2010 Eid ka Chand fest!

[starlady]

So tired. Salt is awesome, you should go see it NOW. More on that later.

The awesome community eid_ka_chand is responsible for some of my absolutely favorite fanworks (and I swear I will write a post reccing them soon--maybe you should do that by the end of the festival, self! sounds like a good idea, self! oh wait you haven't explained the fest yet, duh), and is running its annual Eid-al-Fitr challenge. Fanworks of all kinds focusing on Muslim characters are more than welcome, and that goes double for vids! 

The sign-up post is here.

Sleep now.

Comments

[seekingferret]

I aspire to write Pirate Rabbi/Barbary Pirates for combination eid_ka_chand/daysofawesome, but I think it's a maybe next year proposition, alas. I don't know enough about Barbary Pirates yet to write it.

[starlady]

Which reminds me, I have a few books I need to track down for fic-research purposes.

[recessional]

I will have to ponder whether I can commit to writing it, but I wandered over to the character-list to suggest a couple anyway.

(I write Aisha as Muslim culturally, anyway.)

[starlady]

I definitely can't commit to writing it, which is part of why I wanted to signal-boost.

[jibrailis]

Yayyyy! I signed up, but now I'm like "what should I write? Some Little Mosque on the Prairie or another fandom?" Choices, choices.

[starlady]

Yay sign-ups!

Choices indeed...

[kindkit]

Now I want fic about Julian Bashir's relationship with his Muslim heritage. That's probably a little too speculative for the fest, though, since it's got no canon basis apart from his family name and one line in one episode about his descent from a poet (Persian or Indian, I can't recall which) named Bashir.

ETA: I found an episode transcript and the story doesn't specify where Singh el-Bashir was from, leaving even less basis for guessing.

[starlady]

Oh Star Trek, way to prioritize the amorphous sign over the concrete signified. It's the same damn thing with Hikaru Sulu--that is not a name that would come out of any one specific Asian culture. Fanon has been that he's at least partially Japanese for decades, but no one really knows, and to get a surname like that he'd have to be Japanese-something else. (And note the firstname lastname instead of familyname givenname there too.)

Mrah. But I would like that Bashir fic too.