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Do you ever think about how the event that led people to start calling Dazai and Chuuya Soukoku was an act of grief?
Their partnership started at 15, but the mafia immortalized it after the Dragon's Head Conflict by dubbing them Soukoku.
The most fearsome duo in all of Yokohama.
Soukoku, a name meant to remind everyone, enemies and allies alike of the destructive force of they're capable of. Of the mafia's victory during the Dragon's Head Conflict.
Of the same night, the very moment, Chuuya learned he lost his friends again.
Chuuya wasn't there to bring the mafia victory or destroy buildings, he was there to save his friends. That's all he wanted, to get the people he cared about home, safe.
Instead he had more people ripped from him. He activated corruption in a state of grief and it's so different from the corruption we see in the main manga.
Chuuya's rage feels cold and calculated when he's fighting Lovecraft and then afterwards, he starts laughing manically. Dead Apple Chuuya's corruption feels so raw and pained.
Especially when we see Dazai nullify it.
He never stopped screaming, when the marks are gone and corruption's nullified, he's still screaming. You can't tell me that's not a tear in the second panel, it's shaped and shaded differently to the debris.
Chuuya told Dazai not to stop him and we assume he meant not to stop him using corruption, but what if he meant "Don't stop me, at all." What if he was so overcome with grief that, in that moment, he was okay with corruption burning through him completely. What if he didn't mean that but it's what Dazai heard? And that's why he's so gentle with Chuuya afterwards, because for a second, Chuuya sounded too much like himself.
Do you think there was a time where Chuuya couldn't stand the name Soukoku, not because it associated him with Dazai but because it immortalized the night he failed to save his friends again?
Do you think Dazai watched Chuuya just that little more closely afterwards, afraid to hear something like "Don't stop me." again?
Does hearing the name Soukoku sometimes bring back awful memories for them when other people say it with awe?
why do chuuya and dazais dub voices always sound like theyre one second away from fucking on screen
I think it's mean how some people talk about fics on AO3.
'Oh you gotta wade through literal trash to find the good stuff'.
Were you not a beginner once? Did you not write crack fic or self indulgent things for your own entertainment?
Maybe don't speak that way about your fellow fic writers? Just because some fics aren't as polished as others, or involve fetishes and tropes you don't enjoy, or are not the style you want your fics to be doesn't mean they're trash.
It's a horrible thing to say and beginners are going to be discouraged from writing knowing that their fics might be considered trash because they're just starting out.
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You just have to write anything. Anything at all. Even if it’s bad, you just have to let yourself be bad.
You are of no obligation to post any works you think are bad, either, especially not as a beginner.
Branch out and try all kinds of things, look at what you like about others’ writing and use it as inspiration.
Like with most forms of art, even if you are naturally talented at it you still have to work for it.
Hope this helps!
writers i have a question. how do you start writing
Okay but we could take this further: a whole AU where everyone’s powers are reversed in some way or another.
A Dazai whose ability actually causes others’ abilities to activate when he touches them. (Forever Human)
An Oda whose ability lets him see seconds into the past rather than the future. (Flawed)
A Yosano whose ability kills perfectly healthy people instead of healing those near death. (Thou Shalt Perish)
A Kenji who is strong naturally but his ability makes him become weak but happy. (Defeated by the Sun)
A Fukuzawa whose ability makes the abilities of those in ranks above him near impossible to control. (No Men Are Equal)
A Chuuya whose gravity manipulation is limited only to putting extreme gravity on things he touches, and instead of corruption he gets purification, which actually restores him and limits his gravity ability, allowing him to use it how he would under normal circumstances. (Upon the Holly Smile)
A Bram who isn’t a vampire and can cure vampires instead of creating them. (Vampiris’nt)
A Fyodor who ACTUALLY FUCKING DIES.
Bsd except Atsushi is a reverse Weretiger aka he is a tiger that can transform into a human.
The Orphanage still ended up with him but treated him like a beast, only letting him out on the full moon.
But human Atsushi is rather unhinged and doesn't human well so feral tiger boy it is.
He's not a rampaging tiger, hes a weirdly very behaved random tiger all things considered. But he's still freaking people out and he's a menace on either form.
Atsushi can hold his human form better with All Men Are Equals. But Dazai will boop him and bam giant white tiger that bonks him on the head.
