#I'll write you a limerick

[limerickshere]

The hist’ry classes rarely Tell how lives are squarely Normal still In times of thrill - We’re doing laundry, barely

[natequarter]

thomas should start writing angry limericks complaining about the captain. i think that'd be funny

[figscigfigs]

my favorite moments of episode 15 of fantasy high junior year!!:

brennan making his friends write a limerick in 5 minutes

siobhan just immediately recognizing the elven bc she’s read lord of the rings so many times

ROCK HEAVEN BABIES MENTION!!

SHRIMP DRAGON!!!!! (literally such a beautiful mini)

the drivers ed question (i am so nostalgic ahh)

"not the same dice as before, right?" "it's a different die" “want one that's been rolling good for me?" "no cuz i'll ruin it" (literally the most romantic convo ive ever heard)

the rats HAVE to defend their livelihood

the stamps all over siobhan’s arm

PENTACORN!!!!!!

PURPLE WORM!!!!!!!!!

"let's kill all the monsters and then if we feel like we're gonna fail we'll kill each other" *arguing* “i'll cut off my head" “i'm just saying i call fabian"

gorgug’s absolutely endless supply of crits

“sit down you’re fricking rocking the boat my guy”

mephit bombs!!!!

emily and her characters constantly making out with the people they’re about to kill

“the fighting’s over it’s all love now”

NOT WHEN KIPPERCUNT CHEATED?!??!??!? HOW’S THAT FAIR BITCH WHAT?!?!?!

the pull up bar (cinematic parallels to the ribbon)

aguefort’s lil video recording (i miss him so so much AND I MISS AYDA MORE BRING BACK AYDA , YOU COWARD)

“so we didn’t have to study at all, we could’ve just done this”

gavin’s very kind and trusting conversation to the bad kids after the exam

fig getting rid of her phone AGAIN

[megamindsecretlair]

I don't know if you do these...if not just delete it 😉

send me a made-up fic title and i'll tell you what i would write to go with it.....

"The Handwritten Letter"

Ohhh 👀 I love tag games.

Let's see 🤔

This is giving...old school romance. Academia vibes. It's giving two reluctant partners who find common ground for their love of nostalgia. The girl, naturally, does not believe in love because she was a shy, awkward girl who never had a kiss, never been genuinely asked out, never had a date. She grew to love her skin, but why bother with men who can't compare to her fictional loves 🤔

The man...he's giving someone equally shy, but had to fake it in order to "fit in". He retreated to books as an escape and his words are always better written than spoken. He happens upon a friendly game of questions with our heroine and learns she's never had any of those trademark experiences that others got.

So while they study together, he leaves her notes tucked in whichever books she's reading at the moment. They were goofy at first, playing with prose and different styles. A sonnet one day, a limerick the next.

Until the letters get longer 👀 until it's not just to make her smile. He wants to make her laugh. Wants to make her swoon. Wants to be the man of her dreams. And we end on one final letter telling her his feelings and how he's never felt so connected to someone else.

Gahh, now I'm mad this doesn't exist! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I loved this! Thank you so much!

[catadromously]

confession: because of those lovely comics with mother whale and the cicada and the salmon, the word "catadromous" and more specifically just the segment "catadrom" has become redefined in my brain as meaning "poetic". Like a catadrom is some kind of poem like a limerick or sonnet, even though I know it means "downwards running".

somebody come up with some formal constraints and i'll write you a catadrom. we could make this happen

[chromatic-lamina]

one piece irregular limericks: lawbin edition

There was a young lady from Ohara, Arms reached for stars, supernovas, From refuge, was spurned, Home razed and burned, Law called her Nico-ya 🖤

@onepiece-polls

Vote here!

Okay! so the One Piece Shipping Wars Poll, LawBin vs LawSan at present has LawBin at 39.6%. That's up from 36.5% yesterday! At present, I'm aiming for 40%. If they reach 40%, I'll write an irregular limerick for any One Piece character that you put in the replies of this post or in my ask box.

First person gets the limerick, and thereafter, I'll write a limerick for every 0.5% increase (if folks send me characters). Irregular just means I don't abide by the formal limerick form.

I'll need to sleep in about 4 hours? It's 20:42 here (Aug 19). So if they reach 40% and then drop down again, can someone send me a screencap or something similar? Anyway.

(One piece polls, you don't have to reblog, but just if you wanted to!).

LawBin nations and folks who like the ship, reblogs appreciated!

[shi-daisy]

Future Plans

Day 2! I'll be honest this entry is a bit short, cuz I was seriously stumped but I hope you like seeing Tammy in his soldier days. Hope you like!

