#conversations with kat

[monttagues]

they're SISTERS

[ryukatters]

Something about Bakugo being nosy just sits so right with me. It’s canon that he’s often listening in on conversations (even if participants of said conversations are unaware of his presence) so I imagine when he likes you he tends to hover around you just a little bit more.

You could be talking to Ashido and Kaminari in the common room and Bakugo will be there. Maybe not necessarily near you, not even looking at you. He’s off on the opposite side of the room, and he’s so uncharacteristically quiet that you could forget he was there in the first place.

You mention offendedly how you miss your favorite drink and snack from that one cafe near the heart of Musutafu, being too busy with your work study to find the time to visit.

A few days later, you hear a knock on your door. You’re met with a plastic bag with the very same food and drink combination you had just told your friends about the other day. Your eyes trail the arm and hand holding it and see Bakugo with a pinched look on his face.

“‘s for you,” he grumbles, head turned to the side as his signature scowl deepens. If you looked any closer, you’d clearly be able to see the blush accentuating his cheeks and ears. 

“Thank you, Bakugo,” you take the bag with a smile, and Katsuki has to keep from shuddering when your fingertips accidentally brush his. “Why don’t you come in so we can share?”

Bakugo is nosy, but if it means being able to share stolen moments (and bites of food) with you, then it’s totally worth it.

[isacksteban]

im seeing a lot of people forgetting/not knowing that esteban is also spanish and algerian 😭 his dads side of the family are literally from málaga

[candlecanoe]

wip/caboose stuff while im working on some bigger stuff ◉_◉

suggestive? leather caboose under the cut. its just the second drawing´s sketch shirtless

been working on figure drawing/anatomy for school so i figured i might as well make it fun for myself, i think he likes the way harnesses hug his body, he likes the pressure... its comforting

[thefreakandthehair]

I’m just here trying to sleep after a long week (I know it’s only Wednesday but I am stressed and I wanted to quit my job on Monday so it’s a long week) and I’m thinking about Dustin’s birthday. Specifically his seventeenth. And maybe it’s not on the exact day, but around there, and it hits him out of nowhere

He’s the same age Steve was when a bunch of kids were shoved at him and he was told to keep them safe. He’s the same age Steve was when he almost died doing that multiple times on the same night. He’s the same age Steve was and he doesn’t think he’s even remotely prepared to handle a group of kids and doesn’t think he could have been brave enough to fight a bunch of demodogs or billy when he was spitting mad and then gotten up and gone into the tunnels afterwards.

And he looks at Steve now, more mellow, softer around the edges, with friends his own age and his bitching far more playful and affectionate with them, with his glasses and his failing hearing and sometimes anger because of those things but no regrets.

He looks at him and wants to cry because he doesn’t know how Steve did it. He doesn’t know how Steve was so brave and strong then when he was arguably still sort of an asshole and didn’t even know them aside from knowing who they were. Because that night was the first night they’d even spoken, but Steve had jumped right back in despite how they all knew he’d tried to pretend it never happened.

He looks at his brother and doesn’t understand how he’d so easily been there for them back then because trying to imagine himself in his place it just makes him feel overwhelming panic.

Because that’s when it hits

Steve was a kid too. He was just a kid, but he’d seemed like an adult to him, had carried himself with the confidence of adulthood even when Dustin knew now that it was bravado.

He thinks about the year before, when Steve had fought his first monster and been even younger. And maybe he wasn’t the youngest, that was Erica’s privilege, but he’d still been a kid and they’d all forgotten that because it was Steve, who took on the mantle of protector and carried it like a badge of honor even now.

And he hugs him, of course he does, and when they talk, they both cry a little, because Steve can finally admit how he’d felt back then, how he’d felt so out of his depth but didn’t want the kids to see his fear because he needed to be brave

Just lots of sappy thoughts about childhood and loss and moving on knowing that you were allowed to be scared when you thought you couldn’t

KAT YOU GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW. I'M SCREAMING AND CRYING! I'm gonna lose my MIND. I'm gonna climb the WALLS. I'm gonna FLY into the SUN! this is SO IMPORTANT to me now, I'm never going to not think about this, this is critical to their relationship now and I'm never going to see it any other way.

if you write it, I'll podfic it. I swear, this just flipped some switch in my brain, I'm obsessed.

