Sunshine Challenge 2023 Prompt #1

[komadori]

Prompt 1: Iris
They can represent faith, hope, courage, wisdom and admiration. Specific flower colors attach further meanings to the pretty blooms. Purple iris brings a message of wisdom and compliments, while a bouquet of blue iris blossoms speak of hope and faith.



Bonus Prompt: Pink Rose


Please feel free to respond in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it thoughts that you share or a work that you create. If you’d like a more specific idea to kick things off: share a poem or drabble that reminds you of the Iris theme.

Finally, I'm doing this! I've looked at the other prompts and ideas are brewing for those too.

For this one, I wrote a Night Vale fic.

Irises, Explained (401 words) by AngelsattheRitz
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cecil/Carlos
Characters: Cecil Palmer, Carlos, Esteban
Additional Tags: Language of Flowers, Fluff, Family, post episode 230, gift-giving
Summary:

Cecil and Esteban have a surprise for Carlos after he saves the town once again. Set after episode 230.

Now, I ought to go to bed since it's cooling down.

Comments

[enemytosleep]

TL;DR this ancient laptop is having trouble loading AO3 (among other things), BUT I had a few friends deeply into Nightvale at one point. They kept trying to conscript me, but I never found the time back then. What would you say about the series now to someone who might be interested? Is there a better way to dive in than might be apparent?

[silveradept]

Not the OP, but one of the potential selling points of Night Vale is that most of what happens in any given episode requires no previous knowledge of the series, so there's no need to necessarily start from episode one.

What makes it work, in my opinion, is that it's a show where because the narrator and the people of the town(s) treat what's happening around them as normal, rather than as somehow at right angles to reality, so you, the listener, are encouraged to do the same. If you do, you'll find stories about relationships, and squabbles, and local politics, and civic duties and responsibilities, and a lot of small-town life kinds of things. They just also happen to have Secret Police, eldritch abominations, ghosts, shapeshifters, malevolent architecture, a somewhat casual disregard for death and injury, and other kinds of things that are horrifying if you stop to think about them for any period of time, but are perfectly normal to the residents.

[komadori]

one of the potential selling points of Night Vale is that most of what happens in any given episode requires no previous knowledge of the series, so there's no need to necessarily start from episode one.

I agree with this completely!

If you are looking for more specific starting points, there's also this helpful starter guide that has some good recommendations.

[dreamkist]

That's a precious fic!

[komadori]

Thank you so much!