2025 Show Your Colors Challenge
Challenge
Celebrate Pride Month by celebrating the queer people, places, and things in your setting.
Mochi and I are looking for worldbuilding made with love for the queer community - articles that trend positive, hopeful, or uplifting, even in the face of conflict and struggle. This challenge also encourages showcasing the human behind the screen, and we'll prefer articles that aren't made with generative AI tools.
Rules
- Don't over-exert yourself! Save your energy for Summer Camp.
- The challenge starts on June 1 in whichever timezone you're in and ends on June 30.
- Write an article during the challenge that celebrates queerness in your setting.
- Your submission must be created on/after June 1 and submitted on/before June 30.
- It must be at least 300 words, but there's no word count maximum.
- You can use any template as long as the article supports the spirit of the challenge.
- All work is welcome, but we have a preference for human-made content - articles without genAI text or images.
Common Worries
Hosts
Councilor of the Inner Sanctum Mochimanoban
Mochi
Creator of the Yonderverse and A To Zoo , Mochi specialises in worldbuilding creatures and ecosystems, but diversity and queerness is an important aspect of their award-winning writing.
Show Your Colors Inspiration
Creator of wow that's a lot of stars and the world you're on right now, Rin's specialties are in characters, relationships, and the conflicts that result. They love articles that focus on writing and storytelling.
Show Your Colors Inspiration
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Submitting
Submissions are open throughout the month of June, in whichever time zone you're in. There are several ways to get the links needed to submit your article, but these are the two easiest:- On any page where you can see the left sidebar, click the magnifying glass (or press ctrl+k) and Search for your article. Copy either the bbcode link or bbcode block.
- When viewing your article on your world, scroll to the button and click the clipboard icon to copy article block.
Sharing
When making WA community posts, use the tag #SYC25 on posts related to this challenge, and #pride for anything related to Pride Month.Submissions
This challenge ended on June 30.
All submitted articles are in the list below!
All submitted articles are in the list below!
Sage Make lore, not war
Imagica
Worldember is finally here!! Here is my pledge!
Come visit my world of Kena'an for tales of fantasy and magic! Or, if you fancy something darker, Crux Umbra awaits.
Sage nnie
Annie Stein
Solaris -— a sapphic space opera
Creator of World of Worlds | Camp Chill | Comment Carolers
Definitely taking part in this! Also got a nice surprise seeing one of my articles used as an example <3
I happen to strongly relate to Charlie's struggle for gender-correct identification! Looking forward to seeing what you do next :D
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