I found this poem I wrote some unknown time ago. I was considering publishing it, but I wouldn't know where, and it's so much work for so long to do that, I just don't want to go to that much trouble when I could just hit "post entry." And it's such an amazing poem! Told from the perpective of... well, you'll see.
“The Brown, The Green, and The Black”
By = Tempest Alexandria Arts
The white man took the world, spreading out among its lands by sea,
Exploiting all they touched, stealing the land from the people already there.
They stole the New World from the natives, killing the Red Man,
Bringing the Black Man from Africa as slaves to work for them.
They went to China, spread drug addiction and misery, for their profit,
And India for spices they never use, spreading misery to the cradle of writing.
Every bit of land they could find they took for theirs,
Exploiting its people even into the 21st century.
The white man went into space, and found no resources, no people to exploit,
So they grew bored with it, for the most part.
Sure, they sent their robots out to fly by far-off worlds,
Touched the moon a few times with their men, but then stopped.
“There's nothing in space but black,” they said,
Upset they'd made no green.
When the people of India and China started going up there, they scoffed.
“We wasted all that money going up there; they're not learning from our mistakes!”
They told us all there was in space was rocks and more rocks,
Forgetting there was a time when all we had were rocks;
All they let us have as they raped our lands were stones.
Like weeds growing in the sidewalk, they tried to kill us off,
So they could keep our lands for themselves.
But like weeds growing in the sidewalk, we persisted.
For life would always find a way, and we still lived.
We found the barren rocks they'd abandoned,
And grew like weeds among them.
In the black, we – the brown – made green.
The green of growth, as we built giant rotating farms in the sky.
From India and China, from Japan, from Africa,
From the Middle East, from the New World,
All the brown and red and yellow, every color but white,
Worldwide, we came together and spread through the black,
Making stone soup, growing life among the stars.
The white man still owns the earth, but we own the stars,
With colonies on the moon, the asteroids, and Mars.
And the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and beyond.
Millions of acres of farm and factory, raking in two kinds of green.
Feeding humanity, the breadbasket of the solar system is no longer earth.
And the white man? They are tourists with their cameras,
The old Japanese stereotype passed on to them,
As they marvel at all we've built, at all the green,
The same color they've become, with envy,
Because they were too 'yellow' to make green among the black,
Leaving that to the brown.
To us.
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“The Brown, The Green, and The Black”
By = Tempest Alexandria Arts
The white man took the world, spreading out among its lands by sea,
Exploiting all they touched, stealing the land from the people already there.
They stole the New World from the natives, killing the Red Man,
Bringing the Black Man from Africa as slaves to work for them.
They went to China, spread drug addiction and misery, for their profit,
And India for spices they never use, spreading misery to the cradle of writing.
Every bit of land they could find they took for theirs,
Exploiting its people even into the 21st century.
The white man went into space, and found no resources, no people to exploit,
So they grew bored with it, for the most part.
Sure, they sent their robots out to fly by far-off worlds,
Touched the moon a few times with their men, but then stopped.
“There's nothing in space but black,” they said,
Upset they'd made no green.
When the people of India and China started going up there, they scoffed.
“We wasted all that money going up there; they're not learning from our mistakes!”
They told us all there was in space was rocks and more rocks,
Forgetting there was a time when all we had were rocks;
All they let us have as they raped our lands were stones.
Like weeds growing in the sidewalk, they tried to kill us off,
So they could keep our lands for themselves.
But like weeds growing in the sidewalk, we persisted.
For life would always find a way, and we still lived.
We found the barren rocks they'd abandoned,
And grew like weeds among them.
In the black, we – the brown – made green.
The green of growth, as we built giant rotating farms in the sky.
From India and China, from Japan, from Africa,
From the Middle East, from the New World,
All the brown and red and yellow, every color but white,
Worldwide, we came together and spread through the black,
Making stone soup, growing life among the stars.
The white man still owns the earth, but we own the stars,
With colonies on the moon, the asteroids, and Mars.
And the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and beyond.
Millions of acres of farm and factory, raking in two kinds of green.
Feeding humanity, the breadbasket of the solar system is no longer earth.
And the white man? They are tourists with their cameras,
The old Japanese stereotype passed on to them,
As they marvel at all we've built, at all the green,
The same color they've become, with envy,
Because they were too 'yellow' to make green among the black,
Leaving that to the brown.
To us.
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“The Many Faces of Har—er, Adira Potter: Chapter 32”
By = Fayanora
Chapter 32 of The Many Faces of Harry Potter is now published!
Chapter title: Christmas and New Year's
Chapter blurb: Christmas time at Sirius's house, with Zoey and Lupin! Then it's back to school, for even more hijinks!
Archive Of Our Own version
FanFiction dot net version
Big Closet version
Start at Chapter One: "Feeling Sic" = AO3, FF.net, BC
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By = Fayanora
Chapter 32 of The Many Faces of Harry Potter is now published!
Chapter title: Christmas and New Year's
Chapter blurb: Christmas time at Sirius's house, with Zoey and Lupin! Then it's back to school, for even more hijinks!
Archive Of Our Own version
FanFiction dot net version
Big Closet version
Start at Chapter One: "Feeling Sic" = AO3, FF.net, BC
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Book 3, Chapter 8 of Harry Potter and the Trouble With Neurotypicals is published!
