#on february 27th 1928 he starred in this!

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did i just put this entire newsreel into my senpai biography? the answer is yes! ;D

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The 4400 AU

In short: Time Travel Shenanigans AU where Katsuki Bakugou is a first generation Japanese American immigrant who was born in 1936 and got sent to the future in 1952. Eijirou Kirishima is a gay american punk from new york living through the AIDs epidemic, born in 1970 and sent to the future in 1986. More information below the cut!  

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Do you know The 4400? Its a show where, over the last 50 years, there have been 4,400 specific disappearances. In the modern day, a ball of light is on a collision course with earth. Before it crashes it slows down, then in a bright flash it deposits all 4,400 of those people. Not one of them has aged a day since their initial disappearance. By all accounts, they were just at the spot and time of their disappearance mere moments ago, even though many occurred decades previously. They’re held for 6 weeks by the government before its determined that they and their families have the right for them to be freed, on the condition that they return for weekly check-ins. Interestingly, after their reappearance, the 4400 begin to display supernatural abilities.... 

My friend @albino-pony suggested this au! Its one I’ve gotten really into even though I’ve only ever seen the first episode of the show. I’m not entirely sure how to format this so its interesting, but I figure that if you clicked on the readmore and you’re still reading, then you’re ok with some info dumps. So here’s these boys individual timelines. TW For era typical homophobia and racism. 

Katsuki

          Mitsuki was born in 1914 in Japan’s Aomori prefecture. She was born with albinism, giving her blonde hair and blue eyes. In 1928 Mitsuki immigrated with her family to the United States at age 14, where they were processed at Angel Island, and moved into San Francisco shortly thereafter. She, her parents, and older brother all got jobs as soon as they could. In 1932, amidst the Great Depression, she met Masaru Bakugou and married him in the spring of 1934.

In 1936 Masaru and Mitsuki had their first child, a boy who inherited her albinism, and named him Katsuki. They do their best to provide for him, but it's the Great Depression and they're immigrants who only speak English so well. They scrape by, providing for their boy as best they can. They normally leave their son in the care of an Inko Midoriya, a fellow Japanese immigrant who is being supported by her fairly successful husband. 

 Then in 1939, things are stabilizing again. Life is getting easier. They still work themselves to the bone but they don't go to bed starving so their growing son can have his best chance. In 1940 life is pretty good. Katsuki's four years old. Mitsuki has a job as a seamstress, and Masaru has an office job. Life is looking up. 

December 7th of 1941, Pearl Harbor is bombed. Americans die. Masaru and Mitsuki are scared about the possibilities of war and what it could mean for their little one. But they decide to do their part and work as hard as they can for their new home, because they're Americans, and they love this country and the hope it holds for their son. 

February 1942, the Bakugous are detained and put in a Japanese Internment camp in southern California, where they spend the next three years. Katsuki is five years old when they’re forced out of their home, and he remembers the train ride. He remembers his father holding him as they walked. He remembers the cold. He remembers the three coldest winters he ever felt, and he remembers the burning blazing heat of the three hottest summers he ever endured. He remembers the scorching desert of Manzanar. He remembers the stuffy air of the tight quarters. He remembers. 

September 1945, The Bakugous finally leave Manzanar. They’re among the last to go. They go home to San Francisco and try to move on. Katsuki is nine years old. His parents are disturbed at how bad anti-japanese sentiment has gotten in the time they were at Manzanar.  Mitsuki finds an old magazine in a waiting room with an article on how to tell Japanese people from Chinese. Masaru is spat on and called various racial slurs. They're terrified for their son, and do their best to shield him from it. When Inko Midoriya’s husband is killed only a few blocks away because he was Japanese and his murderer talked about how his brother was killed in action by them, Mitsuki doesn't let her son play outside anymore.

December 1945, Mitsuki realizes she’s pregnant again.

September 19th, 1946, Tsubaki Bakugou is born.

February 27th, 1947, Tsubaki Bakugou dies of whooping cough at four months old, her family lacking access to the vaccine. Katsuki is eleven years old, and is the one to find her body after his mother asked him to check on her. 

June 1947, Mitsuki pays closer attention to her remaining child, terrified of losing him too. She gets worried. Mitsuki starts to notice how fond he is of his friends, and how little he seems to care about girls.

