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Pride Fanwork Prompt Fest, June 2019
What is the Pride Fanwork Prompt Fest?
This is a challenge for prompts about characters Who June Pride Is For, and for creating fanworks in response to those prompts.
—Who?
If the character cannot check all five boxes of allosexual, alloromantic, cisgender, heterosexual, and perisex, then the character is someone Who June Pride Is For. (People who are all five we're gonna call 'straight' for simplicity. People who are at most four, the usual umbrella term is 'queer'.)
The identity term in question can be explicitly canonical, as with Nancy Whitman of Seanan McGuire's Every Heart a Doorway, who's asexual, or Kade Bronson of the same canon, who's trans. Or it can be implicitly canonical: Rose Lavillant of Miraculous Ladybug is probably bi or pan, Juleka Couffaine of the same canon is probably lesbian, and—while nobody particularly expects this to be made explicit onscreen because this TV-Y7 show airs in less queer-friendly markets than the United States—Word of Creator is Rose and Juleka are dating. Or the character's identity can be entirely in headcanon territory: we don't know Miraculous Ladybug's Adrien Agreste is trans, but we don't know he's cis either, so we can happily assume he's trans if we want. We also don't know he isn't demisexual or biromantic or intersex, so we can happily assume any of those as well or instead, as we like.
Nobody is going to go googling your canons to make sure the characters you're prompting for are queer enough. If you're prompting for them here, everyone is going to either know the characters are canonically queer or assume they are, if not canonically queer, certainly being headcanoned queer. That said, if for any given prompt you are headcanoning a character to be of an identity that isn't stated in canon, you may want to specify that identity in the prompt.
What do I do first?
You post prompts! One prompt per comment, please. If the prompt itself is 18+ or needs one of the content warnings listed on the community tags page, section starting 'cw:', please note that in the subject line of the comment. The prompt itself goes in the body of the comment, formatted like this:
For example:
Miraculous Ladybug, trans boy!Adrien, catwalk
Miraculous Ladybug, Rose, your heart is the only place that I call home
Sailor Moon Crystal, any, sunrise
any, any, "I knew it had to be you"
What else?
You create fanworks to other people's prompts, and you post them in comments in reply to the prompts. If the fanwork is 18+ or needs one of the content warnings listed on the community tags page, section starting 'cw:', please post the fanwork itself elsewhere and link to it in the reply comment, appropriately labeled. Otherwise, feel free to post the fanwork directly in the reply comment. (Art may be easier posted to Tumblr or Instagram and linked here, mind.)
You can fill as many prompts as you want, and as many times as you want. Multiple fills to the same prompt are welcome and encouraged.
Please read the community rules before posting.
Does the fill need to be about how queer the character is?
No. My example prompt Miraculous Ladybug, trans boy!Adrien, catwalk? A fill could, of course, focus on how being trans impacts Adrien's modeling career. Or it could mention he puts a binder on while getting ready for a runway show, and that's it. Or it could be about any number of things that connect to 'catwalk' that have nothing to do with his being trans, without the fact being stated or implied at all—but we know the fic is being written and is being read from the understanding that he is trans, and that's enough. Fills for my other example prompts, which don't specify the characters' identity in any way, we know are similarly being written and read from the understanding that these people are queer in some way, and that's enough.
But I don't have a Dreamwidth account.
No problem! You can comment without being logged in, and you can choose to identify yourself in the comment or not. You can also log in with OpenID to comment. Or you can create a Dreamwidth account for free.
Who can play?
Anyone! Everyone! Spread the word! Bring your friends!
We particularly encourage prompts and fills from queer people, of course, but straight people are welcome to participate as well. Bear in mind, however, that every prompt and every fanwork for this fest is explicitly from the perspective that at least the central character is queer.
Here's a handy copy-paste text box with the HTML for a signal boost, Dreamwidth edition:
And anywhere-else edition:
Or if you're on Tumblr, just reblog this!
How long will it run?
The last day for new prompts will be 2019 June 30. Any prompts posted before the fest closes are open for new fills indefinitely.
Are there any rules about crossposting?
If the fill is 18+ or needs one of the content warnings listed on the community tags page, section starting 'cw:', then please post it elsewhere and only link to it here. Other than that, post it here, post it there, post it anywhere. Your Dreamwidth, your Tumblr, your AO3—wherever you like.
What about spoilers, content warnings, triggers, pairings, ratings, tags, and squicks?
See above about required content warnings and ratings. Anything beyond that is at the discretion of the commenters: you should assume spoilers are fair game and that both prompters and respondents are choosing not to warn or tag, but if you want to warn for spoilers or squicks or whatever, please do. It will often be true that the prompt alone will tell you whether you want to see the fanwork. Use your best judgment and be prepared to skip what you don't want to read.
