diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index f27b895..c501683 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10)
 # 1.0.0 replaced the consumer-sized __AKERR_ERROR_NAMES array with private
 # storage. 2.0.0 makes the library thread safe, which is a second ABI break in
-# the same places: __akerr_last_ignored became thread-local storage, and
+# the same places: akerr_last_ignored became thread-local storage, and
 # ENSURE_ERROR_READY no longer takes the pool reference that akerr_next_error()
 # now takes for it. Consumer code compiled against a 1.x header would
 # double-count every reference. Hence the major bump and the SOVERSION, so a
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9af9e16..60d8748 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ the exit code was the status truncated to a byte, and every consumer status
 starts at 256. Use `akerr_exit()` instead of `exit()` — see
 [docs/exit-status.md](docs/exit-status.md). No ABI break.
 
-2.0.0 makes the library thread safe. That is an ABI break — `__akerr_last_ignored`
+2.0.0 makes the library thread safe. That is an ABI break — `akerr_last_ignored`
 became thread-local storage and the pool now takes its own reference — so
 everything built against a 1.x header must be rebuilt. 1.0.0 replaced the
 consumer-sized status-name array with a private, ownership-enforced registry.
diff --git a/UPGRADING.md b/UPGRADING.md
index ec9a877..7c858ff 100644
--- a/UPGRADING.md
+++ b/UPGRADING.md
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ accident.
 
 What moved at the ABI:
 
-* `__akerr_last_ignored` is thread-local storage. An ignored error is a fact
+* `akerr_last_ignored` is thread-local storage. An ignored error is a fact
   about the thread that ignored it, and one shared slot had two threads
   overwriting each other's. The `IGNORE` macro expands at *your* call site, so
   your objects reference the symbol under whichever storage model your header
diff --git a/docs/thread-safety.md b/docs/thread-safety.md
index 76ccc36..2769839 100644
--- a/docs/thread-safety.md
+++ b/docs/thread-safety.md
@@ -14,9 +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.** The context behind `IGNORE` (`__akerr_last_ignored`) and
-  the last-ditch context used to report `akerr_release_error(NULL)` are
-  thread-local, so one thread's ignored error is never another's.
+* **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 ede8fcc..e495a65 100644
--- a/include/akerror.tmpl.h
+++ b/include/akerror.tmpl.h
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  * scripts/generrno.sh stamps this value in at build time from the AKERR_THREADS
  * build option, the same way it stamps AKERR_LAST_ERRNO_VALUE. It is generated
  * rather than defined by the consumer on purpose: whether the library
- * serializes its global state and whether __akerr_last_ignored is a
+ * serializes its global state and whether akerr_last_ignored is a
  * thread-local are the same decision, and a consumer that disagreed with the
  * library about it would link against a differently shaped symbol.
  *
@@ -173,11 +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;
 /*
- * The error IGNORE() last swallowed, per thread: an ignored error is a fact
- * about the thread that ignored it, and one shared slot would have two threads
- * overwriting each other's. Thread local only when AKERR_THREAD_SAFE is 1.
+ * IGNORE()'s public 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
@@ -434,10 +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 **"); \
-    }
+    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 66b3e66..e73177c 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;
 
@@ -236,7 +236,6 @@ 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/MUTATION.md b/tests/MUTATION.md
index 5362d74..a5cfcd7 100644
--- a/tests/MUTATION.md
+++ b/tests/MUTATION.md
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ The remaining survivors are dominated by:
 
 * **Equivalent mutants** in `akerr_init`: deleting the `memset`/`NULL` setup of
   file-scope statics (`AKERR_ARRAY_ERROR`, `__akerr_last_ditch`,
-  `__akerr_last_ignored`) changes nothing, because C already zero-initializes
+  `akerr_last_ignored`) changes nothing, because C already zero-initializes
   objects with static storage duration. `int oldid = 0;` → `1` is likewise
   dead: it is overwritten before use, and so is clearing `akerr_initializing`
   at the end of initialization — nothing reads that flag once the once-routine
diff --git a/tests/err_ignore.c b/tests/err_ignore.c
index f52ca55..0c86629 100644
--- a/tests/err_ignore.c
+++ b/tests/err_ignore.c
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 #include "akerror.h"
 #include "err_capture.h"
+#include <string.h>
 
-/*
- * IGNORE deliberately swallows an error: it records the context in
- * __akerr_last_ignored, logs it with an "IGNORED ERROR" marker, and lets
- * execution continue.
- */
+/* IGNORE snapshots and logs an error, releases its pool slot, then continues. */
 
 akerr_ErrorContext *boom(void)
 {
@@ -21,11 +18,19 @@ int main(void)
     PREPARE_ERROR(e);
     (void)e;
 
-    IGNORE(boom());
+    /* More failures than the pool has slots must remain safe: a leaking
+     * 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.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;
 
-    AKERR_CHECK(__akerr_last_ignored != NULL);
-    AKERR_CHECK(__akerr_last_ignored->status == AKERR_VALUE);
     AKERR_CHECK(reached_after_ignore == 1);
     AKERR_CHECK_CONTAINS("IGNORED ERROR");
     AKERR_CHECK_CONTAINS("this error is ignored on purpose");
diff --git a/tests/err_threads_pool.c b/tests/err_threads_pool.c
index 54a33e4..8f38f07 100644
--- a/tests/err_threads_pool.c
+++ b/tests/err_threads_pool.c
@@ -100,17 +100,21 @@ static void *pool_body(void *raw)
 	one_checkout(arg);
     }
 
-    /* An ignored error is a fact about the thread that ignored it: each thread
-     * must see its own, not the last one any thread swallowed. */
+    /* 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);
-    if ( __akerr_last_ignored != NULL ) {
-	AKERR_TCHECK(arg, __akerr_last_ignored->status == AKERR_IO);
-	AKERR_TCHECK(arg, strcmp(__akerr_last_ignored->message, expected) == 0);
+    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);
     }
-    /* IGNORE keeps the reference by design; hand it back so the pool is empty
-     * at the end of the test. */
-    RELEASE_ERROR(__akerr_last_ignored);
+    AKERR_TCHECK(arg, akerr_last_ignored.status == AKERR_IO);
+    AKERR_TCHECK(arg, strcmp(akerr_last_ignored.message, expected) == 0);
 
     return NULL;
 }