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I love an ekphrastic and this is proof that poetic forms we might think of as nothing but wordplay or for children (e.g., abecedarians or acrostics) can be very sophisticated and serious.

Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic by Grisel Y. Acosta

after Remedios Varo’s Mujer saliendo del psicoanalista

another face has sprouted in my chest
beastly, that’s me, a super freak
cavorting with your skull in my grasp
displaced personalities cannot be cloaked
ever, they will grow like a haunted
fever of wispy hair
gathered in a basket, along with time, a
half-filled vial of poison &
illusions of tick-tock-clocking syringe
just let me explain:
killing myself is not an option
let me try to live with my
multiple personas and their infinite masks, why
not weave them into a poncho
of chartreuse green, grow them,
pouch them, wear them like horns
question my memories, befriend
radical thoughts and nightmares
solemn my specters behind
tenuous doors with intimidating bells
understand the unexplainable, develop
venom as Tilda Swinton couture
when dreams become a snail shell planted
X, marks the spot of this treasure I shall reveal,
yell on a mountain, YES, this is mine, I will
zap my fears—I can face all the faces, darling, of course I can

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This is the work of art which inspired the piece:

varo painting

stonepicnicking_okapi

Title: Pernickety Poisoner
Fandom: Original
Poetic form: Abecedarian
Rating: Gen
No. of lines: 28
Prompt: Persnickety
Summary: An abecedarian about how nothing in the persnickety's poisoner's cabinet is of any use! So vexing!

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stonepicnicking_okapi

Title: Gandhi
Fandom: Original
Poetic form: kyrielle (a variation on)
No. of Lines: 28
Prompt: Ambitious
Rating: Gen
Summary: a variation on a kyrielle about the life of Gandhi

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the_siobhan

It's a warm today and I am itchy and sweaty. I have spent two days in the shed, pulling out boxes and cleaning up spider webs and mouse poop. SO MUCH MOUSE POOP. And one dead mouse.

I'm taking a break right now. when I go back outside I'll stack the things that I know are staying out there onto the shelves and finish taking the rest of it into the house. Then I'll finish going through the boxes. This is the last place in the house to be cleaned out and I've already found the paining supplies box, so I'll make a list of whatever I'm missing and tomorrow I'll hit the hardware store. I'll also be able to make the final get-things-out-of-the-house push so maybe that will make some room to empty the storage unit. We'll see.

While I'm working I'm also taking pictures of all the stuff the contractor didn't finish. I keep noticing new things, like spotting a new light switch leading me to a light fixture that was never installed. I should also take screenshots of the text messages where I repeatedly asked for receipts I never got.

Everything is taking too long. I keep offering to give money to people for help and they keep not showing up. Which in itself is frustrating. Like if you're not available, fine! But tell me so I can make other plans!

Lord Brock is doing well except for shouting at me whenever I come back from outside because how dare I not be in the room when he decides he wants to sit on me.

I should probably book a massage on the last day of the week. I already feel like somebody beat me up and it's only Tuesday.

Right. Back to the salt mines.

badly_knitted

Title: One Shot
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee, OC.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Ryo waits for the order to fire.
Written For: Challenge 441: Amnesty 73 at

fan_flashworks , using Challenge 152: Shot. Also for the dw100 prompt ‘Fire’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.

( One Shot... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Desert Nights
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, Ninth Doctor, OCs.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 916: ‘Caravan’ at

dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Jack, Rose, and the Doctor spend some time on a desert planet.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.

( Desert Nights... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Dwarfed
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 862: Small at

torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Large as the Happy Wanderer is, right now it seems tiny and fragile.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble. Set in my Ghost of a Chance ‘Verse.

( Dwarfed... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

mahmfic

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nanila

Who was your first crush?

Real person: It was a boy named Colin, in the fifth grade. I would have been ten years old. I can't remember anything about him except he had blue eyes and I could make him laugh until he cried.

Fictional TV character: Jean-Luc Picard.

Fictional literary character: Sherlock Holmes.
Are you an introvert or an extrovert?

I have extrovert energy, but I'm an introvert and I very much need my alone time.
What is your favorite non-sexual thing you like to do with the love of your life?

I can't think of a particular favourite. I just enjoy his company.
What is one quirky habit your partner does that either annoys you or makes you grin?

This does both: throwing his pants at the laundry basket and missing. Like, every single day.
Do you believe in monogamous relationships?

It works for me. I do understand they're not for everyone.

badly_knitted

Title: Unfathomable
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: John Sheridan, Marcus Cole.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 609
Spoilers/Setting: Grey 17 is Missing.
Summary: There’s something Sheridan doesn’t understand, so he asks Marcus.
Written For: Weekend Challenge ‘As The Saying Goes…’ at

1_million_words.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.

( Unfathomable... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Logical Question
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Owen, Ianto.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 686
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: If this were anywhere else, it would have been a ridiculous question. Instead, it’s perfectly logical, not to mention necessary.
Written For: acoldwarinmyhead’s prompt: Any, Any, “Is...is it mine?”, at

threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

( Logical Question... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

stonepicnicking_okapi

For Earth Day on Tuesday.

