Poetry Appreciation #3

Sonnet 7 by Terrance Hayes

I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison,
Part panic closet, a little room in a house set aflame.
I lock you in a form that is part music box, part meat
Grinder to separate the song of the bird from the bone.
I lock your persona in a dream-inducing sleeper hold
While your better selves watch from the bleachers.
I make you both gym & crow here. As the crow
You undergo a beautiful catharsis trapped one night
In the shadows of the gym. As the gym, the feel of crow-
Shit dropping to your floors is not unlike the stars
Falling from the pep rally posters on your walls.
I make you a box of darkness with a bird in its heart.
Voltas of acoustics, instinct & metaphor. It is not enough
To love you. It is not enough to want you destroyed.


From American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin page 11

Day 2: Time Loop/Travel Multi-Fandom Rec List

This is for Day 2 of the Fannish 50! I'm genuinely obsessed with anything time loop/travel related so I figured I'd gather up a bunch of my favorites!

Most of them are under cuts but I left one for each fandom out to lure you in. I apparently only have one rec for BBC Merlin which seems wrong but I cannot for the life of me find any others I've saved so.

The Silmarallion (Tolkien)

1. Come back from the future (before we didn’t fall) by MYuzuki
   35,246 | T+ | no archive warnings apply
   Fëanor & Fingolfin
   time travel | angst | hurt comfort | sibling bonding | angst with a happy ending

   He expects to open his eyes, metaphorically speaking, in the Halls of Mandos. That is where the dead go, after all, and after being killed by Morgoth he is indisputably dead. And after the unbearable weight and pain of the last few centuries, he finds himself almost looking forward to the supposed peace of it.
   
   He is therefore moderately bewildered when he finds himself awakening in Barad Eithel.

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The Hobbit (Tolkien)

1. Epic by bubbysbub
   107,849 | Explicit | creator chose to not use archive warnings | incomplete
   Bilbo/Thorin Oakenshield
   time travel | fix-it | crack treated seriously

   The up-side of being unceremoniously shoved seventy-nine (approximately) years into his past, Bilbo mused, was that at least he got the chance to murder his stupid adorable husband before, and also because, he went and got himself killed. Or... something.
   
   In which Bilbo is pretty sure this is all Elrond's fault but is determined to see the hallucination through, and Thorin is just confused.

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Marvel Cinematic Universe

1. As Subtle As Cognitive Recalibration by petroltogo
   8,949 | T+ | no archive warnings apply
   time travel | humor | POV outsider

   “Your sole job as Director of SHIELD is to keep track of global threats and you’ve narrowed down the whereabouts of the mad god with mind-control Jedi tricks to the planet Earth,” Tony summarizes flatly. “What’s the plan? We wait till he blows up another super secret facility whose mysteriously undocumented existence doesn’t make me suspicious at all?”
   
   “Germany!” Rogers blurts out, interrupting Tony’s epic stare-down with Fury.
   
   In which the surviving Post-Endgame Avengers find themselves back in 2012, trying to stop Loki from invading the Earth. Without tipping their not-in-the-know team members off. Things go— sideways.

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Stranger Things

1. the lathe by palmviolet
   82,547 | Mature | Graphic Depictions of Violence
   Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
   time-loop | PSTD | survivor's guilt | implied/reference self-harm | hurt/comfort | implied/referenced child abuse

   "This time, do it right. This time Eddie won’t bleed out in his arms, in anyone’s arms. This time, Steve will do it right."
   
   — or, steve relives the day they try to kill vecna over and over, and eddie just can't seem to stop dying. steve finds this totally unacceptable.

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BBC Merlin

Broken Days, A Guide and How To Manual by arsenicandsunshine
Merlin/Arthur Pendragon
20,653 | Teen+ | No warnings apply
groundhog day | time loop | getting together | angst with a happy ending | humor

In which if Merlin has to see the cracked gray of his bedroom ceiling one more time, he’s gonna scream. Or punch someone. Maybe the wall. Definitely Arthur, who can’t seem to find the words to say what he wants to, but after the morning Merlin’s had, whatever it was can’t possible help.