you won't make yourself a name if you follow the rules

[Podfic] Daisies Come In Rainbow Hues by AlexSeanchai (47 words) by TheLordOfLaMancha
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Jeanie (Goblin Market)
Additional Tags: Asexual Character, Lesbian Character, Canonical Character Death, Sonnets, Podfic, Podfic & Podficced Works, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Audio Format: Streaming, Audio Format: MP3, Download Available, Poetry
Series: Part 38 of TheLordOfLaMancha's Podfic
Summary: This is a podfic of Daisies Come In Rainbow Hues by AlexSeanchai
Author Summary: Jeanie, from gray to Technicolor to rainbow.


when the stars silhouette me [podfic] (60 words) by litrapod
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chloé Bourgeois/Kagami Tsurugi
Characters: Chloé Bourgeois, Kagami Tsurugi, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir
Additional Tags: Birthday, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Fluff, Chloé Bourgeois Redemption, Established Relationship, Podfic, Podfic Length: 10-20 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming
Summary:

Chloé doesn't celebrate her birthday. Why would she, when it's mostly only reminders of how her mother always forgets Chloé the date?

That, Kagami thinks, won't do.

Me: second-best sort of day: first thing you want to do after getting up is grab the super stinky pain goop for your hands because that's clearly the only one with half a chance of being effective enough. only better kind: also gagging on toothbrush.

Thea: [photo of RSI prevention kitteh at work at AlexSeanchai]

…

"Thea, I Would Like To Bengay My Hands Now"
alexseanchai

im Thea cat,
and wen it hurts
to do the things
or write the words,
i has one job:
so in i swoop—
i caring cat.

i lik the goop.

…

azurelunatic: "That has a smell."

Me: YEP SURE DOES

"In Memoriam"

...

recessional is also doing a one-card draw today. rootsofthestories also has a one-card draw open.

Don't forget about my divination session, or dialecticdreamer's Pay It Forward prompt call!

I a poem :-D

it also belongs on Never Unmindful, but I can't post anything else there till I catch up with a couple things and apologize to a couple people!

ysabetwordsmith's poem "Twisted Wind" inspired "Beacon", a sequel poem of sorts, about picking up after the tornado: 25 lines. Sponsor it for public view for $20, or become a patron of my Patreon and view it there (it is not yet posted) for as little as $1 per poem.

And remember, ellenmillion's prompt "A twisting path" inspired my poem "Wind the Labyrinth", about identity as seen through the lens of Greek myth; 30 lines. Sponsor it for public view for $30, or become a patron of my Patreon to read "Wind the Labyrinth" for as little as $1 per poem.

"Adversaries" by me. Support me on Patreon to enable me to create more poems like this! It's about embodiment, and disability, and I-ness.

“I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Athena shouts, Her lightning torch aflame
In tarnished-copper green on New York shore.
Escape-to-Refuge is always Her name.
It matters not to Her from where you come;
What God, if any, you might answer to;
What talents, wealth, or skills you bring with you.
She cares that you are safe here; don’t succumb
To tempest tossing you and yours around,
Or rich men saying you are less than they,
More fearsome, and they’d rather you had drowned
Than found this world-wide welcome, found your way.
Come, weary one, whose journey’s at its end.
Be welcome, stranger, who might yet be a friend.


(hat tip Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus")

crying in the shower
where it won't show a track
crying for my country
as it turns the clock back

sobbing in the shower
for it's not safe to stay
in this country that so hates me
not safe another day

weeping in the shower
for I don't know how long
where will I go? what will I do?
how can I, so hated, stay alive and strong?

breathing in the shower
air and water are our life
let them hate me. they won't win.
I will live. I will live.

LOOK I DID A THING and the contributor list is arranged alphabetically by first name so guess who's first :) :) :)