Crueltide 2018

[vel]

All credit for the text below goes to for_sorrow.

Not every story is pleasant. Not every story has a happy ending, and not all happy endings come without a dark and painful journey. And sometimes, those are the kinds of stories that we really, really want to read.

If you're one of the many people interested in either writing or receiving darkfic, then Crueltide is here to devour your soul the Yuletide-extra for you!

The short version:

• Read the comments to find people to treat with darkfic.


• Tag your yuletide darkfic with 'crueltide'

The long version is beneath the cut.

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Yuleporn 2018: XXXtra Goodness

[karanguni]

(I'm not the usual poster, but copy-pasta'ing from last year:)

What is Yuleporn?

In an exchange as big and diverse as Yuletide, it turns out a lot of people would love to write or recieve explicit stories, but aren't comfortable asking for them or writing them without a little more information. Yuleporn is a sub-challenge (not really a challenge) to help Yuletiders request, write, and read the porn of their Yuletide dreams.

How Do I Participate?

• Leave a comment on this post linking your letter if you are interested in getting an explicit fic for YT.
• Add any optional details you want in the comment -- additional prompts, favorite kinks, DNWs, whatever.
• If you don't have a letter, you can still leave prompts here, but make sure to include your AO3 name, your fandoms, and the characters you requested
• When it comes time to upload your smut, tag it with "Yuleporn" on AO3 so other interested parties can easily find all the raunchy stuff when the collection opens.
• Enjoy.

As always, you don't have to participate in Yuleporn to write or request porn -- it's just here to make things easier -- and Yuleporn is 100% open to all kinks (or lack thereof).

Yulepoem 2018

[aondeug]

Yulepoem is a mini-challenge for poetry treats. As well as the place for people who'd be interested in receiving poetry treats. Forms or freeform. Short or long. Narrative or emotive. Image or oral. Poems of all shapes and are sizes are welcome! Recordings of poetry readings are also welcome, though please only give recordings to those who've asked for them.

Comment here to request poetry. Check out the comments to find people interested in receiving poems.

If interested in requesting poetry for the challenge please post the following information:

• Ao3 handle
• Letter link
• Fandoms and characters
• Prompts

Additionally, please add 'Yulepoem' and 'poetry' to the tags in treats. If your treat includes a recording of a reading please post them in the Madness collection.

Misses Clause 2018

[mlravenwrites]

Text copied (with alterations) from last year's post by hauntedd 

Now in its eighth year, the Misses Clause Challenge was created to promote the inclusion, expansion, and celebration of women in fanfiction.

 

Participation is easy! Initially, the challenge set out to include more female characters in fic using the Bechdel Test as a barometer. But honestly, plenty of sources can (and do) successfully pass without putting female characters anywhere near the forefront. So the general rule for participating in the Misses Clause Challenge is simple:

 

Write women.

 

That's it! Write women who are celebrated, who are unsung, who are the heroes of their own stories or the unfortunate victims of circumstance. Write women talking, fighting, saving the day, or just going about their business. Write women of all ages, shapes, sizes, races, creeds, sexual orientations, mental and physical abilities, and moral fibers. Write women, full stop.

 

Easy enough, right? So if you’re willing, and we hope you are…

 

· Write a Yuletide assignment or treat with one or more women as the focus. Femslash, female POV, ensemble fic, whatever works for you — as long as there's a female character front and center, your fic fulfills the challenge.

· Tag your finished fic with "Misses Clause Challenge". 

 

*The challenge name was meant to be a punny play on the fic season and a bad movie, and was not meant to be exclusionary in any way. (And yes, the "e" was intentional.)

 

ps. If you're looking for femslash, also consider Femslash Festivus.

 

Femslash Festivus

[mlravenwrites]

Text copied (with alterations) from last year's post by sathinfection 
 

Do you want to write femslash for Yuletide? Have you combed through the letters, but have no idea who these characters are, why you might like them, and if the potential recipient is looking for the tropey femslash fic of your shared dreams? Here's your post! 

