Fest
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| See also: | challenge, ficathon, fic exchange, gift exchange | |
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A challenge in which participants provide prompts (generally for fanfic) and then choose a prompt from a list compiled by the fest moderators. A fest may be be fandom, pairing or character specific; it may have a particular theme, such as a holiday, a kink or a trope.
Examples
- Yuletide is a very popular annual gift exchange for rare fandoms
- Merlin Frottage Fest was a 2011 kink fest held to produce frottage fics in Merlin fandom
- LGBT Fest and Queer Fest focus on producing fanworks about the experiences of being lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* or queer
