August 2021 Challenge: Kings & Kink

[grundyscribbling]

Throughout history, wherever there is writing, there is erotica. The first Mesopotamian scribe to take stylus in hand likely wasn't long before making lurid comparisons to the rising floods of the Tigris. Medieval scribes certainly tossed more than nightsoil in the gutter, and even those buttoned-up Victorians unbuttoned on the page.

Prompts for this month's challenge Kings & Kink will be from a "vintage" work of erotica or romance. You can use your prompt however you want: the entire passage or image, its emotional coloring, or just a passage, phrase, or even single word. Responses do not need to be erotica, include adult-rated content, or have anything to do with sex or romance. If you'd like to receive a prompt for this month's challenge, comment on this post, comment on our LiveJournal, send us an ask on Tumblr, or email us at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org. Please let us know if you would like a NSFW, romance, or affectionate prompt, and if you prefer a text excerpt or an image.

August is also Akallabêth in August, so fanworks that take place during the Second Age will receive a special stamp.

In order to receive a stamp for your fanwork, your response must be posted to the archive on or before 10 September 2021. For complete challenge guidelines, see the Challenges page on our website.

Comments

[hhimring]

Could I have a prompt, please? Either a romantic or an affectionate one (so not NSFW, please) and I would prefer a text excerpt.

[dawn_felagund]

Let me know if this one doesn't work for any reason!

"'But I’ll have to ask you to wait a long time, Anne,' said Gilbert sadly. 'It will be three years before I’ll finish my medical course. And even then there will be no diamond sunbursts and marble halls.'

Anne laughed.

'I don’t want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. You see I’m quite as shameless as Phil about it. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more "scope for imagination" without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn’t matter. We’ll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.'

Gilbert drew her close to him and kissed her. Then they walked home together in the dusk, crowned king and queen in the bridal realm of love, along winding paths fringed with the sweetest flowers that ever bloomed, and over haunted meadows where winds of hope and memory blew."
~ Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery

[hhimring]

Anne of Green Gables!
Thank you very much, Dawn!

[starspray]

I would like an affectionate prompt, please. No preference on text or image.

[dawn_felagund]

Please let me know if it doesn't work for you for any reason!

“The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain."
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein