Yuri Challenge: Summer 2007
Welcome -- or welcome back -- to Yuri Challenge!
We're about to get started with the Summer 2007 round, so here's what you need to know before we get going:
First, I have a new co-mod: sister_coyote has agreed to help me moderate this challenge, since the previous mod for this community is no longer active on LJ (and since I'm also moderating het_challenge, and don't want to stretch myself too thin). Yay!
Second: as of this round, posting is open to all fandoms, not just anime/manga/game as in previous rounds -- so if you have friends who write or draw f/f for Buffy or Torchwood or Birds of Prey or...any fandom at all, really, point them this way. ^^
Third: How this round goes.
We'll be running this round in much the way that springkink has run to such great success: we'll call for prompts (and provide some guidance for elements of those prompts), then post the master list anonymously for people to make claims, and provide a two-month window before the posting deadline.
Timeline:
April 3-25: Prompts accepted
April 28: Master list posted for review
April 29/30: Comments enabled/claiming begins
June 30: Deadline, all fic and art due (please feel free to post early if you can!)
July 1 or 2: Master list posted
- Making prompts does not obligate you to claim any; this means we also cannot guarantee that anyone will claim your prompts, especially in small fandoms. (If you really want to see your prompts picked up, pimp the challenge to your friends, and in relevant communities for your fandom(s) -- make sure you check community rules first, though, and don't pimp in communities where that kind of post is not welcome.) Guidelines for making prompts will be provided in the post where we solicit them, here.
- Each prompt may be claimed by one artist and one writer.
- Each participant may claim up to four prompts -- but if you finish one of them early, and post it, you may go back to the master list and claim another.
- You are expected to complete all prompts you take. When you take a prompt, it means that nobody else can. Please only take prompts that you do realistically expect to complete by June 30, 2007.
- If you cannot complete a prompt that you have claimed by the deadline, please contact the mods to say so. We know sometimes real life explodes on you. We know sometimes the bunnies just don't bite. If you find yourself in that situation, please let us know, and relinquish your claim if you realistically think you can't complete it. There will be no consequences for dropping your claim with more than a week to go in the challenge.
- "Not posting" is not the same as "dropping your claim." If you fail to post your claim(s) and do not contact us before the deadline, we will ask you not to participate in future rounds.
- Fiction should be at least 1000 words long, and should be spell-checked and ideally read over by a beta.
- Art does not have to comply with a specific set of technical requirements, since it's harder to pin down precisely, but we do expect artists to make a good-faith effort to produce quality work -- don't draw on lined or graph paper, don't post scribbles or stick figures, and do try to clean up rough sketch lines, especially if you don't use color.
- Unless you claim a prompt that specifically requests it, explicit sexual content is optional. Plenty of good writers don't do smut, and plenty of good prompts don't lend themselves to it. You are not obligated to include sex in any prompt that does not mention it (though you are, of course, free to include it in responses to prompts that don't, as long as you don't get distracted from the prompt itself).
- All works should be posted directly into the community. You may cross-post to anywhere you like, but please post in the community instead of posting a link or fake cut elsewhere.
- When you post to the community, please use a subject heading in a Title (Fandom, Pairing) format. In the body of your entry, please use the following headers:
Title:
Author/Artist:
Fandom:
Pairing:
Rating:
Warnings: (if necessary; please warn for character death, explicit violence, non-con, and shota at a minimum; other warnings are at your discretion)
Request:
Summary: (optional)
- All content should be placed behind cut tags; if you don’t know how to make a cut tag, see the LJ FAQ entry that explains it here.
- Last and most certainly not least, have fun!
Questions? Ask them here!
We're about to get started with the Summer 2007 round, so here's what you need to know before we get going:
First, I have a new co-mod: sister_coyote has agreed to help me moderate this challenge, since the previous mod for this community is no longer active on LJ (and since I'm also moderating het_challenge, and don't want to stretch myself too thin). Yay!
Second: as of this round, posting is open to all fandoms, not just anime/manga/game as in previous rounds -- so if you have friends who write or draw f/f for Buffy or Torchwood or Birds of Prey or...any fandom at all, really, point them this way. ^^
Third: How this round goes.
We'll be running this round in much the way that springkink has run to such great success: we'll call for prompts (and provide some guidance for elements of those prompts), then post the master list anonymously for people to make claims, and provide a two-month window before the posting deadline.
Timeline:
April 3-25: Prompts accepted
April 28: Master list posted for review
April 29/30: Comments enabled/claiming begins
June 30: Deadline, all fic and art due (please feel free to post early if you can!)
July 1 or 2: Master list posted
- Making prompts does not obligate you to claim any; this means we also cannot guarantee that anyone will claim your prompts, especially in small fandoms. (If you really want to see your prompts picked up, pimp the challenge to your friends, and in relevant communities for your fandom(s) -- make sure you check community rules first, though, and don't pimp in communities where that kind of post is not welcome.) Guidelines for making prompts will be provided in the post where we solicit them, here.
- Each prompt may be claimed by one artist and one writer.
- Each participant may claim up to four prompts -- but if you finish one of them early, and post it, you may go back to the master list and claim another.
- You are expected to complete all prompts you take. When you take a prompt, it means that nobody else can. Please only take prompts that you do realistically expect to complete by June 30, 2007.
- If you cannot complete a prompt that you have claimed by the deadline, please contact the mods to say so. We know sometimes real life explodes on you. We know sometimes the bunnies just don't bite. If you find yourself in that situation, please let us know, and relinquish your claim if you realistically think you can't complete it. There will be no consequences for dropping your claim with more than a week to go in the challenge.
- "Not posting" is not the same as "dropping your claim." If you fail to post your claim(s) and do not contact us before the deadline, we will ask you not to participate in future rounds.
- Fiction should be at least 1000 words long, and should be spell-checked and ideally read over by a beta.
- Art does not have to comply with a specific set of technical requirements, since it's harder to pin down precisely, but we do expect artists to make a good-faith effort to produce quality work -- don't draw on lined or graph paper, don't post scribbles or stick figures, and do try to clean up rough sketch lines, especially if you don't use color.
- Unless you claim a prompt that specifically requests it, explicit sexual content is optional. Plenty of good writers don't do smut, and plenty of good prompts don't lend themselves to it. You are not obligated to include sex in any prompt that does not mention it (though you are, of course, free to include it in responses to prompts that don't, as long as you don't get distracted from the prompt itself).
- All works should be posted directly into the community. You may cross-post to anywhere you like, but please post in the community instead of posting a link or fake cut elsewhere.
- When you post to the community, please use a subject heading in a Title (Fandom, Pairing) format. In the body of your entry, please use the following headers:
Title:
Author/Artist:
Fandom:
Pairing:
Rating:
Warnings: (if necessary; please warn for character death, explicit violence, non-con, and shota at a minimum; other warnings are at your discretion)
Request:
Summary: (optional)
- All content should be placed behind cut tags; if you don’t know how to make a cut tag, see the LJ FAQ entry that explains it here.
- Last and most certainly not least, have fun!
Questions? Ask them here!