Thickening Agents

 Read about flour, tapioca starch, and other ways to thicken food.

Gender Performance

 ... really is a performance, especially when fans start playing with it.  Yes, it's okay to play with important things.  No, that's not a good reason to kill people.

Free Sketch Day by Shadows_gallery

shadows_gallery is hosting a Free Sketch Day.  Come leave your one-word prompts.  There are individual and collective perks for donations.

Free Sketch Day by Shadows_gallery

shadows_gallery is hosting a Free Sketch Day.  Come leave your one-word prompts.  There are individual and collective perks for donations.

Free Sketch Day by Shadows_gallery

shadows_gallery is hosting a Free Sketch Day.  Come leave your one-word prompts.  There are individual and collective perks for donations.

Free Sketch Day by Shadows_gallery

shadows_gallery is hosting a Free Sketch Day.  Come leave your one-word prompts.  There are individual and collective perks for donations.

One-Card Draw by Wonder-city

wonder_city is doing a One-Card Draw featuring the superhero Madame Destiny. That's the free version. For a donation you can get a longer in-character reading.

Poem: "Low-Hanging Fruit"

This poem is spillover from the February Crowdfunding Creative Jam, which generated the Hart's Farm series.  Various folks wanted to see more of Auduna adapting to life in this community; this poem shows what happens when she encounters one of the more peculiar activities that some people enjoy.  It has been selected in an audience poll as the freebie, activated by the several new prompters and donors that this series has attracted.  You can also read about the Akero apples online.

( Welcome home... )

Poem: "Low-Hanging Fruit"

This poem is spillover from the February Crowdfunding Creative Jam, which generated the Hart's Farm series.  Various folks wanted to see more of Auduna adapting to life in this community; this poem shows what happens when she encounters one of the more peculiar activities that some people enjoy.  It has been selected in an audience poll as the freebie, activated by the several new prompters and donors that this series has attracted.  You can also read about the Akero apples online.

( Welcome home... )

Poem: "Low-Hanging Fruit"

This poem is spillover from the February Crowdfunding Creative Jam, which generated the Hart's Farm series.  Various folks wanted to see more of Auduna adapting to life in this community; this poem shows what happens when she encounters one of the more peculiar activities that some people enjoy.  It has been selected in an audience poll as the freebie, activated by the several new prompters and donors that this series has attracted.  You can also read about the Akero apples online.

( Welcome home... )

Poem: "Low-Hanging Fruit"

This poem is spillover from the February Crowdfunding Creative Jam, which generated the Hart's Farm series.  Various folks wanted to see more of Auduna adapting to life in this community; this poem shows what happens when she encounters one of the more peculiar activities that some people enjoy.  It has been selected in an audience poll as the freebie, activated by the several new prompters and donors that this series has attracted.  You can also read about the Akero apples online.

( Welcome home... )

Poem: "Spots"

This poem is spillover from the February 21, 2012 Poetry Fishbowl.  It was inspired by prompts from marina_bonomi, meeksp, and wyld_dandelyon.  It was selected in an audience poll as a freebie, based on the fishbowl attracting two new prompters.  Among the references I used for this poem were articles about cheetahs and Arthur Wellesley.  You can find more poems in the Steamsmith series through the Serial Poetry page.

( Full steam ahead! )

Poem: "Spots"

This poem is spillover from the February 21, 2012 Poetry Fishbowl.  It was inspired by prompts from marina_bonomi, meeksp, and wyld_dandelyon.  It was selected in an audience poll as a freebie, based on the fishbowl attracting two new prompters.  Among the references I used for this poem were articles about cheetahs and Arthur Wellesley.  You can find more poems in the Steamsmith series through the Serial Poetry page.

( Full steam ahead! )

Poem: "Spots"

This poem is spillover from the February 21, 2012 Poetry Fishbowl.  It was inspired by prompts from marina_bonomi, meeksp, and wyld_dandelyon.  It was selected in an audience poll as a freebie, based on the fishbowl attracting two new prompters.  Among the references I used for this poem were articles about cheetahs and Arthur Wellesley.  You can find more poems in the Steamsmith series through the Serial Poetry page.

