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  <title>Still all about the poignancy of ex-Soviet assassins</title>
  <subtitle>Stucky OTP. I write/draw/beta. She/her.</subtitle>
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    <name>daphneblithe</name>
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  <updated>2019-01-13T22:18:51Z</updated>
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    <title>Sing &amp; record Russian poetry for Stucky Sleeping Beauty fic? Apparently I have.</title>
    <published>2019-01-13T21:50:42Z</published>
    <updated>2019-01-13T22:18:51Z</updated>
    <category term="musical fanart"/>
    <category term="grief"/>
    <category term="comfort"/>
    <category term="singing"/>
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    <category term="sleeping beauty fusion"/>
    <category term="russian poetry"/>
    <category term="anna akhmatova"/>
    <category term="solace"/>
    <dw:music>'bare my soul' - empathy test</dw:music>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;quot;Steven said, 'Why not write something that&amp;rsquo;s not so deep and meaningful?'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; But the truth can be so tragic &amp;amp; beautiful.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;-	Empathy Test, &amp;ldquo;Bare My Soul&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;. . I can say the same about chapter 7 of my fic &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/16929495"&gt;Love Among the Ruins&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;tbh!&amp;nbsp; I&amp;rsquo;ll be honest, I&amp;rsquo;m &lt;strong&gt;nervous&lt;/strong&gt;! I care so much about this chapter. It&amp;rsquo;s written in my heart&amp;rsquo;s blood. It is full of sadness, love, tenderness and comfort, Very creative comfort.  &amp;lt;3&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;And&amp;hellip; part of it involves poetry by Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.  During the course of writing it I just had to set the poem to music, a blend of Gregorian plainchant and Celtic lament.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;And it has been, er, sung.&amp;nbsp; And, er, it may now be in an embedded video at the end of Chapter Seven, &amp;lsquo;Night&amp;rsquo;. (Hides.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stucky Sleeping Beauty fusion, historically accurate psychiatry,&lt;a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/16929495"&gt;&amp;nbsp;https://archiveofourown.org/works/16929495&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="https://i.imgur.com/Fv0AUeS.png" style="max-width: 70%; height: auto; " alt="" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=daphneblithe&amp;ditemid=4591" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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