#age regression field museum

[eflen-n-reegee]

Field Trip to the Field Museum II - Members Night (Chicago, IL)

Hi! I went to the museum members night way back in April, and I’ve been meaning to write this ever since; and I finally got around to it! As with the first part, this is a self-insert imagine fic where the reader is an age regresser and the author is their caregiver. All pictures were taken by me (with permission from museum staff to post online). Also, heads up, this includes pictures of dinosaur bones, taxidermied animals, deceased animals in preservatives, LOTS of mounted insects and bugs (ya gal Eflen loves bugs), and a brief instance of anxiety. (Long story short, I have OCD and bumping into some people upset me IRL, and I decided to incorporate it.) Also under the cut ‘cause it’s long. 😆

You excited, kiddo? We’re gonna get to see some pretty cool stuff, things we wouldn’t normally get to see! This is gonna be so fun! Oh, look at this, sweetheart. There are table all over the museum with cool little pins. Wanna see how many we can find? Alrighty! Let’s go in!

Ooh, look! Such a cool little dinosaur- you’re right, it’s a stegosaurs! You’re pretty smart, aren’t you, pumpkin?

Watch your fingers, sweetie, the crab might pinch them! You’re right, this one’s dead… But maybe I’m a crab! Pinch! Oh, you’re too big for that kind of stuff? Sorry kiddo, I’ll try to remember.

Oh, check out this thing! Know what it is? A giant isopod? So freaking cool. Do you know if they bite? I’d like to hold one!

Pretty great view, huh? Look, they’ve got a t-Rex puppet down there! We’ll try to see it up close later.

Holy cow! So people found out a while ago that platypuses glow under UV light, but they only found out recently that other animals do too! And even crazier? Scientists still don’t know why! Nature is nuts.

So there’s some kinda creepy stuff in here- Okay, okay, I got it. Just let me know if it’s too much, okay?

Whoa… So these animals were mutants for some reason… No, I don’t think anybody knows for sure why things like this happen.

Some animals can live really good lives, even with these kind of issues.  But yeah, it’s a bummer when they don’t make it.

Jeez, it’s busy in here. Careful not to bump the bones, kiddo. Oh wow, look at this one! Came from a ground sloth… Can you believe how big they used to be?

Wow, look at these teeth! I wish I could take this one home, teeth are so cool.

Jeepers, what a skull…

Hey, what’s going on? Okay, deep breaths, sweetheart, deep breaths… Let’s go out in the hallway, okay?

Here, it’s quiet over here, you can sit down if you want- okay, you don’t have to. Can you tell me what’s wrong? Yeah, that room was pretty crowded, huh? I know you don’t like when people bump into you… What do you think will help you feel better? Yeah, when we get home you can take a bath- a shower, no problem. Is there anything else- No, sweetheart, I don’t think you’re being a baby. Everybody gets upset sometimes, and everybody cries sometimes. You’re still a big kid as long as you say you are. Okay? There you go. How about we take a break from the new stuff to look at the dinosaurs? Alright.

Looks like they brought a few new things in here… These bones are pretty cool, huh? I love how the gray and white looks. Why do you think it looks like that?

There’s a crowd around the table over here… Oh, it’s because they have pins. Do you want to wait here a second and I’ll get you a pin? No, I don’t mind. Okay, be back in a second.

So, how’re you feeling? Want to look at some of the stuff upstairs? Okay.

Oh, they’re talking about lichen in here- It’s not BORING! Look how cool these antlers look! You’d think they were tree branches if you didn’t know better.

Well, you can think what you like, but I think lichen is cool. … No, kiddo, I’m not angry. I’m just being silly. People like different things sometimes, it’s no big deal.

Oh, I didn’t know the museum had a library! No, they probably only have books about history and biology. But it’s always cool to see some new books, especially old books like that one, or- Oh!

Look at THIS! This book must be four feet across - at least! It’s massive! I’d love to look through the whole thing. What kinds of things would someone put in a book this big?

Oh, cool! They have a room just for bugs? Awesome! I wonder what ki- Walking sticks?! Oh my gosh, I didn’t know there were ones with wings!

Look how leafy that one is! Or… No, it’s not a real leaf. I thought maybe they stuck one in there to trick people.

Oh wow! Look how big these spiders are! I know some people are scared of them, but I think they’re amazing. And I’ve held a tarantula before - they’re very soft little critters.

Hm, I’m not sure I’d want to wear jewelry with bugs on it. That’s a little too much for me… I guess it works for other people, though, so it’s fine.

Oh my gosh, look at them! I wonder if bugs like these are where people got the idea of fairies. The one with the purple wings would definitely look like a fairy princess if you saw it from far away.

That reminds me, next year the seventeen-year cicada will be coming back to our area. They live underground for seventeen years, spend a couple weeks singing and laying eggs, and then they all die. Wild.

Ooh, some of these guys are creepy. I like scorpions, but they do scare me a little - and that’s good, since they can be dangerous. It’s smart to be at least a little afraid of dangerous things.

Holy cow, this big one looks like an owl! Yeah, if I’M getting freaking out, I bet all the predators are terrified.

Look at all the legs- Hey, I saw that! No, it was definitely a yawn. You getting tired? Yeah, I’m tired too. We’d better head out.

So, did you have a nice time? I’m glad. How’re you feeling? Yeah, you can still take a shower, no problem. Do you want to nap in the car and I’ll wake you when we get home? Okay.

Alright, all clean and ready for bed. Yeah, you got a pretty sweet set of buttons, huh? We’ll get some more for the collection next year.

~🦀~🦕~🫙~🦥~🦬~🐪~😢~🪵~📚~🕷️~💍~🦗~🦂~🌃~

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the types of littles cg!dreamies would take care of caregiver!nct dream x gn!reader

a/n this is agere content ! all inappropriate interactions will be blocked. please don't interact if you sexualize age regression. thank you ! ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧

mark lee (ᓀ‸ᓂ)

a regressor on the older side! probably someone that can communicate their needs and wants with ease.

i feel like mark would be the type of cg that loves teaching you about his passions. he would sit you on his lap and have his hands over yours as he helps you play hot cross buns on the keyboard.

out of all the dreamies, i feel that mark's tiny would be the most fascinated with music and all its elements. you and mark would most likely spend a lot of your tiny time together in a band where the drums are cups and your sticks are pencils.

he's definitely patient and does his best to fulfill his baby's requests no matter how deep in their imagination they come from.

you want a unicorn drink? he'll do his best to make a unicorn with whipped cream and chocolate chips on top of your hot cocoa! you want to go to mars? a trip to the space museum!

huang renjun ૮ ˙Ⱉ˙ ა

a middle (12-15) regressor is definitely someone renjun could go tit for tat with.

you do have lots of little arguments that leave you with your arms crossed but you're always grateful for renjun at the end of the day.

he definitely holds you accountable for habits you know are good for you but you just don't want to for one reason or another.

but it's not as if renjun is a dictator!

renjun is a big fan of dressing up. he's like a little kid on a field trip except instead of asking 'are we there yet?' he asks 'am i pretty? you're making me pretty, right?'

for some reason, i feel like renjun would like to take pictures of you (or pretend to if you don't like being pictured when little). he just thinks you're the cutest thing in the whole wide world! if his tiny felt embarrassed by his fawning he'd only kiss the embarrassment away before continuing to do it some more.

lee jeno ૮ .◜◡◝ა

regardless of age, lee jeno is less of a caregiver and more of a stuffed animal come to life. or maybe a gentle guard dog.

he's usually snoozing on the couch while his tiny plays in the same room. you may think he's asleep but when you try to leave just for a second you hear him go 'where are you going, gumdrop?'

he's a little overbearing at times, which could be a problem especially for regressors on the older side, but he means well!

despite what others might think when first looking at him, jeno is not an iron-fist type of cg. unlike renjun, jeno's tiny can get away with poking his buttons most of the time. keyword: most.

lee donghyuck ʕ˙Ⱉ˙‧:ʔ

cg!donghyuck screams teenage babysitter. he likes kids, but he's kind of too embarrassed to admit it so he tries keeping a distance.

the best pairing for donghyuck would be a bratty little, someone that makes him care. someone that's so unapologetically themselves that he also begins to not care about the anxieties plaguing his mind.

he's still a little annoying as a cg; knocking a piece of track a little to the left so your train rolls off its route, beginning to build his own ice cream store with the block you were about to use, holding up your animal crackers in exchange for some cute and embarrassing poses.

donghyuck and his tiny are fighting the war of getting on each others nerves and neither side is ever gonna win but they fight on anyways.

