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

[kiraly]

Song: You Told The Drunks I Knew Karate - Zoey Van Goey

Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EwBNm1Uhs0

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Zoey-van-goey-you-told-the-drunks-i-knew-karate-lyrics

Additional prompt: "I do the dumbest things for you. Why do I do the dumbest things for you?" I want to know what kind of person inspires the kind of loyalty we see in this song - and what goes on in the head of the person who will follow them into any kind of trouble, even knowing it's a bad idea.

[(Anonymous)]

I looked up from the feminist critique of _Almost Famous_ that I was reading. "You know, if you don't mind my asking, are you a Manic Pixie Dream Girl?"

She smiled. "Well, I do know a little bit of Cornish. So there's that evidence of piksie-hood."

I raised an eyebrow at her, and she said -- a lot of syllables. I don't know any Cornish. However, there was the more obvious issue. "I thought fairies couldn't lie."

"That's the Sidhe," she said breezily. "Pixies are well known for spinning tall tales, because they embrace the idea that what is more beautiful is more true, so they never let facts get in the way. Give any pixie the Choice of Achilles, and they'll pick Legend over Life anyday."

"Now who's mixing their mythoses?" I paused, uncertain as I so often am. "Mythoi?"

She waved off grammar as she waved off anything in her way. "I have plenty of ways of being right."

[kiraly]

Haha nice - love this interpretation of "manic pixie dream girl".

[(Anonymous)]

Glad you enjoyed.

[(Anonymous)]

There's so much joyful energy in this and it made me grin. The 'she' character sounds like someone it would be immensely fun to know.

[(Anonymous)]

Glad you enjoyed!