#Katsu 2015

[bonesblubs]

Have you drawn krtsk(kuroo x tsukki) in the past ? Idk why ur fanart looks so familiar to me, love your work !

I will be completely honest with you, I have a genuinely terrible memory! It’s really bad, I’ll forget something mid sentence, or a detail of a point I was making 20 seconds into making it. I know I was into Haikyuu in high school (I’m assuming that’s what we’re talking about), and I know I drew Tsukki at one point, even made a little print of him, BUT I have no memory of drawing kuroo or the two of them together. I don’t think that was a dynamic that interested me? But I have no way of completely writing it off the table 😆

[strawberry-jan]

Back in late 2022, I started working on a long story about Ishin: a tale of two dummies whose weird one-night stand blossoms into a surprisingly caring relationship even as a (mostly) canon-compliant series of tragedies plays out around them. It’s a now-complete series in approximately 125,000 words and three parts, and you can read the whole thing right now on AO3: The Glorious and Bloody Deeds of Okita Soji, Volume 1: Okita Soji Versus the Scoundrel Saito Hajime; The Secret History of Saito Hajime, Volume 2: The Shiraume Incident; and, finally, Brief Notes on the Domestic Life of one Saito Hajime.

Taken as a whole, it's a story about identity and history and the stories that people tell each other and themselves about those things. And it's a story about one guy getting way too into weird Edo-era egg dishes, and another guy finding himself embroiled in an extended detective sequence, and a third guy composing a series of corny haiku that (almost) nobody wants to read. And, of course, it's also a story about people who are shamelessly and sometimes explicitly in love (so you probably shouldn't read it at work).

This whole big, sprawling thing has been a labour of love on my part: it turns out that I adore writing historical fiction and finding excuses to read books and journal articles in order to write it better. In addition to making not one but four little illustrations to celebrate the fic's completion (and please look at them up-close; I hand-inked all those kimono patterns), I've drawn up a list of some of the sources that I consulted for my writing, and you can find those under the cut.

This is not an absolutely exhaustive list of sources; I don’t think it’s super useful to catalogue the extremely nitty-gritty stuff, like that time that I felt compelled to find out what the state of strawberry cultivation was in 1860s Japan, or when I needed to picture exactly what it looked like when Haruka was repairing Ryoma’s kimono. That being said, I’ve added a couple of things that are really particular to my stories but that I thought were cool enough to share.

Foster, Michael Dylan. The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore. U of California P, 2015. (This one was a really fun read – it combines a short history of yokai in folklore with a little catalogue of yokai.)

Jansen, Marius B. Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration. Stanford UP, 1971. (Super useful as an introduction to the Bakumatsu era and for biographical details about Ryoma and the figures around him.)

“Japanese Wiki Corpus.” https://www.japanesewiki.com/. (This is a machine-translated collection of articles on the Japanese side of Wikipedia related to Kyoto. As with a lot of things on Wikipedia, the citations on these articles tend to be poor or nonexistent, but it’s a useful starting point for information on figures and events that don’t have an English wiki equivalent. Definitely more useful if you can then head over to the original wiki articles and parse them out yourself.)

“Kabuki21” and “The Noh.” https://www.kabuki21.com/section.php, https://www.the-noh.com/en/plays/index.html. (I’m lumping these two together because I tended to consult them in tandem. Without getting too much into my personal details I am – among other things – a non-practicing theatre scholar, so whenever I wanted to have characters in my old-timey fics refer to something cultural, my first stop was old plays. These sites have, respectively, summaries of kabuki plays and full texts of Noh plays available for you to browse. If you’ve read my other fics you will probably have seen that I referred to the kabuki play “Fuwa” in 亀が如く.)

Katsu, Kokichi. Musui’s Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai. Translated by Teruko Craig. U of Arizona P, 1988. (A book that needs to be taken with a grain of salt because it’s an autobiography written by a guy who sounds like a real blowhard, but it’s still a really fascinating look into the daily life of a low-ranking samurai.)

Leupp, Gary P. and Tao, De-min. The Tokugawa World. Routledge, 2022. (Of particular interest is Kimura Sachihiko’s essay, “The Shinsengumi: Shadows and light in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate” [1104-1124], which gave me a bunch of incidental details about the Roshigumi that I incorporated into the sections of this series that were told from Inoue and Hijikata’s perspectives.)

