Prompt call
Nov. 14th, 2023 06:38 amDialecticdreamer is calling for prompts to create fiction.
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It's called Be My Eyes, and it connects blind and low-vision users with volunteers who help them with tasks that they need eyes for. The link is here, so you can check it out for yourself.
Be well.
Be well.
I lik mai tows, a bredlik
Mar. 8th, 2023 06:37 pmmai naym is kat
and wen its niyt,
orr wen tha sun
is shynen brite,
i donot cair,
but u shud noes-
i wash mai face
i lik mai tows.
and wen its niyt,
orr wen tha sun
is shynen brite,
i donot cair,
but u shud noes-
i wash mai face
i lik mai tows.
I'm not sure if anyone noticed, but I have been gone from this space for a little over two weeks.
I went to the ER for what I thought was a lung ailment. I was short of breath, had an unproductive cough, and couldn't sleep for feeling as if I were drowning.
Turns out, I have congestive heart failure. I might have less than five years to live. I am only 39. I have an eleven year old son. Pray for me, please, or send me good vibes, or whatever. I am following the doctor's orders, but this is a scary place to be right now.
Gloria (aka Helga)
I went to the ER for what I thought was a lung ailment. I was short of breath, had an unproductive cough, and couldn't sleep for feeling as if I were drowning.
Turns out, I have congestive heart failure. I might have less than five years to live. I am only 39. I have an eleven year old son. Pray for me, please, or send me good vibes, or whatever. I am following the doctor's orders, but this is a scary place to be right now.
Gloria (aka Helga)
Part one of 'Rednecks and Intelligence'.
Nov. 23rd, 2015 10:25 amThe first thing I should do is to establish my credentials. I am an intelligent redneck woman, who has lived in the Deep South for all of my life. I know rednecks.
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Letter to the Editor: Demifiction
Oct. 19th, 2015 10:21 pmThis letter appeared in the New Orleans Clarion-Picayune, a few days after the incident in ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ysabetwordsmith's poem "Berettaflies". It is also a response to dialecticdreamer's demifiction: Lab Cooperating With Police Investigation.
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Dear Sir or Madam:
I am wondering what exactly is being done to find and punish the perpetrator of the incident with the so-called "berettaflies"? I see a lot of smoke being blown about who's not responsible, and who is helping whom, which is important, but a significant percentage of your readers want to know who is responsible, and what is being done to find and punish the miscreant(s).
I have one thing to say to the person or persons responsible for this mess: "Bless your hearts!"
A Concerned Reader
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For those of you not in the know, 'bless your/his/her/their heart(s)' is NOT a blessing, or a positive message. It is, in fact, a polite, genteel, Southern way of saying: 'fuck you and the horse you rode in on'.
That is, in Southern Louisiana and Texas. It can be used as a blessing, but context and tone of voice is important. It is also a way of saying you hope that they become better people, implying both that they need to do so, and that it would take a miracle for that to happen.
ysabetwordsmith's poem "Berettaflies". It is also a response to dialecticdreamer's demifiction: Lab Cooperating With Police Investigation.***
Dear Sir or Madam:
I am wondering what exactly is being done to find and punish the perpetrator of the incident with the so-called "berettaflies"? I see a lot of smoke being blown about who's not responsible, and who is helping whom, which is important, but a significant percentage of your readers want to know who is responsible, and what is being done to find and punish the miscreant(s).
I have one thing to say to the person or persons responsible for this mess: "Bless your hearts!"
A Concerned Reader
***
For those of you not in the know, 'bless your/his/her/their heart(s)' is NOT a blessing, or a positive message. It is, in fact, a polite, genteel, Southern way of saying: 'fuck you and the horse you rode in on'.
That is, in Southern Louisiana and Texas. It can be used as a blessing, but context and tone of voice is important. It is also a way of saying you hope that they become better people, implying both that they need to do so, and that it would take a miracle for that to happen.
New Guide pages!
Apr. 16th, 2015 04:22 pmysabetwordsmith has new guide pages for two of her threads in her Polychrome Heroics serial poetry series. They are the Antimatter & Stalwart Stan thread and the Aquariana thread. Go check them out!
Icon making
Jan. 24th, 2015 12:46 amOkay, so ysabetwordsmith posted this about this.
So I made these:
This one belongs to http://chanter-greenie.dreamwidth.org/, so you'll have to ask thon if you can use it.
If there's a photo or image on the 'net you'd like seen turned into an icon, I'll see what I can do.
So I made these:
This one belongs to http://chanter-greenie.dreamwidth.org/, so you'll have to ask thon if you can use it.
If there's a photo or image on the 'net you'd like seen turned into an icon, I'll see what I can do.
My new obsession
Nov. 28th, 2014 08:02 pmI have recently been listening to these two a cappella groups. If you don't know what a cappella means, it's music without instruments. Purely human voices.
The first is a country group called Home Free. Here's their cover of Johnny Cash's 'Ring of Fire': right here.
The second is a group called Pentatonix, here's their rendition of 'Mary Did You Know': and here.
The first is a country group called Home Free. Here's their cover of Johnny Cash's 'Ring of Fire': right here.
The second is a group called Pentatonix, here's their rendition of 'Mary Did You Know': and here.
I have to link this, because this is something that we need to talk about. It's a poem written in response to something horrible that happened. This is how shit should go down.
Here at Ysabetwordsmith's journal.
Here at Ysabetwordsmith's journal.