"i love you, Angel." "...love you too, Channie."

na jaemin ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭

not to put all age regressors in a box, but i feel that jaemin would do well with the image you get in your head when you think of agere. pastel colors, pacis, the whole shebang.

like renjun, he likes playing dress up but specifically enjoys dressing you up. always the prettiest dresses or suits, never letting you even close a button by yourself.

more than dress up though, he definitely likes playing royalty. he likes being either a brave knight that protects you from an evil dragon or your trusty and loyal butler.

jaem as a caregiver would be the most fun thing ever (in my opinion). still, that doesn't mean he's a total jeno i mean pushover. who wrote that? wow that's crazy...

anyway, cg!jaemin is a scary guy. it's at those times when you know you messed up, maybe you broke a vase or something, and you know he should be mad but he's not. he's disappointed. that's a thousand times worse somehow and so you promise him in tears that you'll never do it again.

zhong chenle (ᯟ︿ᯏ)

this guy. this guy is the scariest.

if you have any little buddies and chenle is your cg? you will probably hang out everywhere but his place.

it's a total illusion though, he's not scary at all. he's a big, loud, goofy guy. he's just a little blunt and the fact he wears sunglasses indoors that it scares all the more shy littles away. i feel like this is a bit of a struggle because i imagine that, like chenle, his tiny would be a very friendly social butterfly and their 'baby radar' is nearly 99% infallible.

chenle's tiny is like a well-behaved version of hae's. they're both little gremlins at times but chenle's would definitely keep it under wraps about it.

chenle's tiny has a phd in malicious compliance to chenle's manner rules. lots of "stern" stares full of longing and 'i need this' along with "juice box, please. juice box, please. juice box, please. juice box, p-"

however, they also double majored in kisses and crayon portraits so chenle doesn't even have a chance to get mad.

park jisung (∩˃o˂∩)

jisung's tiny is so teeny tiny and shy, even around him.

jisung is a one in a million man because he's the only one that can instinctively, telepathically, via sign language knows exactly what his baby needs without them having said a word.

it's usually quiet when you're little. maybe you're drawing, maybe you're sleeping, maybe you're just staring off into space. for jisung's little, their regression is just a time when everything can freeze for a second and all that matters is that their favorite plushie is clean and ready to cuddle with.

if jisung had one word to describe the role he has with his little, he would have to say a wall. something firm, something strong, something that ensures that nothing outside is let in and nothing inside seeps out.

a/n hello ! i'm working on some other projects but in the meantime, have this ! i have been posting some of my work also on ao3 so in case you're not on tumblr often, you can also find my one-shots there ! i think i'm gonna keep the bulletpoints here for now tho. i'm hoping you're all having a great start to your springgg (or autumnif ur in the southern hemisphere). oh, i also have question for you! putting aside ur actual dream bias, who do you think would be the best cg for you? me personally, i feel like either jisung or jaemin hehe

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Make It Right

Make It Right by soulamplifier

Class trip to the museum with little Izuku, Bakugou and Kaminari, and Caregivers Aizawa, Hizashi and All Might. As expected of a field trip, something goes wrong but there's fluff don't worry.

Words: 1115, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of little izuku one shots (requests open)

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki, Kaminari Denki, Class 1-A

Relationships: Midoriya Izuku & Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku, Kaminari Denki & Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki & Kaminari Denki

Additional Tags: the whole class is there but the only ones really mentioned are izuku bakugou and kaminari, Midoriya Izuku Needs A Hug, Midoriya Izuku Gets A Hug, Yagi Toshinori | All Might is a Good Teacher, Parental Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Age Regression/De-Aging, Non-Sexual Age Play, Age Regression Little Midoriya Izuku, Age Play Little Midoriya Izuku, Age Regression Little Bakugou Katsuki, Age Play Little Bakugou Katsuki, Age Regression Caregiver Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Age Play Caregiver Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Age Regression Caregiver Aizawa Shouta, Age Play Caregiver Aizawa Shouta, Age Regression Caregiver Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Age Play Caregiver Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Age Regression Little Kaminari Denki, Age Play Little Kaminari Denki, Age Play, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Pacifier, is mentioned, title is a bts song

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36146764

[miss-kittys-magical-library]

Teenage Dirtbag

(Cormac x Jeanie)

Warnings: fluff and smut

A/N: Cormac feels bittersweet about his abnormal teenage years, but a tryst at the abandoned O'Keefe's College with Jeanie changes his mind about what never was.

The last of my birthday weekend self-indulgent drabbles. I dug deep and pulled Cormac back to the front of the closet to wear just for today.

Jeanie inhaled the scent of moss and rain that filled the air around the abandoned boarding school. If it weren't for Cormac, Hannah and Brett this was surely how her own building would end up in a few years. She didn't mind the dynamic it created between her and her boyfriend, or that the purchase was for some ulterior scientific motive. She got to keep the kids and her job, and he got to maintain one of the last untapped portals.

Now they were in Galway where everything started. Or, as Jeanie pointed out once she knew the stories, Cormac’s friends gaslit him for an entire semester.

“That's how comic book villains are born,” she watched as he turned on the power grid and fumbled around with his necklace.

“I suppose,” his catch phrase, “But even Tony Stark created a murder robot. He scrunched his nose and scratched his head in the most adorable way. Then something clicked.

“Tony Stark is a murder robot.”

A calming female voice responded before Cormac had the chance. “Tony Stark is more closely related to a cyborg than a robot. Good morning, Cormac. Jeanie.”

“See how she uses disdain when she speaks to me?! Jarvis doesn't speak like that.”

“Silvia doesn't have disdain for you. She's a computer program.”

Jeanie and Silvia spoke collectively, “I'm an artificial intelligence system.” The schoolteacher pointed at nothing as if to say even they can agree on her being beyond just a program.

“I'm also not female or male, I am a sexless non-binary system. You decided to gender me when you were fourteen years old based on the voice modulation you placed inside of me. I have no body or sexual organs.”

“You just got out Cormac’d!” Jeanie teased as his cheeks grew rosy.

“Come on, I'll show you around.”

----

The next few hours were like visiting a museum of Cormac’s memories. He admitted that he had the ability to go to university much earlier than most anticipated, but he hung around because he actually enjoyed the small group of friends he accumulated his years at O’Keefe’s. Even if his relationship with Martin, the resident Draco Malfoy, was contentious. Even if they were understaffed, underfunded and simply unable to accommodate any real science program. He felt a sense of duty to the school that kept him safe when his Nan could not.

“I could have gone with my mum’s side in Dublin if I wanted. My aunt was just worried what I might just get up to if I did.”

“What, like a criminal?” Jeanie burst into a fit of giggles picturing Cormac in a life of crime. Although.. “That's the Delaneys, right?” Jeanie pondered. “Gordon and I knew some Dublin Delaneys.”

“That's like knowing a Smith.”

They had circled back around to his old dorm room where they had dropped off all their gear for China. Jeanie lingered on the old desk having perched on the corner. Her arms hugged around herself against the draft. Cormac sat comfortably on his old bed stretched out with his arms towards the wall behind him. An aged and browning poster of a full moon above his head.

Jeanie grimaced at the water stains underneath him and tried to hide her disgust. “At least I hope those are water stains,” she joked.

Cormac moved his knees apart and stared down at the bed, “Jaysus, love, what kinda stains d’ye t’ink t’ey are?!”

Jeanie raised an eyebrow. Cormac’s eyes nearly rolled back in his head. “If you need t’know, I was a shower wanker.”

He was so matter of fact, like he was about everything, Jeanie snorted. Still he made a big production of unpacking his massive sleeping bag and rolling it out along the mattress. He smoothed out the nylon, and presented it to his girlfriend for her to sit down finally.

As Jeanie settled in, Cormac stuffed his hands between his legs and his face flushed. “Do you have a boner right now?! Wait, because I'm on it bed? Is this some.. Puberty regression? AM I THE FIRST GIRL WHO SAT HERE?!” Jeanie couldn't help but squeal.

“NO! Hannah and Tara have sat here loads of times.”

“Yeah, but have you touched their vaginas?”

“JEANIE!”

“CORMAC!”

Jeanie played along and stole a kiss. Her lips pecked his briskly, but then again. They lingered longer so her tongue could sneak just inside his welcoming mouth. She may as well have waged war.

Cormac pushed his own tongue deep inside of his girlfriend’s mouth. As their tongues battled for the upper hand, Jeanie clung to his shirt and laid back on the bed pulling him along with her. She ran her hands under his tee-shirt up his back to dig her nails into his shoulder blades. His forearms on either side of her to prop himself up.

Cormac situated himself inside of Jeanie's legs that drew up alongside his hips. Still fully clothed as they kissed heavily. His belt buckle got trapped by the button of her jeans as they fought to come undressed. Both laughed at the absurdity of acting like horny teenagers simply because they were in a childhood bedroom.

