Prompt: Qixi

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My apologies for missing last week's prompt. Such is the chronically ill life. In any case, since last week's prompt would have been Qixi, that will be this week's prompt. Qixi is one of China's traditional celebrations of romantic love, derived from the myth of the meeting of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl on the Magpie Bridge. The lantern decoration and release scene in The Untamed is set on this day and specifically references the myth.

This is one of our recurring annual prompts, which means that drabble sequences and drabble series are allowed, since these prompts have multiple or more complex concepts associated with them that warrant exploration in these longer formats. These formats are explained in this post, while the standard drabble formats are explained in the community rules.

You have until midnight your time on Friday, August 23, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.