Moment of Silence: Paddy Moloney

Musician Paddy Moloney has passed away.  He is best known for leading the famous Irish band, the Chieftains.  They have a discography on their website but it doesn't fit on one page, so you have to click the menu to see it.

Aaaand a large flock of angelic musicians all crowd toward the gates.  Is there beer?  Of course there's beer.  There's also whiskey.  The other angels politely pretend not to notice that a great deal of carousing is about to commence.  After all, there's a party to get started before the Devil gets the death notice.

Birdfeeding

Today is sunny and mild.

I fed the birds.  I've seen house finches, a male cardinal, and the small squirrel.

I did some pickup on the porch. 

EDIT 10/26/21 -- I did more pickup on the porch.

EDIT 10/26/21 -- I gathered 2 trolleys of sticks and dumped them in the firepit.

Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, November 2

This is an advance announcement for the Tuesday, November 2, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. This time the theme will be "Polyamory in the QUILTBAG." I'll be soliciting ideas for polyfolk, people in the QUILTBAG, queer activists, gender scholars, historic queers, historic polyfamilies, queerplatonic partners, comares, superheroes, supervillains, counselors, other people who involved in QUILTBAG and polyamorous 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, sharehouses, intentional communities, other polyhomes, gay bars, feminist bookstores, queer studies departments in schools, QUILTBAG clubs, quiet rooms, queer-friendly workplaces, Utah, Boston, Thalassia, 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, queer-friendly and poly-friendly religions, 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, alien polyamory, 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

I encourage folks to prompt for more about polyfamilies I have already written about, because statting up lots of characters at once is really time-consuming.  Ask me if you need more details about these.  Options include:

POLYCHROME HEROICS

Marriage diversity in Terramagne-America

The Coral Reef

Kallistos family, also Clan Aspen and the Pans

Hefty/Roger-Diamond/Fiddlesticks

Tarnish/Cavalier/Princessa

Molly's polycule

Boston Wives TV show

OTHER SERIES

Feathered Nests families tend toward polyamory.

Frankenstein's Family has Csilla-Dorottya/Dénes the Brewer.

Most of Hart's Farm is poly free love whatever.

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.  They have pairings but are sort of all one big family.

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.  Larger families are likely more secure than smaller ones, and they usually have to share a man.

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, 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.  Pat belongs to a polyfamily.

Or you can ask for something new.

I have a linkback poem, "Homefree and Clear" (8 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! )