Copyright notice: All stories in our archives are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, and are based on the Venus Universe, created by Caleb Castaneda.
This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, for noncommercial purposes only. If others modify or adapt the material, they must license the modified material under identical terms.
Now that we’ve got the legalities out of the way, our Church maintains three separate archives:
These are the foundational fictional texts that create the base canon. Usually, the only way for your story to make this list is to be me. 🙂 These are the stories that make up the foundation of the Venus Universe. Since the Venus Universe is being released into the Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), anyone else may build within this Universe so long as they attribute me, do not commercialize, and maintain the same license as the original. I write publicly, so stories in these archives may be in progress, unfinished, or unedited. They may go through multiple revisions. But you will see how the entire process plays out. Nothing is hidden.
Then there is the Expanded Canon. These are stories that have been written by different authors, but the Queer Church of Venus has adopted these stories as their own. These stories are every bit as canonical as the original; they reflect the Church’s values, positions, and ethos. In many cases, the Church will have edited and revised these stories many times before voting to adopt them as canon or “scripture.”
Finally we come to the final archive: proposed stories. This is where most stories will begin. These stories may be in progress, unfinished, or in the process of being revised and edited. They may contradict elements of canon, or may not correspond to our ethos at all. Indeed, they may have been submitted by people whose only interest in the Church is our futuristic sci-fi universe, but they are otherwise uninterested in our overarching project. Our position is not to censor. All submitted stories will be archived here (so long as they are not obscene and do not infringe on some other person or group’s intellectual property). Since it is a share-alike license, the Church may revise some stories to create a new story, but we will always leave the unaltered original up on our archives unless the author requests that we remove it.