo”) will be rejected. Please be careful if you want to toy with these.
3. GenderBender is okay as long as the transformation is “female to male” and only in conjunction with the Transgender tag. No forced GenderBender on MCs who do not identify as male at any point in the story.
4. No illegal sex acts. Necrophilia, bestiality, etc.
5. Tragedy and/or Bad Endings are okay as long as the Tragedy has nothing to do with a character's sexual orientation. Our Anthology is about celebrating homosexuality, not showing how tragic it can be.
6. No PWP (“Porn Without Plot” or “Plot? What Plot?”) stories, as these violate SH guidelines.
7. The story must explore one or more of the themes suggested by the anthology. If your story does not mention or explore at least one required theme, you will be notified that you broke the rule and will have to adjust your story accordingly. You won't be automatically rejected like you would if you broke the other rules, but please refrain from breaking this one.
8. We reserve ourselves the right to refuse the submission of to any story that abuses any of the loopholes in the rules, especially the “No Rape, No Pedo” ones.
With all that said, good luck and happy BL-ing to everyone!
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