#hetalia jukebox week 2023

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Your idea about this new hetalia week sounds great! Can you tell us more?

Sure! Thanks for the ask! Prepare for rambling

For people seeing this without context, here's a link to my poll with the interest check: hyperlink

I'm thinking about calling it Hetalia Jukebox Week or something. That's my working title for now until/unless I think of something better.

I came up with the idea last night when I realized just how much music makes me Think. I have a WIP NA Bros fic about an event from my personal life I remembered after listening to Mitski's "Brand New City." In a way my Migraines in Margaritaville AU is inspired by "Margaritaville" (though it's more like a pipeline. Margaritaville song -> Margaritaville restaurants -> Ted & Eddy Margaritaville videos -> my NA Bros Margaritaville fic). Hell, just last night I was thinking about how a lyric from a Fall Out Boy song makes me want to write about a messy divorce/infidelity using the line "Does your husband know the way that the sunshine gleams from your wedding band?"

I'm thinking of hosting it in January. I don't want to overlap with anyone else's event so right now I'm thinking of hosting it January 21st-27th or February 18-24th (the latter date isn't ideal though because there are events during the two prior weeks and I don't want anyone to become stressed with all of the events they want to partake in).

Giving us until the end of January also gives time for us to vote on the prompts.

The timeline I'm thinking about is the following:

• I pull together all of the details by the end of this week (10/14) • I set up the event account @hws-jukebox-week with all of the information, rules, and we start doing polls • Poll #1: Lyric submissions (~10/28-11/10) • Poll #2: Prompt voting (~11/12-11/26) • Prompt list is posted ideally on December 1st • Event starts January 21, ends January 28 • I will be reblogging work as I see it during the week and up to two weeks after the end!

I'm thinking that with the prompts, there's 3 options per day. There'll be a general theme connecting them so if people want to use more than one prompt to inspire their work, they can! There's also hyperlinks to the song for each lyric. Here's two examples I've just slapped together:

Day 1 | January 21 (Attraction)

• "Does your husband know the way the sunshine gleams from your wedding band?"

• "I'm gonna show you how this Italian amor"

• "Say my name and his in the same breath, I dare you to say they taste the same"

Day 2 | January 22 (Empowerment)

• "I was born into this, Won't hesitate to use my fists"

• "I made my goddamn self, a product of my own design"

• "Trying to recognize myself when I feel I've been replaced"

I'll make google forms as appropriate, but the initial one will be a form for people to submit the specific lyric they want chosen, give me the song, artist, and a link to a youtube video for the song. Might also be a good idea for what theme you consider the song to be. Maybe when it comes to lyrics submissions, I'll have some themes that you need to provide songs for? Not sure about that yet.

People can use the lyrics as lines in their work, as the title, or just an outline for what happens! It'd also be really cool to see how people transform music into a visual work

What do we think? Some community feedback would be great!