Entries tagged with sunshine challenge: 2020

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Current Music: Nobuo Uematsu - Gurgu Volcano

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Sunshine Challenge 2020 #7: The Creative Process is often Violet

The final

sunshine_challenge prompt is on the last of the Newtonian spectrum, violet. Here's the prompt:

Violet is a cheerful color that is associated with a variety of things including: originality, self-esteem, insight, poetry, discernment, understanding, creativity, music, perception, inhibition, and health.
Creativity doesn't wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones. — Bruce Garrabrandt
Insight, understanding, and creativity are some wonderful qualities to concentrate on for our final 2020 prompt. Here we ask you: what things are you able to offer others to bring a little sunshine into their lives?

If you are able, we encourage you to share the things you could offer as gifts. Maybe you can offer to make icons, fanmixes, sketches, or drabbles? Or to leave a kind word on someone’s fanwork? Maybe you are fond of gathering photos from the web or can share favorite recipes?

Don’t take on more than you can handle, but if you are able to share one nice thing for another participant, that would be great! If taking requests is not feasible, please do answer the prompt as you are inspired to. We’d love to see what you’re able to share. ♥

Which is not what I was expecting to talk about at all today, instead having queued up thoughts about imperial purple and possibly spiraling outward from there into something that would be vaguely fannish, possibly involving Violet Beauregarde from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and all of the other children and the things that tempt them from the path, including the part where even Charlie strays, but manages to keep himself alive. But instead, I get to talk a little bit more about things that I do.

( Creativity, and how little of it I think I have, versus wher it actually might be )

So, in the spirit of offering things as gifts, I'm offering to rubber duck. (Quack.) If you've got an idea for something, and it's something you can talk about, even if I don't know the fandom or the context, I'll do my best to provide a useful suggestion for you. And who knows, it might spark a conversation and some creativity.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

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Sunshine Challenge 2020 #6: Indigo-go-Gadget-electronic-pen!

sunshine_challenge is almost through the spectrum, and we have landed upon Indigo.

Indigo is a rich color that is associated with a variety of things including: magic, experience, truth, dignity, virtue, dreams, profanity, inferiority, imagination, luxury, wisdom, spirit, destiny, elegance, intuition.
The world is full of magic things,
patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper —W.B. Yeats
What magic have you experienced in your life? Have you come to appreciate it differently as you grow older? What experiences have brought you wisdom?

Please feel free to answer in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it a memory you share or an artwork you create. If you’d like a more specific idea to kick things off: write a letter to your younger self about things you’ve learned that relate to the indigo theme (can also be a character writing to their younger self).

( Indigo and the magic that goes with it )

Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Casey Lee / Jeff Williams - Neon

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Sunshine Challenge 2020 #5: Blue, like the water

Blue is a tranquil color that is associated with a variety of things including: balance, discovery, peace, calm, openness, patience, honor, grace, trust, depression, recovery, prophecy, respect, empathy, flexibility, and water.
Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue – that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished. – Georgia O’Keeffe

Blue is often introspective and deep in its calm stillness. When you have been blue, have you been patient with yourself? Have you taken the time to explore your inner self and discover ways to progress?

Please feel free to answer in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it a memory you share or an artwork you create. If you’d like a more specific idea to kick things off: share with us some songs or albums that remind you of the color blue or its theme.

( Blue, blue, water, ice, blue, that sort of thing. )

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Kermit the Frog - It's Not Easy Being Green

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Sunshine Challenge 2020 #4: It's Not Easy, Being Green

sunshine_challenge is chromatic this year, it looks like, but that means all sorts of new possibilities have opened up for us. We're up to Green on the spectrum. Here's the possibility:

Green is a rich color that is associated with a variety of things including: awakening, growth, renewal, productivity, intelligence, exuberance, prosperity, money, luck, envy, greed, survival, nature, spring, and birth.
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. —Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Green can be the fresh growth of spring plants after a long winter. Green can be the good fortune waiting for you around each corner. What green things have you enjoyed this year?

Please feel free to answer in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it a memory you share or an artwork you create. If you’d like a more specific idea to kick things off: share with us some books or fanworks that remind you of the color green or its related themes.

( Greenbacks, green-eyed monsters, leafy green vegetables, and more )

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Casey Lee / Jeff Williams - Divide

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Sunshine Challenge 2020 #3: Yellow? YOLO? Whatever, Here We Go!

All right!

sunshine_challenge is on to prompt three, continuing down the spectrum with Yellow.

Yellow is a bright color that is associated with a variety of things including: joy, enlightenment, enthusiasm, alertness, danger, clarity, summer, expression, deceit, cowardice, confidence, satisfaction, and optimism.
All I feel is celestial desire
A distant joy is dancing all around me
All I see is yellow in the spring air
How beautifully the color worked itself in —CITIZEN, “Yellow Love”

Yellow can be a polarizing color, for some invoking the bright joy of optimism ... while serving as a symbol of duplicitous gutlessness for others. When has yellow been a prominent color in your life? Were you torn in two directions, or was its meaning clear?

Please feel free to answer in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it a memory you share or an artwork you create. If you’d like a more specific idea to kick things off: tell us a story that reminds you of the color yellow or one of its listed qualities.

( Yellow, which involves Queen Bey, the Diamond Authority, and the lead of Team JNPR )

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Hamilton - Cabinet Battle #1

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Sunshine Challenge 2020 #2: Orange you glad I'm not making a pun?

It's the

sunshine_challenge's second prompt today, continuing in the chromatic theme with orange. Here's what they have to say:

Orange is a warm color that is associated with a variety of things including: excitement, vitality, invincibility, speed, vigilance, dedication, loyalty, family, success, friendship, power, change, harvest, and warmth.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Orange can be the warm sunrise after after the darkest night. It can be the bountiful harvest at the end of your hard work. When was a time where dedication and vigilance have reaped their rewards? What future harvests excite you?

Please feel free to answer in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it a memory you share or an artwork you create. If you’d like a more specific idea to kick things off: paint or share a picture that evokes the theme of orange.

( Orange is mostly a color of nature and animals for me. )

Current Mood: introspective
Current Music: The Red Green Show - The Men's Prayer

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Sunshine Challenge 2020 #1: Red, Like Roses

The

sunshine_challenge begins today, and it looks like this year is going with a spectral theme! (It's no-pressure, things every other day, and there's no penalty for only doing the things you like or have the capacity for.)

Here's the 1 July 2020 prompt on the theme of red:

( Prompt! )

( And here's what it means to me. Includes Steven Universe spoilers )

Anyway. Red is a color I mostly feel closed off to, because of the representations that it has about diving full-bore into emotions and societal implications I don't particularly like or want. A little red is fine, because sometimes you have to tap the well, but it's not the color I would want to live in. Pink took a little getting around and a certain amount of "if someone gives me gendered grief about wearing a pink shirt with Steven Universe and Rose Quartz on it, they'll be reminded that pink is a still light red" to myself. It's fine, but it's also not a color I want to live in, mostly due to the over-commercialization and strong romantic associations with it. And because living in pink in a toxically masculine society means having to deal with the constant drumbeat of "you are not acceptable" and I have so many other colors I enthusiastically like better.

That really wasn't much fannishly at all, but in the spirit of both "more courage than brains" and "sometimes the real breadth of options appears when someone shows a different path," here it is, all the same.