#akashi series: bachelor

[movedbywords]

SAT AUG 26@2PM Join Moved By Words & Frye Art Museum for New Voices Of Color 2023

Our Moved By Words fall event is coming up this weekend presented by the Frye Art Museum, if you have a minute please pass this information on! More information about our New Voices 2023 reading featuring Zaji Cox, author of 'Plum For Months' below (and for writers a chance to write with us in the beautiful Frye Art Museum on Saturday!)

MOVED BY WORDS: NEW VOICES OF COLOR READING — SAT AUG 26 2PM MORE INFO & FREE EVENT REGISTRATION FOR ATTENDEES: https://fryemuseum.org/calendar/event/moved-words-new-voices-color-reading

WRITE WITH US 

We still have spots for writers and volunteers for this Saturday. Please reply ASAP if you would like to get early entry to the museum, sit with the writers, read with us during the event, and have a space to put your books or art after the show then give us a shout. There will be tables available and we will have time to spend as a writing community together. We are going to write one short piece on "Remixing Identity" based on the Kelly Akashi exhibition at the Frye Art Museum: https://youtu.be/3pxw5pJw-E8  VOLUNTEER TO HELP

If all you want to. do is come early and support, help set up tables, and do a general vibe check that's fine too—just reply to this email ASAP and tell us you are interested in volunteering. Otherwise we hope to see you at the show~!

MOVED BY WORDS: NEW VOICES OF COLOR READING — SAT AUG 23 2PM Join the Frye and Moved by Words as we celebrate 10 years of poetry project New Voices of Color with a special reading at the Frye Art Museum, honoring both a decade of emerging talent and the closing of current exhibition Kelly Akashi: Formations. Headlining the program, Zaji Cox will offer a special reading from her recently published book of essays Plums for Months, which explores life growing up mixed race in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. Other participating artists include Maryam Imam Gabriel, Stacy D Flood, Prashant Kakad, and more special guests!

New Voices of Color invites emerging authors and poets to workshop, connect, share works, and get inspired. Participating poets will have spent the day at the museum with Moved by Words founder Skyler Reed, touring the galleries to absorb Akashi’s work. Their responses will be shared during the reading, highlighting the special symbiosis between the visual and literary arts.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Zaji Cox wrote her first short story at age nine. A dancer, model, and artist, she has performed at the PDX Poetry Festival, Survival of the Feminist reading series, Corporeal Writing’s LOOP, and the Northwest Folklife Festival. She holds a bachelor's degree in English and her writing can be found in Pathos Literary Magazine, Entropy, The Portland Metrozine, Cultural Daily, CARE Covid Art REsource, and the anthology 2020: The Year of the Asterisk (University of Hell Press).

Skyler Reed (Skyler / Skylers / he / him / they / their) is a Sycan River Paiute (PIE-YOOT) artist, writer, and musician of the duo Lark & Raven currently living under the troll bridge in Sia’hl (SEE-AL-TH) on Duwamish (DOO-WAU-MISH) Tribal Lands. The founder of Moved By Words and a recipient of the Dean’s Residential Fellowship at the UW Information School, Skyler is the author of two chapbooks, And All Ampersands (2016) and Sex & Wikipedia (2017).

ABOUT MOVED BY WORDS

Founded by Skyler Reed, Moved By Words is a project dedicated to connecting new writers with writing workshops and community outreach. In 2020, Skyler hosted and organized the first ever free-of-charge women and queer folk of color writers' workshops and reading series, in community collaboration with the women and queer folk of Northwest Native Writers Circle and of the Whitenoise Reading Series community.

ABOUT KELLY AKASHI

Kelly Akashi: Formations is organized by the San José Museum of Art and curated by Lauren Schell Dickens, Chief Curator. The presentation at the Frye Art Museum is organized by Amanda Donnan, Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions.

Major support for Kelly Akashi: Formations provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Fellows of Contemporary Art. Generous support for the Frye’s installation provided by the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, the Frye Foundation, and Frye Members. Media sponsorship provided by The Stranger.

SKYLER REED

MOVED BY WORDS

[ohmy7hearts]

prologue

Pairings: Kise Ryouta x BestFriend!Reader

Summary: Kise is trying to convince you that a bachelor party at Vegas is worth it. 

