#palimpsest verse

[fireinmywoods]

fic: a battuta

It’s deep into gamma; he hardly saw a soul on his trek up from the shuttlebay. Jim must have forgotten to order the lights off when he headed to bed.

In which Leonard comes home. Teen, ~5k words.

As always, spoilers for palimpsest. Please please please read that first!

[read on AO3]

[skyfullofpods]

It's audio fiction Sunday and Y'ALL HAVE BEEN BUSY

[fyeahaudiodrama]

Happy @podcastgirlsweek to all who celebrate! While I haven't had the time to properly work on fics (and probably won't this week because oops, hurt my hands yesterday) I still wanted to take the time to highlight some favorite podcast girlies along with everyone else!

The prompt for Monday is highlighting podcasts with women in the leading roles, so here's a few of mine (and hopefully, some new ones of yours if you don't know them yet):

Back Again, Back Again: Ilyaas, you absolutely fantastic disaster of a fantasy ace, never stop trying.

Breathing Space: While the show is anthology with a rotating cast, some of my favorites from across its run include:

Evie Yuriskin

Amity Archer

Any characters who were introduced one episode and then started referring to each other as "my wife" by the end or by their next appearance

Camlann: Some apocalypse survivors interpret dangerous dreams about dark magic to cope. Some knit sweaters. Both are valid and should kiss.

City of Ghosts: Featuring the grungy, disgruntled, tormented-by-visions LADY detective of your dreams.

Desperado: Take note - give your ladies knives. And god powers. And witchcraft. And a sniper rifle, for good measure.

Do You Copy?: I think [REDACTED] deserves three weeks of paid vacation

Fawx & Stallion: Madge Stallion is THE moment. She's six feet tall. She can't stop making innuendos. She's not your fucking Mrs. Hudson (although, she is - no, I shan't say).

Hi Nay: Mari & Laura are my everything - the loving and self-sacrificing hero and the newfound friend who chooses to stand by her side (fire axe and all).

Inn Between: Oh, my Inn Between girlies, where do I start? Fina and Betty, the OGs and life partners that even death couldn't stall? Rosie and Zara, the new best pals who chose to stay together? Phoebe, just one step at a time learning what she deserves and what she doesn't? All impeccable, A+.

It Makes A Sound: Any show focused on music is going to be a slam dunk for me, but Deirdre's quest to reclaim her memories as well as those that tied her to her mother is so damn real and compelling.

The Kingmaker Histories: No female character in this show has ever done anything wrong. Colette gets a migraine pass. Ariadne can turn people inside out. Daphne is owed this for working in a theme park.

Life With LEO(h): Janiiiiiine, so messy and smart and dedicated and she cares so much, I love yoooooou.

Me and AU: Kate's worries and desires and doubts are some of the realest out of any audio drama so when do I find an Ella too

Palimpsest: My faaaaavorite gothic horror anthology, each one fresh with a different brand of haunted, tormented, secret-keeping (and quite frequently gay) gothic protagonist

The Pasithea Powder: Jane and Sophie. Sophie and Jane. What more could you need? <3

The Silt Verses: Women who start cults/leave cults/seek an end to the endless cycle of meaningless sacrifice as so valid. For all your wet cat(fish) woman needs.

Second Star to the Left: Because I always love a good Ishani performance. Hi Gwen, please tell Boots I love them.

Small Victories: You want sad wet cat women? How about one that literally can't stop self-sabotaging (but at least manages to draw the line at sabotaging others...occasionally). She even gets stabbed!

Starfall: I mean, kind of a given, but anyway, Leona definitely exists because she's the kind of action protagonist woman I always wanted - one that could be unapologetically powerful, but still full of flaws and desires (especially ones that weren't about falling in love and minimizing her own strengths). She's even autistic!

Stories From Ylelmore: Keryth! Keryth, Keryth, Keryth! She reminds me so much of the kinds of characters I would make up when I was younger - I love her and her small magic so dearly.

The Strange Case of Starship Iris: Hi queer space pirates <3

Unseen: Another anthology show, but Harry Winters and Never-Ending Circles remains one of the most perfect premiere episodes I've ever heard in audio drama.

The Way We Haunt Now: Get your podcast ladies here, dead or alive!

We Fix Space Junk: My favorite type of repairman is a woman who could kick my ass.

