Thank Muse It's Friday Open!
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shiori_makibaThank Muse It's Friday is now closed for prompts. Thanks to everyone for your time and attention. If you haven't received your story yet, don't worry - that simply means I haven't finished your piece(s) yet.
Hey, guess what I almost forget about? My own monthly prompt-and-writing session – *head-desk* mumble knew I was forgetting something I am such an airhead sometimes mutter – so here it is.
Thank Muse It's Friday is open!
What I am babbling about again?
In a similar vein to ysabetwordsmith's Poetry Fishbowl and dialecticdreamer's Monday Magpie, Thank Muse It's Friday is a prompt-and-writing session. I'm doing this as a writing exercise to expand my skills as well as build an audience.
The theme is “It's All Fun and Games.”
How it works?
It's very easy. Leave me some suggestions in the comment section below, I'll pick one and give you some words in the form of a poem, prose, or demi-fiction via PM or e-mail if the PM doesn't work for some reason. I will not keep your e-mail address afterward in those cases.
The prompt call lasts for twenty-four hours from the time of first posting. This session was opened at 12:10 AM 4/22/2016 US Eastern Standard Time and therefore will close at 12:10 AM 4/23/2016. I cannot promise that all prompts will be filled within that time frame but trust that they will be filled as fast as I can.
Which universes do I write in?
{A} I have a number of imaginary friends who are hoping for some time on stage in front of a non-me audience. Prompts that don't specify a setting will feature one of them.
{B} So far my original series include: 'Ohana, about an interracial cross-orientation polyfamily, the Garden which features the larger community that 'Ohana live in (currently listed with 'Ohana), and the newest Capes and Masks, a superhero setting.
{C} The Berettaflies thread for Polychrome Heroics.
{D} I'm open to writing fiction or demi-fiction for Ysabetwordsmith or Dialecticdreamer's open settings. The resulting pieces will be sent to them as well as the prompter since it is their sandbox.
{E} Fan Fic prompts are also welcomed. I have too many fandoms to list here. Ask anyway and if's not one I've seen/read, I'll need either a good premier and some extra time or an alternative. We'll work it out.
Anything else?
{1} Currently, I'm not asking for donations. What I'm asking for is prompts, constructive feedback, and signal boosts. You don't have to do any of those but I really appreciate it if you would.
{2} The results of one prompt will be posted up on the blog for everyone to enjoy after the prompters have gotten their pieces. It may be one of those pieces or an extra one from an extra prompt.
{3} To help prevent me from missing anyone and keeping track of needed thank yous for signal boosts and such, I make a list of prompts, boosters, etc. If I managed to forget despite this precaution, send me a message please.
{4} Signal boosters are guaranteed a second prompt fill so let me know that you have boosted the signal, please.
Prompts
Date: 2016-04-22 04:22 am (UTC){A} I have a number of imaginary friends who are hoping for some time on stage in front of a non-me audience. How do imaginary friends pick flesh friends to play with?
'Ohana: How can people use fun and games to heal from a crappy past?
{C} The Berettaflies thread for Polychrome Heroics. What games does Tsubasa like? Are any of those harder or easier now, due to her new superpowers? Has she tried any of the soup games yet? There aren't exactly "official" soup games (outside of supervillain circles) but many games have soup variations. Frex, I could see Ashley and Tsubasa making a set of Memory cards to practice using their ultraviolet vision.
Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-04-22 11:00 am (UTC)Huh... now that might actually be interesting. If the other three are playing with UV marker pens and cards, and she can't, how do they work it out?
Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-04-22 06:27 pm (UTC)I suspect the same trick would work on cards. If not, a UV camera would work. Researchers have used special lighting and cameras to reveal the world of UV flower patterns.
So this is really an interesting exploration of ability and disability. If UV vision is "normal" for insects, is not having it a type of colorblindness? Or is it just a superpower that Ashley didn't get?
In this specific case -- since everyone else on her team has UV vision -- I think it's going to act as a disability. If they all had it, then they could do secret writing or color-coding that only the team could read most of the time. But with Ashley, either that won't work because it excludes her, or she'll need adaptive equipment to compensate for her UV-blindness. My suspicion is that because vision changes are not obvious, the others may start playing around with these ideas and not realize Ashley feels excluded until she snaps at someone.
But once they know about that, they can discuss accommodations so that all four of them can read team markings or play the same games that some of them are using to practice new visual abilities. A helpful gizmologist could probably design eyeglasses to reveal UV patterns. We already have lenses for correcting red/green colorblindness.
