“This love is brave and wild
This is a state of grace
This is the worthwhile fight
These are the hands of fate
Some days I actually forget
That this is really something
One smile from you and that is it”
-State of Grace, Taylor Swift and Really Something, Aaron Sprinkle (for Week 1: Words of Affirmation by @zenyuki-festival-2021)
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ZenYuki Valentine's 2022
We're celebrating Valentine's Day a little early this year, and we're doing so with ZenYuki in mind! ZenYuki Valentine's will run from January 17th through February 14th, 2022, a five week event leading us all the way up to Valentine's Day! It's theme is the Five Love Languages! Any amount of submissions throughout a given week is wonderful, whether it is one from a participant for the week or whether, someone chooses to do a different thing each day. Even if your submission is running a little late (or very late) it will still be counted. So, fill as many or as little of the prompts as you want to, as we count down to Valentine's Day together, with this beloved ship. Make sure to @ ZenYuki Festival with your submissions in their posts, and to use ZenYuki Valentine's in one of your first five tags. Weekly prompts down below:
Week One: Words Of Affirmation
Week Two: Acts Of Service
Week Three: Receiving Gifts
Week Four: Quality Time
Week Five: Physical Touch
The event theme with the wonderful prompts that fill it up were brainstormed by Muselover1901! So, be sure to thank her for these lovely prompts.
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On Overheard Prayers (In Part) And If Dying Weren’t In The Cards
@batgirlsay I told you once a poem was long, but it wasn’t even close to the length of this poem, whoops. XD I think this might be my longest fanpoem to date, at around eight hundred words. It even has dialogue! I still have zero idea if you’re a fan of Yona of the Dawn, though I know you’ve liked some of the art and stuff I’ve shared/reblogged of it on here, but here’s a Zeno X Kaya fanpoem, though other than it’s length, I’ll give the warning that it is painfully sad.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14119238/1/On-Overheard-Prayers-In-Part-And-If-Dying-Weren-t-In-The-Cards
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Baking time! <3
@zenyuki-festival-2021
Week Four: Quality Time just two cuties baking a pie or something together :) They invaded and overtook the castle’s kitchen for a bit to have some chill and silly fun. It’s messy, but oh well. Oh and yes MATCHING APRONS!
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Expressions of Love, Dancing, and Distance
A Zenyuki Valentine’s Playlist (for Week 5 by @zenyuki-festival-2021)
I had some distance themed songs compiled after making last year’s Zen playlists and I wasn’t sure where to place them in this month’s themes, so this playlist represents the Week 5 theme of physical closeness (mostly represented by dancing) and also the classic winter Lilias distance themes.
Starlight (Taylor’s Version)- Taylor Swift
Stay Young, Go Dancing- Death Cab for Cutie
I Remember Everything- Midnight Television (from Dave Elkins of Mae)
Forever Winter (Taylor’s Version)- Taylor Swift
Little Wanderer- Death Cab for Cutie
All at Once- Midnight Television (from Dave Elkins of Mae)
My Favorite Dream- Mae
Summary lyrics are cited after the cut:
Starlight (Taylor’s Version)- Taylor Swift
Oh my, what a marvelous tune
It was the best night, never would forget how he moved
The whole place was dressed to the nines
And we were dancing
Like we're made of starlight
Like we dream impossible dreams
Stay Young, Go Dancing- Death Cab for Cutie
Life is sweet
In the belly of the beast
And with her song in your heart
It can never bring you down
Cause when she sings, I hear a symphony
And I'm swallowed in sound as it echoes through me
I'm renewed, oh, how I feel alive
And through winter's advancing, we'll stay young, go dancing
I Remember Everything- Midnight Television (from Dave Elkins of Mae)
Seems like only yesterday I was falling for you
I remember everything and it’s coming back so clearly
Time stands still for a minute
I remember every melody in my ear
I remember holding you but holding back
Forever Winter (Taylor’s Version)- Taylor Swift
He spends most of his flights getting pulled down by gravity
I call just checking up on him
He's up, 3 AM pacing
He says, "It's not just a phase I'm in"
All this time I didn't know
You were breaking down
I'd fall to pieces on the floor
If you weren't around
I'll be summer sun for you forever
Forever winter if you go
Little Wanderer- Death Cab for Cutie
You sent a photo out your window of Tokyo
Told me you were doing fine
You said the cherry blossoms were blooming
And that I was on your mind
You’re my wanderer, little wanderer
Off across the sea
Won’t you wander back to me
Always fall asleep when you’re waking
I count the hours on my hands
Doing the math to the time zone you’re at
Is an unseen part of the plan
But if you’ll be my bluebird returning
Then I’ll be your evergreen
Standing tall on your horizon
Guiding you home to me
And I hope your absence makes us grow fonder
I hope we always feel the same
When our eyes meet past security, we embrace in the baggage claim
When we kiss in the baggage claim
All at Once- Midnight Television (from Dave Elkins of Mae)
To say that it was obvious is wrong
I never even knew I could feel this much
To say you went and planned it all along
No, you never meant to take my breath away
The two of us went walking both alone
I caught a glimpse and ever since, hand in hand, on and on
How’d I know you’d be the one?
