diff --git a/docs/thread-safety.md b/docs/thread-safety.md
index 62ecd08..80ca0a1 100644
--- a/docs/thread-safety.md
+++ b/docs/thread-safety.md
@@ -14,11 +14,12 @@ What that covers:
   against each other and against lookups. Two threads reserving the same range
   cannot both win — exactly one gets `NULL` and the other gets
   `AKERR_STATUS_RANGE_OVERLAP` naming the winner.
-* **Per-thread state.** `IGNORE` uses `__akerr_last_ignored` as a scratch pointer
-  while it logs an error, then releases the context and clears the pointer.
-  That scratch pointer and the last-ditch context used to report
-  `akerr_release_error(NULL)` are thread-local, so concurrent calls cannot
-  overwrite each other's state.
+* **Per-thread state.** `IGNORE` copies the swallowed context into its
+  thread-local `__akerr_last_ignored` snapshot before releasing the pool slot.
+  The snapshot remains valid until that thread ignores another error, so a
+  later pool checkout cannot overwrite it. The snapshot and the last-ditch
+  context used to report `akerr_release_error(NULL)` are thread-local, so
+  concurrent calls cannot overwrite each other's state.
 * **Handing a context from one thread to another.** A context is not thread
   state — it lives in `AKERR_ARRAY_ERROR`, which is process-global — so it
   outlives the thread that raised it. The reference count is the only field the
diff --git a/include/akerror.tmpl.h b/include/akerror.tmpl.h
index ed5e5e5..5d46039 100644
--- a/include/akerror.tmpl.h
+++ b/include/akerror.tmpl.h
@@ -173,12 +173,12 @@ extern akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_ARRAY_ERROR[AKERR_MAX_ARRAY_ERROR];
 extern akerr_ErrorUnhandledErrorHandler akerr_handler_unhandled_error;
 extern akerr_ErrorLogFunction akerr_log_method;
 /*
- * IGNORE()'s per-thread scratch pointer. It is non-NULL only while IGNORE()
- * logs the swallowed error; IGNORE() releases the context and clears this
- * pointer before returning to its caller. Thread local only when
- * AKERR_THREAD_SAFE is 1.
+ * IGNORE()'s per-thread snapshot. IGNORE() copies the swallowed error here
+ * before releasing its pool context, so this remains a useful debugging aid
+ * after the pool slot is reused. The snapshot is read-only and is replaced by
+ * the next ignored error. Thread local only when AKERR_THREAD_SAFE is 1.
  */
-extern AKERR_THREAD_LOCAL akerr_ErrorContext *__akerr_last_ignored;
+static AKERR_THREAD_LOCAL akerr_ErrorContext __akerr_last_ignored;
 
 /*
  * Drop one reference, returning NULL once the last one is gone so the caller can
@@ -435,11 +435,20 @@ akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *__akerr_copy_string(char *destination, int ca
     FINISH_LOGIC(__err_context, true);
 
 #define IGNORE(__stmt)							\
-    __akerr_last_ignored = __stmt;					\
-    if ( __akerr_last_ignored != NULL ) {				\
-	LOG_ERROR_WITH_MESSAGE(__akerr_last_ignored, "** IGNORED ERROR **"); \
-	RELEASE_ERROR(__akerr_last_ignored);				\
-    }
+    do {								\
+	akerr_ErrorContext *__akerr_ignored = __stmt;				\
+	if ( __akerr_ignored != NULL ) {				\
+	    memcpy(&__akerr_last_ignored, __akerr_ignored,	\
+		   sizeof(__akerr_last_ignored));			\
+	    __akerr_last_ignored.stacktracebufptr =		\
+		(char *)&__akerr_last_ignored.stacktracebuf;		\
+	    akerr_ErrorContext *__akerr_ignored_snapshot =	\
+		&__akerr_last_ignored;					\
+	    LOG_ERROR_WITH_MESSAGE(__akerr_ignored_snapshot,	\
+				   "** IGNORED ERROR **");		\
+	    RELEASE_ERROR(__akerr_ignored);				\
+	}								\
+    } while ( 0 )
 
