#sonia went to go watch oppenheimer

[thechibilitwick]

on their way to go watch the barbie movie!!! ok but now i wanna ramble a bit about soudam movie dates teehee feel free to keep reading

aight ok so gundam has a less strong reaction towards movies (unless it’s animal related, he will then fall to his knees and start monologuing) (or he will start bawling his eyes out if it's sad). kazuichi my boy, on the other hand, is a major pussy. his reactions are always pure and utter raw emotion, if it's scary he will shit his pants, if it's sad he will be a destroyed sobbing mess, etc. etc. it's literally just souda being souda.

gundam's favorite genre is horror, cuz ooh spooky and nice film direction, while kazuichi obv likes action and comedy and what not. (i'd also like to think both of them like animated movies/shows/TV in general, since they probably grew up with it so they bond over that too) gundam's not as fond of comedy but will watch it because he likes seeing kazuichi giggle and laugh and just having fun :,,,,3

kazuichi tries to return the favor by watching horror films with gundam, but unfortunately he always gets scared shitless less than halfway through. but hey, free cuddles!!! i love them SO SO MUCH ARGHHHHHHHHHH i want to squeeze them until they pop /pos

anyways thanks for reading my ramblings here's a lil sonia doodle as a treat

girlboss girly pop

#hiyoko saionji #kazuichi souda #gundham tanaka #soudam #sonia nevermind #danganronpa #hiyoko workibg a minimum wage job at a movie theater #yknow what she’s probably a south park fan ik it has a weird fan following in japan #cartman sympathizer…. #/hj btw #random thought lolz #anyways they’re watching the barbie movie #sonia went to go watch oppenheimer #oh yeah souda definitely stood there in silence for a solid min and finally asked for caramel #then went to go cry in the bathroom #dw gundam comforted him n was like “don't listen to that witch blegh i would eat you if you were popcorn hrrr i mean what” #and then they hug :3 #ok but soudam movie date fluff would be so cute #hiyoko and gundam probably also got some beef going on #i should think of hiyoko a lil more i like more-mature-but-still-a-big-bitch-hiyoko #ok i’m done rambling good bye #oh god i cant fucking SEPLL #spell* #chibi's art/rkgk

[xaefanfictions]

Danganronpa headcanons: Barbenheimer edition!

Author note: I watched Barbie recently and I really liked it, so here!

Characters: all the Danganronpa 1, 2 and 3 boys (+ the anime's boys as a bonus)

Trigger Happy Havoc

Makoto Naegi: Oppenheimer. He was scared that the other boys might make fun of him for watching something "girly".

Byakuya Togami: Oppenheimer. It makes him feel like a smartass and he never would he ever want to get called out for watching a "little girls" movie.

Yasuhiro Hagakure: Barbie. This man thinks Oppenheimer is too serious for him, plus he found Allan really funny and relatable.

Leon Kuwata: Barbie. Definitely yelled "I'm Kenough !" in the movie theater and got scolded by Taka.

Mondo Oowada: neither. He isn't all that much into movies and got bored pretty fast.

Kiyotaka Ishimaru: Barbie! He really liked the moral of the story and the fact that it is made for all ages.

Chihiro Fujisaki: both! They liked both stories equally and was happy to watch them with their friends.

Hifumi Yamada: both. He liked them both so much that he rushed back to his house to write a crossover fanfic between the two.

Goodbye Despair

Hajime Hinata: Oppenheimer.

Nagito Komaeda: Oppenheimer (because of the bomb), though he liked Barbie too. His opinion really depends on his classmates'.

Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu: Oppenheimer. No questions asked.

Kazuichi Souda: Barbie. He didn't get Oppenheimer's plot (nor did he understand Barbie's ending) and he has a crush on Margot Robbie.

Gundham Tanaka: Oppenheimer, although he still went to see Barbie for and with Sonia.

Nekomaru Nidai: neither! He is not a huge cinema fan and missed half of each movie because he was gone taking a shit.

Teruteru Hanamura: Barbie! He didn't listen to the moral, but he did see those woman in servitude.

Byakuya Twogami: both. Their Byakuya persona liked Oppenheimer but the "real them" had to hold back tears when Barbie questioned Ken's place as a man.

