ODE TO MALENTINE Brought to you by MAL's Cupid-nyan~ Welcome to MAL's annual Valentine's Day event! This year, short poetry meets anime/manga. Part One: Submissions You are tasked with matching either an existing poem, or one of your own creation, to one or more anime/manga images. The resulting poem+image pair can either be romantic, tragic, or funny. ♥ Existing poems can have a maximum of 5 lines. ♥ Original poems can have a maximum of 14 lines. ♥ Either your image or poem (or both) should refer to some kind of Valentine's theme: romance, loneliness, chocolate, etc. ♥ Images can be still or animated. Please try to incorporate your poem onto image though, if possible. For image editing, you can use a program like MS Paint, GIMP (free), or Photoshop. For gif editing, you can use online editors like EZgif (what we used) or image programs like GIMP. Then upload your finished image to a site like Imgur and send. Once your poem+image pair is finished, send Cupid-nyan a PM with: ♥ Link to your poem+image. ♥ Link to the MAL database entry of the anime/manga. ♥ Link to where you found the poem, or state that it's an original. ♥ Pick a category: romantic, tragic, or funny. Part Two: Voting Once we collect all of the entries, we will create a voting thread/form where the community can look over all the submissions and vote on their favourites. Even if you do not make a submission, you can still vote We will then rank the MALentine "odes" in each category: ♥ Romantic ♥ Tragic/Sad ♥ Funny ♥ Original Poems (these will also still appear in the above categories) Creators can aim for first or last place in these rankings ;) The only prize offered is, as usual, bragging rights~ Card Submission Deadline Wednesday, Feb 14th, 23:59 PST Please send in your poem+image before this date  Voting Thread Posted Thursday, Feb 15th Once the thread is posted, you can start voting Join Us If you need help or want a place to chat, you can use our Discord server. ♥ First, join the MAL server by using this link: https://discord.gg/E2xC8ZF ♥ Next, go to #bot-spam (under Miscellaneous) and type ?join malentine. This will give you access to a special MALentine channel. Frequent Questions Big thanks to @ImperfectBlue for the examples! |
KinetaFeb 15, 2018 4:54 PM
| buying mal valentine. hmu on runescape. |
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| Hoping to make some cool poems!! |
| Hmm I might give it a shot, we'll see |
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| *begins looking through list of personally written poetry* Best of luck everyone! |
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| How many times can we submit stuff? Only once or to our heart's desire? :D |
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| Hmm this event idea seems good. Gj to the person who thought it. Good luck people. |
| so pretty much no point of doing this other than showing off your mad poem skillz, welp, people'll still enjoy it |
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| Can you modify some parts of a poem that already exists? Just need to change 1 word... |
 "Le vent se lève!... Il faut tenter de vivre!" - Paul Valéry, Le Cimetière Marin - |
| Can I do the poem in another language? Because I don't know any poem in English so it could be easier to me if I can do it with a poem in spanish |
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| I love writing poems but this gif editing thing is a bit mendokusai! so I'm just here to say: "Good luck guys!" |
| Nobody cares if the poem in question spoils stuff, right? |
| All Dubs must die! "Its 2017 and anime is still legal. What the fuck is congress doing" - Totalbiscuit |
DessiJ said: How many times can we submit stuff? Only once or to our heart's desire? :D I'm wondering about this too, if you can post multiple then there's a chance someone may win more than 1 category. Or someone could aim for the bottom of all of them :P Either way, seems like it's gonna be interesting. |
| Eh....? I want to join.. But English isn't my native language so it will be too hard... TwT Oh well... Good luck! Hmm... But... I think I'll try it too.. XD |
 I'm starting to get embarrassed by my own forum signature line.. XD |
UnTaMeDGerble said: DessiJ said: How many times can we submit stuff? Only once or to our heart's desire? :D I'm wondering about this too, if you can post multiple then there's a chance someone may win more than 1 category. Or someone could aim for the bottom of all of them :P Either way, seems like it's gonna be interesting. Well, the bottom is still a first place, it just depends from where you look :D |
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| good luck to those who will actually do something! I wish i was at least 1% of a good artist |
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| Hai.... I shall give it a try!! (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ Even though I literally don't know anything about valentine's!! =3= |
 We can only have good tea while we're alive. |
| Good luck! May the best win. |
| Eh you think so ? |
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Major_Gilbert said: Sure. Please still include a link to the original in your submission.Can you modify some parts of a poem that already exists? Just need to change 1 word... Pabloncholosk said: I don't really know many poems either. Basically just searched "love haiku" or "short poems", things like this. If you still want to do it in Spanish, you can. Just please include an English translation of the poem.Can I do the poem in another language? Because I don't know any poem in English so it could be easier to me if I can do it with a poem in spanish OtakuOne said: How come?Looks like I have to pass on this... 149597871 said: You aren't required to edit gifs. The text can be on a still image, that can be added below a gif, or just be a still image.I love writing poems but this gif editing thing is a bit mendokusai! Gorganoth said: I forgot about spoilers... maybe try to avoid big spoilers / tag it in the submission.Nobody cares if the poem in question spoils stuff, right? DessiJ said: + @UnTaMeDGerble 1 per category, maximum. Please include which of the three is your #1 pick, in case we get hundreds like last year :'DHow many times can we submit stuff? Only once or to our heart's desire? :D @Meira_Eve You can use existing poems. Remember poems don't need to rhyme or have any particular reason to them. See haiku or tanka poems, for example. |
