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

[sophinisba]

I did really like having that list of sources posted during the nominations because it gave me time to watch a few movies and get familiar enough at least to read in a few new fandoms. So I agree with others that it would be neat next year to talk up different sources even earlier, maybe have some kind of sign-up for people who want to promote their fandoms and have it spread out over a month or two, like choc_fic is doing right now with individual entertainers and characters.

The three fics I wrote this Yuletide were about characters of color but they were for movies I was already familiar with and I guess I was a little hesitant about whether to tag things. I know you've said people should use their own judgment but maybe next year there could be slightly clearer guidelines. I got a bit tripped up on Latin American sources, for instance, because they seemed to be in the spirit of the challenge but the focus here has been more on Asian and African sources and the wording was often about Western/non-Western.

I still love that this happened/is happening and I think it made a big difference in this year's Yuletide, even for people who didn't participate directly. I think there's been more awareness and effort for people to write outside their culture and comfort zones.