Sunshine 2020: Prompt One
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bloodydemonic
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.
My mind went to two very different places with the colour red.
The first one was the Tudor Rose.
The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the House of Tudor, which united the House of Lancaster and the House of York. The Tudor rose consists of five white inner petals, representing the House of York, and five red outer petals to represent the House of Lancaster.When Henry VII took the crown of England from Richard III in battle (1485), he brought the end of the retrospectively dubbed "Wars of the Roses" between the House of Lancaster (one monarch of which had sometimes used the badge of a red or gold rose) and the House of York (which had lately used a white-rose badge). Henry's father was Edmund Tudor, and his mother was Margaret Beaufort from the House of Lancaster; in January 1486 he married Elizabeth of York to bring all factions together. On his marriage, Henry VII adopted the Tudor rose badge conjoining the White Rose of York and the Red Rose of Lancaster.
Did I mention being a history nerd who loves War Of The Roses, Tudor England and Elizabethan England?
The second thought I had for red was it's use as a safeword in BDSM - and this little Stargate SG-" Daniel/Jack scene came to mind:
Jack's hands are tied over his head, stretch his arms and back out, just enough to force him up on to tiptoe, just enough to be uncomfortable. His ankles are tied to a spreader bar, slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. There's a rope from the centre of the bar to his balls, tied in a noose around them, keeping him in the squat; if he straightens his legs, his balls get choked.
He's been in the position for a few minutes now. Long enough for muscle fatigue to start to kick in. Long enough that he's lost track of Daniel. He's squeezing his eyes shut behind the blindfold, gritting his teeth as he sucks in air through his nose. His hands fist around the ropes overhead and he can't stop the soft whines and groan (not whimpers, he's not whimpering damnit) that escape him as his body protests the position.
His lower back is screaming for mercy, his legs are shaking and he has to straighten up, just for a second. He holds his breath as his aching balls are squeezed, but his legs breathe a sigh of relief. Just for a second before he has to bend his legs again, breathing out in a whoosh.
He tries to get his feet flat on the floor, but the strain in his shoulders makes him grunt and rise back up again - he must straighten his legs as he does so because his balls are yanked again and this time he cries out, wobbling as he loses his footing
A long low groan escapes him as he gets his feet back under him, tip-toeing with his knees bent. His whole body is trembling and he can feel the sweat between his shoulder blades. He licks his lips. He's panting with the effort of staying in position, and he hears himself whisper out his safeword "Red.", the sound wrenched from him , almost by force.
I might see if I can figure out writing that as an actual fanfic, rather than just the image in my mind although I'm not entirely sure how I would do that
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Date: 2020-07-05 12:57 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2020-07-05 02:08 pm (UTC)Oh that’s such great imagery in that little ficlet for it. I’ve not read much stargate wise but unf 🖤
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Date: 2020-07-06 01:01 pm (UTC)And thank you - it was my first attempt at writing anything fanfic wise. I want to turn it into a proper fic, and I'm working on figuring out how I do that :)
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Date: 2020-07-06 01:10 pm (UTC)Wow really? That’s even more impressive!
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Date: 2020-07-06 01:59 pm (UTC)And thank you :) I basically just described what I could see in my mind for the idea of Jack safewording, and I kind of adore all thing predicament bondage/stress positions. It just tumbled out. Making it an actual fic is proving to be... very difficult though!
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Date: 2020-07-06 09:05 pm (UTC)Well it came out so well! yeah fic writing has two modes, it flowing easy like water and theN... that
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Date: 2020-07-05 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-06 04:16 pm (UTC)And thank you, glad you enjoyed my little fic! :D
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Date: 2020-07-05 09:43 pm (UTC)Wouldn't be much of an action film but still fun.
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Date: 2020-07-06 12:11 pm (UTC)no subject
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