[Event - Closed] Sappho's Spinning Wheel: A Yuri Garden Collaborative Anthology Event

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Reservation List:
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Completed Submissions:

1. (@pynkbites ) "St. George and the Dragon" (The Golden Legend by Jacobus Voragine) - https://www.christianiconography.info/goldenLegend/george.htm
2. (Queenfisher (SH)) "Thumbelina" by Hans Christian Andersen - https://andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/Thumbelina_e.html
3. (Toomanysorrows (SH)) "The Forest-Maiden's Proposal" (Her Mannelig Ver. 2) - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1CLW-Nv5pgkRUdqS2s4cjBnZ3M/view (can be easily Google Translated)
4. (@Moonpearl ) "Petrosinella" by Giambattista Basile (Version of Rapunzel) - https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0310.html#basile
5. (jmassat (SH)) "John Henry, Steel Driving Man" (W. T. Blankenship) - https://www.ibiblio.org/john_henry/early.html
6. (@Maple-Leaf) "The Clam Wife" (Wiki Source) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuru_no_Ongaeshi
7. (@uwu_Nabong ) "La Xtabay" (The Yucatan Times telling) - https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2019/11/the-legend-of-la-xtabay/
8. (@thedude3445 )"Hansel and Gretel" by the Grimm Brothers (Short Story America translation) - https://shortstoryamerica.com/pdf_classics/grimm_hanse_and_gretel.pdf

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Welcome to the second Yuri Garden collaborative anthology event~! This time it’s a fairytales and folktale anthology.
If you’re new to this format, this is a new Yuri Garden event where writers can take part in producing a yuri anthology, which will then be released on the Garden’s Scribble Hub account.
You can find our first anthology here: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/140508/-nights-in-the-garden-of-lilies-a-yuri-garden-anthology/
And our Scribble Hub account here: https://www.scribblehub.com/profile/25779/theyurigardenallotment/


Our second anthology will be a collection of fairytale and folktale adaptations.
This time, rather than reserving premade prompts, participants will pick and reserve the tale they wish to adapt.

Participants will have 6 weeks to write and submit a valid first draft, and 2 additional weeks to edit and submit their final version.

This event will be accepting reservations for 2 months, closing on Saturday the 28th of November. After this date, no more reservations can be made.

The anthology will be released after this date passes and there are no more reservations, either because they ran out or were fulfilled.

The collection will then be released one story per night.

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For the sake of this event, “fairytales” will have a wide definition and will include fairytales of all formats, such as fairytale films or the various fairytale ballets, like Swan Lake.
Urban legends and creepypasta will not be counted under “folktales”.

You can adapt your chosen fairytale or folktale as much as you want by changing the setting, time period, character motivations, origin stories, overall theme/message, the ending, and much more.

Your story must still be an adaptation of the tale, however, and it must be able to be recognised as that. Simply using motifs from your chosen tale as imagery for your story will not count. (e.g. Disney’s “Frozen” is not an adaptation of “The Snow Queen” even though Elsa is a queen who uses ice magic.)

Adapting your tale to be yuri is mandatory, of course.


Because there are often many, many versions of the same tale, all versions will be counted as one tale. Reserving one version means that other versions can no longer be reserved.
The only exception to this is if one version of the tale is different enough to be counted almost as a different tale.
For example, “Finette Cendron” will still be available if Cinderella is reserved, because only the last third or so of the story bears any resemblance to the traditional tale (the rest being a Hansel and Gretel and Jack and the Beanstalk fusion).


Here’s a list of example adaptations:

Spoiler: Examples in detail

Megan Kearney’s “The Beauty and the Beast” - http://www.batb.thecomicseries.com/ - An adaptation of Beauty and the Beast where Beauty is taken captive by the sinister, sentient castle and the Beast is a fellow prisoner forced to work as its contract lawyer. The Beast was originally the illegitimate son of a king whose bitter, incestuous mother plotted to have him take the throne against his will. She never succeeded, but her constant psychological abuse drove him to commit suicide, accidentally awakening the castle’s magic with his blood.

April Pierce’s “The Prince and the Swan” - http://princeandswan.com/ - A gay fantasy adaptation of Swan Lake in which Odet is the good son of a tyrannical king who was overthrown at the cost of his kingdom. Hints so far suggest that Rothbart, as a powerful sorcerer, helped Odet’s brother to commit treason, but transformed Odet into a swan to carry him out and save him. The spell was supposed to be temporary, but Rothbart realised only after that his love was unrequited and couldn’t break it. Decades later, the prince of a budding new kingdom stumbles across the lake and the trapped prince.