Killing Harmony

Shuichi Saihara: both! He enjoyed Oppenheimer on his own and Barbie with Kaede and Kokichi.

Kokichi Ouma: he pretended to love Oppenheimer, actually preferred Barbie because it was fun.

Rantaro Amami: he watched both with his sisters and doesn't have a preference.

Kaito Momota: Oppenheimer. He thinks that it's a manly man's movie and didn't understand Barbie's moral anyway.

Ryoma Hoshi: Oppenheimer. He thinks Barbie was pretty cool though.

Korekiyo Shinguji: Oppenheimer, of course!

Gonta Gokuhara: Barbie. Oppenheimer made him go very tense and he didn't fully understand it.

Kiibo: he enjoyed both.

BONUS: The end of Kibougamine Gakuen

Sakakura Juzo: Oppenheimer.

Kizakura Koichi: Oppenheimer brought back some traumatic memories, so while he hasn't seen it, he'll settle for Barbie.

Sonosuke Izayoi: Barbie, because it is Ruruka's favourite.

Ryota Mitarai: neither of them are anime, so this hermit is not going out to see them.

#danganronpa #danganronpa sdr2 #danganronpa x reader #danganronpa 3 #trigger happy havoc #sdr2 goodbye despair #goodbye despair #sdr2 #ndrv3 #ndrv3 killing harmony #danganronpa v3 killing harmony #killing harmony #x reader #headcanon #danganronpa headcanons #barbenheimer

[karenstensgaard]

Last weekend, I braved the mobs, so you don’t have to! I spent a full day at D.C.’s convention center standing in line and squeezed into seats. I attended what may be the biggest free to the public book festival hosted by the Library of Congress.

According to the Library of Congress, their 18th annual festival included a diverse lineup of 115 authors featuring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, eminent historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, acclaimed novelist Amy Tan, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, and two-time Newbery Medal winner Kate DiCamillo. As usual, I took another route with detours right from the start.

Entering the grand hall when the crowds were more manageable!

On my way to hear Dave Eggers, I could tell the crowd was growing and saw a panel on Spywork and John le Carré. The title sounded mysterious, and since my next novel will include some espionage, I ducked in to get a seat. John le Carré (real name: David Cornwall) wasn’t there. Authors David Ignatius (The Quantum Spy), Joseph Kanon (Defectors), and Adam Sisman (John le Carré: The Biography) with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and moderator for the panel, Kai Bird (American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer) chatted about le Carré spy stories and his influences on storytelling.

Afterward, I hustled down three escalators and over to the Fiction room to hear Jeffrey Eugenides (well-known author of The Virgin Suicides) and a new book, Fresh Complaint. After waiting over 20 minutes, we were complaining. Since he was running late, the event was canceled.

With time to kill, I slipped across the hall and heard the second half of murder mystery and spy novelist Hank Phillippi Ryan’s update on her new book, Trust Me. She encouraged fellow career changers doing this later in life. She didn’t start her writing career until she was in her 50’s. My husband asked me if Hank was a man. Her real name is Harriet, and Hank was a nickname from college. She has a definite edge since statistics say men writers sell more. Just look at J.K. Rowling: her new books are penned by Robert, not Roberta, Galbraith. A sad fact, since Joanne, of all writers, can afford to be a woman!

At the book fest, authors were grouped mainly by topic or type of book (history & biography, main stage aka big names, teens, poetry & prose, understanding our world – a catch-all mix, fiction, and genre fiction. A few I didn’t check out – two children stages, and a Library of Congress Hall. Each author or group had an hour to discuss their book with an interviewer and a few minutes for Q&A.

On the right, interviews for TV channels were conducted later:

I met my husband for a book discussion by David Ignatius for his spy thriller, The Quantum Spy, about the Chinese ruling the world via computer. David was part of my first lecture on Spywork. Besides being a novelist, he is a journalist and writes a column for the Washington Post. He might have noticed me if he’d learned from his characters. Spies supposedly watch their surroundings closely. But with the packed crowd, I blended in and was undetected. But just wait for my run-in with Security!

After another wait for lunch, I returned to the Fiction salon to hear Andrew Sean Greer talk about his novel Less. Less really means More since he won the Pulitzer Prize with his edgy modern travel love story. Congrats! And the award couldn’t go to a nicer guy. Andrew came across as laid back and friendly joking with the crowd. When he found out one of his teachers was in the crowd, he didn’t hesitate to get to the edge of the stage to hug her.

