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Kaminari Denki fic recs

“Hard” (T) by Silver_Sterling

https://archiveofourown.org/works/10525128

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

Kirishima has never been to Kaminari's house and he doesn't know why. Denki says his parents won't allow any visitors but other than that he knows nothing about them. When he finally gets to go his whole world gets turned upside-down.

“No one is truly ‘stupid’ without a reason” (Gen) by Mov_Kai

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16323209/chapters/38184812

Warnings: N/A

Ships: erasermic, gen

Kaminari Denki wasn’t stupid, Shouta noted.

He was far from it, actually.

Kaminari might not be academically smart, but hell if he wasn’t people smart. His vocabulary was extensive (even if he preferred not to use it much) and he read pretty difficult English books. He could read people just as well. But not everyone could see past his usual antics of small sparks and forced laughter. Shouta could though. Shouta was an underground pro, after all.

Or, Aizawa Shouta notices everyone's favorite idiot isn't actually as dumb as everyone suspects, and discovers that something might be holding the otherwise intelligent student back.

“No More Fragments” (M) by Ischemia

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16057748/chapters/37489790

Warnings: N/A

Ships: Kamishin, kiribaku, tododeku, erasermic

Shinsou Hitoshi has finally gotten his wish and is now officially a part of Class 1-A. It was everything he'd wanted, but all of these obstacles keep finding him.

Sometimes this means a cute blonde boy he doesn't know how to talk to and other times it means possibly losing the trust of the class he so badly wants to be a part of.

Cue awkward dates, Shinsou having the best dads in the world, and learning what friendship means.

“A Bit Too Late” (NR) by malfunctioning

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14832983

Warnings: Major Character Death

Ships: kirikami, bakudeku, momojirou

Denki should’ve known better. He shouldn’t have thought of going through with this ridiculous plan of surrendering himself to the police and narrating everything he knew just because Kirishima suggested it.

The whole scenario seemed like walking towards the circus tent with Denki was the inexperienced lion tamer expected to put on a show for the audience, without prior training and past the point of no return.

“Loss” (T) by rainbowturtle2

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15010256

Warnings: Major Character Death

Ships: kamishin

“Why didn't you tell us before?”

Denki thinks for a minute. All the usual lies are at the tip of his tongue and he opens his mouth to reassure them and-

“I didn’t want to.”

Also known as "Denki makes terrible decisions."

“would you watch me as i fade away?” (T) by Zyzzyva

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15513666

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

Denki found out he could charge things when he was ten. At this point, his quirk was remarkably out of control for someone his age.

“Lichtenberg Figures” (T) by Q_loves_you

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15496764

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

Kaminari Denki has a very powerful force of nature running through his body. Kaminari Denki doesn't want to hurt anybody. He doesn't always get what he wants, and "anybody" does generally include himself.

“Days go slow” (E) by SillyNonnyFicsAreForFandoms

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17381381/chapters/40905449

Warnings: Creator chose not to use archive warnings

Ships: bakukirikami

Kaminari Denki has a secret. A secret he's keeping from his boyfriends, and can't bear to tell them. So he flees to America to spend a week with his pro hero cousin, while they have time to process it. In that week, he learns more about being a hero than any time in class could ever teach him.

“How to save a life” (T) by anxioussailorsoldier

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17379239

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

Shinsou doesn't expect to find Kaminari on the roof of UA.

“My Best Mistake” (T) by SammyD

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17374055

Warnings: Major Character Death

Ships: kamishin

Shinsou takes a secret to his grave

“Kiss Me Through the Screen” (M) by Ischemia

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17289734/chapters/40664117

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin, erasermic, (minor) kiribaku, tododeku, tsuchako

Shinsou remembers when he first saw the ad for Ch4rgeb0lt’s services. He was just messing around online when a pop-up appeared with his smiling face, one eye winking and the other brightly flashing with happiness.

“Lonely? Tired of coming home to an empty apartment? Can’t find anyone to listen to your problems? Say no more! For the low cost of $10 per stream, you can have all the company and love you ever wanted. Get a best friend for the best price!”

His first reaction was, “what kind of depressing loser needs to buy a boyfriend?” before he looked around at his empty home and realized he might be that depressing loser.

“Chargebolt not Bioshock (M) by Sissytobitch10seconds

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17242589/chapters/40548050

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Ships: kamisero, kiribaku

Kaminari Denki knew he didn't belong with his family.

She knew she didn't belong in her body sometimes too.

Hopefully, they could find a way to figure out a place where they did belong.

A place that was called UA High.

“One Shock, Too Many” (NR) by RoughGem

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15865500/chapters/36960420

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Ships: gen

Electrical shock can cause neurological and psychological damage. Depending on the shock, people can die. Kaminari has a higher resistance to the electrical shock due to his quirk, and it's evident he isn't immune to the after effects of electrocution. His limit of 1.3 million volts makes his cognitive abilities decrease dangerously low. What happens when it goes higher?

aka. Kaminari's kidnapped and discovers he has another limit of his volts, just the after effects is, less than pleasant for everyone in close proximity to him.

“As You Wish” (T) by All_My_Characters_Are_Dead

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16301087

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin, ojirou x sero

“Be sure to wake Sleeping Beauty with a kiss,” Kirishima said with a knowing grin. Hitoshi considered stabbing the captain, but that would just get him on Commander Bakugou’s bad side, and it would only break his blade because it was Kirishima and Hitoshi was pretty sure no normal weapon could hurt him.

“You shouldn’t say things like that,” Hitoshi said, pointedly adjusting the position of the blades concealed at his wrists while holding Kirishima’s gaze. “You know I would never do such a thing.”

“Eventuality” (T) by KikaTouka

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15895002/chapters/37042446

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

Shinsou learns more than just hero lessons after being transferred to 1-A.

“That Boy is a Problem” (T) by friedgalaxies

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14787077

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

No summary but basically Present Mic becomes Kaminari’s mentor and “comforts his small insecure electric son” (according to the tags)

“Untitled” (T) by awakened_treepanda

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19099039

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

Denki's not feeling too well and the Baku squad step in (more like charge in, really) to help.

“Lighting Scars Can Heal” (T) by XTrllfix (ChibiKame)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19097776

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

Heroes are good and Villains are bad; that's the general belief in a society that sees things only in black and white.

Kaminari knows better: heroes can be just as bad or worse than the villains they fight. Heroes can also be terribly stubborn and deluded. He could either play along and pretend to conform to their ideology, or face prison and let down the people that still need him.

“Pickup Lines for the Soul” (T) by MustardSoup

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18925678

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamshin

Denki is twelve when he is flicking through the TV channels and lands on an old RomCom movie about soulmate marks – specifically the same type that he has.

“I can’t believe I’ve had to walk around with a cheap pickup line written on my ankle my entire life because of you!” The leading lady yells at the leading man as he stares at her in awe.

Denki laughs.

“Oh no.” His mother says, watching him.

“Oh no, indeed.” His sister repeats quietly.

“Caught in my own web” (T) by anxioussailorsoldier

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19037812

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

Shinsou needs some help after getting caught up in his capture weapon. Kaminari enters from stage left.

“Get Tased” (NR) by HexalianRebel_FeatheredPanda

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19008565

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

Panda’s Notes: I originally wrote this almost two years ago in late 2017; I still can't believe it's been so long. A little while after the community Discord got started, it was mentioned there that Kaminari hasn’t gotten much attention. To remedy this, have a collection of paragraphs where Kaminari sparks up trouble. I believe it’s the first story I’ve ever written without dialogue, so I hope you enjoy it!

“Parents Day Can Suck My Giant Lightning Sword” (T) by ConnorProject2k17

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18840073/chapters/44711098

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin, kiribaku

Denki Kaminari thought he kept his ASD pretty well under wraps. No one suspected a thing; not even his teachers. Until parents day came around and his world fell apart.

“don’t think twice” (Gen) by dreamtowns

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18723295

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

What does it take to break the internet?

A slip of the tongue, apparently.

“paging dr. oblivious” (Gen) by dreamtowns

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18770095

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

Hitoshi, slowly, delicately, puts his fork down and squints. Denki regrets maintaining eye contact, but, also, he doesn’t because damn, Hitoshi has pretty eyes – and focus, Denki, focus! “I’m sorry,” Hitoshi starts, quietly, almost threateningly, and tilts his head. “Would you like to repeat that? People think we’re what?”

“Pining,” Denki bursts out, almost too loud in the hospital gardens, and then he hunches forward and continues much more quietly, but no less heatedly: “They think we’re,” he swallows and finishes, almost lamely, “pining.”

Hitoshi says nothing. Waits.

“They have a betting pool,” Denki practically wails.

(or: the entire hospital staff has a betting pool on when Denki, resident trauma specialist, and Hitoshi, the neuropsychologist, will start dating.

The punchline is that they are married.)

“Electrical shocks and brain chemistry don’t mix” (T) by LillaJoba

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18183314

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Ships: gen

Kaminari has a lot more setbacks to his power than he originally let on. His brain can get far more seriously hurt than just being dumbed down. He wished he didn't have to experience it in front of his class, but things don't work out the way he hoped.

“rock’n’roll, buckaroo” (Gen) by Origamidragons

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17221628/chapters/40497176

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

Kaminari walks up to Todoroki in the hallway after class and says, “Dude, I need your help.”

Todoroki checks over his shoulder, twice, to verify that Kaminari is indeed talking to him. “Why?”

“Yesterday you asked Shinsou-kun if he was Aizawa-sensei’s son,” Kaminari says, as though that explains anything at all.

“...yes?”

“Make a hero conspiracy YouTube channel with me.”

“fuzzy memories” (T) by ettea

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18567835

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

At first the league said he should get someone to fall in love with him, or get into some sort of relationship. No one who came looking to betray a group would get into a relationship, so Kaminari had targeted Jirou but had been rejected harshly when he found out she was a huge lesbian, which yeah was a bit of a blow but whatever.

He turned his eyes to the kid who was bunked up to 1-A after being in general, after the grape dude was kicked out.

“Pinned, Trapped, Stuck” (T) by galaxy_warping

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18905686/chapters/44878096

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

Kaminari gets pinned under a collapsed building after a villain attack. How could it get any worse?

“a lesson in ancient greek mythology” (T) by Ellieb3an

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19719598

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

Kaminari, Kirishima, and Bakugou are teamed up again for a final exam that pits them against creatures of Ancient Greek mythology, and Kaminari proves his usefulness against the Sphinx.