“Old Photos of Japan.” https://www.oldphotosjapan.com/. (Pretty self-explanatory. Very useful as a resource for picturing scenes!)

“Shinsengumi Archives.” https://shinsengumi-archives.tumblr.com/. (A long-running tumblr dedicated to cataloguing resources about the Shinsengumi. There’s an absolute wealth of information collected here, and best of all, the creator cites their sources and even provides links to the original texts. Although it’s focused on the Shinsengumi, it’s impossible to overstate how useful this site is for prospective Bakumatsu-era fic writers in general. The collection of Hijikata’s poems with links to others’ translations and commentary is here: https://shinsengumi-archives.tumblr.com/post/683071924948058112/hijikata-toshizos-haiku-poems. The creator of the blog also links to a translation of Nagakura’s and Shimada’s diaries, and while the document is machine-translated, it’s still a great source of historical details: https://shinsengumi-archives.tumblr.com/post/678083336614428672/where-can-you-read-the-memoirs.)

Smits, Gregory. “Warding off Calamity in Japan: A Comparison of the 1855 Catfish Prints and the 1862 Measles Prints.” EASTM 30 (2009): 9-31. (Okay, this one is highly specific to my fic – it comes up in Part 2 when Okita tells his story about Kashima and again a couple of chapters later when his pile of remedies includes a crudely-drawn picture meant to ward off indigestion – but I love little details like this so I did want to make a point of sharing it here.)

“Tamago Hyakuchin” and “Tofu Hyakuchin.” http://codh.rois.ac.jp/edo-cooking/tamago-hyakuchin/recipe/, https://toyama-tofu.jp/tofuhyakutin.html. (These are collections of Edo-era egg- and tofu-based recipes. They’re two of the sources cited in Cookpad’s collection of modernized Edo-era recipes: https://cookpad.com/recipe/list/14604664.)

Vaporis, Constantine N. “Linking the Realm: The Gokaido Highway Network in Early Modern Japan (1603-1868).” Highways, Byways and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World. Ed. Susan E. Alcock, John Bodel, and Richard J. A. Talbert. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 90-105. (Some of the works cited in this article also sound interesting, but I didn’t have a chance to dig any deeper as I just wanted to know a bit about the Tokugawa-era roads. Also interesting in this vein is Jilly Traganou’s book The Tokaido Road: Travelling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan [2004].)

Wert, Michael. Meiji Restoration Losers. Harvard UP, 2013. (Not directly useful as a source for writing about Ishin – it’s about later events and it mostly tracks the posthumous construction of one specific Tokugawa magistrate’s history – but it was an engaging read and I found it interesting as an exploration of how people continue to look back on the Bakumatsu era and the Meiji Restoration, which is something that the game is, of course, also doing.)

Yamakawa, Kikue. Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life. Translated by Kate Wildman Nakai. U of Tokyo P, 1992. (Another one of those bits of essential reading on everyday life for low-ranking samurai, this time with a focus on women’s lives and households more generally. I didn’t use a lot of from this book in my fic, but it has everything from translations of songs to records of families’ financial transactions, and it’s fascinating to read about all the turmoil in Mito playing out in the background of these families’ lives.)

“Yokai.com.” https://yokai.com/. (The creators of this site make a point of not going into detail about their sources, and they’re very careful to state that they don’t intend for the project to be “the final authority” on yokai, but I enjoyed browsing the site to get some ideas for Okita’s stories – and once you know the name of a particular yokai that you’re interested in, it’s easy enough to go look up other sources on them.)

[fundgruber]

Brad Downey 2008

Kidult 2011

Occupy Oakland

Die Verwendung von Feuerlöschern für Proteste gibt es seit ca. 10 Jahren. Feuerlöscher-Graffiti stammt von Gangs in LA, wurde dann von Graffiti-Writern verwendet, wurde um 2007 populärer, vor allem in NY und Paris (Nug, Psy, Toam, Katsu, Kidult, Krink) und dann in Berlin mit Just und Thrill, aber auch Aktionen wie Brad Downey, der 2008 die Berliner Schaufenster von Lacoste grün färbte, dann verbreitete es sich über das Internet, begann bei Protesten wie Occupy Oakland 2011 verwendet zu werden, Studentenprotesten in Italien 2013, Antifa-Markierung faschistischer Modegeschäfte in Berlin ca. 2012, weitere antikapitalistische Proteste in Italien, insbesondere in Mailand, in den folgenden Jahren (wie der No Expo Protest 2015). Seit 2019 wird es in den Klimaprotesten aufgegriffen, von Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil und jetzt der Last Generation/Letzte Generation.

