#origami-crane

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オリヅル

折り鶴（おりづる）は、日本の伝統的な折り紙（折り饌）の一つで、鶴の形に紙を折りたたんで作られる折り紙のアートです。鶴は日本の文化において瑞鳥（幸運をもたらす鳥）とされ、特に千羽鶴は願い事や祈り事を込めて折られることがあります。

折り鶴は一般的に正方形の紙を用い、複雑な折り方によって細かい部位まで表現されます。一般的な鶴の形以外にも、大小さまざまなバリエーションが存在し、折り紙の技術向上やアートとしての創造性が加えられています。折り鶴は日本国内外で人気があり、折り鶴を折ること自体が楽しみながら、完成した鶴を贈り物や飾りとして用いることがあります。

手抜きイラスト集

[merverelli]

"you just feel yourself let go."

still thinking about this episode. man. 💪💥

[wikipediapictures]

Origami

“Origami instructions from the book: Hiden Senbazuru Orikata (Secret to Folding One-thousand Cranes) by author Akisato Ritō, 1797. Woodblock printed book; ink on paper.” - via Wikimedia Commons

[fatchance]

Untitled.

[hozaloza]

whoops! Dropped this School Bus Graveyard finale screenshot, my fault gang 😋😋😋😋/nsrs/j

[trans-axolotl]

content note: discussion of suicide.

this next monday will be the six year anniversary of losing one of my friends to suicide.

when he died, my high school barely mentioned his death, even though for other students who died by things like car crashes or illness, there were so many public expressions of grief. they believed that having any memorials for a student who died by suicide would encourage other people to die the same way. in their rush to erase the circumstances of his death, they erased the memory of his life.

there are so many things i am angry at that high school about in terms of how they treated mental health (mandatory reporting and collaborating with cops, their refusal to recognize the ways in which that system led to peer-to-peer crisis support, their refusal to recognize the ways that trying to keep each other alive through trial and error was scary and exhausting, carceral disciplinary policies, etc etc etc). but i think one of the things i am still angriest about is the way they enforced shame around his death. it felt like they were retroactively blaming him for the constellation of circumstances that made suicide an option in his life. it felt like they were blaming those of us who missed him and cared about him and wanted to grieve him. it made those of us still there who were actively suicidal feel even more scared about the reaction if we did reach out for help from one of those mythical safe adults.

as an adult now involved in psych abolition/mad liberation work, it makes me so fucking mad to see the ways in which he was discarded by people in authority positions. and the older i get, the more options i have found in my life for making sense of the world and finding healing and community and support which were never available to him because he died when he was 16 and the only things offered to him were a carceral psychiatric system that blamed him for his own fucking death. it feels so incredibly unfair.

i miss him and i think i always will; i can't remember his laugh or the sound of his voice or his favorite color any more and that aches. this grief is so heavy and it feels harder in a new way each year, when i become older than he will ever be. sometimes meeting new comrades or seeing new anticarceral suicide support models hurts because i wish so fucking bad that we had that back then. i remember how close we came to losing even more people that year and i know it is simple fucking luck that i'm still here when he's not.

i remember another letter (never sent) that i wrote to a friend while they were in an ICU bed after a suicide attempt when i didn't know if they would live or not. i have spent so much time in the past 10 years begging for anything to keep me and my friends alive, but even in that letter i knew that there is so much fucking violence that is hidden beneath psychiatric logics of cure and safety that promise a "solution" to suicide. I knew that institutionalization, coercion, and shame would not have helped build a life more liveable for him or **** or any of the people i've loved and lost since.

there needs to be more fucking options for care and support that aren't so incredibly cruel to suicidal people. i know so many people doing incredible work in alternatives, peer respite, a million different frameworks for healing and liberation. but it makes me so mad every day i have to live in a world where there are still people restrained, locked up in psych wards, having all autonomy and personhood taken away from them. knowing there are dozens of people every day getting blamed for their deaths the same way he was blamed for his.

i miss him. i cared so fucking much for him. and he died by suicide, and all of those things are true. he has been dead for 6 years and he lived before that and the people who loved him want to remember all of him; our celebrations of his life should not require hiding the way that he died.

