Consider Yourself Challenged

[inkvoices]

Back in December sugar_fey started a discussion about virginity. Society and the media create a lot of expectations about people’s ‘first time’, that it’ll either by magical with singing choirs as you reach a simultaneous climax, or that it’ll be absolutely horrible and you’ll regret it forever. I pointed out that the only middle ground portrayals that I’d ever read in fanfiction and that even there it’s a rare breed. “Someone should do a ‘first time’ or ‘first experiences’ with reality challenge,” I said, and so here we are.

Let’s talk virginity: is it only officially a first time when there’s intercourse or is it just the first time you actually get naked and vulnerable with another person? If you have a ‘first time’ with one gender, do you get a second first time with another? What is a first sexual experience anyway? And does it even matter? Is it all just labels? Society puts a value on virginity, both keeping and losing it, but if virginity is the fact that you haven’t had a first time experience yet, and it’s your first time experience, than how can you ‘give’ or ‘lose’ that anyway?

So here’s the challenge: write a ‘first time’, any kind of first time, and make it realistic. Open up the debate around virginity or just showcase the many different types of first experiences that people can have.



This is for any fandom, any character/s, any interpretations that you like. You can leave prompts in comments to this post and prompts can be filled multiple times. Or you don’t have to provide or use a prompt, just write whatever you like. Please comment with fics or links to fics on this post. There’s no real deadline, but I aim to start posting a masterlist on July 1st.

If your fic is in the comments, please put a rating in the comment heading and warn appropriately before the start of the fic. If a link to your fic is in the comments, please include appropriate ratings and warnings in your fic header. If you’re worried about spoilers take a look here at how to white things out.

Do spread the news if you’d like to read more of these kinds of fics and I’m looking forward to reading what everyone comes up with!

EDIT: Dicussion of the challenge and relevant fic recs very welcome here.

EDIT: We have a Masterlist HERE. The Challenge is still open and ongoing!

Comments

Prompt - Avengers, Natasha/BlackWidow

[velvetmouse]

Avengers movie-verse; Natasha Romanov/Black Widow; She thinks her "first time" ought to be both consensual and not involving a mission. She's still waiting.

Re: Prompt - Avengers, Natasha/BlackWidow

[igrockspock.livejournal.com]

I am thinking about this really, really hard.

Prompt - Star Trek, Any

[velvetmouse]

Any where/time in the Star Trek 'verse; any; Preparing to be a ship's counselor/psychiatrist involves learning different culture's attitudes towards sex and virginity.

Prompt-Avengers, Captain America

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Steve doesn't believe in premarital sex, but now that that three-ring circus of a wedding is over...

It's beyond me who he'd marry, but a little crossover imp suggests "Dawn Summers."

Re: Prompt-Avengers, Captain America

[sugar-fey.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, yes. I can't begin to think of how it would happen, but yes.

Prompt--Spring Awakening, Anna/Melchior

[mycenaes.livejournal.com]

Spring Awakening (musical-verse); Anna/Melchior; Years after the events of the musical, Anna and Melchior are to be engaged. Anna's nervous about her first time...and so is Melchior, for different reasons.

(Bonus points if it's cute/fluffy--Lord knows this musical is depressing enough.)

Prompt: Star Trek XI, Gaila

[igrockspock.livejournal.com]

Gaila's first time having consensual sex.

Prompt: Harry Potter, Luna Lovegood/Any

[sugar-fey.livejournal.com]

Luna has sex for the first time. She's done a lot of research on the subject and is typically blunt and to the point in explaining how she thinks things should proceed, causing her partner to be both amused and slightly horrified.

I don't care who the partner is, but I'd love femslash. :)

Re: Prompt: Harry Potter, Luna Lovegood/Any

[sugar-fey.livejournal.com]

Now that my latest Avengers fic bunny has been exorcised, I will concentrate on... *drumroll* FILLING MY OWN PROMPT!

I regret nothing.

Prompt: Harry Potter, Hermione/anyone

[igrockspock.livejournal.com]

Hermione does plenty of research before her first time, but it turns out there are some things you can't learn from books.

Re: Prompt: Harry Potter, Hermione/anyone

[sugar-fey.livejournal.com]

Heh, we have different characters, but almost exactly the same prompt. ;)

OMG, this gets me thinking about Luna/Hermione. I might need to combine both our prompts in maximum fic power.

