Title: Tin Man (10/10)
Author: Mel (eumelia)
Disclaimer: Marvel owns it all, I just like to play with other people's toys and get no money from it.
Rating: PG-13, here be some language and violent imagery
Fandom: Iron Man (Movieverse) - this happens approx. a month after the events of the movie.
Characters: Tony Stark and Pepper Potts.
Previous Chapters: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 and Part 9.

( Final Chapter: Part 10 )

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Comments and feedback, people, they're what makes fandom worthwhile!

Thanks for reading this and sticking with me, I know it got a bit weird along the way.

Title: Tin Man (9/10)
Author: Mel (eumelia)
Disclaimer: Marvel owns it all, I just like to play with other people's toys and get no money from it.
Rating: PG-13, here be some language and violent imagery
Fandom: Iron Man (Movieverse) - this happens approx. a month after the events of the movie.
Characters: Tony Stark and Pepper Potts.
Previous Chapters: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 and Part 8.

( Part 9 - Close him up. There's nothing else we can do )

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Feedback is love and I reply with great devotion.
Yes, rhyming ain't my forte.

Title: Tin Man (7-8/10)
Author: Mel (eumelia)
Disclaimer: Marvel owns it all, I just like to play with other people's toys and get no money from it.
Rating: PG-13, here be some language and violent imagery
Fandom: Iron Man (Movieverse) - this happens approx. a month after the events of the movie.
Characters: Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, James Rhodes
Previous Chapters: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6

( Part 7 )

( Part 8 )

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To my readers who don't read fanfic, I apologize for my LJ being slightly "off" over the past few days... I just couldn't stop :)

Title: Tin Man (6/10)
Author: Mel (eumelia)
Disclaimer: Marvel owns it all, I just like to play with other people's toys and get no money from it.
Rating: PG-13, here be some language and violent imagery
Fandom: Iron Man (Movieverse) - this happens approx. a month after the events of the movie.
Characters: Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, James Rhodes
Previous Chapters: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5

( Part 6 )

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Title: Tin Man (5/?)
Author: Mel (eumelia)
Disclaimer: Marvel owns it all, I just like to play with other people's toys and get no money from it.
Rating: PG-13, here be some language and violent imagery
Fandom: Iron Man (Movieverse) - this happens approx. a month after the events of the movie.
Characters: Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, James Rhodes
Previous chapters: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4

( Part 5 )

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Feedback is appreciated and always replied with thanks.

Title: Tin Man (4/?)
Author: Mel (eumelia)
Disclaimer: Marvel owns it all, I just like to play with other people's toys and get no money from it.
Rating: PG-13, here be some language considered dirty, though it seems pretty natural to me.
Fandom: Iron Man (Movieverse)
Characters: Tony, Jarvis... sorta.
Previous Parts: One, Two and Three.

( This dying thing… it seems a bit premature don't you think? )

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Feedback would be much appreciated!

I posted to two previous parts at Fandom specific communities, which are public so you should have no problem reading them via the links, which I reccomend, because this is Part 3 and nothing will make sense if you don't read the first two parts.
No worries each chapter is pretty short :-D

Title: Tin Man
Author: Mel (eumelia)
Disclaimer: Marvel owns it all, I just like to play with other people's toys and get no money from it.
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Iron Man (Movieverse)
Characters: Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Happy Hogan

(Part 1)

(Part 2)

( Part 3 )

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Another day of memorial, this one is present and thus, to me, much less poignant than Yom Ha'Shoah was last week, for some reason.
Dead soldiers and dead civilian victims, killed in War and Terror.

My feelings are mixed.
Last year I was depressed and the whole thing washed over me and was dimmed into the background of my own personal self pity and pain, to do with the war I participated in.
Now everything feels sharp, not the pain, but the facade of the (necessary and important) ceremonies in which the names of the dead will be spoken and candles will be lit, is so much more clear to me.
The ceremonies seem like theatrics to me. But I'll go to my elementary school where every year, younger and younger (because every year I get older) children stand on the grass slope where they will sing the same songs as last year, recite the same poems and maybe the choreography of the dance will be different, though I doubt it.
I'll go because dead men and women need to be remembered and at this point this is what we have.

Tomorrow is Independence Day, always after Memorial Day, so that we know what those dead men and women fought, lived and died for.

Korin Alal (though Ehud Manor wrote it) puts into words the way I feel best on these days... even if they are mixed:

I have no other land
Even if the ground is burning
Only a word in Hebrew, penetrating
Into my veins, my soul
In an aching body,
In a hungering heart.
Here is my home

I will not be silent, for my land
Changed her face
I will not concede to her
I will sing in her ear
Until she opens her eyes

A poem posted to day at greatpoets, which is wonderful community in any event.





