What is the policy concerning nude or erotic fan art?

Fan art can be broken into two broad categories; that which concerns characters that are presented as adults in their original context, and that which concerns characters presented as underage minors or children in their original context.

Fan art concerning characters that are considered to be adults in their original context have no restrictions in regards to nudity or other provocative themes other than those already in place governing sexual or pornographic subject matter. Please see other areas of the FAQ for details.

Fan art concerning characters that are considered underage minors or children in their original context are subjected to several restrictions which mirror the restrictions in place for photographic submissions.

The following is a listing of themes which are prohibited in regards to these underage characters;

1. Depicted without clothing, front view, back view, or side view, with genitalia and/or breasts visible or not.

2. Depicted in under garments or lingerie.

3. Depicted in an S&M or ‘Bondage’ situation.

4. Depicted in a sexual or 'alluring' pose (dressed or undressed).

5. Depicted in the possession of ‘adult’ sexual toys.

6. Depicted with transparent clothing, blurring of nude areas, or the use of “blots” or “Censored” wording or props to cover areas that are otherwise not clothed.

7. Depicted with "enhanced" breasts or genital areas.

8. Attempts to portray an underage or child character as an "adult" in order to avoid these restrictions will be subjected to close scrutiny by staff. Such claims will be considered void in any case where the staff deems that significant and telling changes of the original underage character design were not attempted or that such efforts were inadequate.


Any fan art submission found to depict any of this prohibited content will be removed immediately and without notice.