Popping in late! Just to say that I've "participated" in lgbtfest both years (and by "participated" I mean "suggested prompts that got written for me and then flaked out on writing any myself without having to feel guilty about it") and felt really safe there.
I did ask the mods specifically if they included asexuality in their definition of lgbt for the fest, and was told not, but it was in a nice enough way (along the lines of "we don't know enough about that to feel like we could mod it well", not "you don't count") that I still felt welcome as a writer and prompter (though their definition of "transgender" is broad enough that I did manage to put in some prompts for neuter characters, though none got written.)
I was tempted to start a similarly-organized fest just for asexual characters, because that is absolutely my favorite fest format (I usually end up with about three or four of my prompts written! Without out any omg-i-have-an-obligation angst!) but my own lack-of-long-term-focus abilities make unlikely I could pull off running one, however much I wish it existed. :D
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Date: 2009-11-01 03:01 am (UTC)I did ask the mods specifically if they included asexuality in their definition of lgbt for the fest, and was told not, but it was in a nice enough way (along the lines of "we don't know enough about that to feel like we could mod it well", not "you don't count") that I still felt welcome as a writer and prompter (though their definition of "transgender" is broad enough that I did manage to put in some prompts for neuter characters, though none got written.)
I was tempted to start a similarly-organized fest just for asexual characters, because that is absolutely my favorite fest format (I usually end up with about three or four of my prompts written! Without out any omg-i-have-an-obligation angst!) but my own lack-of-long-term-focus abilities make unlikely I could pull off running one, however much I wish it existed. :D