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Heathers AU 80’s Pop Culture Interests

Veronica: Loves classical literature, John Hughs movies, and Disney movies. Enjoys an occasional fantasy film like The Princess Bride, Willow and Legend (the Tom Cruise movie where Tim Curry plays the devil btw). can usually be found B Dalton Booksellers at the Sherwood Mall pouring through its collection on the weekend. Developed an interest in Transformers from her friendship with Dan.

Martha: Particularly enjoys cute things. A huge movie fan and a bit of film snob, she loves Princess Bride above all else. Likes Jim Henson projects, Disney, My Little Pony, She-Ra, Peanuts, ALF, Garfield, Heathcliff, and sitcoms like Punky Brewster, Saved By The Bell and Mama’s Family.

Dan: Wears his interests proudly. Transformers, ALF and Disney Ducks, specifically DuckTales, are his top interests. Likes sci-fi and fantasy movies like The Last Starfighter, Wizards, Dragonslayer, The Dark Crystal, The Flight of Dragons, They Live, Enemy Mine, and The Transformers: The Movie. Famously he was the only one in his friend group back in Hawkins, NOT traumatized by the death of Optimus Prime. Can usually be found at Waldenbooks, KB Toys, Hills and Ames looking for books and Transformers. Likes sitcoms like Family Matters, Doogie Howser and Growing Pains.

JD: Likes chaos and dinosaurs, especially when the two go together. Dabbles in classic literature, and likes Dr. Jeckle & Mr. Hyde in particular. His favorite non Slushee thing is the trading card series Dinosaurs Attack!. Likes The Transformers, with his favorite teams being the Dinobots and Terrorcons. He also likes Soundwave’s two dinosaur cassettes Overkill and Slugfest. Enjoys westerns, schlocky monster/Kaiju movies, RoboCop, the Mad Max series, Escape From New York, The Terminator, Hellraiser, Critters, The Dark Crystal (mostly because of how gnarly the Skeksis look), The Secret of NIHM, Rock & Rule, and shooting games like Operation Wolf and Duck Hunt. Also enjoys crime shows like Wiseguy and Hunter.

Red Heather: Enjoys romance and mystery movies like Cocktail, Dirty Dancing, Body Double, The Bedroom Window and Vision Quest. Looks down on those who still watch cartoons at their age like Dan and Specs, despite she herself liking a good Bugs Bunny cartoon once and awhile. Enjoys teen gossip magazines like Teen Beat, ‘Teen, and Super Teen, but doesn’t read much otherwise.

Green Heather: A closet Muppets, Indiana Jones and Star Wars fan. Particularly likes the Ewok spin off movies, but desperately tries to hide this from the other Heathers. Absolutely hates romance movies like Can’t Buy Me Love, and chafes when Red Heather forces her to watch them for movie night. Has a thing for musicals like The Phantom of the Opera, Starlight Express and Cats.

Gold Heather: Despite her sweet demeanor and appearance, she LOVES horror and slasher movies like Hellraiser, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Child’s Play, Army of Darkness, Creepers, and Fright Night. The bloodier and more chaotic, the better. Red and Green are too disturbed to really judge or comment and just let Gold enjoy herself. She also dabbles in anime because of Specs, owning a Doraemon keychain he gifted her clipped to her purse. When asked by others, she denies knowing what it is and just found it cute in a crude attempt to protect her reputation.

Specs: HUGE Star Wars fan. Had he survived, he would also be a fan of the Prequels and Sequels, mostly happy there’s more movies to enjoy and analyze, despite agreeing the sequels aren’t that great. Big anime fan, enjoying stuff like Space Adventure Cobra, Demon City Shinjuku, Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX, Doraemon, Saint Seiya, Space Warrior Baldos, Robot Carnival, Giant Gorg, Ronin Warriors and Sherlock Hound, but particularly loves Tatsunoko Productions like the various Time Bokan series and Tekkaman.

Kurt: Enjoys stuff like Conan the Barbarian, TMNT, He-Man, Thundercats, Thundarr the Barbarian, Blackstar and Bravestarr, but hides it initially. He-Man is his jam, and is both his “gay awakening” and the reason he started working out and getting into sports. Once admitted to Dan that Prince Adam/He-Man is his idol and who he strived to be, but failed and instead became an Evil Warrior like Two-Bad (in conjunction with Ram). Likes to collect He-Man toys but is often in a disguise when going to places like KB Toys to find them. Similarly likes collecting He-Man and TMNT comics but tries to hide them In between workout and swimsuit magazines. Also reads the gay model magazine Stud Puppy, but isn’t as good at hiding it… Actually got to model for Stud Puppy in his early twenties as part of a personal milestone.

Ram: A big TMNT fan, especially the movies and video games, but initially hides it. Is actually a pretty big gamer when he’s not playing football, and frequents the arcades to play the games albeit in disguise. An expert BurgerTime, Pole Position, Contra, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, and Donkey Kong player, and is very fond of Mario and The Legend of Zelda. Isn’t particularly great at sports games like ExciteBike and Track & Field ironically. A casual fan of Star Wars, and unsurprisingly his favorite part of Return of the Jedi is the slave Leia stuff. Enjoys testosterone charged movies like Top Gun, The Running Man, Commando, Bloodsport, Big Trouble in Little China and The Warriors.

Betty: Similar tastes to Veronica and Martha. Seems particularly into Care Bears, ironic given her cruelty later on. Likes sitcoms like Family Ties, The Golden Girls and Nightcourt.

Jamie: Shares Dan, Kurt, Ram and Spec’s interests. Big Dungeons & Dragons kid and loves the cartoon. Big movie guy like Martha. Enjoys stuff like V, Quantum Leap, TerraHawks, Poltergeist, Batteries Not Included and Flight of the Navigator.

Thrash: Shares Ram’s interest in testosterone based movies. Big Arnold Schwarzenegger and Slyvester Stallone fan.

Throttle: Like Veronica, he is a bit of a bibliophile, and enjoys classic literature. Likes Steven King and the Dune series in particular.

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angstyaches · 2 years

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62, 65, and 75 from the Are you okay response list for Kazu?

"Are You Okay?" Prompt List by the wonderful Maddie

62. "Jury's still out." / 65. "I'll let you know when I figure it out." / 75. *exasperated* "Yes, quit asking me that!" Note: English isn't Kazu's first language, so I got a little creative with how these were used!

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Also, while I'm not taking part in the month-long challenge, I'm posting this to coincide with Novemetober (@monthofsick) Day 9: "The first time <Bastian> has seen <Kazuhito> sick."

It also just so happens to be the first time that Kazu and Bastian meet - this is set just before Mitsuko and Bastian start dating.

CW: language barrier, food, alcohol, drunkenness, existential dread, insecurity, anxiety about the future, undefined awkward relationship stuff, burping, emeto, stranger/new acquaintance as caretaker.

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Kazu sulked as he followed his sister down the path towards the beach. The sky was lavender-blue, the sunlight was golden, and the smell of charcoal and meat and corn already had his mouth watering.

