#kishiyu yuri... kishiyuri... if you will

[mintjeru]

midnight rendezvous

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day 1 alpha!yuder | horror game au | genderbend

[corvidaes-crow]

Folks I need help again

Looking at title options for Kishiyuri smut fic (it's 6.5k completed but I want to edit it to better fit whichever title I choose so if it peaks at like 7k I won't be surprised)

Option 1: death tit cigarettes From Marge Piercy's poem, "Shadows of the burning" in her collection, The Moon is Always Female. Marge Piercy is a feminist, highly political poet activist. "Shadows of the burning" is part of her series, The Lunar Cycle, as the seventh month of the Celtic calendar. It is subtitled 'Duir,' or Oak.

Would edit to emphasise the doomed part of doomed yuri, Kishiar's (in AU) cigar habit, the mirror of death and sex as build-up and release.

Option 2: I found my body in the arms of lovers Same context from the same poem as Option 1. Would edit to emphasise the yuri part of doomed yuri and the dying love more than the ongoing death of love.

Option 3: Shadows of the burning AGAIN the same poem, yes, how original of me. Would edit to focus on the ongoing death of their love and fondness for each other from childhood (they're childhood friends to strangers to enemies to ???).

Option 4: A cleft of light From 'XXI' and 'XVIII' in Adrienne Rich's Twenty-One Love Poems. Adrienne Rich was the lesbian counterpart to Marge Piercy. They were friends, and both similarly political in their poetry. The 'cleft of light' ties together these poems. To put 'XXI's description of the cleft of light in layman's terms, the 'cleft of light' is not a physical thing, but a state where solitude is a painless, fearless option where she can watch the light and the shadows (the lovers' story, a detachment from the story itself). And it ends with, "I choose to be the figure in that light, / half-blotted by darkness."

Would edit to emphasise yearning, the sense of finding a place that was meant to be right but isn't, but Yuder will settle for it anyway.

Option 5: grief and laughter sleep together From 'XVI' in the same cycle as Option 4. Would edit to emphasise the distance between them even when they're right next to each other. Also characterising them more as 'grief' and 'laughter'.

Obviously a lot of these are in fact mutually inclusive, but the title would guide me to bring out or pull back on certain aspects.

Ok, final thought: read Adrienne Rich's Twenty-One Love Poems. Now. And think about 1TL Kishiyu while you do. I know poetry's not the same kind of easy interpretation that other forms of literature are, but this lot is literally accessible here: https://genius.com/Adrienne-rich-twenty-one-love-poems-annotated (ignore the annotations and read it yourself, they're such unbelievably surface-level comments that it pains me).

IF I HAD THE TIME TO YAP ABOUT HOW ADRIENNE RICH'S TWENTY-ONE LOVE POEMS FITS SO PERFECTLY WITH 1TL KISHIYU(RI) I WOULD. BUT. I AM BUSY.

(I'd put out the same note for Marge Piercy's poems but afaik it's not accessible for free online except through Internet Archive's print disability loans. That being said, if you ever spot it in a bookstore, it's worth the money. I really love The Moon is Always Female on a personal level, because I have so many good memories connected to when, where and with whom I bought my copy of it, but it is also a gorgeous collection of works drenched in love that even I can feel.)