Groth Week!

In honor of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’s Second Anniversary, we are working in a Great Conjunction (*wink*) with @thra-athon to sponsor a celebratory event for this wonderful fandom.

Starting Monday, August 30, and ending Sunday, September, 5, 2021, Create for Thra is designed to be a celebration and fun experience for fans to submit artwork, fanfiction, and all manner of creation related to the world of Thra and the week’s themes! You can focus on one character/ships, or you can use the full cast of characters. We are so excited to see what you create!

Here are the themes for the week:

August 30 — Day One: Creature Feature -  Draw or write a story about your favorite Thra-creature, or post artwork of your own Thra-Creature Creation. 

August 31 — Day Two: Original Characters - Introduce us to your original character within the world of Thra. Words, images, sculptures, dolls, puppets… the world of Thra is, as they say, your… gobble? Hm…

September 1 — Day Three: Where in the World? / Home Is Where the Heart Is - Show us your favorite locale on Thra with art or words, or create something about your favorite character in the little piece of Thra they call home.

September 2 — Day Four: Scenework - Draw/write an interpretation of your favorite scene, or create your own deleted scene from the show. What occurred off screen that you would have liked to see? What would your favorite scene have looked like from a different character’s eyes?

September 3 — Day Five: What Was Sundered and Undone - The Division of the UrSkeks… the splitting of the Seven Clans… the cracking of the Crystal of Truth. Many things on Thra have been torn apart. Create a piece about this topic.

September 4 — Day Six: “There are many paths laid before us, some good, most bad.” - Create a story or drawing about the differing paths Aughra sees. Brea tells her mother to imagine the possibilities - what can you imagine?

September 5 — Day Seven: A Great Conjunction -  “Alright, together then!” From the reunification of the Skeksis and Mystics and the Gelfling fires of resistance, the alliance of the Arathim and the Gelfling, to our favorite Podling Paladin, unity is an important concept during the Age of Resistance. Make a creation about embracing unity instead of continuing division!

It isn’t required to participate for the entire week. If you’d just like to submit a piece of work for only one of the theme days, that’s completely fine! Please be sure that any work submitted is new content.

Rules: 

1) Tag your work properly so that any parties who are either a) too young for certain subject matter, or b) concerned about potentially unsavory subject matter, may make informed decisions about what works they do and do not want to read. (AKA – use common sense, and all will be well.)

2) Character-hate and ship-hate is not allowed or welcome. Any fan of this fandom is welcome to participate. Don’t like it? Don’t read it, and don’t comment a bunch of hate on it. End. Of. Story. You will be blocked if you engage in that type of behavior.

3) HAVE FUN AND SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER!

We encourage you to leave the author a comment if you enjoyed the creation - it doesn’t have to be something long or detailed. Something as simple as “really enjoyed reading/viewing this” will make the creator’s day a bit brighter.

Be sure to hashtag #CreateforThra so we can see it and reblog your creations!

Remember - all characters are welcome! Skeksis, Mystics, Gelfling, Podlings, pluff’ms, and everything in between. 

In honor of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’s most adorable bean characters, it’s time to introduce GROTH WEEK (thanks to @mystics-and-chill for coining that name, haha)! Deet + Kylan = Pure and Absolute Joy.

Starting Monday, July 5 — Sunday, July 11, 2021, Groth Week is designed to be a celebration and fun experience for fans to submit fanfiction, artwork, headcanons, and anything related to the characters and the week’s themes!

The only specific rule: tag your work properly so that any parties who are either a) too young for certain subject matter, or b) concerned about potentially unsavory subject matter, may make informed decisions about what works they do and do not want to read. (AKA – use common sense, and all will be well.)

It isn’t required to participate for the entire week. If you’d just like to submit a piece of work for only one of the theme days, that’s completely fine! Please be sure that any work submitted is new content.

Just be sure to hashtag #GrothWeek so we can see it and reblog. 