@tamlinweek

Tamlin Week 2024- Day 2- Warrior/Poet

Future Plans

The bonfire burned brightly as they gathered around it and ate some rations before sleeping, Tamlin was about to fall over if Amdras hadn't wacked him in the back of the head.

"Eat before you pass out, princey!"

"Jerk."

"Leave Tamlin alone, Andy!" Rosencratz said as he took a sip of wine. "He saved our asses today!"

"Yeah! Just for bothering him it's your turn to talk!" Clavel told him.

The brunette twins and the rest of the squad didn't give up so he shrugged. "Fine. Once we are done with service I'll become a sentry and work until retirement, maybe get married ans have kiddo if I find the right person."

"Awww that's cute! Okay me next! I want to be a chef!" Lilianne, a blue haired blue skinned soldier spoke up. The tiny woman certainly always brought a good fight. Tamlin had no doubts she'd make honors when service finished.

"Ill cook with you Lili! What's say you, Lance? What shall you do?" A tiny male pixie spoke to their shadow wraith friend.

The tall grey skinned fae smiled. "I want to be a gardener. I love Spring! Moving here was the best decision I made!"

"I hear that!" Andras beamed, he was still pale and cold to the touch betraying his Winter heritage yet he seemed very happy to be here. "What about you, Tamlin? What shall you become after military service ends?"

What could he become? He wanted to be a traveling muscian but doubted that could come to pass before Oisin died and one of his brothers took the throne. Then he thought back to the parchments and verses that were on his pack along with weapons.

"I'd be a poet."

"A poet...That suits you, your limericks are always a riot!" Rosencratz said.

"Write about us!" Lilianne joked.

The rest of the group chuckled, approving his decision. He felt slightly bashful having a familiar moment that he sorely lacked at the manor with his blood siblings.

No matter, they'd go back home tomorrow and be done serving in two days. Tamlin intended to reward all his squadamtes upon the end of service. For now he wanted to sleep.

None of them quite heard the roaring monsters in the distance.

***

Death is certain as the sunset over the horizon

Today I stand before you with eyes of iron

That our farewell would come in a thousand years time

Not just as we are about to reach the end of the line

Rest well, in fields of daisies and marigolds

Until we meet again in times of old.

Tamlin finished reading as he stared at the coffins. Only he and Andras made it to the end of service alive, for the rest of the squad perished during the attack on their camp. Tamlin doubted he'd ever forgive himself for failing them. He spent his nights since swearing such a thing wouldn't happen again.

Tamlin put his feelings into reading the verse before collapsing into a fit of crying. Andras held him in a hug until he was quiet.

"That was perfect, you did very well. Come, let's go back and let the morticians do their job. I heard Prince Dorevan called the Autumn prince's to celebrate. Luce will cheer us up."

He smiled sadly. "Yes, it's been a while..."

He stood and let Andras guide him away as they left the room. With one last glance at his friends he swore he'd write them a thousand poems.

"C'mon big guy. I'll take care of you for them." Andras said as they walked away, unaware of the smiles on his ghostly friends faces.

Hopefully neither would join them any time soon.

[understandingbimbos]

no offense intended to anyone (im about to say something at least mildly offensive) but i saw a really bad post about "bimbos of color" that one of my followers on here reblogged. not only did the women not look like bimbos but one of the images was even very obviously AI generated.

its kind of been bothering me, especially since i've been planning a bimbo diversity post for a while now, though mine was more about the importance of personal expression. i want to make a point that all bimbos don't need to look the same. a lot of bimbo blogs on here and in general bimbo spaces online just stick to one look and i hate that women might see that and think they genuinely need to sacrifice their individuality to be a bimbo. and i realize you may be thinking "they do, that's the point of being a bimbo", i understand that and some women may just want to sacrifice their individuality and be a carbon copy of a carbon copy, but i disagree. i believe there's room for fat bimbos, flat bimbos, natural bimbos, punk bimbos,, etcetera etcetera. the problem is

finding examples

figuring out the common "bimbo tells" -- how do all these women look "bimbo" when they all look different?

because i don't much about makeup, photoshop, facetune, or... anything in regards to beauty and physical appearance. i even looked through Pink Bimbo Academy's blog to see if I could get some sort of idea (i really admire what they do, btw) but maybe i'm tackling this all from the wrong angle and Limerick's tool box theory (it wasn't even Limerick's, hell, I'd came up with the same idea earlier) is the one to utilize in this instance. all these different women don't look like bimbos because they look alike... but because they look like bimbos.

my old notes explain it better:

i think another reason why the idea of bimbo diversity has been weighing down on me so much lately because of Ashten, Ashten and everybody. i would just like to emphasize once again that copious amounts of extremely dangerous surgery isn't the only way.

im posting this as an example but i don't even know how dangerous lip fillers/injections are... go figure. anyway, expect a post maybe later tonight. im not sure if itll be writing or just pictures at this point or what. and there may be drawings instead of just IRL examples bc im sure they exist but examples of fat bimbos have been extremely hard to find... maybe i'll make two posts.

