Calling all BSG Fanfic writers - Galacticon 3, Houston, May has a fiction call out

[starry_diadem]

Grant's kindly agreed to let me post this here.

Galacticon this year will be in Houston, at the end of May. Among all the other events, there will be a panel on fanfiction and a workshop on writing

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[lls_mutant]

Cool! However, I do have a question about one of the rules:

There are TWO categories - Family Friendly and Slash. Slash will be accepted as long it is does not cross the line into raunchy (if using movie guidelines, most R would be accepted, nothing that crosses over into X rating.) When submitting, the category must be stated in the subject line on your electronic email submission.

How are you defining slash? The way the description makes it sound, it sounds like you're trying to divide into family friendly and more sexual? I know that in fandom, slash usually refers to homosexual relationships. However, I'd also assume a fic that concerns, say, Hoshi helping Gaeta recover from his amputation or how Helena and Gina met would qualify as family friendly, as long as no one's taking their clothes off. Would you mind clarifying on the guidelines, please? Thanks!

[starry_diadem]

I'll start out by saying that I didn't set the competition, but was asked both to help judge it and to take part in the panel and the workshop, so I'm pretty much having to work with something that someone else has set. As a slash writer, I wouldn't mind at all how raunchy things get, but there's some thoughts about making the stories available at the workshop and so the organisers had this in mind and wanted to keep it generally accessible.

I think that any story that focuses on a m/m or f/f relationship without sliding over in an explicit sex scene would qualify. So how they met or the h/c angle would be fine. It could (would?) be perfectly obvious that a sexual relationship either existed or was in development. That's still what i see as slash, even if there isn't explicit sex.

Hope that helps!

[lls_mutant]

Thanks for the answer- it does clear things up a bit. It's the "family friendly" part that is confusing. I know you're not running it and it's probably too late this year anyway, but they'd probably be better off using het/gen/slash as opposed to "family friendly" and "slash." (Heck, I don't consider the rebooted BSG "family friendly", just due to violence and some very adult themes like genocide, abortion, and revenge.) Thanks again for the answer!