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the 2010 femme_fic multifandom ficathon sign-up & rules post
Please read carefully! Our format has changed this year. We are going to a prompt-claiming format, due to lack of time on the part of your mods. This will allow fanart and other fanworks, not just fanfiction. Think of our setup as the bastard child of a ficathon and a kink meme.
Also, we are mirroring this challenge on LiveJournal and Dreamwidth. Prompts, claims, and fills will be accepted on either site. If you need a Dreamwidth invite code, please comment with an email address and one will be provided for you.
The Rules & Timeline
1. You do not need to participate in order to submit prompts; however, no one may submit more than three prompts.
1a. Prompt/Comment Editing: You may edit prompts as you would like this year, up until the point your prompt is claimed by a writer.
2. It will be first-come, first-served on prompt claims, and you may claim no more than two prompts. You may also write and prompt crossovers this year.
3. We have no official fandoms this year! Any fandom is fair game. (Yay!) Prompts should, as always, be woman-centric and follow the theme of celebrating the canonical women characters.
4. Femslash, gen, and het are all acceptable, as well as poly fics and boyslash. (Though, by the nature of the challenge, boyslash should be a background to your story, not the focus of your story.)
4a. Please note that het fics should still focus on the woman in the pairing, not on the man. Having stories that are focus on a man except for the last 300 words are not in the spirit of this challenge. Stories that are from the POV of a woman, but which focus how she thinks and feels about a man, are also not in the spirit of this challenge. (You would think that these things would be obvious, but trust us, they're not.)
4a. We do not allow genderbending prompts (canon male characters written as if female) or canon male characters; however, we do allow trans and genderqueer character prompts, so long as the focus is on the experience of being a woman.
5. We encourage prompts for characters of color, disabled characters, queer characters, trans and genderqueer characters, and non-Christian characters.
6. We do not allow RPF/RPS or incest fics. A portion of the mod team is not comfortable with these; we have therefore chosen to disallow them.
7. Fics must be a minimum of 1000 words. There is no maximum. Please be sure to have your fics betaread prior to posting. (Ficathon mods are not available for betareading purposes, nor are we able to find you a betareader. We will, however, put a post up for betareaders and writers to find each other.)
8. Offensive Prompts: Do not submit prompts that relate to any characters behaving in what could be considered an offensive manner regarding sexism, racism, gender/sexuality, diability, religion, and other -isms. Please, do not exhibit massive fail . Also, no character-bashing or pairing-bashing. Your mods are very anti-bashing. (Acknowledging character flaws is one thing; bashing is another.) Offensive prompts will not be included.
8a. Your mods are only human, lack prescience, and therefore cannot catch everything. If there is something questionable, please call it to our attention. We will discuss the matter and deal with it.
9. Defaults: We moved to the open prompt claim system in order to avoid worrying about defaults. Anyone who has defaulted in the past is eligible to participate this year.
10. Posting: Your mods are still hashing this out, but are considering the move toward a more flexible posting format. We will post when we have made a decision.
Posting Guidelines:
1. Put everything but your header behind a cut-tag.
2. Your header needs to include, at a minimum, the title, author, recipient, betareader, prompt chosen, rating, and any warnings. Anything else is candy-coated author's note sprinkles on top of the ice cream sundae of your fanfic.
3. Put a subject line containing the title, fandom, pairing (if necessary), and rating on your story.
4. Do not hard-code font style or color changes, or make any changes to the LJ and DW defaults. This can make fic very hard for some people to read.
5. We require warnings for character death, noncon/dubcon, and graphic violence.
Please note: If your story does not meet these basic criteria, we will ask you to re-post it.
Timeline
Sign-Ups: August 10, 2010 - August 16, 2010
Prompt Claim Period: August 17, 2010 - August 23, 2010
Fics Due: October 15, 2010
Please note during sign-ups that an ampersand ('&') designates a gen prompt, and a slash ('/') designates a relationship-based prompt.
You will be asked to list characters you want. Please be sure to list a reasonable number for your writer, who should include those, but is also allowed to include any other characters they wish to write. Your focus should be on the listed characters and the prompt, rather than going in another direction.
The Sign-Up Template
Please put your fandom in the subject line of the your prompt! Please only put one prompt per comment.
The Sample Sign-Up
Username:havocthecat
Request One
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Tara Maclay and Anya
Prompt: Anya and Tara have their own adventures sometimes. Anya usually tries to find a way to make them profitable.
Also, we are mirroring this challenge on LiveJournal and Dreamwidth. Prompts, claims, and fills will be accepted on either site. If you need a Dreamwidth invite code, please comment with an email address and one will be provided for you.