 

Femslash Festivus is a collection post for femslash requests that you are making for Yuletide. Posting here doesn't obligate you to do anything, but it helps other femslashers find you and treat you. 

Posting requirements: 

• Your request centers around a femslash pairing or poly arrangement involving at least two characters who identify as female in the canon. The femslash pairing can't just be a smaller part of a long dudeslash prompt. 
• I'm not going around the post policing whether or not your letters are femslash-y enough, but please be considerate and do not ask for genderbent versions of male characters in canon, e.g. asking for always-a-girl!Conan the Barbarian paired with Valeria. 

 

What you must include:

• Your AO3 name
• All the fandoms where you are making femslash requests, with characters mentioned (so if you are only asking for gen in one fandom, don't list that one) 
• If you are asking for femslash in a fandom where you requested no characters because you wanted worldbuilding or OCs, this is perfectly fine! Just make sure you talk up the kind of pairings you'd want to receive in your post. 

What you should probably include: 

• Links to your letter or copy/pasted requests
• A brief description of your ship, if you think it's unfamiliar to most people
• If you're open to receiving porn for Festivus, note it. 

You are welcome to tag the fics inspired by this post with 'Femslash Festivus.' I also recommend tagging your work with the Misses Clause Challenge, though Femslash Festivus is a separate thing.

 

And if you're wondering what the heck Festivus is, here's the wiki page for a deeply beloved Seinfeld joke that has actually picked up some traction as a holiday. but please, don't include the Airing of Grievances in your post 

Wrapping Paper Challenge 2018

[rosefox]

(adapted from scribblemyname's text from last year)

The Wrapping Paper art challenge for Yuletide is an opportunity for those who love art to give and receive fanart treats, in the spirit of the crossover, interactive fiction, and drabble challenges.

You can comment here to request art.

You can read the comments to find someone to treat.

Be sure to post your treats to the Madness Collection. Art is not permitted in the main collection.

Tag your treats with 'Wrapping Paper'.

Please respect your recipient's wishes as to whether they'd like art as a treat.

If you want to receive art, please provide this info in the comments:

AO3 Handle:
Letter Link:
Fandom and character(s):
Prompts:

Happy treating!

Chromatic Yuletide Challenge 2018

[tigerlily]

Hello! This is my first time posting a challenge of any kind; I hope I’m doing it right.

The Chromatic Yuletide Challenge was created to promote and celebrate people of color in fanfic, characters and creators.

Text copied, with alterations, from this post by the admin of dark_agenda

Here are the components, per the post:

To request only or more sources with chromatic creators and/or characters.
To offer to write only or more sources with chromatic creators and/or characters.
To pick only or more prompts with sources with chromatic creators and/or characters when perusing 'dear author' letters or yuletide madness unfulfilled requests.

‘Only' is suggested as an option because the odds of your receiving and writing something that meets the requirements of the challenge are significantly increased if you exclusively request and offer chromatic sources and characters.

The term 'chromatic' is here used as an umbrella definition for 'sourcelander', 'hyphenate', 'diasporian', 'person of colour', 'non-white', while we acknowledge that it has shortcomings. Similarly, we accept that there is a certain flattening in our 'White / Western /Other' terminology.

Tag your fic with 'Chromatic Yuletide', in addition to whatever character-specific tags like 'Muslim character', 'PoC character', 'Latin@ character' etc that will help readers find your fic.

You can structure the challenge to meet what you feel comfortable committing to, and comment here if you’re interested in participating!

Please comment below if you would like to participate in this challenge, and mentioning which components of it you think you might be able to meet!

If you want to link your request information, please use this form:
AO3 Handle:
Letter Link:
Fandom and character(s):
Prompts:

Note: There was originally a component which read "To nominate only or more sources with chromatic creators and/or characters." As I'm posting this long after nominations ended, I've removed it.