Sunshine 2021: Prompt Three

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Check out the Master List to find links to all of the 2021 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!

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Prompt 3: Hecate
Otherworldly and mysterious, Hecate is best known for her association with magic, ghosts, and the night. If you hear the baying of hounds in the dark, she's likely near as they were ever at her side. She is traditionally depicted as bearing two torches to light her way or as a triple goddess of the crossroads. In mythology she is known for helping Demeter search for her daughter Persephone, a theme that ties her even more to the Underworld and spirits she is associated with. Today she is often considered a representative of those liminal places where reality bends and all manner of events may unfold...



Bonus Prompt: Sphinx of Thebes


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 Hecate theme.

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Comments

[enemytosleep]

I shared some fanart and video game footage HERE for anyone interested.

[kate]

Oooh, cool! Thanks for the video game stuff - I'll share that with my wife!

icons for anyone who wants them

[eye_of_toad]

all prompts here

Re: icons for anyone who wants them

[autobotscoutriella]

Oooh, these are delightful! I especially like the colors in the first and fourth ones.

[sodium_amytal]

Self-recced some supernatural/spoopy-themed fic of mine here

[kate]

Thanks for the recs, I love that sort of thing and am in need of good stories! Thank you for participating!

[olivermoss]

Once again, thematic pics by me! Magic and ghosts are a bit more in a my wheelhouse than the last prompt :)

[kate]

Oooh, those are all so cool and beautiful! Thanks for such a cool take on the prompt!

[lightbird]

Done. A couple of self-recs (fandoms: AtLA/Mulan, Hey Arnold!) and some other recs (fandoms: Station Eleven/The Pacific (TV), original).

[autobotscoutriella]

Wonderful recs, I look forward to reading those tomorrow! Thanks for joining us!

[emmatheslayer]

2 more https://emmatheslayer.livejournal.com/688778.html art I colored on coloring apps

[autobotscoutriella]

How pretty! Thanks for joining us!

[shipperslist]

This was fun!

[tellshannon815]

Thanks for sharing your recs!

[kingstoken]

You can see my post here where I rec lots of things related to MCU's Loki.

[autobotscoutriella]

That's a great rec list! Thanks for joining us!

[shadowhive]

Here’s my one, along with prompt 2

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part!

[yarnofariadne]

I write ghost stories for a living so I am all about this one!

[enemytosleep]

Ooo excited to see this one!

[walgesang]

Ghosts and magic reminded me of the annual drabble fest HP Halloween! I posted links to drabbles I had written for the fest from 2020 to 2013.

[kate]

Oh, those were all so lovely! Thanks for those lovely drabbles, and thanks for joining us!

[sonofgodzilla]

I adore Hecate, I adore the solemness of what she represents, but alas, I have long been in service of another another goddess of the crossroads.

[kate]

Oh, that was lovely, thanks for that, and thank you for the parallel take on the prompt.

[pauraque]

I shared an old ficlet about a ghostly haunting and some thoughts about the ghosts of myself I see in my old stories.

[kate]

That was a lovely story, and your obvservations were also so interesting and true - weirdly I got a comment on a fic from 2005 today and I read it thinking... who even wrote this? It can't have been me. Thanks for such lovely thoughts on the prompt!

[smallhobbit]

A bit stuck so I wrote a poem

[kate]

Wow, that was a great poem, especially if you're feeling a bit stuck. Thanks for joining us for this prompt!

[silveradept]

Infinite Potential in Infinite Possibilities is ready for visitors, although I don't know how much it will resonate with you if your experiences are different than mine.

[enemytosleep]

I always enjoy your posts, so I look forward to this one as well!

I'm adding a link to your post HERE as I had trouble clicking through and DW won't let you edit your comment now that I've replied to you. xD

[cornerofmadness]

I have an offering to Hecate right here.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing with us!

[greerwatson]

Posted here. It's a story I wrote for Yuletide back in 2016, "The Father, the Son, and the Unholy Ghost". It's actually about vampires; but it does seem thematically appropriate to Hecate.

[enemytosleep]

Vampires tend to share some of the same haunts, looking forward to reading about it!

[used_songs]

Another foray into the Aztec pantheon here.

[enemytosleep]

*dashes excitedly to the post*

[lee_bella]

Talked a bit about my favourite RPG franchise, Megami Tensei.

[enemytosleep]

It's a great fit for this prompt; thanks for sharing!

[seleneheart]

I talk about liminal spaces, 'gothic', fairies, and Shakespeare here: https://seleneheart.dreamwidth.org/1273539.html

[autobotscoutriella]

Wonderful! Thanks for joining us!

[dr_zook]

Alright, so here I'm rambling about French Symbolism (a bit) in order to eventually land in front of Gustave Moreau's Victorious Sphinx. :D

[kate]

Oooh, so cool, and so pretty! Thanks for that, and for joining us!

[liriaen]

There's a drabble right here in which Lucifer isn't quite sure yet (where do old god/desses go, rly?), Jeshua is a bit deaf, and Hecate never heard the shot... And there's also a second one, in which a young Cesare Borgia wants to know, about that space in-between.

[kate]

Those are fantastic, thank you for joining us!

[bleodswean]

My flash fic response to the prompt -

https://bleodswean.dreamwidth.org/371002.html

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking part!

[peasina]

I love this prompt :-D

I've recorded a podfic about two wonderfully magical ladies, Arabella Strange and Lady Pole from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. I posted about it on my journal here.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for taking up the challenge!

[pensnest]

https://pensnest.dreamwidth.org/706933.html

Icons of Rome.

[enemytosleep]

Thanks for sharing with us :D