Have fun, and happy Pride!
Credit to
rthstewart at the 2018–2019 3 Sentence Ficathon for all the rules I lifted wholesale, and to sylvaine for the banner and Flickr's Benson Kua for the source image.Filled prompts:
Sundae Musings by
silveradept, Miraculous Ladybug, Marinette/Alya, ice cream sundaeVictory in Small Forms by
silveradept, Miraculous Ladybug, panromantic polyamorous Sabrina, queerplatonic with Chloé & looking for romantic with othersuntitled by
eastofthemoon, Miraculous Ladybug, trans boy!Adrien, catwalkPost-Credits Scene by
silveradept, Miraculous Ladybug, Ondine and aromantic Lê Chiến Kim, talking things out post Syrencoming out balls by
gwenynnefydd, Poirot, bi!Poirot and bi!Hastings, coming out ballsDragon City Pride by
starandrea, 镇魂 | Guardian, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Coming Out ballsPride and Practicality by
ljwrites, Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Darcy/Charlotte Collins, stepping out
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“Adrien, stop wiggling! I can’t get the wrinkles out.”
Adrien rolled his eyes as he felt Marinette smoothed out the back of his jacket. “There aren’t any wrinkles. You checked three times, it’s fine.”
Marinette stuck out her tongue as she inspected his sleeve jacket. “Well, I need to at least check for cat hair.” Her eyes narrowed. “Plagg has a habit of leaving his fur on your clothes.”
Adrien opened and then shut his mouth as he sighed. “Yeah, you’re not wrong.”
It wasn’t as if Plagg did it on purpose, or at least he better not be doing it on purpose..but Adrien wouldn’t put it past the little kwami. “Hope he and the other kwami are enjoying the show from the rafters.”
“We certainly gave them enough snacks to keep them busy,” Marinette said with a sigh as she stepped back and began to fidget. “Although, what if one of them drops some popcorn and one of the models trips? What if an outfit gets torn? What if I trip and I’m a laughing stock?! I’ll be famously known as the dumb girl who ruined her first fashion show! What if-”
“Marinette,” Adrien said gently as he placed his hands on his friend’s shoulders. “It’s going to be fine. Deep breaths, remember?”
Marinette shut her eyes as she placed a hand over her chest. “Right, right. After fighting all of those Akuma, I can handle one fashion show, right?”
“Right,” Adrien said with an encouraging smile as he tugged on his loose tie. “On that note, would you please tie this for me?”
Marinette giggled as she shook a finger before tackling the tie. “Adrien Agreste, you are a model, the son of one of the world’s most famous fashion designers, 22 years old and you still don’t know how to tie a tie?”
Adrien gave a bitter laugh. “No, strangely enough I never learned to do it myself. Probably due to Father being too busy playing super villain to bother. He probably assumed someone else taught me.”
Marinette cringed as she gave his shoulder a gentle squeeze. “Sorry, I didn’t mean-”
“It’s okay,” Adrien said with half smile.
Even though it had been a good number of years now, the reveal of his own father being one of the greatest enemies of Ladybug and Chat Noir still stung. That had been a dark time for him, he had just been lucky that he and Marinette had revealed their identities by then. He didn’t know how he would have gotten through it without her support. Heck, her parents had practically adopted Adrien by then too. Their bakery had felt far more like home than his large mansion had ever been.
Marinette gave one more comforting squeeze as she gestured to his chest. “On that note, how is your binder? Did I leave enough room in the jacket? Is it too tight?”
“It’s a bit tight, but I’ll manage,” Adrien replied as he patted it. “Don’t worry about it.”
He supposed that was one of the few things Adrien could give his father credit for. The man never had issue with Adrien informing him that he wished to change his name and how he felt he should dress. Granted, looking back, perhaps that had been part of the reason Gabriel had been so over protective of him in the first place.
As far as the media and the fashion world knew, he had always been nothing else than Adrien and no one had ever questioned it otherwise.
Adrien then glanced to the clock and took a deep breath. “Alright, time to start the show.”
Marinette sighed as she straightened her posture. “We better get a move on. Chloe will have my hide if we have a late start.” She frowned. “I still can’t believe Chloe wanted to sponsor this for me.”
Adrien shrugged. “Hey, give her some credit. She’s grown up since we were kids.” He gave a nervous laugh. “Although, will admit, after that fight she had with her mother I think the idea of making a new fashion designer more popular than her was too tempting to resist.”
“Spite is a powerful motivator,” Marinette mumbled.
“That is what Plagg keeps telling me,” Adrien said as he adjusted his hat. All the more reason to live his life well.
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