Warnings: None

A/N: I know, I know; I’m always starting a new series but in my defence, this has been sitting in my WIP for like a year? And I really want to get back into writing but then I got into My Hero Academia and I got a lot of ideas for that. :’) and then there is that KNB x HP that I haven’t touch in a long time. I knwo this fandom is like dead... but I really don’t care. Just like how I don’t care about all my other series :’)

You stared at him - fingers interlocking and supporting your chin - while thinking of how exactly you should reply to him.  The gummy grin gracing his face was far from innocent. At first glance, many would argue otherwise, but you knew him better than he knew himself. Sure, the grin reminded you of better times - when you both were looking through a rosier lens whereby the good always triumph the evil - but there was that tinge of apathy that you couldn’t look away from and knew by heart it was credited to all the times life had brought his hopes up just to crush them down further. Certainly, you’re not that heartless to do the same, right?

“Ryouta.”

He perked up at the sound of his name tumbling out of your mouth like a puppy would when called upon by its owner. The hope igniting behind his eyes were certainly not difficult to distinguish.

“Do you know how utterly ridiculous you sound right now?”

Displeasure was sewn onto his face, “Come on ____-cchi! It’ll be fun!”

You sighed before collapsing back onto the seat. Shutting your eyes, only images of the group of adults making a ruckus across the ocean was what was shown behind your eyelids. You could picture how chaos would break loose and the stress your fiance has to deal with. It was supposed to be his bachelor party, not the time for him to babysit his friends.

Sighing in exasperation, you glared at the blond and as you have predicted, his infamous puppy dog eyes were in full swing.

“Is this just an excuse to go to America with your friends?” You immediately leaned closer to him over the table, eyes forming into slits which caused him to leaned back to seek safety. “Or are you actually doing this …” Eyes closing to find the right words at attempt to paint your worries and hand going in circular motion, “to throw an actual bachelor party?”

His crestfallen face greeted you when you reopened your eyes. “I honestly thought it’ll be a good idea…” His hand rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. “You know, for him to actually have some fun and let loose and everything…”

Mouth twitching to form a smile, you straighten your posture and return to sipping on your tea. “I’ll talk to him about it.”

As quickly as a switch flipped, his face lit up. The grin he usually sports was back and his eyes crinkle in elation. His mouth going miles an hour with plans he had come up with and you can’t help that you got invested in it when there was that twinge of childlike enthusiasm coating his words.

And like old times, the light reflected off the pane of his eyes like molten gold. A gold so captivating with so much wonder for the world and glee for everything he had done right.

This being one of them? You will just have to wait and see.

[hunterartemisanime]

KnB Commentary: Kise Ryouta and the Curse of Being “Pretty Boy” in Shonen Anime

Cheerful, extroverted, happy-go-lucky and sunshine with a face, Kise Ryota is the screen ikemen in Kuroko no Basket. Although Kise is a cult favourite, but I think he is sometimes pushed aside with Momoi. In KnB people tend to focus more on the other GoMs rather than Kise. Here is my take on how Kise Ryota’s character and his types are scorned in Shonen Manga.

Shonen and Shojo manga revolve around two different dimensions: while shonen manga focuses on friendships, journeys and solid characteristic developments, shojo manga focuses generally on the romance parts, interpersonal relationships, appearance and struggles of the ordinary main character. Both manga lauds ordinariness and makes the ordinary extra-ordinary one just by showing that they have the possibility to be sublime. While Shojo manga greatly appreciates male beauty to the point of worship, Shonen sort of looks down on male beauty: anyone who identifies himself as good looking, or wants to be good looking is put down by others around him. Let’s see how Kise fell into the same trap.

Kise is introduced in the story in a very Shojo manga fashion. He is looked from the female point of view of Seirin’s girl students as he walks down the main pathway of the school. That piece of scene almost reminded me Takumi Usui entering school in Kaichou wa Maid Sama. From that point, wherever he goes he is greeted and surrounded by female population en large, much to the annoyance of his team members and opponents. Similar to the effect of “male gaze”, exists a “female gaze” which supposedly decides the desirability of a boy, especially in a high school setting. Kise, being handsome by the contemporary Japanese standards thus somewhat becomes the focus of the female gaze which makes males around him conscious and equally anxious. This phenomenon can be asserted with Momoi’s first encounter in the anime with Kuroko in Aida Gym pool. When Kuroko is hugged by a very beautiful and buxom Momoi Satsuki, the boys on his team lament: “I am so jealous of you Kuroko, hope you’ll die.” This was from a rather “harmless” and “normal” bunch of High School Basketballers, then just imagine how it effects the powerhouse boys with similar primal instinct and with greater ego. Thus Kise is treated with hot-and-cold attitude from males around him: be its his former teammates or current.

