Cat Girls

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Origin
The popularity of cat girls, which are anthromorphic cats commonly featured in Japanese anime, increased greatly in the Soup Pot primarily under the influence of Censored, who self identifies(?) as a weeb. It is unknown how exactly cat girls were first mentioned in the SP. For reasons not explicitly understood, cat girls became an increasingly frequent topic of conversation, and became the subject of several inside jokes and projects.

Background
In 1923, VSA instituted a "Spirit Week," in which students of the Academy would dress up according to specific rules applying to each day of the week. One of the days in Spirit Week was Twin Day, in which two students would coordinate with each other in order to wear similar outfits, take pictures of themselves, and post them on a discussion thread created by the moderators for that day.

The Soup Pot, which already had started several smaller group projects, decided to all dress up similarly and all post their pictures in a comment block on the Twin Day discussion thread. Caleb suggested the dress-up category of cat girls, and this suggestion was unanimously accepted—sadly, however, with the exclusion of Censored, who doubted his parents' lenience on his dressing up as a cat girl.

Preparation
Before Twin Day the individual members of the SP dressed up as cat girls or simply cats. The necessary appendages to be attached to their persons included ears and whiskers, with tails, mascara, and other such accessories made optional.

JoLee, Charis, and Scilla coordinated to make a Google Doc in which the details of the project would be listed.

Each participant also had a cat name similar to his or her real name. The names are shown below.

Execution
Accordingly, on Twin Day each member of the SP posted his or her picture on the Twin Day discussion in a single comment block. Cat gifs, names, and other cat-related articles were added on as well in the form of comments.

Reception
Reception from other students was overwhelmingly positive. Each post received a large number of likes, anywhere from 12 to 21, and a great number of students posted their favorable reactions to the project.