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Announcing: Obiyuki Week 2022

Welcome back one and all to our seventh annual Obiyuki Week! This year we decided to pay homage to the very first Obiyuki Week’s theme:

Fairy Tales

Each day will have a fairy tale as its theme, but we will also list the ATU Tale Type, plus a few other related tales. But we are not expecting just AUs for this ship week! Each prompt will also have themes listed from the story (Disguise, True Love, etc) that can be used to inspire works or continue existing ones! All prompts are considered guidelines, so don’t feel constrained by the themes or fairy tales that we give-- this ship week is open to all Obiyuki works!

Day 1: Beauty and the Beast

ATU Tale Type 425: Cupid & Psyche; East of the Sun, West of the Moon; Tam Lin Themes: Kindness, Night, Curse; Purple

Day 2: The Mermaid/Selkie Wife

ATU Tale Type 4080: Sealskin, The Swan Maiden, Jorinde and Joringel Themes: Shapeshifter, Silence, Home; Green

Day 3: Rumpelstiltskin

ATU Tale Type 500: Duffy and the Devil, King Olaf and the Giant, A Witch as Werewolf Themes: True Name, Bargains, Betrayal; Gold

Day 4: Snow White (Free Day)

ATU Tale Type 709: Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree; Sleeping Beauty; Maria, the Wicked Stepmother, and the Seven Robbers Themes: Innocence, True Love’s Kiss, Found Family; Red

Day 5: Koschei the Deathless

ATU Tale Type 302: Crystal Mountain, Jack and the Beanstalk, Bluebeard Themes: Secrets, Forbidden, Rescue; Black

Day 6: Puss in Boots

ATU Tale Type 545: Squire Peter, Andres the Trapper, The Weaver Themes: Adventure, Disguise, Promotion; Orange

Day 7: Cinderella

ATU Tale Type 510: The Baba Yaga; The Poor Turkey Girl; Fair, Brown and Trembling Themes: Hard Work, Magic, Transformation; Blue

Dates: September 18th-24th Tag: #obiyukiweek22

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Guidelines:

All work must be your own (eg. no plagiarizing other sources, tracing, pose stealing, etc)

The main pairing is Obi x Shirayuki

Must follow the day’s prompt, however loosely

Must be tagged #obiyukiweek22 within the first five tags

With Tumblr’s tagging system on the fritz, please also @ snowwhite-andtheknight in your entry

Please label with the day’s number!

All NSFW content must be tagged and under a Read More!

You may submit multiple entries for each day!

Be nice

Play hard

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