Prompts of Color Feedback Poll

[swissmarg]

Despite having been the most popular idea for a Diversity Awareness Month activity, the Prompts of Color comment fest didn't exactly find a resounding echo amongst the community members. Only a couple of people submitted prompts, and only one person completed a fanwork (this spectacular portrait of Padma by imera, go check it out!). So I'm just curious in finding out what went wrong and if there might be anything we could learn for future events.


[Poll #1987555]


Feel free to leave any comments you might have below. Thank you!

Comments

[ely-baby.livejournal.com]

I was busy with other three fests - still am with Smutty Claus - during the comment fest, hence why I could only prompt and not fill in anything, even though I had more than one idea.

Also, I wrote a Dean/Lily Luna story for the Dirtywrong Comment Fest over at hp_het_taboo, but I posted it right before this fest started and I didn't know I could have cross-posted here too (had I known that, I would have done it!).

But to be quite honest, probably there isn't all that interest to explore characters of colour in the Harry Potter fandom...? Not for some particular reason, but maybe just because they're all mostly secondary characters? And also because all I see on my Friends Feed is Harry/Draco popping up EVERYWHERE, and I don't even follow a single h/d community. I mean, I'm not sure that people are interested in writing about something different from their usual interests for a fest (there are people who participate to fests and ask ALWAYS the same pairings over and over and over again). And that makes me a bit sad. I - for example - would love to have a community that would run fests for the next-gen for example, but I don't think anybody would like to participate judging by the amount of next-gen stories that people write for fests. And it's the same for characters of colours, people don't really write much about them. Draco, Harry, Hermione, Snape are every-freaking-where. Maybe the only one is Blaise, who appears a bit more often than the others.

But this is what I think, but maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. :|

[swissmarg]

Oh sure, cross-posting would have been fine!

Most multi-pairing fests usually end up with a couple of characters of color represented, although it's true they are often by the same creators. People do tend to have their favorite characters and stick to them.

Thank you for all of your recs, by the way. It wouldn't have been the same without your input!

[ely-baby.livejournal.com]

Awww! You're so sweet. It was a pleasure for me to participate! :D xx