He’d spent enough time complaining about how tired he was on the walk from the train station to the beach. Mitsuko had snapped and told him that he was welcome to just go home.

He'd promptly said sorry and shut up. She was the birthday girl, after all, and who wanted to listen to a whiny little brother on their birthday?

His stomach was growling and thanking him for it now, as he started to imagine what barbequed delights awaited him down at the gazebo.

He'd always wanted to have a barbeque by the beach, but renting the gazebos and grills was expensive, and besides, none of his friends were good enough at cooking to justify it.

Apparently, Mitsuko had a new friend who was a professional chef, and she seemed particularly anxious for Kazu to meet him. Kazu wasn't usually keen on new people, but he reckoned he could endure a few pleasantries in the name of free beer and some expertly-grilled beef tongue.

Plus, he'd never admit it out loud, but Kazu was lonely. Being the only one of his friends who didn't have a job or had gotten into university, he wasn't getting a lot of invitations these days.

Mitsuko's friends were spilling out of the very last gazebo on the beachfront, along with some moderately loud heavy rock music. Theirs was the only gazebo that didn't already have barbeque smoke curling out from inside of it. Kazu felt a pang of anxiety in his gut; he’d met most of those people before, but he always felt like he stuck out like a sore thumb amongst these grungy, punky, tattooed headbangers.

Mitsuko seemed nervous as they both ducked into the gazebo. She turned to look at Kazu with a pleading look in her eyes that Kazu didn't really know what to do with.

The preparation area was littered with packets of raw meat, corn, salads, and stacks of beer and chuhai. It was manned by a single figure, decked out in palm-tree patterned swimming trunks and a t-shirt, plus an apron. If Kazu had been asked to describe the polar opposite of any of Mitsuko’s friends, this guy would have been it.

For starters, he was foreign, and his skin glowed as though he didn’t spend all day stuck in front of a computer screen. He had a thick, wiry beard that made it hard to tell where his facial hair ended and his actual hair began. He was tall and wide, and probably had to duck through every Japanese door that had been built before the 2000s.

His eyes lit up as he glanced in their direction, and he put down the metal tongs and wiped his hands down the front of his apron.

Mitch broke into a sickening smile that didn’t match her dark, gothic style at all.

"This is my little brother," she said, in English.

"Hi," the guy exclaimed over the music. "I’m Bastian. Your sister’s…”

Bastian looked to Mitsuko, as though waiting to be prompted before finishing his sentence. She – conveniently – had turned her head, as though she were looking for someone amongst the friends that were hanging out by the gazebo.

Kazu had to bite his tongue to keep himself from inserting a cheeky ‘boyfriend?’, knowing it’d only earn him a smack in the head from his sister.

There was too much yummy meat at stake for him to go making stupid jokes now.

She, on the other hand, seemed to have no intention of finishing Bastian’s sentence for him.

"... Your sister's friend," Bastian finally blurted out.

Mitch's face was practically glowing scarlet when she turned her attention back to the two men in her presence. She scowled, almost comically, as she waved her hand in Kazu's direction. “Go ahead. Introduce yourself. No Japanese.”

Kazu let his gaze linger on her, wondering if she was joking. Surely, this guy could speak a little Japanese, since he lived in Japan and supposedly worked here. “Honto…?”

“Yes.” She gestured for him to go ahead.

What a pain in the ass.

“Okay.” Kazuhito cleared his throat and pretended to adjust a tie that he wasn’t wearing. He smiled widely at Bastian and hoped he somewhat resembled the guy from that Joker movie. Judging by the mildly disturbed look that crossed Bastian’s face, he might have.

Ooh, maybe he'd do that silly stair dance later on, after a few beers.

“Hello!” Kazu clapped a hand to his own chest. “My name is Kurosawa Kazuhito. Please call me Kazu, or Kaz. I want to visit America someday. My favourite food is hamburger. Do you like big hamburgers?”

Mitch folded her arms across her arms and pressed her fingers around the bridge of her nose.

“I – do I like hamburgers?” Bastian repeated softly.

“Stop! Kaz," Mitch huffed. “America jin janai yo. Philippines shoushin!”

"Philippines? Oh, really?" Kazu widened his eyes in a mock-serious stare. He looked pointedly towards the meat that was waiting to be barbequed. His entire body was practically tingling in anticipation for this unique opportunity. "Are you a... cock?"

Bastian paled. "Am I a - a what?"

"It’s a joke! It’s a Japanese joke, it’s - aagghh." Mitch shook her head. Kazu had never realised how much she looked like Yumi when she was being strict. "Bastian, I’m sorry. My brother can speak English properly. He is being an idiot."

"No, it's okay," Bastian smiled stiffly. "He's... he's funny."

Kazu's heart leapt in his chest. Yes! He was out of practice, and he wasn't technically in school anymore, but his class clown status had not been revoked! He pressed his hands to his chest again, this time shutting his eyes in exaggerated bliss.

"Thank you," he sighed.

Mitsuko poked Kazu's arm. When he opened his eyes, she was giving him that pleading look again, yet something had softened in her eyes. "Eki ikimasu. Ii?"

Bastian seemed to understand what she meant. "Oh, we'll be fine. Go get your friends. I'm going to start cooking now, so... uh, maybe you can help me, Kaz?"

Mitsuko looked pained at the prospect. Kazu almost felt bad for winding her - and Bastian - up, but whether she was admitting it or not, she liked this boy, and that made her embarrassment all the more satisfying.

"I help my friend Bastian," Kazu said.

Mitsuko looked up at Bastian - gods, she looked small next to him - and then slinked away through the crowd of her friends once again.

"So," Bastian grimaced. He reached out with the tongs to pull some strips of meat from a Styrofoam packet. "Mitsuko told me that you just finished school this year. That's exciting. Any idea what you want to do now?"

"No. I don’t know," Kazuhito murmured quickly. He leaned his hip against a plastic table, watching how carefully Bastian laid the first piece of rib meat across the grill. He swallowed to stop himself from drooling. "Maybe... work at a conbini."

"Hey, that’s cool. You'd have to do those greetings all day, though."

"Yes." Kazu licked his lips as the meat began to crackle. He glanced across the gazebo, scanning faces until he was sure the coast was clear and his sister had left again.

"So, uh..." Bastian spoke over the sounds of the sizzling meat. "Would you rather work at a Family Mart, or a Seven-Eleven, or...?"

“Are you Mitsuko’s boyfriend?”

A broad smile broke out throughout the thickness of Bastian's beard. He raised his eyebrows, too, although he didn't take his eyes off the meat. “Uh, that’s a good question, Kaz. I’d certainly like to be your sister's boyfriend. But…"

Kazu grimaced at the tone Bastian was using. He'd been hoping to fluster the guy, not draw out this weird air of insecurity.

"Well, the jury’s out on that one.”

“Eh?” Kazu blinked. “What means… ‘the jewel is out’?”