Wolf 359: I don't think I need say much more here - y'all know and love 'em just as much as I do.

[the-sum-of-many-poets]

the botanist

away from brutes

away from this scurvy cork upon the sea

its wake so heavy on the water

like a scar that never heals

& I am barely saved

by water vigils

effervescent verses & furious tides

& the swimming troubadours of the grand azure

even the inanimate anchor

yes

I envy the anchor

baptised everyday

born again in the deepest solitude

once

I dreamt of impossible flowers

another life

a palimpsest under the skin

lost

in the sails

bound by tortured masts

stretched tight across the wind

the chest of an alpha male

dragging us into oblivion

each canvas

bleached in reckitt’s blue

omens of domestic servitude

to whiten the colonial world

a sentence of red earth

speaks across the shore

across the fine bones of coral

a last ochre breath

matrilineal kin

of the

bidjara

ghungalu

garingbal peoples

their precious dialect

an exquisite secret told by leaves

told by the clans of sixty thousand years

& if islands could send warnings

mulgumpin

& its dark dream of tea-tree stained lakes

would dispatch the osprey

prey in the talons of its tarsi

so they may notice something smaller than themselves

& something bigger

& the brevity in between

a ship in the harbour

gravid with exotic disease

its barbarian flag

blood red

corpse blue

& white so blinding

I have a book of sketches

filled with endangered species

©️david sichler

[drizzlingcups]

PART THREE OF PALIMPSEST BY HYDRANOMAGO

This series seriously did a number on me ;_____; I don’t even have the words to elucidate the experience. You have to read it for yourself !!!!

[antigonick]

just stumbled into one of your snippets and i'm OBSESSED with your writing style. it is so fluid and punchy and such a delight to read. if you ever feel like answering, how does your writing process works? what are your inspirations, style and tone-wise? and what themes do you enjoy exploring the most?

have a lovely day! 💌

Oh, that's... WELL. That's! The best compliment you could have sent me, thank you so much, I don't know what to say.. I'm actually trying to write a... I'm gonna call it a novel when it's just a mess of fragments right now, but—yeah. Fluid and punchy is exactly what I strive to achieve with the character's voice so this is so nice to hear. WHATEVER. THANK YOU.

Anyway! My writing process is really... steeped in rhythm, I guess? It starts with character writing, which leads me to character voice, which leads me to finding the right "mind" tempo, and from it cascades the headspace I need to write. In that, in the idea of perspective and voice influencing the story first, I'm indebted to Faulkner, to Marlon James, to Woolf's The Waves, to Shirley Jackson—to the perspectivism twists of horror and gothic writing as a general rule. Rereading her, I think Emily Brontë has shaped my metaphorical network very early on, and my handling of violence, especially in dialogue—though more recently, Tamsyn Muir made me tick about dialogue too. Malin Rydén is one of my utmost inspirations, not a little because the main character of my story was first created for his story, but also because he was my gateway into harder, grittier speculative fiction and digital literature, which both inspire me now for the story I'm trying to shape—horror out of the gothic castle and into the terrible anticipation of what comes next, with more politics, with ghosts and body horror twisted to technology. In terms of pure form, I'm extremely impacted by poetry—E. E. Cummings, Alice Oswald, Emily Dickinson—those who deconstruct syntax to wrangle it into breath. He didn't influence me because I discovered him too late, but I feel a kinship to some of the early stylistic experimentations of Frank Bidart too. Hanif Abdurraqib, whose first name I gave to one of my main characters too because his voice is incredible: it moves. Charles Olson's Projective Verse gestures at what I feel when I write, you know? "ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION (…). Always one perception must must must MOVE, INSTANTER, ON ANOTHER! (…)" and then "Breath allows all the speech-force of language back in." Even silence can be your story-weapon.

I'm interested in... blowing apart labels, dichotomies, I think, making them harder to grapple with—right and wrong, love and hate, personal and universal; transgressions, fluidity; how language fails, how language betrays; the way human connection can both fuck you and raise you up, in its constant failure and constant trying, in the violence of intimacy, in the tension between hardness and vulnerability—more than anything, I'm interested in the way individual desires clash with collective needs or personal ideals, in the lies and justifications you can find for yourself, in what it means for you when you come to dismantle them (or refuse to). I love palimpsest, stories retold again and again, and/or I love difficult, ugly settings, speculative and dystopia topics, I want the story to be political in itself, even when it's not politicking; and I LOVE mindfucks: using our terribly faulty, terribly subjective perception / perspective / memory / dreams / FEARS / intellect to tell a story that is both fascinating because it's unique, and trapped by it. Can't escape yourself. What are you gonna do with yourself (against yourself, for yourself) now?

