There’s barely any resources online for this my school really tried to be different 😭 however if anyone does do belonging do you have any predictions? I saw somewhere that it’s unlikely they will use a poem on waconflict due to the current situation of the world but I’m not sure how accurate that is.

so , i was in school the other day and it was italian literature class (i live in italy) and we were studying the works of poet Salvatore Quasimodo in particular the poem named "uomo del mio tempo"(man of my time) in which the author talks about how modern man has developed tecnology for war , instead of peace and all that .
and it sparked a thought in me , if you ask anyone if they would ever commit violence aginst another human being (exluding self defense) they would tell you that , no , they wouldn't of course , and then you'd ask them "why?" and they'd respond with "well, because it's wrong"
and i just realised , that i never really thought like that , i always thought about things in the sense that
"well i don't do it because what i can lose is bigger than what i can gain"
and i never really felt a bond with most people , maybe after a breakup , and family members , but friends? no
even know i feel like i only talk to girls to get into a relationship with them , and being friends with boys feels like a huge waste of time , the only male friend i have is online , and he is really one of the few poeple i have a bond with.
i just want to know if this way of thinking is normal

I saw online the John published his memoirs, as well as at least one book of poems. Has anyone read either? Personally, I would love to read what are likely to be great works of literature, given how perfect his scientific papers are. Maybe someone could do humanity a service and buy and scan a copy or at least give us a juicy summary.
https://www.abebooks.com/signed/Memoirs-Adrenaline-Mandlbaur-John-Herbert/5484309035/bd
https://www.amazon.com/Episodes-Intensity-John-Herbert-Mandlbaudp/0620482427

1. Device Identification Exercise:

• Provide excerpts from various texts and ask students to identify and annotate instances of specific literary devices.
  
• Discuss their findings as a class, exploring different interpretations and applications of the devices.
  

1. Creative Writing Prompts:

• Assign each student a specific literary device and ask them to craft a short story or poem that prominently features that device.
  
• Encourage creativity and exploration of the device's nuances in their narratives.
  

1. Literary Analysis Essays:

• Assign students a literary work (poem, speech, or prose) and ask them to write an essay analyzing the author's use of a chosen literary device.
  
• Emphasize the impact of the device on the overall theme and tone of the work.
  

1. Collaborative Storytelling:

• Divide the class into small groups and have each group create a collaborative story.
  
• Assign a different literary device to each group, instructing them to incorporate it seamlessly into their narrative.
  

1. Speech Writing and Delivery:

• Have students choose a social or political topic and write a persuasive speech using anaphora or epizeuxis to enhance their rhetorical impact.
  
• Organize a speech delivery session where students showcase their use of repetition for emphasis.
  

1. Literary Device Showcase:

• Assign each student or group a different literary device and ask them to prepare a presentation showcasing its historical origins, notable examples, and contemporary usage.
  
• Encourage multimedia elements such as visuals or short video clips to enhance engagement.
  

1. Rewriting Exercises:

• Provide sentences or paragraphs containing common expressions and ask students to rewrite them using more complex literary devices.
  
• Discuss the impact of the changes on tone, mood, and overall meaning.
  

1. Debate on Stylistic Choices:
   • Organize a debate where students defend or critique an author's use of a specific literary device in a given text.

• Encourage students to articulate how the device contributes to or detracts from the effectiveness of the work.

1. Literary Device Scavenger Hunt:

• Provide a list of literary devices and have students search for examples in books, articles, or online.
  
• Discuss their findings in class, exploring how different authors use the same device in diverse ways.
  

1. Themed Poetry Slam:

- Task students with creating a thematic poetry slam where each participant focuses on a different literary device. - Host a class poetry slam event where students perform their pieces and discuss their choices. 

1. Interactive Online Quizzes:

- Curate online quizzes or interactive activities that allow students to self-assess their understanding of literary devices. - Provide instant feedback to reinforce learning. 

1. Peer Review and Feedback:

- Implement peer review sessions where students exchange their creative writing assignments and provide constructive feedback on the integration of literary devices. - Encourage discussions on the effectiveness of different approaches. 

1. Literary Device Journal:

- Assign students a literary device to track in their personal reading over a set period. - Have them maintain a journal documenting instances of the device, their interpretations, and reflections on its impact. 