Still, Cormac finally undid Jeanie's pants and tugged them over her hips to her ankles. He was clumsy at the laces of her boots which he gave up on and just yanked off and tossed somewhere in the room. Up on his knees, he threw both shirts he wore over his head. He fumbled with his belt and pants, standing only to strip them off before climbing back on top of Jeanie now in her bra and panties.

The cold air pimpled their flesh, but they ignored it when their kisses commenced. Jeanie’s hands were enmeshed in Cormac’s soft, dark hair. His lips and tongue started to wander to the base of her throat which he nipped and sucked where he could feel her pulse beat under his warm mouth. A brief moment she thought he would bite harder for fun; then he did. All the while he palmed the fabric of her panties in quick succession.

Jeanie’s breath caught at how brazen Cormac was being in broad daylight. Out in the open on top of the sleeping bag instead of in it. The static from portaling that ran through his nerves just under the skin passed on to her. Her brain was too fuzzy with desire to tell if the heat on her sex and clit was from the rapid friction or just the electricity Cormac emitted.

Jeanie couldn't even focus beyond the sensation. Her fingers and hands with a mind of their own drew his boxers down to expose his bare ass to her touch. She used it to draw his no longer secret erection into her entrance. Cormac’s hand and her panties in the way. He happily let her go so he could start pushing into the fabric with the head of his cock. Her ankles locked on his waist so her heels could dig into his lower back. They urged him to rut faster in spite of their underwear.

As klutzy as Cormac was with her jeans and boots, his long fingers were experts at undoing Jeanie’s bra. He kissed her shoulders and arms behind the straps he pulled off to expose her breasts. Breasts his mouth consumed hungrily. His tongue circled and practically inhaled one of her nipples before alternating to the other. He sucked in time to his bucks.

Jeanie deigned to speak, her words punctuated by Cormac’s movements. “I'm.. really..” she moaned “Cold.”

She was, he realized all of a sudden. With more laughter and flourishes, the two managed to zip themselves snug inside the sleeping bag. Jeanie's panties and Cormac’s underwear discarded in the process. Their bodies pressed to each other while his cock pushed into her thigh. The heat was immediate, in more ways than one.

They laid on their sides and faced one another. Cormac’s leg tangled around Jeanie's lower one. Her leg closest to the ceiling wrapped around his hip. Her calf draped along his ass while her hand reached between their bodies and took hold of his shaft. She positioned it just outside her entrance that ached to be filled. All the blood in her body swelled there.

Cormac gazed downwards at her hand, his breathing uncontrolled as Jeanie guided him again inside. Without any more instruction, he thrust inside of her so far and sharply that his pelvis collided with hers. Then he pulled almost completely out and sheathed himself to the hilt again. He repeated this over and over until they found a rhythm. Hips and sexes crashed like meteors with each powered motion.

Jeanie could only hold on. Her nails felt inches deep in Cormac's muscles along his shoulders. she had fleeting thoughts that yesterday wasn't his first time. That he lied perhaps out of embarrassment thinking he was no good.

Except he was, she was out of practice. The last time she had sex this good was.. She didn't want to think of him now. He was gone, Cormac was here. His forehead pressed into her jaw and cheek as he pounded into her. It only just dawned on her his glasses were on, bent at an unnatural angle in the crook of her neck. He didn't like to travel with his contacts in.

At this angle, Cormac hit Jeanie's clit every time he lost himself in her tightening walls. He was silent except for snorts of heavy air like a horse that escaped his nose. Both of them covered in a sheen of sweat until that lightning shot through Jeanie’s body. She coiled and recoiled and drew her boyfriend to her as she came. Cormac’s name echoed off the empty walls.

Not much longer until he did the same with a shudder and a muddled, husky “fuck” in Jeanie's shoulder. Cormac's body trembled which took her aback. Whether it was from the post-orgasm rush, or emotions, she didn't ask. Instead they held onto one another and babbled mindlessly until they fell asleep in the sleeping bag.

It was loud thunder and SILVIA through the old PA system that startled the couple awake.

“Cormac. Jeanie. May I suggest you leave as soon as possible? There is an approaching electrical storm that will surely affect the magnetic field produced by portal travel.”

They rushed to get dressed and repacked. Cormac was annoyed, “If you knew. SILVIA, why the hell didn't you tell me before?”

“Coitus interruptus. Perhaps Ms Turner feels I dislike her, but I can't imagine how much animosity she would display towards me should I interfere with your sexual intercourse. She's already jealous of our long-standing relationship”

Jeanie felt highly uncomfortable at that moment, watched even. Cormac was incensed. “SILVIA.” Then he shut her off, and they were bound for China.

Tag: @robertsheehanownsmyass @elliethesuperfruitlover @super-unpredictable98 @forenschik @slutforrobbiebro @frogs--are--bitches @nightmonsters @bisexualnathanyoung @bwritesstuff @rob-private

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Make It Right

Make It Right by soulamplifier

Class trip to the museum with little Izuku, Bakugou and Kaminari, and Caregivers Aizawa, Hizashi and All Might. As expected of a field trip, something goes wrong but there's fluff don't worry.

Words: 1115, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of little izuku one shots (requests open)

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki, Kaminari Denki, Class 1-A

Relationships: Midoriya Izuku & Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku, Kaminari Denki & Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki & Kaminari Denki

Additional Tags: the whole class is there but the only ones really mentioned are izuku bakugou and kaminari, Midoriya Izuku Needs A Hug, Midoriya Izuku Gets A Hug, Yagi Toshinori | All Might is a Good Teacher, Parental Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Age Regression/De-Aging, Non-Sexual Age Play, Age Regression Little Midoriya Izuku, Age Play Little Midoriya Izuku, Age Regression Little Bakugou Katsuki, Age Play Little Bakugou Katsuki, Age Regression Caregiver Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Age Play Caregiver Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Age Regression Caregiver Aizawa Shouta, Age Play Caregiver Aizawa Shouta, Age Regression Caregiver Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Age Play Caregiver Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Age Regression Little Kaminari Denki, Age Play Little Kaminari Denki, Age Play, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Pacifier, is mentioned, title is a bts song

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36146764

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Make It Right

Make It Right by soulamplifier

Class trip to the museum with little Izuku, Bakugou and Kaminari, and Caregivers Aizawa, Hizashi and All Might. As expected of a field trip, something goes wrong but there's fluff don't worry.

Words: 1115, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of little izuku one shots (requests open)

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki, Kaminari Denki, Class 1-A

Relationships: Midoriya Izuku & Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku, Kaminari Denki & Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki & Kaminari Denki

Additional Tags: the whole class is there but the only ones really mentioned are izuku bakugou and kaminari, Midoriya Izuku Needs A Hug, Midoriya Izuku Gets A Hug, Yagi Toshinori | All Might is a Good Teacher, Parental Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Age Regression/De-Aging, Non-Sexual Age Play, Age Regression Little Midoriya Izuku, Age Play Little Midoriya Izuku, Age Regression Little Bakugou Katsuki, Age Play Little Bakugou Katsuki, Age Regression Caregiver Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Age Play Caregiver Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Age Regression Caregiver Aizawa Shouta, Age Play Caregiver Aizawa Shouta, Age Regression Caregiver Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Age Play Caregiver Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Age Regression Little Kaminari Denki, Age Play Little Kaminari Denki, Age Play, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Pacifier, is mentioned, title is a bts song

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36146764

[miss-rosen]

THE RADICAL HISTORY OF LGBTQ PROTEST ART Miss Rosen for Huck Online

“I am your worst fear. I am your best fantasy.”

New York artist and activist Donna Gottschalk memorably penned those words on a placard during the first Gay Liberation event on June 28, 1970 – the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots. The moment was captured in a photograph by Diana Davies, and published in the back page of Ecstasy magazine Issue 2, becoming a touchstone of the new age.

It was a statement of bold confidence, a reclamation of self from a society that had been actively criminalising and pathologising homosexuality since the word appeared in English  for the first time in Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis (1892).

Born from a repressive, regressive regime, queer art became a channel into which people could connect and express themselves. It sparked a new bohemia, one that continues to grow and bloom, which inspired the revised, updated paperback edition of Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer’s epic survey Art & Queer Culture (Phaidon).

Read the Full Story at Huck Online

Photo: Charles ‘ Teenie’ Harris, Group portrait of four cross-dressers posing in a club or a bar in front of a piano, including Michael ‘Bronze Adonis’ Fields, on left, and possibly ‘Beulah’ on right, 1955. Collection, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

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When You are Sane, You Practice #Science & are Subsequently Forgotten; When You Go Mad, You Practice #Art & Achieve Immortality

Eugèn Gabritschevsky was born 1893 into a comfortable family of scientists from Imperial Russia. His father was a renowned bacteriologist, who had worked with Louis Pasteur in France and with Robert Koch in Germany.

