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Make The Yuletide Gay!
Hello Yuletiders! I've got a new mini-challenge for you: Make the Yuletide Gay
The purpose of this challenge is to help those of us who like canon f/f & m/m couples to find one another's requests and to increase the amount of canon m/m & f/f in the collection!
Canon certainly encompasses a lot of things and everyone has their own definition. Depending on the culture, era, and level of censorship in which your canon was made, one level of canon might be more explicit than another. There's also the case of Word of God, one-night-stands, exes, and one-sided relationships to factor in!
For the purposes of this post, all that is asked is that you list your canon ships in good faith. If you see that someone's request isn't what you'd consider to be canon, please keep looking for someone else that does have what you're looking for rather than debating it.
How does it work?
Since this mini-challenge is all about writing for as many canon gay ships as possible, it only makes sense that we try to make a comprehensive directory of all the canon m/m and f/f ships requested this Yuletide! Fill out the form here with any and all canon f/f & m/m ships that you've seen requested this year. The responses will serve as a filterable and searchable directory.
The purpose of this challenge is to help those of us who like canon f/f & m/m couples to find one another's requests and to increase the amount of canon m/m & f/f in the collection!
Canon certainly encompasses a lot of things and everyone has their own definition. Depending on the culture, era, and level of censorship in which your canon was made, one level of canon might be more explicit than another. There's also the case of Word of God, one-night-stands, exes, and one-sided relationships to factor in!
For the purposes of this post, all that is asked is that you list your canon ships in good faith. If you see that someone's request isn't what you'd consider to be canon, please keep looking for someone else that does have what you're looking for rather than debating it.
How does it work?
- List your Ao3 name, a link to your letter, and specify what canon f/f and/or m/m ships you're requesting, as well as any specific prompts you may have for them. If you have the time/inclination to do a little promo post/primer on your canon ship(s), do it!
- Look through the comments and see if there are any canons you know or would like to get into!
- Tag your any canon m/m or f/f fics you write this year with "Make The Yuletide Gay" so other people can find them when the collection opens!
Since this mini-challenge is all about writing for as many canon gay ships as possible, it only makes sense that we try to make a comprehensive directory of all the canon m/m and f/f ships requested this Yuletide! Fill out the form here with any and all canon f/f & m/m ships that you've seen requested this year. The responses will serve as a filterable and searchable directory.
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Letter: https://minebyrights.dreamwidth.org/4645.html
Canon gay/lesbian pairings:
The Favourite (2018): Sarah Churchill Duchess of Marlborough [requested only Sarah but more than happy to see her shipped with Anne, as in canon]
--If you love the idea of messy Georgian women fighting and literally fucking for power, in a black comedy/satirical setting, this is certainly a canon for you, and Anne/Sarah (as childhood friends grown into constant companions/codependent Queen and Advisor dynamics) has such a long history behind it and such a potent influence on the plot even postcanon that I'd love to explore it.
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019): Héloïse/Marianne
--Do you love portrait painting, art gays, remote and claustrophobic seaside settings, 18th century women getting high and fucking each other, Orpheus/Eurydice metaphors applied to two women, and bittersweet 18th century queer feelings? Both fix-its and just plain canonical explorations welcome, and I'm a big fan of the idea of them getting down and dirty on the beach, or more painting, or painting on the beach, or...
[Other Note:]
[I also requested John Reid and Bernie Taupin, not a canon couple, for Rocketman (2019) but am happy to have pretty detailed explorations of the canonical Elton/Reid and/or Elton-->Bernie relationships included as part of that.]
[This is a great idea; thank you, OP, for organizing!]