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minutia_rHere it is, the promised fest-related post!
So when I first came up with the idea for a jukebox-related casual fest, my idea was that there would be regular prompt posts--once a month or so--with a random song, or a handful of random songs, chosen from past Jukebox tagsets as the prompt. People could write stories or draw art or whatever based on the featured song, and post it as a reply to the prompt post and/or to a collection on AO3 as well as in their own spaces, and it would highlight some of the songs that people have nominated and requested over the years, and keep the spirit of Jukebox in our hearts year round, and it would be a fun community thing to see many different takes on the same song. Call this the Jukebox Shuffle model.
But then I thought, maybe a less frequent event--say, once a year, approximately opposite the Jukebox exchange--might generate more concentrated enthusiasm. If we did a more traditional prompt fest, where people could submit prompts consisting of a song and maybe a word or phrase about what sort of fill they'd be looking for, that might have more community interaction that would serve as a spur to people's creativity. And people could give any songs they wanted as prompts, which would be in the Jukebox spirit of discovering and sharing music, as well as maybe giving people new ideas about songs they'd want to nominate and request and create for in the next round of the exchange. Call this the Put Another Dime in the Jukebox model.
So, the questions are as follows:
1) Would you be interested in some sort of Jukebox-related casual fest?
2) Would you be more interested in the Shuffle or Dime model, or something in between the two, or something entirely different?
3) When would you be most able to participate? If it's going to be a once a year event, approximately what dates would work best?
Leave your votes and/or proposals in the comments!
So when I first came up with the idea for a jukebox-related casual fest, my idea was that there would be regular prompt posts--once a month or so--with a random song, or a handful of random songs, chosen from past Jukebox tagsets as the prompt. People could write stories or draw art or whatever based on the featured song, and post it as a reply to the prompt post and/or to a collection on AO3 as well as in their own spaces, and it would highlight some of the songs that people have nominated and requested over the years, and keep the spirit of Jukebox in our hearts year round, and it would be a fun community thing to see many different takes on the same song. Call this the Jukebox Shuffle model.
But then I thought, maybe a less frequent event--say, once a year, approximately opposite the Jukebox exchange--might generate more concentrated enthusiasm. If we did a more traditional prompt fest, where people could submit prompts consisting of a song and maybe a word or phrase about what sort of fill they'd be looking for, that might have more community interaction that would serve as a spur to people's creativity. And people could give any songs they wanted as prompts, which would be in the Jukebox spirit of discovering and sharing music, as well as maybe giving people new ideas about songs they'd want to nominate and request and create for in the next round of the exchange. Call this the Put Another Dime in the Jukebox model.
So, the questions are as follows:
1) Would you be interested in some sort of Jukebox-related casual fest?
2) Would you be more interested in the Shuffle or Dime model, or something in between the two, or something entirely different?
3) When would you be most able to participate? If it's going to be a once a year event, approximately what dates would work best?
Leave your votes and/or proposals in the comments!
