O, acquaintances, grantors of dark disgrace,

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[ BSD: The RPG ]

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So idk if you can read hiragana so I’ll just use English letters. There are 4 ways to say you care about somebody in Japanese with increasing degrees of intimacy. Suki is like “I like sushi” type loose feeling. Also used for crushes or “I’d like to ask that person out.” Daisuki is literally “like a lot” and is used for “I love sushi” or “I really like this person” but tends to get translated as “I love you” which is pretty correct. Couples use it for each other

Next up is aishiteru and that’s. Hoo. Boy howdy. That’s te amo levels of intimate. You say that like before you propose, when you’re married, etc. It’s more like “I’m in love with you” and it’s very special. You won’t ever hear this used outside of very private moments between irl couples. I haven’t even seen it used in fiction honestly. And then there’s the big dog

The K word as my wife and I call it. He’s half Japanese and he has never said this to me despite us being literally married and we started dating my senior year of hs which was six and a half years ago. I’ve used this with him MAYBE thrice IF that often. I’ve never seen or heard it used literally ever is how special and intimate this phrase is. Not to totally and completely undersell this but it’s like a “once in a lifetime, the only person who could ever hold my heart” kind of intimate expression of love. It’s whispered on your deathbed to your lover of 65 years special. It’s koishiteru and you DO NOT use that word lightly if ever. It ties your soul directly to someone else’s with just a few sounds

[ Bungou Stray Dogs : The RPG ]

A new dawn arises!

 A homesickness for a home you can’t return to, or that never was.

(from now on, the title for a collection of drabbles for the Bungou Stray Dogs RPG AU)

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A Grimoire of Light. Full of warmth and happiness, of smiles and laughter.

Whenever Odasaku opens it, his magic comes to life in the form of little creatures: fawns, ducklings, butterflies, kittens, occasionally a baby furred whelp from the North. They are warm to the touch, soft, almost like dandelions before they scatter into the wind. The children will smile. Dazai would feel warm.

But now, as he carefully lays the book down on the lush grass before Odasaku’s grave, the book feels cold and heavy. He could feel- hear the thrumming of magic even through the leather bag, high-pitched and mellow, a music for the Light mages. But to him, he who had cursed and destroyed with the dark arts, it’s nothing more than a metal grating noise.

And of all people… why him?

“Odasaku, you know I can’t take this,” He whispers. But by some unknown force, he’s already undoing the metal clasp on the bag and bringing out the book, “And even if I do…”

He gives a dry laugh. Had Odasaku expected him to use it? There’s definitely no way. A Grimoire writes itself by the spells the holder uses.

The Dark Arts does not need a Grimoire.

“Really Odasaku, you have too much faith in me,” in someone like me. 

He stares at the closed book of rich red and gold embossed markings. If he focused enough, he knows he can feel it- the warmth and thrumming of the songs of the Light. Maybe, just maybe, he’s in the wrong this time.

“But you know it won’t hurt to… try?”

He was wrong, he was so wrong.

His hand freezes the moment the book opens, and his eyes widen. From the corner of the page, a black shadow slowly creeps up like the ashes trailing after a fire, consuming the umber-inked words and symbols. It fades as it reaches the middle.

Dazai feels his heart ache.

“Odasaku… I cant…”

If a woman wants to get an abortion because she is financially unable to give birth to and raise a baby, the organization will pay for everything she needs during the pregnancy and after, until she’s financially stable to raise the baby on her own.

This organization won’t stop women from going to the abortion clinic, but would rather hve a healthy conversation with them. Ask them if they can help her with anything in order for them to keep the baby. They also hand out contraception in the streets for those who can’t afford it.

Florist Fyodor

Collaboration from their Florist Au with:

Kai on twitter: (@sIaygin): https://twitter.com/sIaygin?s=09

Me: Lineart

And what’s funny is she played it smart — not only by giving herself some plausible deniability by writing it about high schools and colleges in general rather than just about our school, but also by calling out the worst sports specifically. She could have left it at ALL student athletes, but by explicitly stating that football and basketball are the worst perpetrators, she won all the other athletes to her side — golf, tennis, swimming, track. Instead of having all student athletes at her throat, she turned everyone against the basketball and football teams.