1948,  She starts to worry about the way he looks at other boys and the movie stars of his favorite pictures. She asks him one night if he likes boys better than girls, and when he says yes she cries and tells him that he has to learn to like girls, and that liking boys is bad and he can't do it anymore.  She doesn't let him go to the cinema anymore, and doesn't let him go out at all with his friends unless Izuku is there with him, because she knows Izuku will tell his mom if anything weird happens, and that Inko will tell her. She doesn't tell Masaru.

1949, When Katsuki is 13, Mitsuki and Inko talk, and they end up sending both of their sons to military school. Inko hopes it will help her son to stand up for himself, and Mitsuki hopes it will teach Katsuki discipline and order. It helps Izuku. It tames Katsuki's attitude toward adults, but his treatment of the other kids only gets worse. The only thing he learns there is how to pretend.

1952,  Katsuki is 16, he's visiting home. He fights with his mother. They call each other all manner of horrible things. He tells her he never wants to see her again. She tells him thats fine, and to go. Katsuki goes for a walk to clear his head.

He never comes home.

Eijirou

Eijirou is born on October 16th, 1970 in upstate new york. His timeline is shorter than Katsuki’s because I dont know as much about 70s/80s culture in new york that would have affected a young japanese american man, so theres only a few really important events in his life that I know for sure of.

July 28, 1982 - Eijirou is 11 years old and sees Queen live on their Hot Space Tour in NYC, and it blows his fucking mind. It instills in him a love of music, and whenever he needs to psych himself up for something he listens to those songs and remembers that energy. 

1984 - He comes out as gay to his parents and is kicked out. He takes a bus to the city and ends up being embraced and taken care of by some members of the punk scene and NYC gay communities. 

1985 - The man who took care of Eijirou, Taishiro Toyomitsu, better known by his stage name Fatgum, dies of HIV related complications. 

1986 - On his way back to the shitty apartment he shares with his bandmates from a concert they were a part of, Eijirou stops to pee in an alley way or something, and disappears in a flash of light. 

When the 4400 appear back on earth in the modern day, many experience small physical changes. For example, Eijirou and Katsuki have red eyes, and Izuku’s hair is slightly green. Todoroki’s hair is half white, and half red. 

People Who Reappeared in the 4400 and When/Where

Touya Todoroki - 1923 - Japan

Tenya Iida - 1924 - Great Britain (London)

Shoto Todoroki - 1930 - Japan

Yagi Toshinori - 1946 - America

Katsuki Bakugou - 1952 - America (San Francisco, California)

Izuku Midoriya - 1952 - America (San Francisco, California)

Fumikage Tokoyami - 1961 - America (West Virginia) 

Hawks (whats your real fucking name u shit) - 1961 - America (West Virginia)

Yuga Aoyama - 1968 - France 

Tooru Hagakure - 1970 - New Zealand 

Denki Kaminari - 1977 - America

Ochako Uraraka - 1985 - United Kingdom

Eijirou Kirishima - 1986 - America (New York, New York) 

Momo Yaoyarozu - 1989 - West Germany (Berlin) 

Shota Aizawa - 1992 - Japan (Tokyo)

Ashido Mina - 1996 - Japan

Hanta Sero - 2000 - China (Yunnan Province) 

Kyouka Jiro - 2005 - America 

Tsuyu Asui - Literally like a week before they reappeared - America

More will be added as they’re decided on!

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AGATHA BARNES TIMELINE. {1918 - 2014}

November 21st 1918: Sergeant Alec McKinnon and Giovanna Bellini flee discrimination in Europe looking for a new life in America. The pair are expecting twins so hastily settle down in Brooklyn.

December 1st 1918: Elisa and Agatha McKinnon are born.

February 17th 1919: Giovanna returns to work in a local ward, with the help of neighbour Sarah Rogers, a kind woman who had recently lost her husband to the war and left with a newborn. The two grow a strong bond.

March 13th 1919: Agatha McKinnon and Steven Rogers meet for the first time.

October 26th 1923: Giovanna takes Agatha and her sister to their first gymnastics class in Queens.

June 30th 1925: Steve gets into a fight with some bullies at school, James Buchanan Barnes - a boy in the grade above - saves him.

