Poetry Fishbowl Open!
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ysabetwordsmithThe Poetry Fishbowl is now CLOSED. Thank you for your time and attention. Please keep an eye on this page as I am still writing.
Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "Unusual Sensory Experiences." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.
I'll be soliciting ideas for artists, art collection curators, gallery owners, art shop owners, makers of arts and crafts supplies, handicraft advocates, crafters, touch-dominant people, supertasters, sommeliers, perfumers, tetrachromats, Deaf people, DeafBlind people, blind people, synaesthetes, activists, volunteers, teachers, parents, primal soups, animal soups, superheroes, supervillains, cetaceans, bats, pit vipers, insects, alien or fantasy races, others with uncommon senses, seeing a different spectrum, hearing higher or lower, echolocating, inventing a new art or craft, discovering things, improvising, adapting, cooperating, bartering, sharing, fixing what's broke, changing the world, accomplishing the impossible, laboratories, supervillain lairs, art schools, art classrooms, arts and crafts studios, artist colonies, arts and crafts farms, hobby rooms, homes with a giant space for arts or crafts, arts and crafts stores, upcycle junk shops, fiber fairs, street fairs, art shows, Triton Teen Centers, community centers, intentional communities, craft circles, Thalassia, the Maldives, makerspaces, Deaf communities, blind communities, sensory rooms, other sensory hangouts, unique works of art or craft, gizmos or super-gizmos that nobody else can duplicate, phantom limb / phantom pain, touch-mapping, scent-tracking, perfect pitch, echolocation, darkvision, Second Sight, subtle senses, enhanced senses, perspective manipulation, perception manipulation, danger sense, structure sense, senses based on superpowers (like Shiv's metal-sense), animal senses, Protactile sign language, Plains Indian Sign, art lessons and programs, folk arts and crafts, tactile art, Feel and See Art Movement, Touchy Feely art books, edible art, Paletta durable art media for making visual-tactile art, zetetic arts and crafts supplies, ColorADD, Feelipa, diversity, inclusivity, trial and error, teamwork, found family, complementary strengths and weaknesses, personal growth, and poetic forms in particular.
Currently eligible bingo card(s) for donors wishing to sponsor a square:
Body Parts Bingo Card 7-1-22
Winter Fest in July Bingo Card 7-1-22
Among my more relevant series for the main theme:
Artists of Destruction is about famous artists as warmongers.
Arts and Crafts America imagines a world based on creativity.
The Bear Tunnels includes historic crafts and ethnic perspectives.
A Conflagration of Dragons has the Six Races of humanoids, plus the dragons, all of whom have slightly different sensory equipment and perceptions.
Daughters of the Apocalypse requires creative use of remaining materials and has many people with disabilities.
Diminished Expectations has extreme sensory differences, mostly disabilities.
Eloquent Souls features soulbonds, and thus, a greater awareness and perception of souls.
Fledgling Grace has people touched with angelic or demonic features, and often a greater sense of the numinous.
Frankenstein's Family takes a scientific approach to creative materials; werewolves, vampires, and mummies all have their own perceptions.
The Godship Wanderers includes alien species with different senses.
The Inkseer is about scrying.
Monster House contains characters, human and nonhuman, with different perceptions.
The Moon Door features werewolves, whose perceptions often differ from humans.
One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis has Shaeth, with a god's senses.
Polychrome Heroics has various characters and locations relating to arts and crafts. Many superpowers feature enhanced senses or whole different senses.
Or you can ask for something new.
I have a linkback poem, "There's an Art to It" (Arts and Crafts America, 10 verses).
What Is a Poetry Fishbowl?
Writing is usually considered a solitary pursuit. One exception to this is a fascinating exercise called a "fishbowl." This has various forms, but all of them basically involve some kind of writing in public, usually with interaction between author and audience. A famous example is Harlan Ellison's series of "stories under glass" in which he sits in a bookstore window and writes a new story based on an idea that someone gives him. Writing classes sometimes include a version where students watch each other write, often with students calling out suggestions which are chalked up on the blackboard for those writing to use as inspiration.
