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@mnvalentine  Yes, I was laughing, too, as I wrote it. It’s another one of my favorite parts XD

@dekreel this is so cool! 😀 I CANNOT wait until the next part!!!

@ariel-ashira

By the way, I really loved your poem “Autistic”! That was really beautiful.

Thank you!! 😉

@sam-kowal Thanks.  That’s okay.  I probably should ask someone like @daeus shouldn’t I?

Oh, wait…I think I just did. 😀

The GIF-Hiders: An Easter Story

Part Eight: Up a Tree

Having just hidden a Star Trek GIF, Skredder suddenly lifted her head. “Earthquake,” she simply said.

Everyone looked at her. “What?” said Valentine.

“Earthquake! An earthquake’s coming!” Skredder repeated.

“She’s right! I feel it, too!” called Catwing from a tree branch.

“But earth…[Read more]

@ariel-ashira I think it’s really interesting that there’s an eighteenth-century English dictionary that lists dragons as “now rare!”  😀  And the Bible does mention unicorns, so possibly?  There’s not much certainty as to what kind of animal the Bible was talking about, and some say it might have been rhinoceros, but those actually have two ho…[Read more]

@ariel-ashira But, if you like, you could just imagine that I go around yelling “Sylvester – Sylvester!” all the time. 😀 😀 😀  Maybe I know someone named Sylvester and he’s missing?  So I call him all the time, but he never answers.

Which explanation do you prefer?

@dekreel Actually I read your post in my email and didn’t even see the italics before answering. 😀  The way the line is structured puts the most emphasis on the second syllable, while the fourth and sixth syllables have a little less emphasis and the eight syllable has the least emphasis besides the non-accented syllables in between.  (At l…[Read more]

@rochellaine  Oh, I just put the italics there to let you know what the difference was. So really I meant it would look like this:

“When it threw fearsome flames at me.”

@dekreel I don’t know…putting that much emphasis on “it” doesn’t sound quite right, do you think?  The second syllable in that line is the one with the most emphasis in the entire line, so I’d feel strange putting all the force on an ambiguous word like “it.”

Well, signing off! Might be back Monday. 🙂

@ariel-ashira Yeah.  The thing is, I actually believe dragons are real. 😀  But I do understand they’re looked upon as fantasy creatures.  As I said before, I was intending it to be a comic poem, but accidentally made it serious, so that’s probably what the problem with that is.

*giggles* Um, that’s a quote from one of my favorite books.  It’s…[Read more]

@rochellaine  Well done!! I love the parable you used! 😀

The one thing I would change is instead of “When fearsome flames it threw at me,” I would say, “When it threw fearsome flames at me.” Unless you want it to be elegant, in which case feel free to ignore that suggestion 😉

@rochellaine @catwing @dekreel @dragon-snapper I’m procrastinating writing! only for a little bit though. anyone wanna join me?

@ariel-ashira @sam-kowal Haha!  Guess I can’t escape from my comical side in poem writing. 😀  Part of the reason might be it was originally intended to be a comical explanation of why I believe in real dragons, but then I turned the dragons into figurative beasts and so thought I changed it to serious.

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

But does no o…[Read more]

@ethryndal Oh my.  But now I’m wondering…was it Freda who was in a dream all along?  And it’s really Bessy that has to rescue her?  Was she dreaming a “dream within a dream?”

Goodnight nobody; Goodnight mouse.

@dekreel @jenwriter17 I’m writing for a little while now; how about you?

@skredder and I would have rejoiced with the city! Haman doesn’t seem to be, shall we say, a nice guy

🙂