[honey-minded-hivemind]

Okay! So, while I will try to complete some of the requests already in my inbox later today, I will also likely post more pictures of the X-Moths I'll be making! I don't like to share too many personal things about me or my life, but, I'll share this fun fact:

Do y'all know I've won two ribbons from a state fair?

2nd place and 3rd place, respectively.

It was last October, when I posted about the platonic yanderes and Reader at a fair.

Anywho, if y'all enjoy doing art, do it! It doesn't have to make sense or be perfect or pristine or done a certain way, it's ART. Art is meant to be kinda messy. Pencil smudges on your hand after drawing for awhile. Marker stains and sharpie on your fingers after sketching in color. Paint residue under your nails and bits splattered on your arms and legs, even your face. Clay dried to your skin after sculpting. You get the gist of it. Do what you enjoy and makes you happy, that brings a smile to your face. Even writing. Make that short poem about a flower you saw. Write that limerick about hilarious scenarios that make no sense. Make a haiku about that dead animal or plant you saw. Write your short story with dragons or platonic yanderes or ocs, who go on odd but fun adventures. Make a full-blown book, if you want! Just enjoy using your creativity and making something you love. As long as you like it, that's all that matters.

[limerickshere]

What's a limerick?

Well, first let me structure portray -  Five lines in a strict rhyme scheme stay The first two and last With third-fourth do contrast  This rhyme scheme’s AABBA!

So each line should always have three Of it’s syllables stressed, let’s agree. It’s trimeter form And quite a strict norm For the first two and last line you see.

The couplet meanwhile has two Of it’s syllables stressed, as you knew. But harder is matching  And moving and patching  The number of unstressed parts too.

When you write a good lim’rick, it’s best To have syllable “feet” not be messed, But have unstressed parts match Like in this one you’ll catch  I have two quiet ‘fore the ones stressed.

While two unstressed each time Is common, I will chime Just one works too The goal’s that you Can match within each rhyme.

I hope I answered your question! I’ve got to admit, in confession, I clearly don’t always Do all that in all these, But I hope it’s a helpful suggestion! :)

[spookyweaselbones]

I think about this a lot

A Limerick

I'm in a bit of a spot

I'm ready to take my shot

I'll post my post

And earn my notes

But dear me, I forgot

This post just hasn't got

The stuff to make it hot

Before I hit send,

I'll add at the end,

"I think about this a lot"

My doodle is truly grand

I drew it with my own hand

A cute little creature

With oversize features

It came out just like I planned

On second thought, it's a bit bland

But I'll leave it as it stands

This meme never misses

I'll just write that "this is

Important, you don't understand"

There's a picture I want you to see

It's pretty dang funny to me

But great as it is

I'm no marketing wiz

And nobody knows about me

I need everyone to agree

That my content, significantly,

Has improved their dull lives

So although it's contrived

"This lives in my head, rent free"

To my bitter, unceasing chagrin,

My political clout's in the bin

Polemic or screed

They never succeed

They're drowned in the clattering din

But I know how to make this a win

I can give my post just the right spin

I'll add a newline

And at just the right time

I'll insist that you "let that sink in"

My observations are wack

I'm taking serious flack

I'm tedious, trite,

And try as I might

It's insight that I lack

I know how to get back on track

I can try a mischievous tack

I'll type up my dreck

And then you're on deck

To say, "louder for those in the back!"

If my little Limerick offends,

Be glad that we're close to the end

But I've got one more

Little cliche in store

So read this, then read it again.

[tinygumdrops]

Hello! I just finished thtnw and was absolutely blown away, and I just want to say I love your stories to bits 💖 I know it's a difficult question to answer, but which is your favourite fic you've ever written?

Eeep *shyly hides behind a wall* hello there, anon!! You don't know how happy I am to have a reader express their enjoyment for that work. Like, for real, I'm really so happy!!! *sobs all over the floor* I know historical fiction is not a popular genre in fanfiction, especially if you're writing something based on a sports anime of all things lol, so all the compliments and criticisms I get, I just lap it up. Thank you so much for taking a chance with it!! :DDD

And ahh, I think I answered this before. But just to expound... I used to write for the PJO fandom, and I made this fic of Annabeth Chase & Thalia Grace going on a short quest given to them by Hestia. But I was much younger when I wrote it, still very insecure and heavily fixated on the wrong things... so it's gone now. It's still up there as one of the fics I liked having written though, because I enjoyed making up limericks for fic!Annabeth to solve.

