COMMISSION TERMS AND PRICING INFO

Pricing: My price is ½ cent per word, which works out to 5$ per 1000 words. The price is the same no matter the length of the story, and the same for private and public commissions. If I feel I need more than the agreed wordcount to finish the story, anything extra is free of charge.
My queue/slots: I’m announcing any free slots here, on InkBunny  and on my Discord. If you don’t see anything mentioning open slots - there aren’t any. If you see a slot is being negotiated, that means that someone’s called dibs but I haven’t taken on the commission yet, so you can call dibs and if the negotiations fall through, you’re next in line.
My blacklist: scat, fart, necro, gore, stink,vore, vomit, dicknipples, obese, avian, pokemon, digimon, protagen, Bowser, Friday Night at Freddy’s, they/them pronouns, hyper, snuff,
What I need from you: After you call dibs on an open slot, I need a story outline. I’m ready to wait for it for about a day or two but after that if I don’t get one I have to move on to the next person in line. As for the amount of detail, I’ve written stories from both multi-page outlines and some from just a paragraph or two. Any details you include and I agree on has to be in the final story - if I omit it, you can ask me to correct it after you get the first draft. But if you don’t provide details, I’m going to make things up as I go along and those parts aren’t eligible for corrections/rewrites.
When I get the outline I’ll generally have a few questions/notes right away. If everything checks out, I’ll award the slot. It’s the story that gets the slot, not the commissioner. I’m open to hearing any new details you might have thought of while waiting in the queue, and I'm even open to hearing about changes. If I like them - they’re in, but if I don’t I reserve the right to decline them without explaining myself. The original outline is the deal and it can only be changed if we both agree on it.
When your story reaches Slot #2 I’ll drop you a line to let you know when I’ll be ready to start. Around this time I’ll generally send over a list of any questions and notes I thought of in the meantime so we can iron everything out. This is the last chance for any suggestion/correction on your end - once I set the deadline everything is locked.
Payment: Payment is through PayPal. You don't pay anything until I’m ready to actually start writing your commission (I’ll drop you a line when you’re in slot #2 giving you the date). When the time comes you can pay either the whole amount, or just the 1st half. Once the payment goes through, I’ll set a deadline (never broken one so far) and get to work. Once the deadline is through I’ll send you the full story if you paid the full amount, or a preview version (every 3rd line/paragraph redacted) if you paid only the 1st half, and the full story once the 2nd half comes through. At this point you can ask for tweaks/corrections to be made if I missed something that we agreed to include or got some details wrong etc. Once that’s done, I’ll ask your permission to post the story and whether you want to be credited as the commissioner. If I don’t get explicit permission I treat the commission as private and it stays unreleased.
Ownership: If the story contains your setting and your characters, I consider everything I write your IP. I reserve the right to be credited as the story’s author and to not have it modified without my permission. Otherwise - it’s yours. You’re free to post it, share it, continue it etc.

FAQ
Your blacklist has a lot of weird things in it… I’m a weird person. Keep in mind it’s not a list of things I hate but rather a list of things I don’t feel like writing about. No judgement, but it’s also non-negotiable.
What about Rule34 commissions? I have done and will continue to write r34, but there is a LOT of stuff that I’m unfamiliar with/uninterested in. There’s no harm in asking, but as a general rule I have a strong preference for original characters and settings. I will also never research any setting/character I’m not familiar with just to write a story.
You wrote a story/stories featuring [theme], but you turned down my [theme] commission. Why? Any number of reasons. Sometimes I’ll try something just to see how I like it, and it might turn out that I don’t. My one and only story featuring a character with they/them pronouns is a good example because it absolutely fried my brain and I never expected it so since I’ve used she/her for characters with penises and he/him for characters with vaginas without any issue. Sometimes I’ll like [theme], but I’ve been writing it a lot lately and I want a change. Sometimes I’ll turn it down because I already have stories featuring [theme] in my queue. If this is the case, I’ll generally let you know this is the reason so you can keep it on the shelf and pitch it some other time.
My idea isn’t on your blacklist, but you turned me down!? What it comes down to is this - when I read the outline and maybe ask for a few clarifications etc. it has to… click… in my brain for me to accept it. I have to know right then and there that I can write that story and hopefully have fun doing it. I can’t accept a commission and just hope I’m going to come up with an idea by the time I’m supposed to start writing. [u]Don’t make me explain why I turned you down because I can’t explain why something’s not clicking in my brain.[/u] If I turn your idea down, it doesn’t mean your idea is bad, it could just mean that I’m not the right person to write it.
Can I commission a sequel/prequel/spin-off of one of your stories? Sure. The only caveat is that if the base-story is a commission, I’ll have to secure permission from the original commissioner first.
You just posted a finished commission but a slot didn’t open! I open a slot as soon as I finish my current project. 99% of the time that is when the commissioner tells me they are happy with the story and don’t want any changes made. In that case, they are the first person who knows I have a free slot and will sometimes immediately pitch a new idea. If I like it and take on the commission, the slot will never open publically. Likewise, a commission will sometimes be private or the commissioner will fail to respond in a reasonable amount of time with their final approval, so a slot will open up without a story being posted.