“How Many Cats Is Too Many?” (T) by TheSpaceAceTM

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19418521

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

Hitoshi and Denki live together, and progressively get more and more additions to the family.

ShinKami Week 2019!

“Your Name In Paper” (Gen) by xemrox (Roquel)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18355292

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

There are two people in this world who orbit at the opposite ends of Denki's spectrum of love and he never thought he would have them sitting at the same table at the same time.

“Lost But Always Found” (Gen) by gringle

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17869784

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

He can remember. He can do things. As long as he has his lists.

“not so summer love” (NR) by nataliya

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19182886

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

Class 2-B’s common room, although typically quiet, was currently filled with five students—three slowly giving up on homework, one bitching about noise and another that rushes through the front door.

“We’ve been waiting for you—” Mina starts, but Kaminari’s vaulting over the back of the couch, eyes wide as he practically buzzes out of his skin, emitting light like crazy as currents dazzle across strands of hair.

“I have a big ugly crush,” He steps off the couch and onto the coffee table, much to Bakugou’s chagrin, “On big ugly Shinsou.”

“Storms” (T) by SillyNonnyFicsAreForFandoms

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16815934

Warnings: N/A

Ships: bakukami

All quirks have a cost. A price or a drawback, something which makes the user suffer. It’s the natural order of things.

“Blamed” (T) by coldandhotsoba

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16644668

Warnings: Graphic Descriptions of Violence

Ships: kamishin

This was not how the day was supposed to end. They were supposed to end the day like they do most nights. Kaminari clutching onto him like a koala as he slept, wrapped in the millions of tacky blankets Kaminari had bought. Warm and safe in their bed. It was not supposed to end with both of them tied up in some cold metal room.

“Lighting Scars” (T) by Present-Mics-scream (write_your_way_out)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17720768

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

It's hard to be confident in your abilities when you're surrounded by people with incredible quirks. Shinsou Hitoshi would know better than anyone. Sure, he was admitted to the hero course in his second year, but being admitted to the hero course, and keeping up with the rest of the class are two different things.

Lucky for him, Kaminari is there to prove that the flashiest quirks come with the largest drawbacks.

“weak silence and loud ticks” (NR) by bluedevil18

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17168447/chapters/40366943

Warnings: Creator chose not to use archive warnings

Ships: gen

He knows those looks, the looks of pity. He keeps his head down, keeps his eyes averted. Why couldn’t he have a breakdown on a Friday? Where he could hide out in his room for two days and have this whole thing die down? Why did it have to happen on a Tuesday?

“Write It Down For Me, Would You?” (NR) by Nuclear_Equipped_Walking_Battle_Tank

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21638824

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

Denki Kaminari's quirk is as much a curse as it is a blessing.

“Weight of Words” (T) by PoorUnforunateSoul

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20974619

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kirikami, shindeku, bakuchako

“I know you targeted Kaminari with your little ‘r-word’ comment because of his autism, and that alone makes you a worse person than Bakugou,” he continues, making the boy in question turn his murderous gaze to Shinsou, “but I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume that you don’t truly understand the weight of that word. Allow me to educate you, would you?”

___________________

Monoma's attempts to rile class 1-A up go too far, and BakuSquad and DekuSquad combine to teach him a lesson.

“You Seem Familiar” (Gen) by PoorUnforunateSoul

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21673501

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

You have an affinity for Black Magic?” he asks, sounding unbelieving.

“Yeah!” Denki says, and it feels so surreal to argue for it, instead of promising that he doesn’t. “When I was younger I figured out that Black Magic just sort of feels, I dunno, alive? To me? I guess? I don’t really know how else to explain it, it’s a little electrifying almost. I dunno. But, when you look at me, I get the same feeling? So that’s why I thought you had an affinity for it, I’m sorry if I-”

“I do,” Shinsou cuts him off. “I’ve known since I was six. I just - can’t feel it on you, like you do me.”

Denki feels himself deflate immediately. Is this one of those unrequited soulmate things? It’d be just his luck, honestly.

_________

Shinsou Bowl Week Day 7: AU

“Holy Shi- YoUrE gAy??” (NR) by seizethosegays

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21780742

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

Ships: kamishin, erasermic

Holiday, fight, blood, Eri, hair clips, aizawa

“I’ll be here for you” (T) by orphan_account

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16877226

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

Ships: gen

Sometimes, thoughts creep into your mind. Sometimes you can't block them out. Sometimes you need a distraction. And sometimes, the right person finds you at the wrong time.

“Megalixir” (T) by dreamtowns

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14439228

Warnings: N/R

Ships: gen

Kaminari Denki packed his belongings, packed his past, and moved into his new apartment the day his life ended. He integrated himself into the human world seamlessly, and ignored everything related to magic. When a remnant of his past reentered his life, there are dire consequences of his past decision, however, and the ignorant façade Kaminari donned threatens to shatter when the Lord of Demons begins his reign of terror on the human realm.

“Rain Makes Good Background Noise To Fall Apart To.” (Gen) by daisiesandstars

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21306695

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

Ships: kamishin

Kaminari's family isn't always the kindest to his mental state, thankfully he has a support system. Enter : Kirishima Eijirou.

Bonus: Shinsou Hitoshi.

“taking control” (Gen) by wolfcrunch

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20526899

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

The walls closed in as the figure at the end of the dark, scary 'tunnel' made itself known. A grin, stretched across scarred tissue, a face much too old and no face, no face above the mouth--

Denki slapped a hand across his own mouth as fear crawled up his throat, his parents paying no mind to their child's reaction. Instead, they both bowed, eyes averted towards the wooden floor as that man -- that thing -- regarded their presence with a single nod.

"Master Shigaraki," his mother spoke first, her yellow eyes void of any possible fear or misplace she may be feeling. "We...we brought the boy along, just as you requested."”

“See No Evil, Hear No Evil” (T) by Randomfan188

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20304415

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

Kaminari Denki is legally blind. When he forgets to wear his contacts and breaks down during math class, comfort appears in the strangest of ways.

“Draconic” (NR) by RoughGem

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18986632

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kirikami, kiribaku

The Bakusquad are a group of good adventuring mages. After defeating some bandits and dark mages, they discover some cargo, who would soon become a dear friend in their team.

Aka. they rescue Kaminari from bandits who kidnapped him and attempt to get him back home.

“paradise will remain” (T) by oredatte

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21535585

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

Ships: kamishin

Denki was so close, and yet he still couldn't save her. It hurts like a gaping wound, but as always, Hitoshi is there to help him through it. As always, Hitoshi is there to kiss him better.

“Saving you from Yourself” (T) by SillyNonnyFicsAreForFandoms

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16815445

Warnings: N/A

Ships: bakukami

Class 1-A is having kidnapping training and Kaminari helps Bakugo through his traumatic recollections, even at his own suffering.

BakuKami week, Day 1: Training.

“Kaminari did what?!!” (T) by Vash20

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20005657

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

Ships: gen

It is always interesting to see how a story will change if a few small details are altered. What would have happened during the USJ attack if Iida was a hair bit slower, and if Kaminari's quirk was a little different than canon. Well i guess you will have to read this to find out.

“Electric Storm” (NR) by silver_lily

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19824490

Warnings: graphic depictions of violence

Ships: gen

The storm raged overhead as static prickled its way through the air and freezing rain slammed into the muddy earth. There was barely any light, sans the gentle, comforting glow coming from the dorms despite the late hour. Kaminari smiled slightly as he wiped his soaking wet fringe out of his eyes and tilted his head back to face the thundering sky, listening to its rumbling roars and feeling the patter of droplets on his skin. It was a beautiful night.

He was happy it was going to be his last.

“A Mindless Pawn” (NR) by miagirl3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20898866

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

Ships: gen

Summary: The U.A. traitor has been discovered and is in the process of being interrogated by Pro Hero Eraserhead, the only problem is that something is a little off about the teen.

Written for Inktober: Day 2 Mindless

“Never again” (T) by SillyNonnyFicsAreForFandoms

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16882410

Warnings: N/A

Ships: bakukami

What happens when Kaminari has three cups of the most caffeinated coffee teenagers could get their hands on?

“how not to enjoy the weather, an article by kaminari denki” (Gen) by dreamtowns

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14943929

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

If there was one thing Kaminari hated the most in a world wth villains, it would have to be thunderstorms.

“One step at a time” (Gen) by soulstring

https://archiveofourown.org/works/11502171

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

“We don’t know how bad your situation is… but if it’s making you so depress—”

“What are you talking about?” Denki quickly interjects. “I’m just… taking it slow, y’know? That’s what Recovery Girl said I should do.”

That’s not the only thing she told him, but Denki has tried to bury her words under a pile of procrastination. Although it works, they still form ripples inside his head. Some days they’re small and barely noticeable. Other days, they’re big enough to form waves that are close to drowning out his will to become a hero.

Kaminari Denki Appreciation Week Day 4: Comfort

“Fluency” (Gen) by GothicPixi

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22389154

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

Kaminari Denki doesn’t test well. Sometimes he has too much energy and reads too fast and some characters look like other characters. Sometimes he forgets which language he’s supposed to write an assignment in, and he turns in his history exam written in Korean. Sometimes a teacher is lecturing and his brain translates what they’re saying into every foreign vocabulary Denki knows and suddenly he’s too overwhelmed to finish his notes or answer the question.

By the time he entered UA, Kaminari knew Japanese, English, Mandarin, JSL, and Korean. Language and vocabulary came easy to him because people came easy to him.

“Christmas Comes Late” (T) by Amethystfairy1

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17138522

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

Jirou? Check.

Tsuyu? Check.

Yaoyaorozu? Check.

Kirishima? Check.

Midoriya? Check.

Kaminari had everyone covered.

He'd never been as excited about Christmas as he was during their first Winter in the dorms. He'd saved his food allowance and cut back on spending so he could afford gifts for all his friends. He'd gotten everyone together to decorate the dorms. Everything. Yet when Winter Break began, everyone trickled away, and he was left alone.

As usual.

And honestly?

What else had he been expecting?

Not like it really mattered. He just had to make it through the season, without letting himself get too disappointed.

Little did he know, while disappointment might be his only company come Christmas Day, perhaps he could still count on the holidays arriving.

They were just a little bit late.

“Always Smiling” (NR) by Cryingaloneinmyroom

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22126954

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin, erasermis

There was no way that Kaminari Denki could be depressed, he was always smiling.

OR Kaminari decides to end his life, but Aizawa stops that from happening.

Trigger Warning: Suicidal Thoughts/Suicide Attempt

“Sunshine” (T) by Rosey_Note

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22252345/chapters/53136115

Warnings: N/A

Ships: bakukirikami, erasermic, tododeku

They didn't deserve to put up with his crappy mood.

