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sunshine_challenge has been going on for like 17 days before I found out about it, lol, and now I'm finally doing it. :D



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.

I'm going to be reccing two fanworks that make me think of the prompt - one not self-rec and one self-rec.

Harm No One (1703 words) by Griselda_Gimpel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Lost
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Characters: John Locke (Lost), Boone Carlyle
Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, Hallucinations, Unreliable Narrator, Religious Themes, Mind Screw
Summary: Locke's experience after he sees the light in the hatch. Set during "Do No Harm".

Are You Ready for a Brand New Beat? by facethestrange
Fandom: Angel: the Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lorne | Krevlornswath, Original Daemon Character(s)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Daemons, Pre-Canon, Sunflower Auction, Fanart, Drawing
Summary: Lorne and his songbird daemon Razz find a better world to live in.

YELLOWJACKETS DAY, the very last one for who knows how long, and I already miss it so, so much. ♡♡♡ Like, it's not Lost, but I think it is the Lost that I need now.

Spoilers for episode 2x09 - Storytelling, but tbh this is not going to be either coherent or comprehensive.

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YELLOWJACKETS DAY! (This show hits so close to home that while processing it this morning I had to take a 2-hour nap. xD)

Spoilers for episode 2x05 - Two Truths and a Lie.

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➽ There's no episode next week. D: But I guess my brain can use this break. xD

Oh hi, IT'S YELLOWJACKETS TIME again. :D

Spoilers for episode 2x02 - Edible Complex. Content note: cannibalism.

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A few days after I watched it, it's time for my The Last of Us squee, or the post about how I'm the biggest Ellie stan. :D Or just a list of random things I loved, none of which are actual spoilers for the story. xD

♡ ELLIE IN THE HOTEL is my my number one favorite scene so far. In addition to her being the cutest dork, the flooded hotel is gorgeous! The entire overgrown city is gorgeous.

♡ "The contraaaactor" and "DAAAAAM" and just the way Ellie says things gives me life. :D

♡ Ellie randomly trying to teach herself how to whistle, lol.

♡ Ellie not liking the smell of coffee is extremely relatable. xD

♡ Ellie being 14! It's important to me on a personal level, and also there really aren't many 14-year-old girls in tv shows for adults. The age seems to always be 16 or at least 15.

♡ ELLIE BEING ELLIE, K.

Non-Ellie things I loved:

♡ Joel has such a Sawyer (from Lost) energy that somewhere in the back of my head it always feels like he IS Sawyer, 20 years later in a post-apocalyptic AU. xD Which also means I always want to call him Josh and not Joel because apparently my brain keeps thinking of Josh Holloway. xD

♡ JOEL HAVING PANIC ATTACKS. I knew it was a panic attack (and not a heart attack or anything like that) when he had the first one, and then it was made clear that it's his PTSD, and this is also very important to me on a personal level.

♡ The montage of Bill doing all the things right after he's left alone in the town is so SATISFYING. I'm not a prepper but when I see stuff like that, I wish I were one. xD

♡ Nice to see Tara from True Blood (Rutina Wesley) and Shauna from Yellowjackets (Melanie Lynskey). :D Someone on reddit said that Melanie Lynskey is carving out a niche for herself as the sociopathic soccer mom, and yeah, can't argue with that. xD