The Gestalt Prince's Obscure Sorrows Collection
Altschmerz
Characters/Pairings: Severus Snape, Lily Evans
Rating/Warnings: K/G
Summary: Weariness with the same old issues that you've always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties you've been gnawing on for years, with nothing interesting left to think about, nothing left to do but spit them out and wander off to the backyard, ready to dig up some fresher pain you might have buried long ago.
Ambedo
Characters/Pairings: Severus Snape, Lily Evans
Ratings/Warnings: K/G
Summary: A kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details – raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee – briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake.
Anchorage
Characters/Pairings: Severus Snape, Harry Potter
Ratings/Warnings: K/G
Summary: The desire to hold on to time as it passes, like trying to keep your grip on a rock in the middle of a river, feeling the weight of the current against your chest while your elders float on downstream, calling over the roar of the rapids, "Just let go – it's okay – let go."
