Fall Festival Bingo Card 10-1-21

Here is my card for the Fall Festival bingo.  I mixed problems from Shadowhunters, Lucifer, and the seasonal lists. vexed_wench andspiralicious are hosting this over on allbingo from October 1-October 31. Come celebrate autumn and its holidays including Samhain, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. All cultures and time periods are welcome. (See all my 2021 bingo cards.)

If you'd like to sponsor a particular square, especially if you have an idea for what character, series, or situation it would fit -- talk to me and we'll work something out. I've had a few requests for this and the results have been awesome so far. This is a good opportunity for those of you with favorites that don't always mesh well with the themes of my monthly projects. I may still post some of the fills for free, because I'm using this to attract new readers; but if it brings in money, that means I can do more of it. That's part of why I'm crossing some of the bingo prompts with other projects, such as the Poetry Fishbowl.

Underlined prompts have been filled.  Blackout 10-31-21.


FALL FEST BINGO CARD

Balance	1 National Homemade Cookies Day	Well, that could've gone better.	Shadows	Safety
Autumn	Sometimes being a total geek pays off.	Sometimes we are what we are and we should embrace that.	Sometimes we get along best with the people we’re most different from.	Even if I could stop it, I wouldn't.
Do you trust me?	I can't do this anymore.	WILD CARD: Feast	Cleaning	Why are you helping me?
Energy	The best thing to do is always to follow your greatest desire.	Why do humans think they can rectify one evil with another?	I don't suppose you've got a blowtorch around here?	Should’ve seen that one coming.
Dress up / costumes	If you go by someone else’s pace, it shows how much you really care.	I would never ask you to change. I like who you are.	No, it's really not that complicated. He's a bad person.	Dude, I cannot deal with your weirdness right now.

Climate Change

This article about climate change and humanity made me laugh a lot. Some of it is right, but some is hilariously far off.

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The Biblical Space Rock

A meteor may have inspired the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.  Though I do wonder if they checked for a manmade explosion.

Poem: "The Deepest Mutuality and the Most Painful Estrangement"

This poem is spillover from the July 6, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "Visit" square in my 7-1-21 card for the Winterfest in July Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred. It belongs to the Broken Angels thread of the Polychrome Heroics series. It is the first in a triptych, followed by "A Spirit of Openness and Reconciliation" and "Maturity to Outgrow Them."

Warning: This poem contains intense and controversial topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes difficult family dynamics, estrangement, reference to a difficult childhood including unintentional neglect and mistreatment through ineptitude rather than malice, consequent aversion to metaphysics, rude language, adultification that has turned out well for Cas but he's still frustrated about his past, actual malice and emotional torture from Evie's parents, reference to teen parenting, Cas freaking out because mystical things turned out to be real and he doesn't know how to handle that, emotional flailing, awkward support, and other challenges. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward. This is the beginning of a triptych about Cas and his mother Freesia, so skipping it would leave a gap.

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Notes for "The Deepest Mutuality and the Most Painful Estrangement"

These are the notes for "The Deepest Mutuality and the Most Painful Estrangement."

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Poem: "A Spirit of Openness and Reconciliation"

This poem is spillover from the July 6, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "Gingerbread House Day - December 12" square in my 7-1-21 card for the Winterfest in July Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred. It belongs to the Broken Angels thread of the Polychrome Heroics series. It is the second in a triptych, between "The Deepest Mutuality and the Most Painful Estrangement" and "Maturity to Outgrow Them."

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Notes for "A Spirit of Openness and Reconciliation"

These are the notes for "A Spirit of Openness and Reconciliation."

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Poem: "Maturity to Outgrow Them"

This poem is spillover from the July 6, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "Angels" square in my 7-1-21 card for the Winterfest in July Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred. It belongs to the Broken Angels thread of the Polychrome Heroics series. It is the third in a triptych, after "The Deepest Mutuality and the Most Painful Estrangement" and "A Spirit of Openness and Reconciliation."

Warning: This poem contains intense and controversial topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes difficult family dynamics, connection disruption, estrangement, attempts at reconciliation going haywire, emotional rejection, attachment damage, crying, reference to a difficult childhood including unintentional neglect and mistreatment through ineptitude rather than malice, consequent aversion to metaphysics, rude language, adultification that has turned out well for Cas but he's still frustrated about his past, reference to teen parenting, emotional flailing, awkward support, and other challenges. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward.

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Notes for "Maturity to Outgrow Them"

These are the notes for "Maturity to Outgrow Them."

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Poem: "My Coffee with Cream, My Literature with Optimism"

This poem came out of the March 17, 2020 bonus fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from redsixwing and readera. It also fills the "Coffee" square in my 3-1-20 card for the Food Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred. It belongs to the Marionettes thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

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