Sunshine Challenge Day 2

[kingstoken]

Orange makes me think of Autumn, pumpkins, crisp breeze, dancing leaves.



Firstly, a little self promotion, I moderate a subbreddit, r/autumnlove, which is basically just me and a few other discerning individuals sharing pictures and gifs of autumn scenery, and other autumn related things, that we find on the interwebs. It is pretty inactive right now, but we usually start going again in August, when everyone is starting to crave the feeling of fall.

Also, for the last two years I have moderated the Jopper Autumn Challenge, Jopper, if you don't know, is the smush name for the pairing of Joyce Byers/Jim Hopper from Stranger Things. You can find the A03 collection here, which has a few of my works, but more importantly, great fics by other really talented Jopper fans, or you can visit the tumblr blog where you can also find lovely graphics and gif sets, I made the above moodboard for the challenge. Not everything is autumn themed, but the majority of it is. So, if you like Jopper and Stranger Things maybe check it out.

My song rec for today is "Saturn" by Sleeping At Last. I don't know how to describe it, but it's beautiful and melodic, and I think, gives the impression of someone looking back at their life.

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I discovered this song from a Kabby (Abby/Kane, The 100) fan vid, it introduced me to this song and the artist. I may have recced this vid before, sorry if I have, but I think it is one of the best Kabby vids ever. It has clips from seasons 1-4, so no season 6 unpleasantness.

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Comments

[enemytosleep]

Oh the reddit sounds like such a fun idea. Thanks for sharing the autumn flavored groups!

[kingstoken]

You're welcome

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I love autumn, too. That's a wonderful moodboard.

[kingstoken]

Thank you. Autumn is my favourite time of year.

[isabellerecs]

Lovely moodboard, autumn is my favorite season. :)

[kingstoken]

Thank you, and it's my favourite too.

[bloodydemonic]

Autumn makes me so happy too - I'm definitely going to check out that Reddit :)

[kingstoken]

Thanks, I hope you enjoy it

[lightbird]

Thanks for the subreddit rec. I love following blogs, threads, etc. where people just spam it all with pics of autumn. It's a beautiful season.

Lovely mood board.

[kingstoken]

Autumn's my favourite season, and I created the subreddit just because I wanted to have a place, for me and others, to do just what you described. And, thank for the compliment on the moodboard.

[gwenhwyfar1984]

Thanks for the song rec!

[kingstoken]

You're welcome

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[oldtoadwoman]

The autumn pics are gorgeous!

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[kingstoken]

Thank you

[olivermoss]

Autumn is lovely! I adore the coziness and the fallen leaves.

[kingstoken]

It's my favourite season!

[stellar_dust]

That reddit looks lovely and makes me wish I understood reddit!

I love that whole album by Sleeping at Last, too -- though I found it via Star Wars fandom, haha.

[kingstoken]

Reddit is kind of like a large forum, with all sorts of smaller sub-forums, except everything is open to the public, if that makes any sense.

I'm glad to find other Sleeping at Last fans. It might be surprising to some how much music I have discovered via fandom.

[yarnofariadne]

Sleeping At Last's Atlas: Space is one of my favourite albums of all time ♥

[kingstoken]

I think it is their best work, but I also really like their song Two

[pauraque]

I grew up in San Francisco so I used to not really understand what the big deal about autumn was. Then I moved to Vermont, and now I get it. :) I should post some pics on that subreddit this fall!

[kingstoken]

I know, explaining how special autumn is to people who live some where they don't have four seasons id difficult.

We loved to get more pictures on the subreddit