The Dark Agenda Challenge made Yuletide really satisfying for me this year! While I haven't read some of the stories due to lack of fandom familiarity, it's nice to have the Dark Agenda reclist to refer to when I'm looking for new sources to read/watch, because I know that there is also shiny fanfic to devour. *g* Also, apparently as a (bizarre/amazing) side effect, I seem to have won this year's Saving Face fandom. \o/
I wrote both of my Yuletide stories for chromatic fandoms, neither of which was a huge stretch for me. I fell down on tagging, though- I am a little ambivalent about tagging my assigned story as a Dark Agenda story, and I'm not sure why. Maybe because it didn't feel like much of a stretch to write; I didn't really explore the (not my own) culture the way I thought I would/should, which was what I wanted to do for the challenge. I'm much more comfortable with my madness story, because it was about my culture and I knew that it would scan a certain way.
In terms of reading... out of the stories I have read so far, at least, I felt like there was a very noticeable effort towards cultural awareness/accuracy. However, I was/am also specifically looking for fic in my chromatic source fandoms or that highlights chromatic characters in my non-chromatic source fandoms, so this may be a function of my selection tendencies. *hands* More thoughts later, perhaps!
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I wrote both of my Yuletide stories for chromatic fandoms, neither of which was a huge stretch for me. I fell down on tagging, though- I am a little ambivalent about tagging my assigned story as a Dark Agenda story, and I'm not sure why. Maybe because it didn't feel like much of a stretch to write; I didn't really explore the (not my own) culture the way I thought I would/should, which was what I wanted to do for the challenge. I'm much more comfortable with my madness story, because it was about my culture and I knew that it would scan a certain way.
In terms of reading... out of the stories I have read so far, at least, I felt like there was a very noticeable effort towards cultural awareness/accuracy. However, I was/am also specifically looking for fic in my chromatic source fandoms or that highlights chromatic characters in my non-chromatic source fandoms, so this may be a function of my selection tendencies. *hands* More thoughts later, perhaps!