kat_lair | Carpe Diem: Monday

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And so it begins! Welcome all to the first day of 'Carpe Diem: A Week of Creativity and Squee'! As a brief reminder: Each day you will find two prompts/tasks here, based loosely on the poem Monday's Child. One encourages you to create something new, another to squee about something in existence. Aim is to fulfil one or both within 24h of prompt posting but there is no official deadline, no need to sign-up, and you can pick, leave, or interpret the prompts as you please without any penalty or policing. The main aim is to get creating and squeeing and to have fun! Please feel free to a) leave a comment in this post with a link to your fills, and b) pimp the challenge far and wide. Somewhat longer explanation can be found in the Introduction Post, where you can also ask any further questions you have.

And now, on with the first set of prompts/tasks, based on the first line of the poem.

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Monday's child is fair of face

Create: Produce something that focuses on appearance (of a person, a thing, a place etc). Focus on describing and depicting the detail, or the overall impression. It doesn't have to be about beauty or attractiveness in any traditional sense, but whatever it is that is compelling, unique, impressive about the person, thing, place etc. Whilst this prompt is very visual, you can also focus on a non visual aspect of how someone/something appears, the first impression, the feeling, the atmosphere, the striking feature.

Squee: Share something beautiful, compelling, unique, impressive that everyone should see/experience. It could be a picspam of that drop dead gorgeous person, it could be your favourite painting, or a place you think everyone should have on their bucket list to visit before they die or something else entirely.

Have fun!

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smallhobbit

I went with compelling, unique and impressive: Monday

kat_lair

Oh hurray, thank you for participating!

howsmyenglish

You know. I don't know why I was sure this would be about fandom (and I'm not that at all), but now I see the prompts - both of them - I actually feel that is like to participate. Only - we got sad news today, and I absolutely don't feel like having fun. But I will remember this and, maybe, participate much later. Have fun!

Ah no, all prompts can be answered with things that are fandom related or not, so e.g. fic or art can be fanfic/fanart or original. Or you can just squee about general experiences and things :)

I'm sorry to hear about your sad news. These prompts are still here waiting when/if you feel like participating later, there is no deadline. <3

wenchpixie

Today I am sharing a man with beautiful eyebrows :) https://wenchpixie.dreamwidth.org/724246.html

Thank you for this bounty!

annathecrow

I made it! Woof. I always think things will take less time than they eventually do. ANYWAY: "Star Wars: The Clone Wars screencap goodness"

By the way, thanks for coming up with this! I was just thinking that I need a break from my longfic WIP and do something I can publish now, not in like... a year... and lo and behold, this event pops up on my reading page. :D

Oh my goodness yes, especially picspams take always much longer than anticipated! Thank you for joining in!

I can't take full credit for the idea, it was a joint effort with

pushkin666 and

dreamersdare as we needed a kick up the backside to create something! And you are right, somestimes one needs something short and sweet to provide instant gratification!

Then thanks to pushkin66 and dreamersdare too!

Also, now that I think about it, "something short and sweet to provide instant gratification" could just as well describe this event :D Although I might feel otherwise by Sunday - daily challenges are fun, but EXHAUSTING.

daily challenges are fun, but EXHAUSTING - fully agreed. But, it was kind of now or never (or at least not until next summer) so... But we also deliberately went with the low key 'whenever, if you feel like it' approach :)