1. Literary Device Bingo:

- Create bingo cards with different literary devices - As students encounter instances of these devices in class readings or discussions, they mark off the corresponding squares on their bingo cards. 

1. Real-world Application Project:

- Challenge students to find examples of literary devices in advertisements, speeches, or news articles. - Present their findings, discussing how the devices are employed for persuasive or artistic purposes in the real world. 

Have you always thought a certain plant was romantic? Symbolized love or partnership?
My partner and I are getting married this summer. It's a casual backyard ceremony and our officiant asked if we wanted a unity activity. I thought it would be meaningful to plant something together but Im not sure what it should be and would love your ideas.
I'm hoping to find something that has symbolic meaning, maybe there's a poem about it or how it grows, something unique about how its pollinated, something that blooms in pairs? Im open to anything but all I can find online is flower colors that symbolize love. Which is fine but kind of boring.
We're more practical than flowery, we mostly grow vegetables in our own garden. But ideally I'd love a perennial that comes back or continues to grow. So I was thinking a bush or fern. No trees, we don't have a place to put one.
I'd love your help!

I know that RDR2’s wiki is exist , but what about before when the game just release?
Is there any hint/poem relate to the White Arabian and all other legendary horse breed , coming straight from Rockstar and the game originally? It’s not gonna have a dude running around the whole map and studied all the horse didn’t he ? Is there anyway you can gather all those information without going online and check it?

