#tradtional prompt 11

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25 days of Draco and Harry Traditional Prompt 11 The challenge is to write a drabble, ficlet, story, whatever for each of the pics. Your fic for each prompt must be a minimum of 100 words - but there is no maximum. They can be twenty-five one-shots or each one can be a part of a bigger story. Yes, you may combine this with other holiday challenges. But to be part of 25 Days of Draco and Harry – Draco and Harry MUST be a couple. You can post your fics anywhere, but please post the header below - with a link to where ever you post. I highly recommend you post to the AO3 collection set up for this challenge: 25 Days of Draco and Harry 2022.

  You can do this easily by posting the work to your AO3 account and where it says post to collections start typing 25 Days... a list will come up and you simply need to select: 25 Days of Draco and Harry 2022 (25_Days_of_Draco_and_Harry_2022). When you post it's included in the collection. Easy!! This will help me for the recap I'll put together. ♥ But you are NOT obligated to post to AO3. A hint for those of you writing one, big story is to click "this work has multiple chapters" when you make your first post. That way you can add a chapter to it each day and people can find it easily. Also, if you're doing 25 not related fics – click "this work is part of a series" and then title your series something like sassy_cissa's 2022 25 Days of D/H series (but using your name, of course) or something that will uniquely identify it on AO3. NOTE: your fic does not have to be a story of the picture - you can use a part of the picture or whatever that picture says to you. For those doing traditional style – the prompts must be used in order – as stated in the guidelines. This does not apply for early-bird participants. The challenge of this is to write and post within the 24-hour period between prompt postings. There's no penalty if you don't, but if you'd like to challenge yourself you can. Otherwise, you can post anytime for any prompt if you are posting for fun. You can also combine prompts if you're not able to write one day. The hope for this is for it to be fun and low-stress. And because your mods want more H/D loveliness during Christmas!! NOTE: your work doesn't have to be beta'd for this challenge. 

Each day at midnight (EST) beginning on Dec 1st - the prompt for that  day will show at the top of that day’s post. NOTE: THIS CLOCK is the official clock. If you have any questions or concerns - feel free to contact the mods at potionsgod@gmail.com. If posting on tumblr, please tag all entries: #25 days of drarry, #25 days 2022. Thanks

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December 2021 feedback and reviews

It’s very high time for some cheerful feedback on your December stories!

Below the cut you will find: a run-down of the bonus restriction points, individual feedback for the stories from the voters and a link to a sheet containing detailed reviews of every August submission, courtesy of our Monthlies Reviewing Club.

BONUS RESTRICTIONS

Points were being awarded for completing three different criteria: using the smell of chocolate, pine or gasoline somewhere in the story, mentioning coins and including the number 12. Each restriction was worth one bonus favorite point + one extra for fulfilling all three for up to four extra points.

Stories awarded 4 extra points: Winter Blooms; Frostfire; A handful of sun; New Year's Kiss; The Rubaiyat of Sisters; Confined; Of Artifact, Snow, and Love; Echoes of You; Fields of Evergreen; Loose change on the loose; The Twelve Days of Yule; A(n arguably) Delicious Tradition; The Years to Come

Stories awarded 2 extra points: Staying Inn; Arthur

Stories awarded 1 extra point: Wedding Tradtions; pon farr

Stories not awarded extra points: A calm year; Sacrifice To The Beast

The extra points have already been included on the results graph.

FEEDBACK AND REVIEWS

This month’s roster of 8 reviewers included: Antor2001, Basil, @dont-tell-them-its-me, @the-magic-one-is-you, KnightSolaire, Primxl, @adoraslastbraincell and ElsannaSnowdrop.

The reviews can be read here. The nicknames listed above and on the sheet might not be the same, but the people are in the same order.

