hello yes i would like to announce my new Soft Jonghyun Challenge! this will be a challenge for fics AND fan art, and will focus on celebrating portrayals of jonghyun that deviate from images of him as a dominant hypermasculine cishet bro, as well as portrayals that celebrate marginalized identities.
this challenge welcomes any or all of the following:
jonghyun being gentle/soft
jonghyun being feminine or gender nonconforming
junghee and the rest of girlee, including trans girlee
jonghyun as a sub in a dom/sub context
jonghyun as a submissive top/switch
this should not be seen as an exhaustive list.
i will be publishing a list of prompts and reader wishes on my blog in the next week, so please stay tuned (and submit some ideas).
this challenge also welcomes affirming and knowledgeable portrayals of any marginalized identities, including (but not limited to) queer/nonstraight (this includes aro spec and ace spec characters), trans/nonbinary/noncis, poly, intersex, neurodivergent, disabled, and mentally ill characters.
(see more content guidelines beyond the jump)
jonghyun/junghee must be a main or major character.
all pairings/OT+s are allowed, including crossovers from other groups or fandoms, as long as jonghyun/junghee is part of any main pairing/OT+. (side pairings do not have to include jonghyun/junghee). platonic and queerplatonic ships are welcome. jonghyun-centric or junghee-centric fics/art without a defined pairing/OT+ are also welcome. (also, you will earn my undying love if you write me a good jongkey fic with dom!kibum.)
any art style, genre, rating, or word count is allowed. there is no limit to the number of submissions that any artist or writer can submit.
all fics must have the characters or pairings/OT+s listed at the top, as well as the word count, rating, and any trigger or content warnings, including kink warnings. in addition, if any part of your fic or art is smutty, put all nsfw content behind a jump and tag it as #nsfw. i will not reblog any nsfw content that does not follow these guidelines, out of respect for minors and sex-repulsed folks. you can put a safe-for-work portion of your art before the jump if you want to tease it. (if you absolutely don’t want to put your fan art behind a jump, you can still tag your submission and i’ll include a link to it in the masterpost. i just won’t reblog it.) i will also be tagging all reblogs of nsfw content as #nsfw.
tag your submission as #softjonghyun and do so within the first five tags on your fic / art. in addition, you can also tag me @taketaemtoyourleader if you’re worried about your submission getting missed. but the hashtag is the most important. i will also be tagging everything related to the challenge with this tag.
this is a month-long challenge, and i will start reblogging from the #softjonghyun tag on Nov. 1. however, you can post your art or fics at any time between now and the end of november. i will stop reblogging after Nov. 30, but if you need an extension of a few days, lemme know, and i will wait a few days so i can include you in the masterpost.
thank you all and please reblog / tweet / otherwise spread this challenge, so we can get the word out.
