#Tetsuya Ishida

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Tetsuya Ishida (Japanese, 1973-2005), Weaning, 2002. Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 60.6 cm.

[miamaimania]

Lost in thought: a quiet rebellion 💭🔥

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tetsuya ishida

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Paintings by Tetsuya Ishida

https://www.tetsuyaishida.jp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuya_Ishida ABOUT From the Wikipedia Tetsuya Ishida (石田 徹也, Ishida Tetsuya, June 16, 1973 – May 23, 2005) was a contemporary Japanese painter known for his surrealist portrayal of late-20th and early-21st century Japanese city life.[1] His works typically depict hyperrealistic boys and men whose bodies are integrated into everyday…

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Rediscovered on the international stage over the last decade, Tetsuya Ishida's surrealist paintings and drawings

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"Cargo" - Tetsuya Ishida

Empilement.

[t1meslayer]

We're so back.

Please ignore the five Pokemon stories that I posted before "Neurocysticercosis" to celebrate leftover sales for PokéPocket. I probably won't be doing a Debrief for them since the collective is kind of its own thing.

But actually, don't ignore them. Go check out PokéPocket! Leftover sales run until July 31, 2024!!!

... That's not what I've gathered you all for today, though. No. If you haven't read my latest JJK fanfic, "Neurocysticercosis," what are you waiting for? Jump on that, and then jump into my little-a Read More below!

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I made this joke in the opening Notes. However, I do once again have to point out:

What can I say?

It's very funny to me.

I'm also a big fan of Jujutsu Kaisen (don't mind the fact I misspelled it "Jujitsu" in the original AO3 summary), there's just too many things occupying my brain at a given time to write about it often.

My first SatoSugu fic "Infinitesimal Distance" came together soon after I learned my good friend and beta reader (you know who you are) also rotates those boys around in their brain. I had just gone to a Kura (revolving sushi bar) JJK crossover event. I won myself a Megumi figure and a felt hat.

Though I can't recall the exact impetus for that story idea, I do love the way it turned out. There's fun bits of horror storytelling, some of the dialogue is pretty sharp, and I leaned on the knowledge of a friend who lived in Japan to set the stage around Tokyo's Shinagawa city. The story wound up being pretty popular on AO3 too, garnering over 460 Hits and exactly 38 Kudos (as of this writing).

More importantly, it was a big hit for the birthday coalition of spiders.

Furthermore, it was a big hit for my friend who lived in Japan ��� surprise, she's the other birthday haver! To this day she considers "My fingers glide over you like a redacted passage" to be the greatest piece of prose I've ever written. I don't disagree, but you should've been there the night she beta read the piece, interrupting every other event going on in our friend group's VC just to hype me up.

So naturally... I didn't write any more JJK for seven months. This doesn't mean further ideas weren't festering in the back of my mind.

My original idea for "Neurocysticercosis" was pretty simple: Geto and Gojo are in some kind of art exhibit, Geto gets existential about humanity, and then it's revealed they've been fucking around while Shoko gets her ass beat by the Cursed Spirit of the week.

Shoko's brief beat-to-shit cameo was planned from the beginning. Sorry about that, Shoko fans.

That being said, a lot of my original idea didn't pan out as expected.

Late into the story, Geto makes this comment:

"Ask the average human what they think a 'living wall' is, and they'll talk up woven ferns and grass climbing up the side of their high-class mart. Pedestrian. Laughable. Imaginations stretched so thin within their walnut-sized brains that they couldn't begin to fathom what you and I see every day. Real living walls of scar tissue and rotting tendons and bloodshot, oozing eyes."

I originally wanted Geto to be observing a Living Wall, akin to San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art (I visited the museum with birthday friend and one other member of our group a few years ago).

However, I couldn't necessarily plop Jujutsu High students in the middle of San Francisco without over-scoping my vision through explanatory storytelling. And I was having some trouble finding good examples of Living Wall installations in Japan.

Then my fate turned on a dime one legendary night this February, in which I attended a Lord of the Rings watch party for another birthday. At that party I met an excellent cosplayer who, naturally, also happens to love Jujutsu Kaisen. We shared "Infinitesimal Distance" live, and I told them about the idea I was gestating on for a future SatoSugu piece. The current gift fic recipient recommended using the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art as a setting that would make sense for Gojo and Geto to canonically visit.

The rest, as they say, was history.

Once we started approaching her birthday, I knew what I had to do. We haven't finished the 2014 series Black Sails (her current obsession) together, so Plan A was not viable. Plan B was a go.

Having decided to go with an entire art gallery, this meant I needed to pick actual art. Now... I enjoy an art. I appreciate a good drawing. Sometimes I create my own art, especially ceramics. However, I am not a well-versed scholar in art history. This is an especially big roadblock when I have to try and come up with an artist whom folks might see in Japan circa-2008 — around the time when Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto are in Jujutsu High, as I understand. Not to mention the fact I can't ask my friend since she's the one this fic will be a present for.

My solution?

I kind of just looked up lists of the most influential modern Japanese artists and scrolled a couple of listicles, digging deeper into a few people whose work stood out. Much of that Googling took place over the course of a big family dinner for Father's Day this year.

I sorted through a number of names, including — but not limited to:

Tsuguharu Foujita

Tetsuya Ishida

Tadanori Yokoo

Makoto Aida

Yasumasa Morimura

However, as you all have read this fic (you better have!), you'll know I focused on the work of Chiho Aoshima. The compositions and color in her pieces really struck me, and the surrealist, often beautifully monstrous subject matter felt like a perfect match for the JJK universe.

In particular, this story revolves around A Contented Skull (2003):

Originally I chose this piece as a striking work that would be fun to describe. However, as I began to describe it (during a car ride across the Washington countryside), patterns began to emerge. I realized very quickly that A Contented Skull slots perfectly into foreshadowing the ultimate fate of Suguru Geto.

That's right, it's no longer just an opportunity to have Geto wax poetic about his feelings on humanity, and to reflect all the fucked-up shit he and Gojo experience. We've also got themes in this bitch. Themes of fate and autonomy and death, not to mention parasitic brain worms.

The fic's title is even a reference to a parasitic brain worm. If you had no idea what "Neurocysticercosis" was before now, don't worry. I didn't either. It was 99% big, fancy word to sound interesting, and 1% thematic brain worms.

As far as elements of the writing craft are concerned...

It took a few stabs, but I like the way I formatted painting titles to look like actual minimalist gallery plaques.

Shoko's injured, dying words do a lot of fuckery with text formatting, which I pulled almost directly from the nightmare sequence in my Pokemon ScarVi fic "Paradiso." The Cursed Spirit they're fighting is also notable. I always planned on making a centipede-esque monster, but it wasn't until I actually started writing that I realized the main image in my head was the "Charge Beam Beast" from Metroid: Zero Mission.

Anybody remember this dude? I used to play the beginning of Zero Mission over and over, so he's seared into my brain.

I'm also a fan of the experimental formatting with regards to breaking up dialogue. I finished "Neurocysticercosis" during a long train ride, only one day after I finished reading John Scalzi's The Kaiju Preservation Society. It's a fun little read by an author whose work I tend to enjoy, though given it was his COVID "mindless fun" book, I do think it leans a bit too hard into sounding like a quippy Marvel film.

That being said, he does invoke a fun mid-sentence verb through em dashes that I think creates a great flow. Tried it out here, and will mostly likely use the idea again going forward!

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Now that I'm done with this piece, I don't know when my next JJK fic will come down the pipeline. There aren't a ton of concrete ideas in my head for the series. However, I do know it'll be time to return to some of my bigger projects...

I'm been dying to write more "Fallout" sooner rather than later.

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1292

first posted in facebook march 25, 2024

tetsuya ishida -- "a man can't fly anymore" (1996)

"the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it" … peter pan

"at first, it was a self-portrait. i tried to make myself—my weak self, my pitiful self, my anxious self—into a joke or something funny that could be laughed at. it was sometimes seen as a parody or satire referring to contemporary people. as i continued to think about this, i expanded it to include consumers, city-dwellers, workers, and the japanese people" … tetsuya ishida

"… it is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little" … franz kafka

"the moment we doubt that we can swim, we sink like a stone to the bottom" … al janik

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Thankful to go gallery hopping in Chelsea today ~

Jeremiah Project Fabulosity

Sam Gilliam at Pace

Julian Schnabel at Pace

Tetsuya Ishida at Gagosian

Roy Lichtenstein at Gagosian (Cover)

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[wagakko]

More Kurosute Memorial talk!

The first page is a roundtable interview with the Seirin five: Makita Tetsuya (Hyuuga), Ishida Shun (UB Izuki), Kawai Ryunosuke (Kiyoshi), Konno Takuro (UB Koganei), and Tano Asami (Riko). The second page is with Tsuchida's actor Kajimoto Daiki, who wasn't able to join the last stage play.

The scan isn't the best because the booklet was so thick, the spine wouldn't open flat on the scanner! But if anyone wants to pick this up for translation, lmk and I'll redo it.

Please don't reupload the images.