In this online version of a Poetry Fishbowl, I begin by setting a theme; today's theme is "Unusual Sensory Experiences." I invite people to suggest characters, settings, and other things relating to that theme. Then I use those prompts as inspiration for writing poems.
Cyberfunded Creativity
I'm practicing cyberfunded creativity. If you enjoy what I'm doing and want to see more of it, please feed the Bard. The following options are currently available:
1) Sponsor the Fishbowl -- Here is a PayPal button for donations. There is no specific requirement, but $1 is the minimum recommended size for PayPal transactions since they take a cut from every one. You can also donate via check or money order sent by postal mail. If you make a donation and tell me about it, I promise to use one of your prompts. Anonymous donations are perfectly welcome, just won't get that perk. General donations will be tallied, and at the end of the fishbowl I’ll post a list of eligible poems based on the total funding; then the audience can vote on which they want to see posted.
[Use the button in my Dreamwidth profile.]
2) Swim, Fishie, Swim! -- A feature in conjunction with fishbowl sponsorship is this progress meter showing the amount donated. There are multiple perks, the top one being a half-price poetry sale on one series when donations reach $300.
3) Buy It Now! -- Gakked from various e-auction sites, this feature allows you to sponsor a specific poem. If you don't want to wait for some editor to buy and publish my poem so you can read it, well, now you don't have to. Sponsoring a poem means that I will immediately post it on my blog for everyone to see, with the name of the sponsor (or another dedicate) if you wish; plus you get a nonexclusive publication right, so you can post it on your own blog or elsewhere as long as you keep the credits intact. You'll need to tell me the title of the poem you want to sponsor. I'm basing the prices on length, and they're comparable to what I typically make selling poetry to magazines (semi-pro rates according to Duotrope's Digest).
0-10 lines: $5
11-25 lines: $10
26-40 lines: $15
41-60 lines: $20
Poems over 60 lines, or with very intricate structure, fall into custom pricing.
4) Commission a scrapbook page. I can render a chosen poem in hardcopy format, on colorful paper, using archival materials for background and any embellishments. This will be suitable for framing or for adding to a scrapbook. Commission details are here. See latest photos of sample scrapbooked poems: "Sample Scrapbooked Poems 1-24-11"
5) Spread the word. Echo or link to this post on your Dreamwidth, other blog, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon, or any other social network. Useful Twitter hashtags include #poetryfishbowl and #promptcall. Encourage people to come here and participate in the fishbowl. If you have room for it, including your own prompt will give your readers an idea of what the prompts should look like; ideally, update later to include the thumbnail of the poem I write, and a link to the poem if it gets published. If there is at least one new prompter or donor, I will post an extra freebie poem.
Linkback perk: I have a spare series poem available, and each linkback will reveal a verse of the poem. One person can do multiple links if they're on different services, like Dreamwidth or Twitter, rather than all on LiveJournal. Comment with a link to where you posted. "There's an Art to It" has 10 verses and belongs to Arts and Crafts America.
Additional Notes
1) I customarily post replies to prompt posts telling people which of their prompts I'm using, with a brief description of the resulting poem(s). If you want to know what's available, watch for those "thumbnails."
2) You don't have to pay me to see a poem based on a prompt that you gave me. I try to send copies of poems to people, mostly using the LJ message function. (Anonymous prompters will miss this perk unless you give me your eddress.) These are for-your-eyes-only, though, not for sharing.
3) Sponsors of the Poetry Fishbowl in general, or of specific poems, will gain access to an extra post in appreciation of their generosity. While you're on the Donors list, you can view all of the custom-locked posts in that category. Click the "donors" tag to read the archive of those. I've also posted a list of other donor perks there. I customarily leave donor names on the list for two months, so you'll get to see the perk-post from this month and next.
4) After the Poetry Fishbowl concludes, I will post a list of unsold poems and their prices, to make it easier for folks to see what they might want to sponsor.
