Queer Fest 2013 Claim Post [CLOSED]
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queer_festClaiming is now open for the third annual round of queer_fest! Sorry it's going up so late. Coding is evil.
Prompts can be found alphabetically on these three posts. No more sorting through 8 posts thanks to Dreamwidth!
Prompt Post 1: hack/SIGN - Gunnerkrigg Court
Prompt Post 2: Hamlet - Mythology
Prompt Post 3: National Treasure - Xena Warrior Princess
Things to note
1. All the Marvel Avengers movies are listed under "Marvel." The X-Men movies, including First Class, are listed Under X-Men Movies. X-Men comics characters are listed under "Marvel."
2. Crossovers are listed under "c," not at the end, as in some fests.
3. All the Mythology prompts are listed under "Mythology - (specific region/religion)"
4. Please read the rules post before claiming. Some of the prompts are a little vague, so please be sure that you only claim prompts that you can fill in the spirit of the community.
5. Everyone may claim up to 3 prompts. When you claim a prompt, you must claim a posting day from the calendar. 10 people may sign up for each date. Please double check the calendar and the visible comments to make sure the date you want is not already full. If you multiple prompts, you will need to pick multiple days, one for each prompt.
6. Posting dates run from May 1 to June 16. More information on posting will be posted closer to the posting period, but in general, we will be running it very similar to the way it was run last year.
7. Comments will be screened once we add you to the calendar and the prompt posts.
8. Please keep this post for claims only. Any questions/concerns should go on the rules/mod post.
9. When making a claim, please claim in a comment to this post and use the following format to make our lives easier:
Username:
Fandom:
Prompt:
Posting Date:
HAPPY CLAIMING! We're extending claiming by a day since this is going up so late. Claiming ends on 11:59 p.m. April 3 Pacific Time. Claiming is now closed.
Prompts can be found alphabetically on these three posts. No more sorting through 8 posts thanks to Dreamwidth!
Prompt Post 1: hack/SIGN - Gunnerkrigg Court
Prompt Post 2: Hamlet - Mythology
Prompt Post 3: National Treasure - Xena Warrior Princess
Things to note
1. All the Marvel Avengers movies are listed under "Marvel." The X-Men movies, including First Class, are listed Under X-Men Movies. X-Men comics characters are listed under "Marvel."
2. Crossovers are listed under "c," not at the end, as in some fests.
3. All the Mythology prompts are listed under "Mythology - (specific region/religion)"
4. Please read the rules post before claiming. Some of the prompts are a little vague, so please be sure that you only claim prompts that you can fill in the spirit of the community.
5. Everyone may claim up to 3 prompts. When you claim a prompt, you must claim a posting day from the calendar. 10 people may sign up for each date. Please double check the calendar and the visible comments to make sure the date you want is not already full. If you multiple prompts, you will need to pick multiple days, one for each prompt.
6. Posting dates run from May 1 to June 16. More information on posting will be posted closer to the posting period, but in general, we will be running it very similar to the way it was run last year.
7. Comments will be screened once we add you to the calendar and the prompt posts.
8. Please keep this post for claims only. Any questions/concerns should go on the rules/mod post.
9. When making a claim, please claim in a comment to this post and use the following format to make our lives easier:
Username:
Fandom:
Prompt:
Posting Date:
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claims, please
Date: 2013-03-22 08:08 am (UTC)Username: preuxfledge (godsdaisiechain)
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster (TV Series),
Prompt: Stilton Cheesewright, meeting Daphne Demores (Jeeves) was a revelation, he just wished he could figure out why she looked so familiar
Posting date: May 30
Username: preuxfledge (godsdaisiechain)
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster (TV Series),
Prompt: Reginald Jeeves, his annual vacation is the only time Jeeves can truly be himself, and the only time he permits himself to indulge in sexual activites suited to his secretly invert nature. When circumstances make it necessary for Mr. Wooster to join him for a short while, Jeeves finds it incredibly hard to mentally 'shift gears' again
Posting date: May 25
Username: preuxfledge (godsdaisiechain)
Fandom: Anne of Green Gables,
Prompt: Matthew Cuthbert, there was never a girl but once there had been a boy
Posting date: June 1
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Date: 2013-03-23 04:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-22 04:21 pm (UTC)Fandom: The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach
Prompt: Owen Dunne, 14-year-old Owen knows he’s gay but is terrified of anyone else finding out, especially the guys on his high school baseball team. Then he finds a book called The Sperm-Squeezers.
Posting Date: May 3
Username:
Fandom: The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach
Prompt: Owen Dunne, Openly-gay Owen gets drafted by a major league baseball team. He has no intention of actually signing up until the hate mail starts.
Posting Date: May 10
Username:
Fandom: My Beautiful Laundrette
Prompt: Omar Ali/Johnny Burfoot, Now that gay marriage is about to be legalized in England in 2013, Omar and Johnny might finally have their big day.
