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Dark Drabblefest: Prompts for Day Six
Thanks to those of you still writing and thus letting us know there is a point to keeping this going! (And to oyceter for the Chinese translation.)
Theme:
It is impossible to talk about the single story without talking about power. There is a word, an Igbo word, that I think about whenever I think about the power structures of the world, and it is "nkali." It's a noun that loosely translates to "to be greater than another." Like our economic and political worlds, stories too are defined by the principle of nkali. How they are told, who tells them, when they're told, how many stories are told, are really dependent on power.
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story, and to start with, "secondly." Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans, and not with the arrival of the British, and you have and entirely different story. Start the story with the failure of the African state, and not with the colonial creation of the African state, and you have an entirely different story. - Chimamanda Adichie (Source)
Texture:
Trope:
Hermit Guru
Taste:
~ lascivious ~ jaunty ~ whorl
Tongues:
Guidelines:
oyceter for the Chinese translation.)Theme:
It is impossible to talk about the single story without talking about power. There is a word, an Igbo word, that I think about whenever I think about the power structures of the world, and it is "nkali." It's a noun that loosely translates to "to be greater than another." Like our economic and political worlds, stories too are defined by the principle of nkali. How they are told, who tells them, when they're told, how many stories are told, are really dependent on power.
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story, and to start with, "secondly." Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans, and not with the arrival of the British, and you have and entirely different story. Start the story with the failure of the African state, and not with the colonial creation of the African state, and you have an entirely different story. - Chimamanda Adichie (Source)
Texture:
Trope:
Hermit Guru
Taste:
~ lascivious ~ jaunty ~ whorl
Tongues:
| 昨夜西風凋碧樹,獨上高樓,望盡天涯路.欲寄彩箋無尺素,山長水遠知何處 | Last night the west wind withered the emerald leaves. Alone, I mounted the stairs To look down the endless road. I wanted to write but had not elegant notepaper. And the rivers are wide, and the mountains so high, I do not know where to locate you. (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.