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Multifandom Poetry Fest 2024
Welcome to the eighth 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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To come back—
And to come back wrong, at that?
Is such a thing even possible?
You’re still you, in the end.
Changed, of course.
Grave dirt under your nails,
Ash lingering on your tongue.
The anger overtakes,
Burning.
Burning.
Burning.
But you’re still you.
All you’ve ever done is burn bright, after all.
You’re just as you were.
Just as you are.
Just as you always will be.
It’s the people around you that have changed.
You’re not a little bird anymore—
No hollow bones,
No sitting pretty in the nest,
No flight.
No magic.
You grow up.
You never got to grow up.
Both are true,
Neither are true,
And you are set ablaze.
You’re a memory, a shroud, an echo.
And memories don’t grow.
They don’t change.
They don’t taste blood and ash and earth.
But you have— even if you are still you.
A blurry photograph, a fractured glass case,
A pedestal, a shrine, a memorial.
Those aren’t you.
You’re still you.
But there’s no space for you in a memory, is there?
Unyielding, unchanging as they are.
If you don’t fit the image, then—
Then you came back wrong, didn’t you?
That’s what they say.
You’re not a songbird anymore.
You can’t sing—
You don’t have a voice.
But you can still make them listen.
You’ve always burned bright, after all.
You’re still you, in the end.
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