#mt comfest

And here we are, the final day of comfest!

Happy holidays to our magical trans family. We hope you’ve been able to find rest and peace amongst the chaos of the holiday period.

Now that the food has been eaten and the wrapping paper cleared away, we’re here to remind you that the Magical Trans Comfest 2023 is still open! There is no need to sign up and no hard deadline - create what you want, when you want to. Fic, art, podfic, collage, fic binding, poetry, whatever you love to make, we’d love to see it!

This fest aims to bring some comfort and warmth during what can be a difficult time for many. As always we ask that you be respectful in your works and when interacting with others’.

We have a bunch of fun prompts for you to pick and choose from - use one, use them all, combine them - anything goes.

Add your works to the collection and tag us in your posts so we can enjoy and share!

Happy creating!

The Magical Trans Comfest 2023 collection is officially live!

You can post all of your comfest works here. We can’t wait to see what you make!

Hi Nonnie! Of course 😊

“Flux” has a couple of different definitions, but in the context of this fest we were really looking at these two:

A continuous moving on or passing by

Change, fluctuation - a thing, person or situation can be described as being in a “state of flux”

Outside broad definitions flux is also part of a few different trans identities. These include (but I’m sure aren’t limited to!)

Genderflux - often included under the nonbinary and/or genderfluid umbrellas, people who describe themselves as genderflux experience fluctuating intensities of gender (as opposed to shifting genders, as in genderfluid)

Genderfluidflux - again within the genderfluid and nonbinary umbrellas - describes people for who both their *gender* and *how much* of that gender they identify with change over time.

Demiflux - for demiflux people part of their gender identity remains static, for example genderqueer, while they experience fluctuations in other parts of their gender identity, such as woman.

One way I personally imagine it is like having an x and y axis - the horizontal axis is gender and the vertical axis is how much gender I have. At any given time I could be anywhere on that grid, in different combinations.

All this to say. This prompt, as with all our comfest prompts, can be taken as literally or as figuratively as you want. At its heart we were wanting to capture the nature of change that can be involved for a trans or nonbinary person, how our relationship with gender may change over time etc etc. As long as it has meaning for you then that’s all we want 😊

For the third consecutive year, we are running the MT comfest! With new prompts, fresh out of the oven, we cannot wait to see what you'll offer the world! This fest is meant to provide comfort and a sense of community to those who might have a hard time during the holidays, and those who want to spread warmth during this time! Thank you @basicallyahedgehog for your beautiful graphics.

This is a very informal fest, so there is no hard deadline and you don’t have to sign up– all you have to do is create your work, and then post it into the collection once it’s open! The rules are the same as last year– above all, we ask for respect and kindness in both creating and interacting with this fest. Your creation must also have a positive tone, be an HP work, be thoroughly tagged, and contain at least one trans character. Works can be mature or explicit as long as they are tagged appropriately and the creator is over 18. You do not have to be part of the server to participate, though we’d love for you to join!

You can produce whatever you feel comfortable with, whether it be a drabble, a long one-shot, a doodle, a time-consuming fanart, a podfic, a collage, a fic-bind, a headcanon post… whatever you want!

The fest will run for three days and we are providing prompts for inspiration, but feel free to pick and choose or completely ignore them if you have other ideas! The collection will be opened closer to the date of publishing. In the meantime, feel free to check out the great works from last year’s fest!

You might have peeked two sets of prompts earlier on this post. For extra spiciness, we got you another entire new set of prompts! We have the regular prompts, and same as last year, they can be combined or used on their own. Then you have the dual prompts, who go together and don't bear really well to be separeted. Have fun!

Dec 25: Day 3 Prompts

⭑ snowflake

⭑ affirming clothes

⭑ rosy cheeks

⭑ fireplace

Fest banner by the talented @babooshkart

Dec 24: Day 2 Prompts

⭑ voyage

⭑ community

⭑ tradition

⭑ extraterrestrial

Fest banner by the talented @babooshkart

Dec 23: Day 1 Prompts

⭑ baking

⭑ name choosing

⭑ piping hot cup of t(4t)

⭑ braiding

Fest banner by the talented @babooshkart