Sunshine 2022: Prompt Two

[enemytosleep]

Check out the Master List to find links to all of the 2022 challenge posts. Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time or go back and do any prompts you've missed!

If you are inspired to answer with art, vid, or other media, we’d love for you to share what you created. If you create any fanworks, feel free to add them to our AO3 Collection.



Prompt 2: Rose Quartz
Soft pink in color, Rose Quartz has been a popular stone since as far back as 800-600 BCE. Today, as in the past, it’s most associated with love, compassion, and healing in all its forms both towards oneself and others. In the Greek myths it’s mentioned at least twice: once where Eros is said to have brought it to man to inspire love, and again in the story of Aphrodite and Adonis where it came to represent love triumphant. It’s a stone of beauty and sentiment and will likely be favored for years to come.




Bonus Prompt: Topaz


Please feel free to respond in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it thoughts that you share or a work that you create. If you’d like a more specific idea to kick things off: share a photograph or artwork that reminds you of the Rose Quartz theme.

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Comments

[enemytosleep]

Recc'ing a few DW comms, talking about Jester Lavorre, and sharing a few fan animations over here for those interested.

[kate]

Oh, those links were hilarious, thanks for those. What a great post, with great DW comms, too! :D

[lightbird]

Done! Featuring a Ty Lee fic rec and a Helga Pataki fic self-rec. :)

[tellshannon815]

Thanks for sharing!

[smallhobbit]

Again, going off at a tangent, I talk about the women in my family here

[sonofgodzilla]

I feel like I should apologise for being so het up (still!) about '90s magical girl anime, but, ah, here's some more Sailor Moon stuff that won't make sense without canon context. cw: discussion of consent and duress.

[blackcatofmisery]

I guess I'm educating again, also sharing a moodboard and my own feelings about the color pink.

=^..^=~

[suchasnack]

Rose Quartz took my gender and ran with it, aka oh gender why are thou?

[kingstoken]

You can find my post here, where I rec one OFMD vid, and several fics recs from OFMD, SPN, Good Omens, Star Trek TOS and Hawkeye

[silveradept]

Love and Absence, talking about the difficulties of being kind and loving to yourself, and also about Rose Quartz, the Steven Universe character. Includes the major spoiler for Steven Universe, for those who haven't seen it yet and would like to experience it without knowing.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing with us :D

Done!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today is my Poetry Fishbowl on "Unusual Sensory Experiences," so I invite folks to drop by and give me prompts. Thus I have used today's Sunshine prompts to create the two free poems:

Rose Quartz: "Rose-Colored Sunglasses"

Topaz: "All Else Was Glass"

[enemytosleep]

You never need to apologize for 90's anime here. xD Thanks for sharing!

EDIT: The link seems to be broken, but I did find the post easily here.

[enemytosleep]

Thank you for all of the info!

[enemytosleep]

Haha I have such a tenuous grasp on my own gender so I cannot help find yours. xD Thanks for sharing!

[sonofgodzilla]

AHH! Thank you! I'm just... it's a running theme lately how bad I am at getting HTML right. Thank you, thank you!

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing! Those are some big fandoms so folks should be glad to see these :D

[shipperslist]

Keeping with the theme, done!

[tellshannon815]

Thanks for participating!

Re: Done!

[tellshannon815]

Thanks for sharing!

[tellshannon815]

Thanks for participating!

[tellshannon815]

Slightly later than I meant to be due to distraction of the "half the government resigning at once" kind, but here's a missing scene from Heartstopper:

https://tellshannon815.dreamwidth.org/664179.html

[kate]

Oh, that is a lovely little snippet! Thanks for sharing! (And sorry about the government shenanigans!)

[sodium_amytal]

Shared some of my fics involving female characters and some of my art with pink hues here

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing (and with the cutest pink icon, too)!