“Oh. The jury’s out?” Bastian blinked and swept a strand of hair back from his forehead. “Uh… it means that that information is… unknown. The jury is the group of people in a courtroom that decides the, um, the verdict."

Kazu blinked again, which prompted Bastian to sigh and reach for his smart phone. He handed Kazu the tongs and shifted aside.

"Don't let the meat burn."

Kazu rolled his eyes slightly, but he did as he was told. The meat needed protecting. He poked a few strips of beef, checked that the undersides weren't browning too quickly. He felt his stomach growl at the smell.

It... it would probably have been bad etiquette to pick up a piece with the tongs and place it directly into his own mouth.

A few moments later, thanks to a translation app on his phone, Bastian showed Kazu what he meant by "jury" and "courtroom".

"The jury's... out. Narahodo..." Kazu handed the tongs back to Bastian. He was still very confused about what juries and courtrooms had to do with Mitsuko, or whether or not this man was dating her.

"We use the phrase when some information is unknown," Bastian said slowly. "It means I might know soon, but... maybe not."

Kazu blinked again. "I don't know?"

“Yeah! I guess it's a fancier way of saying ‘I don’t know’. Or, ‘I don’t know yet’. Can you pass me a plate?”

Kazu grabbed a plate from the prep area, letting out a low groan as he handed it over. "English is taihen.” A pain in the ass.

Bastian met Kazuhito's gaze and frowned as he took the plate. He looked lost, maybe even a bit hurt, or guilty, like he’d just accidentally stepped on a dog’s tail.

“I'm sorry, Kaz."

Kazu fought not to grimace. Why did this man keep switching between emotions so quickly? That in itself was even more jarring than his unusual phrases. Kazu was starting to regret staying by the grill with him, instead of heading out to mingle with Mitsuko’s other friends.

"Is my English very difficult to understand?"

“No, no. Learn – to learn is... important,” Kazu said slowly.

"Hmm. I suppose so."

Kazu scratched behind his ear, though he didn't feel particularly itchy. He leaned his hip against the side of the table, not quite sure what to do with himself. He hated this. How was he supposed to haze this guy when he clearly had enough hang-ups all by himself?

Kazu knew that a good comedian should never punch down, and the same applied to winding people up.

He couldn't play off of Bastian's energy at all. He had an air of calm that made Kazu uneasy. It was as though the chaos of the household they’d been raised in had led to Mitsuko hunting down and securing the world’s most subdued male specimen.

Said specimen cleared his throat once the first round of meat was plated. “Shall we drink some beer, Kaz?”

Aha. Now there was some common ground.

"Yes," Kazu agreed, rubbing his palms together.

Bastian leaned down to open up a cooler that had been positioned beneath one of the plastic tables. Mitsuko's friends were already beginning to descend on the serving plate, so Kazu quickly grabbed a paper plate and snatched up a couple of pieces. He hissed as the meat almost burned his bare fingers.

"Uh, do you like Asahi, or Kirin?" Bastian asked from the floor.

"Either. Either." Kazu reached out impatiently with his hand.

Bastian scoffed and pressed a cold can into Kazu's palm.

"Shall we say cheers or kanpai?" Bastian wondered as he straightened up and cracked his drink open.

"Cheers," Kazu replied. "I practice my English."

Bastian smiled and waited patiently for Kazu to set his plate down so that he could open his can. “Cheers, Kaz.”

“Cheers.” Kazu clunked the side of his can against Bastian’s and threw back a little swig.

He picked up a piece of meat from his plate and stuffed it in his mouth. His tongue was immediately flooded with juice and flavour, and his knees almost went weak. He chewed eagerly and chased it with another mouthful of beer.

"Now, let’s see," Bastian murmured before setting his can down. He cast his eyes across the assortment of raw meat and veggies that awaited the grill and tongs. "What do you say, we put the hot dogs on next?"

"Yes," Kazu agreed through a mouthful of beef. His eyes fell upon a packet of skewered chicken interspersed with chunks of leek. “Oh, and can we also cook some yakitori? That sounds good.”

“Yeah, you got it. Hand it to me, will you?”

“Sure.”

Kazu turned to Bastian with the packet of skewered chicken. He flinched when he heard a low-pitched chuckle and realised Bastian was grinning right at him.

“What?” Kazu demanded.

“Nothing, just – your English is getting better already.”

The truth was that beer made Kazu a better English speaker. It lowered his inhibitions, so that he was less afraid of making a grammar mistake or mixing up his vocab. However, it also made it harder for him to concentrate on his surroundings and... remember things.

He didn't remember Mitsuko coming back with the last group of her friends, but he remembered shoving a lot of food in his face.

He didn't remember drifting away from Bastian and the barbeque area, but he remembered trying to dance with a few of Mitsuko's friends who were blaring their music across the sand.

He didn't remember seeing the sun go down across the sea, but he remembered that he'd had to sit down after just a few minutes of head-banging.

Unfortunately, he remembered trying to chat up one of Mitsuko’s friends who was a fashion student. She had spun around to show him how twirly her self-made dress was, but the motion immediately made Kazu’s over-full stomach flip. He was fairly certain he’d burped right in the girl’s face and that she’d said something unflattering to him before she walked off.

He was now sitting in the sand, just far away enough from the party that he could rub his stomach and coax up a few belches without drawing anyone’s attention. Gods, his head was spinning. Gods, the sand felt wonderful beneath him. Gods, sitting down was just wonderful.

Whoever had invented sitting down had been on to something, he reckoned. Screw convenience store work - Kazu needed to start looking into jobs where he could sit down all day. The thought made him break into a dreamy, drunken smile as he threw back the remaining beer in his can.

Oh... Right. Didn't most of those office jobs require you to have done well at school?

He lowered his empty can. His smile turned to something more wistful. All he could do was transform into a skinny little fox, and annoy people just by talking to them. Neither of those were life skills applicable to any workplace.

Tears began to well up in his eyes as he stared at the sand in the dark. Who was he kidding? He'd be a terrible convenience store worker! He'd never been known to make anyone's day more convenient by being there, so why should they hire him for specifically that?!

His sister had introduced him to a potential boyfriend for the first time ever, and his only instinct had been to crack jokes and make a drunken idiot of himself.

A different group of girls walked past on their way back from the restrooms. Kazu wasn’t particularly into their dark aesthetic, but girls in general were just so painfully cute... He tried to keep a smile on his face, in case one of them decided to cast him a glance, but he might as well have been a shriveled, dead jellyfish in the sand, abandoned by the ebbing tide.

He shivered. Great; now he needed to pee. It wasn't too far of a walk to the public restrooms, and maybe the walk would sober him up and he wouldn't feel so sad by the time he got back.

He pushed himself to his feet, wondering when and where he'd taken his shoes off.

The walk to the bathroom was a blur. He came to again while he was washing his hands and caught glimpse of his reflection in the mirror. He was flushed red from his chin to his hairline, which was to be expected after... however many drinks he'd had.

A peach-flavoured hiccup told him he'd also gotten into a few chu-hai, not just beer. Those sugary concoctions were delicious, but neve failed to give him reflux.