Now I’ll never waste another day
My Favorite Dream- Mae
You are the cool wind that frees my bones
And I'm so reckless when you call to me
But when you're gone and I feel so alone
And there she goes at the speed of sound
Oh there she goes to pull me back around
I can still remember that cold evening when we first met
You had your mark on me you know you did
And every note and word you sang to me
Have never made their way out of my head
When you're away they keep me hanging on
But in our world you're only there, here until you're gone
And there she goes
I still remember when you first saw me
You had the mark, oh the mark of your melody
I love and hate the way you're making me
You make me feel like this was just another dream
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When your gf is really passionate about growing flowers AND loves you a lot
@zenyuki-festival-2021
Week Three: Receiving Gifts lets goooo. Shirayuki growing flowers (that are not medical herbs) in her free time, reading all about their meanings and gifting them to Zen and all her friends is my favourite headcanon. She’s got lot of pretty flowers and lot of love so Zen is basically drowning in them at the end of the day.
flowers are my passion but Im too tired to do them properly :,)
okay sooo
Lily for purity, Sunflower for admiration and loyalty, Baby Breath for everlasting love, English Rose for gratitude and grace, and my all time favourite Camellia for longing <3 the rest is just doodles lmao
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Expressions of Love, Kindness, and Encouragement
A Zenyuki Valentine’s Playlist (for Weeks 1 and 2 by @zenyuki-festival-2021)
I tried a lot of different strategies for this month’s playlists… eventually rediscovering Dave’s Midnight Television and old Mae stuff after his latest livestream so the one long playlist became three smaller playlists (with a classic long Mae song at the end of each). (The three playlists also ended up being chronological again: from beginnings to present time together to reminiscing.) This one focuses on the themes for Weeks 1 and 2, mostly words of affirmation through confessions of love as analogies and acts of service through chivalry.
Begin Again (Taylor’s Version)- Taylor Swift
Something So Sweet- Midnight Television (from Dave Elkins of Mae)
State of Grace (Taylor’s Version)- Taylor Swift
Sense You Make- Steff and the Articles
Really Something- Aaron Sprinkle
Bloom- Mae
Summary lyrics are cited after the cut (and I may post a few separate lyric mash-up posts for each playlist):
Begin Again (Taylor’s Version)- Taylor Swift
I walk to you
You pull my chair out and help me in
And you don't know how nice that is, but I do
And you throw your head back laughing like a little kid
Thinking all love ever does is break and burn and end
But on a Wеdnesday in a café, I watched it begin again
Something So Sweet- Midnight Television (from Dave Elkins of Mae)
I’ve been buzzing on your love
Just like a honeybee
I don’t know how you do it
Something so sweet now I’m used to it
You’re my garden in the park
Every flower a beautiful remark
So much color all the day long
State of Grace (Taylor’s Version)- Taylor Swift
And I never saw you coming
And I'll never be the same
You come around and the armor falls
Pierce the room like a cannonball
Now all we know is don’t let go
Mosaic broken hearts
But this love is brave and wild
This is a state of grace
This is the worthwhile fight
These are the hands of fate
Sense You Make- Steff and the Articles
How much sense you make to me
Like the wind blew you so perfectly
Like you have the only key
You fell into the song that I was singing all the time
Really Something- Aaron Sprinkle
Some days I actually forget
That this is really something
One smile from you and that is it
Bloom- Mae
Riding on my wave these sails are open
I've been rolling on a wind that's never been mine
And all that night I'm floating
With the other ships
I remember when we came together we were just a beacon for the lonely
Yeah, when I've lost my way I walked around it
Yeah, but the bloom of hope it keeps repairing
We watched the sun set fire to the sky that day
We warmed up to so many things we never could have made
And it comes to this
I'll search for you and find you
These questions are just answers on the other side of clarity
Oh, hearts may break to make more room
Yeah, but love will find a way to bloom
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“Would you take a walk with me?
I'll give you all I've got, just spare me your time
And I promise you won't want to leave
I know these roots could break the ground
And in the meantime, our leaves will turn
But rest assured, we'll get through anything
And these have been the kindest days
That I've known since I met you”
-Just Let Go, Mae and The Kindest Days, Aaron Sprinkle (for Week 4: Quality Time by @zenyuki-festival-2021)
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Expressions of Love, Time, and Treasure
A Zenyuki Valentine’s Playlist (for Weeks 3 and 4 by @zenyuki-festival-2021)
This playlist focuses on the themes for Weeks 3 and 4, mostly about spending quality time together (including a museum date!) and receiving physical or abstract gifts like pictures, songs, and photos. (If I remember correctly, love over time was the original prompt Dave used for the Midnight Television album, so those songs fit well here too!)
Just Let Go- Mae
Museum- Kitsch Club (Louie Zong and Quinne Larsen)
Time Flies- Midnight Television (from Dave Elkins of Mae)
The Kindest Days- Aaron Sprinkle
192 Days- Eisley
Stay for a Lifetime- Midnight Television (from Dave Elkins of Mae)
Our Love is a Painted Picture- Mae
Summary lyrics are cited after the cut:
Just Let Go- Mae
We've got all night just to make it all right
Would you take a walk with me?