Eugèn studied biology at the University of Moscow specializing in genetics. In 1925, he was invited to the Columbia University in the United States, where he worked for two years. In 1927, he moved to the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he continued his research for three more years. Scientifically, the years at Columbia proved to be his most productive. His most cited papers from this period deal with the giant mutation in Drosophila and color changes in spider crabs. While his research was solid and original, very few people in the field of genetics remember Eugèn Gabritschevsky. 

In 1931, at the age of 38, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed to the Haar-Eflingen psychiatric hospital. He spent the remainder 48 years of his life in the hospital. There, Gabritschevsky created an extraordinary body of art: thousands of paintings and drawings. He died at the age of 86.

His first works look quite academic and are inspired by corals and human figures.

As his condition worsened, however, his subjects gradually changed. He started painting ghost-looking silhouettes, large-headed monsters with huge eyes, and other-worldly apparitions.

Towards the end of his life Eugèn Gabritschevsky regressed to genetics and started drawing small beings that look like mutants of imaginary beings.

In 2016-2018, a retrospective exhibition of his immense body of work was held at the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne, at La Maison Rouge in Paris, and at the American Folk Museum in New York. A 192-page catalog of his work was published in 2016. 

Madness robbed Eugèn Gabritschevsky of scientific fame. Madness assured his artistic immortality.  

[tastydregs]

Artificial intelligence helps scientists develop new general models in ecology

In ecology, millions of species interact in billions of different ways between them and with their environment. Ecosystems often seem chaotic, or at least overwhelming for someone trying to understand them and make predictions for the future.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are able to detect patterns and predict outcomes in ways that often resemble human reasoning. They pave the way to increasingly powerful cooperation between humans and computers.

Within AI, evolutionary computation methods replicate in some sense the processes of evolution of species in the natural world. A particular method called symbolic regression allows the evolution of human-interpretable formulas that explain natural laws.

"We used symbolic regression to demonstrate that computers are able to derive formulas that represent the way ecosystems or species behave in space and time. These formulas are also easy to understand. They pave the way for general rules in ecology, something that most methods in AI cannot do," says Pedro Cardoso, curator at the Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki.

With the help of the symbolic regression method, an interdisciplinary team from Finland, Portugal, and France was able to explain why some species exist in some regions and not in others, and why some regions have more species than others.

The researchers were able, for example, to find a new general model that explains why some islands have more species than others. Oceanic islands have a natural life-cycle, emerging from volcanoes and eventually submerging with erosion after millions of years. With no human input, the algorithm was able to find that the number of species of an island increases with the island age and peaks with intermediate ages, when erosion is still low.

"The explanation was known, a couple of formulas already existed, but we were able to find new ones that outperform the existing ones under certain circumstances," says Vasco Branco, PhD student working on the automation of extinction risk assessments at the University of Helsinki.

The research proposes that explainable artificial intelligence is a field to explore and promotes the cooperation between humans and machines in ways that are only now starting to scratch the surface.

"Evolving free-form equations purely from data, often without prior human inference or hypotheses, may represent a very powerful tool in the arsenal of a discipline as complex as ecology," says Luis Correia, computer science professor at the University of Lisbon.

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Class ideas  (ARS)

A survey about the school can be found here https://age-regression-school.tumblr.com/post/161911911571/age-regression-school

(not a complete list)

For littles

Basic math like counting and subtraction

Reading- Storytime, plays

Art- finger painting, D.I.Y stamps, paper bag puppets, pasta necklaces

Recess - sandbox, adult sized swings and slide

Snack time

Music class- musical chairs, instruments 

Play centers - pretend dress up, kitchen, ball pit

Movies- Dvds featuring shows from Playhouse Disney and more

For middles

Math- simple multiples, division, addition, these will be in fun worksheets like connect the dots 

Writing/Reading- creative story writing, audio books, we can also put together plays

Art- painting, clay, mosaics, wind chimes

Science- Bill Nye the Science guy, science fairs, fun experiments

Music- Instruments

Movies- dvds featuring Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and more

Other things

Field trips - museums, movie theater, zoo, arcade,planetarium, and more

Book fairs

Volunteer work 

Sand and water tables.

Game day (like field day)

[rickhorrow]

10 To Watch : Mayors Edition 6319

RICK HORROW’S TOP 10 SPORTS/BIZ/TECH/PHILANTHROPY ISSUES FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 3 : Mayor’s Edition

with Jacob Aere

Chipotle integrates Twitter and text for free burritos during the NBA Finals. According to Mobile Marketer, Chipotle is giving away up to $1 million in free burritos as part of a mobile promotion running around the NBA Championship. The catch is that every time any announcer – including sideline reporters – says "free" on-air during the first half of official league game coverage, the restaurant chain will offer up to 500 burritos. For the second half of games, mentions of "free" will result in 1,000 burritos up for grabs. The key to success is staying on Chipotle’s Twitter channel where the company will put out unique codes to be texted for code redemption. The giveaway is capped to the first 20 on-air mentions of "free" per game, meaning that there is potential for 20,000 burrito giveaways per game! The "Freeting" campaign also waives delivery fees for orders of $10 or more placed through Chipotle's app, website, and DoorDash. Although Chipotle is not an official NBA sponsor, the guerilla campaign is drawing hundreds of thousands of hungry basketball fans through the power of social media and “second screen viewing.”

Stanley Cup Finals seeing strong viewership. According to NBC Sports, the Boston Bruins and St. Louis Blues Game 1 matchup was the most-watched Stanley Cup game in four years. The matchup on NBC saw the network reel in an average Total Audience Delivery of 5.380 million viewers. It was third-most watched Game 1 since NBC began broadcasting the Stanley Cup Final in 2006 and even beat out the ever-popular “The Bachelorette.” Comparatively, Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals was up 2% compared to last year and a whopping 9% compared to 2017. On NBC alone, the game delivered a 2.87 HH rating and 5.264 million TV-only viewers. The title-hungry city of St. Louis led all markets with a 29.0 local rating, NBC Sports’ highest NHL rating on record in the market, while Boston scored a 25.2 rating. The series should draw consistently high numbers considering the Cinderella story Blues are taking on the behemoth Bruins, who posted 49 regular season wins and are the favorite for most bettors to take the Cup. 

USGA increases purses for both men and women at respective U.S. Opens. According to Golf Channel, last year’s men’s winner Brooks Koepka took home $2.16 million from a $12 million purse at Shinnecock Hills. This year at Pebble Beach, the winner will look to bring home roughly $2.25 million. Meanwhile, the total purse was increased to $5.5 million for the U.S. Women's Open at Country Club of Charleston. Last year, Ariya Jutanugarn took home $900,000 for her first place finish while this year’s winner Jeongeun Lee6 will take home a seven figure number for the first time. Out of this year’s $5 million purse for the revamped, season-ending LPGA CME Group Tour Championship, the first place finisher will receive $1 million, or roughly 20% of the purse, compared to the men’s winner, who cashes in a larger number but a smaller share of total prize money at 18%. The LPGA is clearly making strides to put its athletes on a closer pay scale to that of their male counterparts.

VISA invests in women’s soccer on the eve of the FIFA Women’s World Cup. According to Forbes, VISA revealed it would partner with both the Women’s and Men’s U.S. National Teams eight days before the Women’s World Cup begins in France. The terms of the deal ensured “at least 50%” of the investment would fund the U.S. Women’s National Team and women’s soccer programs and surrounding marketing efforts, meaning the deal will provide a much-needed spotlight on the stellar U.S. women's team.  The deal will see VISA become the presenting sponsor of the SheBelieves Cup, an annual four-team international invitational tournament in the U.S. Additionally, a new U.S. marketing campaign from VISA will feature World Cup squad members Adrianna Franch, Jessica Mcdonald, Rose Lavelle, Abby Dahlkemper, and Becky Sauerbrunn. USWNT co-captain Megan Rapinoe will join VISA’s roster of athletes and the financial services brand will be the first brand partner of the Player of the Match award at the FIFA Women’s World Cup. After U.S. women’s soccer players sued U.S. Soccer over gender inequality in pay this March, VISA is providing a helping hand for the three-time world champion USWNT.

The Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation unveiled a multisport, synthetic turf Youth Development Park on May 28 in Chicago’s Dunning neighborhood. Read-Dunning Park is lined for youth baseball/softball and soccer play and is now complete with a digital scoreboard, backstop, dugouts, and fencing. Chicago Parks District will manage and maintain the field and work closely with the Ripken Foundation to create programs to engage at-risk young people. The programs will address a variety of youth development needs, including character development, health, physical education, culture, and history. Read-Dunning Park was made in part by a generous $5 million donation to the Ripken Foundation from Group1001 and its CEO Dan Towriss, used to build a total of 10 Youth Development Parks over five years in 10 cities across the country. It is also supported by Chicago Cubs Charities and other local donors. To date, the Ripken Foundation has completed 84 multipurpose synthetic turf facilities in 22 states and Washington D.C. Read-Dunning Park is the second Ripken Foundation Youth Development Park, joining Freedom Field at Marquette Park located near Chicago’s South Side. The facility will be featured on a future episode of our monthly “Power of Sports” program, which explores Detroit in June.

