My Poetry: Villanelle: Blackheath: Gen

Title: Blackheath
Fandom: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Stuart Turton)
Length: 157
Rating: Gen
DW 100 Fandoms Prompt: 029. mask
Poetic Form: villanelle

The invitations should’ve come with a funeral wreath,
a ruddy map, a cast of characters, a flask:
welcome to the wondrous masquerade of Blackheath!

The day is born and dies with failure to bequeath
to the next day a solution to the same task.
The sun rotations should’ve come with a funeral wreath.

Doctor, butler, dope-fiend. But who lies underneath?
Banker, blackguard, lawyer. Who to trust, who to ask?
Welcome to the maddening masquerade of Blackheath!

Every morn the day dawns anew in a fresh sheath
in the same decaying manor, twisted prison-cask.
The exhumations should’ve come with a funeral wreath.

Copper, artist, a Bishop’s work to dig beneath
too many old secrets, old blood in which to bask.
Welcome to the vexing masquerade of Blackheath!

Name the murderer before evil bares its teeth.
Everybody in the house is wearing a mask.
The invitations should’ve come with a funeral wreath:
welcome to the deadly masquerade of Blackheath!

Meme Answers: 1, 10, 24

From luthienberen.

1, 18, 24

1: Do you/would you like to write professionally?

No. Per Virginia Woolf's edict, I have no money and no room of my own. My skin isn’t thick enough and my ideas aren’t original enough to write fiction professionally. I don't know what kind of work I'll do when/if I work again, but I suppose there may be writing in it. I don't know.

10: What’s your favorite trope?

I like Someone Gets a Puppy. I like Someone Playing His Violin When Someone Else Has Nightmares. I like Talking Someone Out of Suicide. I like Omegaverse and Sentinelverse and all those 'made for each other' Soulmate AUs.

24: fantasy or sci-fi?

I don’t read either. I am trying to force myself to read Tui Sutherland’s first book in the Wings of Fire series (about dragons) because Minor has read the first fifteen books in the series, and he got the first five in a set for Christmas from his aunt. In about six months, I’ve made it to Chapter 2. By comparison, I re-read The 7/12 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (in its entirety which is about 420 pages) over this past weekend.

Fic-wise, many of my AUs, however, are fantasy: lizards, wolves, werewolves, vampires, dragons, fairytales. I do have a space AU, too, but there isn’t much science in it. It’s a just a porny Star Trek knock-off.

So, final answer: fantasy!