Bah!!!!

AO3 👏 TAGS 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 SPOILERS 👏

i’m so tired of authors not tagging correctly because they don’t want to “spoil the fic”

correctly tagging your fic allows readers who DON’T want to read things like major character death, gore, mpreg or whatever may be their squick to filter your fic out from the main ship/fandom tag. not including the correct tags on your fic is harmful to readers and i’m tired of pretending it’s not.

“don’t like don’t read” great! i won’t! tag your fic correctly next time ffs

remake… not very proud of this one tbh.. also considering making multi fandom posts cause it’s hard to find motivation for sskk posts 💔

atsushi continuously realizing he is surrounded by absolute freaks

been playing papers please and tell me yall feel the tension between the inspector and the guards like- jk my mans has a wife

I made it the longest time without thinking about Dazai and Akutagawa's relationship but now I am again and it's pissing me all the way off.

"He's a sword without a scabbard" He was a SHIELD! He was a shield until YOU TOLD HIM that he needed to be a sword!

Rashomon was developed on the streets and used by Akutagawa to protect his sister and friends from the hostile environment they were surrounded by. The first time he had the intent to use it with blood lust he doesn't even get the chance to. Because he meets Dazai.

Pretty much the only flashback we get of Dazai training Akutagawa features him breaking past his defenses, beating him down, and telling him that he needs to be more offensive if he wants to survive in the Port Mafia.

Dazai also laments about Akutagawa seemingly not understanding that his ability works best for support and defense...Why didn't you teach him support and defense then??? The flashback is literally the process of Dazai teaching Akutagawa the "stab first, ask questions later" mentality we see with him struggle with in the present day.

You are literally his mentor why do you talk about his shortcomings like you're not the one who is supposed to be helping him overcome them? Like you didn't instill half of them?

I wouldn't have a problem with this except for the fact that the narrative refuses to acknowledge it. They talk about Akutagawa's poor tactical mindset like it's a natural part of him or formed in a vacuum while showing us the opposite. They never acknowledge that the reason Akutagawa needs so much character growth in the first place is because Dazai failed him as a mentor. Akutagawa is Dazai's greatest failure and imo it would make for a much better story if they treated the situation as such. But since Dazai can do no wrong it's framed more like "Akutagawa just doesn't get it. That's why Dazai gave him Atsushi to help him understand the error of his ways!" with no mention of the fact that Dazai is the one who taught Akutagawa those ways.

And if you want to go the direction of putting it all on Akutagawa, that just means Dazai is the worst mentor ever because he never managed to instill even one lesson in Akutagawa in a way that would stick for TWO WHOLE YEARS.

Ok rant over. (Insert Dazai is a good nuanced character disclaimer blah blah blah)

MORE THAN HUMAN UPDATED???

Bram didn't just give him extra power but extra fashion sense as well

[ID: A two-picture meme. Above picture one the text reads: "Akutagawa while working as a full-time vampire". In picture one there's Akutagawa wearing his vampire coat. His hand is reaching out and the cropped speech bubble says: "Space". Above picture two the text reads: "Akutagawa while saving his bff Atsushi". In picture two Akutagawa is wearing a fancy coat with a cape. He is carrying a sword and a shield. End of ID.]

soulmate bond au but one of sskk accidentally breaks the bond before it fully develops on their side (think red string of fate that grows redder as the people get to know each other, positively or negatively) and the other is suffering the consequences but doesnt wanna burden their other half by that knowledge until the person who accidentally broke their bond finds out their dying and tries to get them to tell him and eventually breaks down and admits they love them and dont want them to die and accidentally re-bonds them