July 4th 1925: Alec McKinnon takes his family to Coney Island, along with Steve for his 7th birthday to which he brings his new friend ‘Bucky’ Barnes who pulls his younger daughter’s pigtails and pokes at her rosy cheeks, he probably just likes her.

July 12th 1925: Agatha McKinnon pushes Bucky into a puddle after he kissed her because Steve said he should, well at least that’s what he told her.

July 24th 1926: Steve, Bucky and the McKinnon girls spend the hot summer day in the street having a water fight.

April 9th 1928: The trio visit Coney Island again, this time unsupervised. 

They have an interesting day. First Steve vomited once off the Cyclone, Bucky spent all his money and Agatha accidentally stained ketchup on her pearl white dress. To get home they then had to hitch a ride on the back of a freezer truck.

May 7th 1931: Bucky and Agatha go on their first date of many at the theatre, despite her initial hesitance, it was actually a good time. They go see The Public Enemy starring James Cagney.

September 19th 1931: They become official, much to Steve’s joy and dismay.

August 14th 1934: The couple try and set Steve up with one Agatha’s friends, it goes about as well as you’d think leaving them stuck in the pouring rain after the girl had ran off.

August 29th 1934: Agatha becomes a regional champion gymnast.

December 18th 1934: Bucky and Agatha lose their virginity to each-other.

January 16th 1935: Steve gets into another fight, he manages to run from the bullies.

June 10th 1935: Bucky promises to get Agatha a ring once she’s done with school and they’ll get a big house in country and have twelve little babies running around.

February 23rd 1936: Agatha is offered a spot on the Olympic gymnastics team to compete later in the year. Her friends don’t want her to go, nor do her family. They’d heard the brutal stories of Germany’s narcotic leader, so she decides against it.

October 15th 1936: Sarah Rogers passes from Tuberculosis.

March 12th 1937: Bucky proposes to Agatha after going to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

December 6th 1937: The pair get married in a local church. 

But prior to tying the knot, Bucky tells her about his plans to enlist in the army with her father and that he’d already been accepted; it takes Steve to make sure Agatha doesn’t smack him over the head once she reaches the end of the aisle. Elisa was sure she’d never seen a bride tearing-up before signing the papers.

December 20th 1937: Bucky leaves for Camp McCoy, Agatha refuses to see him off instead locking herself in their shared bedroom. Her father left the week prior, now promoted to Major General back in Scotland.

Time after time Steve attempted to get into the army only to be turned around, selfishly, Agatha was quite glad. She found out she was pregnant soon after and didn’t want to do it without having her best-friend by her side. Plus, as much as she knew Steve’s heart was there he’d be trampled the minute he arrived, with no Bucky.

August 27th 1938: Marie Ellen Barnes is born.

September 3rd 1939: Alec McKinnon is deployed onto the front-line as Britain announce war on Germany. Agatha and her sister have both started working for the local hospital, following in their mother’s footsteps.

January 6th 1941: Alec McKinnon is declared a Prisoner of War after losing to Japan in Singapore.

May 26th 1943: Bucky returns home for the first time in years before deploying to the UK. 

He to sees his three-year-old daughter for the first - and final - time. The trio visit the Stark Expo and the usual banter ensues but when the couple arrive home Agatha makes it clear, once again how she feels about the war and warns Bucky to caution after what happened to her father and she doesn’t want to see him suffer the same fate to keep her content he leaves his dog-tags with her.

October 2nd 1943: Bucky becomes a Prisoner of War, unbeknown to Agatha who has been left alone once Steve managed to get into the army. 

November 13th 1943: Steve saves Bucky as Captain America, they return to camp.

February 22nd 1945: Bucky Barnes is pronounced dead, Steve lets her know over the phone.

March 1st 1945: The Winter-Solider Program begins.

April 16th 1945: Armin Zola locates a distraught Agatha Barnes after beating it out of Bucky when he refused to cooperate.

April 19th 1945: HYDRA capture Agatha on the street and begin using her to force Bucky back into the brainwashed state, using her screams as a clear trigger. When he heard it, it would force his brain to forget and they’d stop hurting her. As the years went by he did just forget why it would alter him because he hadn’t ever seen Agatha since 1943.

By 1955 HYDRA had managed to keep Bucky’s psyche under-control meaning there was no longer need for Agatha so, instead of risking a breach they shoved her into a cryogenic freezer except this time it wouldn’t be re-opened, leaving her trapped in the body of a twenty-six-year-old.

