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Make The Yuletide Gay 2021
What is Make the Yuletide Gay?
While introducing m/m and f/f content into an otherwise cishet canon is one of the many delights that fandom brings into the world, this mini-challenge is made with the purpose of bringing together those who love LGBT+ characters or canon same-gender relationships and who want to write, request, and read works centered around those characters.
What counts as a canon LGBT+ character or canon relationship? For the purposes of this challenge, we rely on the honor system. If your fandom was created in a time period or in a country where coded language/actions were needed we understand that it might not be as explicit and clear-cut as one without those limitations.
Keep in mind that this challenge is geared towards those who are actively interested in canon LGBT+ characters/couples. Including a request that falls more into the headcanon or fanon category may mean that it does not catch the attention of those who are into canon content, and those who prefer fanon will likely not check out this post due to the canon focus, e.g. you may be marketing to the wrong crowd and wasting your time!
(Language copied from the original mini-challenge and reformatted to fit the modern mini-challenge format thanks to YulePorn's example.)
While introducing m/m and f/f content into an otherwise cishet canon is one of the many delights that fandom brings into the world, this mini-challenge is made with the purpose of bringing together those who love LGBT+ characters or canon same-gender relationships and who want to write, request, and read works centered around those characters.
What counts as a canon LGBT+ character or canon relationship? For the purposes of this challenge, we rely on the honor system. If your fandom was created in a time period or in a country where coded language/actions were needed we understand that it might not be as explicit and clear-cut as one without those limitations.
Keep in mind that this challenge is geared towards those who are actively interested in canon LGBT+ characters/couples. Including a request that falls more into the headcanon or fanon category may mean that it does not catch the attention of those who are into canon content, and those who prefer fanon will likely not check out this post due to the canon focus, e.g. you may be marketing to the wrong crowd and wasting your time!
How Do I Participate?
- Leave a comment on this post linking your letter if you are requesting canon LGBT+ characters or a canon same-gender relationship.
- If you don't have a letter, you can still leave prompts here, but make sure to include your AO3 name and requested fandom information.
- Add any optional details you want in the comment -- link to a ship manifesto or fanvids or gifs, give the tl;dr dynamics of your character/requested relationship, whatever.
- When it comes time to upload your works, tag with "Make the Yuletide Gay" on AO3 so interested parties can easily find it.
- Even if your recip didn't explicitly "sign up" to this post, please still tag if you're writing about a canon LGBT+ character or ship!
- There will be a comment thread where you can promo your favorite characters/relationships in the tagset to perhaps signal other people's requests even if you didn't request a canon LGBT+ character or relationship yourself this year. The best thing about Yuletide is the gifts other people can feel like our own!
- Add participation to the app so that anyone browsing will know that you're signed up for this challenge!
- Have fun!
(Language copied from the original mini-challenge and reformatted to fit the modern mini-challenge format thanks to YulePorn's example.)
ROLLING IN THE DEEP Series - Mira Grant
Letter Link: My Letter
Only one of my requests has canon queer characters, but I would be thrilled to get them as a couple!
I'm dropping my specific fandom thoughts/prompts below, but please see my letter for general DNWs and Likes.
Fandom(s): ROLLING IN THE DEEP Series - Mira Grant
Rating(s): Any
Groupings Requested: Though I requested "Any character" for this fandom this year, only two of the nominated characters are canonly queer and bonus in a relationship by the end of the sequel novel INTO THE DROWNING DEEP: Victoria “Tori” Stewart/Olivia Sanderson.
(I'll list all of the requested characters below as I'm game for any of them to also show up, but these two are the couple I'm interested in for this mini-challenge :)
Prompts!:
Any including: Victoria “Tori” Stewart, Olivia Sanderson, Ray Marino, Hallie Wilson, Worldbuilding, and Mermaids
Y’all Seanan McGuire (and her horror pen name Mira Grant) has claimed my all-time fave author title, and these books are the perfect example of why. Deep. Sea. Murder. Mermaids. DEEP SEA MURDER MERMAIDS. Run amok here seriously, I’m game for anything including crossovers especially though I have NO IDEA how you’ll pull it off with some of the other fandoms I’ve requested LOL. Specific character focused fic would rock, but you could definitely go for non-character specific worldbuilding/mixed media or the mermaids in other time periods/fandoms, too if that’s your thing.
Prompt wise: 1) Pacific Rim AU with Tori/Olivia as pilots against the massive monstrous females of the species who’ve finally figured out how to survive out of the deepest depths long enough to reach shore to hunt? 2) Ray & Olivia’s bromance was one of my fave relationships here and I’d love to see him survive – fixit fic for the win! 3) Anything playing with the mixed media format from the books: transcripts from the survivors of the Melucine, Hallie’s lexicon of mermaid sign, Tori & Louis’s scientific presentation of their findings, emails between Oliva and/or Ray and Imagine? 4) The previous “mockumentaries” Imagine did – were they all actually fake or did the people on site cover something up? Were Olivia and Ray (and possibly Anne?) involved in tracking down Bigfoot or a chupacabra? Is Tori dragged along in their wake for the next mockumentary after the Melucine? Aside from that, I’m always a fan of stories that crossover various fandoms by the same author, so I’d totally be game with a related Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant verse character or setting colliding with this one!