Akutagawa is just screaming insults at a very bewildered and than pissed off tiger. He's roaring and Akutugawa is screaming and they come to a werid agreement.
Atsushi is still a member of the Agency, tiger or human. He's got a lil badge and everything. Dazai is just like nah its cool guys this is our office tiger.
Cut to him getting bonked on the head, again.
unfortunately a lot of the corny self help advice turns out to be true but the thing is you have to come to those conclusions yourself otherwise it just sounds dismissive and dumb
Chuuya made Dazai want to live.
Oda made Dazai want to change.
hey could you imagine tachihara rejoining the mafia post current arc but then the government comes knocking on his door claiming his body is "government property" because of the surgeries? wouldn't that be fucked up
Knowing what we know now about Fyodor’s ability makes me wonder what would’ve happened if Nikolai actually managed to kill him.
If Nikolai found out what would happen, would he still want to kill Fyodor?
Or would he try even harder to kill him?
Nikolai would get the death he so wishes but Fyodor would live. He cannot win.
The new BSD chapter is about to make me have my fisheye moment I swear.
I think drawing Albedo or Alhaithem would be cool and really suit your style, but Tighnari also has a very fun design <3
hi guys are there recommendations for genshin/honkai characters i should draw 😭 i havent played the games so i dont know any of them well enough but i want to draw some
it makes me insane how the dazai most know only voices his thoughts when absolutely necessary, but he casually thinks out loud when alone with chuuya
Putting rotating dazai on your dash ⊹ ࣪ ˖
I love headcanons as a concept because it is so silly to me that a person can look at some random character and just decide something about them.
You don’t even need evidence to back it up most of the time. It’s just vibes.
And everyone has their own little headcanons that we can trade around like Pokémon.
It’s especially great when a headcanon becomes so popular it’s basically accepted as canon.
wish i could go missing for a little bit and no one would freak out and then i could come back and they'd be like "did you have fun going missing" and i'd be like "yeah, thanks" and then i could do that every couple of months or so and it wouldn't be a big deal
Fukuzawa and Mori switched places?
Imagine after Natsume pairs Mori and Fukuzawa up for his plan Fukuzawa finds out about Mori’s plans to kill the current Port Mafia boss.
Imagine Fukuzawa beats him to it and kills the boss first in the hopes that he can at least make the PM into a lesser evil.
Imagine Mori founds the Armed Detective Agency to stay on the tail of the PM and hopefully get Fukuzawa arrested or at the very least force him out of the boss position…
I feel like Asagiri lost his Bungo Stray Sanity a long time ago and Harukawa just puts up with it
Someone get these two a nice bed and some therapy
btw with art when people say 'youve got to do it scared' 'youve got to draw bad' 'youre not gonna know how to do it until you do it' it sounds like bullshit but its true. 90% of art is just getting over the fear that it's not going to be good enough to deserve to be made in the first place. but you're here. you're alive and, with no need to justify that, you're going to make art. it's just part of being alive. you'll spend so long worrying you aren't doing it good enough that you'll look back and realized you didn't live a single day of it.
Akutagawa’s lack of eyebrows is symbolic guys
Writing tips for long fics that helped me that no one asked for.
1.) Don't actually delete content from your WIP unless it is minor editing - instead cut it and put it in a secondary document. If you're omitting paragraphs of content, dialog, a whole scene you might find a better place for it later and having it readily available can really save time. Sometimes your idea was fantastic, but it just wasn't in the right spot.
2.) Stuck with wording the action? Just write the dialog then revisit it later.
3.) Stuck on the whole scene? Skip it and write the next one.
4.) Write on literally any other color than a white background. It just works. (I use black)
5.) If you have a beta, while they are beta-ing have them read your fic out loud. Yes, I know a lot of betas/writers do not have the luxury of face-timing or have the opportunity to do this due to time constraints etc but reading your fic out loud can catch some very awkward phrasing that otherwise might be missed. If you don't have a beta, you read it out loud to yourself. Throw some passion into your dialog, you might find a better way to word it if it sounds stuffy or weird.
6.) The moment you have an idea, write it down. If you don't have paper or a pen, EMAIL it to yourself or put it in a draft etc etc. I have sent myself dozens of ideas while laying down before sleep that I 10/10 forgot the next morning but had emailed them to myself and got to implement them.