Formally, I try to use that in writing: trapping the reader in one voice that swallows them really, ideally that jostles them a little, that blurs the boundary between them and the character: extreme immersion. I like to try and convey emotion / impression and even action as it is experienced, rather than explaining it clearly. In that phenomenology has influenced me, I guess? Deleuze, Guattari, Merleau-Ponty, and poetry again, I guess. Archibald McLeish says "a poem should not mean / but be...", and that's what I try to do with the character I choose, and then I let them be, and they drive both the story and the writing that should echo it—form and content cycling each other like mirrors.

Goddamnit, that got so long. Anyway. THANK YOU for being interested, I'm really touched.

[ashes-in-a-jar]

In my head, you’re a Magnus Archives blog. I mean, I know you obviously listen to other things, but In my mind it’s things like Welcome to Nightvale, Malevolent, Hello from the Hallowoods, The Sheridan Tapes, things like that, horror and supernatural.

So I had to do a double-take when I saw a Dungeons and Daddies post from you, I really didn’t know you listened to it. Then I see you reblog a Fawx and Stallion post, and now I’m just wondering how many podcasts you’ve listened to that I’ve also listened to.

Hahaha yes this blog has been mainly for tma stuff for years now, I still feel like I'm new to the fandom but honestly I've been here through a lot of it since the beginning of season 5

Buuuuut in the past few months I've stopped going into the tma tag regularly and been feeling a little detached from it, at least as opposed to before. My listen to tmagp has been way less interactive and I hardly reblog content anymore (which is something I like doing but because of various bad experiences on the internet recently I have yet to recover from I feel safer posting my own original posts rather than reblogging)

And that freed up a space in my mind to realize I've actually been listening to a lot of podcasts besides tma and it's honestly a shame not to talk about them more with others

I do listen to a lot of horror fantasy supernatural and science fiction podcasts! I also love a lot of dnd and ttrpg podcasts, I also love everything dropout and wish I could get into critical role but it's so big I don't think I'll manage it

I put under the cut a (quite long) list of the podcasts I have listened to and/or have notifications turned on

Anyone following me, you're welcome to send me an ask about one of them if you like them as well or want to hear about them!

I also put a list of podcasts on my to listen to list. Feel free to drop a recommendation for which them to listen to first!

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Podcasts I'm caught up on (the lists are long so it's alphabetical without "the")

Ongoing podcasts

The Amelia project

Ask your father

A voice from darkness

Black box

Brimstone valley mall

Camlann

The cellar letters

Death by dying

Derelict

Eeler's choice

Ethics town

Fawx and stallion

Hello from the Hallowoods

The hundred handed

Levian

Lost terminal

The Magnus protocol

Malevolent

Midnight burger

The mistholme museum of mystery morbidity and mortality

Neon inkwell

New years day

Not quite dead

Old gods of Appalachia

The penumbra podcast

The program

Red valley

The Sheridan Tapes

The silt verses

The sound museum

Super suits

Tell no tales

Tiny terrors

Traveling light

Unseen

The vesta clinic

Victoriocity

The white vault

Completed podcasts

Absolutely no adventures

Archive 81

Borrasca

The bright sessions

Camp here and there

Descendants

Give me away

I am in eskew

Monstrous agonies

Parkdale haunt

The Magnus archives

Re: dracula

The secret of st kilda

Spirit box radio

Steal the stars

Time:bombs

We know none

Wolf 359

Wooden overcoats

Ttrpgs

The adventure zone

Campaign skyjacks

Chapter and multiverse

Dark dice

Dice shame

Dimension 20 (not a podcast but I listen to it like one)

Dungeons and daddies

Not another d&d podcast

Rusty Quill gaming

Worlds beyond number

Podcast on my listen next list:

The Alexandria archives

Alice isn't dead

Ars paradoxica

Believer

The Black tapes

Blackwood

The box

The bridge

Carrier

Counterbalance

The cryptid keeper

Darkest night

The darkroom

The dark tome

The deca tapes

The deep vault

Dreamboy (this one is nsfw so it makes me nervous lol)

Duggan Hill

The earth collective

Either

The far meridian

The fountain road files

The glass canon

Jar of rebuke

Kings fall am (I started but heard not great things about it)

Knifepoint horror

Kollok 1991

Less is morgue

The leviathan chronicles

Liberty

Limetown

The lost cat

Mabel

Maeltopia

Marscorp

Mirrors

Mockery manor

Next stop

The no sleep podcast

The orphans

The Orpheus protocol

Out of place

Paired

Palimpsest

The phone booth

Point mystic

Pseudopod

Rabbits

The right left game

Shadows at the door

Spines

Stellar firma

The storage papers

Stories from among the stars

Super ordinary

Superstition

Tanis

Tides

Unwell

Vast horizon

Victoria's lift

Video palace

Welcome to night Vale (I listen to this one very sporadically lol)

We're alive

Within the wires

Woe begone (I started but got stuck on episode 20ish but want to continue)

Wrong station

Ttrpgs

BomBARDded

Critical role (it's sooo long tho)

Dames and dragons

Dragon friends

Join the party

The lucky die

Queens of adventure

Realms of pearl and glory

Rude tales of magic

Skyjacks courier call

Three black halflings

[chemicallywrit]

Happy Audio Drama Sunday! Last one of the year! There are so many amazing shows I listened to this year--Gastronaut, Kakos Industries, Madame Magenta, Dungeons & Daddies, Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later, Bronzeville, Deviser, Ghosts in the Burbs, The Silt Verses, Fall of the House of Sunshine, The Ballad of Anne and Mary, Eliza: A Robot Story, Eeler's Choice, Hemophobia--this list isn't even comprehensive! But here is what stood out to me this week. (As always, some spoilers follow.)

🦸‍♂️ I've had Superhuman Public Radio on my radar for a while, but I finally got a chance to listen to it this week. For lack of a better way of putting it, the structural integrity of this show is flawless. It sounds exactly like listening to NPR, and it's funny and clever with some really incredible worldbuilding. It's everything I like about listening to local news without the stress of it being local news that affects me. I love it.

✨ I'm also new to Breathing Space, but the Firefly vibes are off the charts. I love any story that is basically just Anticapitalists in Space, but the western vibes of this really make the stories hit home. I especially liked S1E2, "A Rat Among Falcons," because who doesn't love a scruffy nobody being incorporated into a found family? S1E5, "The Salvage of the Valentina Tereshkova" was also a really excellent space horror story. I can't wait to see what they do next. And that theme song tho, right??

❤️‍🩹 @thefringespod has been making incredible use of their new full cast, and I love the twist that this season is driving home--it's not a story presented to you, the listener, it's a tragedy that the mute second character is helping to undo. The softness of the family that Pine Gonzalez spent the whole first season describing comes through beautifully in the work of the actors.

🌊 Modes of Thought In Anterran Literature is always a little bit unnerving, but this week our professor faced the horrors of...rich people. Like, REALLY rich people. "You're already paying for private security?" Absolutely chilling conversations. There was a headline this week about a bunch of Silicon Valley millionaires trying to start a utopia in the desert, which works great all the time of course, and I thought of Anterra, tearing itself apart, and about the professor, who doesn't exactly make great choices, tearing himself apart too.

🐺 Things are getting very scary on Palimpsest! Is this a werewolf season?? It is VERY gothic, which is fun in a Jazz Age setting. It feels incongruous, which just adds to the horror. The quiet build of Palimpsest never disappoints me.

📦 Bless those children on @storiesfromylelmore, they're so darn good. ItMe has always been excellent at writing along the span of human nature, and seeing them do it with the three kids in Stories from Ylelmore is wonderful. Of course, a lot of the credit has to go to ItMe's flawless line delivery too. The kids feel very real, even while they're delivering magical packages from a bookstore to the head of the local witch coven.

🐦 The Amelia Project's Twelve Days of Christmas thing has been so funny. I half hope we never find out who's tormenting Alvina. The only downside is that now I have the song stuck in my head constantly, and seeing that it's like, the second-worse Christmas song, this is a problem. The show's worth it, though.

