Sunshine challenge 2020 prompt 7: Violet

[shadowhive]

Prompt 7: Violet
Violet is a cheerful color that is associated with a variety of things including: originality, self-esteem, insight, poetry, discernment, understanding, creativity, music, perception, inhibition, and health.

Creativity doesn't wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones. — Bruce Garrabrandt

Insight, understanding, and creativity are some wonderful qualities to concentrate on for our final 2020 prompt. Here we ask you: what things are you able to offer others to bring a little sunshine into their lives?

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So we’re already at the last prompt, it seems to have gone quick but then again time has no meaning this year.

Purple is perhaps my favourite colour and yet trying to think of fandom things where it’s the focus feels tricky. The main thing that comes to mind is Welcome To Night Vale, where the main iconography is purple. But other than that...

I’m sure there’s something obvious that will come to mind later though.

So I’ll switch to the other parts of the prompt instead.

My creative outlet is usually writing but this year... it’s really sapped my creativity. When I do write it’s mostly band fic or, from last year, The Umbrella Academy. I usually write fairly short things, I don’t have the focus to write the epics that some do and I think my mind would wander if I tried.

As a kid I wrote poetry but I’ve not for years. I like arting sometimes but I have no skill for it so I mostly do simple things.

As for insight... I’m not sure I have insight in anything, not really.

For the last question... I dunno. I try and be kind. I mostly just post nonsense ( or pics of my pets or stuff from my games).

Comments

[autobotscoutriella]

time has no meaning this year

I feel this SO HARD. I looked at my calendar yesterday and went "there's no way that can be right, who was flipping through the months?"

Sometimes trying to be kind is all we can do, and I think in some ways that's a huge contribution to fandom all on its own. Kindness isn't easy, but it makes fandom that much more pleasant to be involved in.

[shadowhive]

I’m fairly sure we’ve been cursed or trapped in a time loop or something. It’s so... ugh

Yeah that’s so true. Especially lately because fandom has got so toxic (and not just in one fandom but it feels like every one has been... invested). Honestly there’s times when fandoms have stopped being fun. I’ve essentially abandoned one a few weeks ago due to it. I don’t get have people can be so horrible

[smallhobbit]

I wonder whether it's a bi-product of the covid response. Many people are more stressed and may see that being horrible to someone you don't know and will never meet is a way to relieve some of the pent-up negative feelings. It's counter-productive, but I suspect we're all losing some of our balance and being less logical. It doesn't have to be that way, but sometimes being positive and supportive can feel like it requires a lot of effort.

[shadowhive]

Maybe it is, I dunno. A lot seem to be teenagers. (Just yesterday a load of them harassed an artist on twitter and just... ugh)

That’s true I guess. I think it’s definitely bringing out the worst in people

[autobotscoutriella]

Time loop feels terrifyingly accurate. I keep looking at the calendar and just thinking "HOW".

I suspect fandom always had serious issues that I just didn't see, but the toxicity seems to have really come to the surface lately. I've had a lot of luck carving out my own little positive fandom space (through a combination of picking fairly chill/older fandoms and liberal use of block functions), but every now and then I'll poke my head into something new and immediately go NOPE. People can be very mean about fictional characters and it doesn't make sense to me.

[shadowhive]

Yeah same here

That’s true, though it has definitely gotten worse with the toxic elements more vocal. Yeah I’ve found that I use the block button a lot especially lately. But good for you finding chill ones! I wish I had chill ones too