Fall Equinox theme, one more time

[trelkez]

Hi, vidders! It's us, your local Equinox mods. The last survey was very helpful, and we feel we really got things nailed down on this whole "alternate reality" business (or at least on how it works for the theme!). Only ... it turns out there's one question we didn't think to ask, and we briefly thought we had figured it out, but then the further we go down that road, the murkier it gets, and ... okay, look: 

Is the afterlife an alternate reality?

Please weigh in on a short survey, here: https://goo.gl/forms/jPWOwfwl9SyZHvS93

This question may honestly be a bit above our pay grade, so at the moment we're leaning toward simply declaring the afterlife Not An Alternate Reality to avoid having to go too far down a philosophy of religion rabbit hole to approve nominations. (As fair warning, this would mean we would have to walk back a couple nominations that were approved when we thought we had a better handle on this question than we actually did.)

But before we do that, we want to give folks a chance to weigh in. If you have thoughts, please click on the survey above and let us know!

Equinox update on the afterlife

[trelkez]

Thank you to everyone who weighed in on the afterlife this morning! We received quite a bit of feedback and no two responses were alike, so we've gone ahead and closed the survey.

For the purposes of the theme, the afterlife (in any culture or religion) is not an alternate reality. If it is a realm of the dead, or a realm reached primarily through death, or any other definition of afterlife that can be applied, it does not count.

(There are a lot of afterlife sources out there, definitely enough to support their own theme, so we feel okay making this ruling as there can definitely be an afterlife theme later on, in another season.)

A few previously approved sources are going to be removed so everything fits the rules. Apologies if these were yours!