🕯️ What should appear in my podcatcher this morning but the second episode of Flickers! I was intrigued by that first episode, and this second one is really bringing home the isolationist horror. I can't wait for the next installment.

👽 Among the Stars and Bones is coming back! It's coming back this month! This is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi shows, everyone, if you're not on board yet then GET WITH IT, because this next season is guaranteed to blow your mind.

That's what I've been listening to! Here's what's going on with me:

🧟‍♀️ The Dead has been posting episodes from its second series, Ephemeris, which I wish we could have spent more time on, because the premise is so good. Zombies. In. Space. My gosh. David Ault and Kayla Temshiv in particular are killing it on this story. It'll be a few weeks before our next story premiers, but I'm REALLY excited about that one. Tune in!

Finally, the most important news...

💚Inn Between Returns on Wednesday!🏹

AAAAAAAAAAAAA

I am THRILLED about season five. The cast is killer, the story is fantastic, everyone's bringing their A-game, and I can't wait for you to hear it.

That's all for me! Happy New Year everyone!

(If you like what I do, I'd love it if you could send me a ko-fi! Especially since my car just frikkin. Died. So rude of it. Thanks!)

[gardenofradiostatic]

intro post

wiktor

chronic pain haver + disabled

mad scientist vampire type

polish-american/polonia amerykańska

he/him, on/jego

minor! please do not interact if you are under 13. people older than 18 can interact, just be wary that i am not an adult and i will not engage with you if I don’t feel comfortable.

warning, this blog may contain periodic talk of : religion, psychosis, horror, gore, medical imagery, and the occasional eye strain. enter at your own risk.

general interests: arcane, hannibal, psychology, religion, br/ba, disco elysium, re-animator, bjhm, pathologic, hades supergiant, disco elysium, ambient music, shoegaze, electronic/idm, alt rock, classical music and art

bands (the main ones) -> radiohead, my bloody valentine, joy division, car seat headrest, sonic youth, nirvana, siouxsie and the banshees, the cure, aphex twin, william basinski + 500 others

books-> frankenstein; the modern prometheus, crime and punishment, dune, the strange case of dr henry jekyll and mr edward hyde, the picture of dorian gray, and hitchhikers guide to the galaxy are the main ones I talk about. i also have a general interest in classical, slavic, and gothic literature, and frequently read boring nonfiction books about philosophy or psychiatry.

podcasts-> im new to podcasts/audio dramas, so a good bit of this list is just things im not far into or have been meaning to start. progress will be updated accordingly

the magnus archives: 200/200

mabel podcast: 13/48

malevolent: 3/???

the silt verses: 2/45

on the list: old gods of Appalachia, nowhere on air, red valley, re:dracula, welcome to night vale, and palimpsest

other interests: i play viola, i draw a lot and post about none of it. i will post the not so occasional ramble. i’m also a radio host!

boundaries

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no -> asks about overly personal details, or messaging me if i haven’t interacted with you previously, generally being a creep, etc etc

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my art tag is #wiktor.png, my writing/rambles tag is #wiktor rambles

[realbigpodcastslut]

Lee's Podcast Master List (Current)

This is def incomplete and not all caught up anymore and I lost all the podcasts I have listened to. Do with that what you will. Bolded are podcasts I talk about the most.

Currently Listening To

The Silt Verses

Welcome to Night Vale (relisten)

Listened

Audio Dramas:

2298

36 Questions

A Scottish Podcast

Aftershocks

Alba Salix

The Alexandria Archives

Alice Isn't Dead

The Amelia Podcast

The Angel of the Vine

Archive 81

Arden

ars PARADOXICA

Attention Hellmart shoppers!