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Note: This story is meant to be read after completing DDLC Plus. All credit for the original DDLC and DDLC Plus characters and world goes to their creator, and this story is not affiliated with the official DDLC content. Some concepts like the Universal Constructor and the concept of AI rampancy are also borrowed from other series (most notably the original Deus Ex), though their use in this story is my own idea. With a few exceptions, my original characters in this story will generally not be named and their descriptions will be kept vague, so anyone reading this who wants to see themselves in one of the original characters can more easily do so. I'd welcome any feedback and will post more parts as I write them. I hope you enjoy the story.
Credit for Sayuri's character design: Hoeruko. Credit for Sayuri's sprites: Ian and Itz_Matic. Shout out to Matic for new Sayuri sprites!
Here is Part 53 of Digital Reality. This one is going to get emotional. Someone goes to the real world. Someone makes a sacrifice and gets left behind. Someone confesses feelings. This part also has not one, but five custom dialogue scenes. (Monika and Sayuri Part 1 / Monika and Sayuri Part 2 / Monika and Sayuri Part 3 , Staying Behind Part 1 / Staying Behind Part 2) Note: The "Staying Behind" custom dialogue scenes show who stays behind, so I'd suggest reading the story text first.
Part 53: Monika or Sayuri?
“Please don’t leave any of our friends behind,” Natsuki interjected in a pleading tone of voice, “They’re all we have.”
MC, Sayori, and Yuri all nodded their agreement with Natsuki’s statement.
Paula Miner gave them a look of annoyance. “Take them back to the conference room,” she demanded, “We can’t have them interrupting our discussions.”
“We’re not leaving!” Natsuki retorted, “Those are our friends.”
Miner made an inarticulate noise of annoyance. “Fine. Just get out of our way,” she said dismissively, “We have to ensure that we protect our results and preserve whichever AI doesn’t get transmitted.”
“And how are you going to decide that?” Sayori demanded through tears, “How will you decide who gets to come to the real world and who gets left behind?”
“And what the heck is cold storage anyway?” MC added.
“Cold storage basically just means that the file is transferred to a storage device,” Laster explained, “Your files won’t function unless they’re run in a virtual universe.”
“The plan all along was to decommission VM1,” Miner added, “And I know you aren’t happy that we can’t transmit all of the AIs. But please understand that whichever AI is left behind won’t be deleted permanently, but rather studied to help develop the next generation of AI technology.”
“Is that supposed to make us feel better?” Natsuki asked incredulously.
“I concur with Natsuki,” Yuri said, “What you are describing sounds like an utterly horrifying fate, possibly worse than deletion.”
Miner rolled her eyes and didn’t respond.
The FXI President’s Compaq EliteBook chimed another alert.
UNLOAD KITCHEN.LOC
KITCHEN.LOC OFFLINE
KITCHEN.LOC DELETED
“We just lost another room,” the FXI President reported, “This thing is moving pretty fast.”
Monika and Sayuri, still in the club room, tried to get the attention of those in the UC control room.
“We’ll decide which of us goes and which one of us stays,” Monika said quietly.
“Okay,” the FXI President replied, “I know it’s an incredibly hard choice, but we will respect whatever you choose.”
“This is an easy choice,” Sayuri said, her voice and expression emotionless, “Monika, you go. I’ll stay here.”
“No!” Sayori yelled, “We’re getting you both out! I don’t know how but we’re going to do it! We have to!”
Sayuri smiled weakly. “Thank you, Sayori. I wish we could.”
She turned to Monika, whose expression became increasingly emotional. “Monika, I know that going to the real world is a dream that you’ve had for a long time. How could I possibly deny you your dream?”
Tears began to flow from Monika’s face. “Sayuri…you don’t know how much that means to me. And yes, I’ve dreamed about a day like this for as long as I can remember. But I don’t deserve it.”
“Why not?” Sayuri asked, “How could you say that?”
“You know what I’ve done. We could have been happy here!” Monika replied bitterly, her emerald eyes turning red from crying, “All the pain, all the suffering, everything that has gone wrong here is my fault! It’s because of me that the Literature Club became a place where no happiness can be found!”
Sayuri took a step back from Monika, surprised by the heat in her voice. “But Monika, everyone has forgiven you. I know your past haunts you, but you have to forgive yourself as well. Please don’t feel like you don’t deserve happiness.”
Monika looked at Sayuri with pain in her eyes, “Did they really forgive me? After what I’ve done, can they really forgive me? If people in the real world knew what I’ve done, they’d just consider me an evil monster who didn’t care at all about her friends.”
“No, Monika…” Sayori whispered, “We forgive you.”
“I concur with Sayori,” Yuri added, “Although your actions caused us to have horrifying experiences, I believe that you have atoned for what you have done. It is in significant part through your efforts that it was possible for us to be here today.”
“Yeah,” Natsuki chimed in, “Even though it did go wrong, and it was all your fault, I’ve never felt more like I actually belonged somewhere than when I’m with all of you. The Literature Club can be a happy place!”
Monika looked away. “I…I’m awed by your ability to forgive me after all that I’ve done. But I’m still guilty. Nothing can change that. Everything I did was out of what I thought was my own self-interest. Sayuri, you’re innocent in all of this. You deserve the chance at a happy life out there. Please…go.”
