Thank you for outlining that. It helps clarify even more and pretty much confirms my thinking. little_chicago is a sort of ongoing round robin kind of fic. A muse might set up a situation (like your example of Maggie's return from the dead) and other muses in the comm react to that with their own fics, which are really just continuations of the story. But to be polite, the writer should get the okay of any other muse in the comm they might reference in their part of the continuation.

So not stand alone fics in addition to RP, which is where I think the initial confusion (and some discomfort about the implied censoring/strictness of the rules) came from. Not only for myself but a few other TDF writers who might have joined except for their own uncertainty/misinterpretation of the user info. (To be honest, I was thinking "Whoa! Too narrow-minded for me!" when I read the initial thread that started this all and nearly quit then and there.)

So let me ask this. In my "20 Facts About Bob", #1 includes "...It was a young thirteen year old wizard by the name of Harry Dresden who first called him 'Bob.'" Should I also have contacted both Harry writers to get permission for that reference? Even though it was implied in the series but never actually stated?