( Full steam ahead! )

Poem: "Spots"

This poem is spillover from the February 21, 2012 Poetry Fishbowl.  It was inspired by prompts from marina_bonomi, meeksp, and wyld_dandelyon.  It was selected in an audience poll as a freebie, based on the fishbowl attracting two new prompters.  Among the references I used for this poem were articles about cheetahs and Arthur Wellesley.  You can find more poems in the Steamsmith series through the Serial Poetry page.

( Full steam ahead! )

Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, March 6

This is an advance announcement for the Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Poetry Fishbowl. This time the theme will be "commoner heroes & second fiddles." I'll be soliciting ideas for heroic commoners, doomed heroes, sidekicks, backup and reserves, innocent bystanders, artifacts for non-heroes, heroic artifacts in non-heroic hands, situations in which a hero is helpless but others are not, plot twists where the favorite gets killed right out of the gate, instances where no hero is available at all, everyday locations for momentous events, terrain as a plot hazard, and poetic forms in particular. 

If you're interested, mark the date on your calendar, and please hold actual prompts until the "Poetry Fishbowl Open" post next week. Meanwhile, if you want to help with promotion, please feel free to link back here or repost this on your blog. 

( New to the fishbowl?  Read all about it! )

Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, March 6

This is an advance announcement for the Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Poetry Fishbowl. This time the theme will be "commoner heroes & second fiddles." I'll be soliciting ideas for heroic commoners, doomed heroes, sidekicks, backup and reserves, innocent bystanders, artifacts for non-heroes, heroic artifacts in non-heroic hands, situations in which a hero is helpless but others are not, plot twists where the favorite gets killed right out of the gate, instances where no hero is available at all, everyday locations for momentous events, terrain as a plot hazard, and poetic forms in particular. 

If you're interested, mark the date on your calendar, and please hold actual prompts until the "Poetry Fishbowl Open" post next week. Meanwhile, if you want to help with promotion, please feel free to link back here or repost this on your blog. 

( New to the fishbowl?  Read all about it! )

Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, March 6

This is an advance announcement for the Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Poetry Fishbowl. This time the theme will be "commoner heroes & second fiddles." I'll be soliciting ideas for heroic commoners, doomed heroes, sidekicks, backup and reserves, innocent bystanders, artifacts for non-heroes, heroic artifacts in non-heroic hands, situations in which a hero is helpless but others are not, plot twists where the favorite gets killed right out of the gate, instances where no hero is available at all, everyday locations for momentous events, terrain as a plot hazard, and poetic forms in particular. 

If you're interested, mark the date on your calendar, and please hold actual prompts until the "Poetry Fishbowl Open" post next week. Meanwhile, if you want to help with promotion, please feel free to link back here or repost this on your blog. 

( New to the fishbowl?  Read all about it! )

Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, March 6

This is an advance announcement for the Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Poetry Fishbowl. This time the theme will be "commoner heroes & second fiddles." I'll be soliciting ideas for heroic commoners, doomed heroes, sidekicks, backup and reserves, innocent bystanders, artifacts for non-heroes, heroic artifacts in non-heroic hands, situations in which a hero is helpless but others are not, plot twists where the favorite gets killed right out of the gate, instances where no hero is available at all, everyday locations for momentous events, terrain as a plot hazard, and poetic forms in particular. 

If you're interested, mark the date on your calendar, and please hold actual prompts until the "Poetry Fishbowl Open" post next week. Meanwhile, if you want to help with promotion, please feel free to link back here or repost this on your blog. 

( New to the fishbowl?  Read all about it! )

Art by Shadows_gallery

See the top hat drawn from my prompt.

Art by Shadows_gallery

See the top hat drawn from my prompt.

Art by Shadows_gallery

See the top hat drawn from my prompt.

Art by Shadows_gallery

See the top hat drawn from my prompt.

Read "Frankenbread and Honey" by Jjhunter

jjhunter has written a poem about yeast culture.  So very cool.