We're opening up the lgbtfest prompts for anyone who wants to use them for inspiration. There's no claiming at this point, so feel free to write for any prompt that you like.

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Thanks!

Thanks so much to everyone who participated in lgbtfest! Posting is now officially over, but there's lot to read: 145 stories in 54 fandoms! Check them out, and don't forget to leave feedback for the authors.

What happens now?

Posting here is now closed. However, feel free to use the prompt lists for inspiration! We're going to be making a post shortly where you can link any stories you write based on the prompt lists in comments.

Prompts (Any fandom + Fandoms 0-E)
Prompts (Fandoms F-P)
Prompts (Fandoms Q-Z + Crossovers)

Will there be a second round?

We'll figure that out when we've recovered from the first round. :-)

Once again, thank you all so much for writing for the fest! It's been a great experience.

Title: The Naming of Things
Author: Argyle
Fandom: Life on Mars
Pairing: Sam/Gene
Rating: R
Prompt: 492. Sam's really tired of Gene's homophobia, especially now that they're sleeping together.
Summary: It wasn't the worst arrangement in the history of the world.

The Naming of Things

Title: How Stephen Colbert Proved Jon Stewart Is a Lady
Author: Sarken (sarken)
Fandom: Punditslash
Pairing/characters: Jon Stewart/(Character) Stephen Colbert, Keith Olbermann, Anderson Cooper
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: The Colbert Report and the Stephen Colbert character are the property of Comedy Central/Viacom. Jon Stewart, Keith Olbermann, and Anderson are real people; however, the events in this story are fictional.
Prompt: 607. Punditslash: Character!Stephen Colbert. Stephen says he "doesn't see gender". But he can't possibly be gay, so if he's attracted to (Jon) someone, obviously they must be female. Bonus points: Jon/Stephen, Jon finds himself unexpectedly comfortable with Stephen's conviction that he's actually a woman.
Summary: Stephen Colbert might be attracted to Jon Stewart, but he can't possibly be gay because Jon is a woman.

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Title: Marching Order
Author: Beth Winter, bwinter
Fandom: Discworld
Pairing/characters: Polly/Maladicta
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Everything is Terry Pratchett's, may he rule forever.
Prompt: Discworld: Polly Perks/Maladicta. Lofty was Tonker's girl, and Tonker acted like her young man; that made a certain kind of sense to Polly. With Polly and Maladicta, Polly's not sure who's supposed to be the girl and who's supposed to be the boy, or if there's another way for this to work.
Summary: Polly's next war, and Maladicta.
Author's Notes: With great apologies to the admins for missed deadlines, squeezing just under the wire. Polly and Mal had their own ideas about where the story should go, and in the end I bowed to their wishes.

( Marching Order )

Title: Fantastica
Author: Pandora Beardsley (pandore27)
Fandom: Star Wars
Pairing/characters: original characters
Rating: Rated I for innuendo. (Or, well, probably PG.)
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Prompt: 13. A character who's felt comfortable in the gay community comes out as bi and experiences biphobia from people who felt like family.
Summary: Everything feels the same, and yet everything's changed.



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Title: Four Times Ainsley Hayes Tried to Explain (And One Time She Didn’t Have to)
Author: llyfrgell
Fandom: The West Wing
Pairing/characters: Ainsley Hayes, minor Ainsley/OFC and Ainsley/surprise
Rating: PG for hints of sexual activity
Disclaimer: Fanfiction is a transformative use and falls under the fair use clause of the Copyright Act.
Prompt: 846. The West Wing: Ainsley Hayes. Ainsley must reconcile her sexual orientation with her choice to be an active part of the Republican party.
Summary: Ainsley has been a Republican all her life, and she doesn't entirely understand why her being a lesbian is supposed to be relevant.
Author's Notes: ~3000 words, written May/June 2008 for lgbtfest. Spoilers through season 7. For timeline purposes, I set Ainsley's birthday in 1971. I can't apologize enough for the tardiness of this fic - I've never missed a ficathon deadline before, but law school finals conspired against me.

( Four Times Ainsley Hayes Tried to Explain (And One Time She Didn’t Have to) )

Title:  One Secret Maximum
Rating:  PG-13
Disclaimer:  Not mine
Fandom: DC Comics
Prompt: 206. DC Comics: Any character. When you're (at least partly) in the closet and a superhero, it's hard keeping track of who's supposed to know which secrets.
Characters:  Jaime Reyes, Tim Drake. Jaime/Paco, Jaime/Traci, Jaime/Tim all mentioned. Secondary pairings include Ted/Babs and Ted/Booster. And Ted/Babs/Booster.
Word Count: 1100
Summary:  Jaime's secret identity is pretty easily shared. It's the other secret that gives him a lot of problems.

