The Dancing Plague of 1518

New Axis Powers: Hetalia story from me, link is in the title. Either Monday or Tuesday (probably Tuesday) afternoon Taylor told me about an event in 1518 in Strasbourg, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. A woman started to dance in the streets. She danced for four to six days before she died of either exhaustion, heat-stroke (it was July), or a heart attack. The thing was, she wasn't dancing because she wanted to, accounts of the incident say she had a horrible, pained look on her face.

By the time a month passed, over four hundred people had started dancing, for no reason, against their will. Most died. Musicians were hired to keep them going day and night, because they couldn't think of any other cure for them other than to let them dance away the urge. It's a strange event that just shows how strange the human brain can be when under a great amount of stress--there was a famine going on due to harsh winters and a dry, hot summer, and many people were homeless and without food. It's funny to think about until you realize that these people died in a horrible way.

Just an interesting bit of history that once I found out about it I couldn't resist applying it to Hetalia. I don't think I did the event justice due to the brevity of it, but alas, not everything I write is going to be spectacular, I know that. :P I tried, at least.

Duplicity Chapter 2

Link is in the title.

And I really need to get my ass into gear and start writing chapter 9 again. And change chapter 8 because I don't like what I did and have a new idea. Urrrgh motivation fail.

The Hetalia RP and all the subsequent plotbunnies are keeping my imagination busy, though, so that's probably why I haven't had so much of an urge to write RF recently. I think I need to dig my game out of my purse and start playing it again.

Oh, and hopefully a 100 themes challenge drabble might come soon, because I REALLY need to write one, I haven't in two months. XD;;

I think I might be throwing in the towel for this month's Rune Haven writing contest, though. I haven't really come up with anything... which is sad because I made up the theme (because I won ♥) and it's so SIMPLE. Warmth. I write fluff ALL THE TIME. I should be able to ace this shit. XD; Oh well. We'll see.

Duplicity Chapter 1

The first chapter of Duplicity's rewrite is up on FFN. Link in the title, just click it. I decided posting the entire content of things that I'm confident won't run the risk of being deleted from FFN on here is kind of redundant.