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Hello one and all! I am back with the official announcement of prompts for this July!

Thanks to those who voted in the poll I put out at the beginning of the month (March) and the results should not be much of a surprise!

This year's theme for Prompts is Lord of the Rings Quotes.

Just like last year with the Star Wars Themed Prompts, you do not have to do a Lord of the Rings or Fantasy AU- these are designed purely to tickle your brains!

Remember to @ this blog and tag your posts with #dadforoneweek or #dfoweek2023 to get your creations reblogged!

And now I bring you the prompts with help from @aimportantdragoncollector (Katydid)

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Day 1- (Monday, July 10th)

"Well, my little fellows! You shall come home with me!"

Day 2- (Tuesday, July 11th)

"Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles."

Day 3- (Wednesday, July 12th)

"Not all those who wander are lost."

Day 4- (Thursday, July 13th)

"But no living man am I!"

Day 5- (Friday, July 14th)

"I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren."

Day 6- (Saturday, July 15th)

"Do you know who I am?"

Day 7- (Sunday, July 16th)

And here's the info regarding my request from the page:

a reminder sometimes needed for the chronic illness gang

- Look at his dumb banana hair

- Funny mustache

- Punched Ujiko in the face

- A really funky guy

Into the Woods is so beautiful and complex! Most things that try to “subvert” fairytales miss the mark, but Into the Woods does it exceptionally well in a way that can never be matched. It’s funny and tragic, charming and clever, with intricate lyrics and subtly gorgeous music and so much humor and heart and heartbreak. It’s also EXTREMELY meta about storytelling—including killing off the narrator—and deconstructing the idea of how stories work, how stories are told, and why stories are told as they are. It’s funny and full of wordplay, it’s tragic and bittersweet, it’s hopeful without being hollow.

By the definition of “did not win the Tony for Best Musical” this bracket is using, Into the Woods is EXTREMELY snubbed. It won Tony for Best Book and Best Score, but NOT Best Musical, which imo makes no sense. “Sure, you have the best-written story and your music is the best, but you’re not the best overall because this other guy dropped a chandelier.” Was I alive for the 1988 Tony Awards? No. Am I still salty about it? Yes. Because Into the Woods was snubbed.  

Everything about Into the Woods is intricate. The lyrics, the music, the plot, the themes. AND IS THIS NOT THE “THEMES AND NARRATIVES” WEBSITE? NO ONE IS DOING THEMES AND NARRATIVES LIKE INTO THE WOODS. 

Speaking of themes and narratives: Into the Woods is about the damage that parents inflict on children, about the stories we tell and how they’re internalized, about how “wishes come true, not free,” careful what you wish for and careful the legacy you pass on. It deals with loss and grief and death and inheriting your parents’ failures. Nice is different than good. There is no concrete division between good and bad, there’s only the very human harm that we are all capable of inflicting (“Everybody makes one another’s terrible mistakes”). “Ever After” ends Act I, because there is always more story, nothing is ever finished. “Into the woods, each time you go there’s more to learn of what you know.” 

Seconding the salt we’re all feeling about the movie being so mediocre. If you’ve only seen the movie, PLEASE don’t let this be the basis for your Into the Woods opinion! The Original Broadway production is professionally filmed and available on youtube. The stage version of Into the Woods is both hilarious and tragic, and the movie erased so much of everything: scaling back on the humor and charm AND the tragedy and moral complexity, for an end result that just… isn’t much of anything at all 

It was the first musical I ever really loved, and in the 18 years since I first loved it, I continue to notice new things and make new connections and find new meaning in it. That to me is the marker of true art: that you can continue to unravel new layers even after decades of knowing something inside and out 

Into the Woods is so beautiful and complex! Most things that try to “subvert” fairytales miss the mark, but Into the Woods does it exceptionally well in a way that can never be matched. It’s funny and tragic, charming and clever, with intricate lyrics and subtly gorgeous music and so much humor and heart and heartbreak. It’s also EXTREMELY meta about storytelling—including killing off the narrator—and deconstructing the idea of how stories work, how stories are told, and why stories are told as they are. It’s funny and full of wordplay, it’s tragic and bittersweet, it’s hopeful without being hollow.

By the definition of “did not win the Tony for Best Musical” this bracket is using, Into the Woods is EXTREMELY snubbed. It won Tony for Best Book and Best Score, but NOT Best Musical, which imo makes no sense. “Sure, you have the best-written story and your music is the best, but you’re not the best overall because this other guy dropped a chandelier.” Was I alive for the 1988 Tony Awards? No. Am I still salty about it? Yes. Because Into the Woods was snubbed.  

Everything about Into the Woods is intricate. The lyrics, the music, the plot, the themes. AND IS THIS NOT THE “THEMES AND NARRATIVES” WEBSITE? NO ONE IS DOING THEMES AND NARRATIVES LIKE INTO THE WOODS. 

Speaking of themes and narratives: Into the Woods is about the damage that parents inflict on children, about the stories we tell and how they’re internalized, about how “wishes come true, not free,” careful what you wish for and careful the legacy you pass on. It deals with loss and grief and death and inheriting your parents’ failures. Nice is different than good. There is no concrete division between good and bad, there’s only the very human harm that we are all capable of inflicting (“Everybody makes one another’s terrible mistakes”). “Ever After” ends Act I, because there is always more story, nothing is ever finished. “Into the woods, each time you go there’s more to learn of what you know.” 

Seconding the salt we’re all feeling about the movie being so mediocre. If you’ve only seen the movie, PLEASE don’t let this be the basis for your Into the Woods opinion! The Original Broadway production is professionally filmed and available on youtube. The stage version of Into the Woods is both hilarious and tragic, and the movie erased so much of everything: scaling back on the humor and charm AND the tragedy and moral complexity, for an end result that just… isn’t much of anything at all 

It was the first musical I ever really loved, and in the 18 years since I first loved it, I continue to notice new things and make new connections and find new meaning in it. That to me is the marker of true art: that you can continue to unravel new layers even after decades of knowing something inside and out 

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