Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Wordless Wednesday Fail: Spiraling Into the Past

Spiraling Into the Past, Version 6


Spiraling Into the Past, Version 7

Photoshop images by The Real Cie

Back in the present, Pepper listened to the strains she'd discovered all those years ago. Then they had been the sounds of freedom and rebellion. Now, although her love for these songs had never died, there was something quaint about them, accompanied by a heart-wrenching sense of loss.

From "Fetch," Team Netherworld's WIP Novel
Dedicated with love to Malcolm Young for everything he made possible

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Hello, and welcome to another Wordless Wednesday Fail, where the Real Cie shows images (often things she's done in Photoshop) and refuses to comply with the "wordless" part of "Wordless Wednesday".
Youth is wasted on the young. When I bought this album, I was young (fourteen) and super stupid. I think I really believed these guys would be like they are on this album forever. Older than me but still young enough. Sassy, impish, but nowhere in the vicinity of actual evil, like some morons made them out to be. Actually, in spite of the provocative humor, they were really sweet people who just wanted to make the world a more enjoyable place. I loved that about them.
I never thought that less than a year after I bought this album that Bon Scott would be dead.
I could not have imagined that Phil Rudd would end up a meth addict, estranged from the band and in trouble with the law for making foolish, drug-fueled threats towards a person with whom he had a disagreement.
I certainly never thought that Malcolm Young, who created the band, would have his cognitive abilities destroyed to the point where he could no longer remember the works he created, where he didn't know the brother to whom he was so very close, and where he didn't even know who he himself was.
Y'all can't tell me that this plane of existence isn't Purgatory. I'm convinced that it is. Those of us who are stuck here are just trying to get by. Some of us, like these guys, try to make it a little nicer for their fellow inmates.
Maybe if we all learn the lesson that we need to treat each other a little more kindly, we can get out of here.

~Cie~

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

For The Ones That No One Sees

Photoshop art by The Real Cie
"In The Silence Of His Mind"

Nobody hears you
You're the one nobody knows
Speak up anyway

There may be someone
Who needs to hear what you say
Whose life you may save

Love,
Dolly

For Mal, who saved Cie in spite of being the quiet guy in the background
and for Cie, who thinks nobody hears what she has to say
It's worth saying anyhow
Someone may be listening

Imaginary Garden With Real Toads

Notes:
I know there's one of the moderators at Imaginary Garden With Real Toads who hates the Haiku form. To you I apologize for choosing to use that form. I chose it because it reins me in and stops me from becoming too terribly maudlin, which I have a tendency to do with poetry. 
I don't believe this is a real Haiku anyway, as it's my understanding that real Haiku has something to do with nature. In any case, I'm fairly sure I'm not a real poet. I'm just a kooky old broad who writes poetry sometimes!

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Not So Wordless Wednesday: Look Into My Soul



I am a Wordless Wednesday fail. I generally find myself having to explain my process or what the photo means.
Yeah...I never write down exactly what filters I use or in which order. There was a lot of overexposure and backlighting involved with this one.

~Cie~