Blood and Fire, Bone and Ashes

[uraichievents]

Monday, June 13th, 2022 - Sunday, June 19th, 2022

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General Info

What is UraIchi Week?

It’s a week-long fanworks event to promote the Urahara Kisuke x Kurosaki Ichigo ship. There’s no sign-up, it’s just for fun, and everybody can participate. Completed works and wips are both acceptable, and any type of fanwork (fanfic, fanart, gifsets, etc.) is welcome. NSFW and/or potentialy trigger-y content is allowed, although please remember to tag your works properly.

The ship itself can be written romantically or platonically so long as it stars these two characters together in some way. Poly is also fine so long as Ichigo and Kisuke are still the focus of the fanwork. And crossovers and fusions are also allowed even if it isn’t one of the given prompts for the event. Basically, anything goes, and the only criteria is that it has to be UraIchi-centric.

Posting:

For those of you with Tumblr, you can tag your stuff with #UraIchi Week 2022 in the first five tags of your post. I’ll be tracking that tag so I’ll see it and reblog it to this blog. (If it’s been a few days since you posted and I still haven’t reblogged it, something probably went wrong, Tumblr’s not always reliable, so just shoot me an ask about it and I’ll reblog it.)

For those of you with AO3, I will create a collection a day or two before the event starts, and you’ll be able to add your work to the collection when you post. (I’ll toss up a notice for everyone once the collection is up.)

And of course we have our Discord server (link is on the sidebar) so if you want to come and talk about what you’re working on or you just want to chat, feel free to join us there!

At this point, the UraIchi Server has definitely gotten a lot bigger than just UraIchi, but we do still have channels dedicated to UraIchi events.

~ Themes

The votes are in and tallied so here are the results that everyone’s been waiting for! It’s your choice whether or not you want to make a fanwork that includes all the themes of that day, or a fanwork for each theme, or a fanwork for just one. You can make something for each day of the week or just one or two days. And if your fanwork doesn’t fit any of the themes, there’s a Creator’s Choice option on the last day so feel free to come up with your own AUs and other ideas. All prompts can be interpreted any way you want as well, it’s entirely up to you. The only thing that matters is that you have fun with it ^_^ Now, without further ado:

Keep reading

[ladyadain]

oh god here we go

[secret-engima]

Have you ever wandered through an old fandom you’re not really part of anymore, only to discover this REALLY COOL FIC about a very minor character you never heard of that’s done REALLY WELL and now you’re kinda back in the fandom solely for that character, but the only problem is there’s only 23 fics featuring that character and over half of them are all by the same author?

Which

Isn’t an issue because said author is AWESOME but also you now really want to write a short ficlet with said minor character, but literally your only reference for characterization is from another person’s 15-ish one-shots featuring them and you can’t tell if that will count as stealing someone else’s OC or not because of how much work they’ve put in that you can’t really tell where canon ends and the author’s personal headfanon begins.

Aka I stumbled on @blackkatmagic‘s (pretty sure that’s the username on Tumblr, anyway) collection of fics that feature Jon Antilles. Who I had LITERALLY NEVER HEARD OF UNTIL THIS POINT. And now really, REALLY want to write a little ficlet for because hgfdhgfd he’s a lovely character the way he’s written in those one-shots and such.

Also the other nomad jedi. Just- hgfdhgfd I knew of Fay from the Desert Storm AU on Ao3 but not the other two and NOW I WANT TO WRITE THEM.

*screams off into the distance because there’s a star wars one shot sitting in my docs that WASN’T THERE before I discovered blackkat’s story Spring in Hell (and everything’s blooming)*

[ladyadain]

this is a problem i feel intimately

this exact fandom

this exact author

this exact character

fuck me

[phantomrose96]

You know the. You know the Femme Fatale "I grew up with 10 brothers so I know how to fight" character?

That's

That's Roy Mustang

Just the opposite.

Roy "I grew up with 10 sisters so I know how to disguise covert information reconnaissance as flirting" Mustang.

"I grew up with 10 sisters so I know how to weaponize my sexual charm to disarm others and win favor."

