"Steven said, 'Why not write something that’s not so deep and meaningful?'  

But the truth can be so tragic & beautiful."  

  - Empathy Test, “Bare My Soul”

   . . I can say the same about chapter 7 of my fic Love Among the Ruins tbh!  I’ll be honest, I’m nervous! I care so much about this chapter. It’s written in my heart’s blood. It is full of sadness, love, tenderness and comfort, Very creative comfort. <3 

And… 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.  And it has been, er, sung.  And, er, it may now be in an embedded video at the end of Chapter Seven, ‘Night’. (Hides.)

Stucky Sleeping Beauty fusion, historically accurate psychiatry, https://archiveofourown.org/works/16929495