Series blurb: Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, is a young and abused Black boy with Asperger's syndrome, and is hated by his guardians, the Dursleys. A little over a week before his birthday, he discovers that he is also a wizard, and the Dursleys knew all along. Not only is he a wizard, but he's also famous in the wizarding world! An AU fanfic.
Chapter blurb: The title of this chapter is "Catching a Rat." Anything else I say would spoil it.
Links to book 3, chapter 8:
AO3 version
FF.net version
BigCloset version
~ ~ ~
Series page AO3
HPATTWNT book 1 page FF.net and Book 2, FF.net
HTATTWNT chapter 1, BigCloset
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Series blurb: Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, is a young and abused Black boy with Asperger's syndrome, and is hated by his guardians, the Dursleys. A little over a week before his birthday, he discovers that he is also a wizard, and the Dursleys knew all along. Not only is he a wizard, but he's also famous in the wizarding world! An AU fanfic.
Chapter blurb: The title of this chapter is "Catching a Rat." Anything else I say would spoil it.
Links to book 3, chapter 8:
AO3 version
FF.net version
BigCloset version
~ ~ ~
Series page AO3
HPATTWNT book 1 page FF.net and Book 2, FF.net
HTATTWNT chapter 1, BigCloset
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“The Many Faces of Har—er, Adira Potter: Chapter 31”
By = Fayanora
Chapter 31 of The Many Faces of Harry Potter is now published!
Chapter title: The Yule Ball
Chapter blurb: The Yule Ball! Goes better than in canon. Zoey holds a fashion show before the ball, to show off the outfits she made people for it. There is dancing, and other fun stuff as well.
Archive Of Our Own version
FanFiction dot net version
Big Closet version
Start at Chapter One: "Feeling Sic" = AO3, FF.net, BC
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By = Fayanora
Chapter 31 of The Many Faces of Harry Potter is now published!
Chapter title: The Yule Ball
Chapter blurb: The Yule Ball! Goes better than in canon. Zoey holds a fashion show before the ball, to show off the outfits she made people for it. There is dancing, and other fun stuff as well.
Archive Of Our Own version
FanFiction dot net version
Big Closet version
Start at Chapter One: "Feeling Sic" = AO3, FF.net, BC
This was cross-posted from http://fayanora.dreamwidth.org/1340
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Chapter 23 of "Many Faces of Har--er, Adira Potter" is out!
Chapter blurb: Al makes a new friend, despite becoming a little paranoid after the Quidditch match. Or will this boy be more than a friend? School starts, and Al smells danger looming in their future. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
FF.net version
AO3 version
Big Closet version
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Chapter blurb: Al makes a new friend, despite becoming a little paranoid after the Quidditch match. Or will this boy be more than a friend? School starts, and Al smells danger looming in their future. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
FF.net version
AO3 version
Big Closet version
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The Many Faces of Harry Potter, Chapter 15: "Halloween" has been released!
Fic blurb: Harry Potter is a wizard, which surprises him. But he's also a Multiple, which surprises everyone.
Chapter blurb: More strange things happen to the collective, as they avoid dementors, madmen with knives, and deal with the problems of puberty.
AO3 (Archive Of Our Own) Version
FF.net (FanFiction.net) Version
BigCloset Version
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Fic blurb: Harry Potter is a wizard, which surprises him. But he's also a Multiple, which surprises everyone.
Chapter blurb: More strange things happen to the collective, as they avoid dementors, madmen with knives, and deal with the problems of puberty.
AO3 (Archive Of Our Own) Version
FF.net (FanFiction.net) Version
BigCloset Version
This was cross-posted from http://fayanora.dreamwidth.org/1308
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- Current Music:Gary Stadler - Heartmagic
The Many Faces of Harry Potter, Chapter 14 has been released!
Fic blurb: Harry Potter is a wizard, which surprises him. But Harry Potter is also a Multiple, which surprises everyone.
Chapter blurb: Run-ins with Malfoy and Snape, detentions, and a boggart.
Archive of Our Own version.
FanFiction.net version.
BigCloset version.
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Fic blurb: Harry Potter is a wizard, which surprises him. But Harry Potter is also a Multiple, which surprises everyone.
Chapter blurb: Run-ins with Malfoy and Snape, detentions, and a boggart.
Archive of Our Own version.
FanFiction.net version.
BigCloset version.
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Chapter 12 of The Many Faces of Harry Potter is up! "Harry Potter is a wizard, which surprises him. But Harry Potter is also a Multiple, which surprises everyone."
It can be accessed at these three locations:
Archive of Our Own
FF.net
BigCloset
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It can be accessed at these three locations:
Archive of Our Own
FF.net
BigCloset
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- Current Music:Faun - Cernunnos
Harry Potter is a wizard, which surprises him. But Harry Potter is also a Multiple, which surprises everyone.
The Many Faces of Harry Potter, chapter 10 is out!
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"Archive of Our Own" version
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The Many Faces of Harry Potter, chapter 10 is out!
FanFiction.net version
"Archive of Our Own" version
BigCloset version
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"The Many Faces of Harry Potter" chapter 9 is now out.
FF.net version
AO3 version
BigCloset version
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FF.net version
AO3 version
BigCloset version
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