Animierte Collage 2014 in Essay über Feuerlöschergraffiti

"So war einmal zu lesen, dass Cyprien Gaillard am Rande eines Interviews Banksy seine „Verfehlinterpretation von Vandalismus“ vorwarf, wie er das genau gemeint hat bleibt erstmal unklar, aber greifen wird das auf. Banksy hat vor circa zehn Jahren ein großes brutalistisches minimalistisches Betongebäude mit einem Feuerlöscher beschriftet. BORING hat er darauf geschrieben. Eine langweiligere Aktion ist eigentlich kaum vorstellbar. Der Künstler Banksy hat es sicher geschafft, eine ästhetische Geste auszuführen, einem banalen Kommentar eine ähnliche brutale Dimension zu geben wie das brutalistische Gebäude. Doch der Vandale Banksy verfälscht die Aktion dadurch, dass er ein Video davon mit getragener Musik unterlegt, um sich als den kleinen Mann ganz groß zu inszenieren, der mit roter Farbe die große graue Welt symbolisch besiegt. Er knüpft an das verbreitete Missverständnis gegenüber moderner Architektur an, dass sie menschenfeindlich sei, weil sie so ungestaltet sei (auch das Gegenteil ist wahr). Ein bisschen wie in einem Quetschenpaua-Song: „All die Städte sind so grau wie die Menschen die in ihnen wohnen / Und die Stadtdirektoren haben kein Interesse das zu betonen […] Lass uns nie so werden denk ich und ich schreibe / Mit schwarzer Lackfarbe Scheiße an die Scheibe“. Es ist kein Vandalismus, es will populistische Kunst sein. Der Feuerlöscher eignet sich für derartige Symbolik sehr gut, so wie damals als Brad Downey abwaschbare grüne Farbe großflächig ans KaDeWe sprühte, als er eingeladen war, dort ein Schaufenster für Lacoste zu gestalten. Cyprien Gaillard hingegen hat auch mal ein Feuerlöscherkunstwerk gemacht, er zeigte wie aus Bäumen Nebelwolken abgefeuert wurden. Vielleicht ist das – im Feld der Kunst – näher am befreienden Moment des Vandalismus. Ein lustvolles Spiel mit sinnlosen vergänglichen Formen, Wolkenschubsen im Wald. Matias Faldbakken und Anders Nordby entluden auch einfach mal einen Feuerlöscher in einem Ausstellungsraum. Mehr im eigenen Bereich von Graffiti bleibend gab es lustvolle vandalistische Experimente, wie die Nackerten in Wien, die ihre eigenen Körper mittels Feuerlöscherfarbe auf Zügen abbildeten oder 0331C und Krink, die Bilder von Baumkronen und drippende Regenwolken aus Farbe in die Stadt spritzen.

Neuerdings hat auch Katharina Grosse nebenbei politische Kunst gesprüht, als sie die Graffiti, wuchernde Natur und heruntergekommene Gebäude an der Zuglinie zwischen New York und Philadelphia mit Farbe überziehen ließ. Denn nebenbei politisch ist dieses, sicher sehr beeindruckende, Farbspektakel, als Übertünchen von sozialen Konflikten, wie Sarah Kendzior kritisierte, die machtvoll groß angebrachte farbige Kulisse schiebt sich vor die Zustände am Rand und außerhalb der Metropolen."

Nun hat es die Technik endgültig in den Protest geschafft (siehe).

Zum Beispiel Letzte Generation:

Anknüpfend an letztes Jahr schon Stop Oil:

2019 Extinction Rebellion:

2021:

Parar o Gas in Portugal 2023:

Milano 2023:

Neuseeland:

Berlin gegen Nazi-Klamottenläden 2012:

"Palestine Action" in NY 2021:

Burning Pink Party 2021:

2019 Subvertisers Week of Action (screenshot):

2013 Italien Studierendenproteste:

2015 Italien No Expo Proteste in Milano:

[asexualbookbird]

Look what's back! I actually managed to read a fair amount this month, so I have something to wrap up for once. I also had a good month on socializing! I think, after eight (cannot believe I've lived here eight years what is time) years, I finally have local friends! We started an old school D&D group and I'm having a lot of fun so far! I also? Watched movies?? Who am I. Energy levels have tanked again, so maybe that has something to do with it lmao

