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Title: only breath and despair
Fandom: Thelma (2017)
Rating: PG
Length: 100 words
Content notes: Spoilers. Also references to abuse of a child and religion-based homophobia.

Summary: Not all gods are kind.


There is something lives under the ice. Thelma has known it all her life: not just the fish that swim even in winter, but something deeper. It moves, far below, apart from everything that breathes. The ice is a wall between worlds.

When Trond burns her hand, she forgets -- welcomes the sky god, the son of the sun, air spirit made flesh. She sings in church and prays on her knees, head bowed. "Take this from me," she begs, the words only breath and despair.

It is the thing in the water that answers her, and takes the world away.

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froodle: (Default)
[personal profile] froodle wrote:
Dec. 16th, 2017 11:29 am (UTC)
I have no idea what this fandom is and I'm Googling it right now because that drabble was lovely. So, thank you for a gorgeous but of writing and potentially something new and interesting g to watch/read/listen to.
teaotter: a girl in a pink coat that reads "anti social social club" (Default)
[personal profile] teaotter wrote:
Dec. 16th, 2017 07:13 pm (UTC)
Thelma is a movie by Joachim Trier that just came out recently and I'm totally obsessed with it.

(One note: It's Norwegian, so it's a slow film by American standards, but I didn't mind.)

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