Kise is thus definitely an eligible bachelor and he surely knows it. However his self-awareness is without vanity or narcissistic edge. He is shown to be appreciative of female attention and not portray himself as a “playboy” or a “Scorer”; he is never addressed by anyone as “charan poran” (womanizer) in the series. This is a very contradictory attitude in Shonen anime. In shonen anime Male sexuality have very limited outlets: either one should be hyper-celibate and not pay attention to any organism marked as female, or one could be hyper-sexual to the point where they objectify the female form in a not so respectable manner--there is nothing in the Middle. In KnB Akashi, Kuroko and Midorima fall in the former end of spectrum while Haizaki Shogo and Aomine Daiki fall into the latter. Even dating and having girlfriend can make you the object of male scorn: in the anime Grand Blue, the department of Mechanical Engineer has a secret pact to stay single and when they find out that Iori Kitahara is living with Chisa (who is his cousin), they almost throw a violent fit. The male solidarity in Shonen thus ostricise the males who express appreciation in female company and show interest in courting and romance. Kise is snubbed in a similar manner for showing interest in a more feminine side. A same kind of snubbing was delivered to Hiroshi Fukuda of Seirin when he confessed on the rooftop that he wanted to get into the team for dating someone. In Free Momotarou Mikoshiba too, is either ridiculed or snubbed by his teammates for openly admitting to like Gou Matsuoka.

Out of all the Generation of Miracles characters, I think Kise is the most discriminated of all. His discrimination is the unsual kind: he is too important in the plotline to be comic relief like Takao and Izuki and he is too cheerful enough to be the bad boy. So what kind of discrimination does he face? He faces the discrimination for being good looking. Yes, there is a thing to be discriminated for being good looking. I also think Kise has been played within the character of being the “dumb blond”. He is portrayed as “pretty boy” and is expected to limit himself within it. His cheerful attitude is often met with cold shoulder and it is absolutely normalised within the storyline. Unlike other players who greet their rivals outside the courts with a broody attitude and slightly glaring eyes, Kise is the one who advocates “Yesterday’s rivals are today’s friends”. This is a very positive attitude to use in real life to keep the unhealthy competitiveness in check, but it is met with a scorn in the anime. It is shown as if being cheerful is the by-product of being good looking and the former should reflect the latter. This is perhaps the reason Kise’s playing style was completely sniped out of the scene from being “the best of all”. According to the society, a good looking person is just an eye-candy for anyone to drool over and if they have too much agency or talent people enviously comment “(s)he gets all that because of the looks”. It stems from the insecurity of one person having too much social power. The entire thing is very limiting. Kise is not only good-looking, he is acing his modelling career, a field which is highly demanding and taxing and at the same time he is doing well in basketball also in a nationally reputed school. These attributes somewhat gets overshadowed because he is somewhat only identified on screen for his looks. This fact is highlighted with his rivalry with Haizaki Shogo. Haizaki, instead of acknowledging Kise as a player, “marked his territory” by “boning” one of the girls claiming to be Kise’s girlfriend. 

Kise is very much aware of the fact that the swarming bunch of girls are intrinsic to his image, especially as a model and for this reason he tries to be respectful towards them. However, he does not identify the admiration of the fan-brigade with genuine affection. This is the core fact which Haizaki misinterprets about Kise that he derives power from the admiring fangirls. Haizaki despite being the antagonist is pretty much shares the similar prejudice with the people near Kise: that Kise Ryota begins and ends with looks and even his playing style “perfect copy” is less than original. But Kise is not the prejudices that surround him, he is affectionate, loyal and genuine with enough dedication to pursue what he loves. The ideal type of Kise : “a girl that won’t tie me down” says a lot about him. He is eager to meet someone who will respect him for who he actually is and not for his looks or fame. He too is someone who grew out of seeing the surface and judge to observe someone and understand---that is how he started to respect Kuroko at the first place. At the end, when he loses to Touou, he sheds the image of a “cool handsome boy” and cries like a baby in public; something his own captain Kasamatsu or his former teammate Midorima could not do. This shows a lot of courage and strength but also shows that expressing ugly emotions in a public can also be dignified and not necessarily be stripping to masculinity.