5) If donations total $100 by Friday evening then you get a free $15 poem; $150 gets you a free $20 poem; and $200 gets you a free epic, posted after the Poetry Fishbowl. These will usually be series poems if I have them; otherwise I may offer non-series poems or series poems in a different size. If donations reach $250, you get one step toward a bonus fishbowl; four of these activates the perk, and they don't have to be four months in a row. Everyone will get to vote on which series, and give prompts during the extra fishbowl, although it may be a half-day rather than a whole day. If donations reach $300, there will be a half-price sale in one series.
Feed the Fish!
Now's your chance to participate in the creative process by posting ideas for me to write about. Today's theme is "Unusual Sensory Experiences." See above for details. If you manage to recommend a form that I don't recognize, I will probably pounce on it and ask you for its rules. I do have The New Book of Forms by Lewis Turco which covers most common and many obscure forms.
I'll post at least one of the fishbowl poems here so you-all can enjoy it. (Remember, you get an extra freebie poem if someone new posts a prompt or makes a donation, and additional perks at $100-$300 in donations. Linkbacks reveal verses of "There's an Art to It." The rest of the poems will go into my archive for future use.
Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "Unusual Sensory Experiences." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.
I'll be soliciting ideas for artists, art collection curators, gallery owners, art shop owners, makers of arts and crafts supplies, handicraft advocates, crafters, touch-dominant people, supertasters, sommeliers, perfumers, tetrachromats, Deaf people, DeafBlind people, blind people, synaesthetes, activists, volunteers, teachers, parents, primal soups, animal soups, superheroes, supervillains, cetaceans, bats, pit vipers, insects, alien or fantasy races, others with uncommon senses, seeing a different spectrum, hearing higher or lower, echolocating, inventing a new art or craft, discovering things, improvising, adapting, cooperating, bartering, sharing, fixing what's broke, changing the world, accomplishing the impossible, laboratories, supervillain lairs, art schools, art classrooms, arts and crafts studios, artist colonies, arts and crafts farms, hobby rooms, homes with a giant space for arts or crafts, arts and crafts stores, upcycle junk shops, fiber fairs, street fairs, art shows, Triton Teen Centers, community centers, intentional communities, craft circles, Thalassia, the Maldives, makerspaces, Deaf communities, blind communities, sensory rooms, other sensory hangouts, unique works of art or craft, gizmos or super-gizmos that nobody else can duplicate, phantom limb / phantom pain, touch-mapping, scent-tracking, perfect pitch, echolocation, darkvision, Second Sight, subtle senses, enhanced senses, perspective manipulation, perception manipulation, danger sense, structure sense, senses based on superpowers (like Shiv's metal-sense), animal senses, Protactile sign language, Plains Indian Sign, art lessons and programs, folk arts and crafts, tactile art, Feel and See Art Movement, Touchy Feely art books, edible art, Paletta durable art media for making visual-tactile art, zetetic arts and crafts supplies, ColorADD, Feelipa, diversity, inclusivity, trial and error, teamwork, found family, complementary strengths and weaknesses, personal growth, and poetic forms in particular.
Currently eligible bingo card(s) for donors wishing to sponsor a square:
Body Parts Bingo Card 7-1-22
Winter Fest in July Bingo Card 7-1-22
Among my more relevant series for the main theme:
Artists of Destruction is about famous artists as warmongers.
Arts and Crafts America imagines a world based on creativity.
The Bear Tunnels includes historic crafts and ethnic perspectives.
A Conflagration of Dragons has the Six Races of humanoids, plus the dragons, all of whom have slightly different sensory equipment and perceptions.
Daughters of the Apocalypse requires creative use of remaining materials and has many people with disabilities.
Diminished Expectations has extreme sensory differences, mostly disabilities.
Eloquent Souls features soulbonds, and thus, a greater awareness and perception of souls.
Fledgling Grace has people touched with angelic or demonic features, and often a greater sense of the numinous.
Frankenstein's Family takes a scientific approach to creative materials; werewolves, vampires, and mummies all have their own perceptions.
The Godship Wanderers includes alien species with different senses.
The Inkseer is about scrying.
Monster House contains characters, human and nonhuman, with different perceptions.
The Moon Door features werewolves, whose perceptions often differ from humans.
One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis has Shaeth, with a god's senses.
