Armed with cigarettes and innocence, you went down, down, down

[sovay]

My poem "Acceptable Documentation," originally published in Sycorax Journal #1, has been nominated for the 2019 Rhysling Award. I am really pleased.

I dreamed about what I don't quite want to characterize as a haunted museum, presided over by a false and baleful moon. It had a dry chalky light. I remember the sea rolling in over stone steps, but it feels too pat to say the moon had brought it. Awake, I'm just flatteningly tired; I am trying to do very little with my afternoon. It's raining outside in one of those soft grey wandering ways. There's still snow under the bushes. Couple of links.

1. Courtesy of kate_nepveu: "The Clandestine Cultural Knowledge of Ancient Graffiti."

2. Not a late Valentine's comic by McNostril: "Be My Valenstein."

3. I strongly suspect that I don't really want to watch all seven seasons of Once Upon a Time for the sake of this gifset, but it's surprisingly tempting.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

I strongly suspect that I don't really want to watch all seven seasons of Once Upon a Time for the sake of this gifset, but it's surprisingly tempting.

LOL! Probably not. I mean, as you will have noticed, I adore the wretched show despite its faults, but if I started listing them we'd never get to its virtues. I can't blame anyone else for losing patience with it somewhere along the way! Although those two are a very good reason! (And in it all 7 seasons centre stage at least. A clip of Robert Carlyle in full-on Rumple mode probably is obligatory here - locked away in the pilot and vid. :-D

I'd rec one of the clever Jane Espenson fairy tale retellings (Skin Deep, Red Handed, The Miller's Daughter being particularly good ones), but the flashback format of OUaT means that each is intertwined with current storyline scenes and people's alternate identies and things - it has a very serial soapy nature, so I don't know that I could even do that. (It is my fairy tale meta fourth wall breaking soap opera crack! <3)

I hope you do feel a little better soon, though.

And congratulations on the nomination!!! eee! Good luck! \o/

[dewline]

Congratulations on the nomination!

[gwynnega]

Congratulations on the nomination!

That comic is great. I love how the logical solution is to set fire to the castle.

[thawrecka]

Congrats on the nomination! That's exciting.

[wpadmirer]

Congratulations on the poem! That's wonderful.

[umadoshi]

Yay for the nomination! That's awesome. *^^*

[isis]

Congratulations! And that Valenstein comic was great!

Yippeeeeee!

[jesse_the_k]

Congrats on nomination, and may your health do nothing but improve.

[moon_custafer]

That poem definitely deserves nomination and beyond.

[asakiyume]

Congratulations! If it were up to me, you'd have a garland of Rhyslings.

The graffiti article was fascinating--thank you for the link.

And a false moon... that's a very ominous image.

[shewhomust]

Congratulations on the nomination. I have to stop myself saying 'well, of course!', because I am very fond of that poem...

Thanks for the graffitti article. I have read the book on graffitti in medieval churches, and recommend it.

[lilysea]

My poem "Acceptable Documentation," originally published in Sycorax Journal #1, has been nominated for the 2019 Rhysling Award.

Oooooh, Shiny! ^_^

Congratulations! ^_^

[selidor]

Oh, excellent news on the nomination. That one is both evocative and painfully suited to this time and place.

[brigdh]

Congratulations on the nomination. I think I've told you this before, but I love that poem so very much. Especially the last lines – just breathtaking.

I LOVE that Frankenstein comic, and I too have been very tempted by many a Once Upon a Time gifset. Never quite tempted enough to commit to watching so much as an episode, but the show has so many images and quotes that seem extremely appealing.

[sholio]

Oh, cool, congrats! :D

I watched Once Upon a Time while it was airing, but I think it was around season three when I drifted away. I think about two or three seasons is the sweet spot for me with TV shows; beyond that, either I start finding it repetitive (unless it's unusually brilliant or has managed to catch my interest in a way where I'm emotionally invested enough that I don't care), or else it's just too much of a time investment to even start it. Shows that have infrequent, short installments of canon, as British/European or Netflix shows often do, are easier for me to keep up with.