and i feel alive (prompts post)

[harborshore]

I went to mom's choir's Christmas concert today, and cried my way through at least six of the songs because, oh, one of the choir members did a sign language interpretation of "Silent Night" and one more song, and I can't get over her face, how expressive she was and how she was the very incarnation of joy and it was so beautiful, I can't adequately convey how beautiful it was. I'd never have thought you could recreate music with your hands, but she did. And I really liked the inclusiveness, obviously.

(Side note: when I was younger, they thought my hearing problem would get worse and I would have to learn sign language. It didn't, it went away instead and I put my hearing aids away at twelve, but I still--sign language is high on my list of things I want to learn.)



I feel like writing short-short things, so I thought I'd do one of these. It's been a while. I'll do the first five or six, depending on if my Yuletide grabs me again.

Prompt: a pairing, an AU or a crossover and a first kiss. Fandoms: BTVS, Panic, The Like, Bob, Brian, Mikey Way, Veronica Mars, DCU, Vampire Diaries, etc. You lot know what I write.

Comments

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

that's beautiful! one of my best friends in my late teens/early twenties was an interpretor for the deaf and one of the reasons she was so good was just how expressive she was. with her entire body. she had also been a dancer and incorporated that entire sense of movement into it. <3

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

♥! It really is about that--it's the thing that gets to you about any performance when the artist/singer/dancer forgets themselves and just portray the message with everything they have. It's breath-taking. It was amazing. She wasn't what is thought of as conventionally beautiful by any stretch of the imagination (not that it matters, but you know what I mean) but when she started, I just--I've never seen anyone that gorgeous on stage. Her face. God.