Publisher Meredith Corp. sells Sports Illustrated to Authentic Brands Group for $110 million. Authentic Brands Group is the brand-development company that manages Juicy Couture, Nautica, and elements of the Muhammad Ali and Elvis Presley estates. Meredith took on Sports Illustrated as part of its purchase of Time Inc. in January, 2018 for $1.85 billion plus debt. According to Variety, Authentic Brands now owns the rights to market, develop, and license Sports Illustrated and its kids edition, swimsuit edition, “Sportsperson of the Year,” and the magazine's sports archive. In a wide-ranging discussion, CEO of Authentic Brands Jamie Salter said that he envisioned possibilities ranging from SI medical clinics and sports-skills training classes to a gambling business and better use of the magazine’s vast photo library. The sale moves Meredith close to the end of its effort to sell various Time Inc. assets and allows SI to reinvent itself for the digital age to compete with companies like The Ringer, Bleacher Report, and Barstool Sports.

NBC and Indianapolis 500 see TV viewership gains in their first year. NBC drew a total audience delivery of 5.446 million viewers for Simon Pagenaud's win in the Indianapolis 500, the first time the net had broadcast rights to the race. According to SportsBusiness Journal, last year’s race was a record low on ABC TV which averaged 4.913 million viewers. The 2019 audience peaked at 6.7 million viewers in the final quarter hour of the race, and drew a TV-only number of 5.414 million viewers and marks the most-watched Sunday afternoon sporting event on NBC since the Eagles-Bears NFC Wild Card game on January 6. NBC is in the first year of a multiyear broadcasting contract with Indy and significantly increased advertising efforts for the Indy 500 compared to ABC’s handling of the race in recent years. These are the baby steps for NBC and Indy, which are looking to attract younger audiences in a sport that has seen heavy viewership regression in recent years.

Las Vegas Raiders tickets selling well enough to add $40 million to stadium. Las Vegas Stadium COO Don Webb said that about $40 million more will be put into the stadium as the team has sold many personal seat licenses, stadium suites, club seats, and sponsorships. The additional money will help finance more suites, exterior restrooms, increased plaza security, and press areas and an enhanced stadium communications system. One of the enhanced areas will be a 26,000-square-foot "south end zone club space that would hold around 800 fans,” according to Las Vegas Stadium COO Don Webb. SportsBusiness Journal reports that the Raiders are in the final stages of completing a comprehensive transportation plan that will boost available parking significantly as the team has been acquiring nearby real estate to turn into more parking availability for fans. The Vegas Raiders will play in a $1.8 billion dome that sports a transparent roof, black glass exterior, and retractable doors to frame an 80-foot-tall and 215-foot wide view of the casinos on the strip, making it one of the most visually stunning North American stadiums to date.

“Jeopardy!” champion and pro sports bettor starts donating his wins to charity. With 31 wins in his column so far, “Jeopardy!” champion and pro sports bettor James Holzhauer has started donating his winnings to charity. According to CNN, the 35-year-old professional gambler from Las Vegas recently became the second Jeopardy contestant ever to hit $2 million in winnings. With his total of $2,382,580 earned in 31 days, he's closing in on Ken Jennings' record haul of $2,520,700 won in 74 games. Earlier this month, Holzhauer and his wife gave $10,000 to Project 150, which is a charity that helps homeless students in Las Vegas by distributing school supplies, meals, and clothes. The Holzhauers also donated $10,000 to the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, and the couple’s most recent donation is $10,000 towards an educational charity called Communities in Schools of Nevada, a state branch of a national organization that works to prevent students from dropping out of school. Through all of his “Jeopardy!” success, Holzhauer has become one of Las Vegas' most celebrated citizens, receiving a key to the Las Vegas Strip and having Clark County officials declare May 2 "James Holzhauer Day.”

The second annual AO1 Charity Softball Game raised $500,000 in Philadelphia. Carson Wentz’ charity softball game and its overwhelming fundraising may hint at a new golden age for Philadelphia sports. After the Eagles’ quarterback led his team to a Super Bowl title this past February and Bryce Harper joined the Phillies, sports in Philly are looking up. Although he did not play in the softball game, Wentz was working in his food truck, Thy Kingdom Crumb, to distribute free shrimp po’ boys and pulled pork sandwiches to ticket holders – something it does normally as the charitable food truck has delivered more than 8,000 free meals to those in need. According to Billy Penn, more than 15,000 fans came out to watch football players hit softballs, all in support of Wentz’s AO1 Foundation’s mission of “uplifting individuals and communities around the world by demonstrating God’s love for His people.” Playing at Citizens Bank Park, the quarterback also announced Camp Conquerors, an outdoor ministry program that introduces hunting and fishing to in-need children. Between Carson Wentz and the now-retired Chris Long, the Eagles have one of the most charitable presences among all American sports teams.

[eflen-n-reegee]

Field Trip to the Field Museum (Chicago, IL)

Hello! I recently went to the Field Museum, and I decided to write a little self-insert imagine fic where the reader is an age regresser and the author is their caregiver. I really liked doing this, so I’ll probably do it again next time I go somewhere fun! 😊 All pictures were taken by me, and there are two temporary exhibits that have only one picture each to respect that they aren’t permanent features of the museum. Also, heads up, this includes pictures of dinosaur bones, taxidermied animals and a brief, simple discussion about mortality. Under the cut ‘cause it’s a long post. Hope you enjoy! 😁

You’re right, sweetheart! There it is! Are you excited?

Oh, no, don’t worry, we’re not driving away. We just have to go around the museum to park. And that gives us time to listen to another song! What should we listen to?

My goodness, I always forget how big it is! What do you think, sweetheart? I know, it’s very busy today. Do you want to sit for a minute? Okay, but if you need a break, you can always tell me.

Alrighty, why don’t we look at the elephants? I know, they’re so big! Hm, I think the elephants would be a good meeting spot. So if we lose each other, we can both go to the elephants and find each other again. I know you have your phone, sweetie, this is just to be extra safe. I know, I know, I’m a silly worry-wart. Okay, where should we go first?

Ooh, we’re gonna learn all about sea creatures! Some of them are still swimming around in the ocean, and some of them are extinct like the dinosaurs. Oh, you’re right, my little smarty. The ocean’s so deep, we don’t know for sure what’s down there. But we THINK these creatures are extinct. I wish this great big salamander was still around, though. He’s so cool! Oh my goodness, look at this tooth! It came from a megalodon - the biggest shark that ever existed! How much do you think the Tooth Fairy would give her for one? Ha, this is a little funny. This little manta ray is extinct, but this great big one still lives in Australia. Usually it’s the little ones that are still around! And these horseshoe crabs are the same way! Now, what’s this? Oh my goodness, it’s a colossal squid tentacle! We’re lucky, very few people get to see one in real life. Ah, looks like this is the end. That was so interesting!

Are you sure you want to go to this exhibit? I mean, you already know all your colors, right? Oh, oh no, it’s okay sweetheart, I’m only teasing, don’t cry- Hey, where did those tears go so quickly? Were you teasing ME? Oh, you silly thing!

Look at all this beautiful red! So many red animals and red plants, just gorgeous… Ooh, and these orange things… I think I like this yellow area the best. It makes me feel like we’re out in the sun! Oh, you like the green? It DOES look like a forest, you’re right! But blue is still my favorite color - look, tiny little robin eggs! And the purple is just beautiful… Is that the end of the exhibit? Whoa! Ultraviolet? Really? Look, sweetheart, the black light is making the white parts of my shirt glow! Isn’t this cool? Here, press this button! You see, the scorpion is a dark color, but he glows white in ultraviolet light! I changed my mind, THIS part is my favorite! Over here there’s black, and white, and black and white together! And- oh my goodness, look at these rainbow colors!

Oh, that was amazing! I’m glad you picked it, sweetheart, I liked it very much.

Look how high up we are! Maximo could give you a kiss right on the nose if he wanted to! Are you having fun? I’m glad.

Oh, so cool! A little scary, too… Are you doing okay? Oh, I know you’re brave, sweet thing. Even brave people get scared sometimes. I bet even dinosaurs could get scared! Oh, not this one? Maybe. He does look pretty fierce, huh?

Ooh! The Apatosaurus swallowed the rocks and they helped digest his food! But that wouldn’t work for you, would it? So the rocks better stay out of your tummy! Yes, if you were a dinosaur it would be okay… Of course I’d still love you if you were a dinosaur!

Look how cloudy the city is! I’m glad we’re not outside right now. But maybe we’ll visit the city on a sunnier day. Would you like that?

