#UC photos

[alts-photography]

The moving Gundam statue before it was taken down :'(

[jeffcbliss]

A #TBThursday Rock Shot: Rick Nielsen (left) and Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick - Crawford Hall, U.C. Irvine, CA (12/27/78). @CheapTrickRick @CheapTrickTom @cheaptrick

Photo: Jeff Bliss

I shot this photo using a borrowed 35mm Canon that I didn’t know how to use, and I was fortunate to get this private moment between Rick and Tom.

[ardethbayrulez]

ODED FEHR

for RAZOR MAGAZINE

[trivalentlinks]

Let F be a Floer homology theory. For the purposes of this talk, you can assume it's any Floer homology theory you like, and if you don't like any Floer homology theory, then pretend you do like one and assume it's that one

-- a conference speaker

[selfieignite]

May 16, 2023

John Cho was a guest speaker at UC Berkeley’s English department graduation

It’s also his alma mater where he received his BA in English literature.

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[witch-from-side-3]

my first real grade done! panel lined and (almost) fully decaled with waterslides! i really want the yellow insignias gold so ill likely be looking for alternatives for the shield and skirting armour but once ive found those, a matte coat and shes FINISHED finished. really proud!

[dykestache]

werk dripppp 🪼🪸🐠

[godofglitter]

i need some place to document all the very cool things daily life throws my way so hey i'm back.

Image: Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru's address to a throng of UC Berkeley and USC students, October 1949. Credit: Truman Library

This picture was taken at the historical William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre, and the stage is the same stage I walked when I graduated this May from Cal. Even after four years amongst Nobel Laureates and inventors and revolutionaries I will never stop being amazed by the true extent of Berkeley's place in history. Go Bears. Jai Hind.

[carleybenazzi-blog-blog]

arina

BODY SKIN  | LeLAPEAU – Jamila Skin EVOX – HEAD | LeLUTKA – Ora Head 3.1 EVO X HAIR | Tableau Vivant  – Spring curls hair- vintage BODY | Reborn – OUTFIT DRESS | United Colors – Arina laced dress  – NEW!@Fameshed SHORTS | Klubb – Valentina Booty shorts ACCESSORY | Majesty – Fendi Monogram shades – ACCESSORY | Mowie – Toama leather gloves SHOES | Ooze – Claude suede heels

[horce-divorce]

🏳️‍⚧️ jim ♡ he/him ⚧ 30s

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» i like to share my thoughts and observations from a disabled, trans + homeless perspective, reblogs of stuff I think is important or educational, and stuff that makes me want to live. been sharing more of my own art + writing lately too! I have sideblogs for poetry & photography as well.

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⚣ @smeetlinglord and I have been homeless since August of 2023. we're chronicling our experiences living this way as disabled queer guys. we lived in our car until it died 07/01/24 so now we're going between a tent and couch hopping, and just continuing to live our lives in spite of everything. if you're interested, follow along here, on Ko-Fi, or on our side, @vagabond-sky

we have no monthly income due to our circumstances & constant displacement. the only money we get comes from friends and followers, and every dollar counts for us. when I'm able I sell art, but at the moment I have nowhere to keep stock. reblogging our essays & donation posts is always a huge help, too!

› (02/2025) current donation post

✨ ⭐ KoFi Art Gallery & Essays ⭐ ✨

› "We all have the same 24 hours in a day," discussing what it means when someone chooses to label themselves as "disabled," and how we had all better get comfortable talking about it in a post-COVID, climate-changing, politically unstable world -> reblog on tumblr › "I'm Proud of Us," where I talk about some well-documented but oft-overlooked factors of homelessness, and why I'm not ashamed to be homeless, disabled, or to need so much help

I made a Tumblr Community for current, former, or about-to-be homeless folks to chat, commiserate, vent, ask for advice, or just share memes in a chill place; be warned that Communities has been buggy on mobile, you may have to try more than once.

🔗 here's the invite link if you wanna come hang out 🔗

I also made a Tumblr Community for chronic pain havers. are you pained, chronically? do you enjoy the company of others who understand the scope of your suffering?