But hmm, if you're asking about my fics for the hq!! fandom... I think it's a tie between a sprinkle of cinnamon, a dash of sunshine and the heart that never withers.

I don't really like writing, like at all, but I fricking LOVE the process of looking up ~☆relevant☆~ stuff for the "plot". For sunshine, I loved researching about food and recipes I've never heard of, and for the heart, I supremely enjoyed reading Japanese & Chinese folklore and making the culture and politics of that time fit together. I'm still writing part 2 of the heart, and since it's in Kageyama's POV, it's really fun making him go through the world with a fresh set of eyes and a newfound heart beating just for him. Alongside Kageyama, I learned so many cool stuff about Japanese history... but I can't put them all in the fic and overwhelm my characters just to satisfy myself, can I? *sobs again* It's such a pain having to constantly police myself, but it's a necessity. I don't think readers will appreciate it if I make them trudge through 100k words worth of side quests just to make it to the part where Hinata and Kageyama are reunited again.

To be honest, I think as long as I get this thrill of discovering stuff and having learned something amazing, I'll never tire of writing stories as a means of sharing what I found.

Sorry omg I rambled too much again ;-; Hope you're having an amazing day, anon!

[bella-daonna]

literacy in ireland in the mid-19th century

so I was thinking about whether or not Callan (my oc for @moiraimyths' visual novel, Na Daoine Maithe, check it out) would be literate. (or to what extent they would be literate)

Picture of Callan (commissioned from the amazingly talented @shrimp1y tysm again ily!!)

Since Cal is made up, i could simply make up the answer.

However I am instead doing some research on literacy rates in Ireland around 1845, and thought I'd share since this is a bit too much info for just dumping in friends' DMs lol.

Here's the TLDR:

MC lives in Galway, which had very low rates of literacy in 1841, especially for women. However, if you want your MC to be able to read (or read and write) prior to the events of the game, some people were indeed literate.

another point to note is that there's differences in literacy levels. think of someone being able to work their way through a simple text slowly and with difficulty, vs someone who can easily read a complicated text. So your MC might not be fully literate but that doesn't necessarily mean they have absolutely 0 skills with written language. It is up to you!

finally, i just did this research for my own interest. in game, there is an option to read Shae's map, so MC is assumed to be literate. Please don't let any of this information take away from your fun. Ignore it entirely if you don't like the concept of your MC being illiterate! Historical accuracy isn't the point - having fun is.

detailed info and some statistics below the cut!

Here's a county map of Ireland. You can see Galway is on the West coast, at the bottom of the Connaught region (blue).

The Éireannach (your MC!) is travelling to Galway in the beginning of the prologue. Galway is referred to as the closest city, and must be close by for it to have been reasonable for MC to be travelling there. The city is on the coast, in the bay of Galway.

In one of the asks from the devs, it was mentioned that they see the LIs speaking primarily in a Connaught accent as well.

Therefore, I'll be using Galway-specific information if it is available. Failing that, information for Connaught, or the West coast, and then lastly information for all-Ireland.

Now for some more specific details!

General information:

roughly 50% of the irish population was able to read in 1850

30% for men and 45% of women getting married in 1850 in ireland were unable to sign their own name in the marriage registrar

most schools charged for learning to read and learning to write separately, and also sequentially. therefore, more people learned how to read and then stopped paying before they learned how to write, which is why the numbers differ.

also in the northeast of ireland (more industrialised in the mid-19th c) there was a higher rate of literacy, whereas most people on the west of ireland were illiterate

it was also easier to practice reading than writing, so the skill of writing would decay faster too

there was surprisingly detailed information taken in the Irish censuses between 1840-1860 (more detailed than that of the British ones, which were administered separately) so that is convenient for me personally.

Gender differences

Across Ireland, the majority of literate women could read but could not write.

However, boys tended to be kept in school longer than girls. The majority of literate men were able to both read and write

Interestingly, in Galway (the county and the city), most literate women could both read and write.

HOWEVER, the majority of women in Galway were illiterate, and could neither read nor write.

In 1861, about 37% of the female population of Connaught was literate.

darker = more literate, and lighter = less literate.

The darker counties (in Ulster) had a significantly higher literate female population, however most of them could read only, and not write as well.

There also wouldn't have been much reading material available for the general public - "there was only a limited supply, largely religious and produced in the towns of Cork, Limerick, Waterford and south Tipperary" (these are all located in the south of Ireland, i.e., pretty far away from where our Éireannach lives).

