The poet they probably shouldn’t have sent. I watch anime and am sometimes accused of reading books. I'm writing a long gay giant robot story in verse—probably this millennium's best yuri mecha epic poem, through lack of competition.


'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country’s countless bells.'


thaliarchus
@thaliarchus

Reached the point in my notes for CWKB where it just says 'FORGE THE DENDROBIUM'.


thaliarchus
@thaliarchus

…fluit aes rivis aurique metallum
volnificusque chalybs vasta fornace liquescit

(Aeneid, VIII.445–6)

There flowed in brooks the bronze and golden ore,
and wound-wright steel in furnace vast dissolved.


thaliarchus
@thaliarchus

Not shield alone, but wheels and wings they shaped,
and frame, a frame the whole through fire to bear,
a cloak, that beams with shining weave could spurn,
and claws, on thick-wrought arms for battle slung,
and missile tubes, full eight and hundred strong,
and racks for spears, for ready action sprung.
Around the Key the frame new-wrought would go,
as armour’s armour worn. The hangar-cave
resounded, groaning great and long, as tongs
and blows and liquid metal’s hiss gave voice
to future fray these arms would seek and find.


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