Responsibility by Grace Paley

It is the responsibility of society to let the poet be a poet
It is the responsibility of the poet to be a woman
It is the responsibility of the poet to stand on street corners
giving out poems and beautifully written leaflets
also leaflets you can hardly bear to look at
because of the screaming rhetoric
It is the responsibility of the poet to be lazy
to hang out and prophesy
It is the responsibility of the poet not to pay war taxes
It is the responsibility of the poet to go in and out of ivory
towers and two-room apartments on Avenue C
and buckwheat fields and army camps
It is the responsibility of the male poet to be a woman
It is the responsibility of the female poet to be a woman
It is the poet’s responsibility to speak truth to power as the
Quakers say
It is the poet’s responsibility to learn the truth from the
powerless
It is the responsibility of the poet to say many times: there is no
freedom without justice and this means economic
justice and love justice
It is the responsibility of the poet to sing this in all the original
and traditional tunes of singing and telling poems
It is the responsibility of the poet to listen to gossip and pass it on in the way storytellers decant the story of life
There is no freedom without fear and bravery there is no
freedom unless
earth and air and water continue and children
also continue
It is the responsibility of the poet to be a woman to keep an eye on
this world and cry out like Cassandra, but be
listened to this time.

From Begin Again: Collected Poems.

In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.

At the Tori Amos Concert in London, Tori sang this song and it moved me in a way a song hadn't in quite a while.
I cried and then bawled when she sang "Winter" right after.
Tami and I were a couple of mushy, wet, sobbing fangirls.
Pathetically fun, I might add.
In any event, Tami found the song and sent it to me and I thought it's just too good not to share with everyone so here it is for download: Home on the Range - Tori Amos.

And under the cut are the beautiful ( lyrics )

In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.

Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze.
It maketh me to wake in green pastures:
It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses.
It restoreth my buzz:
It leadeth me in the paths of consciousness for its name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of addiction,
I will fear no Equal™:
For thou art with me; thy cream and thy sugar they comfort me.
Thou preparest a carafe before me in the presence of The Starbucks:
Thou anointest my day with pep; my mug runneth over.
Surely richness and taste shall follow me all the days of my life:
And I will dwell in the House of Mochas forever.


In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.

This poem is one of my favourites, the first time I ever read it, I didn't understand the meanings behind Paul Celan's words. I just knew that they were meaningful and powerful in the way they were constructed and in what they conveyed.
Later on, when I was older, writing poetry of my own, I understood what Paul Celan had said and continued to say.
It resonates and hopefully, always will.

( Todesfuge - Paul Celan )

( פוגת-מוות - פאול צלאן )

( Death Fugue - Paul Celan )

All they did was talk, talk, talk
How fast can you run
All he wanted was to have some fun
The shackles were loose
The Guards obviously drowsy
He obviously wasn't very rowdy

A cross-country run he took
The police hung dry like meat on a hook
Self-defense courses were getting extra cash
All the pepper-spay cans - gone in a flash

What did our Guards do?
Talked at us, please don't sue
Chase him like a wild goose
Girls don't walk alone at night
Don't wear a shirt that's tight

This was a chance to walk the
fucking walk
All they did was talk, talk, talk


(c) Melody Barron

Those of you who travel the Blogosphere know that about a month ago Sci-Fi writer John M. Ford passed away and those who read Neil Gaiman’s blog know that Mr. Ford was a dear friend of Mr. Gaiman’s.

That being said, Neil Gaiman asks that all writers (and other people with literarily and intellectual property) do write a will which specifies to whom that very valuable property goes to at the times of our deaths.

You can go to Neil Gaiman’s most recent post where he writes all the important information you need to know about writing a will and has a very convenient PDF file to download which is a draft of a will specifically for that kind of intellectual/literary property.

I intend to print, it copy it and sign it, because I have lots of unpublished stuff which aught to be taken care of in a nice way and you never know when you’re gonna die, so people, if you have property which isn’t of the physical kind… fill this out and when you are able to get it looked at by a lawyer.

Here’s a link to the PDF file: SIMPLEWILL.pdf

Happy Haloween, Good Samhain and may we all have a good End of October Day!

Wired magazine put out a six word short story challenge to writers with excellent results.

Here are my ( favourites )

And my one ( least )
I mean really man, that was totally written before!

And of course, my own little ( attempts )

What a fun little exercise.

And one from my ( Mother )

Vogon Poetry Generator

Melody's Vogon Poem
See, see the strong sky
Marvel at its big orange depths.
Tell me, Nurit do you
Wonder why the ardvark ignores you?
Why its foobly stare
makes you feel blah.
I can tell you, it is
Worried by your fklubt facial growth
That looks like
A mayonnaise.
What's more, it knows
Your barbiturates potting shed
Smells of olive.
Everything under the big strong sky
Asks why, why do you even bother?
You only charm avocados.--

I've finished transcribing all my Untitled poems and Pseudo-Haiku.

Finally.

Now I just have the rest of titled poems, not to mention my short stories and bit of pieces of would be long prose works.

But I have something done and I feel good!