Pride Fanwork Prompt Fest, June 2019
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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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Date: 2019-06-06 10:57 pm (UTC)FILL: Poirot, bi!Poirot and bi!Hastings, coming out balls
Date: 2019-06-09 07:29 pm (UTC)(also if they don't state any canon sexuality and expect you to just know, they're all automatically queer. it's the law.)
(also, this is less modern and more... modern-er than the original coming out balls)
This was all Pierre's fault. Of this, Poirot was certain.
It had been Pierre who had, over a quiet lunch one day, invited Poirot to a "debutante between friends", a new-fangled idea from the States that some of his queer friends had wanted to implement here in Belgium. Had Poirot been less curious, less in search of understanding company, he would've refused, and stayed home in his safe little flat above rue Sivela. Had he listened to the clergy at the la Cathédrale de Saint Paul, he perhaps would not be here. He would be doing whatever was expected of a good Catholic, finding a wife, or feeding the poor, or confessing. Poirot was a good Catholic, but the Bible never banned him from attending balls, and it certainly didn't bar him from being queer, no matter what Father Harpigny preached with fervour. But then again, Father Harpigny would not have been happy until every Catholic was a practicing asceticist.
Right now, Poirot couldn't care less about Father Harpigny and his sermons, nor even about the safety of his flat. The ballroom - a hidden, almost abandoned, building in the south end of Spa - was perhaps not the first place one thought of holding a debutante ball, and yet here was one, the presenting of queer men to their contemporaries, and the acceptance of new queer men into the fold. What he was interested in right now was the presentation of men to the community - and rather, one man in particular. Poirot had noticed him the moment he'd stepped into the line of men, guided by the presenter into a semblance of a line before they were introduced to the community. In ivory and blue finery, blonde hair and china blue eyes, he caught Poirot's eye immediately, even as he waited for his turn to be presented. And when he came to the front, into the light, and did a full debutante curtsy, Poirot knew he was smitten, and it was all Pierre's fault.
From his side, Pierre told him that this was an English army officer, a man called "Arthur", but that meant nothing to Poirot - he knew about five Englishmen called Arthur, and nearly all Englishmen that he met were in the army. But this man was beyond the mere boundaries of "English" and "Arthur" - he was sun and heat, all summer like a warm day on a south Peruvian beach, but glimmering like the iced rain of Norway or Sweden, untouchable like the glaciers of the far North. He smiled like he was fresh from the pictures in Hollywood, but blushed and stammered like a schoolboy from Eton. His name was Arthur, but what did that mean to a man who was tongue-tied every time his gaze swept the room? He could be called Jacob or Mark or Athelstan and it would mean nothing to Poirot, for the physical method of saying his name was far beyond him.
Poirot did not know who this man was, but he very much wanted to find out.
Re: FILL: Poirot, bi!Poirot and bi!Hastings, coming out balls
Date: 2019-06-09 07:33 pm (UTC)Re: FILL: Poirot, bi!Poirot and bi!Hastings, coming out balls
Date: 2019-06-13 01:41 pm (UTC)And then of course that's thrown away entirely because oh no Arthur is hot.
Fill: 镇魂 | Guardian, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Coming Out balls
Date: 2019-06-09 08:40 pm (UTC)Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian
Relationship: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Summary: Shen Wei doesn’t invite Zhao Yunlan to the university’s Coming Out Ball. They go anyway, and the entire Special Investigations Department goes with them.