write a personals ad from the POV of a painting that's looking for the ideal viewer

Oooh! That's intriguing. I'd definitely be up for that. (And I promise not to do "Dogs Playing Poker".)

(And I promise not to do "Dogs Playing Poker".)

"They're dogs, and they're playing POKER! Yeaarrgghhgh!! Aaaagght!" t /Homer

attempt at the Lies drabble, from the recipient of the lies' pov

"This might squeeze a little."

My upper arm is bruised from the automatic blood pressure cuff, swollen and sore to the touch. Every four hours, unless they want to double-check something, and they come in every half hour.

"You might feel a little stick."

Slow, slow insertion of the needle into a vein, then a wiggle as the nurse tries to get the blood to flow. I have tiny veins, hard to find. She mutters, pulls out the needle, twists my arm to try and find a good vein.

4 AM. When the clumsy vampires come.

Cindy, it is an LA thing, but one a few Buffistas have seen. Youngwiid court is a house near me in a very chi-chi neighborhood. It has a a blindingly white wrought iron fence, with the driiveway painted to match, and 12 (or so) matching statues lining the driveway, all of which are naked men. At Christmas, they put Santa hats on them.

Hee. Thank you. I mean granted, I only know you from here, and although I wouldn't be surprised if you liked statuesque naked men, I didn't peg you for someone who'd have naked men statues lining your driveway, and yet, I couldn't...well, there ya go. Thanks!

The idea is -- write a personals ad from the POV of a painting that's looking for the ideal viewer. *Not* the POV of the subject of the painting, like the Mona Lisa herself, but from Mona-Lisa-the-painting.

Thoughts?

I am not sure I get the distinction. Or rather, I guess I get the distinction, but am not sure if I ... nope. Not getting the distinction. I think it still sounds interesting, unless I am just blinded by my Teppy love.

I am not sure I get the distinction. Or rather, I guess I get the distinction, but am not sure if I ... nope. Not getting the distinction.

It's not Mona Lisa saying, "Come check out this painting of me," it's Mona Lisa saying, "Come check me out." Mona can talk about her skin tone, but Mona can talk about how it sucks to be trapped in a frame.

I am not sure I get the distinction. Or rather, I guess I get the distinction, but am not sure if I ... nope. Not getting the distinction.

Hmm. I think I'm under-articulating. All I mean is that it shouldn't be a drabble where, for instance, the Mona Lisa writes a personal ad to get a guy, that it's not JUST her as the subject of the painting writing the personal ad, but the 500-year-old painting, what kind of viewer the painting would ideally like to gaze upon it for hours.

Or, if you don't see the distinction, maybe I was just over-thinking it.

I am not sure I get the distinction. Or rather, I guess I get the distinction, but am not sure if I ... nope. Not getting the distinction.

Maybe I was jumping to conclusions, but I also thought it could be a painting without a subject in it. Like a landscape. Or a Pollack. Right? So the painting itself (the whole thing, not just what the painting might be of) has to speak to the reader of the ad?

I also thought it could be a painting without a subject in it. Like a landscape. Or a Pollack. Right? So the painting itself (the whole thing, not just what the painting might be of) has to speak to the reader of the ad?

Exactly. Or, for instance, a personal ad for a Gauguin painting of Tahiti doesn't necessarily need to say "looking for a viewer who loves tropical locations." At least, *I*, personally, would leave that out, because I don't think the Tahiti paintings are about beachy fun.

One thing, though -- should we pick paintings that are mostly recognizable by name alone so our readers can get the visual? Or are we depending on the writing to convince our readers, as well as the fictional readers of the personal ads, to want to look up this artwork we've described.

I think I'm overthinking it now.

I think I'm overthinking it now.

I figure most paintings we'd use would be easy to image-Google, so that we could put a link to the painting.