[that-bitch-kat3]

i stg if i see one more person copy one of my incorrect quotes from my friends posts WORD FOR WORD i am going to have a conniption. it’s the same words and same charaters. the reblog button is right there. what is happening?!?

[auto-cremate]

kat and og argued yes but they didn’t show THESE also happened after their disagreement

[lesbiangiratina]

I killed my kurama header after 4 years. Im sorry. Im sorry kurama. I like how this looks.

[dallasevans-gardner]

[PM] How can I help? -Kat

PM: I wish I had an answer for you, Kit-Kat. The truth is I don't even know, but I also have a feeling you aren't going to be easily swayed by me saying I'm fine. Will you come and sit with me for a bit and... just let me hold you? I'm in the backyard.

@kat-sullivan

[cconfusedkat]

I said I’d get my revenge didn’t I? >:3c

Also bonus‼️:

I always think the difference between our Shamuras is so funnyskdks yours is the shortest of the Bishops and mine is the tallest…. ………….

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SHAMURA IS SO VROGERGOUS I AM GOIGN TO PROJECTILE VOMIT ALL OVER THE PLACE

Finally my shamura is at ease with another shamura ,,, having tea ,,,, Not attacking them ,,,, this is truly how you tame my spider here bribe them with tea ,,,,pls keep it that way we never know how to keep my shamura stable i have to contactyour shamura Frequently now /silly

[miserye]

the current tab situation on this specific browser that's half comprised of my normal shenanigans and then the rest is just me shopping for kat

[thehauntedair]

I also just keep thinking back to that one conversation about video games. The way Zachary participates but Kat drives it. The way the observations the students make about storytelling are basically the themes of the book.

Long analysis under the cut

Starting with the difference in how Kat and Zachary introduce themselves;

Zachary saying “I mostly study video-game design with a focus on psychology and gender issues”. He studies games, he focuses on internal things that are part of them.

Kat saying “I mostly spend my time trying to turn games into theater and theater into games”. This is more active. She spends her time transforming things into other things. Affecting change.

A student asks “how are we defining ‘gamer’” and Zachary answers by saying the definition is in itself and that he resents defining things, and Kat changing the question and defining it at the same time. Kat chooses to define the parameter of “game”, the implication being of course that a gamer is one who plays games, and sets the terms of the conversation. And the term she sets being “everything should come back to story”.

Kat then prompts Zachary to explain the parts of a video game, points he says he has retread a thousand times in writing but finds refreshing to a new audience- Kat’s audience, who keeps veering into parallels with theater.

And then the conversation about why people play story based games: the peanut gallery posits that “you want the narrative there to trust in, even if you want to maintain your own free will”, “you want to decide (…) but you still want to win the game” “even if winning the game is just ending the story”. Their theory is you want both- choice and will. And positing “win condition” as the end of the story.

Zachary agrees with this, adding that this is especially true if the games have multiple endings, that the draw of story based games is “Wanting to co-write the story, not dictate it yourself”. Basically, wanting the illusion of being an active participant.

A student posits this works best in games and theater, and then another posits choose your own adventure stories, which Zachary had mentioned enjoying earlier in the book. And then vine girl makes a statement basically encapsulating the difference between Zachary and Kat: “text stories are preexisting narratives to fall into, games unfold as you go”.

And then Kat changed the conversation to “what makes a story compelling?” Of the answers provided (change, mystery, stakes, character growth, romance, obstacles, surprises) the one Zachary latches on to is “meaning”. His focus, after all, is finding meaning. In that very moment he is trying to find meaning for the book he is a part of.

