Multifandom Poetry Fest 2022
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Welcome to the sixth annual Multifandom Poetry Fest, a prompt fest for poetry for all fandoms! Have fun, and feel free to promote it on your journal/community/tumblr/discord server/whatever if you want. You can copy the code in this box wherever HTML applies:
Rules
1) Leave a prompt in the form of fandom, characters or relationships, prompt. If you don’t want to specify the fandom or characters, you can say "any." One prompt per comment. Leave as many prompts as you like.
2) Reply to other people’s prompts with poems. The poems can be any length or form, or no form. Quality isn’t important--the point is to have fun, not to produce deathless works of art. (Any deathless works of art produced are just a bonus.)
FAQ
Q: I want to write a sonnet/haiku/villanelle/limerick, but I’m not sure how it goes.
A: You can find a good list of poetic forms and their structures here.
Q: Can I write fills without leaving any prompts, or leave prompts without writing any fills?
A: Go ahead!
Q: I want to fill a prompt, but someone else has already filled it.
A: That’s okay, prompts can be filled multiple times.
Q: I want to write explicit erotica, or a poem with potentially disturbing themes, or a poem that spoils recent installments of canon (or make a prompt for the same). Is that okay, and what sort of content do I need to warn for?
A: Sure, that's fine. Warnings are considerate and appreciated, but they're also up to the discretion of the individual poster. Consider this a warnings-optional space and read at your own risk accordingly.
Q: Are the fills I write considered to be gifts to the prompter?
A: Only if you and the prompter want them to be! Otherwise feel free to treat the prompt simply as inspiration.
Q: Can I prompt/write original works?
A: Original works are a fandom! If you want, you can specify genre and character types while prompting, like so: original fantasy setting, female elf/female orc, next time I won't miss.
Q: I want to participate, but I don't have a dreamwidth account/I'm shy.
A: That's okay--anonymous posting is on.
Q: How long is the fest going to be running for?
A: Currently, I don't have any plans to close this post to comments--I figure we'll keep going until everyone gets bored and wanders off. I reserve the right to change my mind, though.
Q: Is there a collection on AO3 where I can post my poems?
A: Right here.
Q: I want to participate, but I suck at writing poetry.
A: Aww, you’re probably not as bad as you think. But even if you are, it really doesn’t matter--like I said, the main point is to have fun.
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Date: 2022-07-07 05:11 am (UTC)(fun fact: that's the same '-spir-' as in aspire, inspire, expire, and respire—that last being closest to the meaning of the root Latin verb—and 'con-' meaning 'with' means the etymology of 'conspire' is 'breathe with')
Doctor Who (1963), Third Doctor/Delgado!Master
Date: 2022-07-10 10:59 am (UTC)Your fun fact - the combination of “conspire”=”scheme” and “conspire”=”breathe (together) with someone” - made me think of them.
(for canon context – the two characters in question are centuries-old alien friends-turned-frenemies)
Again, you scheme, you plan, and you conspire
With yet another cunning alien race,
Led by an all-encompassing desire
To conquer – so you say – all time and space.
And yet you always fail. And yet again
You always turn to me when you’re betrayed,
As if an armistice with me would then
Bring you a satisfaction just as great
Or even greater than a victory –
For if you win, then this would put an end
To our dear old fight. But as for me,
I think I have a question, my dear friend.
Why do you, if you want the Universe,
Take Earth – my favourite prison – always first?
Think: do you want the Universe at all,
Or do you see, indeed, a closer goal?
Re: Doctor Who (1963), Third Doctor/Delgado!Master
Date: 2022-07-11 05:26 am (UTC)Re: Doctor Who (1963), Third Doctor/Delgado!Master
Date: 2022-07-11 11:35 pm (UTC)