The Rules & Timeline
1. You do not need to participate in order to submit prompts; however, no one may submit more than three prompts.
1a. Prompt/Comment Editing: You may edit prompts as you would like this year, up until the point your prompt is claimed by a writer.
2. It will be first-come, first-served on prompt claims, and you may claim no more than two prompts. You may also write and prompt crossovers this year.
3. We have no official fandoms this year! Any fandom is fair game. (Yay!) Prompts should, as always, be woman-centric and follow the theme of celebrating the canonical women characters.
4. Femslash, gen, and het are all acceptable, as well as poly fics and boyslash. (Though, by the nature of the challenge, boyslash should be a background to your story, not the focus of your story.)
4a. Please note that het fics should still focus on the woman in the pairing, not on the man. Having stories that are focus on a man except for the last 300 words are not in the spirit of this challenge. Stories that are from the POV of a woman, but which focus how she thinks and feels about a man, are also not in the spirit of this challenge. (You would think that these things would be obvious, but trust us, they're not.)
4a. We do not allow genderbending prompts (canon male characters written as if female) or canon male characters; however, we do allow trans and genderqueer character prompts, so long as the focus is on the experience of being a woman.
5. We encourage prompts for characters of color, disabled characters, queer characters, trans and genderqueer characters, and non-Christian characters.
6. We do not allow RPF/RPS or incest fics. A portion of the mod team is not comfortable with these; we have therefore chosen to disallow them.
7. Fics must be a minimum of 1000 words. There is no maximum. Please be sure to have your fics betaread prior to posting. (Ficathon mods are not available for betareading purposes, nor are we able to find you a betareader. We will, however, put a post up for betareaders and writers to find each other.)
8. Offensive Prompts: Do not submit prompts that relate to any characters behaving in what could be considered an offensive manner regarding sexism, racism, gender/sexuality, diability, religion, and other -isms. Please, do not exhibit massive fail . Also, no character-bashing or pairing-bashing. Your mods are very anti-bashing. (Acknowledging character flaws is one thing; bashing is another.) Offensive prompts will not be included.
8a. Your mods are only human, lack prescience, and therefore cannot catch everything. If there is something questionable, please call it to our attention. We will discuss the matter and deal with it.
9. Defaults: We moved to the open prompt claim system in order to avoid worrying about defaults. Anyone who has defaulted in the past is eligible to participate this year.
10. Posting: Your mods are still hashing this out, but are considering the move toward a more flexible posting format. We will post when we have made a decision.
Posting Guidelines:
1. Put everything but your header behind a cut-tag.
2. Your header needs to include, at a minimum, the title, author, recipient, betareader, prompt chosen, rating, and any warnings. Anything else is candy-coated author's note sprinkles on top of the ice cream sundae of your fanfic.
3. Put a subject line containing the title, fandom, pairing (if necessary), and rating on your story.
4. Do not hard-code font style or color changes, or make any changes to the LJ and DW defaults. This can make fic very hard for some people to read.
5. We require warnings for character death, noncon/dubcon, and graphic violence.
Please note: If your story does not meet these basic criteria, we will ask you to re-post it.
Timeline
Sign-Ups: August 10, 2010 - August 16, 2010
Prompt Claim Period: August 17, 2010 - August 23, 2010
Fics Due: October 15, 2010
Please note during sign-ups that an ampersand ('&') designates a gen prompt, and a slash ('/') designates a relationship-based prompt.
You will be asked to list characters you want. Please be sure to list a reasonable number for your writer, who should include those, but is also allowed to include any other characters they wish to write. Your focus should be on the listed characters and the prompt, rather than going in another direction.
The Sign-Up Template
Please put your fandom in the subject line of the your prompt! Please only put one prompt per comment.
The Sample Sign-Up
Username:
havocthecatRequest One
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Tara Maclay and Anya
Prompt: Anya and Tara have their own adventures sometimes. Anya usually tries to find a way to make them profitable.
Legend of the Seeker
Characters: Cara/Kahlan
Prompt: "I'm a new soul, learning how to give and take."
no subject
Characters: Sophie Devereaux, Tara Cole, Maggie Collins, Parker (any combination of the above, plus anyone else the author wants, but definitely including a major focus on Sophie)
Prompt: How does a grifter develop genuine friendships when so much of who she appears to be is an act?
(no subject)
no subject
Characters: Jane Rizzoli/Maura Isles
Prompt: They each have their own space, and now they have to learn to share a little of it with each other.