Because Kiyoshi's my fave I'm focusing on that one part of the interview (ran this through three different MTs in case there's a discrepancy in translation)...

Remember how many of the cast played high school basketball? Apparently, it was Kawai's dream to win the actual Winter Cup. But his team couldn't, and it's one of his frustrations growing up. But when his mother went to see him perform in the last stage play(!!), she told him that through acting, he had achieved that dream ❤️

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"The Gang Does The Splits"

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It Comes 来る Director: Tetsuya Nakashima Second Draft

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strange art of Tetsuya Ishida

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Get To Know The Amnesia Boys

I thought would be cool to have alot of the amnesia boys info in one place to come back to and share. This is for all the amnesia lovers.

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CLOVER ROUTE

Kento (Kent) ケント

Age: 25

Birthday: September 23rd

Height: 190 cm (6'3")

Blood Type: B

Western Zodiac: Libra

Occupation: University Graduate

Likes: creating math puzzles and observing things

Colors Associated: Green & Black

Architect Type: Kuudere

Best Friend: Ikki

Voice Actors: Akira Ishida & Tyler Galindo 

Fav. Quotes:

“Argument and logic are not always the right path to take. Honestly expressing emotions is important. You were the one who helped me realize that.”

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SPADES ROUTE

Ikkyu (Ikki) イッキ

Age: 22

Birthday: June 1st

Height: 183 cm (6'0")

Blood Type: AB

Western Zodiac: Gemini

Occupation: University Student

Likes: Darts, Pool, Table Tennis, Math Puzzles

Colors Associated: Blue & Gray

Architect Type: Flirt/Teasedere/Hiyakasudere

Best Friend: Kent

Voice Actors: Kishō Taniyama & Blake Shepard

Fav. Quotes:

"If you lose your memories again , I'll tell you everyday i love you, no matter what happens I'll protect you"

“There’s always been something heavy in my heart that’s made me suffer. But when I hear your voice or see your face, that something starts to melt.”

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HEART ROUTE

Shin シン

Age: 18

Birthday: November 30

Height: 179 cm (5'10")

Blood Type: A

Western Zodiac: Sagittarius

Occupation: College Student/Law

Likes: Dogs, Melon Soda, & Sweet Tamagoyaki

Colors Associated: Red & Black

Architect Type: Tsundere

Best Friend: Toma

Voice Actors: Tetsuya Kakihara & Houston Hayes

Fav. Quotes:

"I'll protect the sweet, silly part of you, and the hard working part of you...I'll protect everything"

"Please go out with me, I can't see you as a family member anymore"

"It was you who showed me that surrendering to misfortune and giving up is just running away"

"I will definitely protect you. I've decided not to let you get hurt a second time"

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DIAMOND ROUTE

Tōma トーマ

Age: 20

Birthday: April 12

Height: 181 cm (5'11")

Blood Type: B

Western Zodiac: Aries

Occupation: Maid's Sheep

Likes: Spicy Food, Basketball, Cycling, Reading, & Cooking

Colors Associated: Yellow & Black

Architect Type: Yandere

Best Friend: Shin

Voice Actors: Satoshi Hino & Christopher Ayres

Fav. Quotes

“I don't want to see you cry. I don't want to see you sad or see you suffer, either. I always want to see you smile and I want to make you smile.”

“If I can't protect you, should I break you?”

“The truth is, I want to look after you more than anyone. But I can't.”

“I only want to keep you from crying, but even that wish, I couldn’t grant.”

“I love you… I always have, and always will…”

“I always want to see you smile and I want to make you smile. So for that purpose, I don’t mind if you hate me, that’s what I decided. But IT HURTS.”

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JOKER ROUTE

Ukyo ウキョウ

Age: 24

Birthday: March 3rd

Height: 185 cm (6'1")

Blood Type: O

Western Zodiac: Pisces

Occupation: Professional Photographer

Likes: triathlon, cheerleading, hula dance, soccer, lacrosse, rugby, kabaddi, dance, art, riding, debate, braiding hair, collecting underwear, and photography(also cleaning other personality likes)

Colors Associated: Green

Architect Type: Loner

Best Friend: MC

Voice Actors: Kōki Miyata & Patrick Poole 

Fav. Quotes:

“While I was traveling, searching for you, I died again and again, and I finally realized: a world where you and I can both live doesn't exist.”

“Even though I knew I had to give up, I wanted to see you. I wanted you to smile for me one more time.”

“I've lost count of the number of times I've met you and lost you. But I still… still love you.”

“There's only one way to save you. I have to disappear from this world. Let my wish for you to survive come true.”

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Tetsuya Ishida