Title: A remote aspect
Author: lilfluffykitten
Fandom: Dracula
Pairing/characters:Jonathan Harker and Dracula
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters, in fact I own nothing of any worth… I'm just doing it for fun not profit!
Prompt: 289. Dracula - Jonathan Harker - The ambiguous behavior of the Count toward him during his stay in his castle leaves Jonathan with much cause of doubt and self reflection.
Summary: Jonathan finds his enforced loneliness leads him to some uncomfortable realisations.
Author’s Notes: 1613 words, written for the lgbtfest. This is set very early on in the novel before Jonathan realises the full horror of his situation, so he’s only been in the castle for a few days – it has been long enough though…

This the first time I’ve attempted anything like this, so all comments and feedback appreciated.

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Title: Caught My Heart in the Middle of a Feeling
Author: beckaandzac
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing/Characters: Sam/OC, Dean
Rating: PG-13 for language and some sexual content
Disclaimer: Sam and Dean and their world belong to Eric Kripke et al. I make no profit from this work.
Prompt: 772. Supernatural: Sam Winchester. Sam gets involved in a high school GSA not because he's gay but because it seems like a place that welcomes outcasts like him. What happens when he begins to have real questions about his own sexual identity? And what does he tell Dean?
Summary: Sam goes looking for new friends and finds something he never would have expected.
Notes: This story took me by surprise at least as much as it did Sam, and there's no way it really ends here. Betaed by the fantastic littlewings04 and my awesome mother. Any further mistakes are my own. ~5900 words.

Caught My Heart in the Middle of a Feeling (link to my journal)

Title: Counting
Author: puritybrown
Fandom: Firefly/Serenity
Pairing/characters: Jayne/Simon
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: This story uses characters and a setting created by people other than me. I claim no rights to them, nor do I intend to infringe on the rights of their creators.
Prompt: "Firefly: Jayne Cobb. "I may be gay, but I'm not a sissy!" or dealing with effeminate stereotypes."
Summary: When Jayne takes Simon to his home town, he finds it harder to ignore the things he learned when he was growing up.
Warning: Somewhat oblique references to underage sex.
Author's Notes: Technically this is a sequel to my earlier story Making God Laugh. It's not necessary to read that story to understand this one, but you do need to know that a) Jayne and Simon have been sleeping together for a while; and b) the warrants for River and Simon's arrest were recently revoked by the Alliance.
The description of Jayne's home town was inspired by angstslashhope's wonderfully sad AU Stroke of Luck. I went in a slightly different direction with it, but that fic was my starting point.
Finally, my apologies for the lateness of this fic. It grew in the telling, and also I suck at time management.

Counting

Title: Dear Gwen
Author: joanne_c
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing/characters: Emma Louise Cowell, Gwen Cooper, Jack Harkness (Emma/OFC, OFC/OFC, Gwen/Rhys, Jack/Ianto and Jack Gwen implied)
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Torchwood characters and situations are the property of the BBC and Russell T. Davies, not me.
Prompt: 795. Torchwood: Emma-Louise Cowell. Emma was shocked enough that Gwen and Rhys were living together. How is she going to react when she comes into contact with the LGBT community? What if she realizes that she might have something in common with them?
Summary: Emma writes to Gwen about her new life in London and the new people she is meeting.

( Dear Gwen )

Title: Culture Shock
Author: roadstergal
Fandom: Star Trek: Enterprise
Pairing/characters: Sato, Phlox; Reed/Archer implied.
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: They do not belong to me, and I make no money off of them.
Prompt: 745: So what's the attitude to LGBT Starfleet personnel?
Summary: We never see openly gay characters in Starfleet. Why?
Author's notes: My thanks to my lovely beta kahvi.

( Culture Shock )

Title: Hibernation
Author: bofoddity
Fandom: Oz
Pairing/characters: Beecher, implied pairings
Rating: R (mild, reference to rape).
Disclaimer: Oz isn't mine and this story wasn't written for profit.
Prompt: 579. OZ: Tobias Beecher. Post-s6. Beecher is out on parole and he struggles with his own sexuality. He's been brutally raped in prison, but he also found love with Chris Keller. Now out in the real world he is haunted by the memories of Vern Schillinger and Chris Keller, and he is no longer certain if he is 'gay' or 'straight'. Can be Beecher/any male (or female) character, or gen.
Summary: Beecher doesn't know what to do.

