All right, I am thoroughly pleased to announce that the community will open its doors for the posting of queerly gen works on
Wednesday September 23rd! By popular request, we'll be kicking things off with a fest of prompt-based works. Here's the timeline:
- Prompts can be left right here, starting right now!
- Wednesday September 16th: A recs post will go up, where people can comment to recommend queerly gen works of all tasty flavors. (Both recs and reposting of older works will continue to be welcome at the community later on -- this is just a warm-up.)
- Wednesday September 23rd: The kick-off festival of prompt responses goes live.
- Wednesday September 30th: general posting of all works is welcome (including continued prompt responses). Further festival, challenges, and special events will be figured out as we go -- if you've got ideas, we'd love to hear them.
Prompt parameters: basically, the sky's the limit. You're welcome to suggest any kind of work (fic, art, meta, vid, poetry, podcast, recs lists, meta, picspam ...) and any kind of content that fits the community definitions. Prompters, comment on the post with your ideas. Creators, you're welcome to reply to those comments if you'd like to let people know you're tackling a particular prompt (though more than one creator is welcome to take on a prompt).
Definitions. In the three weeks before the fest goes live, we your moderators will continue getting organized, figuring out policies, and putting up guideline posts. However, we wanted to get the definitions up along with the invitation to leave prompts. These definitions reflect the discussions held earlier on this community, with a few judgment calls made by us mods where needed to resolve things. Prompters, please read these to get an idea of what territory your prompts can cover.
Sexual minority: someone whose sexual preferences are considered nontraditional, marginalized, or marked in their own cultural context (or in the cultural context of the work's creator). Some examples of sexual minority identities include, but are not limited to, those organized around:
- sexual orientation (homosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, pansexual, asexual)
- sexual practices (kinky, fetishist, BDSM practitioner)
- number of partners (poly)
- someone who is questioning their identification with any sexual minority identity
Gender minority: someone whose gender identity and/or physically embodied sex do not conform to cultural norms of "maleness" or "femaleness" in their own cultural context (or in the cultural context of the work's creator), or whose gender identities and bodies do not align in ways that conform to those cultural norms. Examples of gender minorities include, but are not limited to, people who identify as:
- transgendered, transsexual, genderqueer, intersexed, androgynous
Gen: a work that does not focus on romantic or sexual relationships, and where the creator considers any such relationships to be secondary within the work. This definition does not exclude:
- Works featuring characters who are in romantic or sexual relationships (whether canonical or non-canonical) -- provided the point of the story is not to bring the characters together or to highlight the romantic/sexual dynamics of their relationship.
- Explicit sexual content -- however, we ask creators to be aware that such content strains the definition of gen for many viewers at the comm, and to carefully consider the prominence and use of sexual content in works they intend to post here.
- Content that is not appropriate for all ages -- we will provide guidelines for creators to use in labeling content some viewers may not wish to see, so that viewers can make an informed decision.
If you have questions or logistical suggestions,
please reply at this link (for this post, I'd like to keep comments and questions together, so they don't get jumbled up in what I hope will be a sea of prompts).
Now: prompt away! :)
ETA: Neither I nor my co-mods had talked at all about limiting the prompt format -- the hope is that the works here will run the gamut, and I personally hadn't wanted to constrain what people might do by setting a strict format. But some of you have asked questions that make me think a little structure might be helpful, at least to get people started. So! Ways you can prompt people include, but
are not limited to:
- Universe, character(s), content: The West Wing, ensemble, karaoke at a lesbian dive bar; or Saving Face, Wil & Hwei-Lan Gao, Mother's Day.
- Diving board (linking people to an existing work to use as inspiration): I'd love to see a story about this picture, art for this song, or a vid about this poem.
- Finish the sentence (where you write the first half of an opening line or premise): The best thing about the hell that was eleventh grade was ... or Three years after the trip with Julio y Ana, Tenoch goes to ...
- Freeform (just ask for what you want!): I always secretly wanted to put together a house of all-queer roommates -- someone want to write that for me? Or Sofia Lopez was the best thing about Season 1 of Nip/Tuck; can someone please tell me more of her story? Or What if someone filibustered the Senate by reading queer lit?
... And just one heads-up: I realize it's automatic at a lot of prompt-fests, but here you may want to stop and think before you leave a request with a pairing in it. I'm not saying you can't, just try to make sure there's a non-pairing-centric work that could go with what you're requesting.
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