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!
By the way, sign ups for Artists and Authors will remain open until Sunday 31 March 2019!
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
“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.”
Welcome one and all to Senshi & Shitennou Reverse Mini Bang 2019 - this is the first year we're crossposting to Dreamwidth and Tumblr!
Artist and Author Sign Ups are OPEN until Sunday 31 March 2019!
We’re so glad you’re here and we hope you’re as eager to get started as we are because we think we’ve made some great improvements (see? We’re learning!)
As we mentioned last year, we’re alternating in between Mini Bangs and Reverse Mini Bangs. The 2018 Mini Bang produced some amazing fics (which kinda still has us gaping in awe, to be honest) and the art! Oh my gosh, the art that came with them was stunning! We’re still blown away by it all (incidentally, if you would like to see/read them, they’re available here.)
This year we’re running the Reverse Mini Bang again, so Artists will be the ones to create work which will inspire Authors. We had some great collaboration between our Artists and Authors previously and we’re hoping to not only replicate, but increase that this year, too!
To start with, let’s reveal our theme for the SSRevMB 2019:
“The Sea”
Sounds vast, right? Well, it is. Just like last year’s theme, you can be as literal or as metaphorical with it as you’d like. Mermaid!Ami? Yes! What about Kunzite’s sea of troubles? Go for it! Makoto x Nephrite on the Titanic AU? GIMME! Have a need to make us sigh over the ebb and flow of Jadeite’s passions as he sits on a beach and stares out into the abyss? Yeah, duh, of course we need it like we need oxygen. Pirate!Rei kicking butt and taking names? Oh hecks to the yesses baby! What about Venus’ tumultuous rage personified as a brewing storm heading to land? Daaaaamn. Zoisite makes an official visit to Neptune? Nice, please show me more.
Lost cities! Sharks! Metaphors about life! Lighthouses! Seaside towns! Viking fics! Learning to swim! Beaches! Icebergs! Storms! Dauntlessness in the face of the unknown! Sea shanties! Treasure fics! Sea deities! Inner demons lurking underneath the surface! Actual creatures lurking in the depths! Water planets! Unpredictability of life! Flooded apocalyptic Crystal Tokyo! Destiny! Navigating the sea of space! The possibilities are endless… like the sea itself. Kinda.