“Barbie in The Princess and the Pauper” – An adaptation of the Prince and the Pauper. The princess is a science geek who’s in love with her tutor, but is being married off to a neighbouring wealthy king to save her country from poverty. The pauper is a seamstress who longs to be a travelling singer, but she’s forced to work as an indentured servant to pay off the debt her family accrued raising her. They meet when the princess sneaks out for one last day of freedom.
The queen’s evil advisor was planning to use his own wealth to marry the princess and become king but returns just in time to hear about the wedding. He then plans to kidnap the princess, frame her as having run away to call off the wedding, and then return her so they he can receive her hand in marriage for finding her.
Unfortunately for him, the princess’ tutor becomes suspicious when the letter she allegedly left behind is scented with lavender instead of her trademark rose. He brings in the pauper to replace her and save the arrangement while he leaves in search of the princess.

“A Cinderella Story” – An adaptation of Cinderella set in the 2000s. The main character’s father was a diner owner in San Francisco who accidentally married a gold digger and then died. His daughter is abused by his wife and his two daughters, being forced to work in the diner and as a servant at home, while they live in luxury. The main character has a secret online crush with a poetic man and agrees to meet with him at the school dance, attending in the diner manager’s wedding dress and a masquerade mask – however, she discovers that he’s the most popular boy in school and flees. He only has the phone she dropped to help him find her.

If you’re interested in taking part, please read the Reservation Rules, Submission Rules, and Content Rules below, segregated for your convenience~!

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Reservation Rules:
1. To make a reservation, contact me (Moonpearl) with your choice of fairytale/folktale and the specific version you would like to adapt, along with a link to a copy of it (if a story) or its Wikipedia page (if a film or otherwise).

2. If your reservation is accepted, you’ll have 6 weeks from the acceptance date to complete and submit a valid first draft. Reservation end dates will be listed at the top of this post, and all reservations run out at midnight of the stated date, GMT.

3. An additional 2 weeks reservation for editing will be gained automatically after submitting a valid first draft.

4. A tale can only be reserved if no one else has reserved or completed it.

5. You can only reserve 1 tale at a time.

6. If you wish to remove your reservation and/or switch your reservation to a new tale, you can let me know at any time. If you make a new reservation, you’ll have the full 6 weeks to write the first draft of your new story.


Submission Rules:
1. Please submit your story to me via Personal Message, either on NUF or Scribble Hub. You can deliver it to me as a link to a Google Drive file if you wish, just so long as it’s shared with me in private.

2. When submitting your final draft, please also include the title of your piece, which username you would like to be credited by (if different from your current account), which account(s) you would like me to link to in order to find you, and any author notes that you would like to include. Author notes will be placed at the end of your piece by default, but can be placed elsewhere by request.

3. You cannot submit a story for a tale that someone else has reserved or which has already been completed.

4. You can submit a story for a tale that is not currently reserved and that no one else has completed an adaptation for already. This, however, is a risky method.

5. There is no word limit, but your story will be posted as a single “chapter” in the collection, so it may help to keep that in mind when writing.


Content Rules:
1. Your story must be an original adaptation and cannot be fanfiction. It cannot have been published anywhere else previously, and cannot be published elsewhere until after the release of the anthology.

2. Your story must be yuri. In other words, there must be a significant romantic or sexual relationship between at least two women in your story, and one of those women must be the protagonist regardless of who the narrator is. This relationship should be the focus of your story in some way. Casual passing flirtation and/or a character who just happens to be a lesbian will not count. Ambiguous relationships (i.e. yuribait) will not be considered a fulfilment of this requirement.

3. No stories where characters are “turned straight”, end up with someone who’s not a woman, or leave a woman for someone who’s not a woman. (Your characters can have had relationships with non-women in the past or leave one for a woman.)

4. No lolicon. This includes but is not limited to:

• Relationships between characters who are 18 or over and characters who are under 18
• Sexual content with characters below the age of 18. This includes but is not limited to sex involving those characters, sexual contact involving those characters (e.g. hickeys, fondling/groping), and the sexualisation of those characters (e.g. using erotic description)
• Characters intended to look like children and/or much younger than they really are, regardless of what age you try to claim them to be

There are no loopholes in this rule. I reserve the right to refuse any story that tries to find a way to circumvent it.

5. Relationships between characters who are below the age of eighteen can only have a two-year age gap at most. The rule about a character being much younger in all but name still applies here.

6. As your source material may come from far-flung, less pleasant times, there’s a chance that it will contain very casual bigotry. If your tale contains instances of racism, homophobia, transphobia, or any other bigotry, do not copy this across to your adaptation unless you intend to criticise it. Likewise, do not add these elements to your adaptation unless for critical purposes.

7. No futanari.

8. No incestuous relationships. For those using tales in which the threat of incest is a major plot point, the same threat of incest will be permittable in the submitted story – but it should remain a mere threat and not be shown as a positive or desirable thing.

9. Gender bender cannot be used on cisgender men (i.e. people who are assigned men at birth based on their bodies and who do identify as men).

10. No depictions of rape, bestiality, necrophilia, or other illegal sex acts. Mentions of them should also be kept to a minimum (none at all, if possible) and only in a negative light.

11. NSFW is allowed but do note that, if you plan to publish your story on your own account afterwards, stories on Scribble Hub cannot be purely smut or “porn without plot”.