sunshine_challenge | Sunshine 2022: Prompt Seven

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 7: Sunshine Jasper
A stone with a banded appearance, Sunshine Jasper is often used to keep negative energies at bay and keep your outlook positive so you can realize your dreams. It's also called Bumblebee Jasper and is often a warm sunshine yellow. Interestingly, it's an agate and not a jasper as the name implies. It is a new stone, first discovered in an Indonesian volcano in the 1990's. As it has not yet been found anywhere else in the world, the consensus is that this rare stone helps to attempt the impossible.

Bonus Prompt: Opal

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 letter written to your younger self about things you’ve learned that relate to the Sunshine Jasper theme.

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Once you’ve finished, leave a comment to this post saying you’ve done it! Include a link to your pages if you feel comfortable doing so to let everyone know you are "Ready for visitors!" Most importantly, please check through the comments and go visit new journals, comment on their shiny posts, and maybe make a new friend or two. ♥

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enemytosleep

Recc'ing a few DW comms, talking about Nott the Brave, and sharing a few fanvids over here for those interested.

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kate

Ah,

intoabar, it's so great, it's such an awesome idea and it's been running for so long... man. That will always be one of my favorite communities.

Also - lol those vids today were hilarious, thanks for those! :D

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lightbird

Done! I tie the theme to AtLA, of course, and rec a missing-scene(s) fic. :)

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kate

Oooh, that fic sounds like a perfect embodiment of the theme - thank you! :D

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ysabetwordsmith

Sunshine Jasper: "Attempt the Impossible"
Opal: "Opalescent Reflections"

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tellshannon815

Thanks for sharing these!

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sonofgodzilla

I can't believe we're already on the last prompt. Par for the course, I present more Sailor Moon flavoured nonsense.

Please come and talk to me during the first weekend of August when I get excited about International Sailor Moon Day. It's real! I promise! I didn't just make it up!

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tellshannon815

Thanks for sharing!

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extrapenguin

The final installment of my Empress Acina/Darth Nox fic! I'll clean it up and post it to AO3 tomorrow. Huge thanks for running this challenge!

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tellshannon815

Thanks for participating!

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kingstoken

My post where I share a bunch of communities and challenges I enjoy, plus one last happy music rec.

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tellshannon815

Thanks for sharing these!

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silveradept

There's a lot of unhealthy relationships depicted in fiction. Thankfully, in this post, they're all in the past. Steven Universe and RWBY are the primary fandoms here.

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bemused_writer

Thanks for sharing!

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greerwatson

I've selected some yellow and orange graphics for Sunshine Jasper.

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bemused_writer

Thanks for sharing!

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stonepicnicking_okapi

What a very cool stone. It is very exciting to learn that new stones are still being discovered. Big thank you to the mods. I enjoyed this month very much. I did a moodboard and a BBC Johnlock drabble (gen): https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/309816.html

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bemused_writer

I'm glad you had a good time with us!

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apachefirecat

Thank you for this wonderful, adventurous, thought-provoking, and inspiring romp!!

X-Men, Shogo + Jubilee, His Mother's Jacket, 1,605 words, PG-13/T

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enemytosleep

I'm glad folks are enjoying it! When we were picking stones, this seemed like such a lovely one to end on. ♥

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smallhobbit

I wrote a ficlet: here

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enemytosleep

Thanks for sharing with us!

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seleneheart

I posted some paragraphs from a never-to-be-finished fic: https://seleneheart.dreamwidth.org/1297745.html

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enemytosleep

Thanks for sharing with us :D

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greerwatson

I have quite specific plans for a post to represent Opal, yet still have graphics in other colours that I haven't done yet. Fortunately there are some semiprecious stones that weren't included in the Sunshine Challenge prompts. So here's a little bonus post for Turquoise.

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enemytosleep

Oh I know folks will like this set!

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yarnofariadne

Mine's here!

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enemytosleep

Thanks for sharing :D

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dr_zook

Somehow I managed to forge a bridge between Polish symbolism and The Witcher fanworks here, so I may have to lie down now for a bit, haha.

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autobotscoutriella

Oooh, that sounds like a very cool bridge - I can't wait to check it out!

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greerwatson

Here's another bonus set of graphics: Smoky Quartz and Onyx, this time.

I think there'll be one more bonus set; and then I'll finish off with Opal.

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kate

Lovely! I really like the ones with contrast at the bottom. Thanks for sharing!

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ex_flameandsong751

Final chapter of The Boys Of Summer, entitled "Opal". [Sexually explicit M/M content.]

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kate

Ooh, spicy! Thanks for sharing!

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autobotscoutriella

I wrote about Bumblebee, the Transformers character, because with that prompt, who else could I talk about?

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kate

Aw yay! I only tangentially know Transformers, but I have always had a soft spot for Bumblebee. Thanks for sharing!

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blackcatofmisery

Of all the stones used for main prompts, this one stumped me the most. I generalized.

=^..^=~

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kate

Sorry about the stumpage! I had a similar experience - I only saw it as sunshine jasper once I think, it tended to go by bumblebee jasper the rest of the times, but I really liked the sunshine part of the theme! And I agree about colors having broad, weird varieties of meaning - I've always seemed to interpret them personally just a little off the common interpretation. Thanks for researching and posting!

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greerwatson

One last bonus set of graphics before I do Opal. I had to google to find a semiprecious stone with the right colour range but ... here's Rubellite.

It's the red or pink form of tourmaline, and can come in a variety of shades including a purply pink.

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kate

Oooh another purple-y set, that's lovely! I really like it!

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pauraque

To make up for the prompts I missed, I posted a review of the gem-themed game The Legend of Kyrandia!

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kate

That's so cool looking - thanks for the review! I don't have much time for video games anymore so it is extremely helpful to get reviews to figure out what to play. Thanks for sharing!

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tellshannon815

Attempting the impossible could only be Walter Bishop:

https://tellshannon815.dreamwidth.org/665666.html

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enemytosleep

Thank you for all of your hard work modding AND creating prompt fills!

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shipperslist

Better late than never, right?

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autobotscoutriella

Not too late at all! Thanks for joining us!

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greerwatson

Here is the first part of my response to the Opal prompt. I discovered I had so many graphics to talk about that it's going to take more than one post to do it!