Polychrome Heroics has various characters and locations relating to arts and crafts. Many superpowers feature enhanced senses or whole different senses.
Or you can ask for something new.
I have a linkback poem, "There's an Art to It" (Arts and Crafts America, 10 verses).
What Is a Poetry Fishbowl?
Writing is usually considered a solitary pursuit. One exception to this is a fascinating exercise called a "fishbowl." This has various forms, but all of them basically involve some kind of writing in public, usually with interaction between author and audience. A famous example is Harlan Ellison's series of "stories under glass" in which he sits in a bookstore window and writes a new story based on an idea that someone gives him. Writing classes sometimes include a version where students watch each other write, often with students calling out suggestions which are chalked up on the blackboard for those writing to use as inspiration.
In this online version of a Poetry Fishbowl, I begin by setting a theme; today's theme is "Unusual Sensory Experiences." I invite people to suggest characters, settings, and other things relating to that theme. Then I use those prompts as inspiration for writing poems.
Cyberfunded Creativity
I'm practicing cyberfunded creativity. If you enjoy what I'm doing and want to see more of it, please feed the Bard. The following options are currently available:
1) Sponsor the Fishbowl -- Here is a PayPal button for donations. There is no specific requirement, but $1 is the minimum recommended size for PayPal transactions since they take a cut from every one. You can also donate via check or money order sent by postal mail. If you make a donation and tell me about it, I promise to use one of your prompts. Anonymous donations are perfectly welcome, just won't get that perk. General donations will be tallied, and at the end of the fishbowl I’ll post a list of eligible poems based on the total funding; then the audience can vote on which they want to see posted.
[Use the button in my Dreamwidth profile.]
2) Swim, Fishie, Swim! -- A feature in conjunction with fishbowl sponsorship is this progress meter showing the amount donated. There are multiple perks, the top one being a half-price poetry sale on one series when donations reach $300.
3) Buy It Now! -- Gakked from various e-auction sites, this feature allows you to sponsor a specific poem. If you don't want to wait for some editor to buy and publish my poem so you can read it, well, now you don't have to. Sponsoring a poem means that I will immediately post it on my blog for everyone to see, with the name of the sponsor (or another dedicate) if you wish; plus you get a nonexclusive publication right, so you can post it on your own blog or elsewhere as long as you keep the credits intact. You'll need to tell me the title of the poem you want to sponsor. I'm basing the prices on length, and they're comparable to what I typically make selling poetry to magazines (semi-pro rates according to Duotrope's Digest).
0-10 lines: $5
11-25 lines: $10
26-40 lines: $15
41-60 lines: $20
Poems over 60 lines, or with very intricate structure, fall into custom pricing.
4) Commission a scrapbook page. I can render a chosen poem in hardcopy format, on colorful paper, using archival materials for background and any embellishments. This will be suitable for framing or for adding to a scrapbook. Commission details are here. See latest photos of sample scrapbooked poems: "Sample Scrapbooked Poems 1-24-11"
5) Spread the word. Echo or link to this post on your Dreamwidth, other blog, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon, or any other social network. Useful Twitter hashtags include #poetryfishbowl and #promptcall. Encourage people to come here and participate in the fishbowl. If you have room for it, including your own prompt will give your readers an idea of what the prompts should look like; ideally, update later to include the thumbnail of the poem I write, and a link to the poem if it gets published. If there is at least one new prompter or donor, I will post an extra freebie poem.
Linkback perk: I have a spare series poem available, and each linkback will reveal a verse of the poem. One person can do multiple links if they're on different services, like Dreamwidth or Twitter, rather than all on LiveJournal. Comment with a link to where you posted. "There's an Art to It" has 10 verses and belongs to Arts and Crafts America.
Additional Notes
1) I customarily post replies to prompt posts telling people which of their prompts I'm using, with a brief description of the resulting poem(s). If you want to know what's available, watch for those "thumbnails."
2) You don't have to pay me to see a poem based on a prompt that you gave me. I try to send copies of poems to people, mostly using the LJ message function. (Anonymous prompters will miss this perk unless you give me your eddress.) These are for-your-eyes-only, though, not for sharing.
