Slash Advent Calendar

The Slash Advent Calendar was a multi-fandom slash challenge/calendar run every December from 2002 to 2005. Founded by kira-nerys at Lady Kardasi Productions, it included works from fandoms such as Star Trek, Harry Potter, The Sentinel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 
In 2004, the challenge inspired the FemSlash Advent Calendar which is archived here. In 2006, with a new moderator, the Slash Advent Calendar became a purely Star Trek affair, the first in a series of Kirk/Spock Advent Calendars which then ran continuously until 2017, and was subsequently relaunched in 2022.
"Years ago, Kira set up a Slash Advent Calendar that she is passing along to someone else because it has become so successful and popular that it can no longer be handled by one person. In those early years, K/S played a big role in the calendar's offerings. We hope to recreate that with this new project, which was the idea of Kira herself."https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ASCEML/conversations/messages/98959 Retrieved July 6, 2019.
Starting in 2003, large portions of the Slash Advent Calendar hosting website were placed under password protection. As a result later years have not been archived. kira-nerys explained this as follows, and included a link to a Security Information page which enabled access to the necessary password and userid. 
No records have been found to date of anyone continuing the Slash Advent Calendar after 2005.
In December 2024, it was announced that the Slash Advent Calendar 2002-2005 would be moving to the Archive of Our Own as an Open Doors Project. The announcement included the following statement: "As the forerunner of a long term fandom institution, the Slash Advent Calendar is well worth preserving. (Open Doors would be delighted to help preserve the older Kirk/Spock Advent Calendars as well, if the moderators are happy to do so.)"The Slash Advent Calendar is Moving to the AO3 (Accessed 13 December 2024)
==Stories and Artwork by Year==
See the subpages for details about individual calendars, including daily story lists, artwork examples and feedback:
Each year had different groups of fandoms-and-pairings or genres. For each group, kira-nerys sought enough short fanworks to post one per day. There was also a Miscellaneous group, for which creators could contribute any slash fanwork they wished. 
* 2002 featured: Smallville (Clark/Lex); Star Trek TOS (Kirk/Spock); Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Spike/Xander); Harry Potter (Harry/Snape); The Sentinel (Jim/Blair); and Miscellaneous.
* 2003 featured: Smallville (Clark/Lex); Highlander TV series (Duncan/Methos); Star Trek TOS (Kirk/Spock); Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Spike/Xander); Harry Potter (Harry/Snape); The Sentinel (Jim/Blair); Miscellaneous; and Femmeslash.
* 2004 featured genres: Crime (e.g. CSI, The Sentinel, Starsky and Hutch); Sci-Fi (e.g. Star Trek, Firefly, Stargate); Fantasy (e.g. Smallville, Hercules, Highlander); Books (e.g. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Anita Blake); Movies (e.g. Star Wars, Master and Commander, Pirates of the Caribbean); Realistic (e.g. Perry Mason, M*A*S*H, West Wing); Animated (e.g. Gundam Wing, X-Men, From Eroica with Love); and Original.
* 2005: no information available.
==References==
 
Category:Slash Challenges
Category: Calendars
Category:2002 Challenges
Category:2003 Challenges
Category:2004 Challenges
Category:2005 Challenges