https://daphneblithe.dreamwidth.org/ Still all about the poignancy of ex-Soviet assassins - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 13 Jan 2019 21:50:42 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios daphneblithe personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/12740079/3445161 https://daphneblithe.dreamwidth.org/ 100 96 https://daphneblithe.dreamwidth.org/4591.html Sun, 13 Jan 2019 21:50:42 GMT https://daphneblithe.dreamwidth.org/4591.html <p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;<em><span style="font-size: large;">&quot;Steven said, 'Why not write something that&rsquo;s not so deep and meaningful?'</span></em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"> But the truth can be so tragic &amp; beautiful.&quot;</span></em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;&nbsp;- Empathy Test, &ldquo;Bare My Soul&rdquo;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;. . I can say the same about chapter 7 of my fic <i><a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/16929495">Love Among the Ruins&nbsp;</a></i>tbh!&nbsp; I&rsquo;ll be honest, I&rsquo;m <strong>nervous</strong>! I care so much about this chapter. It&rsquo;s written in my heart&rsquo;s blood. It is full of sadness, love, tenderness and comfort, Very creative comfort. &lt;3&nbsp;</p>And&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.&nbsp;&nbsp;And it has been, er, sung.&nbsp; And, er, it may now be in an embedded video at the end of Chapter Seven, &lsquo;Night&rsquo;. (Hides.)<br /><br />Stucky Sleeping Beauty fusion, historically accurate psychiatry,<a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/16929495">&nbsp;https://archiveofourown.org/works/16929495</a><br /><center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/Fv0AUeS.png" style="max-width: 70%; height: auto; " alt="" /></center><br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=daphneblithe&ditemid=4591" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://daphneblithe.dreamwidth.org/4591.html solace singing sleeping beauty fusion russian poetry anna akhmatova musical fanart stucky comfort grief 'bare my soul' - empathy test public 4