Dark Agenda Fic in Yuletide

[dark_administrator]

Now that the archive is live, we can see that there are 50 stories tagged "Dark Agenda Challenge".
This is awesome! Everyone who participated, rock on!

We bet, though, that there are actually a lot more stories (well, or at least some more) that qualify for the challenge, but whose authors for one reason or another didn't end up tagging them as such.

So as you read and leave feedback, please leave a comment suggesting that the author tag their fic to help other readers find it.

You can also bookmark and/or rec fics at AO3, and if you use the "Dark Agenda Challenge" tag while doing so, it will make it much easier for us to add those stories to the collection we plan to set up.

Do feel free to crosspost lists of Dark Agenda fic recs to this comm. If you have one or two amidst a bunch of others, there will be a post up in a few hours where you can comment with your recs, and we will edit them into a master list.

Thank you very much, all of you who have participated so enthusiastically in this community and challenge!

Comments

[thingswithwings]

I just wanted to ask . . . I sort of understood the Dark Agenda challenge to be more focused on non-Western fandoms/characters, but I also see that some folks have tagged stories in Western fandoms featuring characters of colour (like Alec Hardison from Leverage) as "dark agenda" as well. I think this is probably okay, and it certainly is helping me read more characters of colour regardless of fandom, but wanted to check that it was okay with the challenge mods to tag fics just generally about characters of colour as "dark agenda."

And while I'm here, thank you so much for running this challenge! I love it to bits, and have met some great new fandoms through it.

[dhobikikutti]

(until DW gets with the switch profile ability, I suspect I am always going to be too lazy to respond in the admin profile.)

Shorter version: Yes it's ok.

Longer: The challenge was two-tiered. We wanted to support and promote chromatic sources. But as your vid making pointed out, there was also a lot of ignoring of CoC in popular, Western sources. So we made two lists, one for chromatic characters to write about, and one for chromatic sources. Ideally, the presence or absence of a "Chromatic Source" tag should help you figure out which part of the challenge the fic fulfils.

[thingswithwings]

ah, obviously I wasn't paying very close attention! Thank you for explaining. I'm all over those tags now (or, er, I will be, whenever the archive quiets down). :)