LJIdol S11 - Week 24 - Intersection Again - "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn"

[hwango]

My cohort for this week was rayaso, whose entry can be found here. We decided on a common starting element and then went off in our own directions with no further communication.Legend tells of a mystical stone that can be found in the enchanted forest, which has the power to change one's fate. Legend says that it has turned paupers into monarchs,

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[halfshellvenus]

much of this poetry is overwrought and depressing, yet also lacks authenticity because it's all based on someone else's suffering. Those owls, squirrels, and foxes are all posers.
Hahahaha! And way to work the prompt in. :D

paying more attention to the rocks than to the trees.
I can see how the trees would resent that enormously. It's the enchanted forest, no the enchanted rock garden.

I loved, LOVED the twist that the stone was stolen and is being used as a paperweight, but can only interpret everything underneath it as some expression of a problem to be solved. That poor bakery owner. That poor cheesemonger!

And of course, I loved that the prevalence of little pieces of paper in the forest spurred so many of the animals to create bad poetry from the conveniently-available canvas of spare paper. :O

[hwango]

Thanks! It was an...interesting challenge to try to use the story element rayasoand I decided on and the prompt. I also considered having someone purposefully seek out the stone so they could grind it up and harvest all of the accumulated troubles from it for...some reason, but obviously that idea didn't make the cut.

I'm glad you like the paperweight twist and the aspiring poet forest animals. = )

[halfshellvenus]

Yes, I found this the harder prompt of the two as well.

I also considered having someone purposefully seek out the stone so they could grind it up and harvest all of the accumulated troubles from it for...some reason
Are you kidding?!? Some kind of evil misery-potion made from that rock would be TOTALLY the M.O. of one of your malevolent fairies-- one of those Tansy Slimesparkle or Bee-Snap Toadtwinkle types. ;)

[hwango]

How dare you besmirch the reputation of Tansy Slimesparkle?! = )

[tonithegreat]

This is super-fun! Unless you’re an enchanted stone or forest. I particularly liked this line:

For the desperate it is worth the risk, and for the lazy it is still less work than trying to solve their own problems.

The very definition of so many panaceas!

[hwango]

Thanks! Truly, no one in this one is happy. Except maybe the forest animals - they might be enjoying writing sad, overwrought poetry. = )

[d0gs]

I loved the imagery and the entertaining style of this :D

[hwango]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[hangedkay]

I love that this is more about the forest and the stone than the people who impose upon them. Certainly interesting to get their side of the story.

[hwango]

Thanks! My first thought when we were discussing the whole "leave your troubles behind under a rock" thing was definitely, "but what does the rock think about this arrangement?" = )

[xlovebecomesher]

Love this :)

[hwango]

Yay!