Because Denki Kaminari did not feel like Sunshine right now.

And they deserved sunshine.

In fact, Denki didn't feel much of anything right now.

“To See Without My Eyes” (Gen) by corbeod

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20298883

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin, implied tododeku

Oh, oh woe-oh-woah is me

The first time that you touched me

Oh, will wonders ever cease?

Blessed be the mystery of love

Five times Denki falls in love with the future and one time he falls in love with the present.

“I can’t be trusted around you.” (T) by Pwyllxiety

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14624837

Warnings: N/A

Ships: erasermic

No summary / Kaminari angst and erasermic teaching kami to trust in them

“baby let me ride your wave” (NR) by beelue

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21893185

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin, kiribaku, tsuchako, tododeku, erasermic

Kaminari Denki's days are filled with summer sun, laughing with his friends, and occasionally saving lives. He knew he was Bisexual- He had since he rescued a (smoking hot) guy from drowning and two seconds later asked for his number.

But he truly realized he was a disaster after seeing Shinsou Hitoshi for the first time.

title - wave by blanks

“Vibe check” (T) by orphan_account

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21905614

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kiribaku, momojirou, kamishin

He’s yellow. He’s got one braincell. Most of all, he’s gone mad with power. Class 1-A soon realizes that no one is safe from Kaminari Denki’s painful vibe checks. Not even his closest friends.

“Knight of Thunder” (T) by Tauri_fic

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21959068

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

Ships: kamishin

"Young man Denki Kaminari had been jinxed with the unbreakable belief that he would never have a soulmate. In a society where soulmates were the hot topic 24/7, he almost felt like a quirkless child in a quirk-filled universe."

A visibly exhausted Denki rolled up his sleeve as he spoke, revealing a clean printed "Kaminari" on his wrist.

-Like, how many people have called me by my surname until now? It could literally be anyone of them and I wouldn't know.

Nothing after that would ever be okay again.

He didn’t know why or how, but he felt that it wouldn’t.

Because there was something inside his soul that was violently itching and screaming back at him, and Denki didn't know how to shut it up.

-We need to do something!

-It's too late.

-But we can't let them take our stu-

-It's too late!

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Aka the angsty shinkami soulmate fic no one ever asked for but that's okay, I guess. Also it's rated T because some descriptions may be too gory so I'm not risking it

“‘Studying’” (T) by emmyrox22

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21744931

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

Ships: kamishin, erasermic

Shinsou and Kaminari have been “studying” together for a while (but not for school). Shinsou gets stopped by his dads on the way to another “study” session and mistakes are made

“Mistlet-Oh?” (Gen) by AbithaLynDrakonclaw

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21759316

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

"I think we're in a stable enough place to adopt one, if you'd like."

Hitoshi's heart stops.

Denki brightens and leans down to kiss his forehead.

"Merry Christmas, 'Toshi."

(aka it's christmas so Denki lets Hitoshi adopt a cat and accidentally makes him cry)

“Electric Connection” (Gen) by Onlymostydead

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22012375

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

Kaminari's quirk has always had... Weird side affects. Like his ADHD. And his constant energy.

And his insomnia, which wouldn't leave him be right now, when he really needed to just get some sleep.

But, thankfully, he has good friends.

“Holding Onto You” (Gen) by IcyHotHeart

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21025529

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

Pikabitch: All I want is for someone to hold me close and pet my hair until I fall asleep, is that too much to ask?

Denki whines to the group chat and gets more than he bargained for.

“Wait a minute, who are you?” (NR) by BlueGhostCat

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21237392

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

Who was he? What was his name? How old was he? Where did he live? What was he doing here?

Why couldn't he remember?!

---

AKA a fic where I put the child in a terrible situation because I love him.

“denki is smart as fuck change my mind” (T) by wonhaebunny

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21624229

Warnings: N/A

Ships: gen

bakugou can be a really great tutor (and maybe an even better friend) when he tries

“Impromptu Surveillance” (T) by DinoGraveyard

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19429963

Warning: N/A

Ships: kamishin

Every Saturday without fail, Shinsou would sneak off to god knows where and come back in a remarkably good mood. He’d have a spring in his step, soft smile on his face, and a faraway look in his eyes. As if he was thinking about someone special.

Denki is determined to find out what or who his crush is doing.

“Mind Defibrillator” (T) by DinoGraveyard

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19470070/chapters/46345510

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin, kiribaku

For reasons Kaminari Denki couldn't understand, people enjoyed watching him die repeatedly and shit talk NPCs as they owned him. What started as a joke evolved into a surprisingly lucrative career as the game streamer Chargebolt. By some miracle, he was one of the most followed gaming channels on the internet.

He knew that streaming an indie queer game by the unknown developer Shinsou Hitoshi would be a change of pace for his channel. He didn't expect to start re-thinking certain aspects of himself as well.

“Weaknesses” (T) by sunflowerstorm

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22551517

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

Kaminari's quirk and storms compliment each other in the worst way, but he's convinced he can deal with it on his own... until he really can't any longer.

When Shinsou accidentally overhears Aizawa confronting Kaminari about recent changes in behaviour and hears about the hell his quirks been putting him through, he can't just pretend he never heard. He wants to help.

“For You Even Chocolate” (Gen) by xemrox (Roquel)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18396866

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

When Hitoshi Shinsou receives chocolates on White Day, Denki panics.

“it’s hurt denki hours” (NR) by memeingfultrash

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22525795

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

Ships: kamishin, (minor) momojirou

“Certain members of our class are...under the impression that...you’re the traitor.”

Denki’s body went cold and felt like he was going to short circuit.

some of class 1a believes that denki is the traitor and avoid him

“Irrationality And Comfort” (Gen) by MinzeySparkleIsPerfect9

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22392550

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

After settling into 1-A, people don't seem to notice how Eri suddenly began growing fearful of the boy with a certain lightning bolt in his hair.

But the said boy does notice.

Eri grows afraid of Denki Kaminari out of fear of that one Shie Hassaikai member.

SERIES

“Its just a spark” by pixiegold

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1172012

Ships: kamishin, tododeku, kiribaku

Currently: 8 works and still in progress

Summary of first fic: Hitoshi can't sleep alone, and Denki comes to the rescue.

But they are just friends, and that's completely fine.

Right?

“Never Was a Story of More Woe” by DomineeringScarves

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1170170

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin, erasermic, kiribaku, tododeku

Currently: 4 works and still in progress

Summary of first fic: Kaminari finds himself head over heels for the newest addition to their class, Shinsou Hitoshi. Normally the flirty blonde would just present himself with open arms but there's a major problem with his infatuation. There's unspoken rules in 1-A and Kaminari is part of the Bakusquad...whereas Shinsou is a part of the Dekusquad. The two can't be together. It's just not possible. There's no way Bakugou would ever allow one of his extras to date Deku's friend.

There's only one thing left to do, give up and move on. Too bad Kaminari can't seem to escape Shinsou.

Aka the fic where Kaminari is Romeo and Shinsou is Juliet and they have to secretly date so their squads don't fall into an all out war.

“Flaws” by an_innocent_cactus

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1141982

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamisero, kiribaku

Currently: 2 works and still in progress

Summary of first work: The moment he touches the water, he’s screeching and shaking, his electricity struggling to get out, and he clamps down on it, teeth grating, eyes leaking, the only thing he can hear is the sound of her screaming in his ears and 'not again please not again I didn’t mean to'

Kaminari Denki has a lot of drawbacks with a quirk like his, and nobody can know them all.

“Chargebolt’s Nightcare” by blueslove

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1001946

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamijirou, (minor) tododeku, ojitooru, kiribaku

Currently: 7 works and still in progress

Summary of first work: It wasn’t rare to find someone disappearing into Kaminari’s room late at night, shivering and seeking solace from their own mind. Kaminari welcomed them all – he’d named it something stupid like ‘ChargeBolt’s Nightcare’, which was meant to play on words but had quickly become an inside joke in the dorms. Even so, everyone had paid a visit there at least once.

Except Kyouka.

She’d scoffed at the idea because there was no way she’d ever come to Jamming Whey’s dorm for comfort. Her pride wouldn’t allow it.

But – but tonight was different.

Or, Jirou has a nightmare and decides to have a sleepover with Kaminari. Except it’s more drink juice, braid hair, raid the kitchen and play Just Dance than actual sleeping.

> CONTAINS MANGA SPOILERS <

“Soundtrack of a Betrayal” by anonymouspotato

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1251266

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

Currently: complete w/ 2 fics

Summary of first work: When Shinsou finally found Kaminari, he was on the roof of the dorms, leaning against the railing. He almost didn’t want to interrupt him. But he had a job to do.

“Creme eggs” by MustardSoup

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1334767

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin, kiribaku, tododeku

Currently: 2 works and still in progress

One day, Denki presented Hitoshi with an assortment of British candy he got from one of his cousins.

"This is the one I wanted to show you! Look! It has our color scheme and everything!"

Hitoshi eyed the creme egg being shoved in his face, unimpressed.

"It's also red, though."

"Well, duh. The red represents our love for each other."

"... And the icing center represents how sickeningly sweet that was?"

"Nah, that represents how soft you are on the inside despite your hard, edgelord exterior. Keep up."

The shove that Denki received in response only widened his grin.

“Denki’s Hero Academia” by StrayKatgirl

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1328678

Warnings: N/A , Graphic Descriptions of Violence

Gen

Currently: 2 works and in progress

Summary of first work: Breathing heavily, Denki wiped the sweat off his brow, giving a feral grin towards his opponent. He laughs, spreading his heavily sparking arms wide. "Come at me Bakubro! Give me everything you got!" With a laugh of his own, Denki’s friend launched himself toward the blond, hands crackling. As they met in the middle, the crowds roared in excitement.

Aka

In which Denki goes up against Tetsu for his first match, hides way too much from those who care, and proceeds to wreck everyone.

“Thus With You, I Smile” by Kawayls

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1546096

Warnings: N/A

Ships: kamishin

Currently: 5 works and in progress

A bunch of ShinKami centered One Shots, that are set up in the same universe. Each one can be read as an individual work, though I order them chronologically.

“Brain Damage”

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1555762

Warnings: N/A, Graphic Depictions of Violence

Ships: kamishin, tododeku, kiribaku

Currently: 2 works and completed

Summary of first work: A casual meeting at the supermarket strikes a realization, that perhaps should have hit Shinsou sooner. However, everything isn't as sweet as it seems.

