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  • Writing Activities Re: Haiku Battle

    Frost coats the hollow — blades of ice spear the sky beneath sleeping trees.

    Dec 9, 2011
  • Poetry Discussion Re: Prompt Attack

    And you shall write a poem about chalk. Not just any chalk, mind you, but the yellow kind that produces cringeworthy screeches on cheap blackboards. Bonus points if you make ...

    Nov 5, 2011
  • Poetry Discussion Re: Rhyme Battle

    Misspellings in poetry are so passe; properties grammatical are now the way. Though the dithering's amusing, and the wanton ego-bruising, we should all make up — kiss the smack talk ...

    Oct 26, 2011
  • Writing Activities Re: Haiku Battle

    Dry husks crinkle, the death-brown blanket I stand on — the trees shed their skin.

    Oct 26, 2011
  • Media Reviews Re: Tiger by the tail

    It's difficult to take this review seriously as a review for several reasons. First, and most importantly, this is all opinion-based. You really don't give us examples from the movie ...

    Oct 16, 2011
  • Poetry Discussion Re: Forced Rhyme Schemes.

    How about a case that's better? We'll agree that rhymes can fetter poetic expression simply because we're taught in school that rhyming was the One Thing that makes a poem ...

    Oct 2, 2011
  • Art & Photography Re: Cspr's Art Dump #1

    I wish these pictures were larger and a bit clearer. Upping the contrast wouldn't hurt, either. That said, you have an interesting style that reminds me of someone, only I ...

    Sep 16, 2011
  • Art & Photography Re: Dreams Tell Lies (Contest Cover)

    There is no color unity to be found in this. There's a very icky yellow, a lurid red, black, intense blue, and puce. The puce and yellow in particular are ...

    Sep 16, 2011
  • Art & Photography Re: How I Color Hair on GIMP

    Pretty good tutorial; nice and simple, and easy to follow. I find that using different sizes of brush adds a lot of volume and definition to hair especially. Going back ...

    Sep 16, 2011
  • Art & Photography Re: Cliche, etc.

    I shall number them 1-7 from top to bottom and refer to them accordingly. But before I go onto specifics, I SPY FLOATING CHARACTER SYNDROME! Fear not, though. We all ...

    Sep 16, 2011
  • Art & Photography Re: Lined Paper *gasp*

    So cute. Since these aren't serious drawings, you are spared critiques, but I must say, your creatures especially are cute. Ignore the turtle? Why would I ever want to ignore ...

    Sep 16, 2011
  • Art & Photography Re: Nostalgia

    The blur does add a nice unifying theme to all the pictures, but in some of the, it's a bit extreme and detracts from the image. If you have an ...

    Sep 16, 2011
  • Media Reviews Re: THE CLASSICS: Captain's Courageous

    Starhunter was quite thorough in his review, and I second everything he said. I have to admit, the last paragraph was my favorite. All the mentions of the small events ...

    Sep 16, 2011
  • Media Reviews Re: A Stolen Life: A Memoir

    This is a bit bare on details. You have the barest, basic premise laid out, but there's no real context or introduction to the memoir, and so there's no real ...

    Sep 6, 2011
  • Art & Photography Re: Bowl of Rice

    That. Is. So. Cute. Now for some nitpicks! The shading on the bowl is barely noticeable. I think the reason is that the spacing between the dithering is too wide ...

    Aug 28, 2011


To be a master of metaphor is the greatest thing by far. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others, and it is also a sign of genius.
— Aristotle, Poetics