Prompt: Harry Potter, Hermione or Luna

[igrockspock.livejournal.com]

Hermione or Luna decide to lose their virgnity to a much older man.

Prompt: Harry Potter, Harry/Ginny

[igrockspock.livejournal.com]

Ginny is ready to have sex, but Harry isn't. How do they negotiate that?

Prompt: Any character/any fandom

[igrockspock.livejournal.com]

A character gets caught up in the moment and has sex for the first time, even though they weren't planning to. The encounter was much more casual than they had intended and/or they did not have serious feelings for their partner. How do they get over their disappointment?

Re: Prompt: Any character/any fandom

[ceitfianna]

This gives me an idea for Charles from XMFC. I need to think on this and see what I can put together.

Prompt: Fringe, Blueverse Olivia/anyone

[mollywobbles867.livejournal.com]

Olivia's first time and how she deals with the way sex breaks down her emotional walls.

Bonus if you write a part 2 that is Reduniverse Olivia's first time and use the opportunity to contrast the two characters' personalities. Extra bonus if they have sex with the same person, only their universe's version.

Prompt - Glee, Santana/Brittany

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Santana was surprised to learn about Brittany's first time (as referenced in the episode Yes/No). She feels protective of Brittany and wants to talk to her about what happened, but she isn't sure how.

Prompt - Avatar: The Last Air Bender, Zuko/Mai

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Zuko and Mai's Awkward First Time. She wants to be herself, but she worries that he'll be disappointed if she doesn't show a lot of enthusiasm (this is Mai, after all). He thinks he won't be able to tell if she's really enjoying herself, or not.

Prompt - The Dragonriders of Pern, Mirrim & Path

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

The first time Path rises to mate.

Re: Prompt - The Dragonriders of Pern, Mirrim & Path

[chesneycat.livejournal.com]

You can expect something from me on AO3 in the next day or so...

Breaking Bad - Jesse Pinkman/anybody

[sydpenguinbunny.livejournal.com]

Jesse Pinkman/anybody. First time at anything ^_^

Avengers: Steve/The rest of the team (gsf)

[heartequals.livejournal.com]

Steve hadn't expected his first time to be with five other people, but that's cool, he can do this.

(eta) Bonus points for struggling with and navigating sexuality/the 21st century/team dynamics

Prompt - Animorphs, Elfangor/Loren

[primeideal (from livejournal.com)]

They've gotten married and Loren's ready to have sex, but does Elfangor know how to navigate his human body?

Prompt - Game of Thrones, Sansa/Take Your Pick

[moderntrickster.livejournal.com]

I might write this myself as well, but I'd love to see how other people tackle it. Either Sandor/Sansa or Tyrion/Sansa after [spoilers! spoilers! if you read the books, you know what I'm talking about, if not just check the westeros wiki]. How does Sansa react to her first time after what almost happened to her during the revolt.

[rise-your-dead.livejournal.com]

Burn Notice, Sam/Anyone, you say you never forget your first time....

[zoi-no-miko.livejournal.com]

This is an awesome challenge! I'm not going to attempt to prompt or fill because I pretty much only write in fandoms of one (*sob*) but I was just really recently making explorations on the theme here:
Truth or Dare (http://zoi-prose.livejournal.com/114579.html)
(Which was a follow up to the actual first time sex, though POV character didn't know. :p (http://zoi-prose.livejournal.com/114113.html))

Interested to see what comes of the challenge!

[inkvoices]

Welcome aboard :D It doesn't have to be a prompt or a prompt fill, you can just write anything you want. It is open to all the fic ever! And feel free to just discuss if that's more your thing. Bascially, we just wanted to get these ideas opened out, y'know?

Have fun reading the fic! :D

Avengers/BtVS: Though Some Have Changed (NC-17)

[executrix.livejournal.com]

http://archiveofourown.org/works/443042.

Should I tag it as belonging to this challenge?

Re: Avengers/BtVS: Though Some Have Changed (NC-17)

[inkvoices]

Oh my gosh, I need to sleep, but it's sooo shiny! *grins* Appreciation now, reading later :D

If you could, sure, that'd be great and good word-spreading! Thanks!