This is my favorite dinosaur! I’m not sure why, actually. It’s not the biggest or the strongest or the scariest, but I still think it’s really cool. It’s got a funny name - think you can say Parasaurolophus? And scientists think it used the crest on its head to make noise! Do you have a favorite dino, sweetheart?

There she is! Sue’s one of the best T-Rex fossils ever found! Pretty cool, huh? We know from the bones that a lot of stuff happened to her - she got hurt a lot. But she was a fighter! Just like you, right? Here, lemme take your picture with her!

I think this is my favorite part of the museum. This is where the stuffed animals are- yeah, like your plushies! Only these are REAL animals, not cotton and fluff. They used to be alive, and now they aren’t. You’re right, it is kind of sad. But it’s also kind of happy too. These animals help scientists learn new things, and artists come from all over to draw them and paint them, and everyone who visits gets to see how amazing they are. It’s sad that they’re dead, but it’s happy to think about when they were alive. Are you ready to go in?

You’re right, they’re deer! Just like we see sometimes when we’re driving! The papa deer is watching for predators while the mama deer helps the baby find food. They take good care of their baby, don’t they?

Oh my goodness! It’s a good thing your teddy isn’t that big. There’d be no room in the bed for you! You’re right, he does look cuddly. But if we saw a bear like him walking around, we wouldn’t get this close. Because bears are very strong, and they might hurt us if we got too close. Oh no, it’s not mean, sweetheart. The bear wants to protect himself. He doesn’t know how nice we are. Well, giving him food wouldn’t be the best idea either… It’s okay, sweetie. Sometimes the nicest thing to do is give someone their space.

Wow, I always forget that moose are this big! Moose? Mooses? Hm, I’m not sure what to call more than one. What do you think?

Look at that bear cub riding piggyback! Isn’t that silly? And you’re right, the big bear’s face is silly too! What do you think he’s eating? Maybe bugs? No, not “ew”, it’s good for the bear. Everyone needs to eat, and sometimes they eat things that are a little different. No big deal.

Oh, speaking of eating, I’m hungry! What about you?

We can eat right next to the animals. Now, let me get the food out… Sweetheart, stay over here please. I know you want to look at the seals, but you’re going to get crumbs on the floor! We can look at them after we eat, okay? Thank you, sweetie.

Alright, it’s about time to leave. I know, honey, I’m having fun too! But the museum will be closing soon - and you look like you could use a nap. I promise we’ll come back again soon, alright? Yes, pinkie promise. Okay, let’s go, sweetheart.

~🐘~🦑~🌈~🦕~🪨~🏙~🦖~🦌~🐻~🍽~

[littleenbyheart-archive]

Second Chances (Life Is Full of Them): An Introduction

Hi guys! While my other Kidheart series stalled out for a while, I decided to try my hand at something a little different for another shot at a series for Kidhearts about Kidhearts. I’m writing AU fanfic, in an attempt to have some fun while writing and actually finish a story to share with you guys! Story will be below the cut!

So...I’m taking the characters from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and putting them in my own little universe, so you don’t have to watch the series to know what’s going on. I’ll list the cast at the beginning (with pictures) and then the story will start. Ready? Let’s go!

Cast:

Phil Coulson

Melinda May

Leopold Fitz

Jemma Simmons

Skye (Legally Daisy Johnson)

Phil Coulson had been through a long day. There had been the not-so small issue of a hack archeologist trying to pass off fake dinosaur bones to the museum downtown and threatening him when he backed up the branch’s curator and said they didn’t want any fakes. And the issue of the kindergarten field trip which had nearly destroyed an interactive exhibit. And he didn’t even want to think about all the paper work that had landed on his desk. All he really wanted was to go home, maybe take a nap, maybe make some tea, and then have dinner with his housemates and fall asleep at a relatively normal hour. Of course, fate had other plans.

The second Coulson walked into the bright yellow house everyone in the neighborhood affectionately called “The Bus,” he was smacked in the face with a throw pillow from the couch and the sound of three screaming individuals having the time of their lives.

He closed the door and sighed as said three individuals ran through the foyer, each armed with at least one pillow and battling the others. Skye, Leo, and Jemma looked like they could run around the house forever until Coulson cleared his throat softly. Skye slid to a stop in front of Coulson on the wood flooring, still glowing from the exercise, but now very much nervous at being caught.

Jemma nearly slammed into her after her sudden stop. The girl’s ponytail was coming loose and she took the break to tie it up back into its usual severe position.

Leo was the last in line, slipping onto the floor trying to backtrack in his socks.

“You okay, Leo?” Coulson asked.

Leo rubbed at his head and nodded.

Coulson sighed. While three of his housemates were adult on paper, they frequently age regressed after work, and it seemed like today was no different. He quickly looked over the three kids he was a Caringheart to when needed.

Skye seemed how she normally did in her heartspace, which meant she was hovering around two years old. Jemma looked a little sheepish at being caught, but otherwise fine as well, so she would be six. Leo was rubbing his head where he knocked it, but wasn’t crying or swearing. That was normal behavior for him hurt and regressed, so he must be nine.

“All three of you are going to put the pillows back where you found them and follow me to the kitchen, then, since none of you are hurt,” Coulson said.

The kids nodded and went to return the pillows, so Coulson went to the kitchen, walking past the stairs to the first floor on the right of him, and the living room on his left. On the other side of the wall of the living room furthest from the entrance, was the kitchen. Coulson grabbed three glasses from the cabinet above the sink, and filled them with grape juice.

Skye walked in first, hugging him. “Hi, Papa.”

Coulson chuckled. “Hi, Skye.”

“Sorry for running in the house,” she mumbled into his shoulder.

“Thank you for apologizing, Skye, though that isn’t what I’m most worried about.”

“What’re you worried about, then?” Skye asked.

“We’ll talk when Leo and Jemma are here too,” Coulson said.

Leo walked into the kitchen, still rubbing his head. “Jemma had to use the loo quickly, she’ll be here in a minute,” he mumbled.

Coulson nodded. “Good to know, thanks.”

Leo tilted his head forward and made his way to the juice resting on the counter.

Jemma walked into the kitchen and waved at Coulson. He took a step back from Skye. “Skye, Jemma, help yourself to some juice. You need to stay hydrated.”

Once everyone who needed something to drink had a few sips, Coulson cleared his throat again. “Kids, what have Momma and I told you about being in heartspace when we’re not here?”

“To call you immediately when we know what’s going on no matter what,” Skye recited.

“Good. And why is that?” Coulson asked.

“So that if there’s an emergency, you’ll have someone here to help fix it, whether it’s you, Momma, or someone both of you trust,” Leo explained.

Coulson nodded. “And yet no one was here to look after you when I got home, and Momma didn’t call me letting me know you were feeling like this, meaning you didn’t call her. And I know you didn’t try my cell. So how long did you stay here without supervision while in heartspace?”

The three kids looked at each other guiltily. “I tried to be an adult,” Leo said. “I don’t know when I changed, I just sorta...did. I made sure no one got hurt, though!”

“And that’s good, Leo,” Coulson assured. “But you’re not an adult who’s responsible for your sisters in heartspace.”

Leo nodded. “I’m sorry. I should’ve called when I noticed.”

“Yes, you should have. And I don’t doubt that next time, you will.” Coulson smiled, showing the kids he wasn’t mad. “I’m glad you three are okay. But as punishment, there will be no more cartoons tonight, okay? Don’t pretend you weren’t watching them before your pillow fight.”

His kids nodded, and Skye giggled a little at the mention of watching cartoons.

“Okay. Then what would you like to do now?” Coulson asked.

At that question, his kids burst out talking over each other, eager to have their ideas heard. Coulson raised his hands. “One at a time, please,” he pleaded.

“Color!” SKye said.

“Board games?” Jemma asked hopefully.

“Or we could go on an adventure outside!” Leo added.

Coulson looked to a corner of the room, deep in thought. “Jemma, bring a board game you want to play outside, Skye, bring a coloring book and crayons. We’re going to have an outside afternoon with games and adventures.”

So they went outside into their backyard, complete with large fence for privacy, and Skye colored and Leo went on adventures from his mind and Jemma played board games with Coulson until May came back from her work as an MMA instructor.

She walked out to the patio in the back and sat down next to Coulson. “Afternoon,” she said benignly.

“Momm!” Skye squealed, waving madly at her from where she was sitting on the steps leading into the yard.

“Hi, Momma!” Jemma said after making a move on the chess board which was between her and Coulson.

Leo bounded in from the backyard. “Momma, I’ve been on an adventure! Want to join me?”

May smiled slightly at all of them. “I’d rather sit right now, Leo, thank you. But I’m glad to see you three chose this over cartoons.”

“Oh, their viewing of cartoons has been revoked for the night. I came home to them having a pillow fight throughout the house, alone.”