BOOKS

The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells ⭐⭐⭐⭐

What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Sprrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire ⭐⭐

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune ⭐⭐⭐⭐½

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik ⭐

Lost In The Moment And Found by Seanan McGuire ⭐⭐⭐⭐

OTHER MEDIA

Pokemon Unite

TAZ: Steeplechase

Bullet Train

Knives Out

Glass Onion

FOOD

chicken katsu curry

mushroom bok choy bao

blueberry muffins

snickerdoodles

grasshopper squares

scones (x3)

sable cookies

pho

matzo ball soup

I was very disappointed I didn't enjoy Ghost Roads, but I started the Middlegame audiobook as well so I got my Seanan fix this month with that plus newest Wayward Children. School Idol Festival is closing down for good at the end of March which is devastating since I've been playing since 2015, but maybe? Hopefully?? They're going to have a data transfer for the new game in April! I really hope the gameplay is at least similar, it's such a unique rhythm game!

Discovering I can make my favorite chicken katsu curry at home, for like 10$ has been life changing tbh. The curry blocks probably aren't the healthiest but WHO CARES IT'S DELICIOUS! I also successfully recreated the mushroom bao I had in NYC back in October! My bao shaping needs work, but the taste is there!

I actually have some crafts lined up for February (that I can't talk about) (I'm so behind on holiday gifts lolsob), so I'm excited to continue working on those! I have a small library stack to read, and I'd like to join the buddy read for The Unspoken Name. I've also finally reached the point where I can look into getting driving permit and license so I need to get my butt into gear for that. Scary.

Happy Palentine's Day! Don't forget to go get half priced candy!

[wyrdsistergoldenhair]

Books Read in 2023

Road of Bones by Christopher Golden (2022)

Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates (1995)

Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones (2020)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962)

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (1978)

Dr. Mütter's Marvel's: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (2014)

Devil House: A Novel by John Darnielle (2022)

The Shadows by Alex North (2020)

Lucky Girl: How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story by M. Rickert (2022)

The Hunger by Alma Katsu (2018)

Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler (1995)

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (2016)

The Troop by Nick Cutter (2014)

The Deep by Nick Cutter (2015)

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher (2022)*

Audition by Ryū Murakami (2010)

To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway (1937)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes by Suzanne Collins (2020)

The Hunger Games #1: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008)*

The Hunger Games #2: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (2009)*

The Hunger Games #3: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (2010)*

The Mist by Stephen King (1980)*

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (2017)

Sour Candy by Kealan Patrick Burke (2015)

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1764)

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream: Stories by Harlan Ellison (1967)

Sphere: A Novel by Michael Crichton (1987)

Heart, Haunt, Havoc by Freydís Moon (2023)

Nimona by N.D. Stevenson (2015)

All the Blood We Share by Camilla Bruce (2022)

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman*

Skeleton Crew by Stephen King (1985)

Stardust by Neil Gaiman (1997)*

Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2002)*

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang (2022)

Kill Creek by Scott Thomas (2017)

Simon Snow #1: Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (2015)*

Simon Snow #2: Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell (2019)*

Simon Snow #3: Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell (2021)*

In Deeper Waters by F.T. Lukens (2021)

Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (2021)*

The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell (1962)

The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Hewitt (2023)

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle (2023)

The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman (2010)

Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane edited by Jonathan Oliver (2012)

[ladycels]

Time for a real past-Katsucon dive, this time back to 2015! I wanna say this was probably my first Katsucon I'd ever attended (Though my memory is a bit fuzzy for years). It was certainly the first one I decided to do a big build for!

Lapras was certainly an ambitious build, and I did a lot of creative drafting work in it's creation. Everything from the braided and quilted shell to the fabric sculpting on the bodice really pushed me to get creative.

And of course, all the hand painted details. This was my first big painted costume with hundreds of hours spent ombre dyeing fabric and painstakingly hand painting all of the floral patterns onto the sleeves and gown. I'm just sad that I got only this one photo of me in it :(

(Reminder if you want to learn more about fabric painting, I'm running a workshop for it this year at Katsu! :) ) Lapras Gijinka by @generalcowslip Photography by Cantera Image

[neik-shal]

Yo, I met you on instagram back in 2015, and then I introduced you to some of my friends at the time, and then they ended up making some hate pages and shit about me for no reason, and you seemed to have left the group to get away from all the drama. I was wondering if you remember that at all? We lived in the same state and met up a few times in person. We also met up at KatsuCon. Do you still cosplay? I don’t and haven’t for years lmao.

