Poetry Fishbowl Open!

[ysabetwordsmith]

The Poetry Fishbowl is now CLOSED.  Thank you all for your enthusiasm.

Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open!  Today's theme is "low fantasy."  I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a

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[angela_n_hunt]

A version of the story where Babydoll really is a badass, saves herself and all four girls and the wicked finally get punished. Somehow.

Because the little blond girl is not a victim, damn it.

O_O

[ysabetwordsmith]

Okay, I just looked up the plot of "Sucker Punch" which I have not watched and will now go out of my way not to watch. What a hacked-up misogynist hairball of a movie. Clearly that plot needs to be fixed. Riiiiight. I'm gonna need a bottle of WD40, a whole role of duct tape, and some serious ammo to make a working plot out of that mess. This might take a while.

Re: O_O

[angela_n_hunt]

LOL

Oh, I shouldn't laugh, but I think that's the best reaction yet.

I am perfectly content to wait. Good luck!

[ellenmillion]

Something with bugs - either saving the day or acting as an enemy to be conquered.

Sanitation - not glamorous, but so necessary!

[ellenmillion]

Oh, and you've still got the gender-blurb towards the end of this post. :)

Fixed!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Thanks for catching this.

[aldersprig]

Pratchett has some nice scenes in the former sewers of Ankh-Morpork. Actually, I can think of a few set that way, not to mention the number of modern movies/tv shows that go there.

Is it still low fantasy if it's high up on an aqueduct? ;-)

Poem

[ysabetwordsmith]

Elsewhere quennessa gave me a prompt about "You have been given all the weapons you need." Riiiiiight. We know that's never true! See how two feisty heras respond.

22 lines, Buy It Now = $10

[aldersprig]

I always had a problem with white knights. Their moral code never seems to allow for reality.

Grey knights, grey hats, grey witches, and grey nights.

Kitchen heroes.

The aftermath after the heroes ride through (There's a great line in one of the Black Cauldron series to the idea that, to a peasant, a great war of knights is mostly about ruined fields and ruined crops).

(related but off-topic: I always wanted to know what happened the day after movies like Independence Day).

Urban Fantasy: Truckers and truckstops.

[aldersprig]

Off of small-scale: tiny warriors. Fantasy in a terrarium.

[the_vulture]

"Urban Fantasy: Truckers and truckstops."

Whilst the rest of the world in Big Trouble In Little China was definitely high fantasy, Jack Burton, the 'hero' of the film, was most assuredly low fantasy. XD

Jack Burton: When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the bar-room wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."

[aldersprig]

*giggle* Yes yes yes! I love that movie! Can't get enough of it!

[natasiakith]

"Don't open that bag. It's broken."

Poem

[ysabetwordsmith]

From the prompt about a broken bag I got the free-verse poem "In the Bag." It involves a magical junk shop, a siege, and a catapult. You don't need to do the math because the two heras have already done that.

87 lines, Buy It Now = $43.50