Solare's poetry corner

Solare [she/her] this is a poetry and writing blog! mostly where I reblog writing tips I see All poems found outside of Tumblr will be credited to the best of my ability. lemme know if you notice an author uncredited and know who the correct credit is

[kuttithevangu]

The thing about the moon is maybe you don’t need to write a poem about the moon. The moon’s been done, we’ve discussed it. It’s a coin a mirror an eye a lantern in the darkness. It’s a rock in space. It’s the dang moon we’ve all seen it! Is there something you can notice that’s is more surprising than the moon???

[creekfiend]

[inkjie]

soliloquy by an immortal cave painter.

pencil, ink, and ochre on paper

[ivyandbranch]

Get a Library Card even if you never use it

[shabbytigers]

[desk-drawerr]

I once was afraid

Yes, afraid of the lucky ducky. Yes, afraid of the void he called home. Yes, afraid of his textures, and the cartoonish way he carried himself whenever he would simply exist

I was scared, because it reminded me of playing something

Playing a childish, easy to understand, crusty in both sound and visuals, and a seemingly innocent tone. But I simply had to scare myself that day, no?

To think of it all as a real world, I would loathe to live there. Where the void is endless, where the characters have all the power to bend it however they please... it scared me to even think about angering themPerhaps I should blame it on games like Amanda the Adventurer for allowing this seed of fear to blossom within me...

...but I should also thank Ducky for uprooting that blossom

After watching him for some time, I've grown to appreciate him much more. I no longer fear him. He truly is as innocent and whimsical as he appears

The child who was so scared of angering these characters with dated audio, who was so scared of messing around and certainly finding out...

...wants to thank the Lucky Ducky

So thank you. May your creator grow and flourish, like the new flower of peace you planted in place of the old blossom

Sincerely,

𝐴𝑛 𝐴𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑦𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝐹𝑎𝑛

Such deep and insightful poetry! how wonderful :)

Ducky loves you.

[perkymcbadsuit]

[hypokeimena]

image description: margaret atwood's poem "siren song". text reads:

This is the one song everyone / would like to learn: the song / that is irresistible:

the song that forces men / to leap overboard in squadrons / even though they see the beached skulls

the song nobody knows / because everyone who has heard it / is dead, and the others can't remember.

Shall I tell you the secret / and if I do, will you get me / out of this bird suit?

I don't enjoy it here / squatting on this island / looking picturesque and mythical

with these two feathery maniacs, / I don't enjoy singing / this trio, fatal and valuable.

I will tell this secret to you, / to you, only to you. / Come closer. This song

is a cry for help: Help me! / Only you, only you can, / you are unique

at last. Alas, / it is a boring song / but it works every time. /end description

[androdragynous]

there is a screen reader / magnification program that is the only one the low vision clinic knows of with these features and it is $650 Canadian Dollars behind specific approved vendors that require you to be geographically close to them and get government approval of a degree that I am only just now reaching after being visually impaired for going on seven years. I feel normal about this

[androdragynous]

if you can code a program that does any or all of the following:

Magnifies a display beyond standard options with keyboard / mouse movement inputs or voice commands,

Can read text on the screen,

Has different color filter options for text / background distinction,

Can change and magnify the cursor beyond standard amounts,

Works on Windows or more than just Windows,

Has a keyboard echo (says the character you've pressed on the keyboard out loud)

... there is a genuine, GENUINE need for you to code this and put it at a more accessible price point than $650 Canadian Dollars which I also just learned is a SUBSCRIPTION FEE AND NOT EVEN PERPETUAL. if you are reading this and able to code I am begging you. would genuinely change lives

[la-fee-verte]

I shared a poem about being trans in a server full of "cis" guys and within ten minutes one of them was in my DMs and we were working on untangling some feelings about gender and presentation. This is the good you can do by ignoring the egg prime directive

[tankie-transfeminist]

This is transfeminism!

[cityelf]

this poem is about being nonbinary.

[prokopetz]

Flavours of unreliable narrator:

Lying to the reader

Lying to themselves

Simply misinformed

Not paying attention

Has weird priorities

Assumed you knew

Hates you personally

Bad at communicating

Easily sidetracked

Will believe anything

Has weird prejudices

Just kind of dumb

[prokopetz]

Blackout poetry exists on a dual axis from "banal" to "insightful" on the input side and "kind of deep" to "incredibly fucking dumb" on the output side, and while taking something banal and producing something kind of deep is well and fine, for my money taking something insightful and rendering it incredibly fucking dumb is where the real art is.

[petrodykeonicapocalypse]

[absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog]

#i stuck the word 'banal' in there twice specifically so that 'anal' would be low hanging fruit#but i genuinely did not anticipate 'banana' --@prokopetz

[inthefallofasparrow]

[depsidase]

[headspace-hotel]

[katacala]

Something that gave H.P. Lovecraft nightmares is the work of my favorite artist. In "At the Mountains of Madness" he specifically mentions "the strange and disturbing Asian paintings of Nicholas Roerich."

This is what Roerich's paintings look like:

[chaifootsteps]

#hp lovecraft thought penguins were grotesque and horrifying#he was not a difficult man to frighten

[dogpuppy]

[duckbunny]

fun fact about character development by the way. you can make them develop worse.

[duckbunny]

like I mean this very seriously as writing advice. the character should experience events and make decisions that make them different at the end of the story. they should be changed. they do not have to be improved.

they can get worse. they can make decisions of an increasingly terrible nature. they can stop taking risks on kindness. they can discover how much they can get away with. they can find religion, or abandon it, with negative effects on their moral creed. the character has to develop. the character does not have to grow.

[danskjavlarna]

Reblog if you are rudely awakened by the night mares of poetry and original ideas.

Source details and larger version.

Is it a nightmare or is it really happening? You be the judge of my collection of vintage nightmare imagery.

[writerswritecompany]

[writersisland]

Dark Sides of Character Strengths

protective → reacting with excessive violence to small provocations and retaliating disproportionately

curious → disregard for safety and boundaries

determined → dooming self and even others when refusing to let a lost cause be lost

vigilant → paranoid control and distrust

independent → isolated and unable to ask for or accept help

decisive → coldblooded, reckless, and taking extreme measures without considering less lethal methods

forgiving → inability to hold peoole accountable and never learning from past mistakes

easygoing → unserious and not taken seriously by others even when warranted

optimistic → denial of real danger and damage

disciplined → rigid expectations of perfectionism from self and others

heroic → meddles even when told not to and ignoring people’s autonomy

generous and helpful → inability to say ‘no’ and stretching self thin trying to help everyone

loyal → blind trust to the point of complicity