#rainbow lines b/c it the lesbian gundam show

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good kit. very lopsided weight-wise (coin on base for stability). head could be tighter

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Prompts creation...complete!

The prompts and the calendars they sit on are complete.

I see you scratching your head. Calendars? What do you mean calendars? June only has one calendar, it only has 30 days!

Well I like having options. I like switching between Netflix, Hulu, and Discovery Plus depending on what I’m in the mood for, because that way there’s so many movies and TV show options, and I end up watching nothing because there’s too many options. Options give life variety, and so why wouldn’t I want y’all to have options?? This isn’t your run-of-the-mill 30 days of Pride challenge here.

(Or maybe it is, I haven’t done one of these since my days writing fic on Livejournal.)

Instead of having one set of prompts and a calendar to follow, we have three of them! Three sets of prompts to choose from! Hurray variety!

And the spreadsheet cells together make up the rainbow, because who doesn’t love rainbows???

(No one I know.)

How do these prompts work?

So you have Options A, B, and C. Options A and B have your typical word prompts, things like “shoreline” and “moonlight”. You take that word, and you use it as inspo for your fic or art piece, keeping in mind that it has to do with LGBTQ+ themes. Option C has song lyrics for your prompts instead, but otherwise work the same way.

Okay, cool. What if I want to do more than one set of prompts? What if I want to do song lyrics and word prompts?

Well you’re in luck, hypothetical reader! You can do just one set, two sets, or all three! You’re an overachiever if you decide to do all of them (there’s one overachiever in every family, you make me so proud!), but there’s some things to keep in mind if you decide to do that.

Say Day 1′s A prompt is “shoreline”, B’s prompt is “moonlight”, and C’s prompt is “darling don’t be scared/baby let’s go anywhere”. If you decide to do all three, you must either incorporate all of those into one piece, or do each one separate, and they have to be posted for Day 1.

You can do one set of prompts for fic, and another for art, if you wanna do both types of media. Or you can do more than one set for fic, or all of them for art.

Do I have to post them all at the same time?

AO3 allows you to change the date of publication if you’re going to only post once a week (to avoid spamming the tag), or every few days or what have you. We do encourage posting things the day you’re supposed to (so Day 1 would be posted June 1), but you don’t have to. The labeling is more important just for tracking purposes.

Where do I post things?

Post wherever you normally do for fic or art, whether that’s here on Tumblr or over at AO3. Just give us the link so we can share the links :) There will also be a collection on AO3 you can put your things in so people can find them easier.

If I get a head start on the prompts, and I’ve finished, can I post them early?

You cannot. Day 1′s prompts can’t be posted before 1 June. Any time after that is fine.You can of course queue things up on Tumblr for posting, and have things drafted and ready to post on AO3 before then, but they can’t be posted before that prompt’s date!

Is the content we make ours to keep?

You’re posting these things to your own accounts, we’re just reblogging and retweeting the links and summaries here for more easier tracking. The content is yours to keep, we’re happily sharing it around with you.

Do I have to remain canon compliant or can I do an AU?

Your works can be canon compliant, canon divergent, or alternate universes. What’s important is that you keep the prompt in mind, and that your works contain Gundam Wing, and LGBTQ+ themes.

So yes, you can happily yeet Frozen Teardrop into the sun if you so choose.

Does my work need to include an LGBTQ+ pairing as the focus if I go the romance route?

I mean. Pride is about the LGBTQ+ community. You don’t have to have romance, but you do need to feature that LGBTQ+ representation.

Which yes, that includes ships.

You can have het ships in your works, but they shouldn’t be the focus, because that kind of defeats the purpose of LGBTQ+ representation.

What about ships that are considered “het”? Can I write them as being a queer ship instead?

If you want to make 1xR or 2xH or whatever het ships not het (maybe Heero and Relena are both bi, or Relena is pan and Heero is ace, or Heero is questioning; Hilde is genderqueer; Noin is non-binary, Sally is a lesbian, and Une is bi, etc.), that’s fine. But don’t use this as a way to try to sneak in het ships as a focus, this is about LGBTQ+ representation.

Can I write about polyam?

Absolutely. You can have your 1x2xR, your RxDxC, your 9x11xS, your pilot piles, etc.

Bottom line, have fun with these prompts, and don’t be afraid to unfurl all the LGBTQ+ flags and let them fly proudly!