7.) Remember - hits/likes/kudos/comments are not reflective of the quality of your fic or your ability to write. Most people just don't comment - even if they say they do, they don't, even if they preach all day about commenting, they don't, even if they are a very popular blog that passionately reminds people to comment - they don't comment (I know this personally). Even if your fic brought tears to their eyes and it haunted them for weeks and they printed it out and sent it to their friends they just don't comment. You just have to accept it. That being said - comment on the fic you're reading now, just do it, if you're 'shy' and that's why you don't comment the more you comment the better you'll get at it. Just do it.
8.) Remove unrealistic daily word count goals from your routine. I've seen people stress 1500 - 2000 words a day and if they don't reach that they feel like a failure and they get discouraged. This is ridiculous. Write when you can, but remove absurd goals. My average is 500 words a day in combination with a 40 hour a week job and I have written over 200k words from 2022-2023.
9.) There are dozens of ways to do an outline from precise analytical deconstruction that goes scene by scene to the minimalist bullet point list - it doesn't matter which one you use just have some sort of direction. A partial outline is better than no outline.
10.) Write for yourself, not for others. Write the fic you know no one is going to read. Write the fic that sounds ridiculous. You will be so happy you put it out in the world and there will be people who will be glad it exists.
You know what we need more of in BSD?
Sibling dynamic Ranpo and Kyouka.
It’s right there, Asagiri and Bones literally handed it to us but we hardly ever talk about ittt
"Love is what makes us human" Wrong, my ability to write poetry about the moon is what makes me human
chuuya collects ppl in his heart and never lets them go, but he tells them to their faces that they suck
My favorite thing about him is how hard he finds open affection with people. Like he was so stilted with the Flags, he wants to personally waterboard Dazai 90% of the time and looks at Shirase like he wants to hit him with a pan sometimes but he genuinely loves these guys.
Anyone else fall in love with the small, imperfectly human parts of people? The lopsided smiles, old scars, freckles and moles, I could go on.
I dunno it just feels very charming.
It was emotional/psychological abuse and manipulation but not physical or sexual abuse. The problem with this fandom is that they think abuse has to be physical or sexual to be harmful and traumatizing enough and that psychological abuse isn't as impactful compared to the latter. Which is a problem, it is also leads to painful mischaracterization of Mori, making him a lot more crueler and morally black than he is which is unfortunate.
I think the problem with Mori becomes that people tend to generalize him as this ultimate evil abuser. So they make him a sexual predator and a torture technician on top of his manipulative behaviour who got a kick out of hurting and maiming kids and justified it with a higher purpose/search for knowledge *cough*Shibusawa&N*cough*.
However Mori isn't some ultimate evil abuser. He is an extremely complicated character and not once is it actually mentioned or even implied that he is sexually attracted to children. However, Mori was infact physically abusive towards Yosano, less in the sense of beating her but rather using physical force to intimidate her.
He isn't a good person. But he also wasnt going around smacking kids across the room like some mustache twirling puppy kicking supervillain.
Hey, you are not an embarrassment for not knowing how to do certain household chores/basic self-care. They do not come naturally to us. A lot of it takes practice! Maybe you had a neglectful guardian. Maybe you had one that was very coddling and never thought to teach you. Maybe you haven't lived in a place where these things were available to you or needed. Doesn't matter. It's okay to not know and far more common than you might realise.
That said, this website provides very simple instructions on how to do everyday tasks such as making your bed, using a washing machine, cooking different foods, washing dishes, taking a shower, etc. All you have to do is use the search bar to find the task you're struggling with, and it'll come up with what you need + other related how-to's:)
If you're having trouble navigating it, let me provide you with some examples:
How to clean dishes by hand
How to make your bed (with visual demonstrations of each step!)
How to fold clothes (with visual demonstrations of each step!)
How to take a shower & dry yourself off (also provides ways to shave beards, armpits, legs and genitals)
How to shave legs, armpits, beards, pubic areas, etc. (a more in-depth guide)
How to mop the floor
How to sweep the floor
How to swallow pills
How to make small talk
How to make eye contact in different situations (or how to avoid it while still looking natural)
It's also perfectly okay if these don't help or aren't appealing to you. Unfortunately, nothing helps everyone.