It's Not Over

[enemytosleep]

As July draws to a close, it’s time to wrap up this year’s sunshine_challenge. I don’t know about you guys, but this month seemed to fly by in no time at all. Though July may be over, please keep in mind that there is no deadline for any of our prompts; feel free to answer any prompt or comment as you discover it.

If you have already answered the challenges and would like to follow any new replies that may come in, you can choose to “Track This” by clicking the little bell icon at the bottom of each prompt post. That will then send you an alert anytime someone new comments there. If you are finding the sunshine_challenge after July, please go ahead and attempt any of the challenges that appeal to you and reply to anyone there. We all came here to have fun and meet new folks on DW, so don’t be shy simply because you found us at a later date.

♥ You can find all of the 2020 challenges linked at the Master List.

♥ If you create any fanworks, feel free to add them to our AO3 Collection (and don't forget to check out what others have already added as well).

There were a LOT of thoughtful, creative entries this year already, so I would like to call this a success! If you haven’t had a chance to investigate them all, please take the time to go back and enjoy them now. The goal of the sunshine_challenge is to provide a little bit of sunshine to the community here, which we hope to do in the form of prompting discussions between community members and shining a spotlight on all the creative souls who call DW home. We hope we made your 2020 just a little bit brighter.

Stay subscribed to this page so that you don’t miss us in 2021. Be sure to follow snowflake_challenge for their January event. Take care!



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Comments

2020 ✹ Sunshine Challenge

[oldtoadwoman]

I have consolidated my various sunshine posts into two master posts, one for icons and one for "other" (which this year was mostly links to YouTube videos). Both can be found under my Sunshine Challenge tag.

I will continue to add icons throughout August, because I still have a list of ideas that I didn't get around to.

Thanks to everyone who made Sunshine so much fun this year!

Re: 2020 ✹ Sunshine Challenge

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for all you help!

[yarnofariadne]

Thank you for running the challenge! ♥

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part!

[pensnest]

It's been a very interesting challenge - thank you for the unexpected prompts, which have led me down unexpected paths. I hope you can do something like it—ie, different!—again next year.

2020 ✹ Sunshine Challenge

[oldtoadwoman]

I have no idea what we'll do next year, but I too am hoping for something new and different each time.

[enemytosleep]

Thank you for taking part! I have some ideas for next year that I'll let percolate for a while. :D

[shadowhive]

It’s an interesting challenge and I like that it’s different. I’ve done an outro thing than welcome for anyone🖤

[oldtoadwoman]

Awesome! I think one of the best aspects of these challenges is being able to get to know people you might not have talked to otherwise.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part!

[tippetariuswrites]

Thank you all for running it! This was a lot of fun and led to all kinds of great screenshots, icons, photos, artistic efforts, etc. And I discovered a few movies/TV series to check out.

✹

[oldtoadwoman]

And I discovered a few movies/TV series to check out.

That's always my favorite part of chatting with people who are excited about something I haven't heard of before.

Glad you had fun!

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part! I also really enjoyed seeing the variety in responses this year.

[mythicmistress]

Thank you for running this! It did give me a bit of a boost.

🌞

[oldtoadwoman]

Thank you for participating! It's a collective effort from everyone. And I'm glad it gave you a boost.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part!

[pauraque]

Thanks for running the challenge again this year! It was cool to see how everyone interpreted the prompts in their own way.

🌞

[oldtoadwoman]

Indeed! I loved the variety this year.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part! I loved seeing what everyone came up with.

[shipperslist]

Thank you for the challenge, it was fun!

I'm actually thinking about making one more challenge post and posting about what color reminds me of which movie or TV show I love.

🌞

[oldtoadwoman]

Oh, please do! I keep adding icons as I think of new things and I know some other people were working on projects that take longer to finish. I expect things to continue being posted for a fair bit longer.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part! I love the idea of keeping on with more colors/associations. It was definitely difficult to narrow it to seven.

[ride_4ever]

TYK to enemytosleep for running this fun and sunny challenge and to the participants for their contributions!

I still haven't posted my responses to the challenge prompts and planning to do those in August. (Glad this is a no-deadline challenge!)

🌞

[oldtoadwoman]

+1 on this sentiment. So grateful to enemytosleep for pulling this off.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for following along! I look forward to seeing what you come up with once you're able to get to them. :D

Closing July 2020

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Here for my wrap up post. Thanks to all the mods for running the challenge and smish to the participants.

Re: Closing July 2020

[oldtoadwoman]

::smish::

Re: Closing July 2020

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part!

[unavee]

Thank you for running this! The new prompts were fun, and I really enjoyed browsing the responses to them. Looking forward to next year!

[enemytosleep]

Thank you for taking part. ♥

[bemused_writer]

So wild to think July is over! Just doesn't seem possible. :0 I really enjoyed taking part in the challenge and seeing the sometimes very different interpretations of a color everyone had! Truly fascinating and a great way of learning. ^^ I had a lot of fun putting my own posts together and getting to know more of the DW community.

[enemytosleep]

Thank you for all of your help. ♥

[paulamcg]

Thank you so much for the fun challenge! It made me try new things and find new friends.

[enemytosleep]

Thank you for taking part!

🍹

[oldtoadwoman]

Ditto! I was so delighted that you introduced me to Firewhiskey just when I needed it most.

Re: 🍹

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Would that work with superannuated cinnamon sticks? I'm wondering about the options regarding jaggery sugar, though that would suggest needing a wider mouthed bottle than most. Which dried peppers?

Re: 🍹

[oldtoadwoman]

This was a reference to firewhiskeyfic actually, so I have no idea how to actually make Firewhiskey. (I've seen a recipe that just called for tabasco sauce instead of peppers... I imagine there's a lot of winging it going on.)

I was lazy and just had some rum and schnapps to get drunk during the fic challenge. I still have some cinnamon schnapps leftover and I just pretended it was "firewhiskey". (I switched over to butterscotch schnapps by the end of the night and cheerfully pretended that was "butterbeer". I'm not really about accuracy when it comes to booze. Does it taste good? Was it cheap? Does it get me drunk? Those are my only criteria.)

[greerwatson]

This has been an interesting challenge. It got me thinking about colours, and how they relate to one another—which I've done before, in a vague sort of way, but never worked out in detail. As I've had a few more ideas, I did a bit of a wrap-up post of my own.

Thanks for organizing the challenge. I look forward to seeing what you have for us next year.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part! I enjoyed your deep dives into the actual colors (their history, their categorization). Like many posts here, I learned a little something new. :D

[venusinthenight]

It's the first time I've done an outro post for this, and I opted to talk about some other colours not mentioned. Visitors welcome!

[enemytosleep]

I love that folks have continued the discussions past the seven we picked. :D

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

For those interested, I made the social posts into a continuing event via Sticky post.

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[oldtoadwoman]

Excellent!

[icecheetah]

The final chapter!
It is
finally done!
With author's notes.


Edit: And now I've been awake a while: Thank you for the challenge!

[oldtoadwoman]

Yay! Off to check it out now!