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Here is the freebie for the November 2013 [community profile] crowdfunding Creative Jam. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] alexconall.


"Impermanent Frost"


The first of the fey to die
was Jack Frost.

They watched his crown slowly melt,
the icy feathers moulting from his wings,

as global warming reduced the ice
below what he needed to sustain him.

Jack frost was warm and pink
when they laid him in his grave.

The mourners looked around at each other,
wondering who would be next.

* * *

Notes:

Jack Frost is a fey spirit associated with winter.

Global warming is a serious problem with implications for permafrost, ice caps, snowfall, and beyond.

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Date: 2013-11-16 09:50 pm (UTC)
alexconall: the Pleiades (Default)
From: [personal profile] alexconall
Ouch.

Re: Yes...

Date: 2013-11-16 11:20 pm (UTC)
alexconall: the Pleiades (Default)
From: [personal profile] alexconall

Hopefully.

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Date: 2013-11-17 12:19 am (UTC)
thnidu: plus sign (plus)
From: [personal profile] thnidu
How strange that a poem about warmth should give me such shivers.

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Date: 2013-11-17 08:17 am (UTC)
sylvaine: Dark-haired person with black eyes & white pupils. (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvaine
;______; That really packs a punch.

Re: Yay!

Date: 2013-11-17 08:34 am (UTC)
sylvaine: Dark-haired person with black eyes & white pupils. (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvaine
Oh yay! I'll see if I can come up with something. :D

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Date: 2013-11-17 01:41 pm (UTC)
raze: A man and a rooster. (Default)
From: [personal profile] raze
Ouch! This is fantastic. Thank you for sharing.

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Date: 2013-11-17 10:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] brushwolf
"Too late the Sons of Adam will ask, 'where are the Sons of the Earth?' but they are gone away, and will not return." - Hellboy, The Corpse

Re: Yes...

Date: 2013-11-18 07:24 pm (UTC)
brushwolf: Icon created by ScaperDeage on DeviantArt (Default)
From: [personal profile] brushwolf
The comics were pretty sympathetic to the Fey (while acknowledging that sometimes the Good Folk weren't the nicest sentients out there). I really hate how the second movie handled 'em.

Mournful

Date: 2014-06-01 02:04 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dialecticdreamer
And creepy, to think of Jack Frost in anything but wintry blues, grays, and browns.

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