Runt Odel was walking on hot coals.
Her life was inspired by Torundel, whose own life had been the stuff of rebellious and lascivious dreams. She never quite got the lascivious part down, even though she'd transformed herself from toady to hottie, but boy could she be a thorn in the side!
Runt Odel posted shitposts ridiculing this self-serving politician or that. Whenever she wore a scarf of silk from Torundel's lover’s gown, she became invisible, and suddenly able to sing. Runt Odel would then traipse all over town singing bawdy songs, embarrassing her enemies and disclosing truths.
Eventually someone caught on to her. That blasted Nordlute, the SysAdmin, had recognized her cat - a fantastically large, luminously orange, and ponderously vocal feline - trailing behind the unseen songstress as she exposed many a corrupt act on her nightly jaunts. One of the exposed was Nordlute himself, and he was having none of that.
The next day her name was in the news. The townspeople were enraged at her antics. None knew when they would be next. They called for her head!!! A year earlier they would have had it too, but they couldn’t cut off the head of a beautiful woman so instead
Runt Odel was walking on hot coals.
challenge. Todays' prompt is hot coals.
This is my entry to @mariannewest's daily freewrite
My freewrite is related to some fan art I engaged in, with @katharsisdrill and others, some months ago in @theinkwell. It's too long a story to tell, but let me just say, I had a blast doing it. Those were not freewrites, I would spend days writing them, trying to tie my little pieces into the pieces written by others, which included @vcelier, @steevc, @slobberchops, @prayzz @donnadavisart and, of course, the originator @katharsisdrill.
Today's is a freewrite. I remembered as much as I could of my character and the others to write this. All of the entries were exactly 211 words, as is this one. The character of Nordlute was a brainchild of @steevc. Is it a freewrite? Yes indeed. Did it take me five minutes to write? Thereabouts, if you don't count the time I spent trying to get it to exactly 211 words.
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I haven't seen one of these in ages, @katharsisdrill will be most impressed!
Most impressed indeed! Had completely forgotten this.
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Wow, it's been a while since we heard from these characters. I'm not sure I have more to tell on mine, but it's great to see @nordlute make a comeback.
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BEER.I have to read several times to break down the large number of scenes that come to my mind. I love your post, it makes me think that it will have continuation in another post.
It has a vast backstory! Although I did think of a continuation, which now escapes me entirely. Oh right it was a series of shitposts. Runt is spiritually transformed by this event, and reincarnates Torundel via brilliant shitposts. Let's see, I though of three:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (Sorry @saulos, I am thinking aloud on your comment. Thank you for the pleasure)
Back to the backstory: Here is the very first of a couple dozen intertwined stories that were going on among a half dozen of us, written by @katharsisdrill. My character, Runt Odel, was influenced by Torundel, as were all the others. I only wrote four or five of these, but katharsisdrill and the others mentioned in my original post wrote a number of them as well, so we had a little town going on. It was so much fun!!!!
Wonderful! Great that Runt suddenly sparks to life again. Maybe I should do a couple of these too.
Oh I would love that! I fell in love with your work when I read your first Torundel shitpost, and to engage (peripherally) was swell.
I've tried and failed to rewrite the last stanza on my Pre-Prom Poem. I think the solution might lie in putting a mention of my future earlier in the poem, so that the ending can remain as simple as it originally was. I'm still cogitating! Which can often take me a very long time.
Going back to an old work is often a tricky business, but I do so myself far too often. The Danish painter Asger Jorn was notorious for going back to his car to get paint and brushes and then repaint paintings if he was in a house where people owned one of his works. I am sure you know what to do...
I will do some easier posts I have planned, some freewriting and such. Making a new work every day eats my brain away. So I will see if I can squeeze something in. Just replying on social media has been hard for me this last week.
That sounds like torture, needing to alter old work whenever one sees it.
I finally started your book last night. I have to admit, whenever I tried to read something like it before, I skipped over it and didn't see the point. Yours is very different for me. Maybe it's because I already know the value of your work from what I have seen of it here so I am treating it more respectfully.
I read closely, make connections, look long at your drawings, and love the story. Boris! Trump! May! Gods! Demons! Phill! Love them all. It's a very rich story. I have a new appreciation for this art form. Thanks!
I am so happy to hear that. Comics are so many different things, but all too often they follow strict conventions, especially in the American tradition, so I do understand that you might have been put off.
As for the poor man Asger Jorn, I guess that the never ending reworks of his abstract expressionist paintings was part of the late modernist movements realisation that things never really end and that the definitive form of an artwork is somewhat a self-induced myth. The most famous example of his restless way of working is the painting, Stalingrad. When you see it today in his museum in Silkeborg on Denmark, it is mainly white, but underneath all the whitewashes you can glimpse a very colourful painting. He worked on it for years and his last corrections was probably not meant to be the last. It always reminds me of the short story by Balzac about the unknown masterpiece.
Ah! His paintings moved! OMG I love this idea. I feel the motion in this one, IT FEELS UNFINISHED. WOW! That is some concept.
He is a fascinating artist :)
Ohhhhh! Now I get it.
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