Dime in the Jukebox Fest 2024

[minutia_r]

Welcome to the Dime in the Jukebox Fest, a prompt fest for fanworks based on songs and music videos! 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:

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Rules

1) Leave a song or a music video as a prompt. Please include a listening/watching link. Links to the lyrics (if any) and translations of the lyrics (if they are not in English) are appreciated but not required. You may also include a short phrase, such as a quote from the lyrics or something that particularly interests you about the song/video, as an additional prompt; this is optional but not required. One prompt per comment. Leave as many prompts as you like.

Here's a possible template for prompting:

<strong>Song or music video</strong>: <strong>Listen/watch link</strong>: <strong>Lyrics</strong>: <strong>Translation:</strong>: <strong>Additional prompt</strong>: <strong>Warnings</strong>:

2) Reply to other people’s prompts with fanworks. All mediums of fanworks are welcome! But please create the fanwork about the prompted song/video only; no other fandom knowledge should be necessary in order to appreciate the work. Exception: if you are making fanvids, a vid to the prompted song for any fandom is considered an acceptable fill.

FAQ

Q: When you say all mediums of fanwork are welcome, what do you mean?

A: Really, all mediums of fanwork. Fic, art, meta, playlists, vids, songs, memes, crochet patterns, whatever you want to make, go ahead and post it or link to it here.

Q: Can I create fills without leaving any prompts, or leave prompts without creating 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 create explicit erotica, or fanwork with potentially disturbing themes, or prompt a song/video that contains such materials. 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 create 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: 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, there’s no set end date, but we may close this post to comments once nominations for the Jukebox Exchange open, just so we don’t have two events running at once. However, we don’t yet have solid dates for this year’s exchange, and honestly I’ll be impressed if people are still actively posting here by that point.

Q: Is there a collection on AO3 where I can post my fills?

A: Right here.

Q: I want to participate, but I can’t think of any songs or videos to prompt.

A: Lucky for you, there’s a playlist tag right here in this community where you can find playlists of songs and videos that people have requested and created for during Jukeboxes past! There’s a lot of good stuff there; hopefully you can find some inspiration.

Q: I want to create fills, but I don’t know any of these songs.

A: Maybe you’ll find something you like if you give them a listen; discovering new music is part of what we’re all here for.

Comments

[avidrosette]

Song or music video: French Perfume by Great Big Sea

Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxymPEErVSo

Lyrics: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/greatbigsea/frenchperfume.html

Additional prompt: Smugglers sailing the Atlantic coast of North America under cover of darkness, running contraband, like rum, perfume, silk, and French lace

[(Anonymous)]

"Mmmm. Notes of amber, citrus, and, of course, salt."

"If you mean you're smelling the madboy's ghost, shouldn't we take the omen and turn back? Swathes of silk are pretty and soft, but they aren't worth dying for."

"Oh, I don't know; enough people seem to think they're worth taking lives for one way or another. And it's a living."

"Until it ain't. Until the jail or the rocks."

"Let it get to you too much, and the jail's already there. There are worse ways than going out like the madboy."

[minutia_r]

Ahh, I'm intrigued by the relationship of these criminal buddies.

[(Anonymous)]

:)

[avidrosette]

Ooh, nice! Clever choice to take the pov of characters who can smell the ghostly perfume - the next generation of smugglers. I love how sensual you make this, describing the notes of the perfume and the feel of the silk. And I like the smugglers' debate over whether those sensual luxuries and the money that comes from trafficking them is worth their (inevitable?) doom. Are they following the forbidden scent to their imprisonment or death? You leave us hanging in the best of ways. Great fill, anon!

[(Anonymous)]

Aw, so glad you liked it!