horizions sing . a summer challenge communtiy

.mod post {the end}

2008-07-31T17:19:29Z

WELL DONE, everyone! It's been a cracking 31 days of summery fun. I'm so pleased to see the amount of absolutely brilliant work that's been put out, it's truly fantastic. I've enjoyed reading the ones I've got around to, and look forward to reading the rest over the next few weeks. There'll be lists put up similarly, so that each piece of fic/art/poetry is listed a little more clearly.

Most importantly, if you haven't finished your fics/art, don't worry! It's not too late. The lists will constantly be updated meaning that you can write your responses later than the prompt dates. It's not as challenging, but hopefully just as fun.

Long live the summery love of Ianto and Jack! <3

Now who's for Autumn? :D

.day thirty-one

2008-07-31T11:52:30Z

Day Thirty-First
thirty-first july

1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . 10 . 11 . 12 . 13 . 14 . 15 . 16 . 17 . 18 . 19 . 20 . 21 . 22 . 23 . 24 . 25 . 26 . 27 . 28 . 29 . 30

And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.

- Terry Pratchett,
Feet of Clay

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.day thirty

2008-07-29T23:37:07Z

Day Thirty
thirtieth july

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Lucy is excited and nervous about her first season.
She can't seem to quell her feelings for Captain Jack.
Jack is determined to find a wife.
But secrets from his past threaten his plans - he cannot offer a girl a tainted name...

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.day twenty-nine

2008-07-29T01:13:20Z

Day Twenty-Nine
twenty-nineth july

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Nash Point Lighthouse, Vale of Glamorgan

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.day twenty-eight

2008-07-28T13:03:00Z

Day Twenty-Eight
twenty-eighth july

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It's Bad For Me
Rosemary Clooney

Oh it's bad for me it's bad for me
this knowledge that you're going mad for me
I feel certain my friends would be glad for me
but it's bad for me

It's so good for you so new for you
to see someone in such a stew for you
and when I say I'd do all you could for you
it's so good for you it's bad for you

I felt til you whispered to me
completely left on the shelf
but since you started to woo me
I'm just crazy about myself

it's a boon for you a break for you
to hear that my heart's on the make for you
yet no matter however appealing
I still have a feeling it's bad for me

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.day twenty-seven

2008-07-26T23:07:50Z

Day Twenty-Seven
twenty-seventh july

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Rules here

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.day twenty-six

2008-07-25T23:03:05Z

Day Twenty-Six
twenty-sixth july

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.day twenty-five

2008-07-24T23:04:01Z

Day Twenty-Five
twenty-fifth july

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Suggested by xlions_roarx. Ta much! <3

Summertime - Mae

Summertime, summertime
brought me back to thinking you were mine all those times.
We laid it down and left it all behind, we were blind.
Oh, the summertime.

We could ride, we could ride.
Take my hand and watch the world go by.
Laugh or cry, well we need to try, get off the line, time to fly.
Oh, the summertime.

Go on ahead and let it fade away.
No looking back you know the past will stay.
It's you and me, we could get out of here.
Jump in and go and we could drive for years.
We could feel alive...

Here we are, here we are,
windows down we see a falling star.
Stop the car.
Waiting, nothing but our beating hearts, going far.
Oh, the summertime.

So feel the air, feel the air,
take the map and point to anywhere.
I don't care. Fingers through your hair,
the sky I've seen, blue and green.
Oh, the summertime.

Driving away, leaving it all behind.
Driving away

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.day twenty-four

2008-07-23T23:01:48Z

Day Twenty-Four
twenty-fourth july

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And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!
Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep . . . tired . . . or it malingers,
Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

Excerpt from, "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock"
T. S. Eliot

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.day twenty-three

2008-07-22T23:15:58Z

Day Twenty-Three
twenty-third july

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.day twenty-two

2008-07-21T23:02:46Z

Day Twenty-Two
twenty-second july

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I see that from these boys shall men of nothing
Stature by seedy shifting,
Or lame the air with leaping from its hearts;
There from their hearts the dogdayed pulse
Of love and light bursts in their throats.
O see the pulse of summer in the ice.

Except from, "I See the Boys of Summer,"
by Dylan Thomas

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.day twenty-one

2008-07-20T23:58:27Z

Day Twenty-One
twenty-first july

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.day twenty

2008-07-19T23:57:35Z

Day Twenty
twentieth july

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But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiousity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchaned garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.

- Evelyn Waugh,
Brideshead Revisited

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.day nineteen

2008-07-19T08:31:04Z

Day Nineteen
nineteenth july

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.day eighteen

2008-07-18T06:23:59Z

Day Eighteen
eighteenth july

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If I Didn’t Care
Ink Spots

If I didn't care more than words can say
If I didn't care would I feel this way?
If this isn't love then why do I thrill?
And what makes my head go 'round and 'round
While my heart stands still?

If I didn't care would it be the same?
Would my ev'ry prayer begin and end with just your name?
And would I be sure that this is love beyond compare?
Would all this be true if I didn't care for you?

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.day seventeen

2008-07-17T09:33:19Z

Day Seventeen
seventeenth july

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Red Dragon Centre, Cardiff Bay

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.day sixteen

2008-07-16T09:09:55Z

Day Sixteen
sixteenth july

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"Between an immensity of land and an immensity of sky they sat there, incomprehensible, smiling at a continent."

- Douglas Adams,
Last Chance to See

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.day fifteen

2008-07-14T23:12:00Z

Day Fifteen
fifteenth july

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The road from Tredegar to Crickhowell, Wales

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.day fourteen

2008-07-13T23:03:45Z

Day Fourteen
fourteenth july

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"O summer day beside the joyous sea!
O summer day so wonderful and white,
So full of gladness and so full of pain!
Forever and forever shalt thou be
To some the gravestone of a dead delight,
To some the landmark of a new domain."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.day thirteen

2008-07-13T00:10:23Z

Day Thirteen
thirteenth july

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Summer Wind
Frank Sinatra

The summer wind, came blowin' in from across the sea
It lingered there to touch your hair and walk with me
All summer long we sang a song and then we strolled that golden sand
Two sweethearts and the summer wind

Like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by
The world was new beneath a blue umbrella sky
Then softer than a piper man one day it called to you
I lost you, I lost you to the summer wind

The autumn wind and the winter winds, they have come and gone
And still the days, those lonely days, they go on and on
And guess who sighs his lullabies through nights that never end
My fickle friend, the summer wind

The summer wind
Warm summer wind
Mmm, the summer wind

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.day twelve

2008-07-12T07:56:09Z

Day Twelve
twelfth july

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"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.""

- C.S. Lewis

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.day eleven

2008-07-10T23:10:32Z

Day Eleven
eleventh july

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Nash Point aerial mast, Vale of Glamorgan

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.day ten

2008-07-09T23:03:51Z

Day Ten
tenth july

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Summer Rain
Ingredients:
2 Shots De Kuyper Cranberry Liqueur
Top up Apple Juice

Method:
Half fill a highball glass with cubed ice. Pour in the De Kuyper Cranberry Liqueur. Top up with apple juice. Add a squeeze of lime juice. Muddle the ingredients together in the glass. Garnish with a slice of lime.

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.day nine

2008-07-08T23:03:42Z

Day Nine
ninth july

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"I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer.
My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music.
It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips."

- Violette Leduc,
Mad in Pursuit

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.day eight

2008-07-08T08:59:41Z

Day Eight
eight july

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