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October 17, 2022

Masha's Roulette #14: Happy Birthday Kenma and Kirishima!

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Welcome to the 14th issue of my weekly random grab-bag of recommendations newsletter, where I will show you some things to read and some things to listen to, and my solemn promise that at least one item in here will be new and interesting to you.

October 16th (so, yesterday) was the shared birthday of Kozume Kenma from Haikyuu and Kirishima Eijirou from My Hero Academia, two characters I've read more than one fanfiction about! So that's the rec theme for this week. Am I going to theme these around anime boy birthdays indefinitely? No I think this is the last one for the near future. But it's a good prompt this time.

First, Some Things to Listen To

So Kenshi Yonezu is one of my favorite music guys and has been since he was putting out vocaloid music as Hachi, and he actually did the second BNHA anime opening Peace Sign. More recently he did the opening for the new Chainsaw Man anime which also slaps. But the first song I ever heard from him was, of course, this one, which he made the music video for himself!

Now, Some Things To Read containing Kenma, and some other things to read containing Kirishima

Game Face by Aroceu

Rating: G Word count: 2.8k Pairing: Hinata Shouyou/Kozume Kenma

Summary: "Hey, your game thing is green!" Kuroo grabs at it before Kenma can. "What are you playing? You have someone new at your gate? I don't see any gate."

"Stop it," whines Kenma, pawing at him.

Kuroo keeps it out of his reach. "Oh! That's the gate. Huh. It doesn't look like a gate. And—ooh, you StreetPassed Shoyo five times now! 'I'd like to visit your town'? What does that mean?"

Off-Camera by themorninglark

Rating: G Word count: 8.5k Pairing: Akaashi Keiji/Kozume Kenma

Summary: "Akaashi Keiji," says Akaashi. His voice is low, a calm, pleasant timbre that fades easily into the background buzz of the studio. "Nice to meet you, Kozume-san. I'm in your hands today."

cat and kid by norio

Rating: G Word count: 2.8K Pairing: Akaashi Keiji/Bokuto Koutarou

Summary: Kenma doesn't mind if Akaashi talks on his phone. After all, owning a cat like Bokuto-san must cause Akaashi a lot of difficulty.

This is not technically about Kenma but it is from his POV and very funny about it.

Area Man Always Has Backup Problem Just In Case by Pepperfield

Rating: T Word count: 31k Pairing: Mostly gen, background Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou

Summary: Even when you're the best, being a hero can be trying at times, especially since there's a whole world of wacky quirks out there to complicate things. Like body-switching. Or spontaneous de-aging.

The course of true rivalry never did run smooth.

[Three times Bakugou and Midoriya got entangled in some manner of bullshit at work, and one time things actually went pretty okay.]

Specifically the first chapter of this is about Kirishima and Midoriya's friendship but also it is so funny and everyone should read it.

ghosts beneath ink wash stars by cityboys

Rating: T Word count: 19k Pairing: Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou

Summary: Eijirou's evolution from Bakugou's delivery boy to kind of, possibly, someone to come home to. Barakamon AU.

quote love unquote by newamsterdam

Rating: T Word count: 135k Pairing: Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou

Summary: When Kirishima Eijirou's band hits the big time, he's not prepared for his newfound fame. He's even less prepared to meet the actor he's been crushing on for years, or to start dating him as a publicity stunt. The closer Kirishima gets to Bakugou Katsuki, the more he realizes he's in over his head. But it's hard to stop, once his heart is in it.

In non-recommendation news, Fanlore is holding an editing chat next Sunday over on our Discord so if you have been pressured by me personally to start editing Fanlore but were kind of scared of doing so, now's your chance! Here is the Tumblr post with more information.

Please send in recommendations using this lovely form I created (using the Rec Center's form as a model). Am taking recs for fics, articles, interesting long blog posts, anything you think would appeal to other readers of Masha's Roulette. I need more recommendations! I did not get many of them! Also, share with your friends!

I'll be back next week with more things to listen to and read!

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