Flicking embers into daffodils

[sovay]

A nice thing to link to: Jeannelle M. Ferreira's "The House of Women" (2025), named after the site on Akrotiri because it is a story from when the mountain was Minoan and the walls of the city where libations were offered 𐀤𐀨𐀯𐀊 𐂕𐄽𐄇 were painted with dolphins and saffron gatherers. I have a great affection for this story with its ground pigments and grilled eel and lovers describable as sapphic a thousand years before the tenth Muse. Even in cataclysms, it is worth holding on.

Comments

[asakiyume]

Wow, some truly beautiful turns of phrase in that!

Loved "Iset was tired, childish, and in love to the ends of her eyelashes still." --to the ends of her eyelashes--and "Don’t know it from chalk on a wall."

Definitely transported me right to the place and time.

[sovay]

Definitely transported me right to the place and time.

Yay! Feel free to proliferate. It's a good place to visit, although I would only want to live there before the boom.

[asakiyume]

I shared it on Bluesky!

Will share later on Mastodon

[gwynnega]

Excellent!

[sovay]

Excellent!

Make the fresco that outlives the volcano! And outlive the volcano, too, if you can.

[selkie]

One can’t always be waiting for the boom. One has to perpetrate eel onna stick.

[sovay]

One can’t always be waiting for the boom. One has to perpetrate eel onna stick.

I'll take seconds.

*hugs*