3) Sponsors of the Poetry Fishbowl in general, or of specific poems, will gain access to an extra post in appreciation of their generosity. While you're on the Donors list, you can view all of the custom-locked posts in that category. Click the "donors" tag to read the archive of those. I've also posted a list of other donor perks there. I customarily leave donor names on the list for two months, so you'll get to see the perk-post from this month and next.
4) After the Poetry Fishbowl concludes, I will post a list of unsold poems and their prices, to make it easier for folks to see what they might want to sponsor.
5) If donations total $100 by Friday evening then you get a free $15 poem; $150 gets you a free $20 poem; and $200 gets you a free epic, posted after the Poetry Fishbowl. These will usually be series poems if I have them; otherwise I may offer non-series poems or series poems in a different size. If donations reach $250, you get one step toward a bonus fishbowl; four of these activates the perk, and they don't have to be four months in a row. Everyone will get to vote on which series, and give prompts during the extra fishbowl, although it may be a half-day rather than a whole day. If donations reach $300, there will be a half-price sale in one series.
Feed the Fish!
Now's your chance to participate in the creative process by posting ideas for me to write about. Today's theme is "Unusual Sensory Experiences." See above for details. If you manage to recommend a form that I don't recognize, I will probably pounce on it and ask you for its rules. I do have The New Book of Forms by Lewis Turco which covers most common and many obscure forms.
I'll post at least one of the fishbowl poems here so you-all can enjoy it. (Remember, you get an extra freebie poem if someone new posts a prompt or makes a donation, and additional perks at $100-$300 in donations. Linkbacks reveal verses of "There's an Art to It." The rest of the poems will go into my archive for future use.
Poem
Date: 2022-07-05 06:44 pm (UTC)Poem
Date: 2022-07-05 06:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-05 07:25 pm (UTC)Mrs. Wu and Shiv both like to touch things, for different reasons. They've made gifts for each other too, based on that tactile tendency, but have they ever collaborated on anything? Would they want to? Or perhaps they might just give each other unexpected ideas.
Steel can manipulate things telekinetically, and has an affinity for metal things, if I remember correctly. Have he and Shiv met yet? Would they get along, since they are both evolving supervillains? Would they have fun using their super powers together? And if Steel does prefer metal things, I'm sure Shiv could make some awesome whale toys if he felt like it.
Poem
Date: 2022-07-10 10:45 am (UTC)473 lines, Buy It Now = $237
There's so many different possibilities.
Date: 2022-07-05 07:58 pm (UTC)Synaesthesia.
Braille.
What it feels like to be a force of nature, a thunderstorm, or an earthquake. Or a solar flare. Or a rainbow.
How it feels to morph into a different form.
Re: There's so many different possibilities.
Date: 2022-07-06 04:57 am (UTC)424 lines, Buy It Now = $212
Re: There's so many different possibilities.
Date: 2022-07-09 12:43 am (UTC)145 lines, Buy It Now = $73
Poem
Date: 2022-07-05 08:01 pm (UTC)99 lines, Buy It Now = $50
(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-05 08:32 pm (UTC)Humans are traditionally supposed to have five senses, and be primary sight dominant... but what if you have someone who is not. What would the world be like to some who was propriosensory dominant? Where their kinesthesia told them where everything was in relation to where they are? Aside from it being impossible for them to get lost that is.
(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-06 03:36 am (UTC)There are also far more senses than the five we usually credit our species with - I wonder if it would be possible to be, say time-sense-dominant?
And then there are a few senses not perceptible to most humans - I remember something about being able to see magnetism through light polarization, or something like that.
- See_Also_Friend
Poem
Date: 2022-07-30 02:52 am (UTC)989 lines, Buy It Now = $989
Double price for research
Re: Poem
Date: 2022-07-30 10:15 am (UTC)Ohhh... world building in dollops! That class would so be my jam! And now my brain is humming along adding to that project! I mean, what if the cave dwellers work in textiles, fibre crafts? Imagine fungi farming growing mycelial cotton, and trading for wool etc...
umm.. yeah.
