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Dhobi Ki Kutti ([personal profile] dhobikikutti) wrote in [community profile] eid_ka_chand2010-08-10 12:30 pm

Announcing the 2010 Eid Al-Fitr Fanworks Challenge!

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. [community profile] 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 [community profile] eid_ka_chand and [livejournal.com profile] 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!
jibrailis: (avatar -- katara)

[personal profile] jibrailis 2010-08-10 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Sign me up for a fic!
marina: (Default)

[personal profile] marina 2010-08-10 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Sign me up! I don't know what I'll have time for - maybe graphics, maybe if I'm very lucky a vid (are fanmixes allowed?) but I'm signing up to do something.
glass_icarus: (angel/katie)

[personal profile] glass_icarus 2010-08-10 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I am in! :D Aiming for a fic, and/or some icons (provided I can find decent caps).
hokuton_punch: A photo of a girl in a headscarf smiling during Ramadan. (ramadan eid-ka-chand smiling girl)

[personal profile] hokuton_punch 2010-08-11 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Ooooh, I've no idea what to do this year, but sign me up for at least a fic - and maybe art, if I ever draw again (it'd be so much fun to draw Nazhin from my story)...
devilc: Go Like Hell (Default)

[personal profile] devilc 2010-08-11 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Sign me up for a fic.

(There might be some icons or artfully manipulated photos, too, but no promises.)
mercredigirl: Supergirl (Kara) from DC Comics, floating in a blue sky with birds circling her. She is bending and her arms are raised. (Supergirl in flight)

[personal profile] mercredigirl 2010-08-11 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Signing up for two fics! :D Aiming for a Racebending Revenge/Eid Ka Chand combo, I dunno how that'll turn out, mm.
yifu: (kyoshi warrior)

[personal profile] yifu 2010-08-11 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Signing up for icons and, maybe, fanfic.

[personal profile] zephyrprince 2010-08-11 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna do it though my story might be short. What I really wanna do though is Harry Potter RPF about Afshan Azad and Shefali Chowdhury, but the challenge is just for fictional characters, is that correct?
livrelibre: DW barcode (Default)

[personal profile] livrelibre 2010-08-11 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Signing up for icons and possibly fic!
fresne: Blue Mosque (Blue Mosque)

[personal profile] fresne 2010-08-11 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
I'm in to write a fic.
frausorge: Shirley Bennett, Annie Edison, Abed Nadir, Britta Perry, and Troy Barnes gathered around an open laptop on the library table (I got a crew too)

[personal profile] frausorge 2010-08-11 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
I'm in!
surpassingly: (kitteh: if i look up will i see you)

[personal profile] surpassingly 2010-08-11 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
I would very much like to do a story, but I can't find my words yet. So, I will do my best to come up with art. <3
applegnat: (Default)

[personal profile] applegnat 2010-08-11 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
I'd love to write fic for this, so I'm in.
toujours_nigel: Greek, red-figure Rhea (Default)

[personal profile] toujours_nigel 2010-08-11 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
I'm in.

Must go re-read things. But I'm in.
troisroyaumes: Painting of a duck, with the hanzi for "summer" in the top left (Default)

[personal profile] troisroyaumes 2010-08-11 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Will try to write a fic! Or at least a set of icons. ^^
bossymarmalade: fatima dinssa near the coffee pot (roll on out)

[personal profile] bossymarmalade 2010-08-11 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope to contribute something, although I don't know what yet! I wonder if Yusuf from Inception is Muslim?...
chaosraven: Chopper (Default)

[personal profile] chaosraven 2010-08-11 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm going to bust out with some fanart, if I can.
glockgal: (Default)

[personal profile] glockgal 2010-08-12 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Sign me up! Definitely artses!
yasaman: picture of woman wearing multi-colored headscarf that covers her mouth (yasaman; base by enriana)

[personal profile] yasaman 2010-08-13 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
Put me down for meta, or maybe fic if I can grow an actual plot!
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)

[personal profile] alexseanchai 2010-08-13 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
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?
zephre: Pink lotus in evening light, at Longwood Gardens. (Default)

[personal profile] zephre 2010-08-13 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
signing up for art!

naraht: Star cluster (nasa-Star Cluster)

[personal profile] naraht 2010-08-13 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Just a question here... [personal profile] rydra_wong was talking about Eid al-Fitr/Days of Awesome crossovers and said that you had (I think?) talked about the idea of doing "Adam Lambert meets Aladdin." Which is pretty cool. But I thought that RPF wasn't allowed? Or is it only RPF about Muslims that isn't allowed?
kuwdora: Pooka - card 60, brian froud (Default)

[personal profile] kuwdora 2010-08-13 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I shall have a vid ready for this challenge! Just found my vidsong and character. :D
gloss: woman in front of birch tree looking to the right (Community: Abed surprised)

[personal profile] gloss 2010-08-13 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Please sign me up for a fic. :D
lizfu: (Knit)

[personal profile] lizfu 2010-08-14 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
*edited for names*

[personal profile] deepad told me about this challenge and convinced me to volunteer to do fanart. Actually, this sounds like an amazing idea in the first place, so she didn't really have to work hard to convince me. The conversation actually went thus:

[personal profile] deepad: You sign up to do fanart eid_ka_chand!

Me: Ooooh! What is that?

[personal profile] deepad: *explains eid_ka_chand and its amazing awesomeness*

Me: *mind is blown* I'M IN.

So I am doing fanart :D

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