Watch on YouTube

stonepicnicking_okapi

Last year I did an Easter blue collage, too. This is using the last of my egg nest stickers and the booklet that came with my chocolate bunny!

corvidology

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marta_bee

I am officially tired. Went to church then over to my sister's for dinner. Mainly it was just blazing hot and a long day.

I always have a difficult relationship with Easter. It can be so death-focused and centered on human sinfulness, and I've had too much of that for one lifetime from organized religion already. This particular church dodged that feeling somehow. It was joyful and focused on mystery and the need to be okay with not fully understanding things. My inner philosopher wanted to argue back a bit, but compared to what they could have focused on, it was so much better than I expected.

There was a bit of language in the prayers that made me uncomfortable. Talking about Christ being their shielding Passover. No, actually, that's not your thing. I know it was meant well, but it did rub me a bit wrong. They are trying, though, which was nice. Actually, all around they did a good job of being inclusive and welcoming but not just in the liberal sense of "we're not actually anti-gay." It really did feel like they were emphasizing being welcoming to anyone who came into their midst.

Mainly, though, it was a big day. Coupled with taking a long bus ride to the mall yesterday (mainly just to have a long screen-free ride and then do a bit of people watching), it's just been an awful lot.

Plans are firming up with the Kid, and they're moving Thursday 5/1. Things feel much more definite. Here's hoping we can all push through it and get to something better on the other side.

I do hope you all had a good day! Whether it's a special holiday with church and friends or just a nice lazy Sunday for you to enjoy.

stonepicnicking_okapi

Today we are looking at two stories.

"The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk" was published in The Strand in March 1893.

The plot of this story is very near to that of "The Red-Headed League."

A person is lured from their designated place in order to further a financial crime. The poor victim is named...Hall Pycroft! He's lured from a new job so that someone else can take his place and rob his new employer and blame him.

"The Adventure of the Resident Patient" appeared in The Strand in August 1893.

Here we get a struggling doctor Percy Trevelyan who accepts a patient (a patient who lives with him in the practice offices) with A Past and two curious characters show up and take revenge on their former associate. This is very similar to the story of Victor Trevor's father and (in a way) to Mary Morstan's father.

I can't say either story is remarkable in my mind.

I found I had a horse sticker, so I did a collage of Silver Blaze.

jesse_the_k

Declaration of Interdependence from queerspacepunk (aka emmett)

A tiny snippet from a lovely thread

i want to be asked to come over and help put my friend's kids to bed as casually as they might text their spouse and ask them to pick up milk on the way home

i want to stop and pick up milk for another friend because i know their spouse hates the grocery store

i want to buy fruit that i dont like because it's on special and i know people who do

i want to pass lemons over the fence and to take my neighbours bins out when the forget

i want group chats instead of rideshare apps, calls in the middle of the night because someone's at the hospital, lonely or hungry or both

i want to do the dishes in other people's houses, extra servings wrapped in tinfoil and tea towels so it's still warm when you drop it off, a basket of other people's mending by my couch

i want to be surrounded by reminders that 'imposing' on each other is what we were born to do

https://queerspacepunk.tumblr.com/search/interdependence

Today I learned there are graphic resources—icons and banners—on the Archive of Our Own!

https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Banners%20*a*%20Icons/works

(Sadly AO3’s metatags don’t create RSS feeds, so I can’t add one here.)

New DW community for people who archive information from the web: datahoarders

timeasmymeasure provides resources for would-be archivists without tech skills: https://datahoarders.dreamwidth.org/3299.html

Of particular interest to me:

AO3 Downloader: a life-saver for any person who has thought, "God, I wish I could download all of my bookmarks, but that would take sooo long to do individually." Another Github download which is saved by its thorough instructions!

smallhobbit

Every year it becomes harder to set goals, and yet again, particularly since I'm doing 25 Things in 2025, I wondered whether to bother, but 25 Things are short term, generally one-offs, and I don't think it hurts to look ahead and think about what I'd like to achieve in twelve months time.

So, lets go for a variety of goals:-

Goal No 1: Do a Themed Monthly Post
I've done this in the past, quite often with photos. If anyone would like to suggest a theme, please do so, as I haven't yet decided on one.

Goal No 2: Accept the Unexpected
Now, I know the saying is usually, 'Expect the unexpected', but this is more working with the unexpected when it happens. It's said that a battle plan never survives first contact with the enemy, but that's no reason to give up at that point.

Goal No 3: To Embrace My Personal Interests
Over the past few weeks I've been wondering why my daily To Do lists have had so much in the way of courses, crafting and writing, not to mention reading. But it suddenly occurred to me, why worry about it - if I really didn't want to do as much, then I could cut back. And if I do want to do all the courses/crafting/writing/reading&listening to books, then why not just enjoy it. If it were impinging on other things then it would be a problem (I don't count dusting within that!), but it's not. So what if I'm taking four online courses, stitching three or four different items, writing for three different challenges and have three books out of the library as well as the shelf and a bit of my own unread books - It's My Life!

badly_knitted

Title: Itchy
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Daniel, Jack, Sam.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Early Season Two.
Summary: Poor Daniel is suffering an allergic reaction.
Written For: Challenge 447: Amnesty 74 at

fan_flashworks, using Challenge 431: Cream.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Stargate SG-1, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Itchy... )