Post-reveal discussion

[dark_administrator]

We're thinking about this challenge and community, and what its future might look like, and to do that we'd like to know how the experience so far has been.

So now that authors are revealed, how did your participation in the Dark Agenda Challenge go?
What thoughts do you have about it?
How did it change your yuletide experience?
What suggestions would you have for your future self doing this next year (or next ficathon)?
Any tips and tricks you'd like to share with the rest of us? (Here's one - a good source for suitable character names is local newspapers from the region.)

What problems or frustrations did you have, either while writing, or tagging, or reading? What trends (disturbing or pleasant), did you you notice?

Would you do it again next year?

Comments

[glass_icarus]

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!