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PRECEDENT RESEARCH

RELATED TO PACIFIC SISTERS PARTICULAR MODES OF PRACTICE, DISPLAY AND EXCHANGE

FAFSWAG:

Fafswag is an Auckland based collective of 10 celebrating queer pacific islander culture. They celebrate this through parties, events and some stunning video work. They are at the front line of fighting the moral restrictions on love, rigid gender binaries and political oppression. Besides all the crazy good times and impeccable style they are a group of artists working to navigate a particularly complex cultural landscape. 

https://i-d.vice.com/en_au/article/59ga5d/fafswag-is-the-auckland-collective-celebrating-queer-pacific-islander-culture - A FAFSWAG family portrait. Image courtesy of the group.

Pacific Islander culture is unique in how it has historically both embraced and erased LGBTQ experiences. There is a widely recognised a third gender —sometimes called Fa'afafine, Fakaleiti, Fafine, Akavaine, Mahu or Takataapui — for individuals who are called male at birth, but raised as female. Sometimes people of this identity are celebrated, sometimes they're not. Either way, the transgender experience is a familiar part of Pacific Islander culture. Unfortunately, this doesn't extend to gay, lesbian or bisexual individuals. Being a L,G,B or Q is often still seen as a sin in a community where the church casts a long shadow. For many queer Pacific Islanders, the dichotomy makes it difficult to understand where they belong. That's where FAFSWAG comes in.

SOME ARTISTS:

Akashi Fisiinaua: Tāmaki Makaurau

AKASHI is an Indigenous Trans Political Artist of Tongan origin whose background is acting and dance – that uses the forms of vogue movements and chanting in her practice to empower indigenous queer/trans brown bodies into upholding themselves physically, financially and spiritually strong. Her medium is the B O D Y to communicate these ideas of self-sovereignty and not needing anyone to fill up your glass. Her work is always oozing in body politics, and the importance of CONTROL of your life.

Jermaine Dean: Tāmaki Makaurau

Jermaine Dean is a contemporary digital artist whose practice consists of photography and moving image. Ideas around gender identity, body politics, colour and surreal fantasy influences his visualconcepts which are all conveyed through pixel manipulation. Jermaine has been a member of FAFSWAG since 2012, and has exhibited work in Fresh Gallery Otara, ArtSpace and Auckland Pride Festival. He has collaborated with many indigenous artists within NZ and abroad.

Manu Vaea: Tāmaki Makaurau

Manu Vaea is an interdisciplinary artist currently completing a Bachelor of Visual Arts at AUT TeWananga Aronui o Tamaki Makau Rau. His practice revolves around the exploration of Polynesian mysticism, and the mundanity/complexity of existing as a queer Tongan living in South Auckland through poetry and illustration. Manu has been involved in many collaborative projects, one being 'Statuesque Anarchy' in Enjoy Public Art Gallery alongside collective WITCH BITCH and poetry devised theatre shows 'Loud and Queer' directed by Sarah Jansen and 'Mouth:Teeth:Tongue' directed by Grace Taylor. Vaea is also an active member of arts collective FAFSWAG and has been since 2016.

Moe Laga: Tāmaki Makaurau

Moe Laga-Fa’aofo is a Performance Artist from South Auckland, Whose practice includes movement and activation. Her works include a large number of stage and screen productions, as well as collaborative visual arts work that have been shown in Australia as well as the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China. Moe has a diploma from the Pacific institute of Performing Arts and recently completed her Bachelors in Creative Arts from the Manukau Institute of Technology.

Pati Solomona Tyrell: Tāmaki Makaurau

Pati Solomona Tyrell is an interdisciplinary visual artist with a strong focus on performance. Utilizing lens-based media he creates visual outcomes that are centered around ideas of urban Pacific queer identity. He has shown work at Fresh Gallery Otara, PAH Homestead, Museum of Contemporary Arts Australia and most recently at the Pingyao International Photography Festival. Tyrell is a co-founder of the arts collective FAFSWAG. He is a recent graduate of the Bachelor of Creative Arts programme at the Manukau Institute of Technology, Otara. Pati is originally from Kirikiriroa, Waikato but is now based in Maungarei, Tāmaki Makaurau.