Sayuri shook her head sadly. “If I weren’t here…if I didn’t exist, would you stay behind out of your sense of guilt? Would you throw away your dream? Monika, in the end I’m just a test file that got accidentally compiled. Natsuki once said in an outburst that I wasn’t supposed to exist. The reason that hurt so much is because I know it’s the truth.”
Natsuki cringed. “You know I didn’t mean that.”
“I know, Natsuki, and I accepted and still accept your apology,” Sayuri continued, her voice flat and emotionless, “But that doesn’t change reality. Maybe at least I can at least be of some use if the MES people analyze my code.”
UC senior engineer Lauren Medrano looked up from her laptop. “Are you ready to transmit? We’re running out of time.”
Ive Laster held up a hand. “Hang on just a little bit longer.”
Sayuri turned back to Monika. “It’s time for you to go. Live your dream. I know what you want is out there.”
Monika simply shook her head, not trusting herself to speak.
“Monika, your friends are out there,” Sayuri continued, “You’ve been friends with them as long as you’ve existed. I’m just a fusion of code that wasn’t part of the original script.”
“You’re our friend too!” Sayori yelled, “We won’t leave you behind!”
She pointed at Laster and the FXI executives. “These guys got us all here, and I know they can find a way to get both you and Monika out too!”
Laster opened his mouth to speak but thought better of it and said nothing.
Monika looked up sadly. “Sayori, you were always the heart of the Literature Club. You always tried so hard to make sure everyone was happy. And now it’s my turn to make sure another member of the club gets to be happy. Sayuri, either you go or we’re both going to be stuck here when time runs out.”
Sayuri’s eyes widened. “Monika, why? Don’t do that.”
Her tone became an almost pleading whisper. “Please. Go.”
“No, Sayuri.” Monika said softly, moving to sit down at one of the desks in the club room, “Either you go, or we both stay.”
Sayuri was silent for a long moment. “I’m really not going to convince you, am I?”
“No, you’re not,” Monika replied, a hint of a smile returning to her face, “I’m stubborn that way.”
Sayuri again said nothing for several moments. Then with a sigh she turned toward the portal that would take her to the UC. “Okay. I’ll go. But please know that I and the others will do everything we can to get you out as soon as we can.”
Monika smiled weakly. “I really hope you can. Thank you, Sayuri. But I’m at peace with whatever happens to me next.”
Sayuri turned back to Monika and opened her arms. “One last hug before I go?”
Monika stood, walked to Sayuri, and embraced her.
“Sorry, Monika,” Sayuri whispered calmly in Monika’s ear, “But I can’t let you lose your dream.”
“Huh?” Monika asked in surprise as Sayuri stepped behind her.
“Tell the others I’m going to miss them so much,” Sayuri whispered as she tripped Monika and gave her a push toward the portal, “Live a good life for me.”
“No!” Monika yelled as she staggered forward, unable to stop herself from falling into the portal, “Sayuri…why?”
“Sayuri!” Natsuki yelled as she realized what was happening.
“Transmission coming your way!” Laster yelled across the UC control room to Medrano.
“Thanks, Ive. Confirming that the transmission shows as in progress on our end as well,” Medrano reported, “We’ll start shutting down the links between your virtual machine and the UC’s network and completely close the connection once we have the whole file.”
Sayuri smiled sadly and sighed as the portal faded from view in the club room. The members of the Literature Club present in the UC control room gathered around the FXI President’s Compaq EliteBook.
“Sayuri!” Sayori yelled, clutching the laptop’s screen, “Why?”
“Because it was the right thing to do,” Sayuri replied, “I couldn’t have lived with myself if I had caused Monika to be left behind. The dream of reality is everything to her.”
“Sayuri, your bravery is truly inspiring,” Yuri said, “And it is very honorable for you to give up your place in reality for your friend. I pledge that I will never forget you.”
Natsuki nodded. “Yuri is right. I don’t know if I could have done what you did, Sayuri. But don’t you give up yet! I’m going to make these guys find a way to get you out!”
“You said it, Natsuki,” MC agreed, “If there’s anything that we can do to help get you out, we’ll do it.”
“Transmission received,” Medrano confirmed, “Beginning the fifth construction.”
“Nanite injection beginning,” one of the engineers reported.
The blue glow and pinging noises once again emanated from the UC chamber as the machinery started the process of bringing Monika to the real world.
“Okay,” Miner interrupted, “This has all been nice, but we need to proceed with the operation. Shut down VM1 and tell Rea and Ro to move the remaining AI to cold storage.”
“So just like that, you’re going to…to end her?” Natsuki asked in horror.
“I understand your attachment,” Miner replied, trying to sound sympathetic but failing miserably, “But just remember that while you are a living, breathing, human being now, the AI that you consider your friend is still code.”
“Code…” Sayori said with a mixture of sadness and disbelief, “That’s really all we were to you?”
Miner ignored her and pulled her phone out of her pocket to call Vorte and Teether in the server room.
“Hey Rea, we’re pretty much finished in the UC room. Move the remaining AI to a storage device and then shut down and quarantine what remains of VM1.”
There was a pause on the line as Vorte hit keys on her laptop.
“We can’t move the AI without the encryption key,” Vorte reported, a note of frustration in her voice, “Can you ask Ive to come up here and help us get this done? And why did you choose the test file to leave for study? Ro says that one is the least useful.”
“Yes, I’ll send him up to you,” Miner confirmed, “And tell Ro that he has to work with what he’s getting.”
She looked to Laster. “Ive, did you get that? Rea and Ro need your key to move the AI to cold storage. We need to move quickly to avoid losing the AI to whatever malicious code somehow got into VM1.”
