tuesday.

[sunfright]

BLACK AND WHITE by sunfright @ ahostessgift

wondering
whether by desaturating herself
she could avoid capture
the winged thing picks pink petals and red leaves
out of her white skirts
green branches out of her obsidian hair
and makes herself
into grey shades
that augment her figure without
dyeing it

and so she stays
alive
until even the color
of blood in her veins
freezes over







REINCARNATION by sunfright @ ahostessgift

no one will remember us
in a later time

I will be thin
air and currents
that constantly change

I will be gone

while you
will be a cautionary tale:
don’t run
into the woods

it’s where you lose
your mind at best
and your life
at worst

to that I can attest

though I suppose
if we are reborn
as warnings
of our past fates
we will at least
be born
interrelated

once more

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DIVERTISSEMENT from LA SYLPHIDE: Alexandra Lo Sardo & Ulrik Birkkjær

I remember watching this when it was first put up, on Vimeo I think, and thinking it was quite excellent. It was just around the time that Nikolaj Hübbe's black and white La Sylphide premiered, in which Lo Sardo was one of the three ballerinas cast as the Sylph with her usual partner, Alban Lendorf. I didn't get to see her in that version and I imagine she might have been very different from what she's like here, as that version takes a rather different spin on the character. Here she's a real fairy, light and springy and spritely. Very charming, expressive and sweet. Her facial expressions are a delight, attested by the 30 icons I had to make of her, half of which I'm using for my new the Sylph RP journal.

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WHAT'S GOING ON IN RL
Vacation is what is going on. K. has the next week off, so we're not doing anything whatsoever, except each writing on our own projects. My project ended up being to try and write 100 La Sylphide inspired poems in 30 days, finishing by the 16th next month. It's been a slow start, only one poem yesterday and the day before - the two you find up above, but I plan to write three today and maybe catch up that way. The prompts for today are, "song inspired", probably inspired by A Sky of Honey by Kate Bush, "the lark ascending" and "pink". I have reasonably solid ideas for all three, so I hope I can do it. First, however, I have to do some canon-rewatching (oh, the hardship! lol) and eat breakfast, so I get a good start to the day.

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WHAT'S GOING ON IN RP/FANDOM
Like I said, I made a new the Sylph journal (longitudinally) and it feels like just what I needed to truly get to play the character. I've had my Susanne Grinder one (expressivities) for ages, but never really got her kicked off the ground. One is that the Sylph isn't in and by herself a character that gains a lot traction, so you have to reach out a lot yourself and I haven't had the motivation. Another is that Susanne's interpretation of the character might not lend itself as well to being played as a character, being more of a concept or a feeling or state of mind. Lo Sardo's is less complex and more a cute, springy little person. I think that makes all the difference in the world.