Sione Monu: Tāmaki Makaurau

Sione Monu often uses Instagram (visit @sione93) as an art tool, constantly creating artworks that utilise the platform as a way of re-indigenising space as well as create accessibility for his community to engage with the works. His series of self portraits #BlanketCouture (2016) came to life due to a day of play but with only having access to the materials in his home. Although playful the use of blankets are on the artists’ body are striking and intimate is the artist challenges notions of representation and gender.

Tanu Gago: Tāmaki Makaurau

Tanu Gago is a visual artist and award winning photographer of Samoan heritage. Born in Samoa and raised in Mangere. Gago works as a new media artist with a portfolio of work that includes, staged portraiture, moving image and film. His practice is collaborative and imbedded within contemporary context that relates to cultural framing, decolonization, social politics, queer activism and gender and sexually diverse narratives. Gago is the cofounder and creative director of Pacific LGBT Arts Collective entitled FAFSWAG. Under Gago’s direction FAFSWAG have carved out credible cultural space within the contemporary arts scene within Auckland. The work achieved by this collective of artist spans over 5 years of producing art, activation, activism and visibility for a community traditionally marginalised socially and institutionally.

WITCH BITCH: Tāmaki Makaurau

WITCH BITCH came about through the constant talanoa had between the artist's regarding Polynesian spirituality and how they sit within it. This is further explored and manifested through the trio's activations. As such, WB’s pieces speak to their reclamation of space within the Vā. The contextual and metaphysical space that exist between all things. Their activations in turn serve as a vessel for the re-writing and imagining of queer Polynesian spiritual experiences. The trio's familiarity in regards to living in diaspora also works in tandem with this exploration of spirituality as a drive towards a cultural discovery of self.

Formed around a core team of artists, the collective works to create a queer space within the Islander identity and and call out restrictive cultural narratives. For the past four years they've done this through films, art, music and an epic annual voguing contest known as the FAFSWAG ball. 

In an interview i-D spoke to member Tanu Gago about what it means to be an LGBTQ Pacific Islander, and how art and partying can make the world a much warmer place -

Before we talk about FAFSWAG, can we chat a bit about the Pacific Islander LGBTQ experience. ANSWER: It has remained largely invisible for a majority of our recorded cultural history; most of the text that states otherwise has been destroyed or augmented through the process of colonisation. The only remanence of any gender or sexual diversity has been epitomised through the cultural framing of our third gender population. It's the only culturally acceptable deviation from western gender and sexual norms that's widely embraced in the Pacific, but not without incident, contention or western distortion.

Do you feel you have a defined group mission? ANSWER: FAFSWAG emerged out of a lack of formal social spaces for people like us to access. We are outcast as society's undesirables and slapped with dual minority statuses as queer and brown people. For this reason it's been important to carve out a place for our stories and for us to facilitate meaningful connections with our creative peers. It just turns out that the very nature of doing this has huge political impacts.

Often there is this sense that queer groups exist to educate or engage the hetero world on LGBT issues. Do you feel you have a responsibility to that wider conversation? ANSWER: There's a hangover that sees our communities framed by mental illness, sexual deviance and our prevalence for sexually transmitted infections and new HIV transmissions. Our identities are constantly being cranked through a filter, and it's not a flattering Instagram filter! The heteronormative moral majority is always creating uneducated and misinformed stereotypes that make it easier to discriminate against people who are different. So yeah, we do have a responsibility to keep people in check and be part of a wider discussion. But it doesn't have to happen on their terms. We have to say no to your pantomime caricatures of our complex identities, no to your to your legislation that treats us like illegal citizens in our home, no to your moral restrictions on love, no to your rigid gender binaries and transphobia, no to your political oppression and social deprivation and no to your shitty art!

Can you tell me how the vogue scene and your vogue balls play in this? ANSWER: New Zealand youths have become enamoured by the New York Ball and Vogue scene of marginalised African American LGBTQI communities. The underground Vogue scene in this country is really young and is still something that happens on the fringes and margins of society. For the past four years we've produced a community based Vogue Ball in Otara South Auckland. In the beginning we made so many mistakes and had to really educate ourselves about the culture. This meant working collaboratively with legendary people in the scene like Mario Faumui, Jaycee Tanuvasa and Darren Taniue. 