Posting Date: May 17
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Date: 2013-03-23 04:05 am (UTC)claiming
Date: 2013-03-22 05:22 pm (UTC)Fandom: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Prompt: Faith, She finally understands why all those guys meant nothing to her.
Posting Date: 22/3/2013
Re: claiming
Date: 2013-03-23 04:06 am (UTC)Re: claiming
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Date: 2013-03-22 05:22 pm (UTC)Fandom: White Collar
Prompt: White Collar, Elizabeth/Peter(/Neal), Elizabeth isn't surprised at all when Peter admits he has a thing for Neal, even though Peter's never expressed an interest in guys before. Some things a wife can just tell about her husband.
Posting Date: June 12
Username:
Fandom: White Collar
Prompt: White Collar, Diana, on being out to Peter. (Did she decide to come out to him? Was she always out? Is the FBI really as 'don't ask, don't care' as he says?)
Posting Date: June 11
Username:
Fandom: White Collar
Prompt: White Collar, Neal Caffrey, Neal's definitely not straight, and after someone (Lauren?) makes a comment about 'Mr Heterosexual', he feels compelled to tell everyone. But coming out is difficult when no one seems to care
Posting Date: June 13
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Date: 2013-03-23 04:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-22 08:01 pm (UTC)Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Prompt: Faith, will thinking of herself as queer make her feel less broken? Will it help to tell other people?
Posting Date: Um?
Username: Firebirdschild
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia
Prompt: Dr. Cornelius, While teaching Caspian history, Dr. Cornelius (himself LGBT) has to decide how to explain a past Narnian or Telmarine hero(ine) who was LGBT.
Posting Date: Um?
Username: Firebirdschild
Fandom: Circle of Magic/Emelan
Prompt: Four main characters, There’s a reason they all choose their bond over any other relationship.
Posting Date: Um?
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Date: 2013-03-23 03:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2013-03-22 10:32 pm (UTC)Fandom: NCIS
Prompt: Team Gibbs, Tim's made one of the characters in his books - where all of the characters are based on his teammates - gay/bi/trans. The fallout and the reasons why.
Posting Date: June 8
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Date: 2013-03-23 04:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-23 02:26 pm (UTC)Fandom: MCU
Prompt: Clint Barton; being a guy isn't a 24/7 thing.
Posting Date: June 10th
Username: error_page
Fandom: Leverage
Prompt: Elliot Spencer, Elliot is FtM. How does he deal with Hardison and Parker finding out his history?
Posting Date: June 15th
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Date: 2013-03-25 05:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-24 12:21 am (UTC)Fandom: Samurai Shodown
Prompt: Any fandom, any character, Always living in the grey spaces - whether it's being bisexual, trans, gender queer, etc (or more than one), sometimes ze wishes ze was part of the binary.
Posting Date: May 18
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Date: 2013-03-25 05:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-24 12:37 am (UTC)Fandom: Supernatural
Prompt: Any (supernatural-themed) fandom, a character returns from the dead with different ideas about their orientation or gender identity. Did they 'come back wrong' or are they just finally discovering who they really are?
Posting Date: May 9
Username: elliemurasaki
Fandom: Supernatural
Prompt: Any fandom, any character, queer people are queer all the time, not just when they're having sex. Not everything we do and say is about our orientation, but it does color a great deal of our interactions. Just give me a fic about someone being queer in every day life, and what that means for them... and what it doesn't.
Posting Date: May 18
Username: elliemurasaki
Fandom: Supernatural
Prompt: Supernatural, Charlie Bradbury, Being a geeky lesbian means being torn between ogling the gorgeous costumes and characters that "male gaze" provides and being furious about the misogyny and fetishization of her identity.
Posting Date: May 27
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Date: 2013-03-25 05:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-24 06:46 am (UTC)Fandom: The Legend of Zelda
Prompt: Any fandom, any character, that conversation you wouldn't have to go through if you weren't bi.
Posting Date: June 6th
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Date: 2013-03-25 05:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-24 07:26 am (UTC)Fandom: Blades of Glory
Prompt: any character, figure skating isn't any less homophobic than other sports.
Posting Date: May 2nd
Username:
Fandom: Psych
Prompt: Carlton Lassiter, Internalized Homophobia
Posting Date: May 5th
Username:
Fandom: Matilda
Prompt:Jenny Honey, Miss Honey always promised herself that when she was free from Aunt Trunchbull, she'd find herself a nice woman and settle down. Or at least start dating. Or at least go out to a bar once in awhile. But now she finds herself the mother of a six-year-old. Are her dreams still possible?
Posting Date: May 7th
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Date: 2013-03-25 05:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2013-03-24 09:45 pm (UTC)Fandom: X-Files
Prompt: Casey and Mulder, Casey's coming out talk with Mulder.
Posting Date: May 31
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Date: 2013-03-25 05:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-25 02:01 pm (UTC)Fandom: Hawaii Five-0
Prompt: Hawaii Five-0, Danny Williams, Danny works or volunteers at an LGBTQ youth counseling center. Could be AU or something he does in canon on his days off.