He stumbled and bumped his shoulder against the cold tile wall on his way to the exit.

“Kuso,” he grumbled. He let his gaze drift up to the ceiling of the restroom structure and shuddered as he noticed how many spiders had made their webs up there. He hurried back out onto the beach.

He loped along the sand and made it about halfway back to Mitsuko’s party before the pressure in his stomach slowed him down. His legs felt a bit wobbly, too, like they were pulling him to the left. He decided to give into their instincts and flopped down, first with his knees in the sand, and then with his back. There was too much light pollution for the stars to be visible, but the entire universe seemed to be shuddering along in a circular motion above his head.

"Uh... Is that you, Kaz?"

Kazu tilted his head back into the sand and reached his hands up over his head. Bastian came into view from above, looking down at him like a bearded, upside-down giant in swimming shorts.

"Bastian," he cooed. The sight of that concerned face was oddly warming. "My friend!"

"Huh. Are you okay?"

Kazu opened his mouth, paused, and let out a deep burp. Acid bubbled up in his throat, but gravity kept it from getting too high. "The... urmph, the jewellery's out!"

"What?"

Kazu's arms dropped down heavily onto the sand.

"Oh, wait. Did you say ‘the jury's out’?" Bastian exclaimed.

Kazu groaned in the affirmative, slowly dragging his hands over his face. "When I know... I will tell you."

"I see. Well, for now, let's get you back to civilisation. You need some water."

Kazu lifted his arms instinctively as Bastian stood in front of him, and the older man hoisted him to his feet like he weighed nothing. Damn. Maybe Kazu needed to start going to a gym.

“Whoa.” Bastian put out a hand and grabbed Kazu’s arm, which was like a twig in comparison to his own. Kazu wasn’t quite sure why he was being grabbed, until he realised his feet were crossed at the ankles and he’d been about to faceplant right back down into the sand.

“Are you okay?”

“Yes. Yamette kudasai. Stop – stop saying –” Kazu slurred, before he doubled over and vomited.

A mouthful of pure foam spewed over his lower lip. As soon as the first wave was over, it was as though something in his oesophagus had been knocked over, leaving his stomach contents free to spill right out of him without the need for any excessive heaving.

“Oh! Okay...” Bastian backed up a little bit.

The vomit puddle spread across the surface of the sand, trickling in the dark. Kazu braced his hands on his kneecaps and tried to retch as far in the opposite direction of his bare feet as possible. His belly rumbled with gas and acidic contents that all came spewing out of him like he was a soda machine.

He was shocked when he realised Bastian had a hand on his back now, and was rubbing in slow circles. He was saying something, too, but Kazu was altogether too preoccupied with not falling face-first into his own vomit to focus his English listening skills.

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Mitsuko had been wondering where Bastian had disappeared to for the past ten minutes, but only now, as she circulated the party once again, did she realise her brother was nowhere to be found either.

She wrapped her arms around herself and sighed, forcing a smile for a couple of friends who tried to wave her over for a dance. As grateful as she was that everyone had come out to wish her a happy birthday, she was exhausted and pretty much ready to go home at this point. Maybe twenty-eight was the age where partying stopped being fun. Maybe twenty-eight was the age when she'd start realising that Yumi had been right about a lot of things all along.

The thought made her skin crawl.

Across the sand, there were two figures approaching, one a lot taller than the other. The shorter one seemed to be dragging their feet, and the moonlight caught in the white streak that ran through their dark hair.

Kazuhito, Mitsuko thought with a groan.

Bastian raised one arm and waved, and Mitsuko hurried across the sand to meet them.

“What happened?” she demanded.

“Mi-chan.” Kazu lifted his head and smirked at the sound of her voice. “Happy birthday-ay!”

“Kaz...” She placed her hands on both of her brother’s shoulders. “Daijoubu?"

"Yamette," he whined, shaking himself loose from both Mitsuko’s and Bastian’s support. Gods, he could be such a brat when people were only trying to help him. "Jewellery is out, I don't know, okay?"

Mitch blinked at this outburst of gibberish.

"He means 'the jury's out'," Bastian muttered, scratching the back of his neck. "Taught him that earlier."

Mitsuko’s heart fluttered. "You taught him some English?"

Kazu hiccupped and put a hand on his stomach. “Sorry,” he mumbled in nobody’s direction in particular. “M-my English sacks.”

“Sucks,” Mitsuko corrected him, sliding a hand under her brother’s arm and taking some of his weight. She let out a groan when she looked at the front of Bastian’s outfit, which was streaked with pale, lumpy liquid. “Oh, my god, Bastian. Is that –?”

“Yes,” Bastian said stiffly. He eyed the back of Kazu’s head. “Don’t worry about it.”

“Don’t worry,” he slurred, mindlessly repeating Bastian’s words even though he clearly had no idea what was going on, or that he’d just thrown up all over Bastian while he’d been supposed to be making a good impression.

Guilt pooled in Mitsuko’s chest as her brother hiccupped and let himself lean into her. She supposed she hadn’t explicitly told him to be on his best behaviour, and had rather just... hoped he would know. And that wasn’t reasonable or fair. In her teenage years, Mitsuko had screamed at Yumi on more than one occasion because the eldest sister expected her younger siblings to somehow read her mind and do exactly as she wanted them to, without properly communicating.

And Mitch was determined to never, ever be like that.

“Get him home.” Bastian’s voice was soft and smooth. Like chocolate with a caramel centre. “I can clean up here.”

The offer took her so much by surprise that she almost teared up. Her first instinct was to protest, since the party wasn’t his responsibility, but with every second that passed, Kazu was inching closer and closer to passing out in her arms.

She met Bastian’s gaze and nodded, hoping the fuzzy warmth in her gut was somehow visible in her eyes, since she had no idea how to vocalise it.

“Let's go, ototo,” she said softly, directing Kazu towards the road and starting to walk. “Kaeru.”

“No, no, no. No kaeru,” Kazu mumbled. His eyelids were drooping. “I don’t want to... going home.”

His meagre protests were ignored.

“There’s a busy hotel just up the street,” Bastian said. “You might be able to get a taxi from there.”

“A taxi?” Mitsuko frowned and eyed her brother’s unsteady posture. “He might vomit again.”

Bastian shrugged slowly. “It'll be worse if he throws up on the train, right? At least you can ask a taxi driver to pull over.”

Mitsuko ground her teeth. He was right. Frustratingly right. Plus, Kazu’s new place was only about ten minutes away by car, and she supposed she could crash there with him for the night. Gods only knew what state he was going to be when he woke up the next day.

“Kutsu,” Kazu mumbled around an airy belch. He glanced down and watched as his own toes wriggled in the sand. Mitsuko and Bastian both looked, too. “My shoe.”

Ah. Mitsuko sighed. She didn’t even bother asking him if he knew where his shoes had ended up, or correcting his failure to pluralise the noun. Drunk or not, her brother had always been an expert at misplacing things.

“Here. You can borrow my flip-flops.”

