Ah! Finally something to calm down my mind as I read posts over 1K+ words! Anyways, to the post now:

Firstly, the prompt: Now I knew right off the bat that the @jayna contest was happening and the prompt word “stitches” was going to be utilized. What shocks me not is the delicate care to use the prompt as a vehicle to tell another story, which so happens to coincide with stiching (and sowing). Crazy that I find two @curie upvoted posts (which congrats on this one) within the same week just about embroidery of some kind. Anywho, stitching seemed like a natural medium all throughout. To make sense of the flashbacks, to make sense of the passions (emotions) stirring, to conveniently use clothes as a medium of statements for readers to figure the story and Aunt and Mom being used to embroidery (to which the tradition spreads to the daughter) are great repeats of the prompt word.

Unto the story: as-was probably figured by the paragraph above, I think this story very sweet despite the depressive flashbacks. The daughter not only a sufferer of loosing an important familal role model (implying the same for the Father, or the Sign of the Father if there was one) but also trauma unresolved with the daughter-mlther relationship. With no way to resolve it, this black stain turned trauma has to now be exorcized by the Auntie while making sure she crumbles the Daughter. And here, it was done very nicely and without prejudice (especially with no internalized misogyny) that respects the character’s existence. Which allows the much needed love to go into the Daughter to her new Mother figure. Can’t emphasize enough how much I love the family aspect being exercised without the Paternal Signifier (which often is used toxically and not carringly. Which for good Name-of-the-Father usages can be seen in, say, the Last of Us or Life is Strange Before the Storm).

A quick blurb on the filosofía (philosophy): I like the core message here, female adult figure helping a female child figure with the emotional rebuilding and what not. Nothing gendered nor prejudicially misogynist, love it. So keep on writing stories like these, as these are quite well crafted I dare say on the internet itself. (Quick disclaimer that I care only for literature from Eastern European and Global Periphery [Non-Western] side of things, with execptions to Western works predating the 1980s and barely any past that. So don’t get that shocked I said the such above.)

Unto the foto (photo) itself: probably the cootiest-patootiest thing about the post. c: <<<<3333