During this period, some of the bacteria left in her scars fused with what HYDRA had been injecting her with so with the combination of the ice was able link with her body without her knowledge - this gave her, her freeze-power.

September 4th 1945: Alec McKinnon returns home from a war-camp in Japan with three fingers chopped off and the loss of sight in an eye. Only to find one of his children missing, and her daughter being looked after by his other daughter.

November 17th 1970: Giovanna Bellini passes from lung cancer.

July 31st 1972: Alec McKinnon passes from natural causes.

March 28th 1996: Elisa McKinnon passes from lung cancer.

November 1st 2010: On a simple recon mission agent Natasha Romanoff locates a living being in a freezer beneath a supposedly abandoned warehouse, she reports back to Nick Fury. Once out of the tube, their only form of identification; the dog-tags that hung from her neck reading Sgt. J. B. Barnes.

November 4th 2010: Agatha Barnes is freed for the first in 55 years.

November 10th 2010: There is a freak accident in the Shield headquarters after Agatha has a panic-attack in her new, modern surroundings. She’d created a catalyst of smashed windows cause by a mixture of a sudden temperature drop and sharp icicles.

December 23rd 2010: Once safely relocated Agatha back in Brooklyn, she begun actively looking for what remained of her family, including her daughter.

March 5th 2011: Agatha is finally reunited with Marie, as well as her grandchildren and some great-grandchildren, they devise a plan so Agatha can act as their aunt - rather than an ninety-two-year-old great-grandmother that didn’t look a day over 30.

October 4th 2011: Steve Rodger’s body is found.

October 26th 2011: Agatha and Steve meet again, they tell each-other conflicted stories about Bucky, though both presume he is dead. Agatha believing HYDRA killed him  - that’s why they disposed of her and Steve is positive he watched him fall to his death. 

January 19th 2012: Agatha is approached by Nick Fury about the Avengers-Initiative. She sternly declines not interested in harnessing her powers and wants to make-up for lost time with her family, despite his protests he eventually gets the message.

April 22nd 2012: HYDRA agents hidden amongst SHIELD ambush Agatha in her home with the intent of recapture, they all end up dead after she has a mental snap.

July 24th 2013: Steve has a go himself trying to get Agatha to better her powers for the greater good, telling her how proud it would make Bucky.

January 10th 2014: Now in full control, Agatha joins Steve, Natasha and Sam Wilson in order to find out who is after Fury.

January 11th 2014: The Battle of Washington. After Natasha has been compromised, Agatha stepped in to fight the masked-man whilst Steve was preoccupied. It was the first she’d be properly pushed harm but after some bad footing, she was down and at wrong end of a handgun. Thankfully Steve’s shield knocked him off her. Once rejoining the fight the two play essentially a tag-team, one out, one in. Then, the mask came off. She genuinely believed her heart stopped.

January 15th 2014: Steve and Agatha begin their search for the Winter Soldier.

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Born 9th January, 1898, Dame Gracie Fields, was an English actress, singer and comedienne and star of both cinema and music hall. In 1979, seven months before her death, she was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.

Fields was born Grace Stansfield, over a fish and chip shop owned by her grandmother, Sarah Bamford, in Molesworth Street, Rochdale, Lancashire. She made her first stage appearance as a child in 1905. Her two sisters, Edith and Betty, and brother, Tommy, all went on to appear on stage, but Gracie was the most successful. Her professional debut in variety took place in 1910 and she soon gave up her job in the local cotton mill, where she was a half-timer, spending half a week in the mill and the other half at school.

Fields met the comedian and impresario Archie Pitt and they began working together. Pitt gave Fields champagne on her 18th birthday, and wrote in an autograph book to her that he would make her a star. Pitt began to manage her career and they began a relationship; they married in 1923 at Clapham Register Office.

Fields came to major public notice in Mr Tower of London, which appeared in London's West End. Her career accelerated from this point with legitimate dramatic performances and the beginning of a recording career. At one point, Fields was playing three shows a night.

