Tanabata
Who: Open to EVERYONE!
What: It's time for a festival! Enjoy yourselves... WHILE YOU STILL CAN!
Where: Eastern District
When: August 7th - All Day
Warnings: Who knows?
Notes: There will be a separate thread labeled for 'WISHES', just to keep track of who wishes for what. No need to pose anything fancy, just what your character writes down. Also be sure to add your character tag if you decide to join. Action/Prose both okay!
Thanks to the diligence of all who volunteered to help with the festival, a good portion of the Eastern District was all decked out with brightly-colored streamers, hung paper lanterns, and oversized strips of paper elegantly painted with Japanese kanji for sample wishes.
'Health.'
'Good luck in studies.'
'Love.'
'Puppy!'
Orihime thought that last one was particularly funny. But only those who read Japanese would know there was any humor placed into the delicate brushstrokes. The decorations were placed high enough that they wouldn't end up clotheslining any of the city's unfortunate taller Cybertronian residents. Not unless they started jumping around for some weird reason, anyway.
She'd done her best to recreate what she remembered of the festival back home in Karakura Town, with multiple booths for games and cheap prizes, and naturally, lots of food stands. Maybe some of the residents wanted to man such a stand for the fun of it! There were balls of rice dough lined up on a skewer and covered in a tangy, sweet sauce, fried octopus fritters, fish-shaped pancakes with sweet red bean paste sandwiched in the middle, grilled meat, paper plates loaded up with fried noodles... The choices were almost endless.
There were also, of course, tables stacked with thin sheets of colorful rice paper, with markers and paintbrushes so that people could make their wishes. Bundles of bamboo were kept in squat blue vases, and a pile of paper boats were stacked high next to the river's edge for the evening ceremony, where each bamboo-tied wish would be set adrift in the water.
The river itself ran underneath the 'centerpiece' of the festivities, a bridge that had been decorated with hundreds of origami cranes, to symbolize the bridge of birds from the Tanabata legend that enabled the two heavenly lovers to meet once a year.
What: It's time for a festival! Enjoy yourselves... WHILE YOU STILL CAN!
Where: Eastern District
When: August 7th - All Day
Warnings: Who knows?
Notes: There will be a separate thread labeled for 'WISHES', just to keep track of who wishes for what. No need to pose anything fancy, just what your character writes down. Also be sure to add your character tag if you decide to join. Action/Prose both okay!
Thanks to the diligence of all who volunteered to help with the festival, a good portion of the Eastern District was all decked out with brightly-colored streamers, hung paper lanterns, and oversized strips of paper elegantly painted with Japanese kanji for sample wishes.
'Health.'
'Good luck in studies.'
'Love.'
'Puppy!'
Orihime thought that last one was particularly funny. But only those who read Japanese would know there was any humor placed into the delicate brushstrokes. The decorations were placed high enough that they wouldn't end up clotheslining any of the city's unfortunate taller Cybertronian residents. Not unless they started jumping around for some weird reason, anyway.
She'd done her best to recreate what she remembered of the festival back home in Karakura Town, with multiple booths for games and cheap prizes, and naturally, lots of food stands. Maybe some of the residents wanted to man such a stand for the fun of it! There were balls of rice dough lined up on a skewer and covered in a tangy, sweet sauce, fried octopus fritters, fish-shaped pancakes with sweet red bean paste sandwiched in the middle, grilled meat, paper plates loaded up with fried noodles... The choices were almost endless.
There were also, of course, tables stacked with thin sheets of colorful rice paper, with markers and paintbrushes so that people could make their wishes. Bundles of bamboo were kept in squat blue vases, and a pile of paper boats were stacked high next to the river's edge for the evening ceremony, where each bamboo-tied wish would be set adrift in the water.
The river itself ran underneath the 'centerpiece' of the festivities, a bridge that had been decorated with hundreds of origami cranes, to symbolize the bridge of birds from the Tanabata legend that enabled the two heavenly lovers to meet once a year.