2024 Show Your Colors Challenge

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When

June 1-30 2024, any timezone

How

Write or update your article(s), then share them in a comment here

Awards

Shiny badge for participation

Celebrate Pride Month by adding color to your Worlds! Show Your Colors is a month-long unofficial (community-run) challenge to think about how Pride-related topics show themselves in your Worlds, and make your articles better by adding those details.
This challenge is unjudged, everyone gets the same award just for participating. You can submit any kind of article, new or newly improved, and can submit multiple times.

Challenge

Bonus Challenge

Try to divorce yourself from our modern day view and build from your civilization up. These concepts form a complex, intersectional web between society, family, biology, law, and more. They're often messy, difficult to define, and difficult to categorize. Our current methods are one of many that exist and have existed throughout history.
How would the cultures and peoples of your world approach such topics? What webs have formed as a result?

Celebrate Pride Month by writing a new article or updating an existing article to include LGBTQ+-related information and concepts as they appear in your World. Consider how these ideas manifest in your world, and how the world reacts to them.

In the real world, Pride exists as a reaction to societal and legal condemnation of natural ways of existing, and has largely been pioneered by people of color. The concepts at the heart of Pride, however, have existed in different ways across history and cultures. They were not always condemned, and often were defined entirely different to how they are today. It's up to us to define how these concepts exist in our fictional Worlds, how they've changed throughout history, and how they intersect with other worldbuilding.

Rules

• Don't over-exert yourself! Save your energy for Summer Camp.
• The challenge starts on June 1 in whichever timezone you're in and ends on June 30.
• All articles are good:
  Any length
  New or updated old
  Non-English or art-focused
  Any template, including Prose
  NSFW or heavy topics (provided it's clearly marked)
• You are not required to use any of the below prompts. They're provided only for inspiration.
• Submissions don't have to be dedicated to the challenge topic, as long as part of it is relevant to the challenge.
  • Example: Updating an existing Ethnicity article to include a section on gender roles.
• Submit by adding a comment here containing your article as either a bbcode link or article block. Add any commentary you'd like, such as if there's a specific section we should look at.
• This challenge is unjudged, and there will be no winner. As such, you are free to submit as many articles if you like if the inspiration strikes.

Prompts

You don't have to follow any of these prompts, but they are here if you're in need of ideas or inspiration. Hover over a template to read the prompt based on it.

Character

Someone whose exploration of gender/sexuality was/is a key part of their life

Ethnicity

A sub-culture built around a specific gender or gender role

Species

Sapient species with variable biological sex, or no sexual dimorphism

Tradition

Tradition or ritual focused on announcing your gender role to the world

Organization

A country or other organization that has rules/laws around romantic pairings

Item

An item that has symbolic meaning relating to gender or sexuality

Conflict

A conflict fought because of incompatible cultural differences regarding gender/sexuality

Title/Profession

A title or profession relegated only to specific gender(s)

Spell/Technology

A spell or technology that affects someone's sexual characteristics, and how it's perceived

Document

A legal document that contains gender information and why it contains that

Language

A language with specific terms and definitions relating to gender, sexuality, and similar topics

Building/Vehicle

A location that provides medical assistance and advice when needed

Concepts

General ideas to help get you started. This is not a comprehensive list, nor are these definitive descriptions of the concepts.

Sexuality

Defining who you're attracted to and what kind of attraction

Gender

How you define yourself, often (but not always) in relation to your role in society or how you want others to perceive you

Gender Roles

Societal expectations based on your perceived or actual gender

Biological Sex

Can refer to base DNA and chromosomes, as well as what organs you have, how they function, what chemicals your body produces, and more

Sexual Dimorphism

When a species has different physical characteristics depending on biological sex, often unrelated to reproductive needs

Inspiration

• Han: Seabirth
• Jessica Kellgren-Fozard: Is LGBTQ+ too inclusive??
• Blue Foster: IDK If I'm a Boy

These videos are also available on Nebula

• Philosophy Tube: A Man Plagiarised My Work: Women, Money, and the Nation
• Philosophy Tube: I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times: The Crisis in the British Healthcare System

This video is also available as a podcast

• Factually!: The REAL History of Gender with Dr. Kit Heyam

Submitting

Submissions are open throughout the month of June, in whichever time zone you're in. There are several ways to get the links needed to submit your article. The two easiest:

1. While editing your article, Open Advanced Tools on the right and scroll down to Metadata. Copy either the block link or textual link as you prefer.
2. On any page where you can see the left sidebar, click the magnifying glass (or press ctrl+k) and Search for your article. Copy either the bbcode link or bbcode block.

Paste this into a comment here with any commentary you'd like to add, and you're done!

Submissions

Grandmaster elspeth87

Elspeth

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Master CoolG1319

CoolG

   

Explore the dark and mysterious Inferncenem or the bright and wonderful world of Caelumen
Have a good one!
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Grandmaster Moonlight Bard

Haly the Moonlight Bard

           

Haly, the Moonlight Bard

Summer Camp in Avalon

Rhapsody in Realms FREE on Substack!

Grandmaster larryhunkin

Councilor of the Inner Sanctum Mochimanoban

Mochi

 

I hope you have a great day!
Explore the endless planets brimming with life of the Yonderverse! Go after creatures, discover new places, and learn about the people you find along the way.
Check out my plans for Summer Camp!

Almighty Deity BasicDragon

Dragon

       

Grandmaster Leijona

Journeyman The Big G

From The River to The Ocean, a civilization grows up.

Master hughpierre

 

Check out some of my other stuff: Valley of Man|Four Quadrants |Cold Crown|Pearl Directive

Master Frod0_baggins

I can hear the stars, they are singing to me...
For more mystery and magic, check out the world of Starsong

Grandmaster Tyrdal

Sit down, my friend, and let me tell you of Aran'sha . A world where the sands shift and the stars sing, where the wind carries secrets and the twin moons keep silent vigil over it all.