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Prompt: Hungry Ghost Festival
Aug. 23rd, 2024 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ranaloreMoving back the Qixi prompt moved this one back as well, since the Hungry Ghost Festival was celebrated on August 18th this year. However, the entire seventh month of the lunar calendar was Ghost month prior to the arrival of Buddhism in China, considered the scariest month of the year, and there are observances for the ghosts of the dead throughout. People burn incense and make offerings of food, paper money, and paper effigies to appease both ancestors and enemy ghosts alike. They also float paper lanterns on rivers and lakes to guide ghosts back to their respective spiritual realms and dispel bad luck.
In the world of MDZS/The Untamed, this month would likely see an uptick in resentful energy activity requiring the intervention of a cultivator, since the gates of hell are opened at the beginning of the month to release the souls of the restless dead, and not shut until the end of the month. Water activities are considered especially perilous, since water ghosts lie in wait to drown people as a means to transmigrate. Interestingly, it's also recommended to avoid wearing the colors black and red, since both are especially enticing to ghosts.
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 30, 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.
In the world of MDZS/The Untamed, this month would likely see an uptick in resentful energy activity requiring the intervention of a cultivator, since the gates of hell are opened at the beginning of the month to release the souls of the restless dead, and not shut until the end of the month. Water activities are considered especially perilous, since water ghosts lie in wait to drown people as a means to transmigrate. Interestingly, it's also recommended to avoid wearing the colors black and red, since both are especially enticing to ghosts.
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 30, 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.