And in answer to “who decides what meaning is?” He gets “the audience, that’s what you bring to it”. And they discuss how stories are personal, and everyone is already a part of one.

This causes a moment of self reflection- Zachary wonders “why he had spent so much time propelling stories forward” this in regards to playing video games- and wondering how to apply it to his current situation.

And then the conversation ends with a student asking if it isn’t just easier to write a book, given that a book can encapsulate endless possibilities, which is answered by “the words on the page are never easy” and “until you run out of ink”.

I get a lot from this. The interplay between valuing agency versus just wanting to be a part of something. Kat outside of the conversation driving it while Zachary is inside, a part of it. Zachary saying part of the reason to participate in a story based game is that it can lead you down paths with different endings- and Zachary in real life feeling basically purposeless until he starts following a story where there only seems to be one ending for him- the only choice he makes being to follow or to not follow the trail of the story, and continuing on after that. Zachary being the “text story” and Kat being the video game story.

What makes a story compelling? Meaning. But what defines meaning? You do. So you are the one making the story compelling to yourself, by engaging with it. By engaging with the story you are participating, you are adding meaning.

And setting up from the beginning the end of the story as the win condition. Why play story based games? You want to win the story. Can you win a story? Is winning really completion, or is it meaning, participation?

I also keep coming back to the participation of cat glasses girl who is the one to give Zachary information about his book. Obviously there is the overarching cat themes in this book but also looking at what she says- she is the one who says “you want the narrative there to trust in (and,…) your own free will”. And “the words on the page are never easy”. Often I have thought she is another vessel or agent of Fate, after all that is one of the purposes of the cats in the story. But also “the words on the page are never easy”. This, about writing, and about reading. Yes, writing is hard. It is difficult to trap your imaginings with words and leave them for others to experience. And yes, reading the words is also not easy- if only for the emotions they inspire, the meaning you ascribe to them.

The multiple levels to this conversation, and the fact that it is one of the only conversations that happen outside the Story Proper in the Starless Sea, give it a particular importance to me. I like how so many of the major themes are set up so early and so blatantly. It’s almost didactic- willing you to think about what you are about to read next.

Anyway I would appreciate any other thoughts on the matter

[isacksteban]

"everyone likes him" but before he joined f1 i couldnt even bring him up without someone having something negative to say about his race.

[riddlesnap]

Headcanon about Eddie?

You mentioned that he can sleep with his eyes open--- he also has the vibes of a sleep talker. like the kindof person who, when they're very worked up, will sit up midsleep and have a non-sense conversation where someone else is CONVINCED they're awake. but he's very much asleep.

++bonus "our muses" headcanon: artemis will absolutely sit there, talk to him for a minute;; realize he's sleeping talking then just push his ass back down into actually sleeping.

On anon or not, tell me what YOUR headcanons for my muse are.

WRAP IT UP, GUYS. There is going to be no better headcanon than this and the fact it's so fucking unhinged makes me love it even more??? Eddie would absolutely BE that person, dreaming about some argument or conversation he's having and sitting up to carry it out which, combined with the fact he can sleep with his eyes open, is more than a little creepy for whoever's witnessing it because even in sleep he's still articulate enough to seem like he's awake but oh no, no he's not. Love that little extra you included with Artemis talking with him for a hot minute or so before she realizes he's sleep-talking makes it even better. Best thing to do, push his ass down and make him go back to sleep because guarantee he won't remember any of this the next day.

[lesbiangiratina]

Testament’s conversion is so funny why the hell did the pwab put gear cells in a corpse. Like to what end. Why would you do that

[dallasevans-gardner]

[PM] Sorry you got involved in this mess too. -Kat

PM: Why are you apologizing, Kit-Kat? I'm not doing anything I didn't willingly agree to. Robin gave me the choice to participate or not. I figured if you're going to do it and support your students then I'd do it and support you. ...Plus, that just means Robin is going to have to deal with two desperate and needy subs come November 1st.

@kat-sullivan