this is over a week late, but hopefully it's okay to post this still.


title: coming out
author: snottygrrl
rating: PG
pairing: harry/draco
prompt set: 100.2
prompt: #1 pretend
word count: 650
summary: being forced to lie about draco is more than harry can take
warnings: none really
disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
This author is not responsible for underage readers. Please observe the ratings, warnings, and age of legal consent for your country.
author's notes: written for celebrate_idaho (though it's long past it's due date) and 100quills.

"I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing.
To be forced to tell lies is much worse."
~ Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

( by clicking on this link you assert you are of age to read PG Rated fiction - Draco had insisted on his silence. )

"I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing.
To be forced to tell lies is much worse."

~ Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

Title: Lies and Truths
Fandom: None
Characters/Pairings: None
Prompt: See Above
Rating: G
Word Count: 912
Summary: When it becomes harder to change the pronouns and the truths of your life, you eventually decide the truth is easier to tell.
Disclaimer/Author's Notes: I tried a different writing style for this than I'm used to, so concrit is welcome. Thank you for holding the fest again this year and thank you for letting me participate again. With the changes going on in America right now, it is more important than ever to change the way that people think about LGBT people.

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Also, here's a story that I wrote and posted today for the lgbtfest that is going on.

Creating The Chasm
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing/characters: Lily Evans, Petunia Evans
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters written herein.
Prompt: 419. Petunia and Lily Evans. Petunia Evans hated her sister ever since Lily laughed and told her that there was no magic spell to make these strange feelings go away.
Summary: Petunia couldn't accept the feelings inside her and Lily couldn't make them go away.
Warnings: (if any) Derogatory language
Author's Notes: (if any) Thanks to my sister who made me feel so much like Petunia that it made this easy to write from memory. We've now resolved our issues but it made growing up lesbian so much more difficult than it should have been.

May has come. I have been unable to access LJ for some time, so I haven't been able to remind you all that from May 1st to May 18th, you can post your contributions here in the community. I look forward to see what you have all come up with. And remember to invite your friends to participate as well - there's still time!

Happy writing/drawing/ranting/posting!

~ S.

I have decided on the prompt for the IDAHO challenge 2008!

Seeing that there were such a relatively large amount of contributors last year (despite my embarrassing time limit of – what was it? – two weeks), I decided that we’d repeat the success and see if we couldn’t make it even BIGGER this time around. As soon as this entry has been posted, I will start promoting this challenge in every possible place I’m allowed in. So, everybody, remember to tell your friends! New faces are more than welcome; they are adored and kissed and hugged.

This year I even give you several months in which to use and show your creativity. During the month of May and until the deadline of May 17th, you can post your contributions directly to this community (check the rules; they’ve been updated). I look forward to see what people come up in honour of the International Day Against Homophobia, 2008!

So. The prompt. Aren’t we all excited? I’m pretty happy about this one myself, so I hope you’ll all find it inspiring as well.




“I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing.
To be forced to tell lies is much worse.”

~ Oscar Wilde, De Profundis



Interpret this any way you like. It’s not something you need to quote in your story. It’s a prompt; a place to start and whatever direction it may lead your imagination is the right direction. No rights, no wrongs. As long as it lives up to the ideals of IDAHO.



!Happy writing/drawing/creating/sharing/reading/promoting!


~ S.

Thoughts? Comment!

Hello, I’m the friendly (and very late, *is so very embarrased*) moderator of celebrate_idaho and after almost a year’s wait, I’m popping up to post the list of contributions people made for “IDAHO 2007 Multifandom Fic & Art Challenge”.

I sincerely apologise about this not having been done prior to this point. Exams took up my summer and then life got in the way and so LJ was generally abandoned. However, now the list is here and I hope that you will all consider participating again this year (yes! I’m planning on doing a similar challenge this year, keep an eye out for this community, because sometime during February a new challenge will be posted, giving people a little more time to work with than what was the case last year).

With the apology done, I would like to thank everybody who have been involved in the challenge the last time and I hope to see you all (and some more, I need to promote… everybody is welcome to tell their friends when time comes!) contributing to raise the awareness of hate crimes and homophobia in our world.

( Masterlist )

This is it. This is what we managed to come up with in 2007. Thank you for the support, despite the very limited time-frame and I hope to see your contributions again this year.

Be safe and continue loving.

~ S.

Any thoughts... comment!

Title: Unapologetic or Why Making Haruka and Michiru Relatives Doesn't Conceal Their Relationship
Fandom: Sailor Moon - anime
Characters/Pairings: Lots of Michiru, some Haruka, some Haruka/Michiru
Prompt: Understanding, it's misunderstood at celebrate_idaho.
Rating: PG-13 for suggestiveness and girls kissing
Word Count: ~ 12.000
Summary: Michiru has been invited to play an ensemble with Haruka at a Valentine's Concert in America - only to find out that the organizer of said concert has stated them to be cousins. She is not happy about it.
Disclaimer/Author's Notes: Follow the fake cut...

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("Do you expect me to apologize?")


