#mr murakami

[incorrect-tmnt2012-quotes]

[At Murakami’s restaurant]

Bradford: Michelangelo? You work here?

Mikey: Bradford? You eat here?

[zegalba]

Takashi Murakami: Mr. Dob (1998)

[daily-plush]

Takashi Murakami Kaikai Kiki Tongari-Kun Plush

[berrys-blue]

on memory

madeline miller, the song of achilles // @magentasnail // haruki murakami, norwegian woods // fleetwood mac, silver springs 1997 perfomance remastered // michael faudet // taylor swift, this is me trying // jeremy miranda, waves of winter // virginia woolf, mrs dalloway

[browsethestacks]

Archie Is Mr. Justice #01 (2024)

Art by Reiko Murakami, Francesco Francavilla And Eric Talbot

[dirtyriver]

Archie is Mr. Justice #1 of 4, written by Tim Seeley, interior art by Mike Norton, covers by Reiko Murakami, Francesco Francavilla, and Matt Talbot.

[theinternetisaweboflies]

Contemporary Gallery at the Chicago Art Institute

The Kiss (Bela Lugosi) by Andy Warhol, Greyed Rainbow by Jackson Pollock, American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman) by David Hockney, Artist's Studio "Foot Medication" by Roy Lichtenstein, Christ and the Lamb by Jeff Koons and Mr. Pointy by Takashi Murakami, Two Penguins and Golden Bird by Constantin Brancusi, La Durée Poignardée by René Magritte

[arsonbabe]

Mr. Pointy - Takashi Murakami

2011

Image taken from the Art Institute of Chicago's website

[afterthegreatunknown]

List of Snicket-Verse Characters I headcanon as Asian Descent, Fully or Partly, with the One (1) Book Canonical Asian Character

The One (1) Book Canonical

Haruki [Murakami]: Japanese. Originally born in Kyoto in the Fushimi-ku ward, Haruki and his family moved to the City when he was six due to his father’s job (in the organization). When it comes to reading and writing Japanese, it isn’t as perfect as people assume, for Haruki spend more of his childhood reading and writing in English. Speaking Japanese though, Haruki can 100% do.

Headcanons Characters, ATWQ

Dashiell Qwerty: Chinese descent. Qwerty is an alias surname his family uses when out in the field for VFD. His real surname is Qiao, and whenever not in the field, volunteers call him Qiao. Or ‘Q’, if they can’t pronounce it. Dashiell has a technical middle name; his Chinese given name, Qiang. Dashiell is (was) only call Qiang by his parents.

Jackie’s Grandfather: Korean. Jackie’s grandfather full name in western order, is Pyong-ho Ahn, nickname in his youth as Moray. Phyong-ho used to manage Moray Wheels in the past in addition to racing, before retiring and allowing Jackie to take over. Phyong-ho by the present no longer goes by Moray, unless you’re a very close friend of his.

Jackie (Ahn): Korean descent. Jackie is really Jackie’s first name, though they do accept the Korean name their grandfather gave them: Jae-kyung. Jackie only answers to Jae-kyung if it’s spoken by their grandfather, their parents (now decease), and their aunt and uncle and cousin who lives in the City, finding it something special meant for family only.

The Talkie Brothers: Asian descent of different nationalities. Arthur Takei is of Japanese descent. Amit Sharma is of Indian descent. ‘Talkie Brothers’ came because many couldn’t pronounce Takei. They thought about going by “the Sherman Brothers” for some couldn’t pronounce Sharma correctly either, but that is used by a real pair of musically talent brothers.

Alice Lost, nee Takei: Japanese descent. The younger sister of Arthur Takei, Alice has a great talent of doing origami. She can make anything out of a piece of paper, but her specialty was making paper cranes. In fact, before her death, Alice was aiming to create 1,000, and had reached 1,000 exactly when the fire broke out at the Lost Arms.

Ornette Lost: Biracial. Japanese descent from her mother Alice, Irish descent from her father (Prosper immigrated to SBTS as a child with his parents). Ornette’s talent of (paper) sculptures came from watching her mother folding origami paper into cranes. Ornette feels connected to her mother when making origami cranes, and aims to fold 1,001 in her memory.

Headcanon Characters, ASOUE

Captain Widdershins: (French) Chinese Cambodian on Father’s side, and native Cambodian (Khmer) on Mother’s side. Widdershins does his best to feel connected to his former home country, be celebrating holidays that he can barely recall celebrating, making meals if the ingredients available, or speaking Khmer to himself and sometimes around Fiona. For that last one, Widdershins gave Fiona a Khmer [nick]name, though after an interaction with a volunteer, had Widdershins stopping it. Post-canon, he starts saying Fiona’s Khmer [nick]name again, usually when it's just the two of them.

Raymond ‘Q’ Quagmire: Chinese descent. Raymond is an adopted Quagmire due to his brother Dashiell’s death/murder. Raymond, like Dashiell, has a technical middle name that is his Chinese given name; Jiahao. However, for reasons, people assume Dashiell’s Chinese given name is Raymond’s, made worse because many had forgot Raymond and Dashiell are related.

Joan Quagmire [nee Morstan]: Chinese descent. Joan’s birth surname is Lau; Morstan is the surname of her adopted family. Two of Joan’s favorite games to play are Mahjong and Wei Qi (Go). While she’s not the best player of the latter, she’s brilliant in the former. Joan likes making her children (all together) play a game with her once a week; they never won.

Alex and Lindsey Morstan: Chinese descent. Being Joan’s triplet sisters, they were forced to play Mahjong and Wei Qi with her, with the latter being the game they’re best at. Alex and Lindsey are fonder of reading (translated) Chinese novels; Alex loves Journey to the West, while Lindsey enjoys Flowers in the Mirror.

