Sunshine Challenge #1: Iris & Pink Rose

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Iris

I do collage journalling, and I did a small spread in my art journal of Van Gogh's irises. Inspired by my friend smallhobbit's photo and ficlet of yellow irises also did a [Sherlock Holmes (ACD) gen, g-rate, 800 words] ficlet on emotion100 about Mrs. Hudson & Mrs. Turner's friendship and a bouquet of yellow irises: Uncertain.



Pink Rose

But my big thing is I want to do a Monthly Tarot prompt. So my prompt for July is: The Magician.

It can mean resourcefulness, inspired action, power, or literally, magic. It can mean going from 'I'm ready' to 'I'm actually doing this.'

I did a spread with pink roses and I invite any and everyone who might be inspired to use it as they will in whatever form.

Comments

[kingstoken]

Very pretty, I really like the rose one.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!

[olivermoss]

Beautiful!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thanks!

Wow!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I love looking at people's collages. I like the rose one best.

Will you do collages for all these prompts? I plan to do all mine with poems for Eloquent Souls.

Re: Wow!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thanks!

Probably. As long as I have materials. Oh, that's a lovely AU.

Re: Wow!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Probably. As long as I have materials. <<

Yaaaay! I look forward to seeing more. :D Do you get plant catalogs, or know anyone who does? I've used those as collage materials.

>> Oh, that's a lovely AU. <<

Thank you! It's actually an original canon. One of my readers prompted for a soulbond, and I figured it'd be popular because people do it in fanfic all the time. I routinely mine fanfic for things I can load into my original canons, so I got some lists of soulbond/soulmark tropes and picked out a set that seemed promising as the framework. We've had a lot of fun with this.

Of course, it does work for AU too, and I've had fans do that with various parts of my writing. If someone looked up the vocabulary and parameters, it might be recogizable as a specific setting. The soul trope field is pretty mix-and-match.

[smallhobbit]

Both lovely collages again. I like the meaning of moving from 'I'm ready to 'I'm actually doing this'.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! Yes, I like this book (Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow) it offers a lot of insightful interpretations of the cards in real life contexts. I don't know if I will ever become a devotee but I have more respect for it after reading that book.

[debriswoman]

Amazed at the variety of things which inspire you. I do like the tarot collage :-)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! Really I am overwhelmed with inspiration. The problem is time and discrimination to decide what is most worth pursuing.

[malinaldarose]

I have those tarot stickers! These are both pretty, but I especially love the colors in the second one.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yay! I have decided to use the tarot stickers up, doing on spread a month for the rest of the year as prompts. I was happy that the magician had roses on the design. It fit in well. Thank you very much! I hope you get time to do some collaging on the holiday.

[dr_zook]

They're both super beautiful, but I'm especially intrigued by your tarot/roses page! Looking forward to anything spurred by it. :D

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! I hope I can make something nice out of it

[alchemicink]

Both of these are really lovely!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!!

[asphaltcowgrrl]

These are both really lovely!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you very much!