Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song

July 2017 SWG challenge Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song banner with a medieval couple in a heart

During the month of July, fanworks creators around the world celebrate love. July has been reserved for honoring both the femslash and slash genres. Half of the world is sultry with summer heat, and half of the world seeks nearness and warmth to banish winter's chill.

For this month's challenge, you will use a popular love song as a prompt to inspire a fanwork about romantic or sexual love. You will choose your own prompt from the list of love songs below. More than one participant may choose the same song, and you may use any aspect of the song--the title, all or part of the lyrics, the mood or style of the music, or the music video--or any combination!--to inspire your response. You don't need to claim a prompt or comment or do anything but create your fanwork! Any pairing or poly relationship is acceptable for the challenge.

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Prompts

Choose your prompt from the collection below.

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  • "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers: video | lyrics
  • "Justify My Love" by Madonna: video | lyrics
  • "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails: video | lyrics (explicit)
  • "I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You" by Tina Arena and Marc Anthony: video | lyrics
  • "Up Where We Belong" by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes: video | lyrics
  • "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston: video | lyrics
  • "Rule The World" by Take That: video | lyrics
  • "Diamonds" by Rihanna: video | lyrics
  • "Your Song" by Elton John: video | lyrics
  • "Gravity" by Vienna Teng: video | lyrics
  • "Mamma Mia" by ABBA: video | lyrics
  • "We Belong" by Pat Benatar: video | lyrics
  • "The Bad Touch" by Bloodhound Gang: video | lyrics (explicit)
  • "Ghost Love Score" by Nightwish: video | lyrics (warning for violence)
  • "Thirty-Three" by The Smashing Pumpkins: video | lyrics
  • "Africa" by Toto: video | lyrics
  • "Reach Out, I'll Be There" by The Four Tops: video | lyrics
  • "Someone to Watch Over Me" by Ella Fitzgerald: video | lyrics
  • "She Loves You" by the Beatles: video | lyrics
  • "Water Runs Dry" by Boyz II Men: video | lyrics

Fanworks Tagged with Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song

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Ghost Love Score by Raiyana

Fëanor beyond Time in the Halls of Mandos

Nerdanel in Aman

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I've Hungered for Your Touch by oshun

Caranthir is offered a chance to read an unpublished diary entry. It’s a copy of a recently discovered ancient manuscript apparently written by Haleth the Hunter. It’s a follow-up to my previous story The Manly-hearted Woman, but can be read independently of that one. It is also an entry in the SWG Challenge Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song. (“...use a popular love song as a prompt to inspire a fanwork about romantic or sexual love. You will choose your own prompt from the list of love songs below.” I chose "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers: video | lyrics).

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Swans by Dawn Felagund

Against Maedhros's wishes, Fingon is off to a summer retreat in the mountains, a retreat designed by the Valar for newly reembodied Elves. Amid games of kickball and group therapy, Fingon makes a friend, discovers the Noldor haven't actually invented everything, and begins to grasp the complexities of his post-reembodiment relationship with Maedhros. Maedhros/Fingon, set in my Republic of Tirion verse.

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Stolen Evenings by Tyelca

A collection of short stories, each one focusing on a different pairing sharing one (stolen) evening.

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New Directions. part two. by hennethgalad

In part one, the crew of Eärendil were sent back to Beleriand from Valinor in a new ship.  

 In this part, the wind changes for the Ainumanä and the crew meet some strangers.  

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Far From The World We Know by Himring

At the top of Elwing's white tower.

Earendil has landed, back from traversing the pathless sky, and Elwing has flown to meet him.

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Picking Up The Pieces by Grundy

After the Fall of Gondolin, Maeglin's more than a little broken. Is there any hope for him?

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For Love of Silver Stars by LadyBrooke

The sun’s dying rays faded over Doriath for the first time, and Lúthien looked at Nimloth. 

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Your Song by Kaylee Arafinwiel

"But Lúthien came to the halls of Mandos, where are the appointed places of the Eldalië, beyond the mansions of the West upon the confines of the world. There those that wait sit in the shadow of their thought. But her beauty was more than their beauty, and her sorrow deeper than their sorrows; and she knelt before Mandos and sang to him..."

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