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Title: 'тоска'
Fandom: Original Poetry
Rating: G

( тоска )

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The most recent commute audiobook was The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, of The Night Circus fame (although admittedly I have not read that one yet). This is a fantasy novel about Zachary, a young man swept into the drama of a secret underground society and the mysterious figures who surround it.

I finished this book on Sunday morning, catching the last 7 minutes of a whopping 19-hour runtime over breakfast, and since then I've settled into a relative disappointment. On paper, this book has so many things that should make it an ace in the hole for me: Book lovers! Cats! Secret magical societies! Queer characters! Women who are something Other taking control of their destinies! And yet, overall, this book just did not land for me.

As is a risk, I think, with all stories that are about the power of stories, The Starless Sea comes off a little pretentious and self-important. It is a book lauding the unmatched importance of books. I felt aware at various points throughout the book of how hard it was trying to appeal to people like me, who would enjoy the idea of a dark-paneled underground room with endless books and an on-demand kitchen, and this sense of pandering did take away from it at times.

However, it also does some interesting things with regards to what it is like to be the person in a story (such as the fate of Eleanor and Simon, once their part in the story is done) as well as the risks of valuing preservation over change and growth. Without giving too much away, there is a secret society in decline, and a woman so determined to prevent its downfall that she ends up causing significant harm to the organization she's trying to save because she is unwilling to accept that an end comes for all things. I enjoyed this theme and I felt like it was echoed well throughout the story, and in many ways it's easy to sympathize with her ultimate goals, if not her methods.

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Hello everyone :-] Look, I feel really sorry linking the journal of a stranger who presumably haven't used their journal in over a decade, but I never really used LJ and don't know anything about how it works besides what you see as a logged-out user. Does anyone know the name of this layout, which I see a lot, and is there a way I can repurpose it for DW? I think it's really cute, and if I just play with the CSS a little I could make it even better (according to my tastes).

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CANON: MCU. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
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I saw my first garter snake and two snapping turtles near my local pond.

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Author: Audrelite Title: Total Consumption Fandom: Teen Titans (2003) Prompt: #421 — New Rating: E (Sexual content) Characters: Leonid Kovar, Koriand'r Word Count: 100 Summary: The sensation: total consumption, a pressure shattering every limit, a rhythm building, breaking, rebuilding its exquisite loop.

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Author: Audrelite Title: Icy and His For the Taking Fandom: Winx Club Prompt: #429 — Icy Rating: T Characters: Tritannus, mentioned Icy Word Count: 100 Summary: To lose sight of Icy would be to lose this new constant gifted to him within this desolate wasteland.

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Every tenth week on

100words is Amnesty Week, when all previous prompts are fair game. Did you miss a prompt the first time around? Write it now! Want to write a prompt again? Please do!

Your response should be exactly 100 words long. You do not have to include the prompt in your response -- it is meant as a starting place only. Please use the appropriate prompt tag with your prompt response.

Please put your drabble under a cut tag if it contains potential triggers, mature or explicit content, or spoilers.

If you would like a template for the header information you may use this:

Subject: Original - Title (or) Fandom - Title

Post:
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Here's the template as code for easier pasting:

If you are a member of AO3 there is a 100 Words Collection!

The prompts are:

439. refuse

438. shelter

437. flower

436. bitter

435. exile

434. cook

433. scrape

432. mudita (मुदिता)

431. toska (тоска)

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Experimenting with zooming in super close so you can see the cool brushstrokes and other details, basically.

Preview:

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