All comments, reviews as well as constructive criticism welcome!

~ S.

Title: Belonging
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist (anime, post-movie)
Disclaimer: FMA belongs to Hiromu Arakawa, not me.
Characters/Pairings: Winry Rockbell, Kain Fuery/OC, other OCs
Rating: PG-13, mainly for ouchies.

Warning: There are not-sexually-explicit non-heterosexual relationships mentioned in the fic. If you have issues with this, don't follow the link. Likewise, if you are here looking for hot yaoi sex, don't follow the link either.

Summary: Winry Rockbell has moved to a recovering Central City and discovers she's following closer in her parent's footsteps than she could have imagined.

Author's Note Concerning the Prompt: I think I was trying to get across that understanding is more than talking through religious and other issues and passing legislation. It's people sitting down and getting to know other people. It's people caring about other people, and recognizing that every human bleeds red. It's something that takes place in the long-term and can't be forced, but is still worth pushing toward. I suppose I was trying to explain how understanding is misunderstood.

Belonging

I bring another offering to the table--three poems, two of my own and one by Anne Waldman...

Three poems

Title: Moving On
Author: zannechaos
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Pairing: Gracia Hughes x Maria Ross, with Maes Hughes x Gracia Hughes history, of course.
Rating: R
Wordcount: 4453
Theme: "Understanding, it's misunderstood" written for IDAHO (International Day Against Homophobia) fandom challenge 2007. (celebrate_idaho)
Warning: End of series, maybe?
Disclaimer: Fullmetal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) is copyrighted by Hiromu Arakawa/Studio BONES/Square Enix. This is a work of fanfiction for personal entertainment only. Gracia's mother is partially inspired by Carnivale's Rita Sue, only far less slutty and far more proper.
Author's Notes: I've been wanting to write this pairing for a while. I apologize if it happens to come across as a little stilted in parts, I was having some initial trouble with figuring out how to handle the challenge theme with what I wanted to write, and vice versa.

She still missed him -- that would never truly go away. Part of her heart was buried with him, and would remain there. But little by little, the empty hole left behind stopped hurting. The loneliness faded. The sun came back.

After telling one of my friends about my IDAHO fic, she decided that she wanted to do something for the event as well. Seeing that she doesn't have a LJ and doesn't intend to get one, I am posting her picture, however, I can't emphasize enough that the picture below is not mine. Enjoy anyways, because it's a great pic.

Title: It's a Drag
Artist: Sanne Graversen
Rating: PG-13 for tears and blood
Summary: "Hey mate, can you tell me the way to the nearest gay bar, I want to shoot a couple of fags..."
Prompt: "Understanding, it's misunderstood", DAD
Artist's Notes: Interpret it any way you want.
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( We're here because there's no vacation from gay-bashing. )


~*~

This contribution I found by pure coincidence on youtube.com after searching for Haruka/Michiru AMVs. I found it very well done and the message is clear. "If one of us isn't free, then none of us are free." Beautiful and definitely worth a watch in the name of IDAHO.

Title: Gay Marriage
Contributor: karinalombard
Rating: PG-13 for male/male, female/female kissing
Summary: Why gay marriage should be allowed.
Artist's Notes: I did this video for a school project with a friend, we had to pick a topic and get the class the agree with us. Our topic was gay marriage and why it should be legal. We needed to have some type of video to help support the topic and the presentation had to last 30 min. So i did this video and i thought i should share because i gives a great message to everyone who thinks that being gay or lesbian is wrong and that they shouldn't get married.

Today is IDAHO! :D Thanks to everybody who have already contributed. I will get around to post my own contributions later tonight or early tomorrow, since I'm on my way out the door.

Plus, I promise to read through all your contributions during the weekend.

Thank you, everybody, for supporting this event.

~ S.

Crossposted to my personal journal and nelxclair

Title: Untitled
Fandom: Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Characters/Pairings: Nel Zelpher/Clair Lasbard
Rating: PG
Summary: Clair's father doesn't understand

( Ficlet under here )

Title: Luck and Courage
Author: corvus_coronis
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: Nymphadora Tonks & Remus Lupin (not as a couple), background Hooch/Tonks & Snape/Lupin pairings
Prompt: “Understanding – it’s misunderstood” (from the D.A.D song “Laugh ‘n’ a Half”)
Rating: PG 13+
Word Count: 500 words exactly.
Summary: After the war, Lupin and Tonks meet for a chat after having parted and found other partners. Often it takes both courage and luck to face the truth, and live it.
Warnings: Unbetaed, Au, implied (past) het, otherwise none if you’ve no problem with slash & femmeslah
Disclaimer: The characters in this story belong to J.K Rowling, not me. No harm or copyright infringement intended.
Author's notes: This ficlet was written to celebrate IDAHO 2007 "in reality it is homophobia that is shameful and must be deconstructed in its social logic and fought against openly". The link will take you to the story journal where it's archived. Thanks to animimares for organising this.