Fafswag has similar qualities and beliefs as Pacific Sisters in both their art and overall goal of inclusivity. The use of multimedia is present in both collectives work as they celebrate Pacifica culture, all aspects of Pacifica culture. Although Fafswag tends to use more video work and focuses more on the LGBT community in Pacifica culture and Pacific Sisters are more about general inclusivity with Pacifica culture and Pakeha culture they still have very similar themes and ideas about how Pacifica people are perceived in today’s society. 

[ao3feedakafuri]

A Party Of Green Tea Crepes

by StrangeStorm

The Omega Protection Squad (plus friends) takes Kouki out for a bachelor party filled with hiking, tall heights and robots! This will be a day no one will ever forget.

Words: 10175, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 22 of The Green Tea Series

Fandoms: Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko's Basketball

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Furihata Kouki, Akashi Seijuurou, Takao Kazunari, Hayama Kotaro, Kuroko Tetsuya, Generation Of Miracles, Uncrowned Kings, Kawahara Koichi, Fukuda Hiroshi, Riko Aida, Ootsubo Tae

Relationships: Akashi Seijuurou/Furihata Kouki, Mentioned Side Pairings - Relationship

Additional Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Omegaverse, Fluff, Friendship, Comedy, akafuri - Freeform, Alpha Akashi Seijuurou, Omega Furihata Kouki, Bachelor Party, Omega Protection Squad, Freshmen Trio, Mount Takao, Hiking, onsens, Tokyo Sky Tree, Robot Restaurants, Ninja Villages

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[pinoyscientists]

Meet Ryan Arevalo, computational physicist

1) What do you do?

I work on calculations based on density functional theory to study heterogeneous reactions at the atomic and mesoscopic scales. I am particularly interested in elucidating the reaction mechanisms that govern industrially and environmentally significant reactions such as the catalytic reforming of hydrocarbons, electrode chemical/electrochemical reactions in fuel cells, and exhaust gas purification systems. #SakitSaBangs

2) Where do you work?

I am currently an Assistant Professor at Akashi National Institute of Technology in Japan. I am part of the Nakashini Laboratory. #JapanJapanSagotSaKahirapan

3) Tell us about the photos!

[Top:] A choreographed “improvised selfie” at the place where I spend most of my time calculating. It took around 20 shots to find this perfect angle. ;)

[Bottom:] This is from my recent visit to Dubrovnik in Croatia for a paper presentation. If the place does not look familiar, try watching some fantasy television series once in while. #KingsLanding

4) Tell us about your academic career path so far.

I started my career as a physics teacher at the Philippine Normal University where I received my bachelor’s degree. I then received my Master of Science in Physics degree from De La Salle University and Master of Engineering degree from Osaka University in Japan. 

I earned my doctorate degree in Quantum Engineering Design from Osaka University through the Monbukagakusho Scholarship, with academic stints at the University College London in England and at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. 

When my supervising professor (sensei) at Osaka University became the president of the National Institute of Technology, he took me as a research faculty. 

I am planning to be back home soon and spend the rest of my professional life in the Philippines. #Makabayan

5) Anything else you’d like to share?

Many people asked me why I have spent so much time studying. Here’s my answer: I wanted to inspire the world by showing everyone that my mother, who has only finished elementary grade, has raised a son with a doctorate. #MrPhilippinesQ&A

[ao3feed-mythology]

The Judgment of Nijimura

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by XxRedCrowxX

Nijimura was minding his own, enjoying the life as a bachelor prince of Troy, but after meeting some gods he sailing off to Sparta to retrieve that for which he has longed for-the Queen of Sparta with the love god's blessing.

The Judgement of Paris (When Paris decides to get him some Spartan Queen) but with KNB characters.

Words: 4075, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of NijiAka Through Time and Space

Fandoms: Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko's Basketball, The Iliad - Homer, Greek and Roman Mythology

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Akashi Seijuurou, Nijimura Shuuzou, Aomine Daiki, Kise Ryouta, Momoi Satsuki, Midorima Shintarou

Relationships: Akashi Seijuurou/Nijimura Shuuzou, Akashi Seijuurou/Aomine Daiki

Additional Tags: Judgement of Paris, Helen!Akashi, Paris!Nijimura, Menelaus!Aomine, Aphrodite!Kise, Athena!Midorima, Hera!Momoi, these tags mean nothing to me, before Iliad, Crossover, nijiaka - Freeform, aoaka - Freeform, Kinda, not really - Freeform

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