what’s your process like for making a new poetry edit? like, do you find a poem and go hmm i could do something with this, do you look for poems/images that fit a specific narrative, or something else entirely? i just love all your edits, and i’m curious about the creative process behind them!
ooh i love this question! i love talking poetry edits!
it depends a little bit!
sometimes (and this is especially true for the shorter poems) i come across a poem that reminds me of a player and immediately sorta know what i want the finished product to look like.
(like with the Marner “i was never a child just a smaller image of myself” edit where i stumbled across the poem and KNEW there were pictures of baby-leafs-fan Marner i could use)
more often than not i will see a picture or read someones analysis of an event and it will remind me of a specific line of poetry. (see: the Tkachuk poem inspired by this post, and the Marner poem inspired by this post) these are usually the better edits!
every once in a while i will collect a few pictures that tell a story on their own and try to match them with a poem after the fact. (flower poem is an example of this)
And sometimes my friends send me poems and go “i bet you could do something really awful with this” (@charleskachow & @jonassiegenthighler honourable mentions) in which case i usually just go “okay i have a poem. i have an hour. what am i doing.” (result: hot dog poem, red wings poem, Tavares poem)
when it comes to the little impromptu ones there is no system. no process. just whichever poem first comes to mind when i think about that player + a getty images picture i like
all this goes to say: no real process. i am chronically online. i listen to a lot of hockey podcasts. i think about poetry 24/7. everything reminds me of some poem or other. and even when i’m not feeling terribly inspired i have a backlog of 20+ poems that i should really get around to finishing at some point.
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Y’all I have a new name for the Shuri x Namor ship...
Shamu
*BA DUM DISH*
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Animorphs. Finished the first book. Tobias. Tom. I think im gonna cry actually
I dont think it was all an accident that tobias stayed a bird. I think it was obvious it was going to happen to him, he didnt like turning back and he didnt like being a person. He liked being a bird so much more. I was reading this and talking to my dad and i said that i bet someone is gonna get stuck as a morph, and i bet something's gonna happen to tobias. I knew something would happen to Tom, too. I knew but still. The fact that at the end, Tom comes home. It isnt Tom. But i feel like it hasnt been Tom for at least a while now.
And the fact that it's better to jake (and me but this isnt about me) that Tom fought. The fact that it is comforting that Tom was taken and possesed and used as a host against his will, and that he is at least somewhat consious because he was scared. Jake was gonna get hurt or killed or whatever and Tom didnt know about his plan but he was scared.
There's something about this book and fear that breaks me, i think. Something about the fact the Andalite is dying and he is scared. He is a dead creature and he is scared. Something about in the third chapter Cassie says this to jake "Go ahead," she said, sending me a smile. "You're not scared."
She was wrong; I was plenty scared IT MAKES ME ILL THIS BOOK. I adore marco, he can be an ass but also they are all kids - they say it a lot, that they're kids. The book says it a lot, too. The fact Marco, in the last few chapters, told Jake that if he(marco) dies that's fine but that Jake has to promise not to let him become possesed. When his entire thing before that (his entire thing before he decided that he would fight for Jake, because Jake is fighting for Tom. Marco isnt motivated by saving the world he is motivated by saving people. Friends.) was that he has to stay alive for his dad. Marco is a character motivated by people AND IT MAKES ME SICK!!!!!! (not people as in the world, people as in his connections and the people he knows)
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lou and siobhan enjoyed being baron WAY too much they were giggling and kicking their fucking feetsies the whole time.
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divorce as angst: boring, depressing, overdone, I've had enough of that in my own life thanks
divorce but the characters are still friendly: good! healthy! more of this please!
divorce as comedy: unparalleled, hysterical, I want characters to divorce each other repeatedly for no reason
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