Sunshine Challenge Day 1

[kingstoken]

Today is the first day of the sunshine_challenge, and supposedly all the prompts this year are colours, which is a little disappointing, like I understand them wanting to to change it up, but colour prompts are my least favourite, because they are so vague. Anyways, I am still going to give it a try, but it may just turn out to be strange stuff that comes off the top of my head.



First of all I'm going to share this sunset portrait of Castiel, that I created for the Fun and Sunshine Challenge! over at spn_bigpretzel, he's more yellow than red, but he does have some light reds mixed in there. (Click on the image of you want to see the full size)



I saw oldtoadwoman posted a song that Red reminded them of, so I thought I'd do the same, and what could be more red than the Devil, so I give you "The Devil Wears A Suit And Tie" by Colter Wall

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I love this song. It also sort of reminds me of Crowley from Supernatural, even though he isn't technically the devil, but he is devilish. If 300bpm runs again this year I'm definitely giving this song as a prompt.

And, lastly I'd thought I'd rec something, red is often associated with autumn, so I'm going to rec

Title: A Flower In Autumn
Author: enigmaticagentscully
Fandom: The 100
Rating: T
Relationships: Abby Griffin/Marcus Kane, background Clarke Griffin/Bellamy Blake
Summary: A.K.A. The Melodramatic Kabby Regency Romance AU You Never Knew You Needed Until Now (There is a longer summary at A03, but I think the first line sums it up)

This fic is a little famous in Kabby circles. It's a Regency AU, if you like romance novels this might be your jam. It has been awhile since I read it, but I remember the author was able to make Abby and Kane both sound pretty in character even though they had been plunked into a different genre and time period, which is a feat within the itself. There are also some delightful cameos from early seasons characters like Vera Kane and Diana Sydney.

Okay, that is it for this post, now that I know what the themes are going to be I will try and be better prepared for next time.

Comments

[gwenhwyfar1984]

Yeah, all the prompts his year are colors. I specifically asked and was told. It's super disappointing and dumb. I don't know why they changed it. Too vague, like you said. They should have warned people.

Great art!

I'm going to check out that fic!

[kingstoken]

Colour prompts are not my jam, I'm going to give this a shot, but we'll see if I end up completing all the days or not, but it is supposed to be a low pressure challenge, so I'm not super worried if I don't.

Thank you for the compliment of my art.

I hope you like the fic, it has been a long time since I read it, but I do remember enjoying it at the time, so lets hope the rec holds up.

[nrgburst]

That is an awesome portrait! Wow! Well done, you!

[kingstoken]

Thank you!

[seleneheart]

The art is amazing, good job!

[kingstoken]

Thank you so much!

2020 ✹ Sunshine Challenge

[oldtoadwoman]

Love the art!

Re: 2020 ✹ Sunshine Challenge

[kingstoken]

Thank you!

[silveradept]

The portrait looks good. It captures the sunset colors really well.

[kingstoken]

Thank you!

[badfalcon]

I struggled with the vagueness of the prompt as well - but having seen how a few other people have interpreted it, I'm hoping my brain might co-operate more with the next one.

I'm falling a little in love with this Devil Wears A Suit & Tie song!

[kingstoken]

Yeah, now that I've seen the first day in action hopefully it won't be as much of challenge on future days. I guess I was more surprised than anything, because there had been no hint that they were going such a different direction with the prompts this year.

"The Devil Wears A Suit And Tie" deserves all the love it gets, I heard it for the first time a few weeks ago, an I've been trying to get everyone to listen to it since.

[paulamcg]

Oh but this is an excellent response to the vague prompt. Thank you for sharing. Any one of these three things would have made a good post! And the portrait is fabulous!

[kingstoken]

Thank you

[lightbird]

That is beautiful artwork.

[kingstoken]

Thank you!

[quietmoon]

I love the song rec, thank you!

In truth, I'm glad of this year's prompts. After participating in both this challenge last year and the snowflake_challenge for a few years running, I worry I just start to repeat myself eventually lol. It's fun for me to see how people interpret the colour prompts.

[kingstoken]

You're welcome.

And its not that I don't like them trying different prompts, it's that they're colour prompts, an old nemesis of mine.

[quietmoon]

Oh, I see! I wish you good luck with tackling the rest. ^_^

[enemytosleep]

I love the portrait!

[kingstoken]

Thank you!

[shipperslist]

Oh, that picture is lovely!

[kingstoken]

Thank you!

[bloodydemonic]

I love that Castiel portrait - and that song is definitely very Crowley!

[kingstoken]

Thank you for the compliment on my art. And the song, the devil being a salesman in suit, that screams Crowley to me, I glad to hear other people think so to.