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unknownfate ([personal profile] unknownfate) wrote2014-05-31 10:25 pm

Fanfic Challenge Completed!

My 'Chapter-a-Day' project at [livejournal.com profile] 31_days is finished! I used all 31 prompts to write a chapter a day of a (wandering) little fanfic. Now I need to a title for the whole thing. Here it is if anyone is interested.



1. l'appel du vide ("the call of the void", the instinctive urge to jump from high places)

2. keien (appearing to respect someone while actually keeping them at a distance)

3. luftmensch ("one who lives on air", an impractical dreamer with no business sense)

4. jung (a feeling stronger than love that can only be proved after surviving a huge argument)

5. zhaghzhagh (the chattering of teeth due to cold or rage)

6. lagom (not too much or too little, but just right)

7. backpfeifengesicht (a face badly in need of a fist)

8. glas wen (an insincere or mocking smile)

9. saudade (longing for that which you love and which is lost)

10. kalpa (time passing on a cosmic scale)

11. gumusservi (moonlight shining on water)

12. manque (having failed to become what one might have been)

13. mamihlapinatapei (the look shared by two who desire to start something yet are reluctant to)

14. ilunga (forgive the first time, tolerate the second, never a third)

15. ya'aburnee ("may you bury me", one's hope of dying before another because it'd be too hard to live without them)

16. koi no yokan ("premonition of love," the sense two have upon meeting that they will fall in love)

17. duende (the mysterious power that a work of art has to deeply move a person)

18. schadenfreude (pleasure from someone else's pain)

19. yuputka (walking in the woods at night)

20. orenda (the invocation of the power of human will to change the world around us)

21. greng-jai (not wanting someone to do something for you because it would inconvenience them)

22. cavoli riscaldati (attempting to revive an unworkable relationship)

23. retrouvailles (the happiness of meeting again after a long time)

24. ayurnamat (no point in worrying about that which can't be changed)

25. kouyou (the changing of the colors in fall)

26. nunchi (the subtle art of listening to and gauging others, and knowing what to do in a situation)

27. goya (the as-if, transporting suspension of belief one feels from good storytelling)

28. dépaysement (the feeling from not being in one's home country)

29. guanxi (goodwill built up and used with gifts and favors)

30. sisu (determination, tenacity, resilience, perseverance, stoic toughness)

31. toska (the anguish, ache, and yearning of the soul)



Meanwhile, I was dismayed at the selection of colors available for the Lands End mocs, because I love those shoes and I was hoping to get some green or even aqua ones. All they have now though is black, tan, and navy. I didn't want any of those. However, youth sizes come in brighter colors AND were 50% off! Turns out, my usual 8.5 translates pretty nicely to a youth size 7 and now I have some cute rosey-pink mocs for half off! Such a productive day.