Reminder Greetings and salutations, all! The last days of Ramzan are upon us and we'd like to remind you that the EKC challenge is in effect.
We are once again running the fanfiction challenge this year on Archive of Our Own. You may post fanfiction of any length to the Eid 2011 collection. Icons, vids, fanart &c can be posted or linked to in eid_ka_chand/eid_fic If you do not have an AO3 account, feel free to ask for an invite.
We look forward to going through the contributions and we hope you enjoy the rest of Ramadan.
announcing the 2011 Eid Al Fitr Challenge! The crescent moon has been spotted in various time zones across the world, & Ramadan has begun! Which means it's also time for our annual Eid fanworks challenge. We are not running a sponsored challenge yet but are open to suggestions.
Eid-Al-Fitr will be celebrated across the world on or around 30 August 2011, depending on local moon sightings. Our challenge asks for fanworks (fic, art, vids, icons, meta, picspam &c.) that focus on a fictional Muslim character. They do not need to explicitly focus on Eid or Islam, and can be about cultural rather than religious Muslims.
The master list of fictional Muslim characters is a good place to start looking for fandoms.
We are once again running the fanfiction challenge this year on Archive of Our Own. You may post fanfiction of any length to the Eid 2011 collection. Icons, vids, fanart &c can be posted or linked to in eid_ka_chand/eid_fic If you do not have an AO3 account, feel free to ask for an invite.
Last year we had a tremendous response - let's do that again this year! Sign up and we look forward to whatever you have to offer.
Any questions or concerns can be directed via email: ekc [dot] mod [at] gmail [dot] com
Admin: Money raised last year, and mod change Hi folks - my deep apologies for not getting to this sooner! I totalled the amounts in the reciepts forwarded to me by sponsors of the Eid-al-Thon that we held last year to raise funds for the survivors of the Pakistan earthquake, and, thanks to several generous doners who contributed more than their pledged commitment, we managed to raise...
45 Pound Sterling, 5,000 Yen, and $1,655!!!!
(It is possible that we have also raised an additional $72.50 - if you're one of the people whom I PMed yesterday asking for a copy of your reciept, just let me know and I can add your amount to our final tally.)
Once again, a huge thanks you to both all the generous sponsors, and the fan creaters who produced the many fanworks that helped raise this money.
Also remember, the collection at AO3 is open for submissions of fic centering around a fictional Muslim character all year round, and in addition has subcollections for each year of the Eid-al-Fitr challenge.
I'd also like to mention that the lovely kairia and azuire will be taking over as the mods of this comm since I need to step down, and will be running the Eid-al-Thon in August this year.
Once again, thank you everyone for your support of this comm!
And the amount of money these fanworks have raised (provisionally - we'll post again once reciepts of donations come in) is...
$1258.50!!!!!
You guys, do you realise how awesome you all are?!
Thank you so much, everyone who promoted, wrote, drew, vidded, talked and otherwise got this festival challenge to the place it reached this year.
We will be replying to all the sponsors in a day or two with the amounts their pledges reached. Many of the pledges got maxed out, which is utterly delightful, although meta, vids and fanart could still net us a couple of hundred dollars more. (If any sneaks its way in before we reply to sponsors, we'd be happy to still count it.)
Now that the challenge is over, please do take the time to enjoy the fanworks created, and leave some feedback for everyone who put in so much time and energy making them - they deserve to be appreciated on their artistic merits as well as for what they earned for charity. Consider writing up a rec post maybe, for your favourite fanworks to come out of it!
And do remember this community is open all year round to post about Muslim characters in the media around you!
kairia, azuire and I all thank you all once again for making our Eid so awesome!
Last reminder: Eid fanworks will raise money for Pakistan! It's around 24 hours to Eid depending on your time zone, and around 48 hours before we will close our challenge. And here are some really important numbers concerning our sponsorship for the Pakistan floods -
10 fanvids can raise $100 20 pieces of fanart can raise $100 10 pieces of meta can raise $100 25 fanfics of over 1,000 words each can raise $350
And 50 fanworks can raise - $625
Please, please help us reach this number. Persuade friends to write a short story. Ask them to draw your favourite heroine. Tell them to write up some meta about why a particular character or movie or book is awesome.
Our challenge is awesome and we love it, but being able to give some necessary aid to people devastated by the floods is even more awesome and important. And we have the ability to do this.
Please help us make this happen.
If you are writing fiction, post it to the AO3 collection. If you are making fanart, vids, meta or anything else, you can post it to your own journals, to this comm or both, just make sure to link to it in the master post of fanworks we will be making early on the 11th.
As you know, one very crucial goal of our fanworks challenge has been to increase the responsible representation of Muslims in fandom, because we know the real world effects of what distortions and erasures in the media we consume can have.
So we would like to encourage you to support this challenge, and at the same time support the much more pressing and urgent need in Pakistan, by signing up to sponsor our Challenge.
How it works:
You comment to this entry, making a pledge to donate a certain amount of money per fanwork generated. You can put conditions on your pledge, such as "I promise to donate $2 for every piece of fanfiction over 1,000 words", or "I will donate ₤5 for every fan vid, ₤3 for every fanart, ₤2 for every icon post", or "I will donate ¥1 for every fanwork up to a total of ¥30".
On September 11th we will post a master list of all the fanworks created for the challenge, with a breakdown by type.
By the end of September 12th, we will reply to your pledges telling you the amount you have committed to donating.
We ask that you, when possible, send us reciepts of your donations, so that we can post the actual amount of money raised by this challenge. You can email them to dhobikikutti@dreamwidth.org with private info blacked out; all information will be kept confidential.