“Ah,” May said knowingly. “I would have done more than just taken away their cartoons.”

“They were feeling guilty, though,” Coulson defended simply.

May smiled fully. “It’s almost time for dinner, and since it’s Friday, it’s order-in night. Anyone want pizza?”

“Pizza?! Yes!” all three kids exclaimed.

May nodded. “I figured as much, so I swung by the pizza parlor on the way home.”

“Is it in the oven?” Coulson asked.

May nodded again. “Ready when we are.”

Coulson stood. “Then let’s get everything inside and get ready to eat.”

Clean-up was quick enough and soom everyone was sitting at the table, a slice of pizza on everybody’s plate. “How was work?” Jemma asked everyone.

“Awful, thanks for asking,” Coulson laughed.

“It was all right,” May said.

“They didn’t need an engineer in the think tank as much today. I mostly played games on my computer,” Leo said noncommittally.

“Codin was same-old same -old,” Skye shrugged.

“Well, teaching was fantastic!” Jemma gushed. “One of my biochem students, quick as a whip, asked me the greatest question...”

Coulson dutifully listened and nodded along to Jemma’s story, even if most of the science of it went over his head. Leo interjected at one point when even he was lost, but aside from that, Jemma held most of the dinner conversation.

After dinner, May kept the kids entertained while Coulson checked his work e-mail to ensure the museum was okay, and when he was done with that all of them started a game of Pictionary.”

“A dog!” Skye called out. “A cat! A zebra!”

“Zebra?” Leo asked skeptically. “Are you sure?”

“Knowing Kemma it’s some kind of molecule...” May muttered in thought.

Coulson glanced at Skye and noticed she was yawning. “I think it’s time for bed,” he announced.

Jemma groaned. “It was a groundhog,” she said. “You were really close that time, Skye.”

“I’m always close!” Skye declared.

“Then how come you never win?” Leo asked.

Skye stuck her tongue out at him in response.

“None of that tonight, kids,” May warned.

With minimal arguing, everyone got upstairs and completed their nightly routines. Coulson got Skye settled in her room, all baby blues and baby dolls. “Have a good night’s sleep, baby,” he murmured, kissing her forehead.

Next, he moved to Jemma’s room, done in yellow with purple accents. She was already asleep, cuddling her stuffed Eeyore, so he just pulled her sheets back over her shoulders and kissed her temple.

In Leo’s room, the boy was sitting up in bed, waiting for him. Coulson smiled, sitting on the edge of the bed. “Did you bring the monster spray?” Leo asked.

Coulson chuckled. “I put it in your nightstand drawer, remember?”

“Oh, right,” Leo mumbled, pulling the bottle out.

Coulson took it off his hands with a small thank you and sprayed the “Monster-B-Gone” (water) under the bed, in the closet, and out in the hallway. “No monsters here tonight,” Leo and Coulson said at the same time.

Leo nodded solemnly at Coulson’s good night, and Coulson went downstairs, where May was waiting with two glasses filled with sparkling cider. “One hour,” she told him. “Then I have to get to bed if I want to wake up on time.”

“One hour is all I need with my best friend,” Coulson said. “TV? Or books?”

“TV,” May said. “I just need to sit and rest.”

“That’s doable,” Coulson responded.

“Just remember: this isn’t a date,” May warned.

“Of course not,” Coulson assured. “Just two friends watching TV.”

May nodded, and the two got settled in the living room, with the TV droning in the background of their thoughts. “Tomorrow is Saturday,” May said eventually. “Got any plans for the kids?”

Coulson hummed. “Well...”

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Graduate position: UGreifswald.ResponsesChangingEnvironments

*PhD position in **responses to changing environments **in bats* Application deadline: 19.01.2018. The Zoological Institute and Museum at the University of Greifswald invites applications for a PhD position within the Research Training Group RESPONSE: *http://bit.ly/2me4CDR . Starting date: April 1st 2018. Duration: 3 years. Salary: German salary scale (TV-L 13, 65%). *Project A3: Life history responses of bats to climate change * *Supervisors: *Prof. Dr. Gerald Kerth & Dr. Caroline Schöner, Applied Zoology and Conservation *Thesis topic: *Relative importance of genetic and plastic responses to adverse weather conditions in long-lived bats. *Background: *Recent studies have reported decreasing body size as a response to climate change in various taxa (*Nat. Clim. Change 1: 401*). As body size and fecundity are often positively correlated, shrinking body size may lead to higher extinction risk. Interestingly, in a few species increasing body size in response to climate change has been observed, which may occur if warm weather is required for growth. However, the fitness implications of such poorly documented trends are unclear. Bats are particularly interesting for studying the potential impact of climate change on individual fitness and ultimately on population persistence, as bats are long-lived, of high conservation concern and as they show behaviours that allow them to cope with weather variation, such as social thermoregulation, torpor, and roost switching. *Goals of the projects: *This project aims at assessing to which fitness-relevant responses to adverse weather conditions are caused by genetic factors or phenotypic plasticity, and whether the relative impact of genetic versus plastic responses depends on local conditions or the respective species. Existing field and genetic data of up to 25 years will be combined with new (experimental) data collected during the project period to quantify the influence of weather conditions on the behaviour, morphology, reproductive success and/or survival of four bat species (*M. bechsteinii*, *M. daubentonii, M. nattereri*, *Plecotus auritus*). Multigenerational family pedigrees will allow us to measure the heritability of body size and other potential fitness relevant traits such as departure timing from the hibernaculum or age at first reproduction, using parent-offspring regression and animal models. We will test whether behavioural, demographic and morphological responses to varying weather conditions differ between syntopic bat species. We will also analyse to which extent local environmental conditions and social factors influence the fitness consequences of the observed responses to weather conditions. The relative importance of larger body size in response to increasing temperature, roosting behaviour and social factors (e.g. position in the social network) on fitness (survival, reproductive success) will be investigated together with local partners within RESPONSE and associated partners from the Max-Planck-Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock. *Required skills: * - • Strong background in behavioral and evolutionary ecology - • Knowledge of statistics, data handling and graphics in R - • Expertise with databases such as mySQL - • Basic knowledge in modelling and computer simulations - • Profound knowledge of English (speaking and writing); basic knowledge in German - • Expertise in field methods (preferentially with bats) and to a lesser degree in population genetic techniques - • Organizational skills and ability to work in a team - • Driving license and willingness to use own car for field-work To apply, please visit our website: *http://bit.ly/2BZkXX0 * Applications (application form, CV, degree certificates, motivation letter, two recommendation letters) can be sent to: *kerstin.wulf1@uni-greifswald.de*, *gerald.kerth@uni-greifswald.de Forms and more information can be found here: *http://bit.ly/2me4CDR s.puechmaille@gmail.com via Gmail

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Kusama Arrives. Is It Worth Your Time to Wait in Line?

The Eiffel Tower or the Great Mosque of Mecca; the new iPhone or the latest Harry Potter book; Di Fara Pizza or that bakery that made Cronuts happen a few years back. For some experiences you just have to wait — and the exhibitions of Yayoi Kusama, the 90-year-old Japanese mastermind of obsessively dotted paintings, hallucinatory pumpkins and sometimes blandly decorative installations, have become the art world’s equivalent of Star Wars premieres.

Ignored for decades in New York and Tokyo, driven to madness, even plagiarized by less talented men, Ms. Kusama is enjoying a late and not unmerited surge in public visibility. (She even warrants her own balloon in this month’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, alongside Pikachu, SpongeBob and the Elf on the Shelf.) She has become a brand — a process she has enjoyed and fully participated in — and drawn tens of thousands of fans worldwide to her “Infinity Mirrored Rooms,” which produce an infinite regress of colored reflections.

The David Zwirner gallery, commendably, is treating “Yayoi Kusama: Every Day I Pray for Love,” which opens Saturday and runs through Dec. 14, like any other exhibition: free to the public. (It anticipates 100,000 visitors and promises to update the public on wait times via Twitter and Instagram.) If you want to see her newest “Infinity” room in New York, subtitled “Dancing Lights That Flew Up to the Universe,” prepare to wait up to two hours, and don’t expect to stay inside longer than a minute.

Worth the wait? That depends on how much you value your time — and what you expect of art in the age of Instagram. The smartphone, with its ever-finer cameras and ever-shinier screens, now shapes our experience of art as thoroughly as the church did in 14th-century Italy or the unadorned, white-cube galleries did for midcentury abstract painters. Ms. Kusama’s art eases into the smartphone screen with stunning elegance; but troubling that screen is another matter.

No wait will be required to see the rest of the exhibition, which occupies two floors of the gallery’s 20th Street location. A compelling suite of 42 new paintings on the ground floor is most worth your time. These hot-colored, square-format paintings, hung on a single wall like a cryptic frieze, deploy Ms. Kusama’s own hermetic symbology of floating cells, bristling cilia, a calligraphic woman’s profile and countless stippled dots.

