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: 2024-07-03 08:27 am (UTC)"To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis, Cyril to Princess Arjumand, post-canon(ish)
Date: 2024-07-03 08:09 pm (UTC)So he enshrined her in a marble tomb
Whose florid towers beggar all belief,
Engravings intricate in every room.
But you, O nine-lived Princess, can't be quenched
By far-flung journeys, not through time nor space.
However chastised, scared, bedraggled, drenched
You land upon your paws, with haughty face.
What though your human takes another name,
Changes one continent for distant shores?
Your proud demeanor shall remain the same:
You'll pounce, and preen, and strut upon all fours.
Foes at first sight, we'll face whatever comes
In untold futures as the best of chums.
Re: "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis, Cyril to Princess Arjumand, post-canon(ish)
Date: 2024-07-04 12:52 am (UTC)BLOWN AWAY by the epic, elegant, and darker tones coupled with such adorable imagery and uplifting moments. It's so full of heart-racing adventure and whimsy!
The first verse, "Thy namesake's death near-drowned her love in grief / So he enshrined her in a marble tomb" especially, is stunning, your wording is gorgeous!
"But you, O nine-lived Princess, can't be quenched
By far-flung journeys, not through time nor space.
However chastised, scared, bedraggled, drenched
You land upon your paws, with haughty face."
and
"Your proud demeanor shall remain the same:
You'll pounce, and preen, and strut upon all fours."
Had me clapping, it's soooooo cute, and so well-written!! I am FULL of glee, what an excellent poem, you're incredible!! Thank you so much for writing and sharing this!
Re: "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis, Cyril to Princess Arjumand, post-canon(ish)
Date: 2024-07-04 01:06 pm (UTC)Re: "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis, Cyril to Princess Arjumand, post-canon(ish)
Date: 2024-07-04 06:42 am (UTC)Re: "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis, Cyril to Princess Arjumand, post-canon(ish)
Date: 2024-07-05 05:33 am (UTC)I especially like the "foes at first sight" line :)
Laika
Date: 2024-08-14 08:12 am (UTC)Anyway, Laika:
You don't bite
the hands that feed you
A dog's first lesson,
learnt even on the streets of Moscow
Those hands that bring you inside,
wash you and pet you,
that brush the mats out of your fur
The hands that love you
They fit you in a suit
meant for space travel
When you haven't even been outside of the city
They teach you other lessons:
to eat jelly, and live in a tiny cage,
to tolerate loud noises
All for your very important mission, they say,
to be the first dog in space
Decades later
little girls will look up to the sky
and think of you
Imagining your little spaceship
they saw on a stamp
Will they know you never returned?
Re: Laika
Date: 2024-08-14 08:35 am (UTC)Re: Laika
Date: 2024-08-15 04:23 am (UTC)