stonepicnicking_okapi

I am content today because I posted 2 fics for the Spook Me Ficathon, a BTS zombie Omegaverse fusion with the Korean zombie film Train to Busan and a Lovecraft Cthulhu/historical one about the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from the Flannan Isle, Scotland in 1900. So I've made my word count goal for the month and I'm back on track to meet my year-end goal. A nice feeling.

Catch a Flying Memory and Call it God (2490 words) by okapi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Cthulhu Mythos - H. P. Lovecraft
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Robert Muirhead, James Ducat, Thomas Marshall, William Ross, Donald MacArthur
Additional Tags: Cthulhu Mythos, Flannan Isles, Lighthouses, Scotland, Missing Persons, Alternate Universe - Cthulhu Mythos Fusion, R'lyeh (Cthulhu Mythos)
Summary:

The mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from the Flannan Isles in 1900 as part of the Lovecraft Cthulhu mythos.

For the 2022 Spook Me Ficathon.

Zombie Rut (10447 words) by okapi
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Min Yoongi | Suga/Park Jimin
Characters: Min Yoongi | Suga, Park Jimin (BTS), Kim Namjoon | RM, Kim Seokjin | Jin, Original Characters, Kim Taehyung | V, Jeon Jungkook, Jung Hoseok | J-Hope
Additional Tags: Spook Me Multi-Fandom Halloween Ficathon, Community: spook_me, Halloween, Alternate Universe - Zombies, Zombies, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Rutting, Alpha Park Jimin (BTS), Omega Min Yoongi | Suga, Train Sex, Knotting, POV Min Yoongi | Suga
Summary:

Alpha Jimin goes into unexpected rut, freaks out, and takes the train to Busan.

Zombie AU. Yoomin Omegaverse. Alpha!Jimin/Omega!Yoongi. Rut. Train sex.

For the 2022 Spook Me Halloween Ficathon. A sequel to Haunted Heat, but no need to have read that first.

I am a fan of Andrew Wyeth's paintings. I bought a kitchen refrigerator magnet of "Wind from the Sea" when I was down in DC. Here's one I always associate with Halloween: "Perpetual Care."

Perhaps I am influenced by all the jigsaw puzzles I do, but these reminded me of jigsaw puzzles. They were on opposite walls of the same room and I sat on a sofa in between and fantasized for an unnatural amount of time about being a Bohemian artist commissioned to paint a five-panel work of a section of a romantic city (Paris) for a wealthy client (like the second one). I understand a lot of people have soap operas/dramas going on in their heads like I do.

Monet - Jerusalem Artichoke Flowers



Vuillard - Place Vintimille

Last weekend, I got to spend 7 whole hours by myself at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Because the boys were with their father, I didn't even have to make sure my phone was on Just In Case. I can't tell you how nice that was.

I am going to share some of my favourite works this week. I went to the East (modern) and West (older) wings and the Sculpture Garden and I also crossed to the Hirshorn (modern).

My most favourite was The Little Dancer by Degas. It is in a room with a lot of other sculptures by Degas and Rodin. I went back there at the end just to look at it again (and the other works. I like Rodin a lot, too). In an alternate universe I would like to be a sculptor. I like looking and seeing the artist's fingers and hands pressed into the materials (or evidence of their hands, similarly I like looking at paintings very close and seeing the brush strokes).

I ordered some art stickers from a shop on Etsy for collage journalling. These are all small (about 5-7 cm square). The freebies are Artemisia Gentileschi (thank you dr_zook!).

A little bit about her:

Artemisia Lomi or Artemisia Gentileschi (US: /ˌdʒɛntiˈlɛski/,[1][2] Italian: [arteˈmiːzja dʒentiˈleski]; 8 July 1593 – c. 1656) was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. She was producing professional work by the age of fifteen.[3] In an era when women had few opportunities to pursue artistic training or work as professional artists, Gentileschi was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence and she had an international clientele.

The ones I ordered are under the cut: Kandinsky; Alexandre Alexeieff; Rothko; Bosch; and Julie de Graag.



( My order )

In reading Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Curry, I discovered Joseph Cornell, an artist who made shadowboxes out of found objects. I find his work interesting. It appeals to the miniaturist as well as the poet. Wikipedia includes this quote about him. And links to haptic poetry from his page, which I like.

Somewhere in the city of New York there are four or five still-unknown objects that belong together. Once together they'll make a work of art. That's Cornell's premise, his metaphysics, and his religion...

If I ever go back to museums, I shall seek him out.