Please do help us get the word out for this double challenge; we need both generous donors who will sponsor fanworks, as well as enthusiastic fans committed to increasing the number of fanworks in our challenge!
Announcing the 2010 Eid Al-Fitr Fanworks Challenge! The crescent moon has been spotted in various time zones across the world, and Wednesday the 11th of August, 2010, will be the start of the month of Ramadan.
Which means it is also time for the start of our annual fanworks challenge - this being the fourth year we've been running it!
Eid-Al-Fitr will be being celebrated across the world between 10th to 12th September, 2010, depending on local moon sightings. eid_fic's annual challenge asks for fanworks -- be they fic, art, vids, icons, meta, picspam etc. -- that focus on a fictional Muslim character.
Fanworks do not need to explicitly focus on Eid or Islam, and can be about characters who are culturally rather than actively practising Muslim.
We are running the challenge for fanfiction this year at the Archive of Our Own. Post to the collection there if you are create fanfiction of any length. We will be creating a master list of other fanworks generated that we cross-post to both eid_fic and eid_ka_chand, so you can choose to post or link to icons, vids, fanart etc at the community of your choice.
Last year we had 12 stories and 5 icon posts... and not a single piece of fanart or vid. The visibility of Muslim characters in dominant Anglophone media is minor and one-dimensional. We really really hope that fandom can help us increase the representation, and join all of us who celebrate Eid!
Please sign up! We are looking forward to enjoying whatever you make!
This is a very long, very beautiful story about what happens sometime after the second movie. World War II has begun, and Hitler has his eyes on the powerful secrets buried in the sands of Egypt. But, as always, the Medjai stand in his way. Religion plays a very large part in this story, with plenty of thought put into how the Medjai can both be Muslims and be sworn to the Old Gods of Ancient Egypt. Honestly, I can't sufficiently describe how inspiring I found the religious aspects of this story. The first chapter starts out a bit slow, but it picks up speed after that. My favorite Mummy story ever. The Falcon and the Dove by Kamira NC17; Jonathan/Ardeth My favorite story for this pairing. Again, very long. Religion doesn't play a very large role in this story, unfortunately. Ardeth is a Muslim, but it doesn't really come up much. Still, a very sweet story, overall.
Hurrah for Eid, and Onward to Yuletide! Hey all, I and shewhohashope would like to thank all of you for the best Eid yet - we had icons and fic and meta in both comms, and in general a greater awareness of Eid in fandom. Which makes us very happy, and gives us hope that the comms will continue to be fruitful and multiply. I'll be making a master list of everything posted in both comms soon, so that you can catch anything you might have missed, and leave feedback! (Please do feedback!)
In case you missed out on posting for Eid, please know that any time is a good time to post to this comm, and we will welcome cross-posts and links as well as original content.
It’s really funny, but when I was asked, earlier this year about fictional Muslims, I actually truthfully said that I couldn’t remember any.
Thing is,dhobikikutti started pestering me to talk about Muslim characters, write some Muslim fic, and I honestly couldn’t get myself started, because… well because I was lazy. Still am, actually.
But then I remembered: Hey, isn’t Hang Tuah a Muslim? It’s weird, because I normally associate Hang Tuah with Malay-ness (he’s kind of the quintessential Malay guy, really). And this is funny, because I remember playing him once in an amateur play. I was really bad at it.
FWIW, Majapahit was a Hindu empire that existed more or less concurrently with the Malaccan empire, and was its greatest rival before it fell apart to internal strife.
Anyway, I thought it was cool, and I wanted to share.
Fic: On the Doorways to Paradise Title: On the Doorways to Paradise (1540 words) Fandom: The Bubble (2006 film) Pairing: Noam/Ashraf Rated: PG-13 Summary: Noam and Ashraf find happiness, in the end.
Note: I feel kind of bad for reposting something old (I wrote this for yuletide this year), but for the sake of having another daysofawesome/eid_fic crossover, I hope it's okay. The fic is an epilogue to The Bubble, an Israel/Palestinian Romeo and Juliet-type story. Needless to say, heavy spoilers for the film.
Fic: Inshallah (BtVS; OFC; G) Title: Inshallah Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Character: OFC Spoilers: through "Chosen" (no comics canon) Rating: G Thanks: to D. for inspiring me to write this. Summary: Slaying doesn't just wreck a girl's manicure; it also messes up her hijab. Word count: 200
Fic: Forbid What Is Evil (Captain Britain and MI:13, Hussain family, PG) Title: Forbid What Is Evil Fandom: Captain Britain and MI:13 Rating: PG Characters: Lady Jacqueline, Dr Faiza Hussain, Dr Yusuf Hussain, Farida Hussain, Blade Word count: 2500 Summary: Jac knew that it was hard to become a vampire, but she didn't understand what Dr Hussain would be facing after Dracula turned him. Thanks: st_aurafina and kattahj
Fic: "Wednesday's Dream," The Man Who Was Thursday AU Title: Wednesday's Dream Fandom: The Man Who Was Thursday, AU (sex & gender swap) Rating: PG (some language and non-explicit violence) Warnings: Possible poor research, alas.
Fic: Cup of Charity, Rated G Title: Cup of Charity Fandom: Somewhat hard to say. Not exactly original. But not really a fandom. Rating: G Disclaimer: Disclaim, declaim, proclaim, "Beautiful day." Summary: Mikhai’il has been told to wait by the door until his cup is full. His cup is made of Styrofoam. It is a large, not a small. Umar has not been told to wait. He’s waiting anyway. Danya doesn’t wait at all. That’s why there’s sand everywhere. A story in which nothing much happens. Or a lot. Depending.
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