This ties in neatly to the Easy City police seeking ways of making the force more inclusive. Someone comes up with the idea of printing UV ink onto their help wanted posters, because they've heard that people with insect powers (rare) and crayon soups (common) often have UV vision.
Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-04-22 08:18 pm (UTC)Come to think, I think those lenses already exist though, so all she'd have to do, to adapt, is wear a pair of 'sun-glasses'. Although, they would have the side effect of blocking the colours at the red end and flattening out the yellow/green part IIRC, rendering the world in sepia tones and muted blues.
Actually, I can just hear Ashley saying "Cool!" at that... she likes old photo's and has a snapchat (or equivalent) filter for sepia-effect on her phone.
Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-04-22 09:03 pm (UTC)That makes sense. I don't think it would come up for her, until she saw her teammates doing something she can't, and the feelings would probably be very mixed.
>> Come to think, I think those lenses already exist though, so all she'd have to do, to adapt, is wear a pair of 'sun-glasses'. Although, they would have the side effect of blocking the colours at the red end and flattening out the yellow/green part IIRC, rendering the world in sepia tones and muted blues. <<
I couldn't find a reference to sunglasses like that, but apparently some artificial lenses used in cataract surgery can give or enhance UV vision.
>> Actually, I can just hear Ashley saying "Cool!" at that... she likes old photo's and has a snapchat (or equivalent) filter for sepia-effect on her phone. <<
That works.
Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-04-23 02:33 am (UTC)This inspired the mini-poem "A Pretty Good Friend"
Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-04-23 09:39 am (UTC)Prompt Fill
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Date: 2016-04-22 11:29 pm (UTC)Prompt Fill
Date: 2016-04-23 04:04 pm (UTC)Re: Prompt Fill
Date: 2016-04-24 01:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-04-22 05:44 am (UTC)What were everyone's favorite games when they were kids? How do their choices relate to their circumstances? Are the games still favorites of theirs? Do they bring back good memories or bad memories (or neither)?
OR
I'm guessing your theme comes from the phrase "it's all fun and games until [something bad happens]." What happens when something bad (but not too serious) happens during Game Night because of someone or more than one someone doing something they know they're not supposed to (like climbing on the TV, or playing too roughly)? What kind of natural or imposed consequences are there? How do the other "kids" react? I would especially love to see it be a lesson in taking the right amount of responsibility: enough, but not too much (for example, if Tony climbs on the TV set, it's not because Steve wasn't watching him...but it might be partly because Clint dared him to). Because I think that's something the group really needs to work on.
Okay...
Date: 2016-04-22 11:30 pm (UTC)Re: Okay...
Date: 2016-04-23 04:20 pm (UTC)Just got a poem done from prompt 1 - and it is huge. 2235 words . . .o.O That's the longest poem I've written to date.
Re: Okay...
Date: 2016-04-23 06:32 pm (UTC)Prompt Fill
Date: 2016-04-23 04:03 pm (UTC)It's huge so it will have be sent either by 3 PMs or by personal e-mail. Let me know which one you prefer.
UPDATE: Okay, sent via PM in four parts.
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Date: 2016-04-22 11:05 am (UTC)One variant of the phrase goes "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye... and then it's fun and games without depth perception".
So, what if Nick Fury wants in on game night? and just how did he lose that eye?
Thoughts
Date: 2016-04-22 11:32 pm (UTC)My suspension of disbelief just chewed through the straps and ran screaming down the street.
>> and just how did he lose that eye? <<
"The last time I trusted someone, I lost an eye," seems to imply betrayal. Of course, that's in the movieverse where he works for Secretly Hydra in Every Last Department, so no surprise.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2016-04-22 11:39 pm (UTC)Oh, and ROFLMAO at the acronym..
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Date: 2016-04-23 12:08 am (UTC)Through the muse is presenting introspective bits from his direction - I'll see where they go.
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Date: 2016-04-23 09:41 am (UTC)Prompt Fill
Date: 2016-04-23 11:01 pm (UTC)Insufficiently Organized to Prompt (This Time)
Date: 2016-04-23 09:43 am (UTC)Re: Insufficiently Organized to Prompt (This Time)
Date: 2016-04-23 02:08 pm (UTC)Thank you!
>>I will stop back by...in a month or so, yes?>>
Please do . . . I usually do this on the third Friday of the month. So next time should be May 20th. April just went wacky on me.