In the same large gallery is an icy sculpture installation, scattered around the floor like puddles after the rain. These repeated steel forms, aiming for what Ms. Kusama called “self-obliteration” in a 1968 film, feel like a welcome throwback to her earlier work in sculpture and installation. Certainly it’s more challenging than the garden-ornament sculptures upstairs, some sporting smiley faces and all covered in dots: her most frequent self-obliteration motif, though one that too often becomes cute and tame.

Ms. Kusama first produced a mirrored installation in 1965, at the Castellane Gallery in New York, where she placed thousands of soft, polka-dot-studded phalli against reflective surfaces. In her newest “Infinity” room, a single, suspended globe of light illuminates the mirrored chamber, then a second, then a third, until the room becomes a constellation of lanterns with you at its nucleus. Then, in a flash, the white globes flash to red; you have a few seconds of colored light, and the room goes dark again.

It’s a beautiful effect. (Or it was for me, alone in the room; you’ll be sharing the experience with up to three other visitors at a time.) But you needn’t be Dr. Freud to diagnose that the narcissism of a new selfie-devoted public has canceled, utterly, the goals of self-obliteration that Ms. Kusama intends her infinite installations to achieve. The self cannot dissolve when the selfie is the goal.

And the erotic or psychedelic excesses of Ms. Kusama’s early art are long gone, too. In her orgiastic “body festivals” of the 1960s, she encouraged audiences to slather one another with paint; now others must be cropped out of the cameraphone frame. Sex and drugs are nothing compared with the thrill of “likes.”

This is not necessarily to fault Ms. Kusama’s art for becoming more contemplative and isolating in her later years. But those lines outside confirm that the “Infinity” rooms have become perhaps the paradigmatic art of the cameraphone age, which has seen the interactive (or “relational”) art of the 1990s and early 2000s give way to art condemned to be treated as backdrops for photo shoots. Other examples include Chris Burden’s “Urban Light” outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, James Turrell’s “Aten Reign” at the Guggenheim in 2013, but also fun-house amusements that are only sort of art, like the Rain Room, Random International’s 2013 immersive environment, or the fluorescent “art experiences” called Meow Wolf.

Keep your phone in your pocket, or pull it out and strike a pose. There’s no “wrong way” to see art. What concerns me, instead, is how artists respond to new conditions of seeing in an era of smartphones. Artists can respond by reflecting and distorting this new visual field, like the painters Jacqueline Humphries and Laura Owens. They can incorporate phones into their artistic project — like the brilliant Lithuanians behind the performance “Sun & Sea (Marina),” winner of this year’s Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, who positioned their phone-wielding audience above the singers. They can shut them out entirely, like Tania Bruguera or Marina Abramovic … or, indeed, like Madonna.

The project of the contemporary artist has to be to query and rumble this new visual regime, rather than to ease into the smartphone frame. Otherwise … well, last year I went to a bat mitzvah in Westchester that featured, in addition to the usual sushi station and party favors, a counterfeit Infinity Room with perfect lighting. It wasn’t a Kusama, but the selfies my boyfriend and I took looked fantastic.

Yayoi Kusama: Every Day I Pray for Love

From Saturday to Dec. 14 at David Zwirner, 537 West 20th Street, Manhattan; davidzwirner.com.

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You’ll get to spend one minute in the artist’s newest “Infinity Mirrored Room” at David Zwirner in Chelsea. Expect dancing lights to infinity, or as far as your camera phone allows.

Kusama Arrives. Is It Worth Your Time to Wait in Line?

The Eiffel Tower or the Great Mosque of Mecca; the new iPhone or the latest Harry Potter book; Di Fara Pizza or that bakery that made Cronuts happen a few years back. For some experiences you just have to wait — and the exhibitions of Yayoi Kusama, the 90-year-old Japanese mastermind of obsessively dotted paintings, hallucinatory pumpkins and sometimes blandly decorative installations, have become the art world’s equivalent of Star Wars premieres.

Ignored for decades in New York and Tokyo, driven to madness, even plagiarized by less talented men, Ms. Kusama is enjoying a late and not unmerited surge in public visibility. (She even warrants her own balloon in this month’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, alongside Pikachu, SpongeBob and the Elf on the Shelf.) She has become a brand — a process she has enjoyed and fully participated in — and drawn tens of thousands of fans worldwide to her “Infinity Mirrored Rooms,” which produce an infinite regress of colored reflections.

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The David Zwirner gallery, commendably, is treating “Yayoi Kusama: Every Day I Pray for Love,” which opens Saturday and runs through Dec. 14, like any other exhibition: free to the public. (It anticipates 100,000 visitors and promises to update the public on wait times via Twitter and Instagram.) If you want to see her newest “Infinity” room in New York, subtitled “Dancing Lights That Flew Up to the Universe,” prepare to wait up to two hours, and don’t expect to stay inside longer than a minute.

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Worth the wait? That depends on how much you value your time — and what you expect of art in the age of Instagram. The smartphone, with its ever-finer cameras and ever-shinier screens, now shapes our experience of art as thoroughly as the church did in 14th-century Italy or the unadorned, white-cube galleries did for midcentury abstract painters. Ms. Kusama’s art eases into the smartphone screen with stunning elegance, but troubling that screen is another matter.

No wait will be required to see the rest of the exhibition, which occupies two floors of the gallery’s 20th Street location. A compelling suite of 42 new paintings on the ground floor is most worth your time. These hot-colored, square-format paintings, hung on a single wall like a cryptic frieze, deploy Ms. Kusama’s own hermetic symbology of floating cells, bristling cilia, a calligraphic woman’s profile, and countless stippled dots.

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In the same large gallery is an icy sculpture installation, scattered around the floor like puddles after the rain. These repeated steel forms, aiming for what Ms. Kusama called “self-obliteration” in a 1968 film, feel like a welcome throwback to her earlier work in sculpture and installation. Certainly, it’s more challenging than the garden-ornament sculptures upstairs, some sporting smiley faces and all covered in dots: her most frequent self-obliteration motif, though one that too often becomes cute and tame.

Ms. Kusama first produced a mirrored installation in 1965, at the Castellane Gallery in New York, where she placed thousands of soft, polka-dot-studded phalli against reflective surfaces. In her newest “Infinity” room, a single, suspended globe of light illuminates the mirrored chamber, then a second, then a third, until the room becomes a constellation of lanterns with you at its nucleus. Then, in a flash, the white globes flash to red; you have a few seconds of colored light, and the room goes dark again.

It’s a beautiful effect. (Or it was for me, alone in the room; you’ll be sharing the experience with up to three other visitors at a time.) But you needn’t be Dr. Freud to diagnose that the narcissism of a new selfie-devoted public has canceled, utterly, the goals of self-obliteration that Ms. Kusama intends her infinite installations to achieve. The self cannot dissolve when the selfie is the goal.

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And the erotic or psychedelic excesses of Ms. Kusama’s early art are long gone, too. In her orgiastic “body festivals” of the 1960s, she encouraged audiences to slather one another with paint; now others must be cropped out of the cameraphone frame. Sex and drugs are nothing compared with the thrill of “likes.”

This is not necessarily to fault Ms. Kusama’s art for becoming more contemplative and isolating in her later years. But those lines outside confirm that the “Infinity” rooms have become perhaps the paradigmatic art of the cameraphone age, which has seen the interactive (or “relational”) art of the 1990s and early 2000s give way to art condemned to be treated as backdrops for photoshoots. Other examples include Chris Burden’s “Urban Light” outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, James Turrell’s “Aten Reign” at the Guggenheim in 2013, but also fun-house amusements that are the only sort of art, like the Rain Room, Random International’s 2013 immersive environment, or the fluorescent “art experiences” called Meow Wolf.

Keep your phone in your pocket, or pull it out and strike a pose. There’s no “wrong way” to see art. What concerns me, instead, is how artists respond to new conditions of seeing in an era of smartphones. Artists can respond by reflecting and distorting this new visual field, like the painters Jacqueline Humphries and Laura Owens. They can incorporate phones into their artistic project — like the brilliant Lithuanians behind the performance “Sun & Sea (Marina),” winner of this year’s Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, who positioned their phone-wielding audience above the singers. They can shut them out entirely, like Tania Bruguera or Marina Abramovic … or, indeed, like Madonna.

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The project of the contemporary artist has to be to query and rumble this new visual regime, rather than to ease into the smartphone frame. Otherwise … well, last year I went to a bat mitzvah in Westchester that featured, in addition to the usual sushi station and party favors, a counterfeit Infinity Room with perfect lighting. It wasn’t a Kusama, but the selfies my boyfriend and I took looked fantastic.