Hey! Oof, those days. I remember stuff like that happening all the time in a general sense, the community was very toxic and I wanted to separate myself from a lot of people, if not everyone. but I don’t remember being a part of any groups that made hate pages about someone :( Sorry that happened to you OP, if I was in that group, I’m glad I left. I’ve also never been to Katsu, only Otakon. But no, I don’t cosplay anymore. It was a pricey interest and I’m a college student now lol

[chrysocomae]

Day of the Red Gourd by Katsu Nakajima (2015)

[chikaraspecial]

Those 3 Golden Medallions...

[nowhereelsetopost]

Underrated Fictional Cats

(In no particular order)

1. Black Cat from Pumpkin Moon (2005) 2. Katsu from Gorillaz 3. Jelly Beans from ApocalyptiGirl (by Andrew MacLean, 2015) 4. Lucky The Ninja Cat from the Tokyo Olympics Google Doodle 5. Pangur Ban from The Secret of Kells (2010) 6. Mio & Mao from Mio & Mao 7. Pilchard’s Kittens from Bob The Builder 8. Cat & Kitten from Barbie Zoom & Groom 9. Mayor Whiskers from Sims 4: Cats and Dogs 10. Mr Fluffypants from Phineas and Ferb

[aconissa]

ana, do you have recs for historical genre pieces? :)

I’m so glad you asked Keaton because I absolutely do!! (* for my faves)

Books:

From the Wreck* by Jane Rawson – a Lovecraftian/Carpenter-ish sci-fi in which an alien haunts a shipwreck survivor in 19th century Australia 

The Daylight Gate* by Jeanette Winterson – a horror/fantasy take on the Pendle Witch Trials of 1612

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar – magic realism and mermaid mythology wrapped up in a late 18th century comedy of manners

Dark Matter* by Michelle Paver – a ghost story set in Svalbard during an arctic expedition in the 1930s

Thin Air by Michelle Paver – a ghost story set during a Himalayan climbing expedition in the 1930s

The Hunger* by Alma Katsu – a horror take on the notorious Donner Party who got trapped in the Sierra Nevada in the 1840s

The Deep by Alma Katsu – ghosts haunt a survivor of the Titanic disaster and the sinking of her sister ship the Britannic

The Silent Companions* by Laura Purcell – a recent take on the classic 19th century haunted house story

The Owl Killers* by Karen Maitland – a medieval mystery novel set in 1321 with fantasy horror elements (with a brilliant set of mostly female characters but warning for a rape scene near the start)

Company of Liars* by Karen Maitland – another great medieval mystery and escape story set during the Black Death

The Terror by Dan Simmons – the Franklin Expedition if it wasn’t just stuck in the Arctic but was also hunted down by a monstrous creature (the tv series is a vast improvement on the book’s many flaws but it’s still one of the scariest novels I’ve ever read)

A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge – a ghostly fantasy story set during the English Civil Wars in the 17th century

The Fatal Tree by Jake Arnott – a crime/mystery/heist story set in 1720s London 

Films:

Ravenous* (1999) – a quirky Western/comedy/horror film set in a fort in 1840s California, drawing on elements of the Donner Party

Apostle* (2018) – a folk horror story of a strange cult set on a remote Welsh island in 1912

The Awakening* (2011) – a horror mystery in which a hoax exposer goes to a (possibly) haunted boarding school in 1921

Marrowbone* (2017) – psychological horror film following a family of young siblings in the late 1960s

The Others (2001) – a gothic horror haunting set on the island of Jersey immediately after WWII

The Wolfman* (2010) – a lush Victorian adaptation of the iconic 1941 werewolf horror film 

The Witch* (2015) – a horror story set amongst Puritan settlers in New England in the 17th century

Cold Skin (2017) – an eerie sci-fi/horror film following a meteorologist and lighthouse keeper on a remote South Atlantic island in 1914

The Lighthouse (2019) – a psychological horror film set on an isolated island in the late 19th century

Crimson Peak* (2015) – Guillermo del Toro’s take on a gothic horror/romance, set in America and England in 1901

Haunted (1995) – a cynical parapsychologist travels to a house in 1928 to investigate the strange happenings there

Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) – a sci-fi/horror take on the Beast of Gévaudan killings in 18th century France

Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning* (2004) – an origin story/prequel to the iconic teen werewolf movie Ginger Snaps (2000), set in a trading fort in 19th century Canada

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) – an action horror prequel to the Underworld films set in medieval Europe, exploring the origins of the vampire/werewolf war

TV series:

The Living and the Dead* (2016) – a paranormal folk horror miniseries set on a farming estate in late 19th century Somerset

The Terror* (2018) – a (superior) adaptation of the Dan Simmons novel, exploring a horror version of the Franklin Expedition

The Terror: Infamy (2019) – the second season of this horror anthology series; set in a Japanese Internment Camp in the US in WWII

Penny Dreadful* (2014-2016) – a horror series including elements of the classic gothic horror novels (Frankenstein, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, etc)

[soft-angelic-kiss]

We’re all a little bit crazy (6)

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therapsit! Izuku x Patient! Bakugou x Patient! Todoroki x Patient! Shinsou x Patient! Reader

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Chapter 6 trigger warnings- mentions of Tourette's (i don't think that’s an ACTUAL trigger but it couldn’t be hurt to mention) mentions of self harm (thinking they're indestructible.) And mentions of counting/taking pills + medications. 

I’m gonna need you guys to bare with me! I really don’t know what a mental hospital is like and so i tried my best with the information a friend gave me :) 

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Walking through the dining hall, Izuku kept his head up and tried to remain tall and strong to the other patients when he heard a squeal and watched the tuff of h/c go up into the air. Immediately Izuku was on a high alert. As he sped up his pace the same as Bakugou, who immediately started yelling

“Gah dammit shitty hair! I don’t you to stay-”

The blonde's voice was easily cut off through the laughter of a red head, and another blonde. 

“Oh chill it Baku-” the blonde's head threw itself backwards as the end of his sentence  “gOU-” escaped his lips. The red head was immediately making sure he was okay, even with Y/N in his arms. Rubbing his neck and asking about cramps

Izuku smiled softly and watched them all interact, being able to tell that they were all best friends. He hummed as Y/N bounced her way over to him and hung on his arm with a smile “YOU CAME” they yelled in excitement making everyone smile softly. 

The red head was the first to make a move as he smiled to the greenette “Hey! I’m Ejirou Kirishima!” he smiled as he pounded his fist together mushing together already forming scars, and bruises against his knuckles. 

It caused Izuku to check out all of his other scars that littered his body, his hands and arms mostly, Y/N must’ve seen him looking Kirishima over and hummed softly whispering into his ear “he thinks he’s indestructible..” Izuku nodded in understanding

“I’m D-” his sentence once again was cut short by a scrunching of his shoulders and a yell of “ENK” before he returned to his previous stance and said “Denki Kaminari!” he smiled softly and waved. Izuku waved back, he decided he would look at their files later after he laid Y/N down for bed. 

“What’s dinner today?” Y/N looked to their friends as they ushered Izuku to the table that they sat at, the setting arrangement a little squishier than normal due to the extra body that was added, On one side Kirishima, Denki, and Shinsou sat together and on the other side sat Izuku, Y/N, Todoroki and Bakugou. 

Bakuou was the first to respond “they have beef stroganoff… and steamed carrots...” Y/N pouted and nodded “I’m not surprised Katsu..” 

The group let out a little disappointed groan collectively. The cafeteria wasn’t the MOST delightful place to have their dinner, but they didn’t have the choice, especially on beef stroganoff night. 

Izuku thought their food opinions were interesting as he let them all engage in conversation quietly observing each of them with a smile. They all looked so happy and content when they were together. 

Bakugou's attitude was calm, Shinsou was engaging in conversation. Shoto was speaking more than Izuku thought was possible for him, Denki’s tics, at least that’s what Izuku had deemed them to be, had calmed down and Kirishima wasn’t hitting anything at all. 

Each of them were so content with each other, he wondered why they were kept apart. Y/N finished her food and each of the boys told her that they were proud of her. Which made bright blushes rise across her whole body with a smile. 

Eventually their dishes were taken from them and they were all sent down to the nurses station for their nightly meds before they would be sent upstairs for the night, Izuku followed after the group seeing as they were ready for the nightly meds.

Checking the time and seeing it was 9:00 pm on the dot, he waited patiently for them to receive their meds and come back. He quietly heard the mutter from Y/N as they counted which meds were there, “..seroquel and gabitril.. For sleep.. And Abilify for depression.`` They took their meds and smiled at Izuku, motioning him to follow them as they bounded up the stairs.

