Second Round Prompts and claims post

[ginger_lust]

Prompts and claims

Welcome to the Prompts and Claims post for ginger_lust. Feel free to go through and find one that inspires you, then leave a comment claiming it.

When making a claim, remember to check out the rules. The most pertinent ones here are that there is a limit of two claims per prompt, and you can only claim one prompt at a time (although you can come back for a second one when you have submitted your first). Remember, collaborations are welcome, and we have a definite love for multimedia contributions. Go wild!

1. "Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by."
- A. S. Byatt (1st Claim by redsnake05)

2. I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald (1st claim by daddybear716)

3. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;
-Edgar Allan Poe (First Claim by star54kar)

4. I have the right to love many people at once and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin (First claim by snuffleslove)

5. "I've been roaming around always lookin down at all I see.
Painted faces fill the places I can't reach.
You know that I could use somebody"
- Kings of Leon, Use Somebody (First claim by deathjunke)


6. Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
- Katherine Mansfield (First Claim by a_shadow_there, second claim by juliandahling)

7. Every night I talk to the stars pretending it's you. It acts just like you, far away and never replying to my questions
- Anon (First claim by nolagal, second by aigoos)

8. They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
- Ernest Hemingway (first claim by curia_regis)

9. I like to see life with its teeth out
- Janet Frame

10. "And they look at you like they don't speak your language, and you're living at the bottom of a well,
And you've swallowed all the awful, bloody secrets, but you can't tell"
-Joan Osborne, Crazy Baby

11. If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (First claim by tjwritter)

12. This one goes out to the one I've left behind
Another prop has occupied my time
This one goes out to the one I love
- R.E.M., The One I Love (1st Claim by wwmrsweasleydo)

13. "How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me."
-Charles Dickens (1st claim by wwmrsweasleydo, second by comicsbycate)

14. This love which I had thought was a joke and a plaything--it is only now that I understand that it is the moulder of one's life, the most solemn and sacred of all things.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1st claim by seraphimerising)

15. I once was a wanderer like you.
-Alias & Tarsier, Dr. C (first claim by rons_pigwidgeon

16. There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
-Upton Sinclair (1st claim by wolfiekins)

17. It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.
-W. Somerset Maugham (1st Claim by hull1984)

18. After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.
-Rudyard Kipling (1st Claim by savepureness)

19. I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
- Armistead Maupin

20. So don't make me say it
It would burst the bubble
Break the charm.
-Bjork, Come to Me (1st claim by incoherenteye),(second claim by scarletladyy)

21. “The moon's turned black; For I love him, and He didn't love back”
-Dorothy Parker (First claim by venturous1)

22. While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
- Isabelle Allende (First claim by hamimifk)

23. “I'm afraid sometimes
you'll play lonely games too,
games you can't win
because you'll play against you”
-Dr. Seuss (First claim by paperflowered)

24. When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
-Natalie Clifford Barney

25. You're looking for me
But it's not what you seek
I've got a twisted personality
-The Knife, A Lung
(First Claim by naturegirlrocks)

26. At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.
-E.M. Forster (1st Claim by thrihyrne second claim by l3petitemort)

27. I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
-Soren Kierkegaard (1st Claim by pochibubblytea)

28. Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
-Stephen Fry (First claim by silent_cassia)

29. Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
-Salman Rushdie (First claim by miss_morland)

30. But I fear I have nothing to give
-Sarah McLachlan, Fear (First claim by la_dissonance, second by bramblerose4)

31. It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
-Aristotle

32. I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted...I have a lot more to drink.
-Harvey Milk (1st Claim by koshweasley)


33. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-Andy Warhol (First claim by aigoos, second by naturegirlrocks)


34. I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
-Vince Lombardi (First claim by lena3)


35. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (First claim by sperrywink, second by aigoos)


36. "Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."

-Oscar Wilde (1st Claim by nathaniel_hp)



To make a claim:

Cut and paste the code below and fill in the gaps in a comment box. If you don't know what you're making yet, that's fine, you can put down several options or "undecided".

<b>Username/s (lj, dw, ij etc):</b> <b>Email:</b> <b>Prompt claimed:</b> <b>Type of fanwork I/we propose to make:</b>

Here is an example of how it might look (actually a claim by one of your mods):

Username/s (lj, dw, ij etc): redsnake05/redsnake05
Email: redsnake05 AT gmail DOT com
Prompt claimed: 1
Type of fanwork I/we propose to make: Fanfiction, with a mix and some art on the side

What happens next?

One of the mods will leave a comment acknowledging your claim and edit the claims post to reflect that. Then, we'll send you an email to confirm, with the details of your claim and all the pertinent dates and so on. You'll need to reply to this, then you go ahead and start creating.

If you need to drop out, you can send the mods an email (gingerlustmod@gmail.com) or leave a comment here. We understand that sometimes things come up, including health issues and family issues. If there is something we can do to help you still fulfil your claim, you can ask for help too.

If you need help along the way or there is something you're unsure about, email the mods or leave a comment at that post. We're happy to help, cheerlead and otherwise facilitate your process as much as we can.

Happy claiming!