Most read poems so far this month

“ther as the nyght”
https://subspacewagon.systems/ther-as-the-nyght/

when the White House asked to interpret my coalesced dream payments
https://subspacewagon.systems/when-the-white-house-asked-to-interpret-my-coalesced-dream-payments/

The cries of bitterns
https://subspacewagon.systems/the-cries-of-bitterns/

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#WordWeavers 4/21. Does the change of seasons affect your writing at all? If so, how?

Doesn’t affect me that much but it does affect my characters. My protagonist is prone to making comments on other people’s dress sense, usually in a derogatory manner. Often pointing out the people who tend to discard their clothes when the weather’s good are usually the one’s you definitely don’t want to see in a state of undress.

Whilst it’s not directly connected to the seasons my novels revolve around the pagan wheel of the year with auctions of magic artefacts taking place on, or near, the date of the various festivals.

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Characters one might meet on a River Severn cruise:

That mysterious, suave man who always wears a sharp suit is going to turn out to be Double-oh-Severn.

It seems inevitable that one of the passengers you’re going to end up seated with at mealtimes is going to turn out to be the Severn bore.

A large group of elderly women who turn out to be related, the Severn Sisters.

A group of vertically challenged passengers, the Severn Dwarfs.

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#PennedPossibilities 992 — If your MC unexpectedly died, who would they want to raise their child(ren), if they have any? Have they already made a plan for this in case it happens?

Bolt would expect her brother to raise her child, in the unlikely event she bore one in the first place. She's avoiding pregnancy because she has no desire to raise a child blackmailed by the mob as she is. Contraception and termination comes up in the story. Her brother was 5 when she ran away at 17, but he would expect the job if he knew she still lived; she feels bad maybe dropping the news on him one day without warning—not about actually expecting he would do it. Child rearing is the societal norm for men, not unlike women decades ago expecting to grow up to become housewives. Bolt's lucky she has a brother; people are so infertile many people are only children, or twins which is common (1:5:17 ➝ single birth:fraternal:identical). The WIP touches on psychology of male child rearing, for example Bolt's friend Blue. He's a praetorian, a man with a rare essential job and he worries about having one day to quit the job to raise his sister's child, or how horrible it would be to say no to her.

Cc: @floofpaldi: Thanks again for another great question, though I didn't answer exactly as intended. Answering it, I finally realized how the segmentation between genders in the society works and sparks certain discrimination and expectations the characters struggle against.

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OK, I need to engage the Collective Grammarian Mind of the Fediverse.

The hell did that come from?

Huh.

Anyway, can anyone tell me what it is about this sentence (not mine) that strikes me as...off:

"…going through these reports nothing, nor anyone, flagged themselves up as a serious potential threat to their victim's life."

I know it's wrong, but all my attempts at reworking it have gone horribly awry.

Pedantry welcome, I'm here to learn.

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