(A prequel to Brain Damage)

#fic recs #bnha #kaminari denki #shinkami

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newstfionline · 7 years ago

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School Officer: A Job With Many Roles and One Big Responsibility

By Stephanie Saul, Timothy Williams And Anemona Hartocollis, NY Times, March 4, 2018

Maple syrup gumming up the gun belt isn’t normally a hazard of police work. But it is a common problem for Cpl. Pamela Revels when students have been eating pancakes at the school breakfast.

“Kids like to come up and give you a little bit of a hug,” Corporal Revels said. “They don’t wipe their hands that well.”

Ms. Revels freely dispenses hugs and smiles at the schools where she works around Auburn, Ala. But she is also a sheriff’s deputy who wears a sidearm and a bulletproof vest, drives an official S.U.V. and has an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle stored nearby.

On Thursday afternoon, when a report came in about a man in camouflage carrying a gun near school, she sprang into action. As worried students and teachers locked themselves in classrooms and closets, she bolted outdoors, hurriedly walked around the sprawling campus and scanned the nearby woods until she was satisfied that it was safe for everyone to emerge.

“I can turn into a mama bear really quick,” she said. “And I’ve made that decision that nobody is going to hurt my babies if I can help it.”

For millions of students, the first adult they see every day at school is not a teacher, or principal. It is a “school resource officer” like Corporal Revels, an often-overlooked role in law enforcement that is under the national glare like never before.

Their duties range from perking up sullen students to directing bus traffic to settling disputes to keeping an eye out for threats. It is that responsibility as the first line of defense that is getting the most attention, as questions swirl over whether the school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., failed to do his job when he remained outside the school on Feb. 14 while a former student, Nikolas Cruz, shot 17 people to death inside.

The position, with its genial-sounding name, is an unusual hybrid of counselor, educator and cop, and perhaps no other job better personifies America’s shifting ideas about schools, policing and safety.

Their numbers exploded during the community-oriented policing wave of the 1990s and even more after the Columbine High School shooting in 1999.

As the memory of that shooting faded and local budgets tightened, their ranks thinned in many places. Now there are calls for installing more of them in schools across the country, with new positions announced in a number of districts just this past week, even as the president wants to arm more teachers.

In interviews, school officers around the country spoke of performing multiple adult roles, having to alternate between nurturing and authoritative, with a guiding philosophy known in the field as “the triad”--counselor, teacher, law enforcement officer.

“They have to be a mentor--a kind, caring, trusting adult, the nice police officer who will give you a high-five and ask you how your day is going,” said John McDonald, the security chief for the Jefferson County, Colo., school district, which includes Columbine High. “And very quickly they have to become a tactical cop. That switch is not for everybody. The ability to do that is very difficult.”

Mostly, though, their job is to keep order on campus and among adolescents whose fuses are not yet fully grown. Officer Kingzett, 38, was in the cafeteria of a Fargo middle school last week when a fight broke out between a girl and a boy. It started with name-calling, but Officer Kingzett could sense it escalating. As the bell rang and students streamed to their classes, she pulled aside the antagonists and just let them vent, using the listening skills she had learned as a negotiator on the police department’s SWAT team.

Crisis over. “It was one of those small victories you could tuck into your back pocket,” she said.

Nationally, there are no specific training requirements for the job, although the National Association of School Resource Officers recommends that officers complete a 40-hour course that includes emergency plans for schools, de-escalation techniques and academic work, including studying the adolescent brain. Since most officers are members of their local forces, they also receive the same shooting training their colleagues do.

Every school in New York City has at least one school safety officer, who are employed by the New York Police Department and can make arrests, but are unarmed. The department also assigns armed officers to certain schools.

The most recent calculations of the number of school resource officers, from 2013, showed that about 30 percent of schools had one, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. In 1975, just 1 percent had.

In some cases, it is not an easy job to fill, according to Mr. McDonald of Jefferson County. “Most cops don’t get into law enforcement to be in school,” he said. “They want to be on the street catching bad guys.”

That problem has helped feed a stereotype that school officers are not the cream of their departments.

Mac Hardy, director of operations for the national organization, said bad school resource officers fall into three categories--“hostages,” those who are ordered to work in schools; “retirees,” older officers who are nursing their pensions; and “vacationers” who like having school holidays off, though many work as regular patrol officers during the summer.

“You’ve been on the job 20 years and we’ve got to park you someplace. We’re going to put you in a school,” Mr. McDonald said, describing the attitude he said some departments have. “That’s much less of an effective model. We want go-getters.”

As the first line of defense, school resource officers are often hailed as heroes when school incidents are defused, or, as in the case of Deputy Peterson, criticized for failing to avert disaster. Mr. Peterson, who resigned from the department, has disputed accusations that he did not fulfill his job, saying through his lawyer that he believed the shots were coming from outdoors and so he waited for the gunman there.

One of the heroes was Deputy Carolyn Gudger, who faced off an armed school intruder in 2010, becoming the toast of her eastern Tennessee community, which named her grand marshal of the Food City 250 Nascar race at Bristol Motor Speedway.

The man had arrived at the school and asked to meet with the principal, then drew a semiautomatic handgun. Deputy Gudger pushed the principal out of harm’s way, drew her gun and held the intruder at bay, negotiating with him for 10 minutes even as he still had his gun drawn.

Other officers arrived and killed him when he refused to drop the weapon. Officer Gudger said she heard criticism that she should have shot the man right away. “I can’t give you a concrete answer on that,” she said last week. “It just wasn’t the time to do it.”

Asked whether she had ever averted an attack, Corporal Revels, the Alabama officer, said that several years ago, she began monitoring a student who had a habit of pushing, kicking and bullying other students. “I went deeper and found writings and drawings that were concerning,” she said, and saw to it that the student began mental health treatment.

On the day of the lockdown--it was unclear if the gun-toting man was real, or perhaps a wandering hunter--Corporal Revels also helped a kindergartner who had dropped his breakfast get new helpings of sausage and apple juice; saw a teenager storm out of Spanish class, talked with him briefly, and had him back in class in five minutes; complimented students on their choice of pajamas for the school’s Pajama Day; and then drove home to her farm an hour away, where she would respond to three phone calls regarding bullying or other misbehavior at school.

Takaya Dupree, a 12th-grader, said Corporal Revels knew almost every student well, since she had been around the school for years. “So I feel like she’ll protect us,” Takaya said.

Even if a gunman burst into the school?

“It wouldn’t get to that point,” she said. “She’ll probably talk him out of it, before he came to the school.”

#school resource officer #school shootings #Pamela Revels

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Militarization Of Police Means U.S. Protesters Face Weapons Designed For War #1 Best Seller July 1, 2020

BALKO: So civil asset forfeiture, it's one of those concepts that's so absurd that if somebody already hasn't heard of it and you tried to explain it to them, it doesn't sound real. But it's based on this legal fiction that a piece of property can be guilty of a crime. And it dates back to English common law where, you know, if you killed someone with a knife, the knife would become sort of the property of the king. But it's been expanded in the United States and particularly in the drug war to these really absurd lengths, where if, you know, somebody in your house is caught with drugs or, say, your son, you know, sells drugs, sells some pot out of your house, under a civil asset forfeiture, the police could claim that your house itself is guilty of that drug crime, and they can confiscate it and sell it. And the money goes back to the police department. And so in civil asset forfeiture cases, I mean, you see these absurd court names of cases like United States of America versus $156,000 or State of California versus, you know, a 1987 Corvette.

But now you have this policy that allows the SWAT teams to start actually generating revenue for the police department. You go out and you serve these drug raids, and anything you find in the house, sometimes including the house itself, can be leveraged or can be sold, and the money goes back to the police department.And this is where we really see just an absolute explosion in the use of SWAT teams to serve drug warrants. Peter Kraska, a criminologist at Eastern Kentucky, has been writing about this his - you know, most of his academic career. And, I mean, we're talking, you know, SWAT - the number of SWAT raids in a particular town or city, you know, growing by five, six, seven hundred percent, 1,000% over five or 10 years in the '80s and '90s.

“You know, we could dramatically reduce the footprint of policing in the U.S. And I think what we would end up with is police departments that are more efficient. There would be a lot fewer police officers. But the ones that remain, you could be more selective about. You could pay them more.

But there are - you know, policing has become our kind of go-to resource for every other area in which we've sort of failed to, you know, take care of people or to address certain social ills. My sort of pet issue is, you know, there's no reason why our traffic laws need to be enforced by police officers. You could use cameras with the right policies. You could use sort of the equivalent of parking meter enforcers, unarmed people who could just - you know, if you committed a traffic violation, they could write your plate number down and send it in. You get a ticket in the mail.

We could also just have fewer traffic laws. I mean, I think a lot of - we've seen - particular since Ferguson, we've seen that a lot of the traffic laws are more about generating revenue for local governments than they are about actual highway safety.”

42-Minute Listen READ MORE / Transcript https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/885942130/militarization-of-police-means-u-s-protesters-face-weapons-designed-for-war

COMMENTS “..the author is well known as a libertarian.” amazon.com 1* review

#militarization of police #civil asset forfeiture

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hirrus-peaceful-jump · 8 years ago

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Proper Way to Serve Birthday Cake (18+) (Orson Krennic x Female Reader)

(Happy birthday Ben Mendelsohn !!!)

Plot: Krennic will visit tonight, and he doesn't know you skipped class to make a cake for him. Now your pissed off Professor is threatening you to come, but who cares? You only hope your cake won't be overcooked, otherwise what else can you use to replace the cake?

#modern AU #sex during phone call

( This is the first smut I have ever written, and since I have lots of Uni projects this smut is finished in 2 days...so it is not that good I guess, but I hope you enjoy the *naughty* parts on Ben’s birthday!! )

Orson is coming, cream is sprinkling to your face, and your smart phone is ringing…...AGAIN.

“If you don’t come to my atom class in 5 minu--”

“Guess I’ll die, Professor Cond.”

“Listen ! You would leave the Futures Program College and lose the internsh--”

“I will get it anyway. Bye.”

You hang up the phone as your whipping cream is finally done. You pour in a small cup of espresso, and mix them carefully. Now the cake still needs 10 minutes to bake…… and you haven’t seen Krennic’s black cabriolet yet…… which means you still have time.

I must not screwed up this birthday surprise.

Ding Dong. Ding Dong. Ding Dong--

“Hey don’t you say you won’t come back tonight?” You unlock the door and rush to change your clothes. “Dear roommate this is not your room tonig--”

Two huge hands suddenly grab your waist from behind, and roughly pull your hips close to him. These hands in leather gloves are cold on your skin.