Posting Date: May 31st
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Date: 2013-03-27 03:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-25 07:10 pm (UTC)Username:zarabithia
Fandom: Marvel (any verse)
Prompt: Marvel (any verse), Steve Rogers, Thanks to his close relationship with Bucky Barnes, there have always been rumors about Captain America's sexuality. In the 21st century, bisexual Steve meets someone whose life was positively impacted by having him as a queer role model.
Posting Date: May 10
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Date: 2013-03-27 03:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-25 10:09 pm (UTC)Fandom: Lola - The Kinks (song)
Prompt: Lola, Some of Lola's backstory, maybe, or how she feels the night she surprises a naive young man who then falls for her even after her big reveal
Posting Date: June 15th
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Date: 2013-03-27 03:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-25 10:19 pm (UTC)Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Prompt: Rupert Giles, Gay or Bi Giles doesn't quite get some of the Scoobies and/or Potentials using the term 'queer' to describe LGBT people; he's only ever heard it used as an insult by those who hated and wanted to hurt him and his friends.
Posting Date: May 26th
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Date: 2013-03-27 03:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-26 01:41 pm (UTC)Fandom: Love! Valour! Compassion!
Prompt: John and James Jeckyll, how each was affected differently by the outbreak of AIDS.
Posting Date: May 12th
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Date: 2013-03-27 03:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-26 06:11 pm (UTC)Coming back for another prompt!
Username: gladdecease
Fandom: Any
Prompt: After a magical accident/mysterious artefact/fandom appropriate incident turns everyone a different colour depending on their sexuality, people want to know why character X hasn't changed at all. (Character X is asexual)
Posting date: June 9
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Date: 2013-03-27 03:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-26 06:55 pm (UTC)Username: ang_the_adverse
Fandom: The Princess Diaries (books)
Prompt: The Princess Diaries (books or movies), Mia Thermopolis, When the Genovian Parliament introduces a bill that could allow gay marriage, Mia decides to come out of the closet (either as gay or bisexual) to everyone on one of Genovia's biggest holidays. How do her family, her friends, the Genovian public and the American media react?
Posting Date: May 9th
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Date: 2013-03-27 03:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-27 09:59 am (UTC)Fandom: DC Comics, Batman
Prompt: Colin Wilkes, is it wrong not to correct the people who assume he and Damian were a couple?
Posting Date: May 10
Username: kikibug13
Fandom: Percy Jackson & the Olympians (books)
Prompt: Thalia, giving up boys doesn't mean giving up love.
Posting Date: May 25
Username: kikibug13
Fandom: Any fandom
Prompt: Any character, a flirty social asexual and a cold, intellectual pansexual. Break me some stereotypes.
Posting Date: June 10
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Date: 2013-03-29 03:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-28 04:27 am (UTC)Fandom: Glee
Prompt: Any fandom, any character(s), parent/child bonding over their sexuality
Posting Date: May 8
Username: gala_apples
Fandom: undecided
Prompt: Any fandom, any character, the five worst ways to come out
Posting Date: May 13
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Date: 2013-03-29 03:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-31 12:07 am (UTC)Fandom: Any fandom
Prompt: A newly out person (can be any gender or sexual identity) still finding the edges of themselves attends (or tries to attend) a Pride celebration, and what that does for their sense of self and belonging.
Posting Date: May 1
Username: cj
Fandom: Dirty Sexy Money
Prompt: Jeremy Darling, Jeremy's father already considers him a failure on all fronts, so for Jeremy, finally openly dating a guy like he'd wanted to for years is especially satisfying.
Posting Date: May 20
Username: cj
Fandom: Harry Potter
Prompt: Charlie Weasley, Charlie didn't go to Romania to get away from his family, but the distance has made it a lot easier to avoid explaining his love life to them. Lately, though, he's started to think about coming home - and coming out.
Posting Date: June 13
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Date: 2013-03-31 03:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-31 05:28 am (UTC)Username: passionfruit_kisses
Fandom: Angel the Series
Prompt: Fred, people tend to assume certain things about her. Helpless. Harmless. Heterosexual. (bi or pan Fred)
Posting Date: June 5th
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Date: 2013-04-03 12:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-01 12:38 am (UTC)Username:
Fandom: Any fandom
Prompt: You lost your entire family coming-out, so it's really unfair that your partner's family barely blinks when he/she brings you home for Christmas.
Posting Date: June 8
Username:
Fandom: Any fandom
Prompt: In a character's struggle to accept their sexuality, they inadvertently used someone as a 'beard' and that someone finds out. Finally coming to terms with their sexuality, the character must also deal with the fall out.
Posting Date: June 11
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Date: 2013-04-03 12:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-01 01:24 pm (UTC)Fandom: Circle of Magic (aka Emelan)
Prompt: Emelan, Daja, after Will of the Empress Daja talks to Lark and/or Rosethorn about being queer
Posting Date: May 12
(Just FYI mods, this is my third claim.)
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Date: 2013-04-03 12:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
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