sunshine_challenge 2020: Day 2

[quietmoon]

Prompt 2: Orange — Orange is a warm color that is associated with a variety of things including: excitement, vitality, invincibility, speed, vigilance, dedication, loyalty, family, success, friendship, power, change, harvest, and warmth. Orange can be the warm sunrise after after the darkest night. It can be the bountiful harvest at the end of your hard work. When was a time where dedication and vigilance have reaped their rewards? What future harvests excite you? Please feel free to answer in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it a memory you share or an artwork you create.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

I sat on this for a few days trying to get to the heart of what the colour orange evoked for me. My mind would immediately go to inky blue with orange shining out of it, and I'm realising now how much my internalised imagery has to do with space lmao. So yeah, orange to me is the sun. It's fire and heat and burning — not as seen from Earth, but closer up, dominating the scene. Fire definitely leans more into orange than red to me for some reason.

So orange makes me think of heat, and something sizzling at the corners until it's all burned away. It makes me think of light in darkness, and change — unwanted or wanted, good and bad, unexpected and pursued. Here's a video of the sun closer up to show what I mean. :) Sooo beautiful.

And here's a fic inspired by 'orange' that got way out of hand, this time for Soundwave and Jazz in Transformers: Prime verse. *finger guns* 

dissonance
jazz/soundwave (tfp)
13k • rated T
Soundwave smells like smoke, and Jazz knows flames don’t burn gently — flames consume.