Poetry Randomiser Meme
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thisbluespiritBecause I felt like it:
1: Pick five fandoms. List them in alphabetical order.
2: Visit this site to find your first RANDOM POEM OF POWER. Write down the 5th line (yes, even if it's an E.E. Cummings poem and you wind up with an apostrophe). Repeat five times and - you guessed it - list 'em in alphabetical order! (No cheating, mind! This is a challenge and it's always been about creativity.)
3: I think you can see where this is going. Write a very quick 50-word half-drabble for each fandom (try to do it all in one sitting - make your brain explode!), using the line from the poem as a prompt. You don't have to include it in the half-drabble - it's just inspiration.
4: Bravo! Have a cookie.
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1. Blake’s 7: A seething hell of human strife
Avon doesn’t understand – they’ve got everything they need in Liberator. But Blake –
“Why? What makes you think humanity can be saved? That it’ll ever be any better than this?” Show me an honest man, show me hope.
“Because it’s got to be,” Blake says.
The true mystery is: Avon stays.
2. Doctor Who: And ever since – the purple Moat
“There was an incident,” the Doctor says. “Middle of a war – then, suddenly – rain of fish – alien tentacle monster – no, not monster, that’s offensive – anyway, ever since they’ve held an annual festival on the Moat.”
“You’re joking.”
“Wouldn’t dream of it.”
“I’ll go ask.”
He grins. “Good.”
She learns quickly.
3. Once Upon a Time: And so you have gone far
It starts with a lonely wish; a wish she doesn’t believe could ever come true. She doesn’t believe in fairy tales.
Now she’s a hero, she fights dragons, she’s seen whole other impossible worlds – but nothing more improbable than her family that won’t go away. (They’ll always find each other.)
4. Sapphire & Steel: Around me is the ‘ellish night
“Got a light?” the soldier says.
Sapphire turns. “Why, yes,” she says, “I have.” She is, suddenly, brightness itself, burning blue, banishing night. The shadows evaporate.
“He’s gone?” Steel’s there.
She nods, and runs a finger along the nearby window sill. There’s only ash left, as from a ghostly cigarette.
5. The Shadow of the Tower: To introduce his soul
The King gives the Heretic a golden angel to speed him on his way, but no coin can sate the hunger of the flames. The greatest question remains eternally unanswered – death is always silent, even in mockery. And for one sheep found, another strays: a Soldier remembers doctrines of simplicity.
***
I forgot to note down the poets, but I can tell you that, apart from one, they were all Robert Service and Emily Dickinson again. That generator seriously needs to see someone about its literary fixations. Still, they fitted perfectly to the fandoms, so I'm not complaining.
1: Pick five fandoms. List them in alphabetical order.
2: Visit this site to find your first RANDOM POEM OF POWER. Write down the 5th line (yes, even if it's an E.E. Cummings poem and you wind up with an apostrophe). Repeat five times and - you guessed it - list 'em in alphabetical order! (No cheating, mind! This is a challenge and it's always been about creativity.)
3: I think you can see where this is going. Write a very quick 50-word half-drabble for each fandom (try to do it all in one sitting - make your brain explode!), using the line from the poem as a prompt. You don't have to include it in the half-drabble - it's just inspiration.
4: Bravo! Have a cookie.
***
1. Blake’s 7: A seething hell of human strife
Avon doesn’t understand – they’ve got everything they need in Liberator. But Blake –
“Why? What makes you think humanity can be saved? That it’ll ever be any better than this?” Show me an honest man, show me hope.
“Because it’s got to be,” Blake says.
The true mystery is: Avon stays.
2. Doctor Who: And ever since – the purple Moat
“There was an incident,” the Doctor says. “Middle of a war – then, suddenly – rain of fish – alien tentacle monster – no, not monster, that’s offensive – anyway, ever since they’ve held an annual festival on the Moat.”
“You’re joking.”
“Wouldn’t dream of it.”
“I’ll go ask.”
