Comment Fic...Day 12

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Comment fic is the next long challenge and it will go from July 16th to Aug 31st.

Comment fic is all about writing a short fic that will fit in an LJ comment field, so that's about 700-800 words, max. You can write less, but aim for over 200 words if you can. You can do one every day, or for however many days you want.

Link your creations to the daily post where you found the prompt - either by posting the entire fic in a comment, or just by a link (also in a comment) back to wherever you've posted it.

Thems the rules! Everything else is up to you! I will give you a prompt every day, and you can do with it as you will, so long as it fits into a comment. Any genre, any characters, any fandom or none!

Today's prompt: Listening to Music

There will be another prompt tomorrow!

Word of the Day 07/27/22 Pathos

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Pathos (noun)
pathos [ pey-thos, -thohs, -thaws ]

noun
1. the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathetic and kindly sorrow or compassion.
2. pity.
3. Obsolete. suffering.

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH PATHOS
bathos

WORDS RELATED TO PATHOS
emotion, passion, poignancy, desolation, feeling, plaintiveness, sentiment, pitiableness, pitifulness

See synonyms for pathos on Thesaurus.com

ORIGIN: First recorded in 1570–80; from Greek páthos “suffering, sensation, experience,” akin to páschein “to suffer, feel, be affected”; cf. pathetic

HOW TO USE PATHOS IN A SENTENCE
Hall is another highlight, endowing an underwritten woman-scorned character with some real pathos.
NINE PERFECT STRANGERS IS A MASTER CLASS FROM SOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S FINEST ACTORS— BUT NOT MUCH MORE|JUDY BERMAN|AUGUST 17, 2021|TIME

They all moved from plot point to plot point and from pathos to comedy with few punches or punchlines landing.
ATYPICAL FELL SHORT AS BOTH AUTISTIC REPRESENTATION AND ENTERTAINMENT. AT LEAST IT WAS ECLIPSED DURING ITS OWN TIME|SARAH KURCHAK|JULY 16, 2021|TIME

In the celebrated mad scene concluding the first act, for example, once she is stricken she is totally enveloped by the pathos of her situation.
CARLA FRACCI, A REIGNING STAR OF 20TH-CENTURY BALLET, DIES AT 84|EMILY LANGER|MAY 30, 2021|WASHINGTON POST

The shock value is high, but so is the level of pathos imbued in Krauze’s text.
36 NEW BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ THIS SUMMER|CADY LANG|MAY 25, 2021|TIME

Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.

A to Z Challenge

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Here's the rules:
1) 100 words or 1 graphic for each letter of the alphabet.

It's that easy.
And perk – It’s the alphabet you know what’s coming if you want to get ahead of it. There is no need for your work to all connect. There is no need for them to be in order.

Like the Numbers challenge, if you are stuck or would like a random word to use, poke me and I will provide.


Now everyone give me a

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