The Stone Dance of the Chameleon

A collection of things that evoke the Stone Dance of the Chameleon trilogy by Ricardo Pinto: art, history, archaeology and whatever else I come across. I'm also really hoping to find fan art, meta and fanfic - submissions are open! My personal blog is cloudsinvenice.

[gothredy]

[suth-sardian]

thinking of Carnelian overlooking the sea that stormy night, not knowing that nothing would ever be the same again

happy birthday, Carnelian!

[rwpohl]

the color of pomegranates, sergei parajanov 1969

[toyastales]

Pomegranate Door of Casa Bellia in Turin, Italy

[luntfontanne]

[ancienthistoryart]

Glass pomegranate. Greek, Hellenistic period, 2nd c.BC. Phoenix Museum.

[stonedanceofthechameleon]

'Smallest reptile on earth' discovered in Madagascar

The male Brookesia nana, or nano-chameleon, was discovered on Madagascar and is the size of a seed.

It would be wrong of me to let this news go past without sharing the smollest most adorable chameleon ever. 

Apologies for how quiet the blog’s been - I’ve got various bits of fan art bookmarked to share, amongst other things, and will get to them in due time...

[danskjavlarna]

From Tulane’s 1933 yearbook.

The most intriguing vintage masks I’ve encountered are here.

Shiver in wonderment: Weblog ◆ Books ◆ Videos ◆ Music ◆ Etsy

[stonedanceofthechameleon]

The Wall of Osrakum has always been one of the most evocative aspects of the Three Lands, as far as correspondence with the real world is concerned...

[stonedanceofthechameleon]

Drink 24-carat liquid gold at Burj Al Arab Jumeirah

The Ultimate Golden Cappuccino unveiled

Sometimes I hear about something so fabulously, ridiculously decadent that it evokes the Chosen. Here is, surely, their official cappuccino.

[robvalentines]

THE MAN IN THE GOLDEN MASK : DEATH STRANDING

[ykoriana-imperatrix]

Stone Dance One-Sentence Fics, Part 2

Inspiration did strike again, so here are some more one-sentence fics.

Last time, these fics were quite Ykoriana-heavy; for this part, the highlights are a few more Fern-centric pieces and two separate eye colour-themed ones!

(Once again, cut for potential spoilers.)

Keep reading

[stonedanceofthechameleon]

And more!

[ykoriana-imperatrix]

Stone Dance One-Sentence Fanfiction

I have never been one to write fanfiction for any of the fandoms I happened to be into over the years (I left that to more talented people). But I got this idea after reading one-sentence fics (based on one-word prompts) for another fandom, and writing those actually proved to be a fun experience.

So here are ten one-sentence fics. (Fairly Ykoriana-heavy, because she’s a fascinating character and one of my favourites.) I might write more in the near future, who knows.

(Cut for potential spoilers for the series.)

Keep reading

[stonedanceofthechameleon]

Stone Dance fanfic is a rare thing - but hopefully won’t be rare forever!

[stonedanceofthechameleon]

I haven't written here for a while, and I've not had a book published for even longer. That doesn't mean that I have not been working and writing, it's really

^^ And here’s something else I really should’ve linked to the other day, but forgot to...

[stonedanceofthechameleon]

Once upon a time I said in an interview that there was only a single word that I wanted to change in the whole of the nearly seven hundred thousand words of The

Big news, Stone Dance fans! Ricardo has the rights for the books had and is producing a very substantial new edition - for one thing, it’s no longer a trilogy. This is something very few writers get the chance to do, and I for one am curious about what the new Stone Dance will look like...

[amadeo-child-of-the-renaissance]

A pomegranate is filled with rubies

As a pomegranate, cut in twain, White-seeded is her his crimson mouth.

- Oscar Wilde — La Bella Donna della Mia Mente.

Nightly she sings on yonpomegranate tree: Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.

- William Shakespeare

pictures by the-savage-nymph-art Armand by amadeo-child-of-the-renaissance Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice

[stonedanceofthechameleon]

These are stunning and I’m indebted to @the-evil-biochemist for pointing them out: from top to bottom they are Immortal Acolyte, Mountain Master and Warrior Apprentice, and they really are very Stone Dance... you can find them, and much else, at MyPlasticHeart.com.