Now my plan fell apart, and I almost pitched my free book tote bag in disgust. I had hurried across what seemed like miles of convention room carpeting while dodging attendees who are either are from the UK or prefer walking on the wrong side of the hallways. I followed the signs to Room 146, but somehow, I’d left, without leaving the building, and had to ask a security guard for help.

After another delay with another security check and backtracking, I found one of the hundred plus Ask Me volunteers lingering everywhere. She pointed out the best route to the elusive Room 146. But when I arrived, many others had too, and a large line snaked around the corridor.

Here’s why. Room 146 had a captivating title: Understanding Our World. So necessary anytime, but perhaps mission critical if you live in DC. I knew I wouldn’t hear any of the Conversation: Americas Great Struggle for Racial Equality featuring Brooks D. Simpson and Isabel Wilkerson.  But it was the next event that was on the top of my wishlist: Conversation: Sea Creatures.

What would the authors share with us on behalf of these creatures from the ocean and 70% of planet earth‽  (The ‽, a question-explanation mark combo called an interrobang, is official and grammatically correct. I couldn’t resist using an interrobang for the first time in such a deserving situation.)

The sea creature conversation included an interview with Sy Montgomery, the author of a book I loved: The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness. Who knew octopi have such personalities and are as smart as a whip‽Times eight, of course. Sy has a new book: Tamed and Untamed Close Encounters of the Animal Kind. Juli Berwald’s book also sounds fascinating. Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone.

I hate to admit with these long afternoon lines; I’d lost my can-do festive mood. Instead, I found a seat and watched the long line hover and grow resembling the long leg of you know what. My seat buddy, armed with what looked like an ordinary cane, told me about the good old days in D.C. when it was a two-day event held on the Mall under massive tents. She lamented how much easier it was to see inside and hang around outside the tents if the seats were full. And except for the possibility of rain and mud, or scorching heat and humidity, book lovers managed just fine.

Right next to us, the doors opened for the next session in Poetry & Prose with a short and manageable line. So I went high-brow listening to the panel on Literary Lives with authors Mark Eisner (Neruda: The Poet’s Calling) and Kay Redfield Jamison (Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire” A Study of Genius, Mania and Character). Fiona Sampson, the author of In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein, was ill and couldn’t leave the UK. Her book was of particular interest since Mary Shelley and Frankenstein are in my second still to be published novel.

My sixth and final event was again in the Poetry & Prose room: How Writers Think and Work. So apropos since I’m a novelist. I continually compare notes with the experts. But from what I’ve learned in writing, there are no rules, and if there are, no one agrees. Some renegade writers even urge you to break any you happen to find.

This last discussion included authors Lorrie Moore, See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism and Commentary, and Richard Russo, probably best known for his novel and TV show, Empire Falls. His recent book, The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers, and Life was another book I had read. Two, out of about 200 new books, isn’t too bad.

The book fest ended for me since I lacked the energy for the last few lectures scheduled elsewhere. Isn’t this blog exhausting? In the Amazon carousel below, I’ve added a link to some of the books by the authors I heard speak, including one from yours truly.

[amazon_link asins=’1521210519,0393254151,0765393077,031631613X,1451697724,1524732486′ template=’ProductCarousel’ store=’karenstensg01-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’128fc14f-b47e-11e8-8899-c9d48c37cf6b’] P.S. If you were hoping to see another library blog, here is a photo of the beautiful Carnegie public library at Mt. Vernon Square across from the convention center. Since it looks like a beautiful spot, when the renovation is done, I’ll be back. And here’s a photo of me with an adorable portable library on the way to H Street behind Union Station and my favorite D.C. restaurant, Ethiopic.

Get an insider's view of Washington D.C.’s 18th Library of Congress National Book Festival. Last weekend, I braved the mobs, so you don’t have to! I spent a full day at D.C.’s convention center standing in line and squeezed into seats.

#Andrew Sean Greer #Book Fest Washington D.C. #David Ignatius #Hank Phillippi Ryan #Library of Congress #Lorrie Moore #National Book Festival #Pulitzer Prize Winner #Richard Russo #Sy Montgomery