The Black Tapes

Blackwood

The Blood Crow Stories

The Bridge

The Bright Sessions

The Bubble

Brimstone Valley Mall

Charlie’s Mailbox

Dead Serious

Death by Dying

The Deep Vault

The Directive

Dreamboy

Drywater

The Elysium Project

Empty

EOS 10

The Far Meridian

Girl in Space

Greater Boston

Hadron Gospel Hour

Herbarium Podcast

Here be Dragons

Heroics

Hosts of Eden

I Am in Eskew

Inkwyrm

It Makes a Sound

Jim Robbie and the Wanders

Kakos Industries

Kevin’s Cryptids

King Falls AM

Lake Clarity

The Last Movie

Lesser Gods

Liberty

lif-e.af/ter / The Message

Limetown

The Lost Cat Podcast

LUCYD

Mable

Malevolent

The Magnus Archives

The Magnus Protocol

The Meat Blockade

Misadventure By Death

OAKPODCAST

Old Gods of Appalachia

Olive Hill

The Orbiting Human Circus 

Organism

Orphans

The Penumbra Podcast

Point Mystic

Qwerpline

RABBITS

Return Home

Rex Rivetter:  Private Eye

Rose Drive

Rover Red

SAYER

Scotch

Small Town Horror

Space Log

Spines

Star Tripper

Station to Station

Steal the Stars

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

Subject: Found

SubverCity Transmit

TANIS

Tales of THATTOWN

Testing Connection

Tides

Time:Bombs

Tribulation

Tunnels

Uncanny County

Under Pressure

Unwell

Video Palace

We Fix Space Junk

Welcome to Night Vale

What’s the Frequency

The White Vault

Within the Wires

Wolf 359

Wooden Overcoats

Zero Hours

Improv/Dnd:

Hello from the Magic Tavern (On ep 300-something I think?)

The Adventure Zone (Balance, Amnesty, Graduation)

Other:

The Folktale Project

Heme Review

Lore

My Brother My Brother and Me

This Podcast Will Kill You

The Topical (Onion)

To Listen To

Camp Here and there

Red Valley

WOE.BEGONE

Hello From the Hallowoods

Midnight Burger

Midnight Radio

Moonbase Theta, Out

The Godshead Incidental

Janus Decending

The Petrol Station

Cthulhu and Friends

The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity and Mortality

Kakos (relisten)

Mabel (relisten)

Old Gods of Appalachia (relisten)

Palimpsest

Second Star to the Left

The Sheridan Tapes

Who Watches the Birdwatchers?

The Vesta Clinic

Spirit Box Radio

The Dead Letter Office of Somewhere, Ohio

Dead Man’s Notes

Life With Althaar

Middle:Below

The Pale

The Secret of St Kilda

Last updated: 6/25/2024

[xdarkabyssx]

I am. once again searching for new podcasts 😅 I'm caught up on everything and still insanely picky for no reason

Favorites I'm listening to :

The magnus protocol

The white vaults

Palimpsest

Escaping denver

Favorites that ended:

Our fair city, unwell a Midwestern Gothic mystery,the magnus archives, wolf 359

Other good ones I'm listening to/listened to

Welcome to nightvale (it's technically a favorite but I don't feel like catching up) , Cascadia, the left right game, tiny terrors, re: dracula, spines, limetown, the black tapes, rabbits

Ones that I know are good and started but can't focus on enough to listen to right now for some reason:

Old gods of Appalachia, malevolent, hello from hallowoods, within the wires, midnight burger, the Sheridan tapes,the penumbra podcast, the mistlehome museum one with a long name, the bright sessions, tanis, the secret of st Kilda, the silt verses , camp here and there, i am in eskew, archive 81 (finished the 1st season and couldn't get over the plot change)

(I swear I'll try them all again some time. I listened to at least an episode of all of them I serious dunno why some catch my attention and some dont. Picky reader with adhd problems)

Soooo yeah! Anyone have any reccomendations of ones I haven't mentioned? 🥺🥺🥺

Also yall should totally check out all the ones on my favorites lists they are SO GOOD

[skyfullofpods]

It's audio fiction Sunday! This week's listening included the brilliant season finale of @doyoucopypod, a fascinating and horrifying episode of @thesiltverses, and several podcasts returning with exciting season premieres!

[20dimensionsoftangerine]

AU Master Post

I forgot I made this blog specifically to ramble about my AUs. So here’s a list of my Fantasy High AUs.

Fabian’s Sister: After Ostentatia‘s party Angwyn is more cruel to Adaine than usual. Fabian steps in to defend her. This leads to Adaine living with him and his parents taking an absolute shine to her.

Property Of: Kalvaxus kidnapped Adaine when she was 11. She hated her parents and so was totally fine with this. She should not have been fine with it. Aguefort also kidnaps Aelwyn and raises her to be a powerful and kind of insane chronomancy wizard.

