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sunshine_challenge 2019: Prompts 7
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quietmoonPrompt 7: Be Your Own Light — we invite everyone to reflect and share what things you love about yourself.
I thought pretty hard about what I wanted to write for this prompt. There were a lot of answers that were eventually vetoed, and I even wrote out a whole answer that I later deleted. It just didn't feel right.
I've got one now, though, that does: I love how enthusiastic I am. I'm a warm person with a lot of passion and love to give, and when I make up my mind to persevere at something, I put 100% of myself into it. I can be very stubborn and fiery and intense, but I think sometimes those are great things to be: to be determined, and passionate, and driven by powerful emotions and beliefs.
Actually, this is something I struggle with, too. A lot of the time, it feels like a terrible thing, something that I ought to hide, and I find myself considering ways to tone down my language, to come across as more distant or detached. I don't like the idea that people find me too intense or too... well, anything. The idea that being yourself never means being too much is something I'm still trying to internalise. And I know I can — hell, often do — come across as far too cold, because humans are complex and contain multitudes and innate irrationality. But when I sit down and think about whether I'd like to live my life as someone who held back for fear of pain or ridicule, or someone who lived too much — too loudly and fiercely — it's clear to me which side of that coin I want to land on.
Life is exciting. Life is full of things that are worthy of pouring oneself into, and of being passionate about. Being excited about things is nothing to be ashamed of — being a fan is something to be proud of. And if my way of living means putting all my heart into whatever I'm doing, then I think that's pretty neat.
(hehe look at that i came full circle 100% by accident, /slides on shades/ nice)
I thought pretty hard about what I wanted to write for this prompt. There were a lot of answers that were eventually vetoed, and I even wrote out a whole answer that I later deleted. It just didn't feel right.
I've got one now, though, that does: I love how enthusiastic I am. I'm a warm person with a lot of passion and love to give, and when I make up my mind to persevere at something, I put 100% of myself into it. I can be very stubborn and fiery and intense, but I think sometimes those are great things to be: to be determined, and passionate, and driven by powerful emotions and beliefs.
Actually, this is something I struggle with, too. A lot of the time, it feels like a terrible thing, something that I ought to hide, and I find myself considering ways to tone down my language, to come across as more distant or detached. I don't like the idea that people find me too intense or too... well, anything. The idea that being yourself never means being too much is something I'm still trying to internalise. And I know I can — hell, often do — come across as far too cold, because humans are complex and contain multitudes and innate irrationality. But when I sit down and think about whether I'd like to live my life as someone who held back for fear of pain or ridicule, or someone who lived too much — too loudly and fiercely — it's clear to me which side of that coin I want to land on.
Life is exciting. Life is full of things that are worthy of pouring oneself into, and of being passionate about. Being excited about things is nothing to be ashamed of — being a fan is something to be proud of. And if my way of living means putting all my heart into whatever I'm doing, then I think that's pretty neat.
(hehe look at that i came full circle 100% by accident, /slides on shades/ nice)
If you are able to share your post in some way, we also invite you to ask your friend list to comment and add things they love about you as well. You may well be surprised by the results. I would like to add to this — please consider adding something you love or are trying to appreciate more about yourself. ♥ I know this isn't easy for a lot of people though, so no pressure. I would just love to hear. (ღゝ◡╹)ノ♡ ｡ﾟ･
Sunshine ☼ Challenge
Date: 2020-05-14 04:54 am (UTC)It's been a year and I still remain the author of the only Hulk/Korg fic on AO3.
Re: Sunshine ☼ Challenge
Date: 2020-05-15 04:38 pm (UTC)I hate scrolling on my own blog and seeing this entry. I get so embarrassed asldkjfh
Re: Sunshine ☼ Challenge
Date: 2020-05-15 07:14 pm (UTC)I'm very fond of the Guardians of the Galaxy but Thor: Ragnarok (which introduced Korg) is possibly my favorite MCU film. Director Taika Waititi did the voice of Korg with his New Zealand accent and it was priceless.
here's Korg's first scene (just a one-minute clip)
https://youtu.be/Kb1ztV93dsE
This is literally all the backstory you need for Korg and Miek. Also, just having Korg's voice in your head would be helpful for reading his dialog. It would still help to watch Ragnarok to have the backstory on Hulk and Scrapper 142 and also I just recommend the movie wholeheartedly anyway.
Anyway, this was written before Infinity War and it completely contradicts some major points of that movie so it's canon-divergent immediately after Ragnarok hence you don't need to know anything about the rest of the MCU. I'm very fuzzy on some details myself. My POV character is Bruce Banner who is very confused so I could cheerfully gloss over details from movies I haven't seen. (Bruce frowned. He needed to get more details from Thor about that. He didn't want to know the details, but he needed to know. Except now Thor wasn't here.) I suspect you can read the whole story from the POV of a dude who is very confused about everything that's been happening and it won't matter if you don't know more than he does.
Re: Sunshine ☼ Challenge
Date: 2020-05-22 11:15 am (UTC)I love that you wrote 14k for this super rare pair, it warms my heart. I definitely want to read this soon. ^_^ As soon as I watch Ragnarok, I will!
Re: Sunshine ☼ Challenge
Date: 2020-05-22 10:50 pm (UTC)