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The Prompt word this week was 'Compensation', with the added stipulation: "...it should be written in the style of a William Shakespeare play."
Were he around today, I reckon the Bard would have fitted in quite happily with furry. He'd enjoy the boundless creativity of the fandom.
Big thanks to my wife for the little doggy picture that goes with this piece! I think both of us now need to go and bleach our Braines of thees and thous and excess Capitalisation.
ps: My apologies to macro lovers everywhere!
Were he around today, I reckon the Bard would have fitted in quite happily with furry. He'd enjoy the boundless creativity of the fandom.
Big thanks to my wife for the little doggy picture that goes with this piece! I think both of us now need to go and bleach our Braines of thees and thous and excess Capitalisation.
ps: My apologies to macro lovers everywhere!
Category Story / Fantasy
Species Wolf
Size 120 x 99px
File Size 176.8 kB
Listed in Folders
*ahem*
Pros:
Packaging - The mortified pup up top is adorable. Kudo's to your spouse.
The Font: The perfect choice for such a document. I'd love to know where you got it.
Contents - Memorable lines include:
"Abominations of the Fur all rainbow'd in such wanton Hues"
"Wyrm, have I not warded you 'gainst the dimming of the Sight, of Haire upon the Palms?"
"Suspended also, all of thine Interwebs."
"I'm afraid that bit's a little over-written, dear; you're good, but you're not Aldous Huxley."
Cons:
Insufficient length(!) Readers are left desiring Moar.
Overview:
I must conclude that you have read or studied Shakespeare a great deal. I would call this the best forgery I seen anywhere. And yet you have colored it with enough Millennial and Furry references to make it entirely your own. I shook my head at the prompt conditions and thought "Who could manage that?"
Now I know. *bows* Exquisite work, my good sir, and a great deal of fun.
Pros:
Packaging - The mortified pup up top is adorable. Kudo's to your spouse.
The Font: The perfect choice for such a document. I'd love to know where you got it.
Contents - Memorable lines include:
"Abominations of the Fur all rainbow'd in such wanton Hues"
"Wyrm, have I not warded you 'gainst the dimming of the Sight, of Haire upon the Palms?"
"Suspended also, all of thine Interwebs."
"I'm afraid that bit's a little over-written, dear; you're good, but you're not Aldous Huxley."
Cons:
Insufficient length(!) Readers are left desiring Moar.
Overview:
I must conclude that you have read or studied Shakespeare a great deal. I would call this the best forgery I seen anywhere. And yet you have colored it with enough Millennial and Furry references to make it entirely your own. I shook my head at the prompt conditions and thought "Who could manage that?"
Now I know. *bows* Exquisite work, my good sir, and a great deal of fun.
Louise was so tickled by your comment, so first a big 'thank you' from her for that!
And one from me as well. In truth, I haven't read or studied Shakespeare any more than that required by a typical British classroom education, and that for me was many moons ago. (We studied Macbeth, and Julius Caesar.) I suppose I've attended a handful of his plays over the years, and seen a clutch more of them on TV. I'm also quite fond of the TV comedy series 'Upstart Crow' which is a spoof on Shakespeare's life and times and includes lots and lots of the sentence-flipping antics and created words so beloved of the Bard. So if 'Compensation' comes off as a passable mimic of the style, I'm more than content!
I had such fun with the font. I knew I wanted something that looked vaguely 'of the time', and what I really wanted was to include the archaic 'long s':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
Eventually I stumbled on The Fell Types English Roman font, which dates from around 1670 - well after Shakespeare's time, but with exactly the appearance I was after:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histo.....ern_typography
Best of all, you can download and use it yourself for free!
http://iginomarini.com/fell/the-revival-fonts/
Now the Fell Types do include the long s, but in the end I decided to keep all the characters as 'short' s because:
1. There are particular rules about when the long s should be used (never at the end of a word, for example), and a whole bunch of other complicated stuff about ligatures, and basically I just wanted to FINISH THE DAMN PIECE
2. The lower case long s looks very like a lower case f, which reduces readability to modern eyes. I didn't want that, even though the confusion can on occasion be hilarious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UySOpb64yc
Your comment made me grin so big, Wire... thank you once again!
And one from me as well. In truth, I haven't read or studied Shakespeare any more than that required by a typical British classroom education, and that for me was many moons ago. (We studied Macbeth, and Julius Caesar.) I suppose I've attended a handful of his plays over the years, and seen a clutch more of them on TV. I'm also quite fond of the TV comedy series 'Upstart Crow' which is a spoof on Shakespeare's life and times and includes lots and lots of the sentence-flipping antics and created words so beloved of the Bard. So if 'Compensation' comes off as a passable mimic of the style, I'm more than content!
I had such fun with the font. I knew I wanted something that looked vaguely 'of the time', and what I really wanted was to include the archaic 'long s':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
Eventually I stumbled on The Fell Types English Roman font, which dates from around 1670 - well after Shakespeare's time, but with exactly the appearance I was after:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histo.....ern_typography
Best of all, you can download and use it yourself for free!
http://iginomarini.com/fell/the-revival-fonts/
Now the Fell Types do include the long s, but in the end I decided to keep all the characters as 'short' s because:
1. There are particular rules about when the long s should be used (never at the end of a word, for example), and a whole bunch of other complicated stuff about ligatures, and basically I just wanted to FINISH THE DAMN PIECE
2. The lower case long s looks very like a lower case f, which reduces readability to modern eyes. I didn't want that, even though the confusion can on occasion be hilarious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UySOpb64yc
Your comment made me grin so big, Wire... thank you once again!
No, I can't wrap my head around the appeal of macro either. But once I got going with 'pound of flesh', it kinda almost made sense...
Most fetishes leave me completely cold, in fact. However, I do love the diversity and (in most cases) acceptance of difference that I find in this fandom. When I first encountered furry, the phrase 'broad church' came to mind. Now I know that doesn't really capture the community here at all.
Most fetishes leave me completely cold, in fact. However, I do love the diversity and (in most cases) acceptance of difference that I find in this fandom. When I first encountered furry, the phrase 'broad church' came to mind. Now I know that doesn't really capture the community here at all.
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