Individual stories feedback from the voters:

f = favorite vote, k = kudos vote

1: Winter Blooms Style 6 (3f 3k) Characterisation 4 (2f 2k) Dialogues 3 (2f 1k) Tone 2 (2f) Flow 1 (1f) Plot 2 (1f 1k) Grammar 1 (1f) The story's Elsa 1 (1f) The story's Anna 1 (1f) Setting/Universe 1 (1k)

2: Frostfire Style 11 (5f 6k) Fits the prompt best 1 (1f) Characterisation 5 (4f 1k) Dialogues 2 (1f 1k) Tone 6 (4f 2k) Flow 7 (3f 4k) Plot 7 (4f 3k) Grammar 3 (3f) The story's Elsa 4 (3f 1k) The story's Anna 4 (4f) Setting/Universe 7 (4f 3k) Other (1k): - Guess I’m a slut for enemies to lovers

3: Staying Inn Style 4 (1f 3k) Fits the prompt best 1 (1f) Characterisation 2 (1f 1k) Dialogues 1 (1f) Tone 1 (1f) Flow 1 (1f) Plot 3 (1f 2k) Grammar 1 (1f) The story's Elsa 1 (1f) The story's Anna 1 (1f) Setting/Universe 2 (1f 1k)

4: A handful of sun Style 10 (5f 5k) Fits the prompt best 3 (1f 2k) Characterisation 12 (7f 5k) Dialogues 7 (4f 3k) Tone 9 (4f 5k) Flow 11 (5f 6k) Plot 10 (6f 4k) The story's Elsa 7 (4f 3k) The story's Anna 6 (4f 2k) Setting/Universe 4 (3f 1k) Total other: 2 Other (1f): - chef’s kiss Other (1k): - anna is SO IN LOVE

5: New Year's Kiss Style 1 (1k) Characterisation 1 (1k) Dialogues 2 (2k) Tone 2 (1f 1k) Flow 1 (1k) Plot 3 (1f 2k) Setting/Universe 2 (2k) Other (1k): - it was cute

6: The Rubaiyat of Sisters Style 3 (1f 2k) Tone 1 (1k) Flow 1 (1f) Grammar 1 (1f) Other (1f): - It's an amazing bit of poetry

7: A calm year Fits the prompt best 1 (1f) Dialogues 1 (1f) Flow 1 (1f)

8: Confined Style 10 (3f 7k) Fits the prompt best 4 (2f 2k) Characterisation 8 (2f 6k) Dialogues 7 (3f 4k) Tone 6 (1f 5k) Flow 4 (2f 2k) Plot 11 (4f 7k) Grammar 1 (1k) The story's Elsa 2 (1f 1k) The story's Anna 4 (1f 3k) Setting/Universe 1 (1k)

9: Of Artifact, Snow, and Love Style 1 (1f) Characterisation 2 (1f 1k) Flow 1 (1k) Plot 1 (1k) Setting/Universe 1 (1f) Other (1f): - love me some Warehouse 13

10: Echoes of You Style 9 (2f 7k) Characterisation 7 (1f 6k) Dialogues 6 (1f 5k) Tone 10 (2f 8k) Flow 8 (2f 6k) Plot 10 (2f 8k) Grammar 2 (2k) The story's Elsa 2 (2k) The story's Anna 9 (9k) Setting/Universe 3 (3k) Other (2k): - the snapshots of anna's misery in the present contrasted with her happy memories of elsa were really effective; i especially loved the way the story gradually doled out info about how things got like this. i wondered why elsa even had powers, until she got abducted by the government (??) bc of it, this was an A+ plot twist. - that reunion scene was written flawlessly bestie

11: Fields of Evergreen Style 9 (4f 5k) Fits the prompt best 2 (1f 1k) Characterisation 9 (4f 5k) Dialogues 6 (2f 4k) Tone 4 (1f 3k) Flow 3 (1f 2k) Plot 9 (5f 4k) Grammar 2 (1f 1k) The story's Elsa 5 (2f 3k) The story's Anna 5 (2f 3k) Setting/Universe 5 (3f 2k)

12: Wedding Traditions Plot 1 (1k) Setting/Universe 1 (1k)