Here are the themes for the week:

July 5 — Day One: Comfort

July 6 — Day Two: Hidden Talents

July 7 — Day Three: Warmth

July 8 — Day Four: What if Kylan and Deet met when Kylan first visited Grot? (Book universe…) / What if Kylan and Deet met before the Dreamspace? (Show universe…)

July 9 — Day Five: Darkness and Light

July 10 — Day Six: Song & Dance

July 11 — Day Seven: Alternate Universe of your choice :)

Remember that although Deet and Kylan are the focus, all other characters are also welcome! Also remember that if you don’t like the ship or think it is plausible – that’s totally fine. Pass the week by! This is meant for good fun only 😊

Remember, don’t start tagging or submitting anything until the official week has started.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to send a message here, or to @tofadeawayagain or @orange-yarn.

I wrote a little drabble for Deet/Kylan (otherwise known as Groth) week! The prompt for Day 1 is Comfort. I also used a secondary prompt of Willpower. I intended to write something cute and fluffy for this, but… that didn’t happen. So, without further ado: a sad drabble. Text here, and a link below to AO3. Drop me a comment and let me know what you think!

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There are days where she’s lucid enough to remember his name. It doesn’t happen often. He lives for the days when she meets his eyes and she’s there looking back at him. He lives for the moments where she knows him, and the nights when her touch makes him feel alive again. She tells him she loves him, and he believes her.

He loves her, too. He always will.

But every joyful moment has a cost. When he wakes, she’s always gone again, taken by the Crystal. Her violet, empty eyes haunt him.

He doesn’t stay at her side any longer when she’s missing from her own body. He doesn’t need to see her catatonic and nonresponsive – doesn’t need to keep wearing himself thin by talking to someone who cannot hear him. He’s had to learn about the destructive power of hope, and he’s had to learn not to spend his life waiting.

He simply stays on the periphery and does what he can to bring her back and to bring himself some comfort. He plays the songs that bring a spark to her vacant eyes. He tells stories of his travels around the campfire, and he pretends she’s the one listening to them. He spends long months traveling across the mountains and into the eastern waste, searching for a way to bring her back for good.

The day will come when he can’t stay away from her anymore, though. He knows that it is only a matter of time.

Time they don’t have. Time she doesn’t have.

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In honor of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’s most adorable bean characters, it’s time to introduce GROTH WEEK (thanks to @mystics-and-chill for coining that name, haha)! Deet + Kylan = Pure and Absolute Joy.

Starting Monday, July 5 — Sunday, July 11, 2021, Groth Week is designed to be a celebration and fun experience for fans to submit fanfiction, artwork, headcanons, and anything related to the characters and the week’s themes!

The only specific rule: tag your work properly so that any parties who are either a) too young for certain subject matter, or b) concerned about potentially unsavory subject matter, may make informed decisions about what works they do and do not want to read. (AKA – use common sense, and all will be well.)

It isn’t required to participate for the entire week. If you’d just like to submit a piece of work for only one of the theme days, that’s completely fine! Please be sure that any work submitted is new content.

Just be sure to hashtag #GrothWeek so we can see it and reblog. 

Here are the themes for the week:

July 5 — Day One: Comfort

July 6 — Day Two: Hidden Talents

July 7 — Day Three: Warmth

July 8 — Day Four: What if Kylan and Deet met when Kylan first visited Grot? (Book universe…) / What if Kylan and Deet met before the Dreamspace? (Show universe…)

July 9 — Day Five: Darkness and Light

July 10 — Day Six: Song & Dance

July 11 — Day Seven: Alternate Universe of your choice :)

Remember that although Deet and Kylan are the focus, all other characters are also welcome! Also remember that if you don’t like the ship or think it is plausible – that’s totally fine. Pass the week by! This is meant for good fun only 😊

Remember, don’t start tagging or submitting anything until the official week has started.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to send a message here, or to @tofadeawayagain or @orange-yarn.