Mitsuko’s heart almost stopped in her chest. For some reason, the image of Bastian kicking off his sandals and placing them neatly in front of Kazu’s feet was more embarrassing than realising Kazu had vomited on Bastian. Her cheeks burned, and her gut felt tight, and she was overcome with the urge to yell at him for being so selfless and silly.

This made no sense. Why did she feel like she was somehow more responsible for Bastian’s behaviour than her own brother’s?

“Bastian, no –”

“Don’t worry.” He flashed her a toothy smile as he straightened back up. He rested a hand on Kazu’s shoulder to help the kid stay balanced. “I have some sneakers with my things in the tent.”

“I see,” she said. The warmth in her face didn’t subside, though.

Kazu was slipping his feet into the flip-flops, clinging to Mitsuko’s and Bastian’s shoulders for support. He chuckled brightly and looked up at Bastian.

“Yasashi! So kind! You’re so kind,” he whimpered. He looked at Mitsuko, his eyes unfocused and glassy. “Mi-chan, he’s so kind.”

“Yes,” she said.

“He should... be...” Kazu – thankfully – raised a fist to his mouth as he let out a belch. “Mi-chan no kareshi.”

Mitsuko’s insides shriveled up. She pinched her brother’s shoulder as she directed him towards the street, hoping that it hurt just a little bit.

“Aruite,” she snarled, eager to get out of there as fast as possible. Walk.

Luckily, Bastian’s Japanese was poor enough that he probably didn’t know that Kazu had just stated that he should be Mitsuko’s boyfriend.

She cast a glance over her shoulder, to where Bastian was still standing, barefoot.

“Goodnight,” she called.

He raised his hand and gave her a little wave. Since she was already a few feet away, the music from the party and the gushing of the waves seemed to muffle his voice just a little, but she was fairly sure he called back, “Oyasumi, Mi-chan.”

#StW Kazu #StW Mitsuko #StW Bastian #sickfic #emeto #emeto sickfic #vomit fic #alcohol mention #OC sickfic #OC emeto #emetophilia #novemetober #novemetober 2022

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Fearsome Five Next Gen AU

I’ve had an DWD AU rattling around in my head for a while where in the future a new Fearsome Five forms with the descendants of the original group. This is a run down of the characters so far (bare with me, some are more developed than others).

MegaByte (Tessa Sputtershock)

Parents: Megavolt and Lexi (biological)

Pronouns: She/They

Sexuality: Bi

Species: Rat/Opossum hybrid

Age: 15

Powers: Inherited Megavolt’s electrical powers, however instead of stealing light bulbs she uses them to hack and manipulate machinery. Also controls an army of electric-powered robotic rats she designed/created herself.

Weaknesses: Much like her father, water is the easiest way to take Tessa down. She is also quite inexperienced with her powers and tends to get over emotional.

Personality: Geeky, scatterbrained, awkward, tech savvy, sensitive, insecure, shy

Appearance: Physically Tessa is more rat-like similar to Megs but has grey fur/white hair like her mother. Quite tall and rather scrawny. Her villain outfit generally consists of a black tank top, yellow combat trousers, purple boots, gloves and goggles. Like Megavolt she wears a battery pack but hers is fashioned after a square battery. Her hair is rather choppy and often worn in a short ponytail.

Random facts:

-Megavolt’s powers were passed down to her, however they didn’t properly manifest until her early teens. She hasn’t quite gotten the hang of controlling them yet.

-She tends to spark randomly whenever experiencing strong emotions

-She’s easily spooked and rather skittish

-Has a sister-like relationship with Quackerjack’s daughter, Harleen.

-She speaks with a mix of British and American slang, often in the same sentence.

-Her main robo-rat companion is named Sebastian (shout out to anyone who gets the reference 😉)

-She has very poor eyesight and needs glasses.

-Has a personal grudge against Quiverwing Quack.

Harley Quack (Harleen Quackson)

Parents: Quackerjack (adopted)

Pronouns: She/Her

Sexuality: Lesbian

Species: Duck

Age: 17 (same age as Gosalyn in this timeline)

Powers: Has no physical powers, but is an exceedingly skilled gymnast. Also very experienced with an array of weapons. The absolute best at disguises. Very convincing actress.

Weaknesses: Her cockiness can lead her to making rash decisions. She also tends to run into situations without a plan.

Personality: Talkative, sassy, fearless, girly, outgoing, energetic

Appearance: Slightly shorter than Tessa. She has a rather muscular build due to being athletic. Her main outfit is similar to Harley Quinn’s gold dungaree outfit in Birds Of Prey, but in a more pastel colour palette. Has split-dyed pastel blue and pink hair.

Random facts:

-Quackerjack’s adopted her when she was seven.

-She’s a very skilled weapon/trap builder, having been taught by Quackerjack from a young age.

-Makes all her own costumes.

-STRONG. Seriously, she could carry the entire fearsome next gen if she wanted to.

-Has an unsettling obsession with horror stories.

-She can be a bit snobby, especially in regards to fashion.

-Good friends with Tessa since they’re a similar age and basically grew up together.

-Has a one-sided crush on QuiverWing Quack and often flirts with her during their encounters.

-She’s really good at pulling off different accents.

-Considers Megavolt her second dad, but refers to him as ‘Mega Mom’ just to wind him up.

Buster Flud

Parents: Bud Flud and an unnamed mother (biological)

Pronouns: He/Him

Sexuality: Unspecified

Species: Canine

Age: 20

Powers: He can con his way out of anything, a very smooth talker, street savvy, great strategist

Weaknesses: Physically he’s not a good fighter, usually choosing to stand back and observe from afar.

Personality: Controlling, persuasive, distrustful, rebellious, bossy.

Appearance: I don’t have a fixed design for him yet, but in contrast to pre-mutated Liquidator’s formal style Buster has a more punky, rock-influenced look.

Random facts:

-He has a very strained relationship with his parents, especially Liquidator.

-Budding musician. He’s been trying to put a band together since he was a teen but no one can put up with his control freak tendencies.

-He’s been conning people ever since he was a kid.

-Has been put in juvy more times than all the other next gen villains combined.

-His parents wanted him to go to business school.

-He comes up with a lot of the group’s plans.

-Absolute compulsive shopper. He can go to the mall without coming home with at least five new band T-shirts.

NegaGos (Goslynnda Mallard)

Parents: NegaDuck and NegaLaunchpad (adopted)

Pronouns: She/Her

Sexuality: AroAce

Species: Duck

Age: 17

Powers: NegaGos’s power lies in her deceptiveness, she looks sweet and innocent but can turn into a nasty psycho in an instant. Tiny but mighty, she can wield weapons with just as much confidence as Negaduck.

Weaknesses: Doesn’t like being called by her full name (only NegaGos is acceptable). She struggles with her morals.

Personality: Manipulative, vicious, deceptive, cold, teasing.

Appearance: Not too different from her cannon design, however obviously older. Her outfit is also full-on creepy pastel goth aesthetic. Think skull hair clips, striped tights, bows, etc.