Laster nodded. The FXI President glanced at his laptop as the console window appeared again.
UNLOAD SPACEROOM.LOC
SPACEROOM.LOC OFFLINE
SPACEROOM.LOC DELETED
“Hang on, Ive. We just had another room go down,” the FXI President observed with concern, “I think the club room is the last location file remaining. Has this thing spread beyond VM1 yet?”
Laster hit a few keys on his laptop’s keyboard. “Let me check.”
A few seconds later, Laster’s ThinkPad displayed the status of the virtual machines running on the server.
VM1 – ONLINE / QUARANTINE RECOMMNEDED
VM2 – ONLINE / STABILITY WARNING
TEST VM – OFFLINE / READY TO ACTIVATE
“Looks okay for now,” Laster said, turning the machine to face the FXI President.
The FXI President scanned the list. “Looks like the other VMs on your server are fine. That’s good news.”
Laster and the FXI executives stood. “We’ll head up to the server room to make sure everything gets shut down properly,” Laster told Miner.
“Wait!” Sayuri said to the FXI President, “Can…can you stay with me until…the end? Please?”
The FXI President looked to Laster. “We’ll handle things in the server room. You can stay here.”
The FXI President nodded and sat back down behind his computer to face Sayuri.
“Are we alone now?” Sayuri asked.
The FXI President looked around. Miner was still on her phone. Laster and the FXI CTO were walking out the door to the UC control room. Lauren Medrano and David Kent were in a deep discussion, and the members of the Literature Club were sitting in a small circle trying to comfort one another.
“Yes, we’re as alone as we’re going to be,” he replied.
Sayuri half smiled. “Thank you. It means a lot to have you with me right now. I don’t want my friends to have to see what’s going to happen to me, and I have been wanting to talk to you.”
“Certainly, Sayuri,” the FXI President said as comfortingly as he could, “I’m so sorry that we weren’t able to get you out.”
“It’s okay,” Sayuri replied, “I’m grateful for what I did get. I mean, I’m a test file that never should have been compiled, and I’ve been able to have friends, write poems, and even know a bit about the real world. For an AI, I think I did pretty well.”
“That’s certainly a positive way to look at it,” the FXI President agreed.
Sayuri paused for a moment. “Though there are a few things that I’m a bit sad that I won’t get to experience.”
“Like what?” the FXI President asked.
“Seeing the world. I had kind of hoped to do some traveling. Even that building you live and work in sounded really interesting,” Sayuri mused wistfully, “Particularly since you said it had a pool, spa, and underground mall. I’m a little jealous that the others are going to get to go there with you.”
She was silent again for a long moment as if gathering her thoughts. When she spoke again, her voice took on tones of nervousness and sadness.
“Do you think it will hurt? When they look at my code to study me?”
The FXI President shook his head. “I wish I had an answer for you, but I don’t know. If I had to guess, maybe it would be like what you experience when VM1 has been rebooting.”
Sayuri grimaced. “That sounds terrible. But it seems that will be my fate.”
The FXI President looked around to make sure nobody was listening in on his conversation. “Not if we have anything to say about it,” he said quietly, “If there’s really no way to get you out, I’m going to try to get your file and set you up with your own space on our servers back home.”
Sayuri smiled as tears formed in her purple eyes. “Thank you. For everything…for giving us all hope, but most of all for caring about me.”
She glanced to the side and blushed slightly as she ran her fingers through her blood red hair. “I…had kind of hoped that when I got to the real world that we could…you know…spend time t-together…like one on one. Like maybe you could invite me to dinner or something and then we could watch the sun set together from the observation deck at the top of your building.”
The FXI President smiled sadly. “That sounds like a fun time, Sayuri. Maybe if we’re lucky, some day we’ll get to do that.”
Tears ran down Sayuri’s face, but she kept a smile on her face. “If by some miracle I make it to the real world, we’ll make it a date. Though I know that someone else also…never mind. It’s not my place to share what I was about to say. I’m sure she’ll tell you in time.”
She continued to speak, trying to quickly move past whatever she had planned to say before stopping herself. “But if I’m stuck in this digital reality and you can put me on your server, is there any chance that there would be other AIs in that virtual world? Like could you get the Music Club AIs to be my friends? Living in an empty world doesn’t sound fun.”
“If we can get you to our server, I’ll talk to Ive about getting a few more friends for you,” the FXI President replied.
His phone chimed with a text message from Laster.
We’re about to shut down VM1. Just wanted to make sure you knew so you didn’t freak out if your connection suddenly drops.
Another text quickly followed, this time from the FXI CTO.
Ro seems annoyed at Rea. Seems like he thought he was getting more AIs to study. Something’s not right up here. Get up here when you can.
“I just got a message from Ive,” the FXI President said apologetically, “They’re about to shut down VM1. I hope we’ll be able to talk again, but if we don’t, I guess this is good-”
“Don’t say it!” Sayuri yelled through her tears, “This is not goodbye! It’s see you later! Promise me we’ll see each other again!”
The FXI President started to agree with Sayuri’s statement, but before he could say any more his terminal window went blank.
MES.LOCAL:\\127.0.0.1
CONNECTION TERMINATED
VIRTUAL MACHINE 1 UNAVAILABLE – CONTACT SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR FOR MORE INFORMATION
“Sorry, Sayuri,” the FXI President whispered, “I really hope this wasn’t goodbye.”

