Mini-Challenge: Three Turtle Doves

[chokolattejedi]

Three Turtle Doves is a new sub-challenge to help people who like poly, threesomes, and more find one another's requests. Though the challenge title includes the word "three", moresomes are welcome to join in. The more the merrier!

If you are requesting these, please let others know by dropping a comment here. Interested writers can browse and see what's out there that they might not have known about. This is also a great place to discover new fandoms with poly possibilities.

To participate, simply copy-paste the following into a comment:
AO3 Name: (your AO3 Name)
Letter Link: (your Letter)
Fandom(s): (your fandom(s))
Rating(s): (here's a good place to put your ideal and maximum ratings)
Groupings Requested: (list all combinations you're interested in)
Prompts!: (as many and as detailed as you like)

<strong>AO3 Name:</strong> <user name=YOURUSERNAME site=ao3> <strong>Letter Link:</strong> <a href="YOUR LETTER URL HERE">My Letter</a> <strong>Fandom(s):</strong> <strong>Rating(s):</strong> <strong>Groupings Requested:</strong> <strong>Prompts!:</strong>

If you do end up creating a work for Yuletide that involves a threesome, poly, or moresome, please tag it with 'Three Turtle Doves' so that interested readers can find your work!

Some elements lovingly cribbed from other mini challenge posts

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[beatrice_otter]

AO3 Name: Beatrice_Otter
Letter Link: My Letter
Fandom(s): Dirty Computer by Janelle Monae
Rating(s): anything but explicit
Groupings Requested: Jane/Zen/Che
Prompts!: As usual with Janelle Monae's work, the worldbuilding is GORGEOUS and I would LOVE something that explored it. The underground subculture that they're part of has so much richness to it. And, like, where's the money for those amazing outfits coming from? What do they do BESIDES hang out and party and be queer and subversive? Is this a post-scarcity world where everyone has a universal basic income? If there's such uber-tight control over society, how does the Pynk rest-inn stay in business? Is the tight social control universal, or only in some places? Could Jane and Zen have stayed in Pynk, but only if they were willing to never see Che again? Is Zen some kind of religious leader, and if so, how does that fit into everything? The Cleaners were some kind of hellish concatenation of bureaucracy and religion, how does that work and how does the religious part of it affect Jane and Zen's experiences? What was it like for Jane and Zen in there OUTSIDE of the cleaning? Are there lasting repercussions of the nevermind, physically or neurologically (how does disability affect things in this world)? Or you could do future-fic where they're political activists working to subvert the system. Or you could just do happy poly threesome!

Dirty Computer focuses far more on queer themes than on racial themes than Janelle's previous work, but there are still racial themes present. It can't be an accident that the people running the cleaning (both the cleaners and the mother superior) were white, and the three victims we saw were black. It hearkens back to all the times white people have decided that people of color were dangerous and subhuman and evil and needed to be made more like the white people. The destruction of memories was a literal version of things white culture has metaphorically been trying to do for centuries. The renaming, the "it's for your own good," all of it.

I love the songs of this album. Django Jane and I Like That are my favorites, but Screwed and Pynk are also awesome and I love the lush, lyrical way they feed into one another, the visuals and the lyrics and the beat together. I also love the themes: love, and being true to yourself, and at the end refusing both to give in and to respond violently. Please, please, please, give some sort of a happy ending. Like, you don't have to magically wave a magic wand and make all the screwed up things of this society go away, but I want the three to end up happy together.

If you delve into the religious aspects, the cleaners and Virgin Victoria are modeled on the worst parts of Christianity, and Jane and Zen's religious/spiritual stuff should be distinct and different.

In addition, I opted into Partridge In A Pair Tree, where people can list the things they wanted to ask for but which they couldn't fit in their requests. Since they aren't in our signups, they can't go in the main collection, only in Madness. Some of my fandoms there have poly requests!

Partridge Link: <a href="hhttps://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/260949.html?view=3712085&posted=1#cmt3712085>My Letter</a> <strong>Fandom(s):</strong> The Goblin Emperor <strong>Rating(s):</strong> anything but explicit <strong>Groupings Requested:</strong> Sedoretu involving Maia and Csethiro, you can choose the other two. (Maybe Vedero as the other wife, so that any child born to the group has Drazhada blood?) <strong>Prompts!:</strong> Sedoretu AU, what's that like and how does it affect things? <strong>Fandom(s):</strong> Sense8 <strong>Rating(s):</strong> anything but explicit <strong>Groupings Requested:</strong> Any cluster grouping--well, any relationship any of them have is inherently poly, so whatever works for you. <strong>Prompts!:</strong> HOLY COW DO I WANT WORLDBUILDING. Also, I want to know what happens next. And I'm curious for both the immediate lives of the cluster (I love them all), but also for the larger world of sensate clusters. Do they start building their own culture, now that it's safer? What scars have been left by the corporate exploitation and murder? What continuing steps are needed to get rid of the lingering influence of BPO? Does the larger world ever learn about sensates, and what happens to the cluster then? Of the cluster, my favorites are Kala, Nomi and Amanita, and Capheus. Will and Riley are the ones I find least interesting. I don't dislike them, I'm just not excited about them. <strong>Fandom(s):</strong> My Fair Lady <strong>Rating(s):</strong> anything but explicit <strong>Groupings Requested:</strong> Higgins/Eliza/Pickering <strong>Prompts!:</strong> Or what about Eliza, Higgins, and Pickering settling down together in a poly relationship, either as a romance or queerplatonic, while Mrs. Higgins sighs because they're happy but it's terribly scandalous, and if any of her friends (or the Bishop!) found out, egads. Or Eliza marries the Colonel because they're good friends and she respects him, and they still live with Higgins (or next door, so that Eliza has her own space) and it's a poly V with Eliza/Pickering and Eliza/Higgins. Whatever you choose, banter and humor is the key to this (though I do have an embarrassment squick, so laughing with=good, laughing at=bad). It's been years since I've read any of the George Bernard Shaw play that this is based on, but definitely, go with the Shaw-esque witty banter. If you marry any of the characters off, it doesn't have to be romantic--these people are from an era and classes where romance and love are not the primary reasons for marriage. For the rich it's about alliance and preserving the family name/money/honor, and for the poor it's about needing to pool resources to survive, but in both cases love is a benefit not the main goal. Even Eliza, who objects to being sold on the marriage market, would probably think differently if it wasn't just "beauty and perceived classiness being exchanged for money," but rather a mutual exchange and partnership. I can see all of these characters deciding that friendship and a permanent alliance are what they really want in life, and taking steps to achieve it. I don't think that Eliza and Professor Higgins could manage to live together without her killing him unless a) Pickering is there all the time for a buffer or b) Professor Higgins grows up and realizes that he can't get his own way all the time and starts to genuinely respect Eliza. As of the end of the movie, he's beginning to respect her (but it's still a new and fragile thing) and he assumes that having her back means that everything is going to go back to the way it was before.