shadowhive

Prompt 1: Red
Red is a strong color that is associated with a variety of things including: courage, power, glory, love, passion, inner strength, romance, sensuality, defiance, tenacity, violence, life, pleasure, fire, and revolution.

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams
Into a common light of common hours
Until old age brings the red flare again. —William Butler Yeats

For some, the color red can signify personal power and tenacity. When something flares red for you, what does that mean? When was the last time you felt the power of a red concept or emotion?

Please feel free to answer in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it a memory you share or an artwork you create. If you’d like a more specific idea to kick things off: try writing a poem or a drabble that encapsulates the red theme.

So the sunshine challenge has now begun with this. What comes to mind when I think of red?

Well the obvious thing that comes to mind first is blood, from vampires, injuries or killers. Then there’s fandom specific stuff. The red of Star trek uniforms. Star Wars has a lot of red, from lightsabers to the praetorian guards from The Last Jedi (fighting against a red backdrop). There’s the red of fire pokemon. There’s the red of Prince Sidon from Breath Of The Wild. And the red of Mario. And the shock of red that is Party Poison’s hair.

To me personally red signifies anger and I’ve certainly had my flare ups of that recently. Mostly at how the world currently is or at leaders being... well useless. But also at people being needlessly vicious or cruel or just downright stupid.

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Yesterday proved to be a lazy day, as I was achy still from Monday’s late food shop. So instead of reading like I planned I dozed which is annoying. Mum decided to do veggie sushi which was nice but damn it fills me up.

On the night I went on Elder Scrolls Online some and I’m almost done with the southern Elsweyr main quest. The big bad dragon has been defeated (though poor Tharn) and it seems there’s just a wrap up quest to do.

Then I decided to watch The Vast Of Night cause I heard good things on twitter but... I just didn’t vibe with it. It was just a bit blah for the most part and took awhile to get going. But the spaceship at the end looked impressive, I’ll give it that.

Today’s plan? Listen to The Magnus archives, try to catch more new bugs on animal crossing and hopefully read and write some later.