 #define CLEANUP					\
     }; 
diff --git a/src/error.c b/src/error.c
index 4182d50..1c49874 100644
--- a/src/error.c
+++ b/src/error.c
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@
  * It is not small (an akerr_ErrorContext is tens of kilobytes), but the storage
  * is allocated per thread only when that thread first touches the library's
  * thread-local block, and the alternative is a shared buffer that two threads
- * can be writing at once.
+ * can be writing at once. The per-thread IGNORE() snapshot lives in the public
+ * template header because the macro copies into it at the call site.
  */
 static AKERR_THREAD_LOCAL akerr_ErrorContext __akerr_last_ditch;
-AKERR_THREAD_LOCAL akerr_ErrorContext *__akerr_last_ignored;
 akerr_ErrorUnhandledErrorHandler akerr_handler_unhandled_error;
 akerr_ErrorLogFunction akerr_log_method = NULL;
 
@@ -233,7 +233,6 @@ static void akerr_init_state(void)
 	AKERR_ARRAY_ERROR[i].arrayid = i;
 	AKERR_ARRAY_ERROR[i].stacktracebufptr = (char *)&AKERR_ARRAY_ERROR[i].stacktracebuf;
     }
-    __akerr_last_ignored = NULL;
     (void)akerr_last_ditch_context();
     if ( akerr_log_method == NULL ) {
 	akerr_log_method = &akerr_default_logger;
diff --git a/tests/err_ignore.c b/tests/err_ignore.c
index 6282928..3559fae 100644
--- a/tests/err_ignore.c
+++ b/tests/err_ignore.c
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 #include "akerror.h"
 #include "err_capture.h"
+#include <string.h>
 
-/* IGNORE logs and releases an error, then lets execution continue. */
+/* IGNORE snapshots and logs an error, releases its pool slot, then continues. */
 
 akerr_ErrorContext *boom(void)
 {
@@ -18,10 +19,14 @@ int main(void)
     (void)e;
 
     /* More failures than the pool has slots must remain safe: a leaking
-     * IGNORE used to exhaust the pool and terminate the process here. */
+     * IGNORE used to exhaust the pool and terminate the process here. The
+     * copied snapshot must also survive the slot being reused on the next
+     * iteration. */
     for ( int i = 0; i < AKERR_MAX_ARRAY_ERROR + 1; i++ ) {
 	IGNORE(boom());
-	AKERR_CHECK(__akerr_last_ignored == NULL);
+	AKERR_CHECK(__akerr_last_ignored.status == AKERR_VALUE);
+	AKERR_CHECK(strcmp(__akerr_last_ignored.message,
+			  "this error is ignored on purpose") == 0);
 	AKERR_CHECK(akerr_slots_in_use() == 0);
     }
     reached_after_ignore = 1;
diff --git a/tests/err_threads_pool.c b/tests/err_threads_pool.c
index 1b80908..530fa51 100644
--- a/tests/err_threads_pool.c
+++ b/tests/err_threads_pool.c
@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ static void one_checkout(akerr_ThreadArg *arg)
 static void *pool_body(void *raw)
 {
     akerr_ThreadArg *arg = raw;
+    char expected[64];
+
+    snprintf(expected, sizeof(expected), "ignored by thread %d", arg->id);
     pthread_barrier_wait(arg->barrier);
 
     for ( int i = 0; i < ITERATIONS; i++ ) {
@@ -97,10 +100,21 @@ static void *pool_body(void *raw)
 	one_checkout(arg);
     }
 
-    /* IGNORE's scratch pointer is thread-local while logging and cleared after
+    /* IGNORE's snapshot is thread-local while logging and remains valid after
      * release. Concurrent ignored errors must all return their pool slots. */
     IGNORE(ignorable(arg));
-    AKERR_TCHECK(arg, __akerr_last_ignored == NULL);
+    AKERR_TCHECK(arg, __akerr_last_ignored.status == AKERR_IO);
+    AKERR_TCHECK(arg, strcmp(__akerr_last_ignored.message, expected) == 0);
+
+    /* Reuse a slot after IGNORE and prove that the copied snapshot did not
+     * become an alias for the newly acquired context. */
+    akerr_ErrorContext *reused = akerr_next_error();
+    AKERR_TCHECK(arg, reused != NULL);
+    if ( reused != NULL ) {
+	RELEASE_ERROR(reused);
+    }
+    AKERR_TCHECK(arg, __akerr_last_ignored.status == AKERR_IO);
+    AKERR_TCHECK(arg, strcmp(__akerr_last_ignored.message, expected) == 0);
 
     return NULL;
 }