There’s Something So Hopeful About Akutagawa No Longer Being Weighed Down By Dazai’s Words And Free

The best study advice is to study until you are excited to have an exam. Am I excited? Absolutely HORRIFIED

im your lost sister hello

I keep them on my wall in black and white like they're my relatives who all died at sea

Little sketch of little friend

just a peaceful day, they study in library

Karma: ....

Gakushuu: need help Akabane?

Karma: huh...If someone tell me 3yrs ago that I will date Principal son's, I will probably hit them in face...but look now...hahaha

Gakushuu: ...hmmm, are you regret it now?

Karma: why ask when you know the answer?

Gakushuu: ... you right.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

I like the fact that Daphne Hardy gave the name “darkness at noon” for Koestler’s book because she was the first one who translate it to English and it also was the only one version of the book left after the original carbon copy was lost. Until 2015 when student found it in archive Daphne’s translation was reading around the world for 79 years. I think this is so beautiful. Oh, I forgot to say they were lovers

1940/2019

one of my sexual fantasies is to have someone notice my absence and wonder about me

This chapter really illustrates just how young they were when they met. Akutagawa is 14 and Dazai 16 here.

This wasn’t Akutagawa being groomed into crime by an adult man with several years of experience under his belt and a fully developed brain. This was a 16 year old who had the intellect to prop himself up as much larger and older than he actually was and who had been functioning in that way for awhile. This was a kid leading another kid into the everyday violence that surrounded them, violence that Dazai had come to live and breathe at this point. Violence that Dazai had already learned how to wield very well.