Head_Hunter47 said: Hai.... I shall give it a try!! (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ Even though I literally don't know anything about valentine's!! =3= hehe Sanchy you have to make sure that you will show it to me first!! o(≧∇≦o) |
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| I dont think I can do this man. Its hard :( |
BlankNote said: Head_Hunter47 said: Hai.... I shall give it a try!! (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ Even though I literally don't know anything about valentine's!! =3= hehe Sanchy you have to make sure that you will show it to me first!! o(≧∇≦o) Nope nope nope nope.... I don't wanna be made fun of!! C= C= C= C=┌( `ー´)┘ |
We can only have good tea while we're alive. |
Ehhh why would I do that? I seriously want to see it!! >_< |
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O-Okay then... I will show you!! ( ._.) |
We can only have good tea while we're alive. |
Yaaaass!! whoaa I got excited!! ⤴︎ ε=ε=(ง ˃̶͈̀ᗨ˂̶͈́)۶ ⤴︎ |
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Yumina_Sky said: Which part are you having trouble with?I dont think I can do this man. Its hard :( |
| @Kineta will mostly just I cant think of anything when I try to Lol |
Kineta said: Major_Gilbert said: Sure. Please still include a link to the original in your submission.Can you modify some parts of a poem that already exists? Just need to change 1 word... Would it still be counted as original? Since that would change the number of lines allowed, if not. |
"Le vent se lève!... Il faut tenter de vivre!" - Paul Valéry, Le Cimetière Marin - |
| Well, submitted mine. Let's see what happens. |
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Major_Gilbert said: Not if it's a 1 word change, no.Kineta said: Sure. Please still include a link to the original in your submission. Would it still be counted as original? Since that would change the number of lines allowed, if not. Try looking at some random existing poems or some random anime gifs, and reverse search a word :D I liked the Toradora gif and ImperfectBlue Googled poems with "morning" in them. You don't need to think of it immediate, just see what pops out. AngexLion said: Sure, that sounds interesting.If a manga/anime occasionally includes small poetic texts/reflections, can I consider those to be poems? I think it would be interesting to use the words of the own author (they are the ones who know best how their characters feel, right? ) |
BenT_op said: You can even splice different anime if you want. No, they don't need to be consecutive.Are we allowed to splice parts of a gif together if they are from the same scene/anime and do the lines in an existing poem have to be consecutive? |
| Mh. Was looking forward to this cause I really enjoyed last year's event. Sadly, poetry isn't my cup of tea and the guessing part which I found to be the most interesting aspect is missing. Also, since this will be a popular vote, I feel like you basically can't afford to write a poem about anything that's not popular if you want a chance at winning. Anyway, not sure I'll be participating this time around, but still, have fun and good luck to those who will. |
| Question: can we use song lyrics? |
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| I want to try...but I have a feeling that the gifs will have a significant advantage over the still images. Perhaps the voting for gifs should be separate from the still images... Questions! 1. Size limits (Image size, etc.)? I might be using a lot of frames... 2. We're limited to 3 submissions (one for each category). Can we still submit more images but not include them as part of the voting? Just for fun? 3. Gore and Ecchi! How far can we go? |
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| It can turn into something very Doki Doki Poems for all. |
| Will try but seems hard:( |
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| Here's my question: Is a joint submission acceptable (i.e. one person writes the poem, another person creates the image)? Also, I assume of one person of the joint submits to their own one category, the joint would have to be in another category? |
 im amazed by the senseless and sensitive words weve got a talent to find im amazed at what we will stoop to if we think our egos can shine when youre down and out when youre full of doubt all you do is kick and shout |
Touché, In my opinion, the bragging rights for getting the bottom are just as good as the top. |
| This is rather interesting. Maybe I will give it a try :^) |
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HapHazrD said: Completely agree with you.Mh. Was looking forward to this cause I really enjoyed last year's event. Sadly, poetry isn't my cup of tea and the guessing part which I found to be the most interesting aspect is missing. Also, since this will be a popular vote, I feel like you basically can't afford to write a poem about anything that's not popular if you want a chance at winning. Anyway, not sure I'll be participating this time around, but still, have fun and good luck to those who will. At first it sounded really interesting because I thought we would combine poems and anime, and then in the second round people would have to guess the anime or something. But just voting isn't interesting to me and it basically just seems like a contest for the best graphic makers. I won't participate, but I'm interested in seeing the results. |
| does anyone know if it matters how many lines the poem is if I put it all on an image |
sjomle said: Please read the first post again:does anyone know if it matters how many lines the poem is if I put it all on an image ♥ Existing poems can have a maximum of 5 lines. ♥ Original poems can have a maximum of 14 lines. |
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