Greetings, programs! We are once again sharing prompts for Pride Month! Follow along with as many or as few as you'd like. All types of submissions are welcome. Tag your works with #gridpride and we'll reblog them!
We also have NSFW prompts this year. Please do not engage with these prompts/works unless you are 18+. Thank you!
Week One
Evolve / "You're already perfect."
Music / "Play it again."
Freedom / "It's a free system."
Love Survives / "I can't believe you're real."
Drowsy / Loopy / "Would you still love me if I was a gridbug?"
Create a work with your favorite lesbian Tron ship and/or character(s)
Week Two
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) / "Lets stay in."
Training / "Try to keep up."
Neon / "You're beautiful."
Stay the night / "Just rest."
Users / "What the heck is kissing?"
Create a work with your favorite gay and/or bi Tron ship or character(s)
Week Three
Sunlight / Starlight / "It won't always be like this."
Community / "You're not alone." / "We stick together."
Heat of the Moment / "That was stupid. Wanna do it again?"
Obvious / "Can you believe they think they're being subtle?"
Oblivious / "Wait, you're (all) dating?"
Create a work for your favorite poly Tron ship or character(s)
Week Four
Queer platonic / "Why does everyone think we're dating?"
Spooning / Cuddling / "Just hold me."
Questioning / "I identify as confused."
Mask / Secret / "No one else knows."
"Sounds fake, but ok." / "I am too ace/aro for this conversation."
Create a work for your favorite ace/aro/queerplatonic Tron character(s)
Week Five
Love is the answer / you're home
2.0 / Update / "This is so much better."
Rainbow / "Don't put me in a box."
Gender euphoria
Stronger Together / "Clu wants what we have."
Create a work for your favorite genderqueer/trans/nonbinary Tron ship(s) and/or character(s)
NSFW prompts below the cut
Remote / Opposite sides of the screen
Energy Pool / Liquid Energy
Any Way You Want It / All Night
One Thing Leads to Another
(Literal) Powerplay / Power Surge / Energy Control
Disc Play / Code Manipulation
Roleplay / Prisoner/Captor
User(s) first time on the Grid / Program(s) first time in the Analog
Gender Play / T4T
Circuit Sex / Licking / Kissing
Dancing in the Dark / Can't Start a Fire Without a Spark
The actual title is “Velkommin,” composed by the amazing Stan LePard. Stan was responsible for a lot of music Microsoft used in its games (Flight Simulator X, Halo 3: ODST and Halo Reach, amongst many others), and passed away suddenly in 2021.
This piece in particular has an interesting history: it wasn’t actually composed for Windows XP, which is why is so different from all the XP Sounds and Music (composed by Bill Brown). Instead it was composed for the Autorun Screen of the Internet Explorer 3.0 Starter Pack! Because the web was new and exciting and cool, so why not make the installer CD play music and show off that fancy sound card you bought!
Wait? CD? Yep, back in the early days of Windows (think 3.1 or 95), computers didn’t ship with a Web Browser by default - the web was too new. You had to go get one on disk or CD (assuming your computer even had a CD-ROM drive at all), often for free but sometimes for a few dollars to cover the production costs. Hell, even if you had a way to download a browser, it was still probably faster to go buy the CD: dial up is SLOW, and in 1995 few-if-anyone had anything faster than ~24kbps.
And since Stan did a ton of other music for Microsoft, they had him do this too. When Windows 98 was in production, they even had him remix it to use for Win98’s Welcome to Windows app - though they ended up going with a different (much shorter) song. Stan shared that remix a few years ago: https://youtu.be/EBp0_v81vHc