Forever Knight
Fandom: Forever Knight
Characters: Urs & Nick (or Urs/Nick)
Prompt: a hidden lamp
no subject
Characters: Annabelle & or / Polly
Prompt: Life after St. Trinian's is rarely boring.
(If we prompt more than once do we make separate comments or just all in one?)
D.E.B.S./St Trinian's
Fandom: D.E.B.S./St Trinian's
Characters: Lucy Diamond/Kelly
Prompt: Lucy trained Kelly to replace her as the greatest Head Girl St Trinian's has ever known (except for Lucy herself, of course.)
One Tree Hill
Fandom: One Tree Hill
Characters: Brooke Davis & or / (Quinn or Rachel) & Haley.
Prompt: "I think Brooke will build her family, piece by piece, rather than [just] have it bloom." - Sophia Bush. Future setting, Brooke is always putting new 'finishing touches' on her family.
Fringe
Fandom: Fringe
Characters: Astrid/(O)FC of choice
Prompt: Fringe Division need to call in a favour to solve a big case, and everyone is surprised when Astrid knows who to call to have the right strings pulled.
no subject
Characters: Lois/Clark
Prompt: worth the wait
no subject
Characters: Chloe/Tess
Prompt: They meet up once a week and spend the other 6 days pretending it didn't happen.
no subject
Characters: Chloe & Lois
Prompt: "I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay."
- Dave Matthews Band;
no subject
Characters: Mary
Prompt: run run run fast as you can
no subject
Characters: Mary/Ellen
Prompt: domesticity, hunter style
no subject
Characters: Jess
Prompt: medical school
no subject
Characters: Jane/Maura or Jane & Maura
Prompt: A day in the life.
no subject
Characters: Alicia/Kalinda or Alicia & Kalinda
Prompt: They fight crime!
no subject
Characters: Lindsay/Cindy or the four friends
Prompt: A stakout gone wrong.
no subject
Characters: Teyla, any other female characters
Prompt: Five Times Teyla Saved The Day With Another Woman (it's been done here but there can never be too much Teyla Saving The Day!)
(no subject)
no subject
Characters: Ziva David, anyone
Prompt: It is said that the desert breeds thought in its sand. In Somalia, Ziva has much time to think.
no subject
Characters: Gwen
Prompt: It's just women's work. It's not important. Except when it is.
no subject
Characters: Kate Freelander
Prompt: And I grinned at you softly/Because I'm a fucking wild card. (Marina & The Diamonds; The Outsider.)
no subject
Characters: Kate & Helen
Prompt: training days
Poltergeist: the Legacy
Characters: Alex, Rachel, or Alex/Rachel
Prompt: Legacy
Star Trek: TNG
Characters: Deanna/Beverly
Prompt: Inevitability
Leverage
Characters: Sophie
Prompt: The truth behind the lies.
no subject
Characters: Kate & or / Ashley
Prompt: This is how they'll all remember me//We were the lucky ones that would survive the flood. (Basia Bulat; I Was A Daughter.)
(no subject)
Star Trek: TNG
Characters: Lwaxana Troi, Deanna Troi [can include Deanna/Beverly, Deanna/Will, or Deanna/Beverly/Will]
Prompt: Love and duty
Re: Star Trek: TNG
Re: Star Trek: TNG
Glee
Characters: Sue Sylvester
Prompt: Charity
White Collar
Characters: Diana Barrigan & Lauren Cruz
Prompt: An exchange at the shooting range, and/or Lauren needs Diana's unofficial help in an organized-crime case.
Stargate SG-1
Characters: Carolyn Lam & Sam Carter or Carolyn/Sam
Prompt: Turns out Carolyn's into motorcycles too.
Burn Notice
Characters: Madeline & Fiona
Prompt: Synchronicity
Re: Burn Notice
no subject
Fandom: Anne of Green Gables
Characters: Mary Vance and Di Blythe
Prompt: As Di grows up, she begins to better understand how differently she and Mary are perceived, and why Mary is so tough. Bonus for Mary and Di in a big city, for whatever reason, super extra bonus if Di is gay (as I always figured her for some reason).
no subject
Fandom: Chicago/The Princess and the Frog
Characters: Mama Morton and Tiana
Prompt: Mama's branched out to booze-smuggling and her business and Tiana's intersect in New Orleans.
no subject
Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean/The Princess and the Frog
Characters: Tia Dalma and Mama Odie
Prompt: They used to hang out.
no subject
Characters: Bonnie Bennett & Jennie Calendar (plus any other characters necessary for the author to write the story)
Prompt: They meet. They have adventures. Neither one ends up dead.
no subject