saturday.

[sunfright]

UNTITLED by Anise Koltz

In this world
stripped of meaning
language is our last refuge

It is what bids our present
exist

I entice the page
so that it may lie
beneath my writing

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Also while researching for Germaine (1stpersonsingular), I stumbled across this amazing blog on Tumblr called taylorswiftarthistories. Big shout-out to the person running it, because that is amazing work, combining Taylor Swift lyrics with fitting paintings from art history. The two up here are only some of my many, many favourites! You should all totally go check them out.

Not to mention, this blog alone made me realize what amazing lyrics Taylor Swift does??? Anyone else noticed this? I might be getting into her music as we speak.

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PASSACAGLIA ON AN OLD ENGLISH TUNE - REBECCA CLARKE

While researching for Germaine, I stumbled upon Clarke's name and looked into her more, finding this exquisite piece. I've heard much fun being made of the viola, but honestly? I'd rather listen to a viola anyday than a violin, the violin is just a little to shrill for me as a solo instrument. The viola sounds more like a cello and I looooove cellos. Anyway, Clarke's music doesn't seem to be very bombastic at all, but has a quiet strength and depth to it that I really like. Very melodic and calming, too. Just up my alley. Therefore, I'm sharing. Because sharing is caring.

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WHAT'S GOING ON IN RL
I have felt all day today that it was Sunday, so to constantly realize that I have one more day of the weekend? That's its own kind of gift.

We've done some cleaning and tagged a lot, K. and I. I haven't been in regular clothes or even showered today, it's just been a complete... living from hand to mouth day, as you'd say in Danish. I'll be a normal human being tomorrow, no rush.

Tonight will hopefully be used to write that fic for my wildcard option, but it's unbelievably hard getting started on it. I think I've chosen a genre prompt now (diary), but we'll see. I hate the feeling of staring at a new, blank page in Word. Makes me feel like Anise Koltz in her poem up there...

Next week, I have work off, because I'm going to a concert on Thursday! Postmodern Jukebox, here I come. First major, many-people-there event since the pandemic, so I'm also a little nervous, but at least my general state of mind has gotten a lot better the past two weeks. I feel much more like an actual, sane person, thank God. It's been a long tow.

Getting back to reading books and writing stuff myself is such a good sign, though. I treasure it so much.

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WHAT'S GOING ON IN FANDOM/RP
First off, I'm one prompt away from having a bingo over at genprompt_bingo (where they've just put up sign-ups for round 22, you should all go get your cards!), so I decided to sign up for another writing challenge! This one is over at unconventionalcourtship, a multi-fandom (and original) fic challenge based on summaries for romance novels. It sounded like fun, so I grabbed the 6th of June as my posting date and saved this summary as my prompt:

295) Lord Havelock's List - Annie Burrows

Be careful what you wish for...
Lord Havelock is in need of a wife. But with no time for a society wedding and no stomach for girlish fripperies his options are limited. So, with help from his friends, he draws up a list of qualities he does desire in a wife…
When orphaned Mary Carpenter discovers her handsome new husband’s list she’s hurt – and incensed. If he thinks she’ll sit meekly by, be ‘compliant’ and ‘a mouse’, he’s got another think coming! Is it perhaps time for Mary to make a list of her own, and change the rules of their relationship for ever… ?

I think I'm going to write a Germaine fic for it, if I still have the muse by the time I get around to writing a fic at all, but she seems pretty easy for me to write, at least, so I think it'll work out! Otherwise, some other OC. I have plenty of ideas!

Besides that, I'm voicetesting Germaine a lot, while simultaneously doing some logging with Elio/Lucifer in my musebox. We just finished the first major thread today and I'm loving them so much, looking forward to picking up tomorrow. Their interaction is always gold. It's strange that I can do both muses at once, because normally I'm a one-muse-only girl, but I think it's because they're so very different AND because I only play Elio in the musebox, so I don't stretch myself too thin. That helps. Besides, Germaine isn't the type of muse to get a lot of play, so I don't get flooded in tags and then burn out. That's nice.

Well managed, me. /pats own back