Poem: "The Choices Humans Make"

This poem is spillover from the August 17, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from mama_kestrel. It also fills the "Protect" square in my 9-1-21 card for the Platonic Love Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred. It belongs to the Aquariana and Big One threads of the Polychrome Heroics series.  It follows "The Highest Dynamic of the Human Soul,"  so read that first or this won't make much sense.

Warning: This poem involves using superpowers to fight a tsunami.

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Poem: "Camping on Finn Skerry"

This poem is spillover from the August 17, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It fills the "camping" square in my 8-1-21 card for the Hot Summer Writes Bingo fest. It belongs to the Aquariana and Finn Family: Independent Steps threads of the Polychrome Heroics series, and follows the story "Checking In" by dialecticdreamer.

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Poem: "For the Totality of Who You Are"

This poem is spillover from the July 6, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from chanter1944. It also fills the "New Year" square in my 7-1-21 card for the Winterfest in July Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred. It belongs to the Polychrome Heroics series, following "Grow into a Scary Place."

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Birdfeeding

Today is sunny and warm.

The birdfeeders actually still have seed in them.  I've seen a squirrel on the hopper feeder and two on the roof.

I trimmed brush around the woodpile. 

EDIT 9/28/21 -- I planted wild onions around the redbud tree in the savanna.

I heard blue jays screaming in the yard, but couldn't see them.

EDIT 9/28/21 -- I planted wild onions around another tree in the savanna.

Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, October 5

This is an advance announcement for the Tuesday, October 5, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. This time the theme will be "Fantastic Queerness." I'll be soliciting ideas for people in the QUILTBAG, queer activists, gender scholars, historic queers, queerplatonic partners, comares, superheroes, supervillains, counselors, other people who involved in QUILTBAG culture, studying the QUILTBAG, exploring your sexuality, creating intimacy, making friends, falling in love (or like), getting to know each other, growing closer, moving in together, formalizing a relationship, fumbling for vocabulary, starting a family, cooking together, discovering things, troubleshooting, improvising, adapting, cooperating, bartering, taking over in an emergency, discovering yourself, studying others, testing boundaries, coming of age, learning what you can (and can't) do, sharing, fixing what's broke, upsetting the status quo, changing the world, accomplishing the impossible, recovering from setbacks, gay bars, feminist bookstores, sharehouses, queer studies departments in schools, QUILTBAG clubs, quiet rooms, queer-friendly workplaces, nonhuman environments, gardens, other QUILTBAG hangouts, diverse orientations, pride flags, other symbols of QUILTBAG identity, stores carrying QUILTBAG goods, queer-owned-and-operated businesses, magical aspects of sex/romance, how superpowers can complicate sexuality, family dynamics, alternative family structures, partnerships not based on sex/romance, layered personal boundaries, emotional closeness, first contact, things other species consider queer that humans don't, interspecies relationships, trial and error, lab conditions are not field conditions, innovation, skin hunger, loneliness, problems that can't be solved by hitting, teamwork, found family, complementary strengths and weaknesses, personal growth, and poetic forms in particular.

I have several posts you may find inspiring:
QUILTBAG Characters
Romantic Orientations in My Characters
Sexual Orientations in My Characters
Genders in My Characters

See also:
The Ace-Aro Spectrum 
Nonsexual Intimacies 
Five Moments of Intimacy
A previous FMI bingo card from a fest on Allbingo

If your identity has not yet be represented, or only done badly, then by all means prompt for it and I'll do my best to fill the gap.

Among my more relevant series for the main theme:

The Blueshift Troupers span a range of sexualities, and sometimes shift gender.

Daughters of the Apocalypse has far more women than men, so lesbianism and bisexuality are considered sensible, but gay men may be seen as selfish.

Frankenstein's Family features two men in a queerplatonic relationship, and there are some other queerfolk in the series too.

Hart's Farm is a free love community with diverse bonding methods.

Monster House includes gay teens.

Path of the Paladins has asexual leads.

Polychrome Heroics has ordinary humans, supernaries, blue-plate specials, superheroes, supervillains, primal and animal soups all of whom have their own interpersonal expectations.  QUILTBAG characters include Antimatter and Stalwart Stan, Kenzie in Iron Horses, Pain's Gray, and Hefty in the Shiv thread (and Shiv is acespec).

Schrodinger's Heroes save the world from alternate dimensions, and they're a very diverse group in a very conservative area.

The Steamsmith has a genderqueer lead and some other variously queer characters.

