Misses Clause 2013
Give us your ignored, your unsung, your stories of women waiting to be told...
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Time for flailing and flanicking, finding new fandoms and shiny new fic. As we ramp up to another season of Yuletide, it's also time for the third year of the Misses Clause Challenge.*
For the past two years, martinigrl (hauntedd) and I have challenged Yuletide writers to tell the tales of the awesome women in their fandoms, and hundreds of stories have answered the call.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to use your Yuletide prompts or assignment (or pinch hit, or stocking stuffer) to embrace female characters of all shapes, sizes, colors, creeds, abilities, nationalities, orientations and origins. We want them all!
You can participate in the challenge in one of two ways. The first: write woman-centric! Any fic squarely focused on at least one female character, whether it's via plot or point-of-view, meets the Misses Clause criteria. The second: pass the Bechdel test! The test, on its surface, is simple and three-pronged. To pass, per Bechdel, the fic you write must:
1. Include at least two women...
2. who have at least one conversation...
3. about something other than a man.
Either way, your participation will provide scores of well-represented women in rare fandoms. There's still time left to let your requests reflect the challenge! So put your pen to good use and rep women as full fledged, three-dimensional characters. You may even get an extra present under your tree. After all, who doesn’t think Mrs. Claus is the one running the show up on the North Pole?
Be sure to tag your uploaded fic with "Misses Clause Challenge" so that it can be indexed as part of the challenge and found by anyone surfing the archive for challenge response fics. Post-reveal, when all authors have been unmasked, you'll be able to add your fic to the Misses Clause Collection.
* The challenge name is meant as a playful pun on the subject matter, and should not denote this as a Christmas-specific challenge. No offense or exclusion intended.
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Time for flailing and flanicking, finding new fandoms and shiny new fic. As we ramp up to another season of Yuletide, it's also time for the third year of the Misses Clause Challenge.*
For the past two years, martinigrl (hauntedd) and I have challenged Yuletide writers to tell the tales of the awesome women in their fandoms, and hundreds of stories have answered the call.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to use your Yuletide prompts or assignment (or pinch hit, or stocking stuffer) to embrace female characters of all shapes, sizes, colors, creeds, abilities, nationalities, orientations and origins. We want them all!
You can participate in the challenge in one of two ways. The first: write woman-centric! Any fic squarely focused on at least one female character, whether it's via plot or point-of-view, meets the Misses Clause criteria. The second: pass the Bechdel test! The test, on its surface, is simple and three-pronged. To pass, per Bechdel, the fic you write must:
1. Include at least two women...
2. who have at least one conversation...
3. about something other than a man.
Either way, your participation will provide scores of well-represented women in rare fandoms. There's still time left to let your requests reflect the challenge! So put your pen to good use and rep women as full fledged, three-dimensional characters. You may even get an extra present under your tree. After all, who doesn’t think Mrs. Claus is the one running the show up on the North Pole?
Be sure to tag your uploaded fic with "Misses Clause Challenge" so that it can be indexed as part of the challenge and found by anyone surfing the archive for challenge response fics. Post-reveal, when all authors have been unmasked, you'll be able to add your fic to the Misses Clause Collection.
* The challenge name is meant as a playful pun on the subject matter, and should not denote this as a Christmas-specific challenge. No offense or exclusion intended.