( Hibernation )

Title: The Braid
Author: Pandora Beardsley (pandore27)
Fandom: Star Wars
Pairing/characters: Padmé Amidala/Dormé
Rating: If it were a movie, it would be rated R. But it's not, so it isn't.
Disclaimer: Utterly, and forever, not mine.
Prompt: 19. Any fandom: Describe a self-destructive relationship in which one or both characters are unable to accept their sexuality.
Summary: Dormé loves Amidala. Amidala loves politics. That's the problem.


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Title: Sleeping Underneath Your Skin
Author: kyuuketsukirui
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Ginny/Harry
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Characters and world belong to JK Rowling.
Prompt: Highlight to read: Ginny has always thought of herself as a tomboy, but what happens when she begins to wonder if she's just a boy? Will Harry stand by her, and how will they negotiate this change?
Summary: There are a lot of things Ginny tries not to think about. If she told someone that, they'd probably think she meant the war, maybe especially sixth year. Or Fred's death. Or the whole thing with Tom Riddle's diary. Well, there are things she doesn't like to think about with the diary, but it's not what people expect.
Notes: ~1900 words. DH-compliant (including epilogue). Thanks to helens78 for the beta.

Sleeping Underneath Your Skin

Title: Come On Arlene
Author: kahvi
Fandom: Red Dwarf
Pairing/characters: Arlene Rimmer/Deb Lister
Rating: R (very mild)
Disclaimer: I don't own Red Dwarf nor the characters therein, and I certainly don't make money from this fannish venture.
Prompt 15. Any fandom: In a femslash pairing, one partner gets off on wearing a strap-on. The other accuses her of playacting heterosexuality.
Summary: It's not easy raising highly confused twin boys, and Lister knows she shouldn't make matters worse by trying to start up a relationship with her bunkmate. Then again, when is life ever easy?
Author's Notes: Thanks to the always lovely smaych for her last-minute beta! Spoilers for Parallel Universe, so if you haven't seen that episode, this story won't make much sense.

( “Either ye want me, or ye don't. Simple as that. I really don't have time for messing about.” )

Title: Every Kid Has to Have a Dog - Asgard Bearing Gifts
Author: melayneseahawk, posted in writers_island
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Pairing/characters: Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill (Daniel/Jack), General Landry, Cameron Mitchell, ensemble, OCs
Rating: R (sexuality)
Disclaimer: Seriously not mine.
Prompt: 034. Any fandom: a same-sex couple raise a child together.
Summary: "People will talk," Jack said hesitantly, though he rather liked the idea.
Warnings: AU from after s8, but with some casting spoilers from s9
Author's Notes: Thanks to brainofck for the beta, theemdash for being an awesome sounding board, and the ladies and gents at jackslashdaniel and military_beta for all their help puzzling out DADT and the UCMJ. This is technically a WIP (too...many...themes...!), but this section can be read alone. Fake LJ cut goes to my writing journal, writers_island. No assbabies were created in the writing of this fic.

(Every Kid Has to Have a Dog - Asgard Bearing Gifts | R | 2337 words | 1 of ?)

Title: One of Those Guys
Author: mireille719
Fandom: BtVS
Pairing/characters: Xander Harris; Xander Harris/Rupert Giles
Rating: PG/FRT
Disclaimer: These characters and their universe do not belong to me.
Prompt: 162. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Rupert Giles/Xander Harris. Xander's been in denial for a very long time: being attracted to girls meant it was easy to not pay any attention to that part of himself. But he's older now, and there's Giles, and it's all so very confusing.

( One of Those Guys )

Title: Things Beyond Their Understanding
Author: joeyjames
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing/characters: Justin Finch-Fletchley, Hermione Granger
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters or their universe and am making no profit from this work of fan fiction.
Prompt: 372. Harry Potter: Any character. A Muggle-born student finds out that coming out at Hogwarts is very different to coming out in the Muggle world. (How it's different is up to you.)
Summary: Justin had thought that telling his friends would be easier than telling his parents. Now he wonders how he could have been so wrong.
Warnings: No sex, just politics.