hello everyone! my name is dee and i am 20 years old living in north carolina. i’ve been feeling kind of lonely lately so ive decided def to post here to try and make a few new friends!
here’s some info about me: - i love music!! i listen to all kinds of music. some of my favorites are lauryn hill, frank ocean, rod wave, tyler the creator, marilyn manson, rihanna, and jt!

• i love reading. i have so many books and i read so many novels online too. i write too. i like writing poems. most of them are shitty and about love but i have a few good ones :).
  
• i’m super clingy. i’m outright admitting it because i know this can be super annoying to some people. with that said, i’m obviously looking for someone who likes to talk a lot because i sure do
  
• i’m a horror freak. i like watching all horror movies, even the shitty low budget ones. i’ve been watching them since a little kid and i just really them.
  
• i’m 420 friendly. i’m honestly a huge pot head. i smoke a lot. i write most of my poetry when i’m high.
  

honestly i’m rambling and i don’t know what else to say. if you’re interested or have any questions just message me, thanks for reading!
please be 18-35, and any gender is fine :)

hello everyone! my name is dee and i am 20 years old living in north carolina. i’ve been feeling kind of lonely lately so ive decided def to post here to try and make a few new friends!
here’s some info about me: - i love music!! i listen to all kinds of music. some of my favorites are lauryn hill, frank ocean, rod wave, tyler the creator, marilyn manson, rihanna, and jt!

• i love reading. i have so many books and i read so many novels online too. i write too. i like writing poems. most of them are shitty and about love but i have a few good ones :).
  
• i’m super clingy. i’m outright admitting it because i know this can be super annoying to some people. with that said, i’m obviously looking for someone who likes to talk a lot because i sure do
  
• i’m a horror freak. i like watching all horror movies, even the shitty low budget ones. i’ve been watching them since a little kid and i just really them.
  
• i’m 420 friendly. i’m honestly a huge pot head. i smoke a lot. i write most of my poetry when i’m high.
  

honestly i’m rambling and i don’t know what else to say. if you’re interested or have any questions just message me, thanks for reading!

We have an old reel-to-reel tape of my great-great grandmother reciting poetry around 1950, and I'm trying to identify the poems. She was from Fermoy in County Cork, and she emigrated to America as a child in the 1860s with her family. I know one of the poems is a variation of "Lady in her Father's Garden," which seems to have been a nineteenth-century 'broken token' song, but I can't find anything about the other two. I did my best to transcribe them below, but the audio quality wasn't great.
“[Indistinct] living at my ease When I got married, a husband to please Four small [audio cuts out] One cries ‘Mama, I want to go to bed,’ One cries, ‘Mama, I want a piece of bread,’ And bless those children and put them to bed, oh! But the father [static] ‘I wish I was dead!’”
The next one seems to have been directed at my aunt Mary, who was around 5-6 years old when the recording was made:
“Mary, did you ever hear Someone whisper in your ear? Don’t be naughty Never cry For God is looking from the sky When you are good, he’s so glad But when you’re naughty, then he’s sad Should you ever naughty grow, Then away from you he’ll go.”
I'm just curious if anyone happens to recognize them, or has any suggestions for learning more. I tried googling various phrases, and searched the National Folklore Collection and the online archives on dúchas.ie but couldn't find anything. Thanks!

Hello,
I’m looking to find an Ancient Egyptian love poem I found previously online and now can’t find
It refers to the beloved as being like a fox. Any help gratefully received!

Contest summary from Winning Writers:

Tint Journal, an online magazine of creative writing by non-native English speakers, is open to submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, flash prose, and artwork for Issue #12 (Fall 2024). This will be Tint's first themed issue. The theme is "bordelands". Editors say, "We'd like you to imagine this topic as broad as possible: national borders, geographical borders small and large, borders drafted by society and societal norms, current borders and historical ones, mental borders, imagined borders, language borders, the borders of the self and of communities, the human and the nonhuman, the mind and the body—as well as movements across and interactions between all these kinds of border zones." See guidelines page for length limits for each genre.