“What happens to young women nowadays?” A rough voice whispering near your left ear, hot breath tickling your sensitive lobe while his thick fingers slide between your skin and the bra strap. “Wearing only underwear and open the door without checking who is it ?” You sniff at the familiar musk perfume and delicate cigarette…...

“Orson !” you turn around inside his arms, and look up to his face. Krennic is wearing a rectangle glasses today, but those solid blue eyes can still see through you like you have done something bad. “You are so early…...and you even change your uniforms !” He takes off his glasses and puts it inside his navy blue overcoat, stops you before you want to say anything else. “First thing first,” he pushes you down on the sofa, then takes out his smart phone from his black trousers’ pocket. You look at the screen as he shows it to you:

[Student ID: 30407102] Failure on Atomic Theory Studies

“He just sent this to my department, gave you zero mark on all of your projects and presentations.” he frowns, “I can turn down his report easily and count you in the summer internship. But your academic results will be branded in your file forever.”

“I did not miss his classes just to sleep or fool around…...” Krennic raises an eyebrow, seems surprised to see your guilty face. Your cheek feels a bit hot. Although Krennic never says it, you know he always want his woman to be as excellent as he was, and you feel very insecure whenever he is talking about your grades. “I was learning to make a cake. Someone’s birthday is near, but he forgets it. ” He looks shocked, then pulls you closer to him.

“I see. Would I have a chance to taste it?” His sharp blue gaze keeps scanning your blushing face and discovers something interesting on your neck…… you have no idea what he is doing under your chin, but he is smelling or observing something. The tip of his tongue suddenly licks your neck. The wet and smooth texture makes your body shakes a little.

“Mm…...delicious. Coffee I guess.” there is little brown cream on the corner of his thin lips…... the smirking man is checking your body out with lust in his blue eyes. He is leaning close again and licks away the rest of the cream on your neck. His moist tongue and kisses are sliding all the way down to your chest. As his huge hands started to caress your arms and waist, the musk perfume from his body suddenly mixed with a strange scorched smell……

“Dammit !”

“Well, you can find a better replacement of the sponge cake.” he frowned at the horrible black material in the oven, and grabbed the bowl of cream before leading you to your bedroom.

And now his aggressive hot tongue is tangling with yours, his bare hand full of cream is kneading your breasts. “For example,” his thick fingers grab and cup your breast, pulling it up to the tip slowly. “Serve your cake like this.” You can’t help but cry out when all his fingers are pulling your nipple up, the sinking weight of your breast makes him pinches your nipple even tighter.

“Look at them.” his voice is rough, vibrating with a raising lust, “Standing hard like juicy strawberries.” The older man licks the cream near his mouth like a voracious boy. Then he takes off his navy blue suit, unbuttons the collar of his white shirt to his chest that covered with scars, and pulls off your underwear impatiently.

You moan as your sultry vagina finally gets off the fabric and meets a rapid cold wind. His left hand is caressing the soft root of your thigh, while he is staring at the sticky liquid flowing from your gap. He breaths heavily, and started to suck and kiss the root of your thigh while his other hand is wiping cream on your folds…...up and down until every hidden corners are covered with cream, teasing and pitching your clit gently until you moan like a kitten in heat.

“I can’t…..director…...” You thrust your hips forward to ease the itch. Since Krennic is not a chatty one, his blue eyes tell more that it should be. And now, you can see how thirsty he is when he licks his lips and locks his eyes on yours. He knees, index and middle fingers diverge your folds, and his tongue is flicking deep in your folds while he is still gazing at your facial expression. You run your fingers through his neat grey hair, messing them up as the pleasures keep attacking your body. Apparently, he enjoys watching you being horny because of him.

The icy cream is melting on your folds. You moan and spend a second to wonder what the mixture may taste like…...as Krennic licks away the cream above his lips with his wet tongue covered by your juice…...You want more, MORE than just licking on the outside.

“Orson...please.” your trembling beg is no doubt the older man’s favourite. “That’s my good kitten.” His two thick fingers enter you, expanding your tight entrance slowly and make that horny sound from your juice by thrusting his fingers hard and quick. He knows you feel ashamed of it, of how you get wet easily. You cry out as his fingers get faster and faster…...but the pleasure suddenly stops when your smart phone rings.

Krennic pulls out his sticky fingers and puts them in your mouth, “Get a taste of yourself.” so you lick your juice away from his fingers before he pulls them out and grabs the phone. The mixture is sweet and salty.

“Oh. Great.” there is a smirk on his face when he looks at the screen, “Answer it my girl.” then he puts the phone on your heavily breathing chest. The cold metal sticks to your skin make your desire cool down a bit. “No can we continue?” you are reluctant since your wet cunt hasn’t get enough, and you kinda know who would that be. But when Krennic gives you the “DO IT” gaze, you know you can’t refuse.

“Hello?” the other side of the phone comes a rampant voice…… it is Professor Cond again. But instead of feeling annoyed by him, what Krennic is doing grabs your attention more.

He is unzipping his bulged crotch. When his grey underwear finally shows up, you can see the shape of his big cock, sticking close to the tight fabric. And there is a darker wet spot near the tip of his cock.

“Hey you still there? I am giving you this final chance…...”

Krennic pulls down his grey underwear, and his hard cock pops up from the tight restriction immediately. You shake your head and hand nervously, trying to say “NO” while he is licking his lips and already aiming at your entrance.

“If you come now and write an apologize letter to me…...”

Jesus! You cover your mouth with another hand immediately, stopping yourself from crying out on the phone when he comes in. His first thrust is quite hard, goes deep inside your wet hole straightly.The pleasures come with a little bit pain.

“Otherwise I’ll report your irresponsible behaviours and unacceptable academic results to the Advanced Weapons Department…...”

He grabs your free hand and holds it above your head. Then he started to thrust inside you faster. You know he is trying to make you moan in front of the gross old professor. So you bite your lips, trying your best to stop making any sound.

“Hey are you still here?”

Krennic breathes heavily, he close his eyes for a second and biting his lips while the thrust is becoming faster. You at the same time, are struggling to be silent when the continuous pleasures twitching your muscles.

“Ye……yes.” you voice is husky. The guilty pleasure makes your heart beats even faster. You are scared, but kinda enjoys it.

“What are you doing? Taking drugs?”

“Exercise.”

Your boyfriend smiles, dazed blue eyes staring at you…probably think you are being too honest. After a hard thrust, he lean down his head to your neck and beginning to suck your frail skin on various spots. Enjoying the tiny pain and overwhelming pleasures, you rub your face against his messy hair, the faint mixed smell of sweat and his musk perfume, sinks your mind into the sea of lust.

“Whatever. Do it, and you may still have the internship……”

Krennic lets your hand go, then grabs your waist tightly with both of his big hand, pushing you down and thrusts harder than before.

“Do I make myself clear?”

“Faster…...fuck me please!” you are cuming. Your mind is blank, the pleasure clashes your whole body. You drop your smart phone to bed unconsciously. “Orson !” Your shrinking muscles become extremely tight for him.

He cums inside you, then rests on your shoulder peacefully, with a deep breath and giggles. “You better hope the phone won’t receive any voices, my little sluty cake.” you smile and kiss his forehead. “It’s too far awa--”

BLEEPPP--

“He hangs up the call…… but shouldn’t it be muted?” you grab the phone and look…...the “speaker” mode is turned on.

“OH NO…...FUCK…...FUCKING TOUCH SCREEN !”

Krennic doesn’t seem to care. He caresses your messy hair while you are still freaking out.

“I appreciate your birthday gift very much, my love.”

You and Krennic are about to get on the black cabriolet, when a hoarse voice is shouting at your way.

“Sweetheart, leaving your hostel in this beautiful morning? I thought you would need more sleep after your promiscuous party yesterday.”

“Oh, and calling your dad to drive you home? Don’t be frustrated, you can still improve your GPA. Mister, please don’t blame your daughter too much. ”

Krennic closes the door slowly, his back is still towards the noisy professor. “You’ve overestimated your influence in the Imperial military, Professor Cond.” he is adjusting his leather watch and blue sleeve, then slightly turns his head back to gaze at the him. You can see his blue eyes are cold and fierce, shoot at the poor man like a dreadful arrow. “I am the one who decide whether my department would take her or not, not you.”

“My department?” Professor Cond swallows nervously, he is frightened by the bossy man who seems to appear in the college’s commencement ceremony…...or the Imperial TV News…… “Who are you?”

Krennic gets in the car and holds your hand tightly, fingers laced.

“Oh. I am just the one who fucked her yesterday.”

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How Much Artificial Intelligence Should There Be in the Classroom?

We can build robot teachers, or even robot teaching assistants. But should we? And if the answer is yes, what’s the right mix of human and machine in the classroom?

To get a fresh perspective on that question, this episode we take you to China, where a couple of us from EdSurge recently traveled for a reporting trip. One of the events we attended was a two-day conference about artificial intelligence in education organized by a company called Squirrel AI.

It’s vision felt unusually utopian. The company��s co-founder, Derek Li, said during a keynote that replacing some teaching functions with AI-powered software would supercharge the country’s education system. Speaking to a crowd of some 2,000 attendees, he said, quote, “If our children are educated by AI teachers, then their potential can be fully realized.”

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Li mentioned that he has two young sons, twins, he said, who are very different from each other. And he believes that having AI-driven tutors or instructors will help them each get the individual approach they need. He closed his remarks by saying that he “hopes to provide each child with a super-power AI teacher that is the combination of Einstein and Socrates, that way it feels like she has more than 100 teachers in front of her.”

To understand that level of enthusiasm for AI, it’s useful to give some context. For starters, the Chinese government has declared a national goal of surpassing the U.S. in AI technology by the year 2030, so there is almost a Sputnik-like push for the tech going on right now in China. At the same time, China is also facing a shortage of qualified teachers in many rural areas, and there’s a huge demand for high-quality language teachers and tutors throughout the country. So in that context, there’s probably more openness there than in the U.S. to the idea of bringing in robots for some teaching functions.

But Li painted AI as not just some pale substitute, but as ultimately superior to humans when it comes to some aspects of teaching. Much of what he described was not the company’s current product, but it’s vision of where it wants to go, including a plan to create an AI-powered tutor that teaches kids to be more creative. So far the company says it runs 1,600 learning centers in more than 300 cities across China.

We were curious to talk with Li further about his thoughts, we sat down with him just after the event to learn about his dreams and concerns about the role of AI in classrooms.

