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Chromatic Yuletide 2024
Chromatic Yuletide is a collection post for Yuletide requests that include characters of colour. Posting here doesn't obligate you to do anything, but it helps writers find your requests and treat you.
Posting requirements:
Your request centers around at least one character of colour.
(I acknowledge there are some shortcomings with the "person of colour" descriptor. I'm also not going to police who is or isn't a character of colour; please just use your best judgment.)
What you must include:
Your AO3 name
Whatever fandoms & characters of colour you're requesting
What you should probably include:
Links to your letter or copy/pasted requests
A brief description of your canon or a link to a canon promo, if you think it's unfamiliar to most people & you want to boost interest in it
If you write for one of these requests, you can tag your fic with Chromatic Yuletide so people can easily find it.
Posting requirements:
Your request centers around at least one character of colour.
(I acknowledge there are some shortcomings with the "person of colour" descriptor. I'm also not going to police who is or isn't a character of colour; please just use your best judgment.)
What you must include:
Your AO3 name
Whatever fandoms & characters of colour you're requesting
What you should probably include:
Links to your letter or copy/pasted requests
A brief description of your canon or a link to a canon promo, if you think it's unfamiliar to most people & you want to boost interest in it
If you write for one of these requests, you can tag your fic with Chromatic Yuletide so people can easily find it.
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My letter is here: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5463171
The canons I requested with canonical characters of color:
Mesopotamian RPF
Akkadian Empire RPF
Okay, these are... iffy. Ethnically Sumerian and Akkadian people in the Bronze Age Mesopotamian City-State of Ur weren't really living in a world where "people of color" was a meaningful category. However, both Ea-Nasir and Enheduanna lived in what is now the Middle East and were undeniably Middle Eastern. Just. Ancient Bronze Age Middle Eastern.
The Jewels of Aptor - Samuel Delany (short novel)
A fantasy/sci-fi novel from the 1960s; Samuel Delany's first published novel. A deeply weird adventure to rescue the high priestess's little sister from a cult and reclaim the powerful Jewels of Aptor, in a world that is slowly revealed to be post-nuclear-apocalypse and the bizarre people and creatures that still live on an island with nuclear-powered high-tech. Can be downloaded and read for free, legally!, here: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/samuel-r-delany/the-jewels-of-aptor
One of my requested characters, Iimmi, is canonically Black. And even though it's a sci-fi novel from the 1960s, Samuel Delany is also Black (and gay), so the book isn't even particularly weird about it! (and it's kinda gay)
The Pasithea Powder (podcast)
An EXCELLENT sci-fi podcast. About two women after a devastating space war: one now a war hero, the other now a war criminal. They used to be best friends. They aren't anymore. But they're still the only people who really understand each other after... everything. And there are still secrets left, and the war isn't as over as they both hoped.
Jane Gonzalez is presumably, like her voice actor, Latina. It's a very Latine-focused spacefuture culture; there's a lot to be done there!