Or you can ask for something new.

I have a linkback poem, "Summer Thunder" (9 verses).

If you're interested, mark the date on your calendar, and please hold actual prompts until the "Poetry Fishbowl Open" post next week. (If you're not available that day, or you live in a time zone that makes it hard to reach me, you can leave advance prompts. I am now.) 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, October 5

This is an advance announcement for the Tuesday, October 5, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. This time the theme will be "Fantastic Queerness." I'll be soliciting ideas for people in the QUILTBAG, queer activists, gender scholars, historic queers, queerplatonic partners, comares, superheroes, supervillains, counselors, other people who involved in QUILTBAG culture, studying the QUILTBAG, exploring your sexuality, creating intimacy, making friends, falling in love (or like), getting to know each other, growing closer, moving in together, formalizing a relationship, fumbling for vocabulary, starting a family, cooking together, discovering things, troubleshooting, improvising, adapting, cooperating, bartering, taking over in an emergency, discovering yourself, studying others, testing boundaries, coming of age, learning what you can (and can't) do, sharing, fixing what's broke, upsetting the status quo, changing the world, accomplishing the impossible, recovering from setbacks, gay bars, feminist bookstores, sharehouses, queer studies departments in schools, QUILTBAG clubs, quiet rooms, queer-friendly workplaces, nonhuman environments, gardens, other QUILTBAG hangouts, diverse orientations, pride flags, other symbols of QUILTBAG identity, stores carrying QUILTBAG goods, queer-owned-and-operated businesses, magical aspects of sex/romance, how superpowers can complicate sexuality, family dynamics, alternative family structures, partnerships not based on sex/romance, layered personal boundaries, emotional closeness, first contact, things other species consider queer that humans don't, interspecies relationships, trial and error, lab conditions are not field conditions, innovation, skin hunger, loneliness, problems that can't be solved by hitting, teamwork, found family, complementary strengths and weaknesses, personal growth, and poetic forms in particular.

I have several posts you may find inspiring:
QUILTBAG Characters
Romantic Orientations in My Characters
Sexual Orientations in My Characters
Genders in My Characters

See also:
The Ace-Aro Spectrum
Nonsexual Intimacies
Five Moments of Intimacy
A previous FMI bingo card from a fest on Allbingo

If your identity has not yet be represented, or only done badly, then by all means prompt for it and I'll do my best to fill the gap.

Among my more relevant series for the main theme:

The Blueshift Troupers span a range of sexualities, and sometimes shift gender.

Daughters of the Apocalypse has far more women than men, so lesbianism and bisexuality are considered sensible, but gay men may be seen as selfish.

Frankenstein's Family features two men in a queerplatonic relationship, and there are some other queerfolk in the series too.

Hart's Farm is a free love community with diverse bonding methods.

Monster House includes gay teens.

Path of the Paladins has asexual leads.

Polychrome Heroics has ordinary humans, supernaries, blue-plate specials, superheroes, supervillains, primal and animal soups all of whom have their own interpersonal expectations.  QUILTBAG characters include Antimatter and Stalwart Stan, Kenzie in Iron Horses, Pain's Gray, and Hefty in the Shiv thread (and Shiv is acespec).

Schrodinger's Heroes save the world from alternate dimensions, and they're a very diverse group in a very conservative area.

The Steamsmith has a genderqueer lead and some other variously queer characters.

Or you can ask for something new.

I have a linkback poem, "Summer Thunder" (9 verses).

If you're interested, mark the date on your calendar, and please hold actual prompts until the "Poetry Fishbowl Open" post next week. (If you're not available that day, or you live in a time zone that makes it hard to reach me, you can leave advance prompts. I am now.) 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! )

Poem: "Life-Bonding Loyalty"

This poem is spillover from the August 17, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "homelessness / frequent moves" square in my 8-2-21 card for the August Intimacies: Time Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred. It belongs to the Broken Angels: Stronger Wings thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.  This follows the poem "Who Puts Their Life on the Line," so read that first or this won't make much sense.

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Today's Smoothie

Today we made a smoothie with:

most of a cup canned pineapple juice
1 cup and a bit of vanilla yogurt
1/4 cup canned pineapple chunks and a few frozen chunks
1 frozen banana
a blob of coconut cream
1/2 cup ice

This one came out pale yellow and creamy, with a great piña colada flavor. :D

Character notes for "Life-Bonding Loyalty"

These are the character notes for "Life-Bonding Loyalty."

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