Duncan, Isadora, and Quigley Quagmire: Chinese descent. Duncan, Isadora, and Quigley, pre and post canon, do their best to gain insight and feel connected to their identity, in their own ways. Duncan does it by researching Chinese history, particularly of the Chinese Dynasties (the Tang Dynasty is his favorite). Isadora does it by watching Chinese opera (she loves the costumes, and the singing style). Quigley does with the hands-on approach of preparing and cooking traditional Chinese dishes with help (parents and aunt pre-canon. Post-canon, Quigley get Hector or Widdershins’ help, sometimes the two adults together if needed).

Charles: Vietnamese descent. Charles’ full name is Charles Nguyen, the son of two Vietnamese people who lived half their lives in France before moving to the Land of Districts. Charles worked with his parents at their swanky restaurant, Nguyen Bistro; it serves traditional Vietnamese dishes as well as French dishes as an alternative. Charles took business (and cooking) classes to fully take over, but a mysterious fire that burned the restaurant and the apartment home, as well as killing his parents, changed his path.

Sir: Thai. An immigrant that came to the Land of Districts to escape his past, Sir found work at Lucky Smells Lumber Mill as a regular employee, before getting promoted to foreman. When the owner Smogface Wiley died, the mill was doom to close. However, Sir managed to get a trial run as boss, and later became the new permanent owner. Sir’s cousins working at the Mill is true; they’re the ones who made Sir escape his past in the first place. Sir had no qualms on the conditions they’re working, seeing how he survived it and worked his way upward (and maybe revenge).

(Regarding Sir’s unknown name, his first name at least, it’s Chalermchai. When he was a regular employee, Chalermchai was usually referred to or call by that didn’t require the foreman or anyone else to say his name. But when Chalermchai became foreman, people discover they were unable to say it, so Chalermchai became ‘Sir.’ Not many people call Sir by his first name nowadays. Charles says it, and even then, it’s rare.)

R, Duchess of Winnipeg: Biracial. Japanese descent from her father, Ryutaro (Second generation Japanese-Canadian), and French from her mother, Sabine (French from France and French Canadian). R is a naming pattern from her father’s family, for in Sabine’s family, no one ever had an ‘R’ name before (Sabine does have the alias of ‘Rhea’ though). R isn’t connected to her Japanese heritage as much as she likes; the most she knows of is Japanese theater, mainly Kabuki. The R engrave ring was something Sabine did herself, much to her mother (R’s Grand-Mère Thea) disapproval, for Sabine wanted the ring to be special for R when she gets it.

R’s heir, Ramona Q, and the Q stands for Quach (Quách): She's the daughter of two Vietnamese refugees who were very good friends with R. They confided to R about the odd interactions Ramona had with her local librarian, leading to R telling them things to do to keep their daughter safe. When Ramona’s parents died in a fire, R decided to adopt Ramona to lessen VFD’s influence. R loves Ramona very much, being an honorary aunt to the girl before adopting her, and does her best to let Ramona be connected to her culture (clothing, music, food; food is most common and accessible one of all).

[lieutenantbiscute]

You new reference sheet for the Rise boys got me curious. Are they different than their show counterparts and if so, in what way?

Hmm, I’d say that their flaws in canon show aren’t as prominent in the AU. like, with Rise Donnie he needs validation from older parental figures but in my AU Corrin has had that support and praise since he was a kid so he knows his capabilities and such.

Rise Leo is hype man and has his insecurities about being only the hype man. In AU Cino has insecurities yes, but they’re more so surrounded about personal actions rather than acting as a co-leader to Rovva.

Rise Raph and Rovva both share their anger issue but Rovva differs in the fact that he has his father, His uncle Slash and Leatherhead to help process and use his anger in an efficient way for combat and defense.

Rise Mikey and Orion both still hold the ‘Dr. Delicate/Feelings’ persona but with Orion is very much a gag rather than a 15 playing therapist.

The ShellShock sons have a much more stable base of reference compared to their canon Rise counterparts. Points of interest when it comes to values and fighting and family. If Cino doesn’t wanna talk with his parents he goes to Uncle Leo or Mikey, if Corrin just wants to blow off steam he joins his brother Orion and Dad Raph to go spray paint tagging around the sewers and alleyways.

Rovva sticks with his mom Mona and Uncle Mikey when he wants to spend time cooking or weapons cleaning. Orion himself besides doing art stuff or foodstuffs with his uncle, is often spent chilling with Leo in the dojo training with Cino when he joins in or just meditating when stuff topside gets too much.

The kids have multiple points to go out and seek comfort from understanding parental figures in their lives. And our 12 Gang is here just for that! They know what it’s like to have questions that go unanswered because they have a lost authority figure or are in bouts of self isolation.

With the au it’s about having a support network; one I feel the Rise gang didn’t have enough of and where the 12 gang shined in some instances.

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Leo: Bye now, don't forget to eat the lunch I packed for you.

Donnie: Don't talk to strangers.

Raph: If anything happens, just call and we'll come pick you up.

April: Don't get lost, be careful, okay?

Mikey: ...I-I'm just going to Murakami’s.

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fun fact! did you know it’s considered extremely rude to stand on a table while speaking to someone in japan?

[zegalba]

Takashi Murakami: Hiropon Factory Mr. Dob Glitter T-Shirt (1999)

[sableeira]

there is no foreign author as influential to a group of people as Franz Kafka is to Japanese writers. It’s like Kafka is their special little guy.

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Homage To Isabel Rawsthorne