Izuku hummed softly following them back up the stairs placing his clipboard on a bedside table as he watched them get ready for bed as he smiled softly, when Y/N finally laid down humming into their mountain of pillows, all doctors approved.

“Good night… thank you for hanging out with me..” Izuku smiled as your voice echoed quietly in the small room causing his heart to flutter with how soft and sleepy you sounded. 

“Of course. I hope you sleep well Y/N” he hummed softly as he exited the room hearing your snores. Shortly after his words slipped past his lips, he exited and saw all the other boys' doors were closed. Figuring they were asleep too. He headed down to the staff room to put away his clipboard when he remembered that he wanted to check on Kirishima’s and Kaminaris files. 

He slowly searched through the last names, conveniently the two names were placed right together making sure that he wouldn’t forget about the other. With a soft hum he pulled out Kirishima’s file first. 

   F I L E   26

(Patient Name) Ejirou Kirishima  (Patient #785)

 (Date admitted) 10-25-2015

 (Patient age) 22

 (Patient disorder) Psychosis, Congenital insensitivity to pain. 

(History/cause)  Patient has seemed to believe that he is indestructible. He walks into walls and punches glass things, often resulting in scars and bleeding around his body, his mother has stated that he’s done this since he was little but always assumed he would grow out of it. He never did.

(Has patient...)

-attempted suicide? 

-attempted homicide?

-attempted any act of self-harm? 

-attempted violence on past employees?

-attempted escape?

 (Other). He’s very affectionate to those around him but often tries to prove his manliness to those around him. He always smashes his fists together declaring the manliness/womanlyness of those around him. 

(Danger level) 7/10

Izuku let out a breath as he quietly looked at the file over one more time before placing it back. He felt sorry for the red head but it explained the scar littered on his body. It also explained why he was calling everything manly.

 F I L E   27

(Patient Name) Denki Kaminari  (Patient #786)

 (Date admitted) 4-20-12

 (Patient age) 21

 (Patient disorder) Tourette Syndrome, depression, anxiety

(History/cause)  Patient was diagnosed with Tourettes around 6 years old, but his parents have said he’s always displayed symptoms of it even from toddler age. He stuck his finger in an electrical socket when he was 7 and it caused the scars going up his arms. 

(Has patient...)

-attempted suicide? 

-attempted homicide?

-attempted any act of self-harm? 

-attempted violence on past employees?

-attempted escape?

 (Other). He’s very cheeking, loves telling jokes and is relativity an easy going guy, he rarely has attacks but when he does i advise all employees to watch out because he gets urges to touch electricity, and mess with electrical setups 

(Danger level) 5/10

Izuku carefully placed the file back into the cabinet as he let out a breath. No wonder they all saw something in each other. They all had such similar stories, even if they weren’t exactly the same they all found solace in each other.

Y/N was missing a mother, father and brother figure in her life, which is why she pursued a relationship with Todoroki, Bakugou and Kirishima. Who all gave off the vibes that the poor younger needed to thrive. 

Todoroki was missing his sister and brother, which is why he connected so well with Denki and Y/N, they both held similar qualities to the two he had lost.. 

 Bakugou needed stable, but fun people to help him realize what a calm world this really was.. And that’s why he bonded with Todoroki, Shinsou. Kirishima, Denki and Y/N. They were all as equally calm as they were cheeky, meaning they could help Bakugou with whatever problem was needed. 

Shinsou was missing his parents and his little baby sister, so while he still had the parents to bond with during visiting hours. He treated each of these people as if they were a little sibling to him.

Kaminari finally felt accepted because none of them batted an eye when his tics happened, and it made him feel like he finally had a family, and he was finally happy.. 

Kirishima felt protected. While he enjoyed feeling power and being manly.. Sometimes it was nice to feel protected. None of them ever questioned how manly he was.. So he felt at peace 

Nothing could separate them. Nothing at all, Izuku was sure of it. He placed everything back before he finally headed back up to his own room. Finishing his nightly routine as he thought of the group he’d met today as he started falling into dream land. «────── « ⋅ʚ♡ɞ⋅ » ──────» @buckyneedsplums @lazywriterfullofideas09 @notchittatenn @psycho-101  @toodarktoseethelight @unlogical-ella  if you’re crossed out that’s because it wouldn’t let me tag you :( «────── « ⋅ʚ♡ɞ⋅ » ──────»

a/n: HI GUESS WHO’S BACK FROM THE DEAD!! In a moment of clarity i finally decided to work on this chapter. It’s been hard for me but you know i finally did it! Like i stated earlier I've never been to a mental hospital so i don’t know what it’s like in there. I tried my best using the information  friend had given me. Thank you guys for sticking with the story for as long as you have! 

