Sunshine 2023: Prompt Three

[enemytosleep]

Check out the Master List to find links to all of the 2023 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 3: Bluebell
In the language of flowers, the bluebell is a symbol of humility, constancy, gratitude and everlasting love. It is said that if you turn a bluebell flower inside-out without tearing it, you will win the one you love, and if you wear a wreath of bluebells, you will only be able to speak the truth.


Bonus Prompt: Lavender Rose


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 novel or podfic that reminds you of the Bluebell theme.

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Comments

[blackcatofmisery]

Done. Still not sold on bluebell=grape hyacinth, but what am I, a botanist?

=^..^=~

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's a beautiful essay.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I did a collage for the lavender rose prompt: https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/401972.html

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I am loving your collages so very much. It's fun when someone picks a theme for the whole fest. :D I think there are several of us doing that this year.

[walgesang]

I took a very, ah, erotic twist on the word and wrote a triple drabble with a trans masculine Max DeBryn from Endeavour fandom! :)

Bluebell

Go you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I enjoyed this very much.

Done!

[ysabetwordsmith]

This prompt's fill is "The Rose That Grew from Concrete." Not everyone believes in love at first sight, but that's okay.

Re: Done!

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part ^_^

[seleneheart]

Here's my response: https://seleneheart.dreamwidth.org/1314040.html

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing :D

[smallhobbit]

I found an old photo and knitted a rose here

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I love 3D fills.

[silveradept]

I went meta again, I think, in ways the virtues of the bluebell could be toxic, but also in the ways that fandom keeps pushing for greater space to tell stories and accept people for who they are.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

An excellent essay!

[dr_zook]

Done! Let's go to Vienna this time, meeting Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann. :)

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part!

[kingstoken]

My post is here, where I rec a couple of vids and a playlist for the Spones pairing from Star Trek.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing :D

[shipperslist]

*sigh*

(It seems like I'm writing about politics this year. Sorry.)

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Well done!

Problems that don't get talked about usually don't get solved.

[e_k_braveman]

I found out the German word for bluebells translates to "rabbit's small bell" so I made an appropriate drawing! :3

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Very cute.

[cornerofmadness]

A picture and a story this time here.

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Well done.

[vriddy]

Used the "gratitude" keyword as an excuse to think about my favourite Boku no Hero Academia character, Hawks :) Gratitude

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part!

[alchemicink]

Somehow this ended up with me musing about crossover fics. Also includes a few fic recs!

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part!

[majorr]

I talked a little about the show Forever over here. :)

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing ^_^

[torino10154]

A little bit of gen HP for this prompt here or on AO3.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing!

[lightbird]

Late on Day 3 and I didn't have much to say, but I have the ambition to maybe one day write a story.

[enemytosleep]

Never late on these things. Thanks for taking part!

[dreamkist]

Lavender Rose

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing!

[liriaen]

Done! It's a drabble of post-canon "Barbarians", Season II, featuring an uneasy alliance. Warning: grief showing through!

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing ^_^

[binary_sunset]

A little late to the punch, but I wrote a Supernatural ficlet!

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing!

EDIT: the hyperlink seemed to be broken, but I did find the post and am adding another link HERE for ease of reference!

[renfys]

Here is Bell - https://renfys.dreamwidth.org/162162.html

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part!

[tellshannon815]

Pretty Little Liars drabble:

https://tellshannon815.dreamwidth.org/693313.html

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing!

[badfalcon]

I mis-read 'lavender rose' as 'lavender haze' and so I rambled a little about my current hyperfixation on Taylor Swift https://badfalcon.dreamwidth.org/1745041.html

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part!

[facethestrange]

2 recs (Discworld and The Hunger Games) here. :)

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing!

[neonsnailcity]

did day three!! :D came up with the idea to recc fics from long-time friends.