Random Facts:

-Once Negaduck was gone, Gos went off the deep end. She wanted to do him proud, so became a vicious criminal despite her conflicting feelings.

-She has a soft spot for animals but keeps it a secret from the rest of the gang.

-She’s more diplomatic than Negaduck when it comes to the gang, but can be just as cruel if provoked.

-Wields a chainsaw similar to the one used by Juliet Starling in Lollipop Chainsaw (It was a custom made by Harleen).

-After everything that’s happened she’s come to despise the Negaverse and spends most of her time in the primeverse.

Vinez (Vincent ‘Vinnie’ Bushroot)

Parents: Bushroot (creator)

Pronouns: They/Them

Sexuality: Pan/Ace

Species: Mutant plant duck

Age: Physically only around 2-3 years old, mentally a teenager (being a plant he ages differently)

Powers: Like his creator he has the ability to control plant life, however he specialises more in poisonous plants.

Weaknesses: Weed killer, buzzsaws, fire, basically anything that can kill a plant.

Personality: Quiet, brooding, moody, solitary.

Appearance: Like Buster I don’t have an official design finalised for him yet, but I’m thinking a rather dark colour palette in contrast to Bushroot.

Random facts:

-Created by Bushroot by accident.

-Going through a constant emo phase.

-Very reserved and quiet, but has a sweet, caring personality.

-He uses a lot of dark and self-depreciative humor. The others are rightfully concerned about this.

-Not really that interested in being a criminal, he just does so to fit in with his peer group.

-Has a crush on Tessa (she is unaware).

-Has a nice singing voice.

-Bushroot is a bit of a over-protective helicopter parent, which gets on Vince’s nerves.

#darkwing duck #darkwing duck oc #fankid #the fearsome five

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#pringles polls

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einsteinsugly · 2 years

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Elizabeth "Betsy" Kelso, an 80s Kid. And a 90s teen…

In the 80s: Loves Arthur, Punky Brewster, Reading Rainbow, Duck Hunt, Mario, Pacman, Space Invaders, Nikes, The B-52s, The Talking Heads, Lite Brite, Legos, A Land Before Time, Back to the Future, and Star Wars. Loved New Kids on the Block, and Jordan Knight.

In the 90s: Loves Hootie and the Blowfish, Smash Mouth, The Real World, All That, Jurassic Park, Home Alone, Mrs. Doubtfire, ER, Friends, and Dawson's Creek. Loves hanging out at the mall with her friends Heather and Tony (and Noah, if he's in town). Loves reciting/singing "One Week" by the Barenaked Ladies with her dad, word for word.

Betsy and Kelso (loudly and proudly): How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad? Trying hard not to smile, though I feel bad. I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral. Can't understand what I mean? Well, you soon will. I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve. I have a history of taking off my shirt...

Brooke and Hannah groan.

#that 70s show #that 90s show #betsy kelso #kelso and brooke #michael kelso #brooke rockwell #my moodboards #she's quite a bit like her mother but she has kelso's taste

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My dreams were a mix of my classic anxiety themes and some new ones.

First I was trying to find my way back to my apartment through labyrinthine halls and stairs made up of many different buildings. At one point I was looking down into someone else's living room, which was open to the sky and visible from various halls and ledges around. The only way I could figure out how to get on the right track for my own apartment was to go through theirs. I climbed down to the top edge of their wall, but then I saw that the people were home, and they saw me too. They were like a 1950s straight white couple and they were very angry. I tried to retreat, but lost my footing and accidentally slipped down into their house. I managed to get out the door, with them yelling and screaming at me.

After many twists and turns I found familiar halls, and was near my own door when I saw my landlady. She told me I couldn't go in because there was a flood and the structure was unstable. All my stuff had been ruined, she said, and regardless, I couldn't go in to get anything. I shouldered past her and opened the door anyway. It was disastrous, everything wet and crumbling, but I was trying to figure out how to save what I could (at least some clothes) and think about where I could go. But the people from before showed up, still mad that I'd fallen into their house, and I had to run away with only a small backpack of my stuff.

My pursuers were relentless and I knew they wanted to hurt or kill me. I realized I had to change my appearance. I ducked into a barbershop and asked for a haircut. They started doing something with clippers but then stopped and switched to scissors. I couldn't see what they were doing till they were done and handed me a mirror. I looked like Lazlo Curious, with his green tinted glasses and purple shirt, and longish black hair. Which they had barely trimmed, except for a place on top where they'd buzzed it almost to the scalp, like an off-center tonsure. Sorry, the barber shrugged, that was an accident but the rest of it looks good, right?

So now I had pretty much the same hair, no good for disguising my appearance, and also a stupid looking bald spot.

And I could hear my pursuers getting closer, screaming.

I left the barbershop and kept running. The disguise idea still seemed smart. I turned down random alleys and streets to confuse them, then I saw a small door to a hair salon, and slipped inside unseen. It was dark inside, lit only in pink, blue and purple light, like the bisexual pride colors. I knew the stylists would be trustworthy and would fix my disaster hair and help me. Sure enough, they sat me down and performed a transformation. My hair was still black, but buzzed down all over except for a spiky quiff in front. They traded me a black tee for my conspicuous purple one and gave me a tote bag to hide my backpack. They did my makeup, including lush full eyelashes. I looked like a completely different person, like a punky queer pixie in big boots. I still didn't dare to go back home, and I didn't know where to go next, but at least I was safe from the people who wanted to hurt me.

#dreams #gate of ivory

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TV Guidance Counselor Episode 646: Ellie Hino

August 20 - 26, 1988

This week Ken welcomes comedian and she of the stand up album "Soft Bones", the great Ellie Hino.

Ken and Elli discuss Minneapolis, not knowing Canadian geography, growing up in Madison WI, Prince, Chris Farley, MTV, Target stores, corporate lingo, 21 Jump St, Fox TV's early days, Richard Grieco, Peter DeLouise, getting stoned and buying DVDs at Walmart, Johnny Depp, John Waters, Holly Robinson, amazing outfits, MORE Cigarettes, The Pleasure Principal, Benson and Hedges, the casual discussion of r*pe, refreshing discussions of race, the 20th Anniversary of MLK Jr's assassination, awful bathroom clocks, "Subtle bone", correspondence courses, "Do you want to make more money? sure, we all do", gun repair, Facts of Life, David Spade's dramatic turn, hour long dramedies on at 8pm on a Saturday, Frank's Place, Babe: Pig in the City, what Morton Downey Jr wrot, Wally George's Hot Seat, Teen actors, Rags to Riches, Baby Jessica, the end of Family Ties, The Misfits of Science, theme songs, The A-Team, Punky Brewster, The Young and the Restless, Michael Damien as Danny Romaladi, when actors sing, The Coreys, Dream a Little Dream, Newhart, gross scams, pageant kids, Hogan Family, Howard the Duck, grandmas and duck nipples, weird takes on Alice in Wonderland, I Dream of Jeanie: 15 Years Later, Telly Savalis as the Cheshire Cat, Back to School, Boston's strange compliments, sorting your hair out, Tan N Secrets, creepy fashion tan contests in Marlboro MA, Wade Bogs, Blacke's Magic, ghosts, Jenna Von Oy, 20/20, and hours of anxious pillow talk.

