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retrospec2017-07-07 10:03 pm
complementing) wrote in retrospec2017-07-07 10:03 pm
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sixth evocation ✧ cybele
[This time instead of a text wall, the post is a brief video, also seen on the ReVA Facebook page if you follow that. Minako is featured front and center, wearing a yukata and her hair done up-- the perfect image of Japanese summer. She waves cheerily into the camera.]
Hi everyone! Minako here from ReVA to wish you a happy Tanabata! For those who don't know, Tanabata is a Japanese festival celebrating the folk story of Princess Orihime and the cowherd Hikoboshi. The two lovers were separated by Orihime's father, and were only able to meet on the seventh day of the seventh month, after Orihime wished for a way to be able to see Hikoboshi again. A flock of magpies answered her call and carried her to him, allowing them to meet once a year on that same day from then on. The festival is a time for people to send their dearest wishes to the deities and ask them to be granted, so--!
[She steps to the side, and the camera follows her to show a magnificent bamboo plant set up right in the entrance of the ReVA community center.]
Come by the community center and write down your wish! If you tie it to the bamboo plant, it will surely be received by the gods and be granted. [She points to a little red piece of paper already tied there.] This one is mine. No peeking though, or else the wish won't be fulfilled!
One last thing: there are yukatas like this one available for rental here at the community center. Come try some traditional Japanese summer wear, take some pictures, and eat some shaved ice with us!
[She smiles sweetly and playfully salutes the camera in farewell.]
Thanks for watching, hope to see you soon!
[An extra message for her fellow Retrospeccers has been added below the video.]
it doesn't matter if you believe in the gods or you don't
sometimes writing out a wish is emotionally powerful enough to spur you into working towards it, or for fate to nudge you in the right direction
so, for example, if you need help filling out the bingo tile to "grant a friend a wish", I can help arrange for that here! (✩´꒳`✩)
or if you don't want to make the trek but you okay with posting your wish here so it can potentially be fulfilled, that's fine too
Tanabata is closely tied to Obon, the festival honoring ancestors and lost loved ones, so you guys might see something else from me when that comes up too
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How long is that wish tree gonna be around for?
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why? ( ・◇・)
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But I'm a little tied up at the moment so I can't go today is all
Don't burn it or whatever it is people do with Tanabata trees until I come by ok??
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is Tanabata your favorite holiday?
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Once I wished for a bike and really got it (•̀ᴗ•́)و ̑̑
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[ Except now his dad isn't around to snoop and fulfill his wishes for him whoops... Who grants a god's wishes? Yato doesn't even think to question it. ]
Do your wishes usually come true, Minako?
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[Of course, there's the one wish about her brother that hasn't been fulfilled no matter how many gods she prays to, but that's one she'd rather entrust to the local shrine instead of a tiny Tanabata tree.]
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If you you have to work for it, then it's just
Work
Wishes are special because they happen on their own! Like birthday gifts (´▽`)
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then I guess it's more accurate to say that I don't make very many wishes?
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And when you aren't, you make your own fortune
That's really great! ヽ(〃･ω･)ﾉ
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it's satisfying to be able to do it on my own, even if it's tough sometimes