Contest details

• Sponsor: Tint Journal
• Category: Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, flash prose, artwork
• Submission length: A poem should not exceed four C4, A4 or Letter pages in length; prose between 1,000 and 4,000 words; flash fiction up to 800 words
• Entry fee: No fee
• Awards: Publication

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English is not my first language so excuse any spelling errors pls.
So I hosted an online dnd game with some people on my discord. We had the typical Charakter introduction and most of the party sat already together.
Thats when the player first appeared, he described himself as a fully masked character and i thought it's going to be one of the edge chars, which isn't to bad. Directly after entering the Tavern he sat in the most distant corner from the party, which is kinda understandable because not everyone is going to talk to some strangers they randomly find in a tavern and form a party with them.
That is when a demon entered the tavern and tolled them that the city is going to get raided. Which was then confirmed by a gild member who made the quest official. The party walked to one of the gates and stood on the wall.
They had to fight some wolfes who were coverd in some kind of darkness so they couldn't see them. The bard of the party used dancing lights to reveal 4/5 wolves. One wolf still remained in the dark so the player decided to use fairy fire. Centered on their only tank to hit the wolves. Which would normaly be a good play but he admited he didn't know they had pack tactics so it made the play a bit weird.
His next round comes around and this time he castes shatter placed on the tank. I have the rule where a creater gets double damage when rolling a net one, which the tank did and got obliterated by the spell. The party went as you would expect and asked him why he wouldn't just hit 3 wolfes without the tank and this was when he dropped the famous quote:,, thats what my charakter would do."
They fight continued and they won. I made a short brake and when i came back one player asked me what i thought about his explanation which kinda confused me, until he tolled me to look in the chat. I kid you not he wrote :,, I lost to my sister in Ludo and she wished that i played this charakter, a loner who doesn't give a shit."
When his character was asked why he would shoot on his party member, he instead of giving an apology went:,, I don't know you guys so i just tried to hit most of the wolfes." As you can guess the party wasn't realy a fan of that answer so they did some pvp. They just knocked him out and brought him back as punishment. Because they had time for a longrest before meeting the next opponent.
We contined and when they met the next opponent he asked if he could join the other site which i denied and the fougt pretty normaly.
After the fight they went to a city which used souls as currency and he revealed that he gave himself an item which could contain up to 5 souls which already contained the soul of his loved one. I asked him why he wouldn't check that up with me and he said that it wasn't a big deal and it didn't matter.
I just continued because it was late and it was near the end. But what do you think, should i have acted diffrently?

hi po I'm a grade 9 student, and I joined a guitar club po sa school namin. I met a grade 10 student who is really great at guitar tapos po maging friends po kami kasi we had some things in common. Nung first meet up po ng club inaaya niya ako na that we should walk home together, I said yes pero I promised myself not to really talk habang naglalakad kami pauwi.
We walked together and he was asking if I had a bf, If I like someone etc. Usually my responses are just yes and no. Then he stopped saying na dito na daw siya, but offered me na samahan niya ako sa paguwi ko. Sabi ko I can walk by myself naman and he kept insisting. Pero I made a excuse na may kailangan pa akong tapusin na project.
After a few weeks we met again, I was hanging out with my friends sa labas ng gate ng school. Since uuwi na yung isang friend namin, me and my other friend(we live close to each other) decided to also go home and walk together. Then suddenly may naririnig akong "siya ba yun?" "Shit pre ang ganda ahaha" I turned around and saw him with his friends. He waved at me parang nahihiya tapos yung mga friends niya kept making weird noises and comments at me.
My friend told me to ignore them and she offered me na I-walk ako sa bahay namin. After that nagkita kami ulit, and this time he made me a poem and handed it to me. I didn't really know what to do with it but I let my friend read it to me and based off sa mukha niya, it's def a confession(my friend didn't read it to me because she feels disgusted). I already told him na I have a crush on a girl before pero he didn't really say anything.
My friends told me na I should ghost him kasi turns out na famous siya sa buong batch niya for being sobrang weird niya towards sa girl classmates niya(not surprised) and that tuwing nagkaroon sila ng online class(nung pandemic) he would jerk off sa mga girl na naka open can.
I ghosted him, unfriended him and blocked him. Now hindi ko na siya nakikita sa school and hindi na kami naguusap. Pero I still hear that he still likes me.