13: Loose change on the loose Style 3 (1f 2k) Fits the prompt best 2 (2k) Characterisation 2 (2k) Dialogues 2 (1f 1k) Tone 2 (2k) Flow 3 (1f 2k) Plot 3 (3k) Grammar 1 (1k) The story's Elsa 1 (1k) The story's Anna 1 (1k) Setting/Universe 1 (1k) Other (1f): - ok so this had a dearth of proper punctuation, but that absolutely did not hinder the raw energy/momentum of the story. i loved every line of dialogue. this was a consistently fun read from start to finish, even if there wasn't much tradition to be found haha

14: Sacrifice To The Beast Style 1 (1k) Characterisation 1 (1k) Tone 1 (1k) Flow 1 (1k) Plot 1 (1k) The story's Elsa 1 (1k) Setting/Universe 1 (1k)

15: Arthur Style 1 (1k) Fits the prompt best 2 (1f 1k) Characterisation 3 (3k) Dialogues 3 (1f 2k) Tone 1 (1k) Flow 2 (1f 1k) Plot 3 (1f 2k) Grammar 1 (1k) The story's Elsa 4 (1f 3k) The story's Anna 1 (1k) Setting/Universe 3 (1f 2k)

16: The Twelve Days of Yule Style 2 (2k) Tone 1 (1k) Flow 1 (1k) Plot 2 (2k) The story's Anna 2 (2k) Setting/Universe 1 (1k)

17: A(n arguably) Delicious Tradition Style 1 (1f) Fits the prompt best 1 (1f) Characterisation 1 (1f) Tone 1 (1f)

19: The Years to Come Style 1 (1k) Characterisation 1 (1k) Dialogues 1 (1k) Tone 2 (2k) Flow 1 (1k) Plot 1 (1k) The story's Elsa 1 (1k) The story's Anna 1 (1k) Setting/Universe 2 (1f 1k)

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D&AD: initial idea, research

After many brief and dissccusion for D&AD, after thinking and researching, I chose monotype for my final decision, due to the reason that I don’t think I am good at promoting brand’s value or those kind of stuff. And monotype’s brief is more like discovering the story behind communities.

Notes from briefing

The important part is to find a community that has its value and context that has a point to be presented and celebrated with type. In the begining I wasn’t sure which kind of community they want. But I found a few stuff that I was interest in.  

In the first tutorial, I have 2 very initial ideas,  the first one is ＃This is 18, which is a project that runs by the New York Times. They asked girls to share what their communities look like all over the world.  They asked young female photographers to take photos of the girls in each place and asked them about what they like and what they up to recently or giving advice to other young women.

 I like the concept of linking every young female together and it is interesting to see what other young girls life is in completely different places as myself and found out even though they are in another country that is far away, they still have the same kind of issue when I was 18. And I also found their visual design of the website really interesting. It looks like online zine, using collage style to make gifs and there is even a spotify playlist that they collected the young girls the songs are listening to, and put them together.

website link:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/11/style/this-is-18.html

“Marking the transition from childhood to adulthood, 18 means you can finally vote, sign a lease on an apartment, obtain a credit card and buy cigarettes in the United States. In the UK, China and parts of Canada, 18 grants you entrance to a pub, while for most Israelis, it means a mandatory draft into the military. By 18, one in five women across the globe will be married. Millions will enter college or university.

The young photographers were asked to document girls in their communities – taking the photos and conducting interviews themselves, with each photographer paired with a professional mentor to guide them through the process.

Featuring 21 girls from across 12 time zones, and 15 languages, the end result is a celebration of ‘girlhood’ across oceans and cultures, through girls’ eyes – from Mexico to Mississippi, Ramallah to Russia, Bangladesh to the Bronx.” （https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/this-is-18-the-new-york-times-celebrates-girlhood-with-though-provoking-project-/）

The second idea is a facebook group that created for Asian people who living abroad posting memes and stuff that happened to them or funny things happened to their immigrant family. It entertains my life a lot since I join this group and it feels like you are not alone because there are so many people out there had similar experience and sometimes sees this negative stuff from a funny perspective. It change my way of thinking when I met something that is ignorant of culture or race. 