The Young Oracle: The Abernants never leave Fallinel. Adaine becomes the Oracle at twelve. The Court of Stars is so very excited to mold a young impressionable child. Adaine dreams of escape.

Additions to the Beehive: Aelwyn gets her parents arrested the summer before Adaine’s freshman year. Someone’s gotta take in these kids now and the first family to volunteer is the Applebees.

No Blood Relation: Sandra Lynn finds a nine year old Adaine in the woods and ends up adopting her. Adaine and Fig grow up as sisters.

Half-Siblings: Sandra Lynn and Gilear have a son after Fig. So Fig now has a younger half brother.

Rogue Adaine Verse: Class Swap AU featuring Rogue Adaine, Cleric Riz, Wizard Gorgug, Fighter Fig, Barbarian Fabian, and Bard Kristen. Adaine cannot do magic over one cantrip but pretended to be a wizard for most of her life. This is the most expanded AU with multiple stories (both from me and @remidyal). The rule for this one is everyone must be a little sadder and a little meaner.

Blight: Technically @remidyal AU that I’ve played around in. Penelope and Aelwyn are dating (in a toxic way). When Aelwyn pisses Penelope off she traps Adaine in a palimpsest out of spite.

[lanibgoode]

once again i am procrastinating working on my knitting so this time i'm going to talk about some podcasts!

the tumblr search system is garbage as everyone knows so i can't for the life of me find that previous post i made about tma which means i can't thank the person who gave me recs directly =(

so i did end up finishing tma. i had to keep to a very strict no-more-than-two-episodes-at-a-time habit to keep from getting too annoyed by the whisperyness for a while, but they did finally stop doing that and i was able to actually enjoy it. it was good. not good enough to listen to the new ones they just kickstarted or whatever, but i liked it. except basira. i am so sensitive to the weirdest things. WHY did basira sound like she was talking around a giant wad of chewing gum?? i constantly was expecting to hear gum-chewing noises whenever she talked. ughhhhh i tried hallowoods, but i did not make it past the first episode. it felt too much like they were trying too hard to be something else and it just didn't click with me at all. also listened to the silt verses for a while. im upset about this one, i was really enjoying it BUT i could not get over how ALL OF THEM were pronouncing "chitin" wrong. i did not know i could get this upset about a mispronunciation but apparently my brain just cannot handle that one. if you didn't already know this, chitin and chitinous are pronounced ky-tin and ky-tin-us. the "ch" in them are actually a k sound instead of the usual ch digraph sound. i will be sad about losing this one forever. i tried an episode each of the antique shop, mcgillicuddy and murder, and palimpsest and they did not stick in my mind AT ALL. will probably have to listen again and see if any of them catch my interest this time around.

i listened to one episode each of starship iris and second star to the left and had to stop because i thought my wife would like them. i was right, she did, but i have to wait for her to be around to listen to them now >=[

my "current" podcast is the mistholme museum which is INCREDIBLE. i am taking a break because i cannot handle the FEELS and need time to process everything [screaming crying throwing up etc etc] but i am excited [and full of dread] to know that there's a new season going up right now to listen to once i stop screaming about older episodes.

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FLP POETRY BOOK OF THE DAY: householes by Natalie Parker-Lawrence

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Natalie Parker-Lawrence, teacher, writer, and editor, received her MA in Linguistics (Dialect and Literacy) from the University of Memphis and her MFA in Creative Writing (Creative Nonfiction/Playwriting) from the University of New Orleans. Now a Training Instructor/Research Assistant for the Caregiver Center at the Lt. Col. Weathers VA Medical Center in Memphis, she was an instructor in the Communication department at the University of Memphis for eight years and taught AP English Literature, AP World History, Theatre, and French in Memphis-area high schools for forty years. Parker-Lawrence’s essays/poems/fiction have appeared in Slice of Life Magazine, The Barefoot Review, Stone Highway Review, The Literary Bohemian, Knee-Jerk Magazine, Prime Number Magazine, Tata Nacho, Orion Magazine, Wildflower Magazine, Memphis Magazine, Persephone Magazine, Edible Memphis, Southern Indiana Review, Unlikely Stories, Alimentum, The Ecotone Exchange, The Palimpsest Journal, The Commercial Appeal, World History Bulletin, and The Pinch. Her nine plays have been produced in Tennessee, Illinois, New York, and Florida. She lives in midtown Memphis with her husband and two shelter dogs, Koba and Yashimaru, but welcomes visits from her daughter, five stepsons (three active US military), and their families. #poetry #haiku #hybrid #caregivers

