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Dark Drabblefest: Prompts for Day One
Theme:
A world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness,--an American, a Negro; two warring souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,--this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. - W. E. B. DuBois (Source)
Texture:
Trope:
Chased by Angry Natives
Taste:
~ briny ~ viridian ~ caulk
Tongues:
Guidelines:
A world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness,--an American, a Negro; two warring souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,--this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. - W. E. B. DuBois (Source)
Texture:
Trope:
Chased by Angry Natives
Taste:
~ briny ~ viridian ~ caulk
Tongues:
| Para que tú me oigas mis palabras se adelgazan a veces como las huellas de las gaviotas en las playas. Collar, cascabel ebrio para tus manos suaves como las uvas. (Source) | For you to hear me my words thin themselves out, at times, like the trails of gulls on the shore. A necklace of bones, a crazed rattle for your fingers smooth as grapes. (Source) |
Guidelines:
- Prompts are entirely optional, to use, subvert or ignore as you please.
- The goal is to write a drabble of at least 100 words in one of the qualifying Remix fandoms. If you end up writing a longer fic, more joy to us all.
- Your drabble must put a chromatic character at the centre of its narrative.
- You can share your drabbles in comments to each day's prompts post, as long as you include a fandom and a rating in your subject.
- You may suggest and/or solicit fandom or character specific prompts in comments, as long as your ratio of prompts to drabbles does not tilt heavily towards the former.
- If you are trying to qualify for Remix 2010, you will need 7 drabbles in any one fandom. You don't have to do Remix to play here, though.
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