[fundgruber]

The use of fire extinguishers for protests goes back ca. 10 years. Fire extinguisher graffiti comes from gangs in LA, then was used by graffiti writers, popularized around 2007, mostly in NY and Paris (Nug, Psy, Toam, Katsu, Kidult, Krink) and then in Berlin with Just and Thrill, but also actions like Brad Downey making the Berlin windows of Lacoste green in 2008, then it spread through the internet, started to be used in protests like Occupy Oakland 2011, Student Protests in Italy 2013, antifa marking fascist fashion stores in Berlin ca. 2012, further anticapitalist protests in Italy, particularly in Milano, in the following years (like the No Expo protest 2015). Since 2019 it is picked up in the climate protests, by Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil and now the Last Generation/Letzte Generation.

[4me4you]

4me4you visits Omni Gallery which featured the artist KATSU - "MECHA".

Channelling the mischievous, anarchic spirit of Dadaists from the turn of the 20th Century, Japanese American artist KATSU (b.1982) began as a graffiti writer in the streets of New York in the early 2000s and has been developing his artistic output ever since.

Through the use of drone technology, video, sculpture, and public intervention, KATSU explores the omnipresence of digital culture, privacy and the pervasive anxiety around technology and its potential for use and misuse.

Mecha presents a suite of paintings made using drone technology which the artist has developed and honed for the past decade.

Channelling this technology, through custom-built painting drones and specialised software, the artist programs drones to create portraits, landscapes, and abstract dot paintings.

Presented as distinctive series’, each of the works have been created by deploying autonomous and semi-autonomous painting drones to render directly on the canvas. The final outcome is not exclusively made by the artist, but instead occurs in collaboration between human and machine - mechas.

These brightly coloured, playful paintings belie a more serious undercurrent. The human experience of mark making has been outsourced via technology to the machine, bringing the idea of authorship and validation into question. Rather than improving quality of life, it can be argued, technology has stripped away humanistic values like freedom, community, and progress by negating the very idea of the individual.

In 2015 KATSU mischievously exploited his newly developed drone technology in one of the first ever acts of large-scale public drone vandalism. Taking less than a minute to complete, the drone spray painted red lines across the face of model Kendall Jenner as she stood six stories tall on one of New York City’s most renowned billboard locations. This small, playful gesture marks a dawning for graffiti artists and vandals, shifting the potential for street writing into a whole new, and for the authorities, terrifying wave of unstoppable possibilities. KATSU’s drone paintings, both on small and monumental scales, interrogate progress at all costs and the onslaught of exploitative uses for these flying vehicles.

Mecha, presents KATSU’s pioneering technology via playful, expertly rendered paintings which serve to explore the conundrum of progress versus imprudent ambition. The exhibition questions where and how technology is allowed to terminally invade our lives.

[daavydaave]

KATSU

Facial Recognition Cops Did Not Notice, 2015

[smolcano]

Happy (belated because I forgot to share this here yesterday, oop) 4/13!! Let's hop through time and check out some of my Homestuck cosplay throughout the ages. 👀

The 1st pic is a throwback to Katsu 2015 with @exceptionalpotato where our buddy Jessica was kind enough to snap some photos for us. If you squint you can kinda see Jessica's godtier Nepeta sneakers in the reflection of the photo. 😸 I love this photo so much. I don't have many photos with @exceptionalpotato and this one's pretty damn cute. ❤️💛

Scroll on through for Summerteen Romance with Sollux and Aradia, some Trickster Karkat and even my Punktier Rose Lalonde 👌👌👌 I almost slapped on facepaint for today...gosh... maybe again soon. Should I bring back Meenah? Dare I...dig up Karkat? 🦀

Have you read Homestuck or played any of the games? 🤔🤔🤔 I've made some really lovely friends because of Homestuck and cosplaying it, so my experience in the fandom has been pretty positive. 💖 Most photo credit goes to @photocaptor with all edits by me. The 1st was taken by a friend, and the 2nd photo was taken by someone random at the meetup, sorry. :O