Announcing the 2010 Eid Al-Fitr Fanworks Challenge!

[dhobikikutti]

The crescent moon has been spotted in various time zones across the world, and Wednesday the 11th of August, 2010, will be the start of the month of Ramadan.

Which means it is also time for the start of our annual fanworks challenge - this being the fourth year we've been running it!

Eid-Al-Fitr will be being celebrated across the world between 10th to 12th September, 2010, depending on local moon sightings. eid_ka_chand's annual challenge asks for fanworks -- be they fic, art, vids, icons, meta, picspam etc. -- that focus on a fictional Muslim character.

Fanworks do not need to explicitly focus on Eid or Islam, and can be about characters who are culturally rather than actively practising Muslim.

The master list of fictional Muslim characters is a good place to start looking for fandoms you can create in.

We are running the challenge for fanfiction this year at the Archive of Our Own. Post to the collection there if you are create fanfiction of any length. We will be creating a master list of other fanworks generated that we cross-post to both eid_ka_chand and eid_fic, so you can choose to post or link to icons, vids, fanart etc at the community of your choice.

Last year we had 12 stories and 5 icon posts... and not a single piece of fanart or vid. The visibility of Muslim characters in dominant Anglophone media is minor and one-dimensional. We really really hope that fandom can help us increase the representation, and join all of us who celebrate Eid!

Please sign up! We are looking forward to enjoying whatever you make!

Comments

[dhobikikutti]

Your art is gorgeous, and we look forward to it!

[dhobikikutti]

Yay, great!

[dhobikikutti]

Another awesome fresne fic, yay!

[dhobikikutti]

Most excellent!

[dhobikikutti]

The reveal will be on Hari Raya (... you Malaysians ;)) although we will be trying to post content and links to Eid, Ramadan, and Muslim related themes throughout the month.

[troisroyaumes]

Will try to write a fic! Or at least a set of icons. ^^

[bossymarmalade]

I hope to contribute something, although I don't know what yet! I wonder if Yusuf from Inception is Muslim?...

[chaosraven]

I'm going to bust out with some fanart, if I can.

[mercredigirl]

'm not Malaysian, I'm a Singaporean! *pout* ;P

Thanks for the clarification! ^^;

[glockgal]

Sign me up! Definitely artses!

[zephyrprince]

okay :)

[yasaman]

The name suggests maybe? I think you can make a good case for it at any rate...

[yasaman]

Put me down for meta, or maybe fic if I can grow an actual plot!

[dhobikikutti]

D'oh. I should have known that, but I think I conflated you with Tariq, who also calls it Raya? Er, anyway, how embarassing, please accept my apologies!

[dhobikikutti]

Either will be great, yay!

[dhobikikutti]

As Yasaman said, the name certainly indicates a culturally Islamic background, though not having seen the movie I can't say. But if you do feel convinced he is, please add it to our master list.

And I look forward to your contribution!

[dhobikikutti]

Fanart, finally! Yay!

[mercredigirl]

It's the same term in both countries lah! Hari Raya Puasa is the Malay translation of Eid al-Fitr, and the Muslim population on either side of the Causeway is mainly Malay, so yeah. No need for the apologies, it's a natural assumption enough to make! :)

[dhobikikutti]

Artses from you! Yay!

[dhobikikutti]

Either meta or fic would be fabulous!

[alexseanchai]

I'm currently monofannish with a fandom where I can't think of a single Muslim character. Is it cool to take a character with unspecified background and make that a Muslim character? (Kind of like Xibolai.) What about OCs?

[dhobikikutti]

Original Characters are encouraged and welcome, and I will edit the post to reflect that!
Writing a character with unspecified religous background as Muslim is also ok, as long as is doesn't appropriate that character's canonical history (in other words, a fic about a Jewish rabbi or Hindu priest converting to Islam would need to really carefully written for us to feel comfortable about including it). :)

[alexseanchai]

A rabbi hasn't exactly got unspecified background, so that's not what I was asking about.

Thanks!

[dhobikikutti]

You are right; I was using the opportunity to clarify the larger potential scenarios for both my and any other questioners' benefit. :)

[zephre]

signing up for art!