femslash trope-a-thon update

[such_heights]

Thanks for all the input yesterday!

Here are my tentative thoughts:

I'll host the fest on my journal, and it will be open to any fanworks centering relationships between female characters, whether femslash, gen, or somewhere in between. I'll put up a post with a big list of tropes, where people will also be welcome to leave additional trope prompts or prompts specific to particular fandoms/characters. That'll be open for a few days, and then the post will be open to responses. You can either make a fanwork and post it directly as a comment, whether to the post itself or to a specific prompt, kinkmeme style, or you can post something to your own DW/LJ/AO3/webspace/etc and leave a link.

I'm happy to tie it in with Three Weeks for Dreamwidth festivities, though not to the extent that people are restricted in only posting to DW for the duration. I figure that having a hub of fannish activity centred over here is generally in the spirit of things. For people who like deadlines, you can consider the end of that three-week period as such, but the challenge will be open indefinitely and I'll keep a rolling masterlist updated.

So the timeline would be:

Monday 18th: post open for prompts
Monday 25h: post open for responses (start of 3W4DW)

I'll have some general guidelines up with some definitions of some of the tropes and a suggested header to use include content information of some kind, whether it's 'choose not to provide content notes', 'no content notes apply' 'content notes: contains sex-pollen related dub-con' and so on.

If anyone has particular suggestions about ways to make this more open to vidders/artists etc, that would be great. Also, here is a list of cliches and tropes I've gathered so far, roughly categorised. Am I missing anything major? Could things be phrased better to include non-fic fanworks, poly relationships, etc?

AU

AU -- College/University
AU -- Superpowers
AU -- Inanimate Objects
AU -- Modern/Non-SFF
AU -- School
AU -- Regency
AU -- Workplace/Office

Body/mind transformations

Animal transformation
Bodyswap
Bodyshare
De-ageing
Sudden superpowers
Wingfic

Contrived/Confined

Having sex to save the world
Aliens made them do it
Fuck or die
Sex pollen
Truth or Dare
Spin the Bottle
Stuck in a lift
Physically bonded
Confined space
Huddling for warmth
Road trip

Dating

Roleplaying a fictional relationship
Cluelessness
Pretending to be in a relationship
Undercover gay
Undercover straight
Undercover relationship
Slow courtship/dating
Matchmaking
Not realising they’re dating
Everyone thinks they're dating

Domesticity

Having to babysit
Forced domesticity
Only one bed
Shopping for curtains
Unexpected co-parenting
Marriage of convenience

Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Time loops
Time travel
Mirror!verse
Robots
Amnesia
Telepathy
Soulbonding
Truth serum
Vampires and werewolves
Woke up gay
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Fempreg
Veela

Misc

Weapons training
Strip poker
Secretly a virgin
Epistolary
Fuckbuddies
Gay chicken

And finally, if anyone has an idea for a catchier name than 'female character fandom trope fanwork fest', I am all ears. Thanks, folks!

Comments

[pocky_slash]

Yay! :D

/useless comment

[emei]

This looks fabulous!

[monanotlisa]

Ooh, timing is terrible for me, but it sounds like such a cool idea! (Ahahah, Gay Chicken! ♥)

[silverhare]

Lesbiollapalooza?

... I am no good at coming up with names for things.

[adalger]

+1

[hibernate]

Gnnnggh, this thing is tailor-made for my interests.

[tellitslant]

Oh man, I wish I had time for this. I will at least pimp the hell out of it, though.

[thinkatory]

I have had this DW account FOREVER and only just picked it up because this thing looks so awesome.

Gotta throw this in the ring just in case it rings anyone's bell: looked at your last sentence and the phrase "Sapphic Traffic" leapt to mind.

[rabid_bookwyrm]

Under body transformations - genderswap, or always was [opposite gender].