#florilege's stories

[florilege-studio]

The hint of a shape emerges. Kas closes their eyes, left hand on the lowest keyboard as their right pulls the switch. Upstairs, the crowd has fallen silent. Gilbert and Rae finally stop sniping at each other, and Kas feels more than hears Gilbert come up to stand behind them. “There,” they say. “Look.” They move to the next switch, and the shape in the pool, almost human now, falters. It turns liquid again, then gas, then solid, dripping light from its aethereal body. Kas presses a key, then another. The shape rises. The connection has been made. Another switch. A flicker. The quintessence collapses in a wave; occluding light briefly obscures the glass wall. It leaves streaks of luminescent liquid behind, snaking their way down to the pool as it starts to swirl once more. “Stop!” Gilbert shouts. “Turn it off!”

A teaser from my short story 'The Light Organ', which is going to be published in Aether Beyond the Binary, a queer anthology from @duckprintspress.

You can get it by backing the Kickstarter campaign for the anthology, where my short story is just one of 17 incredible contributions, all featuring characters outside of the gender binary and more. It's on right now and we need your help to reach the funding goal!

#duck print press #aether beyond the binary #the light organ #writeblr #writers on tumblr #genderqueer characters #nonbinary characters #nonbinary #queer author #queer fantasy #florilege's stories

[polyanthea]

This is an anthology of existences. Lives of a few lines or of a few pages, countless misfortunes and adventures, gathered together in a handful of words. Brief lives, chanced upon in books and documents. Exempla, but -- contrary to those that the sages gleaned in the course of their readings --, these are examples which furnish not so much lessons to contemplate as brief effects whose force fades almost at once. The term “nouvelle” would suit me enough to designate them, through the double reference that it indicates: to the rapidity of the narrative and to the reality of the events related; for such is the contraction of things said in these texts that once does not know whether the intensity which traverses them is due more to the vividness of the words or to the violence of the facts which jostle about in them. Singular lives, those which have become, through I know not what accidents, strange poems: that is what I wanted to gather together in a sort of herbarium.

-Foucault, The Life of Infamous Men

#Foucault #The Life of Infamous Men #lives #life #biography #nouvelles #anthology #florilege #herbarium #ephemerality #gathering #gleaning #vividness #violence #stories #storytelling #accident #poetry

[klara-radio]

tracklist:

Ernst Reijseger: Grandfather's Hunting Hat (Comp. Ernst Reijseger) - Walking Out - Winter & Winter 910 243-2 - [0:02:05]

Ernst Reijseger, Aaron Zapico; Daniel Zapico; Pablo Zapico: Dido's Lament (When I Am Laid in Earth III) (Comp. Henry Purcell) - Walking Out - Winter & Winter 910 243-2 - [0:03:59]

Ensemble Gilles Binchois: Quand je congneu en ma pensee (fin) (Comp. Pierre Sandrin) - Amour, Amours. Florilege Des Chansons Francaises De La Renaissance - Virgin Veritas 7243 5 45458 2 5 - [0:01:41]

François Couturier; Tarkovsky Quartet: Quant ien congneu a ma pensee (Comp. Anja Lechner; François Couturier; Anoniem 15de eeuw) - Nuit Blanche - ECM 2524 - [0:05:05]

Blindman Saxophone Quartet: Adieu Loyse (Comp. Dominique Phinot) - Multiple Voice (Early Music Revisited) - Emarcy 472 596-2 - [0:01:19]

Eric Schaefer; Kazutoki Umezu; Naoko Kikuchi; John Eckhardt : Santoka's Walk (Comp. Eric Schaefer) - Kyoto Mon Amour - ACT 98352 - [0:04:22]

Julia Holter: How Long (Comp. Julia Holter) - In the Same Room - Domino Documents DOMDOC001CD - [0:04:02]

Lode Vercampt: Blue Notebook Deel 1 (Comp. George De Decker) - Blue Notebook - eigen opname George De Decker - [0:05:33]