Luck and Courage

Title: Urging Questions
Author: kawaiirishi, your's truly.
Rating: PG, Parental Guidance suggested due to small references to slightly adult situations.
Prompt: "Understanding, it's misunderstood."
Fandom: xxxHolic
Characters//Pairings: Yuuko, Himawari Yuuko/Himawari
Summarry: Himawari asks for Yuuko's advice in a rather touchy subject.
Notes: Shoujo ai -- if it offends don't read it. Also note that Himawari-chan is a little ooc, as it was my first time writing both of these characters. Secondly, this is for celebrate_idaho. The prompt is from a song, Danish I believe, that the community's creator loves. ♥ I fear I might have strayed ot with it at some points, but thankfully Yuuko is... an odd indivdual who answers just as many questions as her oddness raises. Also, takes place a litle after volume three.

Also, don't take the references to homosexuality I made offensive, please. I imagine Himawari and Yuuko to be traditional, and unless you were man, being homosexual was quite frowned upon. Even today Japan is not an ideal place for homosexuals.

NOT BETA'D. ALL MISTAKES, GRAMMICALLY OR OTHERWISE, ARE MY OWN.

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Hey community!

Wonderful to see that there's already been a couple of contributions posted. I will get around to properly read and review all of them before the week is over, I promise.

On that note... three days to IDAHO, guys! If you're still writing, drawing, sweating and working, don't worry. Three days till you have to get finished... I know I need those three days myself before I'm ready to post.

However, if any of you need more time, this is the entry to comment on. I will respond with an OK in any case, don't worry - but I need to know who think they will be late on posting (or actually, who plan to post at all?).

So, comment on this and tell me how everything's going. I want you to know that I probably share your work-load.

~ S.

Hello! I just found this community from a post in fanficrants and I would like to post a link to a fanfic of mine. It can be found here: http://home.comcast.net/~mhmartini/zoneshots/pol.html I hope you find it enjoyable and possible educational.

Title: "Pride or Love"
Fandom: Yu Yu Hakusho (anime)
Characters/Pairings: Kurama/Hiei
Rating: PG/PG-13
Summary: Kurama is a fox spirit who is in a human body. Hiei is a hybrid of ice demon and fire demon with no in depth knowledge of human disease. They are mated to each other in this story. When Kurama falls ill, Hiei learns of a human disease called prejudice as well as another disease. I wrote this to show Hiei's devotion to his mate, but it ended up being educational (by accident, I assure you!). I hope you enjoy it, and I hope it contributes in some small way towards IDAHO. All feedback is welcome. It is a one-shot, but I linked it because it is long.

...for some of us, it is a way of life.

Not all countries are as enlightened as others. Although this is an essay, not a short story...although this is one person's point of view, not the world's...although I am one voice speaking, I speak for many.

Think about it...if we all spoke together, how loud would the ruckus be? If there were many voices raised as one, could we ignore those in pain?

Blessings be heaped on each person, not only within this community but also those who suffer in silence. This essay...this tiny piece of my heart...is reserved for them.

My Own Piece Of IDAHO

Title: Understanding Maidie
Fandom: Abbey Girls
Characters/Pairings: Joy, Jen, Mary, Maidlin; Joy/Maidlin
Rating: PG
Summary: A few years after Joy has been widowed, she can’t understand why Maidlin is being so temperamental.

Understanding Maidie

Hey, guys! Friendly neighborhood elf o' ye ole' helping here. I've just added the header. Any feedback? ♥ Personally, I'm not too fond of it, but I didn't wanna use too much white, and plus I thought the color would be better...

Sorry, Anny, no rainbow. I tried as hard as I could and the colors didn't really feel right against steel blue. I'll add the colors again if you'd like, but I can gurantee you won't like it much. ^^;;

Oh! Yes. The text is from our lovely animimares's gorgeous poem, "Like Everyone Else", located just below this post.

That said and done, I would like say thank you to Anny for letting me help with this project! ♥

Oh and before I go, I simply must share this. Pro-Homosexuality Slideshow!

This is not mine, but I found it to be very cute. Some of the images used are gorgeous, and the song is just so addicting. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

{Yes, that was a little offtopic... But I had to share? Great exscuse, Aeria.}

celebrate_idaho is ready for posting!

- Go to community info for rules on posting and general information about this community.
- Join/Watch!
- Start writing/drawing/contributing/posting/commenting!!

And to set the mood, I - animimares - found a poem I wrote years ago that seems to be especially made for this community and with the event of IDAHO in mind (even though at that time I'd never heard of it) and I will therefore christen celebrate_idaho with a link to that entry.

Beforehand, me deepest apologies if you recognise it - as I said, it's already been posted in my journal a long time ago, but I thought it would be a great way to let IDAHO 2007 take its beginning.


Title: Like Everyone Else
Fandom: Original poem
Characters/Pairings: Well, this poem is illustrated by various bases featuring various people.
Rating: PG-13 for m/m - f/f kissing and partial nudity.
Summary: I would simply like to tell you that no matter what you may think we are really just like everyone else...
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(Like Everyone Else)


Beware, many pictures behind the fake cut.


~ animimares