The TITQUISITION

Rules: Send me an ask with a word and I'll post a sentence or paragraph from one of my WIPs that contains that word!

If you manage to stump me, I'll write three sentences and share these.

The Sir David Attenborough That Lives In My Brain: Being smaller-than-average presents an added challenge to foraging ... but necessity is the mother of invention. A little creativity turns a baguette into a tool, and voilà--

(paper towel roll falls on my face)

like half the fandom already ignores lel as a character for the crime of woman but these two… they’re foils of each other they’re parallels they’ve known each other for decades they’re both represented with the same bird they are both manipulated by older women to be people they’re not and don’t even mention THE GODDAMN DRESS AT THE WINTER PALACE ??? leliana’s veneer of kindness and morrigan’s veneer of cruelty… and they both conceal so much complication and grey morality that overlaps perfectly. where lel chooses dark morri chooses light and vice versa. these two could simultaneously fix each other and make each other worse why are we not talking about this.

Hello Warriors!

The date is set, prompts have been selected, and preparations are complete! The only thing to do now is... Create! And get hype! Have fun, everybody~

Event Info

Kyoshi Era week 2026 will take place from August 24th through August 30th.

All works will be accepted, as long as they adhere to the rules. This means one-shots, multi-chapter fics, drabbles, artwork, video shorts, headcanons, meta-analysis, cosplay, mood boards, music, etc!

The event's tag will be #KyoshiEra26 across all platforms. Please wait to post your work until the event! If posting on tumblr, please @kyoshi-week. If posting on different platforms, share links to your work and I'll make sure they get shared here!

Please reach out if you would like an invitation to the event discord. Especially if you want to bounce ideas or collaborate!

Rules

Rules can be found at https://kyoshi-week.tumblr.com/rules

Prompts

Monday 24th - Scars | Sun & Moon | Festival Tuesday 25th - Fans | The Avatar State | Parenthood / Family Wednesday 26th - Training / Sparring | Drunk confession | Hot Springs Thursday 27th - Beaches | The Flying Opera Company (FOC) | Makeup Friday 28th - On a Mission | Steamy | Armor Saturday 29th - Firefighter / Fire Fighter | Healing / Tending Wounds | Tradition Sunday 30th - Wildcard* | Promises | Afterlife

*Don't see your favorite prompt on the list? Don't worry! You can still submit work for whatever your heart desires as the "Wildcard" on Sunday! This means any prompts that didn't make it through, or something completely different! The full list of submitted prompts is available HERE!

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Now linked to the home page, the FAQ is available to help newcomers! Don't see the answer to your question? Asks are open and encouraged, with the option to remain anonymous.

Keep an eye out later in July as we will be opening up submissions for Sneak Peeks / Teasers. Something to get your fellow fans hyped!

Jewish baby named Edgardo Mortara is seemingly about to die in Bologna, 1851

Catholic nanny secretly baptises him to save his soul, which she’s not exactly the kind of authority who can do that, but w/e, it’s interpreted by the church as valid later

Kid survives

1857 her secret gets out, a baptising makes a kid a Catholic according to the Church and a Catholic can’t be raised in a non-Catholic household in the Papal States, so the church authorises the police to kidnap Edgardo from his family

Raised personally by Pope Pius IX, Jewish family not allowed to take him back due to Church doctrine, this action destroys the family with grief and despair

This case gets international infamy with the Pope not understanding why everyone’s shiting on him for doing this, including allies

Emperor Napoleon III shifts from opposing Italian unification to supporting it as a direct consequence

Bologna falls the next year, 1859

Kingdom of Italy forms 1861

By 1870 Rome is lost to the Italians and the Papal States are no more

(Edgardo Mortara goes on to become Father Mortara)

The most infamous of these cases was the Finaly affair. Two Jewish children in France, Robert and Gerald Finaly, were placed in a Catholic nursery in 1944 in anticipation of their parents being deported to Auschwitz, where they were both murdered. Their aunt, Marguerite Fischel, survived the war and went to find the boys so she could take them to live with her. However, the nun who had custody of the boys, Antoinette Brun, adamantly refused to give them up, reportedly saying that “The Jews are not grateful”

What followed was a years long custody battle where despite being repeatedly ordered by courts all over Europe to return the boys, Brun took them to many different countries and hid them, with the support and help of other nuns and priests. It was suspected at the time, and later confirmed by documents released in 2020, that Pope Pius XII had supported the effort to keep the boys away from their surviving family and have them be raised Catholic.

Thankfully, after negotiations between a sympathetic cardinal in France and the chief Rabbi of Paris, the boys were finally recovered and reunited with their aunt.

I wish I could say that the phenomenon of the Catholic Church kidnapping children and keeping them away from their families for the purposes of forcefully raising them Catholic is unique to Jews, but it’s not. From the mid nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century, the Church ran hundreds of residential schools in the US and Canada where indigenous children were kidnapped from their homes and forced into these cruel and inhumane “schools”. The children were forbidden from speaking their own languages or practicing their own cultures and religions, their hair was cut, and they were subject to emotional, verbal, spiritual, physical, and sexual abuse. Many of the children died due to malnutrition or medical neglect, their bodies buried like dogs beside the schools. The Catholic Church was not the only Church to participate in this, but they’ve been the most reluctant to fully acknowledge and apologize for it. It was only in 2022 that Pope Francis apologized on behalf of the Catholic Church for their part, but some people found the apology inadequate.

Elfroot. Crystal Grace. Brona's Bloom. Andraste's Grace. Lilja Thorne and Lace Harding.

article: “I suspect that a bit of the steam has gone out of the LGBT thing,” Backman told the right-wing outlet, staying ahead of the issue. “There may be the odd protester, but if they have got armies of PR people laser-focused on that then I suspect it may be OK.”

me: no surprises there... fuck them

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