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

[jadelennox]

I didn't participate in the dark_agenda challenge, but I was aware of it when I wrote my Treat and my Madness story (both about chromatic characters by white creators). After Yuletide, I posted my perceptions of the stories in this year's Yuletide: "Why talking about these things is awesome", which dhobikikutti asked me to mention here. It's my perception that Yuletide has a lot more chromatic characters than in previous years (although I don't see a lot in the way of chromatic sources).

One thing I noticed as a reader is a whole lot of stories featuring characters of color which weren't tagged as such. Which makes me think that a lot of people have been influenced by these discussions in subtle ways. I think that discussions about being aware of the awesome of the characters of color influenced people enough to make them, well, aware of the awesome, so they wrote the stories. Because people who were thinking about these as ideological issues explicitly, I think, would have used the tags.