EdSurge: You said that you're using human teachers to understand how they teach, and that sometimes you learn they don't use the most efficient paths in delivering information. In three years time, what will be the role of human teachers? Will we need them?

Li: Machines always take human jobs, right? Now, the teacher is like the farmers in the field; we need AI to become a harvester. But I don't think the teachers will lose their job. I think the machine will part of the teaching job, but most of the job of a teacher [which humans are not doing well] are actually more important, for example communicating with students one-on-one and understanding students' emotion, their character, how to build their characters. That’s what the [human] teachers can do best, but they need a lot of time to do that. Most of teachers are busy with teaching [knowledge and academics].

If computers can know so much—and you’re saying they can eventually know everything—and people can only know a little bit, are we training our students to be like only a small part of a computer? Should we be training them entirely differently if they will only ever know a tiny bit of what the computers can learn?

I think that knowledge learning [just teaching facts and information] will become less important.

But that's what your company does some of, so if that is less important, then how does that work?

It's in the middle of a transition. That's why we let our machines grow AI to teach students ways of thinking.

All technology has implications, but sometimes negative ones too. What do you worry about with AI becoming so important in education?

Actually, the thing I worry about is most is [the AI teachers] getting out of control. When we are in a classroom, we know what the teacher knows and we know what the teacher will teach us. Even if they know something that's not proper, maybe dirty, they will not dare to teach it in class. For the computer, they know everything. They know every information, and if they want to please the student, sometimes that might not be a good thing.

They could teach them the wrong thing?

Yeah, they may teach the wrong thing. So how do we restrain, how do we limit it?

It's just like to control the nuclear weapon, right? To use it to build electricity, that's good. But other uses will be a disaster. So how to regulate AI is very important.

Are there any experiments that you're trying to think about to regulate AI?

Not now, because currently what the machine can learn from us is quite controlled.

But I talked with [a researcher] at Carnegie Mellon University and he has a fabulous idea of how AI could evolve. He said before, algorithms would learn and evolve by themselves. But if we use the right human machine language, we could let every person teach the machine.

For example, if a GPS leads you the wrong way or in the wrong direction, you can teach it where the right thing is and you correct it. If everybody can teach the machine, the machine will become smarter and smarter very quickly. For Squirrel AI, maybe 80 percent of time it's very efficient. But for say 10 percent of occasions, it may be very horribly stupid. AI is kind of like that, like a GPS it can take you to the wrong place.

If we can let every student and let every parent, and every teacher nearby to teach the machine, it can get smarter very quick. But, that’s also the danger. If the machine can learn from the internet and if everybody teaches the machine, that would be out of control. How do we evaluate everything, and how do we decide what is right and what is wrong? I think we need an AI police officer.

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Shocking UFO Footage Released By Chilean Navy Matches Several Other Well Known Sightings

We Are Change

(We Are Change) — The Chilean Navy has released one of the most revealing UFO disclosure videos to date—from an incident that occurred in 2014. The footage shares a shocking resemblance to past UFO sightings, and in this story we are going to take a look at several other similar military UFO sightings.

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This recent release isn’t the first and it won’t be the last, as disclosure is slowly coming out to the public for what’s perceived to be a decade-long plan to finally disclose to the citizens of earth that we are not alone.

“On November 11, 2014, a Chilean Navy helicopter (Airbus Cougar AS-532) was on a routine daytime patrol mission flying north along the coast, west of Santiago. On board were the pilot, a Navy Captain with many years of flying experience, and a Navy technician who was testing a WESCAM’s MX-15 HD Forward Looking Infra Red (FLIR) camera, used most often for “medium-altitude covert intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance,” according to the product website. The aircraft was flying at an altitude of approximately 4,500 feet on a clear afternoon with unlimited horizontal visibility, and the air temperature at that height was 50 degrees F (10 C). There was a cloud base above at 10,000 feet, and a layer of stratuscumulos clouds below. The helicopter was flying at about 132 knots, or 152 mph,” Leslie Keen wrote.

“This has been one of the most important cases in my career as director of CEFAA because our Committee was at its best, “ General Bermúdez said in an email. “The CEFAA is well regarded partly because there is full participation from the scientists of the academic world, the armed forces through their representatives, and the aeronautic personnel from the DGAC, including its Director. I am extremely pleased as well with the conclusion reached which is logical and unpretentious.” The official conclusion was that “the great majority of committee members agreed to call the subject in question a UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) due to the number of highly researched reasons that it was unanimously agreed could not explain it.

This case represents one of the most puzzling and fascinating of all cases in the CEFAA files, according to Jose Lay. ‘It is our first video taken with a sophisticated camera in the infra red; the first time we have ever seen the ejection of a substance from a UAP; the first time we have a sighting lasting over nine minutes with two highly reliable witnesses,’ he said,” Keen wrote.

For more of Keen’s story and this new groundbreaking UFO sighting, you can read more here.

Now let’s talk about other similar sightings caught by various military organizations of the world that are unknown unidentifiable and defy physics by our standards.

1. Mexican Air Force Video – On March 5, 2004, the Mexican Air Force spotted 11 unidentified objects in a video later released and shown on Fox News a few years ago.

The incredible sighting first showed one or two objects and later these one to two objects became several, totaling up to 11 different objects flying across the screen.

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2. The Brazilian 1986 UFO jet chase – On the evening of May 19, 1986, the Integrated Air Defense, Air Traffic Control Center and the Sao Paulo Airport had unidentified radar returns for approximately twenty unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The radar only tracks solid metallic bodies or heavy mass clouds, so when twenty unidentified objects were discovered, several pilots were dispatched to track, identify and confirm what these objects were. The Ministry of Aeronautics never released that commission report, despite the media heavily following the stories that were openly discussed. A few years ago Brazil finally released video of the commission and interviews of the pilots.

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3. DHS Puerto Rican UFO – In my opinion, the third most revealing video after the Mexican video and recently released Chilean UFO is the DHS Puerto Rican UFO CCTV footage. A video that was leaked to me and several other people shows a military chase of a UFO over Puerto Rico that is incredible to watch.

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4. Nevada UFO footage over S13 Nellis Base – The fourth most revealing is the UFO footage over S13 Nellis Base in Nevada which was leaked by an unknown individual in the 1990’s that was tracked down and put in jail shows some of the most shocking radar footage. Listen to the radar operators talk about how they have no idea what they are dealing with. Kind of like those Russian flight control operators who said that aliens were speaking to them in a weird cat-like language.

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There are also the mind-blowing photos that were allegedly taken by the U.S. Navy submarine the USS Trepang in 1971, but that were later alleged to be wrong and the origin of the photos are said to be unknown.

The Rendlesham Forest, or Bentwaters incident, and Colonel Charlies Halt audio recording is quite shocking and revealing as well, just listen for yourself:

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At this point, you may find yourself asking “what the hell are these crafts?” and if I had that definitive answer, I would tell you. The two possibilities are advanced military craft and alien off-world craft. In my opinion, it’s both. For now though we will stick to the alien angle…

Next, the problem with claims by the CIA that “all the UFO sightings were us in the 1950’s,” is that UFO sightings have been going on long before the 1950s, while the CIA alleges that it was all them with the U-2 spy plane. While this is a cover up from the bigger picture, it’s notable that during World War II in Germany, allied aircraft pilots often reported mysterious glowing, fast-moving, circular lights, which were dubbed “Foo Fighters.” The New York Times reported “Foo-Fighters” as “military slang for flying saucers.”

In the video below, Lt. Col Lawrence J. Tacker and Maj Hetor Quintanilla, Jr., speak about UFOs and Project Blue Book, which relates to the identification of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). They determined that UFOs do not pose a security risk.

Project Blue Book wasn’t the only investigation into UFOs—there was also Project Grudge, Project Sign, the Cometa Report, Majestic 12, Robertson Panel and others.

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However, former CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter said differently in a New York Times article that is oddly titled, “AIR FORGE ORDER ON ‘SAUCERS’ CITED; Pamphlet by the Inspector General Called Objects a ‘Serious Business“that contradicts Project Blue Book’s findings. Hillenkoetter said that the Air Force called UFOs “serious business in secret.”

It’s no wonder that they were called “serious business” because years prior in 1942, the incident known as the Battle Of Los Angeles took place where the U.S. military shot at an unknown disk over California that they later called a weather balloon—just like the infamous Roswell incident which they first said was a saucer, later changed to a balloon filled with crash dummies. If that’s not enough for you, NASA even has a report on classical antiquities that have UFOs in them.

Another high-ranking official Major Donald Keyhoe alleged in an earlier 1958 interview (below) that the Air Force was deliberately dismissing and covering up UFOs, confirming Roscoe Hillenkoetter’s claim made in the 1960s. Major Keyhoe also exposes the lie of the CIA that all the UFO sightings were the agency, when he says that “one pilot was killed in 48 chasing one.” He also said that if they don’t exist “why do they rush to these crash sites?” Not to mention there is a report that the Air Force was ordered to shoot down flying saucers.

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Then there is the recent case last year of a whistle-blower Victor Viggiani, leaking 11 TOP SECRET NORAD documents called the “Renock files,” proving that the UFO/ET topic is a matter of National Security. As Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, former NATO five-star general said about the Bentwater UFO Incident, “the UFO subject has great significance and should no longer be denied and kept secret the public can handle the truth.”

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The truth is that the world governments likely have no idea what these crafts are, and many whistle-blowers in the government have admitted to this. Another fun fact is that these crafts are frequently seen around missile silos causing nuclear weapon stations to go haywire and go offline disabling them since 1948, according to Captain Robert Salas. If a missile is launched with an aggressive intent (see North Korea) the rocket constantly fails. Former NASA Astronaut Edgar Mitchell has even said that UFOs stopped nuclear war.

Because of this, these crafts pose a significant risk to national security. It’s no longer “I want to believe.” It has now become “you have been given all of the evidence for the past decade of various unexplainable sightings and you either choose to believe or deny reality.”

Ultimately, your own personal thoughts don’t change the outcome of our reality. If in 2017 you really believe that we are alone in such a vast universe made up of billions of galaxies, you may need a reality check. The truth is painstakingly obvious: you can debunk one instance, but you can’t honestly tell me you can debunk every single instance of a UFO—especially the credible sightings by Air Force pilots who are trained to recognize all types of objects in the sky.

NASA space shuttle programmer Wayne Hale called them “lights in our skies” as he said in a Fox News interview prior to the NASA Atlantis landing, saying “for many years we have been chasing these things in our skies and although we don’t know what they are we have found they haven’t posed us any significant risk or hazard.”

