Trailer for "Tant de Forets"

 Here's a lovely bit of geometric animation about plants and bugs.

Poem: "The Sounds You Can't Unhear"

This poem came out of the October 2014 Creative Jam. It was inspired by a prompt from corvi. It also fills the "lost in translation" square in my 9-29-14 card for the Origfic_bingo fest.  This poem has been sponsored by dialecticdreamer.  It belongs to the Aquariana thread of the Polychrome Heroics series, and is a direct sequel to "A Voice from Beyond."  (Reading these two poems back-to-back may be emotional overload for some folks, as they cover very intense topics.)

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Polychrome Heroics sale is SOLD OUT!

The Polychrome Heroics sale has SOLD OUT!  Thank you for your generous support.  I do not have all the poems posted yet, so I have marked them as sold with notes about the respective sponsors.  Watch for new poems to appear; you have a ton of goodies in progress.  It is likely to take quite a while for me to finish uploading all this stuff and updating appropriate listings, etc.

Special thanks to my partner Doug for the wildly popular and successful quarter-price sale.  It seems to be the runaway innovation of this year.  :D


Personal Service Announcement:

Due to some household factors, I am overloaded and falling further behind.  It's nothing bad; some of it is great, like having houseguests for Samhain.  But it means I have a drawerful of time-sensitive obligations and a handful of spoons to meet them with.  Things are starting to get dropped that really should not be dropped.

How you can help:

1) If you email or private-message me about something and I don't get back to you in my usual 2-3 days, it has probably fallen out of my attention.  If it is trivial, I probably won't get back to it and I hope that's okay.  If it is important, please check back with me so I do not forget about it indefinitely.  (This includes the work I'm supposed to be doing reorganizing my website for Polychrome Heroics.)  You're not nagging, you're tracking.  It just may take me a while, and more than one reminder, to get the most important stuff actually done.

2) Be patient with the fact that I'm falling behind, losing stuff, and making mistakes because I am busy-cubed and my brain is kind of fried.  If you point out mistakes, I will fix them as best I can.  Thank you!

Today's Yardening: Daffodils

DONE.  Finally planted the last bag of daffodils today.  

*goflopnow* 

"Seder Masochism" GIFs

Nina Paley has posted two GIFs of Hebrew slaves in Egypt, one of men and one of women.  And look!  They're brown, with curly black hair, not whitewashed.  I love the stylized geometric body parts too.

Poem: "Inside the Lines"

This poem was written outside the prompt calls, inspired by a remark from gingicat. It also fills the "primary colors" square in my 9-1-14 card for the genprompt_bingo  fest.  It has been sponsored by dialecticdreamer.  This poem belongs to the Dr. Infanta thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

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Call for Prompts

thebonesofferalletters is holding a prompt call on the theme of "Language and writing, BDSM and erotica."  Leave prompts, get ficlet.  Donations and signal boosts get perks -- in particular, 5 signal boosts and a whole free story will get posted.  Go prompt and link!