Thank you, this is perfect!
Re: Poem
Date: 2022-07-30 10:38 am (UTC)The whole file is 203 pages. I have the characters, most of the worldbuilding instructions, and some notes about the story world. Plus the poem.
>> That class would so be my jam! <<
I would have loved it in college. After I'd seen a couple of these things thumbnailed in other character sheets, I wanted to flesh out an example.
>> And now my brain is humming along adding to that project! <<
You can certainly prompt for more. With a nutritionist in the mix, you could even match it to the next fishbowl.
>> I mean, what if the cave dwellers work in textiles, fibre crafts? Imagine fungi farming growing mycelial cotton, and trading for wool etc... <<
That's possible. The caves are so extensive that they have a much more robust ecosystem than here were it's just a few small critters. Even here, people have made fabric-like and leather-like materials from fungi. And I already set up the idea of textured bracelets.
>> umm.. yeah.
Thank you, this is perfect! <<
Yay! :D
I do want to expand on the proprioception more too. The cave dwellers have both a tactile-mapping ability (rather like star-nosed moles) and an area-effect proprioception based on ambient energy. It'll take a while for Signy's superpower to grow in but that'll be fun.
(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-05 10:08 pm (UTC)Poem
Date: 2022-07-06 08:53 am (UTC)292 lines, Buy It Now = $146
(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-05 10:56 pm (UTC)Such as smelling rotten food, or tracking animals.
For Frankenstein's family,
Does Adam have unusual senses? Less feeling or more along his scars? Can he tell when storms are coming?
What solutions would the community find for him?
(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-06 03:45 am (UTC)And smelling too much can be annoying. I find sunscreen often smells metallic (and disgusting) when I am hungry. We also used to be unable to use many scented products because one of our pets had a strong aversion to most perfumed products.
- See_Also_Friend
Yes ...
Date: 2022-07-06 04:06 am (UTC)Right up until they want to know if the milk is spoiled. "Here, smell this and tell me if it's okay."
Fuck off.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2022-07-06 01:07 pm (UTC)I never managed to find a perfume I liked enough to buy - they all smell funny.
I suppose I'll just have to roll myself in herbs, if I ever want good 'perfume!'
>>Right up until they want to know if the milk is spoiled.<<
Currently watching Stranger Things, and one of the things I like is that the mundane humans have a functional relationship with their superpowered friend. They protect her from enemies, reassure her when she has a meltdown, teach her how to interact with people, and consistantly charge into fights against Lovcraftian horrors so she doesn't have to fight them alone.
And the few times they fight about her powers it isn't "you're abnormal," it's about what she does with them "I'm worried and don't think this is safe," "Don't spy on us," "You were lying?"
So, yeah, that's how you deal with gifts, I think. Accept the whole person, not just the giftedness, and try to help them with the task instead of dumping everything on them and demanding results.
- See_Also_Friend
Poem
Date: 2022-07-06 11:09 am (UTC)111 lines, Buy It Now = $56
(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-05 11:01 pm (UTC)learning to interpret a new sense that no-one you know has.
learning to cope with a disruption in one of the less commonly recognized senses like balance or proprioception.
Poem
Date: 2022-07-06 08:55 am (UTC)424 lines, Buy It Now = $212
Poem
Date: 2022-07-09 12:44 am (UTC)145 lines, Buy It Now = $73
(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-05 11:01 pm (UTC)*Also Terramagne: Marge, she who can shapeshift into a giant technicolor mosquito, is known to have some pretty wild senses to go with that form, by her own admission. Is she becoming accustomed to those senses/viewing them as a positive, at this point? I hope so!
Poem
Date: 2022-07-09 12:43 am (UTC)145 lines, Buy It Now = $73
(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-06 02:34 am (UTC)Personal experience is with 3-D visualization. When the first programs came out that allowed the user to rotate the image of a solid object on the screen, it was on the evening news. I didn't understand the big deal. There was much confusion at my response until mom figured out that I took those images, rotated them, unfolded them, and refolded them in my head. Show me the front, and I'll draw the back. She then had to explain to me that most people couldn't do that, that they needed a physical model, or the computer to do it for them. I think I was about 10.