Lode Vercampt: Blue Notebook Deel 3 (Comp. George De Decker) - Blue Notebook - eigen opname George De Decker - [0:07:00]

Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel: Shahla's Missing Page (Comp. Amanda Palmer; Edward Ka-Spel) - I Can Spin a Rainbow - 8ft. Records 8FT035CD - [0:05:08]

Jessica Moss: Entire Populations (pt 4) (Comp. Jessica Moss) - Pools of Light - Constellation CST 124CD - [0:04:35]

Ignatz: People In This Town (Comp. Bram Devens) - The Drain - Kraak 090 - [0:02:51]

The Caretaker: A Losing Battle Is Raging (Comp. Jim Kirby) - Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage Two - History Always Favours The Winners HAFTW026COL - [0:04:38]

Jonas Meersmans: Coyotes (Comp. Jonas Meersmans) - Monnift I - Eigen beheer Jonas Meersmans - [0:06:03]

Nick Drake: Things Behind the Sun (Comp. Nick Drake) - Pink Moon - Island Records 0602537134335 - [0:03:55]

Giovanna Pessi & Susanna Wallumrød: Which Will (Comp. Nick Drake) - If Grief Could Wait - ECM 2226 - [0:04:01]

Martyn Bates: Know (Comp. Nick Drake) - Brittle Days: A Tribute to Nick Drake - Imaginary Records ILLCD 026 - [0:02:07]

Norma Winstone, Glauco Venier, Klaus Gesing: Time of No Reply (Comp. Nick Drake) - Dance Without Answer - ECM 2333 - [0:03:58]

Juana Molina : Lentisimo Halo (Comp. Juana Molina) - Halo - Crammed Discs Cram 275 - [0:05:24]

Pauline Oliveros & Jesse Stewart: Caress (Comp. Jesse Stewart; Pauline Oliveros) - The Dunrobin Session - Nuun Pulsions 02072012 - [0:03:37]

Quatuor Ebene feat. Xavier Tribolet & Richard Hery: It was nice living here (Comp. Adrien Boisseau) - Eternal Stories - Erato 9029583956 - [0:08:48]

Penguin Cafe: Now Nothing (Rock Music) (Comp. Simon Jeffes) - The Imperfect Sea - Erased Tapes Records ERATP097CD - [0:04:38]

Treio Fratres: The Model (Comp. Kraftwerk) - AcLab - Alba Records ABCD 140 - [0:02:49]

Alice Coltrane: Keshava Murahara (Comp. Alice Coltrane) - World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda - Luaka Bop LB 87CD - [0:09:45]

Bearthoven: The Ringing World (Comp. Adrian Knight) - Trios - Cantaloupe CA 21129 - [0:09:18]

[florilege-studio]

Intro

Hi! I'm Flore Picard (any pronouns), I'm a French author and artist and linguist.

Under other names I'm a fanfiction devourer and writer but here I'm going to talk about original writing and art, linguistics, and anything else that catches my fancy outside of fandom. Expect dragons, tall ships, queerness, disability representation and octopuses, probably.

I'm finally opening a blog in my name in honour of my first original short story coming out in an anthology published by @duckprintspress, Aether Beyond the Binary! The story is titled The Light Organ and it's about a magical storytelling organ, a nonbinary musician and a small broken family finding each other and themselves. The kickstarter campaign is open, please go check it out!

I'm also @florilegeart on Instagram, Bluesky and Mastodon where I mostly post my art.

Blog navigation (subject to change):

I don't have many tags yet but my own writing will be tagged #florilege's stories and my art #florilege's art, and other original posts #florilege's things.

Images in original posts will be described in alt text. I don't have the spoons to describe images in other people's posts more than occasionally, but I try to prioritize reblogging posts with described images.

There may be the occasional post in French or in both French and English (which will start with something like 'fr/en').

TWs/CWs will be tagged as best as I can, but feel free to send me an ask or a DM if I forget something. I usually tag in this format: #cw [thing]

#beautiful writing and #beautiful art are my tags for other people's writing and art.

This post will be pinned and edited as needed, especially the links.

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