Subtle Asian Traits  is a Facebook group dedicated to Internet memes, jokes, and discussion surrounding the Asian experience in the West. Though the posts on the page cover a large range of topics, they mainly focus on Asian culture as experienced by the children of migrants. The group has over 1 million members and has been featured in a variety of mainstream news sources for its insights into the Asian diaspora. (wiki)

memes from Subtle asian traits

But after discussing with David and people in our group,  the first idea is off brief, it doesn’t fit with the ideal of the communities monotype are seeking for.  And the asian trait is at the edge of the off brief, but if I find a smart aspect of it, it could be potential but I feel like it is too board and I decided to research more for other ideas. I went back to read the brief again, and I did a bit brainstorm. I decided to focus on the communities in Taiwan, which people don’t really know about.  

Until now, in most of the Asian countries, same-sex marriage is still illegal. Even though society is more open to different sexual orientations than before, there are still many narrow-minded people. In 2017 the Taiwanese top court decided that not protecting same-sex marriage is against the law, which will make Taiwan the first country that legalized same-sex marriage in Asia.

A panel of judges at Taiwan's top court are hearing a case that could make the island the first place in Asia to introduce gay marriage.

The case has been brought by a gay activist as well as municipal authorities from the capital, Taipei.

Taiwan's parliament has also been debating whether to pass laws that would allow same-sex marriage.

The movement has split society and prompted a conservative backlash, with vocal protests in recent months.

A panel of 14 justices are hearing arguments and will debate whether a line in Taiwan's civil code, which states that marriage is between a man and a woman, is unconstitutional.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39376423

But it also brings a huge conflict between a group of people who are homophobic and call themselves Family Guardian Coalition. They are trying to stop Legislative Yuan, which is one of the five branches of government stipulated by the Constitution of Taiwan, from changing the original law to all gender. Instead, they are hoping to make another special law for same-sex marriage which is not truly equal, because that would be creating a separation once again. Their ideals cause even more people who already don’ t understand LGBTQ have wrong impressions of them and may even go against them. They used fake news and spread it out in group chats and also sign petition to referendum against. It is an act that against human right. And the group that support Marriage equality also sign a pettition to against the Family Guardian Coalition to make another referendum to hope to remain the truly equal law. But unfortunately, they win result of referendum. It broke many LGBTQ people’s and my heart, they tore the society apart, and even cause many LGBTQ people suicide. 

The power of ignorant and fake news is terrifying and more extreme than people’s imagine. And because the Family guardian group has a certain style of making fake news, the marriage equality group people starting to make similar style of how they make fake news, instead they try to make right information on those photos so people could sent to their parents who do not quite understand LGBTQ communities and marriage quality. 

Marriage quality group information adverts(left)/ Family guardiangroup infromation adverts(right)

Marriage quality group information memes mimic family guardian group memes. 

So I present this idea to David and he suggested me to find a specific or iconic traditional Taiwanese or Chinese symbol to use it as a starting point to communicate the idea.  

I had another research which is about indigenous people’ languages in Taiwan. There are 16 main groups of indigenous people, and the problem is they do not have written characters that they couldn’t record their history on papers. They tell their story though founding member in each tribe and the main speaking languages in school is mandarin so more and more indigenous young people couldn’t speak their own language anymore, they also moved out from their villages to big cities to seek better jobs opportunities. And history and culture are dying quickly more than people’s imagine, and the government isn’t doing anything to protect their culture, because the main people in politics are Han- Chinese people. Doing anything for indigenous people does not benefit them. They keep taking more and more of their lands and limited more of the tradtional territories.

 Background: 

The original population of the island of Taiwan and its associated islands, i.e. not including Kinmen and the Matsu Islands, consisted of Taiwanese aborigines, speaking Austronesian languages and sharing mitochondrial DNA contribution with island peoples of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Immigration of Han Chinese to the Penghu islands started as early as the 13th century, while settlement of the main island occurred from the 16th century, stimulated by the import of workers from Fujian by the Dutch in the 17th century. According to governmental statistics, over 95% of the Republic of China's population is of Han Chinese ethnicity, while 2.3% are Taiwanese aborigines of Malayo-Polynesian ethnicity.  Half the population are followers of one or a mixture of 25 recognized religions. Around 93% of the religious population are followers of a mixture of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism, while a minority 4.5% are followers of Christianity (include Catholics and Protestants). 

