sunshine-challenge Prompt 2: Orange
Jul. 5th, 2020 02:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

Orange is a warm color that is associated with a variety of things including: excitement, vitality, invincibility, speed, vigilance, dedication, loyalty, family, success, friendship, power, change, harvest, and warmth.
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Emphasis mine above because when I think of orange, I think of how Harry Potter must have felt all those things when he entered his BFF's bedroom for the first time ever.
Harry stepped in, his head almost touching the sloping ceiling, and blinked. It was like walking into a furnace: Nearly everything in Ron's room seemed to be a violent shade of orange: the bedspread, the walls, even the ceiling.
Ahhh. TFW when you've just been dramatically rescused in a flying car, fed more in one meal than you've eaten all summer long, degnomed a garden for the first time, and you're so sleepy and full and ecstatic to finally have a family of your own, but man. So much orange. XD Apparently with good reason.
To think that Ron was ashamed of his home! He couldn't possibly imagine how very far that would be from Harry's mind, how very perfect the Burrow would be to Harry. In every way the opposite to the "home" he had just rescued Harry from. My feels.
On a side note, can we talk about the fact that 12-year-old Harry's head almost touched the ceiling? Poor Ron. How did he ever get in that room after 16?
For that matter, how did all three of them fit in it at 17? Oh my, it must have been very cramped indeed in that room as they made their plans. :D And somehow Hermione still had room for every book she owned.
Ron love forever. Burrow love forever. Chudley Cannons forever! *sigh*
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On a more personal and shamelessly sappy note.... Orange dominates our living room, in a painting by my husband, which he did when we first got together. It's ENORMOUS and ORANGE AF and by no means goes with the sofa. Or anything else. And definitely inspires a Ron's Room reaction. In both a "WTF ORANGE" way and an "ahhh, home" way.
He didn't want me to post it here. Highly personal original art and all that. You might have spied a corner of it on this blog before. I won't go into the details of the painting and its place in our lives because you would gag on the saccharine. But suffice it to say it perfectly encapsulates the excitement of the color, which I can only summarize with a classic meme....
It's hung over the sofa in every home we've shared. :)
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Date: 2020-07-05 07:24 pm (UTC)I think you've really summed here just what the Weasley's mean to Harry: a real loving supportive family. Which is huge part of why they are an enduring part of fandom.
Also I'm reading this as you are a real life Weasley XD.
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Date: 2020-07-06 08:46 pm (UTC)And they are so real, aren't they? I love that JKR didn't hold back on their peculiarities and flaws. They have all the annoyances and fights and ribbing and self-consciousness and worry that comes along with any big family, but so much warmth and love for each other, too. Lucky Harry! He couldn't have found a better family.
you are a real life Weasley
If you mean nothing matches and chaos reigns supreme... guilty. ;D
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Date: 2020-07-05 08:42 pm (UTC)♥ That is so sweet. *clasps hands* I'm a sap for sap.
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Date: 2020-07-06 08:47 pm (UTC)Me too... but TELL NO ONE. ;)
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Date: 2020-07-06 08:59 pm (UTC)🧡
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Date: 2020-07-06 08:48 pm (UTC)Love the icon!
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Date: 2020-07-06 05:52 pm (UTC)And the painting snippet we can see is exciting. Very vibrant and I'm sure worthy of it's prominent display in your home. Thank you for sharing the memory and the Michael .gif ♥
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Date: 2020-07-06 08:51 pm (UTC)He will be pleased to hear it, I'm sure. Thank you for visiting and for your lovely comment!