We kill others to save our own skin - that’s the way of the world, isn’t it?
Dazai Osamu, “Run, Melos!” from Crackling Mountain and Other Stories
If you read the fic, leave the kudos. Leave a comment too, if possible. Just do it. It takes a few seconds of your time and it means the world to the writer.
Sincerely, me who just got told that my writing feels like watching a blockbuster movie. I don't care if they were sincere or not, I'll be thinking about that comment for the rest of my life and every time I feel bad about my art, I'll remember that someone once liked it.
You WILL write your WIP
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THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS!
Why don't more people know about the wonderful interrobang‽‽
It's so sad smh
Literally furious that a ‽ symbol exists and just never caught on. You’re telling me there’s a more streamlined way to ask exclamatory questions than this, and it just never caught on?!?!?! I’m so mad. English has the worst punctuations, I swear.
As I try to improve my technical writing skills, I've noticed my describing skills are pretty lacking. So, here is a list of description exercises.
Setting Description
Pick a setting and describe it in a way that evokes a positive emotion, then describe the same setting negatively.
Pick a setting and try to describe it by using all of your senses.
Find a setting you've written before and write 500 words of pure description on it.
Describe a tree from the point of view of a character that's feeling a strong emotion, whether they're depressed, frustrated, or excited.
Character Description
Pick one of your characters and write a 500 word description of them.
Write a 500 word description on how your character feels about different people.
Pick 3 different characters and write 200 word descriptions for each of their voices.
Write a 500 word description about how your character looks at different people.
“When I describe Dazai to the staff, there is a phrase that I always use, “an unworldly being with a mental age of two thousand years.” Dazai has far surpassed the mental dimension that human can reach, thus no-one can even tell if the emotions he shows are the real things or not.
There are rare moments when that Dazai shows his very “human” side. That is when he talks to another superhuman who is on the same level with him. The other is when he talks about his old friend who has passed.
This is the scene when Kyouka wondered “Maybe I’m, after all, just a murderer at heart.” and refused to be saved. And Dazai’s reaction to that. When he said “Don’t give me any of that!” here, he really meant it. That was an outburst from Dazai, as a 22-year-old boy, in this scene.”
(Bungou Stray Dogs Chapter 35 - Easygoingscan’s version)
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TN: I went to the BSD exhibition in Ikebukuro today and they have Asagiri’s comments on each character and their important scene, that I find very nice so I’m gonna find time to translate them little by little.
•Mature Audiences 18+ - TW listed on Wattpad & Ao3 summary (links below)•
[WIP]
Bungo Stray Dogs Fanfic with skk & sskk + RanPoe set after season 2 with various spoilers
~summary~
"What is love, and how do you get rid of it?"
Dazai doesn't typically feel any emotions, at all- or at least he can't understand them. He hates that Chuuya makes him feel emotions, specifically the emotion of love, so he in turn despises Chuuya for it instead.
And it's driving him crazy.
"I won't let you get away this time."
Chuuya is doing his best to get over Dazai, but as usual, nothing goes according to plan for him. No matter how much Chuuya tries to deny it or change them, he can't get rid of his feelings.
So he finally does something different about it.
Or:
Dazai struggles with the concept of love, and his past catches up with him from how he chooses to deal with experiencing feelings and things he thinks he doesn't deserve as someone outside of humanity; and he makes it everyone's problem.
Links:
Original:
Prologue: complete
Part 1: complete
Part 2: updating
Rewrite:
Prologue: Complete
Part 1: Unreleased
Part 2: Unreleased
『𝙽𝚘𝚠 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚛 𝚞𝚗𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜.
𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚙𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚜.
𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚊 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚝𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚋𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚍𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚞𝚙 𝚝𝚘 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚕.
𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚙𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚜.』
Just a small bit of my up coming BSD soukoku one shot, "Restocking & Recharging," that makes me giggle🖤🖤
A = Dazai
B = Chuuya
Person A: "I hate you."
Person B: "Did you really break into my house just to say that."
✎𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚘𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚎𝚗𝚋𝚢 𝚟𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚛.⚰︎ ⚠︎𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭⚠︎ ⧼ᴀᴅᴜʟᴛ⧽ ➳ ℑ 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔞 𝔤𝔬𝔬𝔡 𝔟𝔬𝔬𝔨 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔞 𝖉𝖆𝖗𝖐 𝖙𝖜𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔫 𝖉𝖆𝖗𝖐𝖊𝖗 𝖗𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖊 𓆩🥀𓆪 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗪𝗜𝗣: "𝙃𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙔𝙤𝙪, 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙔𝙤𝙪" [Soukoku ║ Shin Soukoku] ⛓⛓ 『𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚙𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚜.』 - 𝙳𝚊𝚣𝚊𝚒 𝙾𝚜𝚊𝚖𝚞, 𝙽𝚘 𝙻𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛 𝙷𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗
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