🔗 join the chronic pain gang 🔗

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thank you textstudio for the bling shrek font

[heich0e]

iwaizumi got a lower back tattoo on his 21st birthday.

if you showed one hundred people in the street a photo of 30-year-old hajime, and then surveyed them as to whether or not they think he has a lower back tattoo, it's unlikely more than one of them would say yes—and even the one who did probably just misheard the question. it's as unbelievable a thought as any, and still somehow it's true.

he was 21, legally drunk for the first time in america, and hanamaki and matsukawa had finally come to california to visit him to mark the occasion. it was kind of a stupid trip, they realized afterwards, because issei and hiro were still only 20 and couldn't even go out to the bars near UC irvine that all of iwa's college friends were inviting him out to for the first time.

but he didn't mind.

he bought them beer and sugary canned cocktails from the convenience store near campus using the birthday money his nanay sent him, silently repenting in his mind as the store clerk in the polyester vest rang the expensive purchase through. then they all got drunk in iwa's tiny student apartment while they played video games, called oikawa, and eventually wandered out into the warm california night in search of food.

the details beyond that are fuzzy, but the lines inked into the little space at the bottom of hajime's spine are not—even after nine whole years.

most people have no idea about the tattoo—and hajime has gone to great lengths to keep it that way. he wears a compression t-shirt at the gym so there's no risk of it riding up and accidentally revealing it. he orders patches to conceal it on the rare occasion he goes to onsens. he never showers with the athletes at work, always either opting to shower at home, shower after the team, or use the staff facilities when available.

but in spite of all of that, he's not embarrassed of it.

he doesn't even really regret it.

it's just not anybody else's business.

the ink on his skin is a secret kept between him, matsukawa, hanamaki, the guy who tattooed him, and oikawa who was screaming on facetime in the background while it happened.

and now you, too.

your hand snakes up the back of hajime's sweatshirt as he stands at the stove preparing breakfast, cool fingertips tracing the curls of ink even without seeing them—having long mapped them to memory. hajime suppresses a shiver, not expecting the contact, as you crowd yourself closer to his back and lean your weight against him.

"i was trying not to wake you," he says quietly, the hand not holding the chopsticks he's flipping his omelette with reaching behind him in search of you.

"you didn't," you murmur into his back, catching his seeking hand in yours and twining your fingers together. "smelled food."

hajime laughs to himself, his eyes crinkling. he squeezes your fingers tightly as his heart thuds in his chest.

underneath his sweatshirt, your nails rake lightly against his skin.

"shouldn't i be making your breakfast?"

hajime transfers his omelette to the plate waiting beside the stove, flicking off the burner and then turning to face you. he wraps his arms around you and holds you properly now, your face burrowing into the collar of his hoodie the way you always do, his nose brushing your temple.

"wanted to let you sleep a bit longer," hajime grunts out, his cheeks burning a bit hot—still shy, sometimes, even after so much time has passed. "thought you might be tired after..."

you snort, your head popping up to look at him. "after you fucked me within an inch of my life into the wee hours of the morning?"

the fire burning under hajime's skin grows even hotter. he splutters a little, and struggles to meet your gaze.

"i'm not tired," you whisper, a mischievous smile tugging at your lips. the incorrigible one he fell in love with. "we were celebrating, after all."

hajime's eyes are burning a little bit, to complement the stinging in his cheeks. you lift your hand up to his face so you can feel the heat of his skin, and he rests his own hand—larger, more calloused than your own—to rest overtop of it. he looks at you, and sees happiness reflected back at him in your gaze. so fathomless he thinks he could drown in it.

hajime turns his face into your touch, and his eyes flutter closed as he noses against your palm.

he presses a kiss there. soft. adoring.

then another, just slightly higher, to the ring he put on your finger the night before.

he peeks at you again, that same heat in his cheeks, though not nearly as unbearable.

he's got another secret he doesn't regret now, one just as permanent as the ink in his skin, but this one won't stay hidden long. eventually he'll call his parents, and his nanay will probably get teary. then he'll tell his friends, who will put his mother's tears to shame. he'll leave the tattoo artist out of it this time, though—wherever that guy is now.

"happy birthday, hajime," you whisper to him with a smile he can't help but return.

he might keep this secret between the two of you today, though. just for a little while longer.

it'll be his gift to himself.

[alts-photography]

The moving Gundam in Yokohama, Japan

[jeffcbliss]

@CheapTrickRick @cheaptrick

Photo: Jeff Bliss

[ardethbayrulez]

Oded Fehr

signed photo

[palephx]

"juniors"

SRSLY, this whole thing with past generations aging way too fast is beginning to confuse me, for about the third time.

What do YOU think it is?

Post-war, better nutrition, selfish narcissists (and marketing), the common availability of moisturizer and softer water?

[Berkeley campus, fin de siècle]

[selfieignite]

John Cho will be speaking at UC Berkeley English graduation on May 16, 2023. He graduated from the same university in 1996 with a BA in English literature. 

He will also have events at Fresno City College on April 18, 2023 and Amherst College on April 24, 2023.