Multifandom Poetry Fest 2024
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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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Date: 2024-07-02 12:45 pm (UTC)The Untamed, Wen Qing (& Jiang Cheng & Wei Wuxian)
Date: 2024-07-02 01:37 pm (UTC)Blood is my ink—
A scalpel my brush—
The rising, curved, and falling stroke,
The ebb and flow of qi—
Your flesh is the paper on which I write the tale.
In long years to come,
You'll trace your ridged scars:
A script you can't read.
You're not meant to know.
This is a story I'll take to my grave.
Re: The Untamed, Wen Qing (& Jiang Cheng & Wei Wuxian)
Date: 2024-07-02 03:05 pm (UTC)Re: The Untamed, Wen Qing (& Jiang Cheng & Wei Wuxian)
Date: 2024-07-02 04:48 pm (UTC)Scars-intended asThe Originals but could be any fandom w/ immortal/magical healing character
Date: 2024-07-02 03:37 pm (UTC)right there
at the side of the chest
another by the arm, inches above the wrist
plenty on the back
and stomach
and legs
battle used to be brutal like that
(still is)
there should be a thousand little scars
for a thousand little stories
a thousand little failures
a thousand little losses
they have all been silenced by your skin,
like brittle pages fallen from a book
like leaves, dried up, that crumble with age,
gone forever
except
that you always remember the sound of making them
for centuries, you dream of the sound
Re: Scars-intended asThe Originals but could be any fandom w/ immortal/magical healing character
Date: 2024-07-03 04:59 am (UTC)Re: Scars-intended asThe Originals but could be any fandom w/ immortal/magical healing character
Date: 2024-07-03 03:17 pm (UTC)The Murderbot Diaries, Dr. Mensah
Date: 2024-07-06 02:31 am (UTC)Where I come from,
No harrowing tales of battle
Or memories of great loss
Or desperate final stands
On my knee, I have a thin line
From when I was small,
I climbed over the fence to chase my siblings
Not yet gainly enough to catch my balance
And not prepared to fall
And on my hand, when I was twelve
When playing with my dog
Chasing, pulling, running across the farm
He nipped too hard, too excited for the game
(he cowered in apology for the harm)
The bite has nearly faded, anyway
On my thumb, a crescent
From chopping vegetables for dinner
And laughing, warm, and distracted
Chopped my fingertip into the soup as well;
Ah, but it was easy to heal,
And worth it to hear the jokes my wife would tell.
A scar is a record of tiny moments, not grand.
So it's hard to explain, since coming home
The burn on the back of my hand: that was where
I had skin exposed to the explosion
That took out the assassins, that stopped their attack
And launched the beacon high
And nearly took me with it
And the one person who could bring us back.
My spouses trace the lines on my shoulder and frown
And I don't know how to say
The one who saved me from the beacon blast
Landed us both in a ravine;
My scapula was shattered, they couldn't just mend it
And surgery is not cheap out there
But still I came out better than it did,
Which it knew, when it pulled me down.
What can I tell them
Of a sacrifice I did not then deserve,
And a loyalty deeper than I can bear?
And no one yet has seen
The line below my ear
Where the doctors took the tracking implant out.
Nobody told me it would scar
But by the time I got home I didn't care.
(The things they did to make me stay
On that damned station
Left no scars.
They knew how to keep it that way.)
Re: The Murderbot Diaries, Dr. Mensah
Date: 2024-07-07 07:43 am (UTC)