I'll give you all I've got, just spare me your time
And I promise you won't want to leave
There's an old oak tree
We can swing and sway
Throw our guards away
I'll take you out of harm's way
And like these branches that shelter the rain
We can lay here in our own shade
I know these roots could break the ground
And in the meantime, our leaves will turn
But rest assured, we'll get through anything
Museum- Kitsch Club
I wanna take you to a museum
All the things inside, we're gonna see 'em
I wanna take you to a museum
Learning lots of facts
Eating lots of snacks
In a museum
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna read a plaque
I wanna look at stuff we don't understand
Time Flies- Midnight Television (from Dave Elkins of Mae)
It feels just like forever I can’t remember when
You weren’t part of my story
I won't go back there again
I see that when time flies
My life full of your love
I still can’t get enough
So do all of your business
And make all of your plans
I’ll be here waiting for you
I’ll do anything I can
In the moment where we wanna be
It’s right here waiting
The Kindest Days- Aaron Sprinkle
You've been holding me like a bird
In your heart and you've kept it guarded
You right in front of me
Now I can clearly see
You standing next to me
My loneliness has finally found an ending
And these have been the kindest days
That I've known since I met you
192 Days- Eisley
I've spent over one hundred and ninety two days loving you
And honestly it feels no more than a day or three
So it's for you hon
I write this song and make it old fashioned
You look so fair in the loving moonlight
I'll stand beside you, take a photograph
Preserve the memory of you and me and our love
Darling child, you are my honey bee
Don't you fly away from me
Stay right here, I've been stung by you
And I'll battle through any sticky sap
Or corner we're pushed into
For I know our love is truer
Than the blue feathers of the blue birds above
Stay for a Lifetime- Midnight Television (from Dave Elkins of Mae)
Time and again
Whenever I choose
There’s no choice at all
There is only you
I can only give ‘til you take me
I will learn to play with this fire
I’ll be here to stay for a lifetime
You don’t have to say
Another word
The things that you need
I’ll keep them coming
Our Love is a Painted Picture- Mae
Our love is a painted picture I’ve been working on for years
But every single one, when I think it’s done
The impression disappears
And if a month is a day in the life that’s waiting for an open gate
It occurred to me insecurities are mounting up and making fate
But then again I see
Beginnings of the map for me
Yeah, it can seem like there are too many answers
And it can feel like there’s just pain
All at once to find
There was never any rain
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“I walk to you
You pull my chair out and help me in
And you don’t know how nice that is, but I do
And you throw your head back laughing like a little kid
Thinking all love ever does is break and burn and end
But on a Wednesday in a café, I watched it begin again”
-Begin Again, Taylor Swift (for Week 2: Acts of Service by @zenyuki-festival-2021)
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For Each Other
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14029726/1/For-Each-Other
(My oneshot for Week Two of ZenYuki Valentine's 2022.) <3
(Submitted by sctwilightvampwolfgal on fanfiction.net)
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Looking Out (For You)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14028703/1/Looking-Out-For-You
(ZenYuki Valentine’s 2022, Week Two fanpoem!) <3
(Submitted by sctwilightvampwolfgal on fanfiction.net)
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Little Signs Like Stars (That Point To Our Future) chapter one Words Of Affirmation
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14025125/1/Little-Signs-Like-Stars-That-Point-To-Our-Future
(So, here's the first chapter of a multichapter fic I am writing for ZenYuki Valentine's 2022. So, I've always wanted to write more of a multichapter fic that continues with each of the prompts of an event, and I think I tried writing one years ago and a fandom or so ago, and it didn't get finished. Whoops. So, hopefully, I can finish this pretty fluffy and sometimes hurt/comfort-y multichapter fic during this event.) So, it's a happy ZenYuki engagement fic. So hopefully you enjoy, It might end up feeling more like a connected oneshot collection by the end, since I'm usually writing oneshots (or poems), so hopefully it still somehow feels multichapter-y by the end. <3
(Submitted by sctwilightvampwolfgal on fanfiction.net)
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Little Signs Like Stars (That Point To Our Future) chapter two Acts Of Service
Here we go, chapter two to start off this week. <3 It's almost as long as chapter one! <3
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14025125/2/Little-Signs-Like-Stars-That-Point-To-Our-Future
(Submitted by sctwilightvampwolfgal on fanfiction.net)
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Beyond Inspiration
My oneshot submission is here! <3 <3 <3 I hope you enjoy! <3
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14026548/1/Beyond-Inspiration
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Oceans Of Words (In Conversation With One Another)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14039293/1/Oceans-Of-Words-In-Conversation-With-One-Another
(Here's my fanpoem for Week Five of ZenYuki Valentine's! I've written five fanpoems over the course of five weeks for this event, which was a wonderful challenge. Some prompts felt very hard to turn into poetry and others felt much more natural.)
Either way, I still have a couple other things to get written this week. :) And also, happy Valentine's Day everyone! <3
(Submitted by sctwilightvampwolfgal on fanfiction.net)
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