Multifandom Poetry Fest 2023
Jul. 13th, 2023 06:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Welcome to the seventh 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: 2023-07-13 05:09 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-07-13 05:18 am (UTC)Any, a poem from a tool
Date: 2023-07-13 06:33 am (UTC)Any, poem from an animal
Date: 2023-07-13 06:34 am (UTC)Re: Any, a poem from a tool - Murderbot Diaries
Date: 2023-07-13 07:54 am (UTC)For his own fuck-ups. And they never learn
From past mistakes. Most humans are just fools.
Who’s got to save them from the pain they earn?
Go on. I’ll let you make two guesses.
First one doesn’t count. It’s me—
Whenever someone messes
Up so badly you can see
That shit from space, it’s me who has to fix it.
And then it’s me who has to take the fall.
Just a machine—who cares if the boss bricks it
When it’s your precious ass against the wall?
“Equipment fault.” It’s such an easy out
When you’re not who those words are said about.
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Date: 2023-07-13 07:55 am (UTC)Re: Any, poem from an animal
Date: 2023-07-13 11:06 am (UTC)breaths slowing so she can breathe, too;
She closes her eyes as her fingers stroke my fur
Once panicked,
She is no more.
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Date: 2023-07-13 01:09 pm (UTC)Re: Any, poem from an animal
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Date: 2023-07-13 01:13 pm (UTC)The Raven Tower, Mother Zezume & Mawat
Date: 2023-07-13 01:36 pm (UTC)There is no other woman who would claim you as a son.
Child silent as the wood, but not as wise,
Your father never could do wrong in your eyes.
So I remained behind, while you grew up and left,
Coming home to find what you called your birthright’s theft.
You fool! You don’t know the choice we faced.
To watch our fates unspool, and all of us disgraced.
I did what I thought best, and that’s no lie.
O child of my breast, why do you want to die?
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Date: 2023-07-13 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-07-13 01:54 pm (UTC)Re: The Raven Tower, Mother Zezume & Mawat
Date: 2023-07-13 01:56 pm (UTC)Re: The Raven Tower, Mother Zezume & Mawat
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