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Speech, Right? by Shaudawn, literature

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Speech, Right?

Your words fasten to my flesh by the neck. They lead me down an old road, a trail of tears worn by years of tread. Footprints desperate, facing the other direction we now walk. Your words flow freely as the flooding stream that has broken its banks in the torrent. Your throat choking mine, I fall silent. Swept along, you return me to that familiar shack where there is a whipping post out back. This is where you leave me because I can take it from there. There is where you leave me to go meditate upon a religion that blames the sufferer for his suffering. Somehow I shamble from the post freshly stained because self-flagellation never leads to salvation. Return to a dry town that preaches in daylight that all sin kept in bottles hidden should never be opened. Ever. But in a sundown town, when the vessel makes a sound a bottle, now broken, brings back a flood of that unspoken. What starts with a poem, ends in a koan. I desperately struggle

Those Cast Aside - Part 2 by Shaudawn, literature

Those Cast Aside -- Part 1 by Shaudawn, literature

Of Talk and Talismans by Shaudawn, literature

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Of Talk and Talismans

%Jin-Dui (https://www.deviantart.com/jin-dui) a Jin-Dui (https://www.deviantart.com/jin-dui) fan fiction, Eavesdown Docks Year 2509: The War. Bettor’s Knob, Beylix “Gorram it! Leigh, Callahan, Kim Chon! No, not you. I mean Other Kim Chon! Left flank! ‘Squatch, you an’ M’Duk take Beartooth and Baker up that gulch there.” The lieutenant pointed with such ferocity at the dry cut that Tom felt like he was providing the absent air support with his index finger alone. “First Kim Chon, you take that high point an’ provide cover fire. Don’t let them zhū yòu nǎo Purplebellies so much as blink sideways ‘til we get our angels now, y’hear

How to Hunt Rabbit by Shaudawn, literature

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How to Hunt Rabbit

How to Hunt Rabbit %Jin-Dui (https://www.deviantart.com/jin-dui) The Adventures of the Jin Dui (Original Characters/Firefly 'Verse.Novel-Style RP Club) (more about the Jin Du at the ship's website) Year 2499: Fifteen years ago Patience. Core worlds move fast. Speed of sound. Speed of light. Word and waves fly faster than both, ‘Verse folk say. Commerce, right behind. Person comes too late to opportunity ain’t gonna find nuthin’ but an empty hole, the old timer wasi’chu would say. The only thing that moves slow is bureaucracy, but slow don’t mean patient just as patient don’t always mean slow. Carrot dangles by a thin wire. Downwi

upon reflection by Shaudawn, literature

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upon reflection

Yesterday he thawt he was some body Today he looked In the mirror and saw he was no body No body looked back through dIs-membered eyes floatIng In a frIgId sea of Ice I see Icy I’s he thawt They saId, you are so full of It that your eyes are streaked brown But today the brown had run out of IMAGinE And the Ice swallowed the paIr up Until whIte became red became black And no body was left But the body they found later tomorrow

An Injun in Eavesdown by Shaudawn, literature

Lodgepole by Shaudawn, literature

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Lodgepole

Most Western towns were built around something. Some were built around gold and silver mines. Others were built around trade posts and lumber mills. And some were built around crossroads or railway stations. But the town of Lodgepole was built around Nothing. “No, really. Lodgepole was built around Nothing,” says Coyote. “How can it be built around nothing?” I continue to brood in the back seat as the car slips into the town-turned-county seat. Sagebrush and cottonwood start to share space with grass lawn and flowerbed. Buildings cease to be occasional shacks and some gain a second story. Rounded foothills b

A Camping Story by Shaudawn, literature

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A Camping Story

“Welcome! I’m Kathy.” The comfortably plump woman spreads her arms like an afghan. Her smile illuminates the Walking-World like a bedside light. She gestures into the Room. It is pleasant and spacious. The chairs have cushions, and the cushions broadcast happy patterns. A wide window looks out to a big sky. “We’re pretty informal here, so just come on in and make yourself at home. There’s beverages on the table, and we’ll have snacks after.” I just stare out the window. The Room is for visitors, not residents. Not us. It is an interstitial meant as advertisement. Propaganda. ̶

Earth Thinks by Shaudawn, literature

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Earth Thinks

Perhaps we human beings are little more than the thoughts and dreams of Earth. Like all thoughts, we think our existence and our agency as the primary importance. Sure, we can mingle with other thoughts, change and evolve into something a little bigger or grander. But then, like a thought in the head, or a dream in the night, it ends, whether by eclipse or by cataclysm. What if we are simply dreams of Earth? Brief like shooting stars. Ephemeral as auroras. And being Earth, Earth dreams and thinks with so much more complexity and grandeur and age— a temporal narrative that unfolds and changes wher

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Of Talk and Talismans by Shaudawn, literature

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Of Talk and Talismans

How to Hunt Rabbit by Shaudawn, literature

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Free World Building Software by Shaudawn, literature

