YURI SHIPPING OLYMPICS 2024 - BONUS ROUND 3

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For this bonus round, we're looking for prompts inspired by plant/flower symbolism and the language(s) of flowers!

Here are some resources on flower meanings:
Script Florist
Farmer's Almanac
Wikipedia: Hanakotoba
Wikipedia: Plant Symbolism

This round will end on July 1st.

Fills can be in any format, and you can fill your teammates prompts, but you cannot fill your own prompt.

You can post as many fills and as many prompts as you want!

for your prompt post title, please use the following format:

PROMPT: TEAM [TEAM NAME]

for your fill post title, please use the following format:

FILL: TEAM [TEAM NAME]

POINTS - BONUS ROUNDS
For prompts: 10 points each (maximum of 150 prompt points per team per round)
For fills:
First 4 fills by any member of your team: 100 points each
Fills 5-10: 50 points each
Fills 11-20: 40 points each
Fills 21-50: 30 points each
Fills 51+: 25 points each

Comments

PROMPT: ADMIN EXAMPLE

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camellia - "my destiny is in your hands"

PROMPT: Team Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[unenchantingly]

"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair..."
― Susan Polis Schutz

(in the hopes of avoiding every prompt being "flower - meaning" I'm gonna throw y'all some quotes about flowers and varying degrees of symbolism.)

PROMPT: Team Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[unenchantingly]

"She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her."

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

PROMPT: Team Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[unenchantingly]

"A weed is but an unloved flower."

― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

PROMPT: Team Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[unenchantingly]

"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine."

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

PROMPT: Team Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[unenchantingly]

"a flower knows, when its butterfly will return,
and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand;
but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon,
when I don't know, if you will ever come back."

― Sanober Khan

PROMPT: Team Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[unenchantingly]

"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks."

― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real

(Yes, I'm linking the "violets are for lesbianism" post on a second prompt.)

PROMPT: Team Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[unenchantingly]

“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.”

― Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea

PROMPT: Team Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[unenchantingly]

"Her eyes like marigolds had sheath’d their light,
And canopied in darkness sweetly lay
Till they might open to adorn the day."

― William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

PROMPT: Team Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[unenchantingly]

"Everyone mourns the first blossom.
Who will grieve the rest who fall?"

― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

PROMPT: Team Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[unenchantingly]

"Perfumes are the feelings of flowers."

― Heinrich Heine

PROMPT: Team Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[unenchantingly]

"When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower."

― Alexander Den Heijer

PROMPT: Team Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[unenchantingly]

"i have laughed
more than daffodils
and cried more than June."

― Sanober Khan

(abbreviated meaning: rebirth and new beginnings)

PROMPT: Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[baradhiblue]

Hanakotoba

red camellia: in love, perishing with grace

PROMPT: Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[baradhiblue]

Hanakotoba

kuroyuri (kamchatka fritillary): love, curse

PROMPT: TEAM ACE ATTORNEY

[abbucat]

Georgia O'keefe · 'Two Calla Lillies on Pink' (1928)

PROMPT: Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[baradhiblue]

Hanakotoba

sayuri (orange lily): hatred, revenge

PROMPT: TEAM ACE ATTORNEY

[ghostvines]

Cherry blossom: kind, gentle, transience of life (hanakotoba) / "There are dead bodies buried under the cherry trees!"

(A very famous and very short story by Motojirō Kajii. Essentially a mental breakdown formatted in words; read with caution.)

PROMPT: Team Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[unenchantingly]

"I have lost my smile,
but don't worry.
The dandelion has it."

― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

(abbreviated meaning: lasting happiness, joy, wishes fulfilled)

PROMPT: Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[baradhiblue]

Hanakotoba

alstroelmeria (lily of the incas): such strong connection that language is limited when trying to explain it

PROMPT: Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[baradhiblue]

There are dead bodies buried under the cherry trees!

It’s true, I swear. How else could they flower that beautifully? That unbelievable beauty made me uneasy for a couple of days. But now, finally, I get it. There are dead bodies buried under the cherry trees. I swear, it’s true.

-"Under the Cherry Trees", Motojirō Kajii tr. David Boyd

PROMPT: Team Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[unenchantingly]

"As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. The color of flamboyant flowers."

― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

(amaryllis abbreviated meaning: pride, strength, determination, passion)

PROMPT: Team Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[unenchantingly]

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies.

“They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.”

― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey

(purple lily abbreviated meaning: royalty, elegance, spirituality)

PROMPT: TEAM ACE ATTORNEY

[ghostvines]

菊花殘滿地傷 你的笑容已泛黃 花落人斷腸 我心事靜靜躺

(the chrysanthemums lay strewn on this wounded land / your smile already fading into sepia / the people rend their hearts as the flowers fall / as my worries are laid to rest)

— jay chou, chrysanthemum terrace (translation by me)

(in chinese flower language, chrysanthemums can symbolize long life, austerity, and solitude.)

PROMPT: TEAM ACE ATTORNEY

[ghostvines]

and you'd be left in the dust / unless i stuck by ya / you're a sunflower / i think your love would be too much

— post malone & swae lee, sunflower

(did you know that only young sunflowers turn to face the sun? when they reach full maturity, they stay fixed and only point east.)