Roy led every higher-up to believe he was just a fuckboy and a manwhore in this for his own ego and that they shouldn't view him as any kind of violent revolutionary like "no sir I'm just a slut."

Roy Mustang.

[fairy-anon-godmother]

Ok, here’s the thing. YA fiction features child and teenage protagonists because it is intended to be consumed by children, teens and young adults. If you’re going to browse the YA shelf looking for a rebellion against an evil empire, or superheroes in training, you just have to accept that the protagonists are going to be of a similar age to their intended audience. The genre they are in is literally called the Young Adult genre. It’s that simple. And the genre is not designed to support an adult’s recognition of the danger these young protagonists are facing when they go on their respective adventures.

If you find yourself going from ‘yeah! Fifteen is totally old enough to take on the evil empire!’ to ‘Oh my god who let these kids out on a school night they should have a curfew why aren’t adults handling this battle’, then you might want to look into adult fiction. If you feel like holding up a YA work and declaring that the mentors or guiding forces in the story are evil because they are training children for dangerous situations, then congratulations! You actually are ready to graduate to adult fiction! Where there might also be child soldiers, but that will be treated as a seriously bad thing. 

Don’t get me wrong, sticking with YA fiction as an adult is fine! The genre is easy, fun, features delightful adventures, and can offer a very relaxing and comforting escape. But when you find yourself recognizing that ‘kids’ handling large adventures means the adults around them have failed, take that as a sign that you’ve matured. The YA protagonists won’t, they’re going to stay young. And they’ll continue to have adventures at young ages, because kids younger than you are coming up behind you now and want to have their fun reading stories meant for them. If you find yourself reading YA and getting angry over how young the protagonists are, you might save yourself some stress by browsing the adult fiction shelves.

[roach-works]

But when you find yourself recognizing that ‘kids’ handling large adventures means the adults around them have failed, take that as a sign that you’ve matured.

[just-shower-thoughts]

The average porn viewer is a straight male. Most porn has cocks. Thus, the average straight male has looked at a hell of a lot of cocks.

[ladyadain]

my inner troll demands this addition

[deadmomjokes]

So my husband is back on his medieval warfare and tactics special interest lately, and he was telling me about how so many battles were lost because the knights would just disobey orders and break ranks because they got too excited and just went full Leroy Jenkins. Prey drive switches on and they see somebody running and they just blank out and go.

Which seemed really dumb to me, like people couldn’t be that stupid, until I got walloped in the face by a memory from freshman year of college.

It’s almost 10pm in the dead of winter right before Finals, I’m out at college in a high altitude desert in the biggest city I’ve ever been in during my life. My dorm is on the second floor of one of the newest buildings, which are still surrounded by construction zones for the other new buildings going up. Just past the construction zones is one of the city’s major roads. There is still snow on the ground outside, the sidewalks are ice and rock salt, and the parking lot is a slush pile. (All of this is relevant in a minute I swear, stay with me here.)

We get a knock at the door. One of my roomies answers it. There’s 2 creepy looking muscle dudes asking for another roommate, E. E is creeped out and doesn’t want to go see them, but they won’t leave, insisting they see her and talk to her out in the hall. My spider senses are tingling, the social anxiety override kicks in, and I go full Mom Friend and ask them who they are and how they know her. And dudes just take off for the stairwell.

And I took off after them.

I need y’all to understand that I was an asthmatic at altitude in a mountain city in winter at night in shorts and a t-shirt and no shoes whatsoever, and I somehow made it down two flights of stairs, out the door, down the sidewalk, across a construction zone, across the parking lot, and halfway to the road screaming at two beardy dudebros twice my size to “get back here you little creeps”, all before I had consciously realized that I had left my apartment. Something about watching two creepy guys run for it triggered something in me, some latent instinct to Search and Destroy. Like Fight or Flight but I wasn’t the one being threatened, they were the ones doing the Flight, and I had this deep, ferocious need to FIGHT.

I full on blanked out, y’all. I literally have no memory of getting down the stairs or across the parking lot or anything at all until I was watching the headlights on the road thinking “wait, where are my shoes?” It’s a little black hole. I was in the apartment, they took off running, and then bam, there I was. It was like an out of body experience, I was hearing myself shout at them and thinking “I sound like such an idiot right now omg,” and then I realized What I Had Done.

