Sunshine Challenge 2020 3: Yellow
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shadowhivePrompt 3: Yellow
Yellow is a bright color that is associated with a variety of things including: joy, enlightenment, enthusiasm, alertness, danger, clarity, summer, expression, deceit, cowardice, confidence, satisfaction, and optimism.
All I feel is celestial desire
A distant joy is dancing all around me
All I see is yellow in the spring air
How beautifully the color worked itself in —CITIZEN, “Yellow Love”
Yellow can be a polarizing color, for some invoking the bright joy of optimism ... while serving as a symbol of duplicitous gutlessness for others. When has yellow been a prominent color in your life? Were you torn in two directions, or was its meaning clear?
So in my last post for the challenge, for orange, I said that I thought the next one would be yellow and it turns out I was right.
Yellow to me is the sun, or the sand of deserts. And it’s also things like lemons or bananas. In fandom terms yellow seems to be a colour that isn’t used too often, much like orange.
On Tuesday I got a delivery from Qwertee, which if you don’t know is a site that does t-shirts of all kinds of fandom things. I frequently buy tees from there because the designs are all awesome. The tee I’d ordered was of the ghost Pokemon from the first Gen (gastly, haunter, gengar) which are purple so you might wonder why I mention it here. Well I always got two insanitee’s, which are random t-shirts. I often get them if the offer is on and it’s... well, it depends if it’s something I know or not. Anyway, one of them, which I am wearing now has yellow prominently on it because it’s Homer Simpson, dresses as Indiana Jones, going to grab a donut (think of the first scene in the Indiana Jones films).
So yeah, the Simpsons, with it’s yellow characters, was one of the first things that comes to mind.
Another prominent thing that’s yellow is Pikachu from Pokemon. Pikachu is the series mascot and the most well known of all the Pokemon as a result. As such there’s a lot of Pikachu merchandise, helped by it being the star of the anime.
In Star Wars the opening crawl is yellow. There’s not too many yellow things in it tough. There’s the pretty Naboo N-1 starfighter which I love and there’s C-3PO which is more gold then yellow but I’m still counting for this. (And theres Anakin’s Jedi Interceptor which is also yellow... well until it gets destroyed).
Zelda has the triforce though again, that’s more good than yellow. And there’s also the yellow of light arrows, a weapon frequently used against the final bosses of various games.
Animal Crossing has Isabelle who is also yellow and she’s become a popular npc even appearing in Smash Bros. For New Horizons one of the first villagers I encountered when I was island hunting for them was Benjamin. He’s a cute dog villager with a lazy personality. Lazy villagers are my perhaps my favourite type because they’re sweet and funny and love food and sleep. As such I had to have him on my island and he’s still there.
And one thing that came to mind for yellow wasn’t a yellow coloured thing at all, but the song Yellow by Coldplay.
Edit: just after making this post, I went to take the pup a walk and, since it’s been raining we put her in her lil yellow jacket. This isn’t the best pic cause she wasn’t staying still but
Yellow is a bright color that is associated with a variety of things including: joy, enlightenment, enthusiasm, alertness, danger, clarity, summer, expression, deceit, cowardice, confidence, satisfaction, and optimism.
All I feel is celestial desire
A distant joy is dancing all around me
All I see is yellow in the spring air
How beautifully the color worked itself in —CITIZEN, “Yellow Love”
Yellow can be a polarizing color, for some invoking the bright joy of optimism ... while serving as a symbol of duplicitous gutlessness for others. When has yellow been a prominent color in your life? Were you torn in two directions, or was its meaning clear?
So in my last post for the challenge, for orange, I said that I thought the next one would be yellow and it turns out I was right.
Yellow to me is the sun, or the sand of deserts. And it’s also things like lemons or bananas. In fandom terms yellow seems to be a colour that isn’t used too often, much like orange.
On Tuesday I got a delivery from Qwertee, which if you don’t know is a site that does t-shirts of all kinds of fandom things. I frequently buy tees from there because the designs are all awesome. The tee I’d ordered was of the ghost Pokemon from the first Gen (gastly, haunter, gengar) which are purple so you might wonder why I mention it here. Well I always got two insanitee’s, which are random t-shirts. I often get them if the offer is on and it’s... well, it depends if it’s something I know or not. Anyway, one of them, which I am wearing now has yellow prominently on it because it’s Homer Simpson, dresses as Indiana Jones, going to grab a donut (think of the first scene in the Indiana Jones films).
So yeah, the Simpsons, with it’s yellow characters, was one of the first things that comes to mind.
Another prominent thing that’s yellow is Pikachu from Pokemon. Pikachu is the series mascot and the most well known of all the Pokemon as a result. As such there’s a lot of Pikachu merchandise, helped by it being the star of the anime.
In Star Wars the opening crawl is yellow. There’s not too many yellow things in it tough. There’s the pretty Naboo N-1 starfighter which I love and there’s C-3PO which is more gold then yellow but I’m still counting for this. (And theres Anakin’s Jedi Interceptor which is also yellow... well until it gets destroyed).
Zelda has the triforce though again, that’s more good than yellow. And there’s also the yellow of light arrows, a weapon frequently used against the final bosses of various games.
Animal Crossing has Isabelle who is also yellow and she’s become a popular npc even appearing in Smash Bros. For New Horizons one of the first villagers I encountered when I was island hunting for them was Benjamin. He’s a cute dog villager with a lazy personality. Lazy villagers are my perhaps my favourite type because they’re sweet and funny and love food and sleep. As such I had to have him on my island and he’s still there.
And one thing that came to mind for yellow wasn’t a yellow coloured thing at all, but the song Yellow by Coldplay.
Edit: just after making this post, I went to take the pup a walk and, since it’s been raining we put her in her lil yellow jacket. This isn’t the best pic cause she wasn’t staying still but
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Date: 2020-07-09 12:56 pm (UTC)I do love Pikachu, and that N-1 Naboo starfighter - when I was younger I used to constantly have the "Incredible Cross-Sections" Star Wars books checked out from the library, and I would spend HOURS looking at all of the Naboo vehicles. They're just so pretty.
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Date: 2020-07-09 01:16 pm (UTC)Me too. Ahh the cross sections! I love those books so much! And the Naboo ships too, they are all really pretty
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Date: 2020-07-10 10:21 am (UTC)That’s a good one!
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Date: 2020-07-09 07:36 pm (UTC)I sometimes forget how good a song Yellow actually is. I feel like it got overplayed at the time and so I pretty much hated it for a good few years.
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Date: 2020-07-09 07:48 pm (UTC)Yeah it really is! It came into my head when I saw the prompt even though I’ve not heard it much
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Date: 2020-07-09 08:14 pm (UTC)It reminds me of being in school. One of my friends then was a massive Coldplay/Travis fan and this was when I was still taping songs off the radio every Sunday from the top 40. So that probably had a lot to do with it.
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Date: 2020-07-10 10:22 am (UTC)Aww yeah of course, that’d do it!
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Date: 2020-07-13 05:45 pm (UTC)Yellow is a lovely colour, it's one of my favourites but nothing springs to mind for me fannishly. I do like your answers though, and feel the need to listen to Coldplay now.
I lie! I have a yellow and it's Kobra Kid's shirt :D
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Date: 2020-07-13 07:36 pm (UTC)Aww thanks! And yeah if there’s not an obvious thing (like Pikachu) then it’s hard to find something
Yay!🖤