Check out this episode!

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taglist~

you’ll have to use the search function unfortunately :( i am no longer linking all my tags. if you’re on desktop, my theme should have a search bar!

dated by year

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dated by month

holidays/seasons

locations

alabama / alaska / arkansas / california / connecticut / idaho / illinois / indiana / iowa / kansas / kentucky / louisiana / maryland / missouri / new mexico / new york / north carolina / ohio / oregon / pennsylvania / tennessee / texas / utah / west virgina / wisconsin

animals

pets

art/mediums

artists

Ween

colors

food & drink

characters/licenses/media

interior

exterior/outside

miscellaneous tags

my tags

updated: 09/13/2024

#taglist #long post #my favorite tags are bolded #and will be hyperlinked when i get around to it

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Holidays 10.26

Holidays

Accession Day (Jammu and Kashmir, India)

African-American Cotton Pickers Day

American Bar Association Giving Day

Angam Day (a.k.a. Day of Fulfillment; Nauru)

Day of Mourning Day (Libya)

Day of the Deployed

Doonesbury Day

Goose Day (French Republic)

Horseless Carriage Day

Howl at the Moon Day

International Red Cross Day

Intersex Awareness Day

Kojagrat Purnima (Nepal)

Mule Day

National Day of the Deployed

National Financial Crime Fighter Day

National Gospel Day (Cook Islands)

National Livestock Guardian Dog Appreciation & Awareness Day

National Mule Day

National Noah Day

National Ranboo Day

National Tennessee Day

National Transgender Children Day

National Vivace Microneedling Day

Neutrality Day (Austria)

Peniamina Gospel Day (Niue)

Planet-Wide Moon Howl

Rugby Day

St. Elsewhere Day

Topin Wagglegammon

Workaholic Stop and Smell Something Day

World Amyloidosis Day

Worldwide Howl at the Moon Night

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chicken Fried Steak Day

Exaltation of the Shellfish (Spain)

International Mavrud Day (Bulgaria)

National Mincemeat Pie Day

National Pumpkin Day

Pretzel Day

Texas Chicken Fried Steak Day

4th & Last Thursday in October

Black Thursday [Thursday of Last Full Week]

International Carignan Day [Last Thursday]

Punkie Night (Somerset, England) [Last Thursday]

Independence Days

Austria (from Allies of WW2, 1955)

Feast Days

Albinus (Christian; Saint)

Alfred the Great (Catholic Church, Anglican Church, Eastern Orthodox Church)

Amandus of Strasbourg (Christian; Saint)

Beóán (a..k.a. Bean) of Mortlach (Christian; Saint)

Casper, Big Bird’s Brother (Muppetism)

Cedd (Christian; Saint)

Celine Borzecka (Christian; Blessed)

Cuthbert of Canterbury (Christian; Saint)

Day of the Ancients (Asatru/Pagan Slavic)

Demetrius of Thessaloniki (Christian; Saint)

Diwali, Day 3 (Hindu, Jain, Sikh), a.k.a. ...

Bhai Duj (Parts of India)

Bhau Beej (Parts of India)

Chitragupth Jayanti (Parts of India)

Dawat Puja (Parts of India)

Day of Cows

Deepavali Holiday (Manipur, India)

Deepawali (Sikkim, India)

Festival of Lights, Day 3

Gai Tihar

Laxmi Puja (Sikkim, India)

Ningol Chakkouba (Parts of India)

Tihar Festival (Nepal)

Yam Pancake (Nepal)

Eadfrith of Leominster (Christian; Saint)

Eata of Hexham (Christian; Saint)

Pope Evaristus (a.k.a. Aristus; Christian; Saint)

Fulk of Pavia (Roman Catholic Church)

Lilith’s Day (Pagan)

Ludi Victoriae Sullanae begins (Old Rome; until November 1)

Makoshe’s Day (Honoring Mother Earth; Asatru/Pagan)

Montesquieu (Positivist; Saint)

Onan Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Onomatopoeias Day (Pastafarian)

Philipp Nicolai, Johann Heermann and Paul Gerhardt (Lutheran Church)

Quadragesimus (Christian; Saint)

Quodvultdeus (Christian; Saint)

Rusticus of Narbonne (Christian; Saint)

Vasily Vereshchagin (Artology)

Witta (a.k.a. Albinus) of Büraburg (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Better Off Dead, 26th Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2021)

Cello Concerto in E Minor, by Edward Eldar (Concerto; 1919)

Cloud Atlas (Film; 2012)

Cured Duck (Disney Cartoon; 1945)

Dan in Real Life (Film; 2007)

Donnie Darko (Film; 2001)

Firework, by Katy Perry (Song; 2010)

The Great Santini (Film; 1979)

Head Hunters, by Herbie Hancock (Album; 1973)

Heartbreaker, by Pat Benatar (Song; 1979)

Interstellar (Film; 2014)

Life as a House (Film; 2001)

Mourning Becomes Electra, by Eugene O'Neill (Play; 1931)

Quadrophenia, by The Who (Album; 1973)

Rock Meets Rock or Thud and Blunder (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 313; 1964)

San Andreas (Film; 2015)

St. Elsewhere (TV Series; 1982)

Supergirl (TV Series; 2015)

The Terminator (Film; 1984)

Three Orphan Kittens (Disney Cartoon; 1935)

Under Pressure, by Queen & David Bowie (Song; 1981)

A Watery Grave or Drown Among the Sheltering Palms (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 314; 1964)

You’re the Top, recorded by Cole Porter (Song; 1934)

Your Song, by Elton John (Song; 1970)

Today’s Name Days

Albin, Amand, Wigand (Austria)

Dimitar, Dimitrina, Mitko (Bulgaria)

Amando, Demetrije, Dimitrije, Dmitar, Evarist, Lucijan, Mitar, Rogacijan, Zvonimir (Croatia)

Erik (Czech Republic)

Amandus (Denmark)

Aime, Aimi, Amanda, Ami, Manda (Estonia)

Amanda, Manta, Niina, Nina, Ninni (Finland)

Dimitri (France)

Albin, Amand, Anastacia, Josephine, Wieland (Germany)

Demetris, Dimitra, Dimitrios, Dimitris, Glykon, Leptinis (Greece)

Dömötör(Hungary)

Evaristo (Italy)

Amanda, Kaiva (Latvia)

Evaristas, Liaudginas, Mingintė (Lithuania)

Amanda, Amandus (Norway)

Dymitriusz, Ewaryst, Eweryst, Łucjan, Lucyna, Ludmiła, Lutosław (Poland)

Dimitrie (Romania)

Demeter (Slovakia)

Evaristo, Felicísimo, Luciano (Spain)

Amanda, Rasmus (Sweden)

