Not sure what to draw for the Senshi & Shitennou Reverse Mini Bang 2019?
Well, lucky for you we have a heck of a lot of prompts!
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- Beach volleyball
- She sells seashells by the sea shore
- “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.” - Isak Dinesen
- Sandcastles
- Shipwreck, alternatively “Ship To Wreck” - Florence + The Machine
- Lighthouse
- Siren song
- “But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” - Kahlil Gibran
- Pirates, Buccaneers and Privateers, alternatively, Ching Shih (aka Cheng I Sao)
- (S)he’s a shark!
- Canon ball
- “That figurehead on the prow is beautiful!”
- Sports Illustrated, Swimsuit Edition
- Unleash the Kraken!, alteratively, Legendary sea creatures/sea monsters
- “A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.” - Honore De Balzac
- Moonlight skinny-dipping
- Swimming with the dolphins
- “Some people long for a life that is simple and planned / Tied with a ribbon / Some people won’t sail the sea ‘cause they’re safer on land / To follow what’s written / But I’d follow you to the great unknown / Off to a world we call our own.” - The Greatest Showman
- Tropical vacation getaway
- “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Marooned
- “I slathered on SPF 75 every hour, faithfully, and still cooked like an oversized fucking lobster.”
- Surfing
- Palm trees
- “A frog in a well does not know the great sea.” - Zhuangzi
- The Spanish Armada
- Message in a bottle
- Thalassophobia
- “Just keep swimming” - Finding Nemo
- “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” - Brian Hyland
- “Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
Consider all this; and then turn to the green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half-known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!” - Herman Melville - “Only An Ocean Away” - Celtic Garden cover of Sarah Brightman
- Sex On The Beach
- Sea shanty, alternatively, “Cardiff Rose” - Roger McGuinn
- The Age of Exploration
- Tantallon Castle
- Merpeople
- Saint Emlo’s Fire
- “Plenty more fish in the sea”
- Namma, Mesopotamian goddess of the Cosmic Ocean.
- Pearls
- Stowaway
- The long journey home
- “A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single
hope” - Epictetus - Tying knots
- "Time and tide wait for no man.” - Geoffrey Chaucer
- "The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.” - Rumi
- Smuggling/trafficking
- Beach glass and driftwood
- “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?“ - Shakespeare
- "His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.” - Dean Koontz
- “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Washed up ashore
- “I need you like water in my lungs.”
- Go with the flow
- Creatures of the deep, alternatively, “With its untold depths, couldn’t the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn’t the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia?” - Jules Verne
- You are my true north
- With only the stars to guide us
- The mournful cry of seagulls
- “Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, / even so I will endure… / For already have I suffered full much, / and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. / Let this be added to the tale of those.” - Homer
- Cruise ship shenanigans
- “Well, someone’s feeling salty about something, hmm?”
- “Join the navy, see the world!”
- “In a sea of faces, I always look for yours.”
- “Missing you comes in waves, and tonight, I’m drowning.”
- Hidden depths
- “It’s called ‘wayfinding’, Princess. It’s not just sails and knots, it’s seeing where you’re going in your mind. Knowing where you are by knowing where you’ve been.” - Moana
- “I followed the waves to you.” - Melissa Auf Der Maur
- If you put a conch shell up to your ear, you can hear the sound of the ocean.
- Drifting away
- Interesting/creepy discoveries while scuba diving
- “The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its close, soft embrace.” - Kate Chopin
- “The sea is as close as we come to another world.” - Anne Stevenson
- Storming the beach at Normandy
- As faithful as the tides, alternatively, “Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” - Sarah Kay
- Feast of the Seven Fishes
- “Heart of the Ocean" - Gaelic Storm
- “This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, / Sails the unshadowed main,— / The venturous bark that flings / On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings / In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, / And coral reefs lie bare, / Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Sand between your toes, alternatively, Sitting under a big umbrella with sand between your toes and a trashy romance novel
- “Go jump off a cliff, preferably into shark-infested waters, asshole!”
- “Uh, who is the ship named after, Captain?”
- The palaces and treasures of the Dragon Kings (Chinese mythology see Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en)
- The Bermuda Triangle
- The Four Winds and the Seven Seas
- Between Scylla and Charybdis
- “It was many and many a year ago /I n a kingdom by the sea…” - Edgar Allan Poe
- Starfish and Sea Horses
- Steampunk ocean travel
- “Red Sky at night, Sailors delight; Red Sky in the morning, Sailors take warning.”
- Ship’s cat
- A hasty shipboard marriage, alternatively, "(S)he has a girl/guy in every port.“
- Ghost Ship
- Shore Leave antics, alternatively, Yacht party
- Quaint coastal towns
- Ship in a bottle
- The Lost City of Atlantis
- View through the spyglass
- "Come unto these yellow sands, / And then take hands / Curtsied when you have and kissed” - Shakespeare
- Sea Noir: “There’s not much to do on the open sea. Play cards and bet away your last dollar, the shirt off your back. Pray for good weather. Work, day in, day out. Sing it again, Sailor. Maybe this time, the gods will take mercy on us. Maybe someday, we’ll make it home.”
- May Day! May Day!