Image description: [1000 origami cranes in all different colors and patterns that are tied together in strings of 25]

(these were the 1000 cranes we made to give to his parents, in memorial and recognition of how much he meant to us.)

[technocite]

Arthur trying to stealthily take out an assassination target from the shadows and he’s sweating white knuckle gripping the Vesper 77 during a recon mission because the laser sight keeps wiggling on the back of the target’s head and he has to fight every cell in his body not to just jump the guy because the mutagenic virus twisting him into an inhuman monster gave him such a high prey drive he NEEDS to get at that fucking little green light dot and he’s having an existential crisis over it

[kala-mies]

'Sup douchebags

[urbanchicagoan]

Origami cranes at the Chinatown branch of the Chicago Public Library (12/28/2024)

Grullas de origami en la sucursal de Chinatown de la Biblioteca Pública de Chicago (28/12/2024)

[captainqster]

"He said that if you make a thousand cranes, you will have a wish granted. ...A child's tale."

[tanuki-kimono]

Perfect peacock green for this kimono patterned with cute orizuru (origami crane) and looping kumihimo ties. The obi has beautiful blooming tsubaki (camellia) in a basket.

[soulstuffjunkie]

Warm from a night out,

Shoulders bump on the walk home,

The front door clicks shut.

Did u like my Haikaveh Haiku? I’ve never drawn anyone kissing before but if there was going to be a first time, I’m glad it was them.

Pose ref used by @/kibbi_the_kibbitzer on IG. [ID: (Genshin Impact fan art) a torso-up illustration of Alhaitham and Kaveh kissing, there are luminous sparkles behind them and the overall colour scheme is blue, green, purple and pink. End ID]

[paperzest]

Origami Franziska von Karma designed+folded by me from an uncut square of blue and orange double tissue paper. 32 grid boxpleat. Got inspired to make her while playing through Bridge to the Turnabout.

This was the initial test fold from a paper I just had lying around, so may revisit her in the future. I wasn't planning on color changing the whip, but it's in the corner of the paper, so it was easy to adjust.

More (group) photos below:

[iamumbra195]

!!!SBG CHAPTER 79 SPOILERS!!

This chapter is literally almost word for word how I Imagined the kidnapping of the parents all happened and I’m so proud of that fact lol

Mike swearing to kill those people when he was being knocked out and Emma taking the brunt of the attack to protect the other— Ashlyn really is her parents’ daughter XD

The Mike/Emma content was peak

AND LILY, BABYGIRL, BITING THOSE PPL TO PROTECT HER COUSIN, SOMEONE GIVE THIS BRAVE GIRL A MEDAL 😭

AND I KNEW THE GRANDPARENTS WERE SUS. WHAT SO FAMILIAR ABOUT THIS JAMES, HUH?

I also love the fact that Mike just doesn’t vibe with the grandparents lol. He just knows something is up and he hates it XD

And who’s this guy? Are we finally getting insight on the two parties that the cranes are hiding from that was mentioned S1? Because the mark on his hand doesn’t look like the usual paper crane, it looks like a different type of bird.

:O maybe it’s a sparrow like in that one panel from season one where Maverick was standing by a window and there was a sparrow perched on the window.

WAIT DO Y’ALL REMEMBER THAT THEORY ABT HOW MAVERICK MIGHT BE TRYING TO HEAL SOMEONE OR BRONG THEM BACK TO LIFE WHAT IF THIS GUY IS THAT PERSON OMG???

Legit can’t wait for next week 😭

[hirayamalfoy]

My mind, everytime i remember Manacled. 🌹😭

Senlinyu is heaven-sent.

[hozaloza]

Okay guys maybe I'm a lil TOO obsessed with the crane members

BUT LOOK AT CHARLIE??? HE DESERVES THAT LITTLE TUFF AT THE BOTTOM OF HIS HAIR

Like I said before, he's basically Aiden's crane member counterpart

Not really now that I think about it, but idk

"Children😨" HE'S SO FUCKING SILLY

I'm gonna eat him (I should bake him into a cookie)

Guys I love the crow squad (stupid name im calling the four main side characters I'm fixaqting on)