Not only was it stupid, it was super dangerous. Even aside from all the environmental dangers, if they were some kind of kidnappers they could totally have snatched me. And yet there I was, barefoot in the snow and road salt with no phone, no inhaler, and I was still hollering after them like a dog on a chain when one of my roommates came down in boots and a coat to drag me back inside.

And honestly? I’m still miffed I never caught the guys. That was my takeaway from that incident.

So yes, I believe it now. People are so unbelievably dumb and the prey drive instinct is absolutely real.

[akavincent]

@shizonrhu

[wearecowboy]

@we-are-knight

Thoughts? I have had a few experiences like this before, and you seem the type to enjoy this story.

[we-are-knight]

Yeah, this happened. Actually contributed toward the loss for the French at Agincourt.

[heroineimages]

It also contributed to Queen Zenobia’s loss to Aurelian’s legions at the battle of Emesa. Her infantry broke part of Aurelian’s lines and continued to pursue, drawing them out of formation and into flanking position by Aurelian’s reserves.

Ancient field-warfare relied very heavily on infantry maintaining formation, as a solid wall of heavy infantry like hoplites, phlangites, or legionaries lined up with weapons and shields ready was a formidable obstacle on any battlefield. One tactic was to try to goad them into breaking formation using archers, skirmishers, and other ranged units. Even though legionaries and hoplites and similar units wore heavy armor and bore heavy shields that were largely resistant to projectiles, lighter ranged troops might be able to piss them off enough to pull them out of formation and into a trap or flanking maneuver. 

[lady-feral]

The first time I ever came face to face with a bear I was having a conversation with a roommate outside our rented house in Asheville north carolina. Its head popped up over the hood of my roommates van and we looked at each other and I think I said “… that’s a bear!”

Next thing I know I’m at a full sprint in my neighbor’s yard with an axe in my hand chasing the bear into the woods and I stopped and slid like a fucking cartoon character and said out loud to myself “what the FUCK are you doing?”

I honestly don’t think I had a conscious thought until some part of my brain realized that the bear was way faster than me and I wasn’t going to be able to catch up.

[boatcats]

Exit pursuing a bear. Legend status.

[gamebird]

Really. So much of army stuff is just teaching people to follow commands at all times, under all conditions. Because human beings are bad at that! (So are most other creatures, so it’s not a human thing per se.) This is the reason for drill, repetitive training, development of muscle memory, strict hierarchy, and insistence that you can’t question the chain of command no matter what.

[findingfeather]

This drive is so intrinsic that “this army is inexperienced, they’ll chase us if we run” or similar ruses were FREQUENTLY used to massive tactical advantage.

[first-and-last-neocount]

This is both useful reference for my writing and an absolutely hysterical set of anecdotes, so thank you all

[ladyadain]

so me n sib are watching one piece (and have been for a couple months, although you’d be surprised how quickly we’re chewing through them... we both obsess Like That) and, look, Thriller Bark was half an ounce off of terrifying, and would have been if the drawing and/or tone had been any darker, and Punk Hazard was pretty close to horror of an entirely different kind. Dressrosa was dark af once you looked underrneath the underneath...

But godfuckingdammit if Whole Cake Island isn’t taking the fucking... dammit. The pun was unintentional but it cannot be undone. Anyway! The singing things, the creepy smiles, Big Mom’s... food preferences. The clocks in the forest. The entire thing is a giant fucking Nope. The candy-and-jewel tones and the cheerful music just makes it worse.

I honestly cannot wait for the Straw Hats to wreak their characteristic havoc.

[ladyadain]

ugh i got my vaccine yesterday with my lil sibling and we spent last night dying like she was throwing up and having extreme body aches and fever and exhaustion and I was having extreme stomach cramps and extreme body aches and fever and exhaustion and honestly if this tries to raise its ugly head tonight as well i’m gonna have to find a way to fight the concept of “negative side effects”

[ladyadain]

I also now have a Patreon! So if you like what I write and want that to happen faster, or if you want input on what I write or whatever, feel free to chip in!

https://www.patreon.com/ladyadain

[ladyadain]

Back on Tumblr bitches

that’s it that’s the post

[writing-prompt-s]

Thanks to a clerical error in the afterlife, the ghost of a mafia don has been assigned guardian angel duty. He turns out to be the best thing that ever happened to his young charge.

[ladyadain]

i fucking love this concept

[just-shower-thoughts]

Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains.

[ladyadain]

somehow this summed up the entirety of my feelings about superhero aus and original works and everything about superheroes all at once

[corvidprompts]

The fae smiled, sharply: “Give me your name, child.”

“Uhhhhh. Stick.”

“What.”

“Does Leaf work better? I’m just kinda looking around this clearing. Look, I’m trans, I haven’t decided on one yet, I’m throwing some spaghetti at the wall, you know how it is.”

[shadeshadow234]

Fae are born with features sharp and narrow, yet this one seems to soften as Moss looks at it. Its grin— sharp, teeth gleaming, its eyes— cutting, searching, the jut and pull of its jaw enough to scratch glass. It does not blink. Branch does not blink. It softens.

“I said, give me your name, child.”

“I still haven’t picked one,” Grass defends, even now still hoping for a way out of a faeries deal.

“No. But your parents did. Give me your name, child, and it shall no longer be yours. The entity of your name shall no longer exist, and you will be free for whichever name you choose— Leaf, or Stick, or Lichen.”

“…oh.” says Petal, and in the next moment a name falls from their lips. It is not their name. It never has been. The fae is sharp and cutting and witty, that moment of softness an imagined slight.

“Very well, child. Be warned of mushroom circles, should you lose your name again.”

“Okay,” Mushroom smiles, and the Fae pulls itself away from their reality in a swirl of feathers and silk.

When they go home for the first time in two months, their mother frets over them in a way she had not since they were a child, and she calls them by no name at all.

[iwhumpyou]

Goddamn.  This is my favorite version of ‘faeries take your name’, that’s it, we can all go home now.

[lord0fries]

The fae said trans rights

[pure]

as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

There is nothing wrong with everyone enjoying each other’s cultures so long as those cultures have been shared. 

Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually. 

If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)

“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”

“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”

“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”

“Cool.”

It’s not hard.

You want to twerk, twerk. I’ve never heard a black person say they didn’t think anybody else should be allowed to twerk. Just that they want us to acknowledge that they invented that shit, not Miley fucking Cyrus.

[queeranarchism]

It really boils down to three simple things:

Consent. Is the culture open to sharing this thing? (& don’t cheat by finding one person who consents while most of the culture disagrees.)

Context. If a culture is open to sharing a thing but it is a thing of great religious significance, take the time to learn what is a respectful way to treat the thing. Probably don’t use it as random decoration or sexualize it unless that’s what it’s for. 

Credit. Give credit and if possible, buy from the original creators so the money goes where the credit should be.

[weirdo-with-a-nametag]

This is really useful to me personally because I’ve definitely caught myself losing sight of what cultural appropriation actually is, and why it matters, so thank you, and everybody else pay attention too

[ladyadain]

This is a good helpful guide for me also. I absolutely adore other cultures and sometimes I have a hard time telling where that line should be.

[jahaliel]

A poem for one of my new fave fics - Retorta (iterum est) by pocketTherapist on Ao3 ( @ladyadain) transcription of the poem as follows:

This second chance from betrayal born and bled may just save them all, family and unknowing friends

And this joy you also have that you do not walk alone that once again your dear love has impossible odds overthrown

So then with cheerful hearts prepare again to go to fight already you have changed it all with your devotion; it will be alright

Because he is with you, now and always - a chance for change let swords be drawn and battle joined with hope it hearts replacing rage

[ladyadain]

This is so lovely and I am very, very honored that something this beautiful is dedicated to something I did.

[ladyadain]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I finally posted a work in the teen wolf fandom!! which I have never watched but @cywscross has been dragging me in for years so finally I have caved and finished-and-posted a thing. 

It’s a happy ending I promise. 

[penny-anna]

the fellowship discuss musical instruments

[ladyadain]

i am in tears