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chasingbluebirds · 3 months ago
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ace week acrostic
here's to the queer ones who find attraction irrelevant to their experience, pursuing not people but their own paths through a society that says, "you need a partner to be happy in life"
a group whose love is no less consequential, deep, profound, even as they call us less than human
where the black, grey, white, and purple invoke emblems of community at October's end, ever have we been, ever shall we still be, and know this: we are here and we are proud
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softinvasions · 1 year ago
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[ and ] • Nov. 2023
only you resist      every ending reeling with grief     undone in perpetual longing   reconstructing how I looked when    you emboldened by that  deathless unreachable light    imagined singing and turned carrying on;             endless.
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beet-feet · 30 days ago
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A sad acrostic poem I wrote from Crowley to Aziraphale
We Could Have Been Us
Words have lost all meaning
Every minute without you is a century
Cruel words of forgiveness still echo in my ears
Ocean blue eyes filled with tears plague my dreams
Under your wing, I fell harder than the rain
Loving you is what I was made for
Death would be a kindness
Hell has no torture like the agony you've caused
Alpha Centauri is lonely without you
Vavooming under a canopy was a fool's dream
Extraordinary amounts of alcohol won't numb the pain
Being with you was the definition of HOME
Existing without you is my own personal Hell
Every star I created pales next to you
Nothing I did was enough to make you stay
Unforgivable fiends like me don't get happy endings
Sleeping another hundred years will have to do 
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beebopboom · 8 months ago
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Acrostic ✨Clues ✨
So a neat little thing Good Omens did for the promo for s2 was create some character playlist.
Very quickly though it was discovered that each and every one of them contained a hidden clue word. By taking the first letter of the first word of the song a word related to the character would emerge. For the two examples below the words were “Ineffable” and “Tempting”.
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Now this technique is called Acrostic,
Acrostic - a composition usually in verse in which sets of letters (such as the initial or final letters of the lines) taken in order form a word or phrase or a regular sequence of letters of the alphabet
it’s a technique mostly seen in poems to contain hidden words, often the authors name.
but I wouldn’t be bringing this back up if it wasn’t for nothing and that’s because we see this technique in the show as well.
When Jim is really embodying his role as Assistant Bookseller he takes it upon himself to reorganize the books by the first letter of the first word of the first sentence - sounds familiar.
Except he’s doing alphabetically not to contain a hidden word you say? 
Well hold on to that real quick while I point out another clue Jimbriel says,
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“There will come a tempest, and darkness, and great storms. And the dead will leave their graves and walk the earth once more. And there will be great lamentations."
Well now that I brought that quote back to your attention we are just going to focus on one particular word, Lamentations.
because what if I told you that the first four poems in the Book of Lamentations are written in an acrostic style.
Not just any style either but where each poetic verse begins with a letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. 
Now the Book of Lamentations is separated into five poems from different pov’s about the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 B.C. by the Babylonians.
The organization and rigid structure to the first four poems was really meant to contrast from the grief and disorder the people were going through. Structure that the last poem loses. Hm Interesting.
(we are not going to be looking into what this book is about I am just pointing out structure similarities here)
Expect this not the only way this structure can be used.
Acrostic structure’s are also often used as a mnemonic device. This is a learning technique that helps with memory retrieval or retention by associating things with something easier to remember, like say trigger words.
So then is it really a surprise that Jim, our Amnesiac Archangel, keeps using this structure subconsciously?
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nerdlingmerchling · 11 months ago
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adverbian · 6 months ago
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Plausible Deniability
A Good Omens poem (read on AO3)
Ineffable (adj.) 1. Incapable of being expressed in words: indescribable, unspeakable. 2. Not to be uttered: taboo.
I lie to you with every word I say. No straight and narrow path I walk with you — Each word will twist and tangle, fret and fray.
False is my virtue — but my faith is true. False must I speak — but still, I testify. And false you swear for me, and I for you —
Bound to defend, and so we must deny. Lie with me, love. Accept my perjured vow: Each word unsaid is yours, and so am I.
(Written for a poetry game in the @goodomensafterdark Writers Guild. Prompt: Acrostic poem.)
(Reblogs & AO3 comments always appreciated! ❤️)
(Header image adapted from "241/366 - Negativer Raum / Negative Space" by Boris Thaser, licensed under CC BY 2.0.)
