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 "Yes, actually, it IS that bad." 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 troubleshooters, activists, rebels, Women Who Run with the Saberteeth, explorers, traitors, exes, people who escape domestic violence, refugees, runaway youth, escaped slaves or other captives, housemates, siblings, parents, teachers, clergy, police, soldiers, leaders, superheroes, supervillains, teammates, alien or fantasy species, failure analysts, ethicists, stray or feral animals, other people who get into dire situations, protesting, rebelling, rioting, planning, panicking, throwing in the towel, escaping, running like you stole something, adventuring, hitchhiking, quitting school, divorcing, disowning, betraying, teaching, leaving your comfort zone, discovering things, conducting experiments, observation changing experiments, troubleshooting, improvising, adapting, cleaning up messes, cooperating, bartering, taking over in an emergency, saving the day, discovering yourself, studying others, testing boundaries, coming of age, learning what you can (and can't) do, sharing, preparing for the worst, expecting the unexpected, fixing what's broke, upsetting the status quo, changing the world, accomplishing the impossible, recovering from setbacks, returning home, war zones, wastelands, trails, sailing ships, campervans or RVs, distant lands, the forest primeval, prehistory, liminal zones, schools, homeless shelters, prisons, hotels, churches, sharehouses, campfires, laboratories, supervillain lairs, makerspaces, nonhuman accommodations and adaptations, stores, farmer's markets, starships, alien planets, magical lands, foreign dimensions, other places where disasters happen, cataclysms, climate change, the end of the world, S-risks and X-risks, unhappy relationships, protest rallies, slavery or captivity, locks or chains, travel mishaps, sudden surprises, the buck stops here, trial and error, weird food, secret ingredients, supplements that turn out to be metagenic, intercultural entanglements, asking for help and getting it, enemies to friends/lovers, interdimensional travel, lab conditions are not field conditions, superpower manifestation, the end of where your framework actually applies, ethics, innovation, problems that can't be solved by hitting, 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:
Tolkien Fest Bingo Card 3-1-25
Among my more relevant series for the main theme:
An Army of One has some serious challenges between the Galactic Arms.
The Bear Tunnels introduces modern principles to people in the past, in hopes of preventing genocide.
A Conflagration of Dragons features the Six Races struggling to survive as the dragons take over more and more territory.
Crystal Wood is about how the mass death of trees can wreck civilization.
The Daughters of the Apocalypse has people trying to find enough resources to survive, when former cities are unsafe.
The Moon Door explores a women's chronic pain group and lycanthropy.
Not Quite Kansas deals with demons, magic, and other mayhem.
One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis follows Shaeth as he works on becoming the God of Drunks after quitting as the God of Evil. Addiction always has the potential for disaster.
Path of the Paladins includes some really awful situations due to divine politics and mortal foolishness.
Peculiar Obligations deals with Quakers, pirates, and organized crime.
Polychrome Heroics has ordinary humans, supernaries, blue-plate specials, superheroes, supervillains, primal and animal soups all trying to get along and figure out how to make a functional society. Among the more relevant threads are Berettaflies, the Big One, Dr. Infanta, Iron Horses, Officer Pink, Shiv, and Trichromatic Attachments.
Schrodinger's Heroes has a lot of situations that can destroy things, up to and including whole dimensions.
The Wandering is a series about fantasy time travel where people loop back within their own lifespan.
Or you can ask for something new.
Linkbacks reveal a verse of any open linkback poem.
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 "Yes, actually, it IS that bad." 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.
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: Each linkback will reveal a verse of any open linkback 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.
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 "Yes, actually, it IS that bad." 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 any open linkback poem. The rest of the poems will go into my archive for future use.
Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "Yes, actually, it IS that bad." 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 troubleshooters, activists, rebels, Women Who Run with the Saberteeth, explorers, traitors, exes, people who escape domestic violence, refugees, runaway youth, escaped slaves or other captives, housemates, siblings, parents, teachers, clergy, police, soldiers, leaders, superheroes, supervillains, teammates, alien or fantasy species, failure analysts, ethicists, stray or feral animals, other people who get into dire situations, protesting, rebelling, rioting, planning, panicking, throwing in the towel, escaping, running like you stole something, adventuring, hitchhiking, quitting school, divorcing, disowning, betraying, teaching, leaving your comfort zone, discovering things, conducting experiments, observation changing experiments, troubleshooting, improvising, adapting, cleaning up messes, cooperating, bartering, taking over in an emergency, saving the day, discovering yourself, studying others, testing boundaries, coming of age, learning what you can (and can't) do, sharing, preparing for the worst, expecting the unexpected, fixing what's broke, upsetting the status quo, changing the world, accomplishing the impossible, recovering from setbacks, returning home, war zones, wastelands, trails, sailing ships, campervans or RVs, distant lands, the forest primeval, prehistory, liminal zones, schools, homeless shelters, prisons, hotels, churches, sharehouses, campfires, laboratories, supervillain lairs, makerspaces, nonhuman accommodations and adaptations, stores, farmer's markets, starships, alien planets, magical lands, foreign dimensions, other places where disasters happen, cataclysms, climate change, the end of the world, S-risks and X-risks, unhappy relationships, protest rallies, slavery or captivity, locks or chains, travel mishaps, sudden surprises, the buck stops here, trial and error, weird food, secret ingredients, supplements that turn out to be metagenic, intercultural entanglements, asking for help and getting it, enemies to friends/lovers, interdimensional travel, lab conditions are not field conditions, superpower manifestation, the end of where your framework actually applies, ethics, innovation, problems that can't be solved by hitting, 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:
Tolkien Fest Bingo Card 3-1-25
Among my more relevant series for the main theme:
An Army of One has some serious challenges between the Galactic Arms.
The Bear Tunnels introduces modern principles to people in the past, in hopes of preventing genocide.
A Conflagration of Dragons features the Six Races struggling to survive as the dragons take over more and more territory.
Crystal Wood is about how the mass death of trees can wreck civilization.
The Daughters of the Apocalypse has people trying to find enough resources to survive, when former cities are unsafe.
The Moon Door explores a women's chronic pain group and lycanthropy.
Not Quite Kansas deals with demons, magic, and other mayhem.
One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis follows Shaeth as he works on becoming the God of Drunks after quitting as the God of Evil. Addiction always has the potential for disaster.
Path of the Paladins includes some really awful situations due to divine politics and mortal foolishness.
Peculiar Obligations deals with Quakers, pirates, and organized crime.
Polychrome Heroics has ordinary humans, supernaries, blue-plate specials, superheroes, supervillains, primal and animal soups all trying to get along and figure out how to make a functional society. Among the more relevant threads are Berettaflies, the Big One, Dr. Infanta, Iron Horses, Officer Pink, Shiv, and Trichromatic Attachments.
Schrodinger's Heroes has a lot of situations that can destroy things, up to and including whole dimensions.
The Wandering is a series about fantasy time travel where people loop back within their own lifespan.
Or you can ask for something new.
Linkbacks reveal a verse of any open linkback poem.
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 "Yes, actually, it IS that bad." 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.
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: Each linkback will reveal a verse of any open linkback 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.
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 "Yes, actually, it IS that bad." 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 any open linkback poem. The rest of the poems will go into my archive for future use.
(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-04 06:47 pm (UTC)Which is all a round about way of saying Dr Infantia might be strongly reminded of 1930's Germany and considering nipping that in the bud sooner rather than later. (why no, I'm not drawing parallels with current day L-America, really!)
OTOH: Imagine trying to explain the future to the Natives in The Bear Tunnels, I mean the whole trail of tears etc. It would stagger belief rather.
(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-04 10:47 pm (UTC)Alternatively, Shiv stepping in when seeing someone treated poorly and telling the perpetrator, "Actually, yes, your behaviour IS that bad. I'm a supervillain, I would know."
(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-04 11:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-04 11:57 pm (UTC)Something with Shaeth.
What makes a character take a long hard look at reality.
(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-05 12:47 am (UTC)The dragons are just metaphors for billionaires aren’t they? Hogging all the resources. Impotence to those guys.
Prompts
Date: 2025-03-05 01:49 am (UTC)Rape culture {hasn't happened to me, but someone I follow posts about it pretty regularly)
Epidemiology in general
Haiku prompts
Date: 2025-03-05 01:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-05 02:03 am (UTC)I'm Samwise, right now, and I will fight for the good I see in the world. But I don't like being in charge, and I won't shirk the responsibility when it falls to me. Onward to Mount Doom, even if I throw away my good pans. I salute, and go back to chaplaincy, where the most important thing is to hear people where they are, right now.
(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-05 02:08 am (UTC)https://librarygeek.dreamwidth.org/51920.html
Ysabat, possibly either a response from Polychrome Heroics or Schrodinger's Heroes to finding out that the Internet troll was reelected for this dimension?
Poem
Date: 2025-03-05 02:25 am (UTC)Poem
Date: 2025-03-05 02:28 am (UTC)62 lines, Buy It Now = $31
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Date: 2025-03-05 02:52 am (UTC)Poem
Date: 2025-03-05 02:53 am (UTC)>>The dragons are just metaphors for billionaires aren’t they? Hogging all the resources. Impotence to those guys.<<
That was indeed part of the inspiration for the series, based on how the richest people tend to behave, along with the macroeconomics of Middle Earth.