Fields' most famous song, which became her theme, "Sally", was worked into the title of her first film, Sally in Our Alley (1931), which was a major box office hit. She went on to make several films initially in Britain and later in the United States (for which she was paid a record fee of £200,000 for four films). Regardless, she never enjoyed performing without a live audience, and found the process of film-making boring. She tried to opt out of filming, before director Monty Banks persuaded her otherwise, landing her the lucrative Hollywood deal. Fields demanded that the four films be filmed in Britain and not Hollywood, and this was the case.

The final few lines of the song "Sally", which Fields sang at every performance from 1931 onwards, were written by her husband's mistress, Annie Lipman. Fields claimed in later life that she wanted to "Drown blasted Sally with Walter with the aspidistra on top!"

In 1939, Fields suffered a breakdown and went to Capri to recuperate. World War II was declared while she was recovering in Capri, and Fields threw herself into her work and signed up for the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) headed by her old film producer, Basil Dean. Fields travelled to France to entertain the troops in the midst of air-raids, performing on the backs of open lorries and in war-torn areas. She was the first artist to play behind enemy lines in Berlin.

Following her divorce from Archie Pitt, she married Italian-born film director Monty Banks in March 1940. However, because Banks remained an Italian citizen and would have been interned in the United Kingdom after Italy declared war in 1940, she went with him to North America.

Although she continued to spend much of her time entertaining troops and otherwise supporting the war effort outside Britain, this led to a fall-off in her popularity at home. She performed many times for Allied troops, travelling as far as New Guinea, where she received an enthusiastic response from Australian personnel. In late 1945 she toured the South Pacific Islands.

After the war, Fields continued her career less actively. She began performing in Britain again in 1948 headlining the London Palladium. She lived on her beloved Isle of Capri for the remainder of her life, at her home La Canzone Del Mare, a swimming and restaurant complex which Fields' home overlooked. It was favoured by many Hollywood stars during the 1950s, with regular guests including Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Greta Garbo and Noël Coward. Fields regularly performed in TV appearances, being the first entertainer to perform on Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

Her final TV appearance came in January 1979 when she appeared in a special octogenarian edition of The Merv Griffin Show in America, in which she sang the song she popularised in America, "The Biggest Aspidistra in the World".

Fields' health declined in July 1979, when she contracted pneumonia after performing an open-air concert on the Royal Yacht which was docked in Capri's harbour. After a spell in hospital, she seemed to be recovering, but died on 27th September 1979.

These are my colourised versions of two black & White portraits, the first taken by Bassano Ltd, whole-plate glass negative, 24th February 1928, and the second is a promotional studio shot for 20th Century Fox, taken in 1937#

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CHARLES GESMAR

Charles Gesmar was the son of Alfred Geismar who was a fabric designer. He always had a passion in drawing and he was enrolled him in an art school. At a very young age his talent was recognised for its creative and innovative style. He became one of the most popular designers for the 1920 music hall. He started his career with working with the star performer Miss Spinelly and working in the costumes field. At only age 16, he began to draw for Mistinguett, who is still remembered one of the famous actresses of all time. One of the reasons she was so popular was due to Charles Gesmar and his creative influence. 

By looking at the works of Charles Gesmar, it shows his personal interest in sequins and rhinestones, spotlights and lights, luxury, feathers, silks and bright colours. he focused in making his costumes highlight the feminine body and embrace the beauty of the actresses silhouettes. His costumes caused much excitement in that time period. They were seen as seductive and had a sophisticated allure to his art. In November 1923 he went on a tour of a few weeks in the United States. The tour was for Mistinguett named ‘Innocent Eyes.’ He designed the costumes for the entire magazine. 

The year after, he participated in the renown if the Moulin Rouge which was reopening after 10 years of being shut down. This created a big success for him, as the Moulin Rouge wanted to restore the prestigious cabaret and make it worldwide. International fame increased in 1925 as the orders for costumes and posters made its way to theatres in Berlin and Vienna. From that point, his income boomed and he spent money frantically. He did not release the value of money and started taking an interest in opium which was popular at that time period. Sadly, he died at the young age of 27 of pneunomia on the 27th February 1928 in Paris.

During his short career, he produced 12,000 costume designs, 30 program covers and 55 posters. These were in line with the two other Moulin Rouge artists Toulouse-Lautrec and Rene Gruau. His passionate use of colour and graphic virtuosity developed a certain style that is associated with the enjoyment and freeness of the golden age music hall.