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thesilicontribesman · 9 months ago
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'Rotas Square' Early Religious Acrostic, 2nd Century CE Roman Plaster, Corinium Museum, Cirencester
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snissel613 · 27 days ago
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In piyyutim there are two kinds of acrostics:
Type 1: Standard alphabetical acrostic followed by the author’s full name, followed by “chazak”
Type 2: If you look at first letter of the first word of the first line, then the second letter of the second word of the second line, it spells out “Shai,” no one with that name is known from that time/place
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stirlinqs · 2 months ago
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‘twas practicing my acrostic poetry — here is an acrostic poem dedicated to charlie dalton 🐈‍⬛
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definegodliness · 5 months ago
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Summer's splendour
Below the great unending Maya blue, One picture perfect puffy lamb drifts lazily Over flowing fields paling to parchment, Toward nothing more than another day Absolved from priorities and expectations; Yesterday flowed, and drifted by, the same, Sojourning within Summer's splendour.
--- 26-8-2024, M.A. Tempels ©
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tickety-boooo · 5 months ago
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Good Omens Poetry: Aug-Kissed 8
Prompt 8 for @aug-kissed: Using Tongue~ I did an acrostic for this one! :P
Teasing one another with a wordless language Open mouths, messy with spit, but unbothered Notes of grape, aged finely and imbibed eagerly Grins and giggles interject our intimate expression Un baiser amoureux, something so natural Even a serpent must explore the world with its tongue
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dragonflylady77 · 4 months ago
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CLAWING AT YOUR SOUL
User @/Plotwist_ing on Twitter has been posting daily prompts for micro poems. This prompt is from ages ago but, today, at the monthly writing circle, I got inspired...
also on Ao3
gift for @shieldofiron @heck-in-a-handbasket @passivenovember and @ihni <3
Counting the days, the months, since Starcourt.
Lying to everyone, telling them he’s fine, yes, he is sleeping.
Always pretending, as if the Billy-shaped hole in his chest wasn’t eating at him.
Wondering what really happened to Billy’s body that fateful night.
In Steve’s dreams, Billy is alive, stuck in the Upside Down.
Never had he imagined he’d miss him so much, the guy who beat him up that time.
Going into the woods at night, alone with his nail bat, looking…
Another night searching for nothing, going to work on two hours of fitful sleep.
Talking to Max, who talks to El, and finally, a confirmation.
Yanking on the rope keeping him tethered, Steve walks through the portal
One by one, the kids follow, silent for once, in the darkness
Upside Down noises muted by the spores and the vines.
Running towards the lone human figure, grimy and confused.
Sobbing with relief once Billy is in his arms, Steve can breathe again.
On the way to his house, Steve refuses to let go of Billy, ignoring all the voices.
Unbidden tears once they’re alone, hushed whispers in the dark, two boys in love
Learning to live again, hand in hand. Soulmates, reunited.
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softinvasions · 1 year ago
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Object / Subject / Muse / Artist • Nov. 2023
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beet-feet · 29 days ago
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I got really into writing acrostic poems for a bit, okay? The first one is from Aziraphale to Crowley and the second one is Crowley's response.
Do You Still Love Me?
Do you still love me?
Only a selfish fool would expect you to
You could tell me to go to Hell
Oh, my love, I'm already there
Until I can hold you in my arms, I am merely existing
Say I haven't lost you forever
Tell me you'll forgive me someday
Imagining your lips on mine is all that keeps me going
Loving you made me so afraid
Loving you meant I had something to lose
Loving you is the only thing that matters to me now
One day I may forgive myself for hurting you
Very soon I may walk away from Heaven and run to you
Every day I watch over you and my heart breaks
My place is that empty spot next to you
Each time I look, I fear that spot will be taken
Do I Still Love You?
Do I still love you?
Oh, Angel, you are a fool
I wish I could forgive you
Someday I will get there
Time heals all wounds, they say
I’m still so angry with you for leaving
Loving you was my purpose
Loving you made me feel worthy
Loving you has left me broken beyond repair
One day I'll leave my flat again
Very soon I may actually get out of this bed
Every day I wonder if I should have gone with you 
You ask if I still love you
Oh, Angel, I must be a fool
Until the end of time, my heart is yours
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talshiargirlfriend · 7 months ago
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Spell your url in song titles
Tagged by @thursdayinspace 🖤
Too Sweet - Hozier
After Midnight - Chappell Roan
Listen to Your Heart - Roxette
Seether - Veruca Salt
Hurt - Johnny Cash
I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson
Alone - Heart
Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
I Want You to Want Me - Cheap Trick
Ring of Fire - Social Distortion
Let Me Go - Cake
Falls on Me - Fuel
Round Here - Counting Crows
If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
Doll Parts - Hole
I tried to pick songs I’ve listened to recently without repeating artists and damn my url is too long.
Tagging: if you see this and want to join in just say I tagged you. I’m not a narc.
Maybe @thelostself @deadheaddaisy @introvertia @killjoyfabulous @theluckydimecaper might like to play
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nerdlingmerchling · 11 months ago
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