The official national language is Standard Chinese, although around 70% also speak Taiwanese Hokkien and 10% speak Hakka. Japanese speakers are becoming rare as the elderly generation who lived under Japanese rule are dying out but many young Taiwanese use English or Japanese as second language. Aboriginal languages are gradually becoming extinct as the aborigines have become acculturated despite a program by the ROC government to preserve the languages. (wiki)

Where the indigenous groups mainly live. (mostly in mountain area)

I am aware of this issue because of many young indigenous people are trying to help to protect their lands and culture, and are shown on social media. But I never research that deep into this topic. After researching I felt like I need to do this project to bring more awareness to this topic. Even though I am just a nobody, but someone has to do something to start changing situation.    

I found out that president Tsai had only officially apologized to indigenous people for the first time in history and admit that before not protecting indigenous culture and lands is a mistake. She made an indigenous history justice committee to hope that they could improve the laws which to protect their rights.

President Tsai Apologized video

https://indigenous-justice.president.gov.tw/EN

But I don’t want to be too political on doing this project because it says on the brief that they don’t want anything too political.  The more I research I got more confuse and lost. 

So I try to focus on the point that they don’t have their written characters, but now they are using English letters (Latin letters) to spell and write their languages. It could trace back to  the past, when Dutch people came to colonized in Taiwan, they started to use Latin letters to spell their languages, and use to o preach Christian and wrote the first bible in one of indigeous language:  

The Sinckan language, spoken by the Siraya people who lived in what is now Tainan, was employed by Dutch missionaries to facilitate both missionary and government affairs during the reign of Dutch East India Company in Taiwan. They also created a romanized script, compiled a dictionary of the language, and taught the natives how to write their own language with these romanized characters. 

And they indigenes people just keep this way of recording until now. Although, when they once try to use Japanese characters and Chinese letters to spell out their languages through the colonized history. But it won’t match with how they actually pronounce it so they went back to use Latin letters instead.  That also causes a huge problem, because the main language Taiwanese use is traditional Chinese letters. People aren’t familiar with Latin or English letters. The government used to refuse them to spell their original name in their languages. The government forced them to have a Chinese name and only until recently they could use Latin letters to register their name in the official document.

There are so much could be done to protect their culture and languages, they are the owner of this island and sadly, no one is respecting them. Their culture is so beautiful which are sustainable and loving the motherland, which is the stuff we need now due to climate change and capitalism. who are we to force them to fit in the “modern society” which took away their identity. 

Sinckan manscirpt ( right)of a land selling contract with chinese letters(left).

Bunun symbol for their calender which recorded when to hunt or when to harvest.

Paiwan snakes pattern.

16 tribes logo pattern design 

Kavalan’s textile pattern.

Atayal knit their characters in textile which represent number.

Atayal illustration.

Taiwanese indigenous groups are famous for their unique patterns, every tribe has its own special patterns of textile or symbol to present their spirit.

So I try to research more about indigenous people’s pattern to try to find insight and common to build an idea into my design. But I found out that it is so difficult, there is no website that recorded officially or clearly. There are also various meaning and story behind each group and their patterns. The lack of information made it more difficult and I spent too much time to research, now I don’t really have time to work on it. All of their languages are almost completely different. My first idea is to present 26 Latin characters with their 16pattern but the number isn’t right. It doesn’t make sense and I don’t want to be inappropriate to use their pattern or symbols.

I message one of the facebook pages which runs by the indigenous people that how can I design and find a common point to make my project happen. They just told me to talk to the tribe which is kind of impossible because I can’t go back to Taiwan now.

And I think of an idea is, their common is they have their own patterns and symbol in each group, so what I could think of is making an example of how they could create stamps in their patterns and those patterns could make it into both Latin letters and Chinese letters.

Caculating using 16 tribes as main point and create 26 latin character. (idea 1)

Linocut idea sketch.(idea2)