Sunshine Challenge: Yellow

Two things for yellow as I try to catch up before tomorrow's new prompt.

1. A retelling of the Venus and Adonis myth in Venus and Adonis stanza with a lemon as Venus and a pineapple as Adonis.





Venus and Adonis by okapi

fine pineapple in studded armour waits
its tall, proud, sharp-tipped headdress, handsomeness
unrivaled yet inconsequential. states
that it would rather hunt; this fathomless
desire occults all others. hunt and hunt
and nothing else shall stave or sate or shunt

bright lemon glows with sunny loveliness,
bestows refreshing tang on one and all
with joyful zest, by Nature doubly blessed
with skin and rind which shines beyond the pall
but spying pineapple, thoughts turn to love
and reason is readily disposed of

no mild or bold flirtation tempts the will
of hunter for the chase. the lemon tries
mad magic, but fine pineapple yearns still
for battle, deaf to plaintive yellow sighs
the desperate lemon turned tart by scorned ore
portends a true love’s death by knife-tooth boar

the lemon finds the pineapple plate-stripped
and cut into rings, distraught, the lemon weeps
and weeps and finds that sour tears have slipped
upon pineapple’s exposed flesh which sleeps
in ever-sleep preserved by lemon grief,
a wet devotion gilds in golden leaf

and thus the lemon knows its goddess pow’r
sets out to test its tears on other fruit
it weeps on open flesh at any hour
and finds that others follow true love’s suit
at last, blind love is given shortest shrift
and makes real boon of soured fate, a gift

2. A Sherlock Holmes (ACD) fic called "Through the Yellow Haze of Memory.

Through the Yellow Haze of Memory (2050 words) by okapi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, John Watson/Original Male Character(s)
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Alternate Universe - Pre-Canon, Confessions, Domestic, Turkish Bath, Oral Sex, Exhibitionism, Voyeurism, Reminiscing, POV Sherlock Holmes, Fluff and Smut
Summary:

Holmes confesses that Barts was not the first time he saw Watson.

Sunshine Challenge: Green

A couple of things on green.

I am participating in the Mystery Stitch A-long on Shitpost Sampler. So every 3 days in July, they reveal a 10 x 10 part of a cross stitch that is 40 x 30. We're on #6. The main two colors are shades of green, and the accent color is yellow. I'm putting my progress in the cut in case anyone wants to try it and doesn't want to be spoiled. I don't know what it's going to say, so if you can figure it out--don't tell me!

( Mystery Cross stitch Days 1-6 )

And a Good Omens poem. In the Lockdown Good Omens youtube video, Crowley says he's going to go back to sleep and set his alarm for July because surely the pandemic will be over by then. Since it's July, it's time to #WaketheSnake.

Angel & Demon Lockdown Poem by okapi

an angel waits through plague and days for a sleeping demon who is incommunicado
said demon rests as still and as deadly as the fabled cask of Amontillado
while angel pours through dusty first editions, literary El Dorado
and sips cocoa while humming showtunes, songs from My Fair Lady to The Mikado
and keeping an eye on the gas ring, where simmers a spicy beef carbonado
but days and nights go by, demon-less existence becomes gentle bastinado
at last, as angel contemplates a career as ethereal desperado,
the serpent stirs, stretches, yawns, declares, ‘Oh, damn, it’s all still One Big Avocado!”