He grins. “Good.”
She learns quickly.
3. Once Upon a Time: And so you have gone far
It starts with a lonely wish; a wish she doesn’t believe could ever come true. She doesn’t believe in fairy tales.
Now she’s a hero, she fights dragons, she’s seen whole other impossible worlds – but nothing more improbable than her family that won’t go away. (They’ll always find each other.)
4. Sapphire & Steel: Around me is the ‘ellish night
“Got a light?” the soldier says.
Sapphire turns. “Why, yes,” she says, “I have.” She is, suddenly, brightness itself, burning blue, banishing night. The shadows evaporate.
“He’s gone?” Steel’s there.
She nods, and runs a finger along the nearby window sill. There’s only ash left, as from a ghostly cigarette.
5. The Shadow of the Tower: To introduce his soul
The King gives the Heretic a golden angel to speed him on his way, but no coin can sate the hunger of the flames. The greatest question remains eternally unanswered – death is always silent, even in mockery. And for one sheep found, another strays: a Soldier remembers doctrines of simplicity.
***
I forgot to note down the poets, but I can tell you that, apart from one, they were all Robert Service and Emily Dickinson again. That generator seriously needs to see someone about its literary fixations. Still, they fitted perfectly to the fandoms, so I'm not complaining.
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Date: 2018-02-20 05:47 pm (UTC)These are very good - you do such good work!
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Date: 2018-02-20 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-20 07:19 pm (UTC)Last time I did this, I didn't get a single Emily Dickinson! I was very impressed. Mind you, I did get a Robert Service. And two EE Cummingseses - and for one, the fifth line was "g". Thanks, meme. :)
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Date: 2018-02-20 08:49 pm (UTC)And, what NO Emily Dickinson? That is amazing! (I looked back through this tag for my old versions and I can see I had whole entries in olden times where I didn't have any Robert Service or Emily Dickinson, so I suppose it is random really. Maybe...)
and for one, the fifth line was "g". Thanks, meme.
I always think cheating is perfectly acceptable for times like that. (No one should be a slave to the Meme! ;-D)
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Date: 2018-02-20 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-20 07:21 pm (UTC)"Blake’s 7: A seething hell of human strife"
If one had to describe "Blake's 7" in six words, those could hardly be bettered!
From the heavy emphasis on Robert Service and Emily Dickinson, I'd hazard a guess that that's an American site. :)
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Date: 2018-02-20 08:47 pm (UTC)It was a pretty good match.
It probably is a US site, but it does have plenty of other poets too. I've used it for lots of things - but it does have an incurable tendency to gravitate towards Robert Service and Emily Dickinson, especially, it seems, when I'm doing this meme!
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Date: 2018-02-21 12:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-21 09:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-21 01:33 am (UTC)Anyway, those are eerily apt lines for those fandoms. I think they were for me last time I did it, too. And I like your responses!
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Date: 2018-02-21 09:47 am (UTC)And thank you! And the lines matched up exceptionally well this time, especially the B7 one.
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Date: 2018-02-21 11:17 am (UTC)I've always called half-drabbles byatts because I was told they were when I first got into fandom. I looked it up and A S Byatt is the not-as-well-known sister of Margaret Drabble, so maybe it's a slight on poor Byatt. Or she tried to go one better in shortness? Who knows.
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Date: 2018-02-21 12:41 pm (UTC)As to the Byatts thing, it must be back-formation, as nobody is very clear on where Drabble comes from, but apparently most likely a Monty Python sketch, which given that it came out of Doctor Who fandom originally, does seem more plausible. I'd imagine Byatt is a joking back-formation via association with Margaret Drabble. I've usually heard them referred to as demi-drabbles, with 200 words being double drabbles.
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Date: 2018-02-21 07:31 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2018-02-21 03:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-21 06:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-21 10:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-21 10:13 pm (UTC)And that does sound like a good HP one.
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Date: 2018-02-22 04:25 am (UTC)