(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-06 03:56 am (UTC)For the colors, I think they would just call it "blue" like how Enlish speakers say "blue" for what Russian speakers would say are two different colors. We can see that they are different, but they are variants of the same color, not different colors as they might be to Russians. (And for some reason, I think of pink and red as different colors while blue and light blue are the 'same' color...go figure.)
I guess it might depend on how much social shear you get from the abilities, and how useful they are. (Also how conformist the culture is.) Extra colors would likely be treated as an odd form of colorblindness. Being a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind could be treated as a superpower, personal oddity or madness.
I guess the healer-child would be assumed to be spying... I read a book once where someone has an unidentified and untrained scrying ability. People kept attacking him for 'spying' and he eventually wound up in an asylum. (Story protagonists found him and got him some training and his life did improve.)
-See_Also_Friend
Poem
Date: 2022-07-06 11:09 am (UTC)111 lines, Buy It Now = $56
(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-06 03:23 am (UTC)We also had an interesting conversation once about Deaf, Blind and DeafBlind architecture. Maybe something with that?
How to accommodate a pet with sensory issues & how to identify that a pet has sensory issues. Inspired by a cat that had, I think, hypersensitivity to smell and some sort of tactile issue - I'd guess it was sensitivity to light touch. (He loved being hugged and wrapped in blankets, and had a bad habit of stress-grooming.)
Emotions used as a sense. (Emotions are contagious enough to be a weak form of telepathy. For most of us, they provide very useful input about and prompt reactions to environmental stimuli. And losing/damaging them -as with PTSD or depression - can have sharp effects on behavior and functionality.) Also, having the emotional aptitude to 'piggyback' on someone else's emotions/emotional perception.
Not necessarily a prompt, as much as musing: How does one know if they have supersensitive smell/taste? Or, for that matter, any sort of extra sense 'range'? (It seems like a lot of hypersensitivity issues would be commonly dismissed as fussiness, needing to toughen up, etc.)
From an article I read on Protactile Sign - the DeafBlind guy says to the hearing-seeing guy "You don't know how to [touch-]feel things."
Also, all the Protactile words for "oppression."
Xenolinguistics, sonar 3D-imaging 'words.' (Might fit in your soulmate 'verse - what do dolphin soulmarks look like anyway?)
I imagine Aida is going to try and learn cetacean languages...but won't actually be able to speak any of them property since, by cetacean standards she would be partially deaf, sonar-blind, and her mouth won't shape the words right. How do they accommodate that? And, since I expect there will be cetaceans traditionalists who don't like humans, how does her pod deal with the social ramifications of her language attempts?
Women on the autism spectrum. (Neurodivergence changes how you perceive the world.) Maybe in DOA? I remember reading about autistic groups and at least one school designed for autistic students - what if one of those groups founded a community or merged with another group, resulting in complimentary skills/weaknesses?
A team where the members have different senses, and can work together to compensate for whoever doesn't. (Could all have different sense-assortments, or could just have one person with nonstandard senses and relevant-to-problem skills.)
(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-06 03:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-07-06 03:59 am (UTC)- See_Also_Friend
Poem
Date: 2022-07-06 08:55 am (UTC)424 lines, Buy It Now = $212
Hope I'm in time
Date: 2022-07-06 06:13 am (UTC)Anyway, I'd like to see someone translating a work of art -- any kind -- for a person who experiences synesthesia. And how would people without synesthesia experience the translation?
Re: Hope I'm in time
Date: 2022-07-09 12:43 am (UTC)145 lines, Buy It Now = $73
Done for the night!
Date: 2022-07-06 11:11 am (UTC)Poem
Date: 2022-07-07 04:18 am (UTC)Hold for original prompter.
Poem
Date: 2022-07-07 06:04 am (UTC)Hold for original prompter.
Poem
Date: 2022-07-08 03:59 am (UTC)405 lines, Buy It Now = $203
Poem
Date: 2022-07-18 08:46 am (UTC)393 lines, Buy It Now = $197