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kaitouOk, I know not many people read this LJ (and I don't blame you as it's fairly new and I dont' post much anyway) but I want to jump on the bandwagon and take requests too! It looks like fun. So name a pairing or series and I will try and write a short 100-500 word scribble for you. Pretty please?
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Date: 2003-08-24 02:29 am (UTC)*waves* Er, yes, random person who's been reading your original fic and likes it very much. If random stalkers scare you, just ignore me. =)
Tanabata
Date: 2003-08-26 01:19 pm (UTC)Ok, story. Tanabata is July 7th and everyone makes wishes and celebrates the story beneath. You may have read a more dramatic version in Barry Hughart's "Bridge of Birds" book. My elementary students did a little presentation about Tanabata for me and I was geekily happy to find out that the princess's name was Orihime.
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Once upon a time there was a weaver princess who was also the star Vega. Her name was Orihime and she sat at the banks of the Milky Way and wove beautiful fabric to please her father. But she couldn’t fall in love. Her father took pity on her and married her to the star shepherd Kengyuu who was also the star Altair. And they were very happy.
But they were separated by a river of stars and could only meet for one day a year. So Orihime would call a group of magpies and they would make a bridge for her to meet her husband.
Orihime is not a princess, and the only things she weaves are her own wild imaginings. She cannot imagine Kurosaki-kun as a shepherd either. Though the face he would make in the roll would certainly be funny.
She touches a hand to the pins in her hair. Her magpies will not carry her to her lover, but they will do something far more important. They will carry her to her destiny and her own newfound strength.
She is not a storybook princess. She is something better.
Re: Tanabata
Date: 2003-08-26 01:49 pm (UTC)And the drabble. *HEART* It fits Orihime beautifully. (I've heard of that folk tale. Did not realise the princess was called Orihime in the Japanese version, though. <3)
Re: Tanabata
Date: 2003-08-26 02:08 pm (UTC)