weight, decay
May. 10th, 2022 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asakiyumeAcross the sky, wispy white vertebrae from some decomposing heavenly beast.
photo by Flickr user Jen Scheer; cirrus vertebratus is an actual cloud type, apparently
"Sky creatures never stink when they decay," granddad says, "because they're half made of light. Down here we're made of heavy stuff and we stink when we decay. But the sky creatures have no sweet fragrances or intoxicating aromas, either. All the tantalizing scents we love come from the fact that earthly flesh is rich and heavy.
photo by Flickr user Jen Scheer; cirrus vertebratus is an actual cloud type, apparently
"Sky creatures never stink when they decay," granddad says, "because they're half made of light. Down here we're made of heavy stuff and we stink when we decay. But the sky creatures have no sweet fragrances or intoxicating aromas, either. All the tantalizing scents we love come from the fact that earthly flesh is rich and heavy.
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Date: 2022-05-10 07:42 pm (UTC)Okay self, okay. Point taken. Stand down.
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Date: 2022-05-10 07:56 pm (UTC)That's a beautiful spine of light.
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Date: 2022-05-10 09:44 pm (UTC)As you can see from my self-comment up above, I quickly realized the problem with my idea, but still, I feel like there's something to solidity and weight being the source of fragrance/odor/scent
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Date: 2022-05-11 04:41 am (UTC)have a plumeria-bloom icon in lieu of jasmine
Date: 2022-05-11 04:52 am (UTC)I love the reflection prompted by the decay of masses and the emanation of fragrances. The first thing that popped in my mind was jasmine. Forgive the puns, but it is a weighty thing to consider the heady(heavy?) scent of jasmine on a breeze, such a powerful odor pumped out through such small flowers...when they are alive. And in their decay, that scent lessens rapidly and a mustiness takes over until the flower is just a papery husk with but a nuanceless ghost of a fragrance that can hang on for decades as the Mahorais lei on my mother-in-law's wall attests.
Re: have a plumeria-bloom icon in lieu of jasmine
Date: 2022-05-11 06:11 pm (UTC)I love jasmine. Last year I bought a plant, and I have been enjoying exactly this progression of the flowers. Also: how the flowers go from white to red! They wither red!
Your writing on them: *chef's kiss* perfect
(And I love your plumeria too)
Doorways to other worlds
Date: 2022-05-11 07:45 pm (UTC)https://thewoodbetween.tumblr.com/post/102775906716/kati-immonen
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Date: 2022-05-11 09:41 pm (UTC)Re: Doorways to other worlds
Date: 2022-05-12 04:43 am (UTC)I want the chain of secret, watery access to hidden worlds to be long between us, not to peter into dim memory of, "what was that thing I used to say with my friend about reflections and worlds?" ;)
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Date: 2022-05-12 11:58 am (UTC)Re: Doorways to other worlds
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Date: 2022-05-11 09:03 pm (UTC)“vertebrae from some decomposing heavenly beast”
Fish bones!! Heavenly fish bones!!
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