I Resist the Muses

Character: Celena Ducayne
Word Count: 148
open for roleplay or comments here

Character: Celena Ducayne
Word Count: 312
Rating / Warning: PGish for mentions of the Critter’s lifestyle.
open for roleplay or comments here

( Prompt 24 - Theme of snow )

( Prompt 26 -  )

( Prompt 27 - If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear? - Confucius )

( Prompt 28 - If your number one goal is to make sure that everyone likes and approves of you, then you risk sacrificing your uniqueness and, therefore, your excellence. )

( Prompt 29 - Write a letter to yourself at some point in the past. )

( Prompt 30 - St. Valentine was a Priest, martyred in 269 at Rome and was buried on the Flaminian Way. He is the Patron Saint of affianced couples, bee keepers, engaged couples, epilepsy, fainting, greetings, happy marriages, love, lovers, plague, travelers, young people. He is represented in pictures with birds and roses. Does learning this change your thoughts about Valentine's Day? )

( Prompt 31 - What have you done that you wish you could apologize for? [locked] )

( Prompt 32 - It's almost spring. How does the weather or change in seasons affect your mood? )

( It's almost spring. How does the weather or change in seasons affect your mood? )

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Character: Lily Coleens
Fandom: Original Character

Open for RP or Comments here

It's almost spring. How does the weather or change in seasons affect your mood?

Don't ask. Just don't ask. Look at Sandro Botticelli's painting, or something. Primavera... Well. I used to like it, yes. A time to cast off the shackles of winter, ride out again, a good time to throw open the windows, air out the rooms, bring out the best silver - like a widow who, after her time of mourning, is no longer expected to dine off maiolica. Or as Lucretius wrote,

Spring-time and Venus come,
And Venus' boy, the winged harbinger, steps on before,
And hard on Zephyr's foot-prints Mother Flora,
Sprinkling the ways before them, filleth all
With colours and with odours excellent.

As for my mood... it's known to have been better. But then the green of Flora's coat stands for hope, too; I will simply have to learn to cling to it.

It's almost spring. How does the weather or change in seasons affect your mood?

Spring was always my favourite season of the year, although spring would come late to Himring, it being in the north of Beleriand. Some years the snow would lie thick until April, and when it was gone it was like being released from prison - to look out one morning over the plains below the mountains and find the white replaced by green and gold.

Of course the melting of the snow meant only one thing to me: the mountain passes between Hithlum and Himring would be clear, and that would mean a visit from Findekano. It would take a rider twelve days to make the journey, though Kano always claimed he could do it in nine, I was never quite sure that I believed him. By the time he arrived it would usually be early May, and he would stay the whole summer, until the early snows of October warned him that he would need to leave if he were to get back before the passes were blocked once more.

Decades after Findekano's death, my brothr Macalaure and I fostered two elflings, Elrond and Elros, who grew to be wise and well-known. When they were very small, they celebrated their birthdays year after year, and they could not understand that Macalaure and I had no birthdays, because we were born before time was measured by sun and moon. The children insisted that we picked birthdays anyway, so they could celebrate ours too, and I picked a day in early May, because thinking about Kano's arrival at that time of year always gave me cause to celebrate.

And so spring is always my favourite time of year, when the last of the snow is gone, the trees once again bear leaf and blossom, and flowers paint the meadows in colour. It's a time for hope, and happy memories.

Character: Maedhros
Fandom: The Silmarillion

Character: Ray Vecchio
Fandom: due South

Prompt #30 - St Valentine

Prompt #31 - Apology

Prompt #32 - Spring

Character: Benton Fraser
Fandom: due South

Prompt #30 - St Valentine

Prompt #31 - Apology

Prompt #32 - Spring

It's almost spring. How does the weather or change in seasons affect your mood?

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