Share an excerpt from your story that references something that actually exists in the real world (more than one is welcome, let's see how many of us know the references!)

Leyelle 2024-01-13 02:03:59 UTC #1

Steam rises from the weathered gray ceramic mug bathing my face in the essence of flor de jamaica, and pre-grated ginger rescued from the dark recesses of my fridge. Billie Holiday is warbling from the radio, forever set to that one ‘oldie but a goodie’ station Mrs. Moon got me hooked on. I stir in more and more honey. There’s a poem about this, I think.

Does anybody know the poem?

If you can't figure it out, I win, and you subscribe.

You have one hint: the actual line goes something like.

"Billie Holiday is playing pretty late..."

Aeneas1 2024-01-13 08:02:09 UTC #2

There are too many pieces from my story to mention. A lot of the time I often draw upon real-world mythology, namely Greek, Roman, a bit of Abrahamic and Norse. A lot of quotes are quotes derived from either classical literature or Shakespeare, even the more visual ones. I could honestly write an entire series of annotations for them. But the extract I want to share comes from the reworked fifth chapter, the Butterfly Djinn. The interior of the town hall is derived from the town hall in South Molton, England, where I used to holiday as a child.

kyupol 2024-01-13 09:16:02 UTC #3

Pay attention to background... drawn from memory before the place got built up.

Leyelle 2024-01-14 12:48:25 UTC #4

Grabbing the last slices of a loaf of bread and a couple of eggs, I make myself breakfast. Scrape the crumbs into the trash, and wash the dishes.

There’s a poem about this - I think - but I don’t know it.

Another poem reference! (you'll have to excuse me, because, like me, Alicia loves poetry)

2DLenzy 2024-01-14 15:33:37 UTC #5

The dialogue in the last panel is borrowed from a movie, can you guess which?

R.n.P 2024-01-14 16:22:08 UTC #6

The UFC exists in my comic but as the UCF XD

Leyelle 2024-01-15 18:53:58 UTC #7

“Okay…but I’ll throw hands if you try to climb up my hair.”

I think this one is pretty obvious, at least to most americans