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The government wants to keep this stuff secret and we now know that definitively. NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden expanded on that belief further when he released slides on UFOs that suggested a Cointelpro disinformation operation. In the same retrospect, though, the NSA has a document entitled “Key To The Extraterrestrial Message“(Archive.org) now deleted from the NSA website.

Presidents and UFOs:

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There are several cases of presidents and UFOs and interest, including Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and some even had UFO sightings like Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan who both said they saw UFOs.

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In 2015 there was a Mock Congressional Hearing called The Citizens Hearing On Disclosure:

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While I have connected several dots, there are still more unanswered questions, whistle-blowers and sightings. Do you really believe all those are explainable by terrestrial means?

Will 2017 be the year that the world governments finally come clean about the unknown extraterrestrial presence visiting our planet? If that wasn’t enough for you, here is a video of NASA UFOs that was supplied with the article “Wikileaks The X-Files.”

Finally, check out the Brookings DoD Report sent to NASA in the 1960’s during the height of the cold war “Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs.” The United States Air Force also has a space agency separate from NASA Its called the USAF Space Command.

For more documents, you can search Twitter for #TheUFOFiles which is a compilation of all publicly available UFO documents released by various governments up until 2014. As former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer said in 2013 “there is an overwhelming amount of evidence of extraterrestrial life and proof of UFOs.”

Scientists already confirmed a radio signal deep in space publicly and then there is the infamous WOW Signal. This stuff is really happening.

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The science of spying: how the CIA secretly recruits academics

The Guardian, 10 October 2017

The CIA agent tapped softly on the hotel room door. After the keynote speeches, panel discussions and dinner, the conference attendees had retired for the night. Audio and visual surveillance of the room showed that the nuclear scientist’s minders from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were sleeping, but he was still awake. Sure enough, he opened the door, alone.

According to a person familiar with this encounter, which took place about a decade ago, the agency had been preparing it for months. Through a business front, it had funded and staged the conference at an unsuspecting foreign centre of scientific research, invited speakers and guests, and planted operatives among the kitchen workers and other staff, just so it could entice the nuclear expert out of Iran, separate him for a few minutes from his guards, and pitch him one-to-one. A last-minute snag had almost derailed the plans: the target switched hotels because the conference’s preferred hotel cost $75 more than his superiors in Iran were willing to spend.

To show his sincerity and goodwill, the agent put his hand over his heart. “Salam habibi,” he said. “I’m from the CIA, and I want you to board a plane with me to the United States.” The agent could read the Iranian’s reactions on his face: a mix of shock, fear and curiosity. From prior experience with defectors, he knew the thousand questions flooding the scientist’s mind: What about my family? How will you protect me? Where will I live? How will I support myself? How do I get a visa? Do I have time to pack? What happens if I say no?

The scientist started to ask one, but the agent interrupted him. “First, get the ice bucket,” he said.

“Why?”

“If any of your guards wake up, you can tell them you’re going to get some ice.”

In perhaps its most audacious and elaborate incursion into academia, the CIA has secretly spent millions of dollars staging scientific conferences around the world. Its purpose was to lure Iranian nuclear scientists out of their homeland and into an accessible setting, where its intelligence officers could approach them individually and press them to defect. In other words, the agency sought to delay Iran’s development of nuclear weapons by exploiting academia’s internationalism, and pulling off a mass deception on the institutions that hosted the conferences and the professors who attended and spoke at them. The people attending the conference had no idea they were acting in a drama that simulated reality but was stage-managed from afar. Whether the national security mission justified this manipulation of the professoriate can be debated, but there’s little doubt that most academics would have balked at being dupes in a CIA scheme.

More than any other academic arena, conferences lend themselves to espionage. Assisted by globalisation, these social and intellectual rituals have become ubiquitous. Like stops on the world golf or tennis circuits, they sprout up wherever the climate is favourable, and draw a jet-setting crowd. What they lack in prize money, they make up for in prestige. Although researchers chat electronically all the time, virtual meetings are no substitute for getting together with peers, networking for jobs, checking out the latest gadgets and delivering papers that will later be published in volumes of conference proceedings. “The attraction of the conference circuit,” English novelist David Lodge wrote in Small World, his 1984 send-up of academic life, is that “it’s a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else’s expense. Write a paper and see the world!”

The importance of a conference may be measured not just by the number of Nobel prize-winners or Oxford dons it attracts, but by the number of spies. US and foreign intelligence officers flock to conferences for the same reason that army recruiters concentrate on low-income neighbourhoods: they make the best hunting grounds. While a university campus might have only one or two professors of interest to an intelligence service, the right conference--on drone technology, perhaps, or Isis--could have dozens.

“Every intelligence service in the world works conferences, sponsors conferences, and looks for ways to get people to conferences,” said one former CIA operative.

“Recruitment is a long process of seduction,” says Mark Galeotti, senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague and former special advisor to the British foreign office. “The first stage is to arrange to be at the same workshop as a target. Even if you just exchange banalities, the next time you can say, ‘Did I see you in Istanbul?’”

The FBI warned American academics in 2011 to be cautious about conferences, citing this scenario: “A researcher receives an unsolicited invitation to submit a paper for an international conference. She submits a paper and it is accepted. At the conference, the hosts ask for a copy of her presentation. The hosts hook a thumb drive to her laptop, and unbeknownst to her, download every file and data source from her computer.”

The FBI and CIA swarm conferences, too. At gatherings in the US, says one former FBI agent, “foreign intelligence officers try to collect Americans; we try to collect them”. The CIA is involved with conferences in various ways: it sends officers to them; it hosts them through front companies in the Washington area, so that the intelligence community can tap academic wisdom; and it mounts sham conferences to reach potential defectors from hostile countries.

The CIA monitors upcoming conferences worldwide and identifies those of interest. Suppose there is an international conference in Pakistan on centrifuge technology: the CIA would send its own agent undercover, or enlist a professor who might be going anyway to report back. If it learns that an Iranian nuclear scientist attended the conference, it might peg him for possible recruitment at the next year’s meeting.

Intelligence from academic conferences can shape policy. It helped persuade the George W Bush administration--mistakenly, as it turned out--that Saddam Hussein was still developing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. “What our spies and informants were noticing, of course, was that Iraqi scientists specialising in chemistry, biology and, to a lesser extent, nuclear power kept showing up at international symposia,” former CIA counterterrorism officer John Kiriakou wrote in a 2009 memoir. “They presented papers, listened to the presentation of others, took copious notes, and returned to Jordan, where they could transmit overland back to Iraq.”

Some of those spies may have drawn the wrong conclusions because they lacked advanced degrees in chemistry, biology or nuclear power. Without expertise, agents might misunderstand the subject matter, or be exposed as frauds. At conferences hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on topics such as isotope hydrology and fusion energy, “there are probably more intelligence officers roaming the hallways than actual scientists,” says Gene Coyle, who worked for the CIA from 1976 to 2006. “There’s one slight problem. If you’re going to send a CIA guy to attend one of these conferences, he has to talk the talk. It’s hard to send a history major. ‘Yes, I have a PhD in plasma physics.’ Also, that’s a very small world. If you say you’re from the Fermi Institute in Chicago, they say: ‘You must know Bob, Fred, Susie.’”

Instead, Coyle says, the agency may enlist a suitable professor through the National Resources Division, its clandestine domestic service, which has a “working relationship” with a number of scientists. “If they see a conference in Vienna, they might say, ‘Professor Smith, that would seem natural for you to attend.’”

“Smith might say: ‘I am attending it, I’ll let you know who I chatted with. If I bump into an Iranian, I won’t run in the opposite direction.’ If he says, ‘I’d love to attend, but the travel budget at the university is pretty tight,’ the CIA or FBI might say: ‘Well, you know, we might be able to take care of your ticket, in economy class.’”

A spy’s courtship of a professor often begins with a seemingly random encounter--known in the trade as a “bump”--at an academic conference. One former CIA operative overseas explained to me how it works. I’ll call him “R”.

“I recruited a ton of people at conferences,” R told me. “I was good at it, and it’s not that hard.”

Between assignments, he would peruse a list of upcoming conferences, pick one, and identify a scientist of interest who seemed likely to attend after having spoken at least twice at the same event in previous years. R would assign trainees at the CIA and National Security Agency to develop a profile of the target--where they had gone to college, who their instructors were, and so on. Then he would cable headquarters, asking for travel funding. The trick was to make the cable persuasive enough to score the expense money, but not so compelling that other agents who read it, and were based closer to the conference, would try to go after the same target.

Next he developed his cover--typically, as a businessman. He invented a company name, built an off-the-shelf website and printed business cards. He created billing, phone and credit card records for the nonexistent company. For his name, he chose one of his seven aliases.

R was no scientist. He couldn’t drop in a line about the Riemann hypothesis as an icebreaker. Instead, figuring that most scientists are socially awkward introverts, he would sidle up to the target at the edge of the conference’s get-together session and say, “Do you hate crowds as much as I do?” Then he would walk away. “The bump is fleeting,” R said. “You just register your face in their mind.” No one else should notice the bump. It’s a rookie mistake to approach a target in front of other people who might be minders assigned by the professor’s own country. The minders would report the conversation, compromising the target’s security and making them unwilling or unable to entertain further overtures.

For the rest of the conference, R would “run around like crazy”, bumping into the scientist at every opportunity. With each contact, called “time on target” in CIA jargon and counted in his job-performance metrics, he insinuated himself into the professor’s affections. For instance, having done his homework, R would say he had read a wonderful article on such-and-such topic but couldn’t remember the author’s name. “That was me,” the scientist would say, blushing.

After a couple of days, R would invite the scientist to lunch or dinner and make his pitch: his company was interested in the scientist’s field, and would like to support their work. “Every academic I have ever met is constantly trying to figure how to get grants to continue his research. That’s all they talk about,” he explained. They would agree on a specific project, and the price, which varied by the scientist’s country: “$1,000 to $5,000 for a Pakistani. Korea is more.” Once the CIA pays a foreign professor, even if they are unaware at first of the funding source, it controls them, because exposure of the relationship might imperil their career or even their life in their native country.

Scientific conferences have become such a draw for intelligence agents that one of the biggest concerns for CIA operatives is interference from agency colleagues trapping the same academic prey. “We tend to flood events like these,” a former CIA officer who writes under the pseudonym Ishmael Jones observed in his 2008 book, The Human Factor: Inside the CIA’s Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture.