(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-05 03:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-05 03:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-05 04:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-05 04:25 am (UTC)Baking a schadenfreude pie, because when you've been screaming warnings that no one has listened to for years, that's all that's left when it all comes to pass.
And yes, once I've recovered enough from knee replacement to stand in the kitchen for an extended time, I will be baking schadenfreude pie.
(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-05 05:57 am (UTC)"The person you are trying to reach isn't here right now."
[any] Some guy being clueless about the fact that an issue to do with a woman or kid is actually a serious issue, not just someone being whiny. (Granted the guy would care once he /knows/ there is an issue...its just him getting to the point where he realizes that it is an issue too.)
Daughters of the Apocalypse
- laying out the bad consequences of the collapse of some basic infrastructure - shipping, plumbing, refrigeration, etc
- that moment at the beginning of a disaster when you pool all your resources... and blankly stare at each other over the very small pile of supplies you can find.
The Moon Door
- surely there are werewolf (or shifter) problems that don't affect baseline humans.
Not Quite Kansas
- medical problems, different treatment methods across the different dimensions, cultural conflicts in regards to medical care
One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis
- what kind of mess-ups would a toddler Goddess of Evil make?
Peculiar Obligations:
- what happens when someone catches a slave ship? I can't imagine anyone involved in that will have an entirely pleasant day...
- related, we had discussed what happens when a traditionalist pirate crew abducts a medic...who happens to be packbonded to one of the Alliance-culture crews. (Additional notes in separate comment.) Also, I think the medic should be a guy, just so it doesn't fall into Always Save the Girl territory.
- The part where the prisoner can choose to be menteed in peace skills...or they can leave with the hawks. And not come back.
Prisoner : "What happens if I say no?"
Pacifist : "Dunno. I never ask...we're all happier that way."
Pirate : [slasher smile] "/Please/ say no."
- How do they handle having empathic pacifist in the same closed circle confined space as a sociopath? (Or any other /severe/ empathy-deficiency issue.) Preferably the solution should involve everyone cooperating, not just one side or the other having to do /all/ the work.
- That other idea you mentioned, where the women prisoners adopt the shanghai'd medic. Though I imagine the guys would go along with it too, even if it was initiated by the ladies.
Schrodinger's Heroes
- How, exactly, do they break bad news to their relatives? Especially with a 'No time to explain' crisis.
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Date: 2025-03-05 06:00 am (UTC)97 lines, Buy It Now = $49
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(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-05 06:53 am (UTC)I also wonder what superheroes or supervillains would do to an elected official that is acting like most of our GOP politicians are acting these days (I see lying, more lying, breaking their promises, breaking the bureaucracies so many of us rely on, violating treaties, starting trade wars with our allies, firing people indiscriminately no matter how important their jobs are or how competent they are, and more.)
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Date: 2025-03-05 10:04 am (UTC)70 lines, Buy It Now = $35
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Date: 2025-03-05 02:21 pm (UTC)Re: Poem
Date: 2025-03-06 04:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-08 04:18 am (UTC)Well ...
Date: 2025-03-08 05:04 am (UTC)If they try to report him, it'll be like that time someone tried to complain to my Pagan boss about the sexual content of my work. We both laughed our asses off.
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Date: 2025-03-10 06:53 am (UTC)464 lines, Buy It Now = $232
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Date: 2025-03-10 06:53 am (UTC)464 lines, Buy It Now = $232
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Date: 2025-03-10 10:30 am (UTC)Re: Poem
Date: 2025-03-10 10:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-11 06:16 pm (UTC)*The art teacher, the worldbuilding teacher (who also really likes Arthur), and that spaced-out metallurgy professor.
Yes ...
Date: 2025-03-11 06:25 pm (UTC)2) Soup to Nuts has been pushing hard, for years, the idea that people should encourage supervillains to form non-criminal connections and interests. They can't simultaneously sit in a class and rob a bank. So the more time Shiv spends in college activities, the less time he has to get into trouble. This principle has been spreading for a while now, and although it's not universal, it is becoming more known, especially among fans of harm reduction.
In this context, Shiv is more willing to show his abilities when needed and to defuse questions so people don't bug him. And the new classmates won't hassle him because he was so helpful.
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Date: 2025-03-15 05:01 am (UTC)358 lines, Buy It Now = $179
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Date: 2025-03-18 06:18 am (UTC)412 lines, Buy It Now = $206
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Date: 2025-03-19 02:55 am (UTC)Poem
Date: 2025-03-30 09:14 pm (UTC)1236 lines, Buy It Now = $1236
Double price for research.