I am so stressed about today being January 6th, that I haven't been able to finish Act I. But final edits ARE on Scene 3, so we're close.

At the end of Scene 2, you get Maxx waxing frustrated at U.S. politics from the POV of a FFXIV original character.

So please enjoy while I finish the rest! 💙

THE LINE

I will this night
In several posts upon his pad alight,
As if they came from several citizens,
Writings, all tending to the great opinion
Allag holds of his name, wherein obscurely
Kæsar’s ambition shall be glancèd at
And after this, let Kæsar seat him sure,
For we will shake him, or worse days endure.

THE FOOTNOTE

This is all a very pretty way of saying, “I’mma do a social media misinformation campaign!” And I think we all have a lot to be grateful for that social media’s only just starting to be a thing for us. Pray for your players, though; they’ve gotten so good at misinformation, some of them elected a Spongebob Squarepants-shaped Roegadyn who dyes his marmot-fur toupee every Loporrit’s favorite color to be their head of state.

Humans are a problem in every multiverse, I swear.

#FFXIV #FFXIVRP #BardOfSagon #KeeperOfTheMoon #Shakespearean #IambicPentameter #Allag #CalamityJan6 #SocialMediaMisinformation #WritingCommunity #LiamMeriaMorvelet #WorldBuilding #OCRP

I rewrote some of the tragedy I've been working on moving from Shakespeare's 16th century to Morvelet's Fifth Era.

You see, Morvelet didn't write in Eorzean. Or even Early Modern Eorzean. He wrote in Middle Eorzean. And so his REAL language goes a little like this:

Ye blockes, ye stones, ye duller than bestaille!
O ye harde hertes, ye felouns of Allage,
Knewe ye nat Pompêy? Many a tyme and ofte
Have ye y-clumben up to mansiouns hye,
To railes and landing paddes, ye, to vent-stackes,
Your infantes in your armes, and ther have sat
Al the longe day, with pacient expectacioun,
To seen grete Pompêy passe the stretes of Allage.

Read more: https://taper-project.jijivisa.org/#find

Yeah. I fucking turned Shakespeare into Morvelet into FUCKING CHAUCER, then I kept the iambic pentameter anyway.

I can do motherfucking ANYTHING! 🎆

#TheTaperProject #BardOfSagon #Morvelet #FFXIVWrite #MiddleEorzean #IambicPentameter #Prosody #Linguistics #Chaucer #FFXIVLore #Worldbuilding #CreativeWriting #Allagan #Sharlayan #WritingCommunity

No comfort zone, he says, no in-between

Another Churchyard
Christopher Norris

#Poetry #ChristopherNorris #TonyHarrison #Churchyard #ThomasGray #JohnMilton #AntonyEasthope #IambicPentameter #CultureMatters #Poetics

https://www.culturematters.org.uk/another-churchyard/

The sun, the sea, the sky and the shore
A #Poem by #Adriana

The sun an ice cream ball in warm sky, melts
The sea goes swallows sun whole turning red
The sky drips murky yellow to a black
The shore cold, laying under bare feet grows

Adriana is 16 years old. She asks if this is Iambic pentameter. @SJAsh_03

#poetry #iambicpentameter

A prayer in iambic pentameter for you and yours to actualise your fondest dreams and fullest potential :)

~~~

May you and who you love be ever blessed
Your enemies be few and far between
May all you've ever wanted be here now
And plans for living well be clearly seen

Let wisdom, truth, and insight guide you always
And kinship at its best be yours to wield
May adverse matters be no more than shadows
The brightness of your mind, your sword and shield

#micropoetry
#iambicpentameter

A prayer in iambic pentameter for you and yours to actualise your fondest dreams and fullest potential :)

~~~

May you and who you love be ever blessed
Your enemies be few and far between
May all you've ever wanted be here now
And plans for living well be clearly seen

Let wisdom, truth, and insight guide you always
And kinship at its best be yours to wield
May adverse matters be no more than shadows
The brightness of your mind, your sword and shield

~~~

#micropoetry
#iambicpentameter

I can't help thinking of what lies beneath.
Observing every dip and dandelion
And wondering - is my footing really safe?
Or does this prove that deadly instinct right
That even these foundations, tested, true -
Yes, even this can crumble, overnight. /2

(Sink hole)

#poetry #original #iambicpentameter

Good morning, may your day be peace and joy
Both twined ornately round each passing hour!
The source of such delight be ever yours
Whenever you consider star or flower.

#poetry #IambicPentameter #serenity

Yea verily, I say again dear friends
That toilet cisterns all be mounted high
The height propels the payload round the bend
Much better than the usual fare, oh aye.

#poetry #IambicPentameter