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thespoliarium · 1 year
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ANNOUNCEMENT!
Hello, everyone! As you may all know, I have been quite noisy about this, but I have been writing a book. I am finally happy to present to you the title of the book...
"The Tired Red Swans: A Secret Love Story from Soviet Russia."
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What's it all about? Well...
"USSR, 1931: Irina Shulzhenko was chosen by General Secretary Joseph Stalin to be the governess of his children, when she meets Vyacheslav Molotov, who was the 3rd Premier of the Soviet Union. Amused by each other, the two became friends and later became lovers. A story of love, lust, power, politics, and communism, witness one of the controversial yet legendary love stories hidden for years in Soviet Russia." Whoa!
Disclaimer: The author deeply condemns Stalin’s atrocities, and hopes it never happen again. The casting here would be as is from Armando Iannucci’s movie The Death of Stalin (2017), although it closely follows the real-life chronology of events.
So, who are the characters? Well, most of them are Soviet figures like: Molotov, Stalin, Khrushchev, Beria, Zhukov, Bulganin, Malenkov, Mikoyan, Kaganovich, Svetlana and Vasily, and some more!
But our main character is a woman, and her name is Irina Shulzhenko!
Irina Shulzhenko is the main character of TTRS. She is the governess to Stalin's children, Molotov's secretary, once Foreign Minister and Soviet Ambassador to the UK. She is played by none other than Lara Fabian!
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More details? Okay! It's got 50K+ words, and 36 chapters. I worked on it for like 2 months, while balancing schoolwork. Whoa, juggler!
This will be released on Archive of Our Own, next Saturday, June 10, 2023! Mark your calendars! I will shamelessly promote this so bear with me.
I'll post the link once it is all done!
And here's the playlist!
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absentia-if · 2 years
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“How are you feeling?”
The question— just like all the previous ones before— comes from the woman situated towards the foot of your bed. Expressive green eyes peer over thin-rimmed glasses as curls of strawberry blonde hair frames her face. Doctor Amara Edison wasn’t what you were expecting when your mother has told you a world-renowned psychiatrist would be examining your mental stability. Truth be told you don’t know exactly what you were anticipating, but the almost delicate looking woman— clad in a sapphire blue sweater and dark black jeans— wasn’t it.
“${firstname}?” Amara’s soft voice pulls you from your reverie— your ${eyecolor} gaze meeting her gentle green one. “I know you probably want to do anything except talk to me, but I’d truly like to know; how are you feeling?”
You tilt your head. “Truthfully?”
Doctor Edison chuckles lightly. “That would be the optimal solution, yes.”
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rayatii · 1 year
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So the Met is HD’ing La rondine with Angel Blue and Jonathan Tetelman in the upcoming 2023/2024 season(!!!!!), and Opernhaus Zürich is ALSO putting up Rondine for their 23/24 season, with Ermonela Jaho and Benjamin Bernheim!!!!!
This truly is the Year of the Swallow, huh!!
So, uhm... I’m not saying that I firmly believe that this opera is getting pretty popular nowadays because this was somehow psychically influenced by a bunch of 19-year-olds (read: us) electronically screaming about it (read: the 2009 Met production) all over Tumblr, but that’s totally what I’m saying...
(partly inspired by a conversation with @smile-at-the-stars)
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discocannon8002 · 7 months
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Halloween Costume
okay, so, this Halloween I have a plan. I’m gonna be a generic superhero, but we’re gonna write on it to say “I’m autistic, what’s YOUR superpower?”.
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theoneandonlyyeti · 2 years
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Im doing artfight!! This is my second year and im pumped to get started!!- I cant wait to see everyones amazing art!
here is my profile! https://artfight.net/~im_not_sure_yet_
Happy arting everyone!!
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psychicbluebirdmiracle · 10 months
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YALL YALL YALL BARBIE IS EVERYTHING!!! I LOVE IT SO MUCH AND I CANT WAIT TO SEE IT AGAIN TOMORROW
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stinkyhyena9000 · 1 year
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one more day until i can post my tracker thingy
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IMH
details soon
oh my god??? i'm terrified already-
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opt1gan · 5 months
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:)
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weirdgrrlgerard · 24 days
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girl who will be okay <- got tickets to a lemon twigs concert in a couple weeks
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cor-lapis · 6 months
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demo of all time
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omumu · 3 months
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rip arthur morgan, you would have loved animal crossing
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nick-nellson · 3 months
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aethersea · 1 year
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honestly it was a red flag when bbc sherlock went “well obviously the word written in blood isn’t the german word for revenge, it’s clearly the beginning of the name ‘rachel’, what absolute idiot would fail to see that” when in the original novel it is, in fact, the german word for revenge, which sherlock points out gleefully to a roomful of policemen who all figure it’s the beginning of the name ‘rachel.’
and by red flag I mean it was a clear sign that the adaptation was trying to one-up the source material, instead of engaging with it with love.
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demigods-posts · 23 days
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headcanon that when estelle is old enough. percy and annabeth take her trick or treating. and estelle dresses up in the loudest colors she can find. and claims she an international super spy. and percy and annabeth accompany her while wearing tuxedos. claiming that their her bodyguards.
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its-kinda-snowy · 2 months
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Gotta be a part of your soul and of your heart all the time Nothing in the world that I do Means a thing, without you I'm just half alive in my struggle to survive without you
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