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HP Fruit Fest 2023
Welcome to the first (of hopefully many!) HP Fruit Fest! While the HP fandom has had a bountiful harvest of fics for many years, there is not nearly enough to sate us peckish fruit fanatics!
๐ The Ap-peel:
- Stress free fest! Few restrictions apply.
- Are you interested in the symbolism of fruit? The aesthetic? The yumminess? This fest promises inspiration aplenty!
- Do you like your fruit sweet or sour? Or even spicy? Go wild! The only real limit is your imagination, friends!
- Ship & Kink positive! No ship or kinkshaming here, baby!
- Non-anonymous posting.
- No hard deadline. Just post to the collection anytime this spring, March 20 - June 21.
๐ Fest Rules:
- Participants must be 18 years or older. While the fest is not aimed towards explicit content, with the lack of content restrictions, I feel most comfortable having an age restriction.
- No word count minimum or maximum. Do you wanna write a durian drabble? Or a lingonberry longfic? Don't let me stop you!
- Must feature appearance of whole fruit. If you want to turn it into jam or juice or pie, feel free! But at least give us a glimpse of raw beauty, please and thank you!
- No content restrictions (on fic.) All fics must be thoroughly tagged. But if you wanna write some feel good fluff or a dead dove monstrosity, that's entirely up to you! I only ask that you tag all content to the best of your ability. If you have any questions or concerns about this, you can email me at hpfruitfest@gmail.com.
- Art restrictions apply (for legal reasons.) No explicit depictions of underage characters.
- All fan creations allowed. Fic? Art? Podfic? Bookbinding? Other arts and crafts? Follow wherever your muse leads! The fest will run on AO3 and Tumblr to allow for all the goodies.
- May combine with other events. If other fests/events are cool with it, I'm cool with it!
- Self-prompting allowed. There will be a selection of fruit specific prompts (per the mod), and prompting will open to the public for more specific fruity scenarios, but as long as it as fruit in it, that's all that matters! If no existing prompt tickles your fancy, go for whatever does!
- All works must be betaed. Or SPaG checked at the very least. We want this experience to be enjoyable for everyone, so please make sure those fruits โจ shine โจ!
- If you need a beta, please let us know and we'll help find one for you!
- You must sign up to participate. A sign up form will be posted March 1. Please sign up if you want to prompt or create. Even if you're not sure you will prompt or create, if you even think about it, please sign up. This is just to ensure I can contact you if needed, for either the prompt or the creation.
๐ฅญ Timeline
- March 1: Mod Prompts go live. (here)
- March 1: sign ups open. (here)
- March 1 - 20: open prompting. (here)
- March 20: posting opens.
- June 21: posting ends.
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Also also: FAQs