PRAISE FOR householes by Natalie Parker-Lawrence

“Try picking drops of the ocean with tweezers. Try expressing your grief, rage, fear, love within the tiny, out-of-breath, syllable-stingy form of haiku. Natalie Parker-Lawrence’s poems, concocted from the rushing, halting words of women caregivers of veterans, honor the essence. An image, a sound, a memory, a nightmare: capture it: in so few words.”

–Margaret Edson, author of Wit and winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

“Natalie Parker-Lawrence’s book of hybrid haiku, householes, strikes a delightful balance between delicacy and power. The poet also walks the tightrope between the personal and the universal, and she does so in such a way that the reader follows anxiously along, breathless and captivated. At turns gentle, at times brutal, but always poignant, Parker-Lawrence has the gift of the simple line that says much. I hope this book portends the start of a long career of verse.”

–Corey Mesler, author of Cock-a-Hoop, and Take the Longing from my Tongue

“In short, impactful verse, Natalie Parker-Lawrence, shares the poignant and often gritty stories of Veteran Caregivers from around the country. The traditional haiku form evokes feelings about the natural world using a structure of stanzas and syllables. As if by necessity, Parker-Lawrence departs from the traditional haiku to share first-hand, vivid and heart-breaking accounts of those who’ve survived war and those entangled in its aftermath. Their explosive, shattering and gut-wrenching experiences refuse to be confined by poetic tradition and structure. No one touched by war remains whole. This collection has transformative power, taking us from despair to hope, if only in the knowledge that we are not alone.”

–Virginia Bryan is a retired attorney, arts advocate and free-lance writer. Her work appears in Distinctly Montana, Montana Magazine, Native Peoples and Yellowstone Valley Woman.

“householes stitches the weightless Haiku to the gravity of all that proceeds war with thread borrowed from the women yoked in the collateral damage of the military-industrial complex.”

–C. (Christine) W. Lockhart, PhD: LT, USCG (retired), Disabled Veteran & Caregiver, author of Blanket of Stars: Thru-Hiking the Camino de Santiago and Walking with Buddha: Pilgrimage on the Shikoku 88-Temple Trail

“In householes, Natalie Parker-Lawrence, uses the hybrid haiku form, inspired by the haiku poems Richard Wright produced in the last year of his life, and characterized by rhythmic economy, precision, and surprise. The poems are conversational, snatches of things the women said about their disturbing experiences, selected, arranged, and performed with a spring or turn at the end. The result is the poems linger with authentic power and speak of lives worth knowing.”

–Marcia Aldrich, author of Companion to an Unknown Story

“These poems are portals into the lives and harsh realities (the pills and whiskey and broken bodies) faced by female caregivers. The voices are raw and intimate, and made all the more real by flashes of startling tenderness. In this stunning debut collection, Natalie Parker-Lawrence’s miracle is her ability to conjure entire worlds with a handful of words.”

–Sonja Livingston, author of Ghostbread and The Virgin of Prince Street

“Deeply moving… often tender, painful, sometimes sassy and occasionally funny. Always raw and wise and honest. Some of it felt vaguely familiar. Much of it evoked sorrow and compassion for the lives represented to highlight the deeper challenges, emotions, of the Caregiver/Veteran experience. In many ways it felt very different from my own experiences. Ours, it appears, was a kinder, gentler journey. His PTSD manifested itself in quieter, more subtle ways. As did his dementia. There were definitely moments, increasing as he moved closer to crossing over, when he’d wake confused…still in a dream state…awaiting deployment orders from a Sergeant or some higher up. Often he’d see a young boy running thru a room (his younger self? I could only speculate). Because, the experiences captured felt, for the most part, darker, more painful than what I experienced with dad (with a couple of exceptions …ie, Ringo? … I wondered if the Vet had been a musician… loved that they’d called each other “Brother”)

–Chris Ciccarello, daughter and Caregiver of WWII Veteran

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PART TWO OF PALIMPSEST BY HYDRANOMAGO!!

This one personally punched me in the gut: