Sunshine 2023: Prompt Six

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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 6: Hyacinth
Hyacinths symbolize jealousy, a desire for forgiveness, joy, and sincerity, depending on the flower color. Yellow hyacinths are linked to jealousy, purple flowers mean you're seeking forgiveness, and blue hyacinths are tied to sincere care.


Bonus Prompt: Yellow 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 childhood memory or personal experience that reminds you of the Hyacinth theme.

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Comments

[smallhobbit]

Photos of hyacinths and a yellow rose here

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Pretty.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing!

[blackcatofmisery]

Done. I don't know much about hyacinths, just that they smell kinda bad.

=^..^=~

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's an interesting essay.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part :D

(Truthfully I have yet to find a flower whose scent I actually enjoy, but some are worse than others, like lavender.)

[blackcatofmisery]

Oh, dang, and I love lavender! Not as much as lilac. These months must be awful for you, though, with just about every store having plants for sale.

Done!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Read "Everything Is Temporary." Sometimes, a soulmark hints at what will be needed in the future.

Notes will appear in a separate post, just watch for the link at the bottom of the poem. I wanted to get the poem linked as soon as it was up, and will be posting the notes next.

Re: Done!

[ysabetwordsmith]

And the notes are up!

Re: Done!

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part!

[silveradept]

It's the Nimona prompt, with bonus Bruce Coville book character. I knew I'd get around to it eventually. Visitors welcome!

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That was a fascinating essay.

[enemytosleep]

OMG I need to watch this movie (what is free time???)!!!

Thanks for sharing :D

[neonsnailcity]

as someone who has loved Nimona (the graphic novel) for literal years because of its themes and characters but has yet to get around to watch the movie whoops, I very much appreciated this essay; ty for posting

[silveradept]

I look forward to hearing what you thought about the movie.

[torino10154]

Continuing my trend, I wrote another HP drabble here (or on AO3).

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Well played.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part :D

[cornerofmadness]

I went with the yellow roses this and barely that in this story here.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing!

[dr_zook]

Let's move from Vienna to Paris for this one. (And later back to Greece if you want to.) :)

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I enjoyed seeing those.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing!

[dreamkist]

Yellow Roses

[enemytosleep]

Thanks fora taking part :D

[pauraque]

I posted some photos and thoughts from the Berkeley Rose Garden.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing!

[folk_melody]

Made another rec list for the prompt! Visitors welcome!
https://folk-melody.dreamwidth.org/10649.html

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing with us :D

[lightbird]

Late for prompt 6 but still here!

[enemytosleep]

No deadlines here or else I'd be in trouble myself. xD Thanks for sharing!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I realized I had enough to do both flowers.

Hyacinth: poem and collage and fic (Sherlock Holmes ACD, explicit): https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/405137.html

and

Yellow Rose: collage and ficlet (Sherlock Holmes ACD, gen): https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/404335.html

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part :D

Blue Hyacinth

[liriaen]

Done! A bit of historial Borgia RPF, set around the time everything unravels. (Warning: descriptions of bodily harm, and the aftermath of sexual violence.)

Right here.

Re: Blue Hyacinth

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part :D

[tellshannon815]

https://tellshannon815.dreamwidth.org/694867.html A Cruel Summer fic here

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part!

[binary_sunset]

I talked about Greek mythology and made some hyacinth icons for my favourite mlm characters here

[facethestrange]

2 recs (The Witcher, Good Omens) here. :)

[badfalcon]

Did I just ramble a little about a 1990s BBC sitcom that I've never actually watched? yes, yes I did LOL

[neonsnailcity]

did a last-minute webcomic recc, for an aptly-named comic XD

[stardewdreaming]

I wrote about my jealousy of other peoples beautiful layouts of their farms in Stardew https://stardewdreaming.dreamwidth.org/5057.html

[e_k_braveman]

I wrote meta about a character I really like from the webcomic Leif & Thorn by erintptah.