Madden, Maddock, Maddox, Mahala, Mahalia, Makenna, Mckenna (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 299 of 2024; 66 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 43 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 24 of 28]

Chinese: Month 9 (Ten-Xu), Day 12 (Ding-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 11 Heshvan 5784

Islamic: 11 Rabi II 1445

J Cal: 29 Shù; Eightday [29 of 30]

Julian: 13 October 2023

Moon: 94%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 19 Descartes (11th Month) [Montesquieu]

Runic Half Month: Wyn (Joy) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 33 of 89)

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 3 of 29)

#Holidays

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brookston · 11 months

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Holidays 10.26

Holidays

Accession Day (Jammu and Kashmir, India)

African-American Cotton Pickers Day

American Bar Association Giving Day

Angam Day (a.k.a. Day of Fulfillment; Nauru)

Day of Mourning Day (Libya)

Day of the Deployed

Doonesbury Day

Goose Day (French Republic)

Horseless Carriage Day

Howl at the Moon Day

International Red Cross Day

Intersex Awareness Day

Kojagrat Purnima (Nepal)

Mule Day

National Day of the Deployed

National Financial Crime Fighter Day

National Gospel Day (Cook Islands)

National Livestock Guardian Dog Appreciation & Awareness Day

National Mule Day

National Noah Day

National Ranboo Day

National Tennessee Day

National Transgender Children Day

National Vivace Microneedling Day

Neutrality Day (Austria)

Peniamina Gospel Day (Niue)

Planet-Wide Moon Howl

Rugby Day

St. Elsewhere Day

Topin Wagglegammon

Workaholic Stop and Smell Something Day

World Amyloidosis Day

Worldwide Howl at the Moon Night

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chicken Fried Steak Day

Exaltation of the Shellfish (Spain)

International Mavrud Day (Bulgaria)

National Mincemeat Pie Day

National Pumpkin Day

Pretzel Day

Texas Chicken Fried Steak Day

4th & Last Thursday in October

Black Thursday [Thursday of Last Full Week]

International Carignan Day [Last Thursday]

Punkie Night (Somerset, England) [Last Thursday]

Independence Days

Austria (from Allies of WW2, 1955)

Feast Days

Albinus (Christian; Saint)

Alfred the Great (Catholic Church, Anglican Church, Eastern Orthodox Church)

Amandus of Strasbourg (Christian; Saint)

Beóán (a..k.a. Bean) of Mortlach (Christian; Saint)

Casper, Big Bird’s Brother (Muppetism)

Cedd (Christian; Saint)

Celine Borzecka (Christian; Blessed)

Cuthbert of Canterbury (Christian; Saint)

Day of the Ancients (Asatru/Pagan Slavic)

Demetrius of Thessaloniki (Christian; Saint)

Diwali, Day 3 (Hindu, Jain, Sikh), a.k.a. ...

Bhai Duj (Parts of India)

Bhau Beej (Parts of India)

Chitragupth Jayanti (Parts of India)

Dawat Puja (Parts of India)

Day of Cows

Deepavali Holiday (Manipur, India)

Deepawali (Sikkim, India)

Festival of Lights, Day 3

Gai Tihar

Laxmi Puja (Sikkim, India)

Ningol Chakkouba (Parts of India)

Tihar Festival (Nepal)

Yam Pancake (Nepal)

Eadfrith of Leominster (Christian; Saint)

Eata of Hexham (Christian; Saint)

Pope Evaristus (a.k.a. Aristus; Christian; Saint)

Fulk of Pavia (Roman Catholic Church)

Lilith’s Day (Pagan)

Ludi Victoriae Sullanae begins (Old Rome; until November 1)

Makoshe’s Day (Honoring Mother Earth; Asatru/Pagan)

Montesquieu (Positivist; Saint)

Onan Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Onomatopoeias Day (Pastafarian)

Philipp Nicolai, Johann Heermann and Paul Gerhardt (Lutheran Church)

Quadragesimus (Christian; Saint)

Quodvultdeus (Christian; Saint)

Rusticus of Narbonne (Christian; Saint)

Vasily Vereshchagin (Artology)

Witta (a.k.a. Albinus) of Büraburg (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Better Off Dead, 26th Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2021)

Cello Concerto in E Minor, by Edward Eldar (Concerto; 1919)

Cloud Atlas (Film; 2012)

Cured Duck (Disney Cartoon; 1945)

Dan in Real Life (Film; 2007)

Donnie Darko (Film; 2001)

Firework, by Katy Perry (Song; 2010)

The Great Santini (Film; 1979)

Head Hunters, by Herbie Hancock (Album; 1973)

Heartbreaker, by Pat Benatar (Song; 1979)

Interstellar (Film; 2014)

Life as a House (Film; 2001)

Mourning Becomes Electra, by Eugene O'Neill (Play; 1931)

Quadrophenia, by The Who (Album; 1973)

Rock Meets Rock or Thud and Blunder (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 313; 1964)

San Andreas (Film; 2015)

St. Elsewhere (TV Series; 1982)

Supergirl (TV Series; 2015)

The Terminator (Film; 1984)

Three Orphan Kittens (Disney Cartoon; 1935)

Under Pressure, by Queen & David Bowie (Song; 1981)

A Watery Grave or Drown Among the Sheltering Palms (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 314; 1964)

You’re the Top, recorded by Cole Porter (Song; 1934)

Your Song, by Elton John (Song; 1970)

Today’s Name Days

Albin, Amand, Wigand (Austria)

Dimitar, Dimitrina, Mitko (Bulgaria)

Amando, Demetrije, Dimitrije, Dmitar, Evarist, Lucijan, Mitar, Rogacijan, Zvonimir (Croatia)

Erik (Czech Republic)

Amandus (Denmark)

Aime, Aimi, Amanda, Ami, Manda (Estonia)

Amanda, Manta, Niina, Nina, Ninni (Finland)

Dimitri (France)

Albin, Amand, Anastacia, Josephine, Wieland (Germany)

Demetris, Dimitra, Dimitrios, Dimitris, Glykon, Leptinis (Greece)

Dömötör(Hungary)

Evaristo (Italy)

Amanda, Kaiva (Latvia)

Evaristas, Liaudginas, Mingintė (Lithuania)

Amanda, Amandus (Norway)

Dymitriusz, Ewaryst, Eweryst, Łucjan, Lucyna, Ludmiła, Lutosław (Poland)

Dimitrie (Romania)

Demeter (Slovakia)

Evaristo, Felicísimo, Luciano (Spain)

Amanda, Rasmus (Sweden)

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Day of Year: Day 299 of 2024; 66 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 43 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 24 of 28]

Chinese: Month 9 (Ten-Xu), Day 12 (Ding-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 11 Heshvan 5784

Islamic: 11 Rabi II 1445

J Cal: 29 Shù; Eightday [29 of 30]

Julian: 13 October 2023

Moon: 94%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 19 Descartes (11th Month) [Montesquieu]

Runic Half Month: Wyn (Joy) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 33 of 89)

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 3 of 29)

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