Characters of Colour: September Love-fest

[tielan]

The Characters Of Colour Multifandom Love-A-Thon community, choc_fic, has opened for people to claim prompts for their September love-fest.

It's easy enough: pick one prompt of the many there - either 100 words or a piece or art/graphics, to be posted at the comm on the day that your prompt is listed.

There's Teyla, Ronon, Teyla pairings, Ronon pairings, team, at least one Teyla/Ronon, and a couple of OT3s and OT4s.

If you've always considered "writing Teyla" or "writing Ronon" but never actually done it, then this is a good place to start - because if you don't start somewhere, you won't start anywhere.

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For those of you who are afraid of writing characters of colour, International Blog About Racism Week is coming up and there'll probably be at least a few posts on writing characters of colour, aliens, and People Who Aren't Like Me.

Frankly, as a woman of 100% Chinese background, and 100% Australian breeding, if I had to wait for a "character like me" to turn up on American television so I could write them, then I would never have gotten anything done! Don't even talk to me about Neighbours or Home And Away. One would think that there was no such thing as a Chinese take-away let alone a Vietnamese bakery in the happy world of 1980s White Australia...

Comments

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I'm so dead. I just signed up for a prompt even though I CAN'T WRITE.

*hates self*

[tielan]

Well done for giving it a go, though!

It should go without saying that if you get stuck or need help, then I'm happy to assist, advise, listen to you weep, rant, complain, and whinge, and offer you the alcohol of your choice as necessary. :)

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the offer. I might need it :)

I'm telling myself I might be able to make it if I stay short. Since the world limit is just 100 words.

[verstehen.livejournal.com]

Snagged a prompt of my own that will stretch my abilities to the max. You see, I picked something from Ugly Betty and I absolutely hate fashion. ;)

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Yay! I was so hoping that somebody would go for Ugly Betty. BTW, any chance you could lend me a hand with this? Help me come up with some Morgan prompts?

http://community.livejournal.com/choc_fic/9634.html?thread=88738

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Ooops, I see you already took care of that :) Go Morgan!

[raisintorte.livejournal.com]

Signed up! And I poked smittywing into signing up. I went for the Atlantis prompts and ended up taking a Doctor Who prompt (Martha/Jack) and a Torchwood prompt (Jack/Toshiko). I'm really excited. I love Tosh but I never really thought about writing her. :-)

[yviwriting.livejournal.com]

In case you haven't noticed yet: sg_ep_ficathon needs you to reply (http://community.livejournal.com/sg_ep_ficathon/2325.html).

ryf

[tielan]

Thanks for the heads-up!

[skye1974.livejournal.com]

I am trying to get up the nerve......