Most of this information was taken from a paper called 'Varieties of literacy in nineteenth-century Ireland: gender, religion and language' by Niall Ó Ciosáin. I found this online and downloaded for free.

[o-uncle-newt]

A bit more about Gdansk

So I've been doing a daily Cabin Pressure advent posting and most of them I write pretty hurriedly at work and don't necessarily remember what I've written after I wrote it. But Gdansk... I feel like I need to say more, on a purely subjective level, about Gdansk.

I've said this before in another post, but Cabin Pressure has gotten me through some of the most difficult times in my life. (Later on, Double Acts and JFSP stepped in to add additional material as well, of course.) Having an easily available auditory antidepressant when in a difficult situation is genuinely lifesaving and I'll leave it at that.

Gdansk is one of the main episodes I rely on for that. I listen to it enough that there are whole passages that I can just directly quote. Each episode that forms part of that main core of episodes that I rely on has, in a way, its own reason for it- its own thing about it that speaks to me at the particular moment of pain that I'm having when I have the instinct to turn to something comforting. So I spent the whole of last night trying to figure out what it is that Gdansk has that my psyche craves at particular moments.

And the answer is- I don't know. I can say very easily that Limerick is great when I'm lonely, and St Petersburg is great when I feel defeated, and Paris is great when I just want a good old fashioned mystery/heist, but I think the thing with Gdansk is just... it's really entertaining? It's got those perfect overtones of silliness, and it has no stakes except emotional ones for Martin and Douglas, and it's just so well constructed. If there's anything I get out of it it MAY be "there's always someone worse off, and things aren't over for them either" lol- Martin exposes a deep secret to Douglas, and Douglas is hiding an even deeper one (in some ways) from Martin, and both of them are very much able to bounce back.

And today I was pondering- vulnerability is a consistent theme, I think, in Cabin Pressure (specifically how giving into it can open up new dimensions in relationships), and what I think is great here is how specifically in Gdansk we see the kind of strain it can have to KEEP a secret that you haven't decided to be vulnerable about yet. A lot of Douglas's lashing out is because he hasn't decided to share about his divorce from Helena (and how he was cheated on) yet, and he doesn't feel able to be vulnerable about it. And he won't until Limerick, all the way at the end of the season. And it's clear that even if he's not ready to share, the weight of the secret and of needing to maintain a particular appearance for himself to the rest of the crew (which, and this is obviously relevant, is just a reversal of the pretense he was displaying FOR Helena earlier) is weighing on him and affecting his relationships with people. But Martin is able to reveal something big and embarrassing... and Douglas finds it within him to be kind to him as a result. Does this give Douglas the idea that people may be kind to him if HE'S vulnerable?

ANYWAY, as someone dealing with a few things I think this speaks to me a lot.

I'll be back later with my thoughts on Helsinki!

[chromatic-lamina]

AO3 wrapped!: 9, 19, 29, please!

Thank you!

9. Favorite pairing you wrote for this year? I'd love to say it's my initial favourite of Marco/Law and I have been reading a great fanfic about them, but my writing for them was also drabbles/ficlets, and not so well developed, so I'll say LawZo, although that's a WIP and will be in the LawZo zine out next year. I had fun writing the (very) irregular limerick for LawBin for the polls this year, AND there is KidLaw in the works, AND, I tightened it this year, but didn't write it this year, but reuploaded a chapter to an AceLaw fic

Guess my answer is all of them. Also, plenty of platonic Trafalgar Law & the Heart Pirates. One Cora & Law fic for the Corazine too.

19. What’s one pairing you want to explore next year?

Maybe get some LawBin on paper. I've written it romantically a few times, but more often platonically, but usually in longfic. Wouldn't mind getting a one shot or two out.

29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year? My current fave is in a WIP for the LawZo zine, so I can't share it for a while, so take the following from Bioluminescent Hearts. Not amazing, but I quite like the imagery. Spoilers for chapter 1081 (manga spoilers)

Orange and white striped tentacles rippled past Hakugan—the head of a sea anemone flexing its bright body backwards and forwards through the water. There was so much water, and the pressure. He couldn’t tell if he was cold, if he was uncomfortable. He tried to shake the vegetation from his hands, but to even budge a finger took effort.

Thank you for the ask!

Questions 9, 19, 29 (I like the symmetry) answered! Also 6, 16 and 22. 1, 10 & 27 about to be answered. You can find the asks here!

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

Give me a word or few and I'll write you a poem! You can even include phrases or even ask me to write works based on your OCs, works and other things as well! Anything and everything goes! I even write about real life history!

still waiting for my giant anime titties limerick.....