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Free World Building Software

--- Free Software --- Due to the ever-changing nature of web links, the links presented here may break from time to time. Please leave a comment if you notice a broken link and I'll try to fix it as soon as possible. This document may change often. Feel free to suggest additional world building software too! Thanks for visiting. --- World Management --- So, if you are as addicted to the creation and building of worlds as I am, you have to check out World Anvil ( https://www.worldanvil.com/ ). You can do so much for free. Just check it out. You'll thank me. :D --- World Building Software --- Wilbur (last update: July 2019) ( https:/

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Artist // Hobbyist // Literature

Oct 30, 1970
United States
Deviant for 15 years
The Works and Worlds of Shaudawn
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I was born on the dusty plains within the Yellowstone River valley where I chased antelope & jackrabbits, and scared unwary foxes. Its sandstone rock made my bones. Its water, born of geysers, made my blood. Its cottonwoods wove my skin. Its winds filled my lungs with air.

Eventually I went to the Southwest deserts to learn. I returned north, and eventually came under the shadow of the mountain properly called Takhoma, the Mother of Waters, where I pretend to do important things.

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I am trapped in teh InterWebz! The scanner ate me when I fell asleep on it!

Several years ago, dA had these as profile options. This is how I responded, and I keep them here because it still amuses me to do so. ...

Current Residence: South Puget Sound...or the nearest mountain

Favourite genre of music: ambient, trance...sometimes chill... anything I can nod my head to

Favourite photographer: them

Favourite style of art: ...the kind that makes you think, feel, or be glad about Life!

MP3 player of choice: full

Shell of choice: chocolate

Wallpaper of choice: scenic

Skin of choice: yours

Personal Quote: What if everything you assume to be right and true and real is, in fact, wrong?

Favourite Visual Artist

you

Favourite Movies

Children of Men, Serenity

Favourite TV Shows

Firefly, Dollhouse; Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Big Bang Theory

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

Solar Fields, Stars of the Lid, Hybrid, Joey Fehrenbach, Ulrich Schnuss; DeadMau5, Linkin Park

Favourite Books

Martian Chronicles, The Road, Wool

Favourite Writers

Hugh Howey, Ken Liu; Bradbury, Azimov,

Favourite Games

rock, paper, scissors, (lizard, Spock)

Tools of the Trade

word processor, thesaurus, dictionary, pencil & paper, depths of my soul...in decreasing $ value

Other Interests

World-building, writing, creativity, spirituality, psychology & sociology, very small rocks

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Shaudawn

Oct 5, 2017

I'm saddened by Tom Petty walking on as soon as he did. Now there was a guy who told stories with his songs. Memories of late nights with my best friend singing way off key, and a song of his that set the theme to a mixed tape for a girl going far ...

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Shaudawn

Sep 20, 2017

I am honored, humbled, and tickled to have the good folks at @CRLiterature add my little poem, Earth Thinks, to their collection. If you love literature and all kinds of writey goodness, go check 'em out! :D

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Shaudawn

Sep 18, 2017

Despite battling really uptight micromanaging co-workers, I'm probably about 80% done with my next Tom Beartooth & Jessa story. I'll post it soon--keeping my fingers crossed.

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ShadowOfLight01370

Sep 9, 2020

Thanks for the llama, but it is I thanking you for your insights into character and world-building :]

xlntwtch

Apr 12, 2015

Your rather lengthy comment under The Great Water Debate is just what I hoped for when I wrote that vignette. You were clear and answered every point made by others. Thank you!

Shaudawn

Apr 13, 2015

Thank you for that. I tend to get a little carried away with my writing, so after I hit the "submit" button, I was afraid I was just being too wordy and a bit rantish (though I've had some real fits in my day...) Again, thank you for your story. It had a great mix of humor and yet brought up a very good topic worth talking about. They way you put it helps people to talk about the issues, rather than argue about them, so, again, I thank you for letting me and others into your initial story. May your future be as fruitful...keep up the good work.

xlntwtch

Apr 13, 2015

You're most welcome. Thanks for adding more compliments for me.

I'll try to be "fruitful and keep up the good work."
I hope you do the same.

ambassador-brouwer

Nov 1, 2014

Thanks for the thorough compliment on my picture of Tilly and Cooper of the good ship Jin Dui. I'm so glad you enjoyed it and I always appreciate feedback!

Shaudawn

Nov 3, 2014

It really looks like a fun little crew. Keep flyin'!

uki--uki

Oct 27, 2014

Thank you so much for the appreciation!

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We are here to help to break the spell of programmed humanity
and change the nature of the experience here what we call earth.

We are here to create a revolution unlike any that has gone before.
A Conscious Awareness Tsunami that will sweep the planet and shake our modern world to its very core.

Breaking the Illusion about what most people in the world believe to be true,
the government lies, banking system scam, main stream media tailored news,
that shapes the mind of all people around the world and creates this illusion of "normality".
A hijacked reality that people can't see because is repeated every day.