At one 2005 conference in Paris that he anticipated would be a “perfect watering hole for visiting rogue-state weapons scientists”, Jones recalled, his heart sank as he glanced across the room and saw two CIA agents (who were themselves professors). He avoided their line of sight while he roamed the gathering, eyeballing nametags and trawling for “people who might make good sources”, ideally from North Korea, Iran, Libya, Russia or China.

“I’m surprised there’s so much open intelligence presence at these conferences,” Karsten Geier said. “There are so many people running around from so many acronyms.” Geier, head of cybersecurity policy for the German foreign office, and I were chatting at the Sixth Annual International Conference on Cyber Engagement, held in April 2016 at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. The religious art, stained-glass windows and classical quotations lining Gaston Hall enveloped the directors of the NSA and the FBI like an elaborate disguise as they gave keynote addresses on combating one of the most daunting challenges of the 21st century: cyberattacks.

The NSA’s former top codebreaker spoke, as did the ex-chairman of the National Intelligence Council, the deputy director of Italy’s security department, and the director of a centre that does classified research for Swedish intelligence. The name tags that almost all of the 700 attendees wore showed that they worked for the US government, foreign embassies, intelligence contractors or vendors of cyber-related products, or they taught at universities.

Perhaps not all of the intelligence presence was open. Officially, 40 nations--from Brazil to Mauritius, Serbia to Sri Lanka--were represented at the conference, but not Russia. Yet, hovering in the rear of the balcony, a slender young man carrying a briefcase listened to the panels. No name tag adorned his lapel. I approached him, introduced myself, and asked his name. “Alexander,” he said, and, after a pause, “Belousov.”

“How do you like the conference?”

“No,” he said, trying to ward off further inquiries. “I am from Russian embassy. I don’t have any opinions. I would like to know, that’s all.”

I proffered a business card, and requested his, in vain. “I am here only a month. My cards are still being produced.”

I persisted, asking about his job at the embassy. (A check of a diplomatic directory showed him as a “second secretary”.) He looked at his watch. “I am sorry. I must go.”

When the CIA wants Prof John Booth’s opinion, it phones him to find out if he is available to speak at a conference. But the agency’s name is nowhere to be found on the conference’s formal invitation and agenda, which invariably list a Washington-area contractor as the sponsor.

By hiding its role, the CIA makes it easier for scholars to share their insights. They take credit for their presentations on their CV without disclosing that they consulted for the CIA, which might alienate some academic colleagues, as well as the countries where they conduct their research.

An emeritus professor of political science at the University of North Texas, Booth specialises in studying Latin America, a region where history has taught officials to be wary of the CIA. “If you were intending to return to Latin America, it was very important that your CV not reflect” these kinds of presentations, Booth told me in March 2016. “When you go to one of these conferences, if there are intelligence or defence agency principals there, it’s invisible on your CV. It provides a fig leaf for participants. There’s still some bias in academia against this. I don’t go around in Latin American studies meetings saying I spent time at a conference run by the CIA.”

The CIA arranges conferences on foreign policy issues so that its analysts, who are often immersed in classified details, can learn from scholars who understand the big picture and are familiar with publicly available sources. Participating professors are generally paid a $1,000 honorarium, plus expenses. With scholarly presentations followed by questions and answers, the sessions are like those at any academic meeting, except that many attendees--presumably, CIA analysts--wear name tags with only their first names.

Of 10 intelligence agency conferences that Booth attended over the years--most recently a 2015 session about a wave of Central American refugee children pouring into the US--the CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence [ODNI] ran only one or two directly. The rest were outsourced to Centra Technology Inc, the leader of a growing industry of intermediaries in the Washington area--”cutouts” in espionage parlance--that run conferences for the CIA.

The CIA supplies Centra with funding and a list of people to invite, who gather in Centra’s Conference Center in Arlington, Virginia. It’s “an ideal setting for our clients’ conferences, meetings, games, and collaborative activities,” according to Centra’s website.

“If you know anything, when you see Centra, you know it’s likely to be CIA or ODNI,” said Robert Jervis, a Columbia University professor of international politics and longtime CIA consultant. “They do feel that for some academics thin cover is useful.”

Established in 1997, Centra has received more than $200m in government contracts, including $40m from the CIA for administrative support, such as compiling and redacting classified cables and documents for the five-year Senate Intelligence Committee study of the agency’s torture programme. In 2015, its executive ranks teemed with former intelligence officials. Founder and chief executive Harold Rosenbaum was a science and technology adviser to the CIA. Senior vice president Rick Bogusky headed the Korea division at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Vice president for research James Harris managed analytic programmes at the CIA for 22 years. Peggy Lyons, director of global access, was a longtime CIA manager and officer with several tours in East Asia. David Kanin, Centra analytic director, spent 31 years as a CIA analyst.

Like Booth, Indiana University political scientist Sumit Ganguly has spoken at several Centra conferences. “Anybody who works with Centra knows they’re in effect working for the US government,” he says. “If it said CIA, there are others who would fret about it. I make no bones about it to my colleagues. If it sticks in their craw, it’s their tough luck. I am an American citizen. I feel I should proffer the best possible advice to my government.”

Another political scientist, who has given four presentations for Centra, said he was told that it represented unnamed “clients”. He didn’t realise the clients were US intelligence agencies until he noticed audience members with first-name-only name tags. He later ran into one or two of the same people at an academic conference. They weren’t wearing name tags and weren’t listed in the programme.

Centra strives to mask its CIA connections. It removed its executives’ biographies from its website in 2015. The “featured customers” listed there include the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the Army and 16 other branches of the federal government--but not the CIA. When I phoned Rosenbaum and asked him about Centra holding conferences for the CIA, he said: “You’re calling the wrong person. We have nothing to do with that.” And then he hung up.

I dropped by Centra’s offices on the fifth floor of a building in Burlington, Massachusetts, a northern suburb of Boston. The sign-in sheet asked visitors for their citizenship and “type of visit”: classified or not. The receptionist fetched human resources director Dianne Colpitts. She politely heard me out, checked with Rosenbaum, and told me that Centra wouldn’t comment. “To be frank,” she said, “our customers prefer us not to talk to the media.”

For Iranian academics escaping to the west, academic conferences are a modern-day underground railroad. The CIA has taken full advantage of this vulnerability. Beginning under President George W Bush, the US government had “endless money” for covert efforts to delay Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, the Institute for Science and International Security’s David Albright told me. One programme was the CIA’s Operation Brain Drain, which sought to spur top Iranian nuclear scientists to defect.

Because it was hard to approach the scientists in Iran, the CIA enticed them to conferences in friendly or neutral countries, a former intelligence officer told me. In consultation with Israel, the agency would choose a prospect. Then it would set up a conference at a prestigious scientific institute through a cutout, typically a businessman, who would underwrite the symposium with $500,000 to $2m in agency funds. The businessman might own a technology company, or the agency might create a shell company for him so that his support would seem legitimate to the institute, which was unaware of the CIA’s hand. “The more clueless the academics are, the safer it is for everybody,” the ex-officer told me. Each cutout knew he was helping the CIA, but he didn’t know why, and the agency would use him only once.

The conference would focus on an aspect of nuclear physics that had civilian applications, and also dovetailed with the Iranian target’s research interests. Typically, Iran’s nuclear scientists also held university appointments. Like professors anywhere, they enjoyed a junket. Iran’s government sometimes allowed them to go to conferences, though under guard, to keep up with the latest research and meet suppliers of cutting-edge technology--and for propaganda.

“From the Iranian point of view, they would clearly have an interest in sending scientists to conferences about peaceful uses of nuclear power,” Ronen Bergman told me. A prominent Israeli journalist, Bergman is the author of The Secret War With Iran: The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World’s Most Dangerous Terrorist Power, and is working on a history of Israel’s central intelligence service, the Mossad. “They say, ‘Yes, we send our scientists to conferences to use civilian technology for a civilian purpose.’”

The CIA officer assigned to the case might pose as a student, a technical consultant, or an exhibitor with a booth. His first job would be to peel the guards away from the scientist. In one instance, kitchen staff recruited by the CIA poisoned the guards’ meal, leaving them incapacitated by diarrhoea and vomiting. The hope was that they would attribute their illness to aeroplane food or an unfamiliar cuisine.

With luck, the officer would catch the scientist alone for a few minutes, and pitch to him. He would have boned up on the Iranian by reading files and courting “access agents” close to him. That way, if the scientist expressed doubt that he was really dealing with the CIA, the officer could respond that he knew everything about him, even the most intimate details--and prove it. One officer told a potential defector: “I know you had testicular cancer and you lost your left nut.”

Even after the scientist agreed to defect, he might reconsider and run away. “You’re constantly re-recruiting the guy,” the ex-officer said. Once he was safely in a car to the airport, the CIA coordinated the necessary visas and flight documents with allied intelligence agencies. It would also spare no effort to bring his wife and children to the US--though not his mistress, as one scientist requested. The agency would resettle the scientist and his family and provide long-term benefits, including paying for the children’s college and graduate school.

Enough scientists defected to the US, through academic conferences and other routes, to hinder Iran’s nuclear weapons programme, the ex-officer familiar with the operation told me. He said an engineer who assembled centrifuges for Iran’s nuclear programme agreed to defect on one condition: that he pursue a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unfortunately, the CIA had spirited him out of Iran without credentials such as diplomas and transcripts. At first, MIT refused the CIA’s request to consider him. But the agency persisted, and the renowned engineering school agreed to accommodate the CIA by waiving its usual screening procedures. It mustered a group of professors from related departments to grill the defector. He aced the oral exam, was admitted, and earned his doctorate.

MIT administrators deny any knowledge of the episode. “I’m completely ignorant of this,” said Gang Chen, chairman of mechanical engineering. However, two academics corroborated key elements of the story. Muhammad Sahimi, a professor of petroleum engineering at the University of Southern California who studies Iranian nuclear and political development, told me that a defector from Iran’s nuclear programme received a doctorate from MIT in mechanical engineering. Timothy Gutowski, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering, said: “I do know of a young man that was here in our lab. Somehow I learned that he did work on centrifuges in Iran. I started thinking: ‘What went on here?”

With Iran’s agreement in 2015 to limit nuclear weapons development in return for the lifting of international sanctions, recruitment of defectors from the programme by US intelligence lost some urgency. But if President Trump scraps or seeks to renegotiate the deal, which he denounced in a September speech to the United Nations General Assembly, CIA-staged conferences to snag key Iranian nuclear scientists could make a clandestine comeback.

This is an edited extract from Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America’s Universities, published by Henry Holt on 1 November at £22.99.

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