.59みたい/天下无限

Made this sideblog for Bungou Stray Dogs, although I might talk about other media here too.

I read, I write, I draw. Many rambles will be incoming. Feel free to send asks and talk or whatnot!

I know a tiny bit of Chinese (Mandarin, simplified; can barely read basic traditional characters) and studied Japanese for a while, but I'm at a very elementary level, so... 加油！！！勉強をがんばってします！！I'm hoping to reach near fluent levels of proficiency in both languages so I can read the original texts for Chinese and Japanese stories that pique my interest. Would like to learn German, ended up with Russian.

Wordplay is cool. Puns, double meanings, using obscure words and the like; I'll eat up all of that.

.59みたい is an example of wordplay specific to Japanese, where .59 can be read as てんごきゅう（tengokyuu） and sounds like 天国（てんごく or tengoku）. The meaning of the phrase is "like heaven".

Food is important to me! I eat out more than my wallet can probably handle, although I do have rather... unconventional (for lack of a better term) tastes in what I like and don't like to eat. My taste buds are broken beyond repair. This has nothing to do with Bungou Stray Dogs.

Tags (a work in progress)

# intraventing thoughts -> I think, therefore I write

# intravene in words -> the thoughts have volume

Day 1: Curse. Ayatsuji is the last witch in Tokyo - his job is to perform exorcisms on evil spirits. While on the train he bumps into a woman named Tsujimura, and notices a unique spirit has been tagging along for the ride.

Day 2: Yokai. Kyougoku and Natsume like to keep watch over Ayatsuji. It's a day in the life of two old men, really.

Day 3: Partners. Ango and his guards Are Going Through It.

Day 4: Festival/Gakuen AU. The Architect has a small dream: to see the robotics club around another year. To do this, the (two!) club members have to make a kick ass robot to steal the show at the culture festival. Will they succeed? Or is the dreaded Architect's dream going to be the Engineer's nightmare?

Day 5: Past. A story told backwards: On 20XX/09/05 10:32 JST, Ayatsuji was assassinated. Dame Agatha Christie sent a messenger to Ayatsuji as a memorial to his contributions in the Great War. When Ayatsuji was seven years old, over a quarter of the world population died.

Day 6: Unforseen. Chuuya uses Arahabaki in Tokyo. The results are devastating.

I got the art collection book! Another volume might release in the uncertain future with more updated art, as this one is from 2016... hopefully it'll have more museum collab works featured, and more character design sketches.

Since I was going to buy the one book for BSD anyways, I ended up ordering a bunch of other stuff to make the shipping more justifiable.

I got manga special editions for Frieren volumes 7-11 (didn't get special edition volume 6 because I have no use for the 2022 calendar bonus), Blue Period volume 11 (special edition volume 8 was sold out by the time I was making the purchase) and Toilet Bound Hanako-kun volume 20. Picked up the novel adaptation for Twisted Wonderland Episode/Book 2 while I was at it. I've heard high praises about the novelization, so I'm really looking forward to reading it!

I like collecting special edition manga bonuses, if it wasn't already obvious.

You're empty. How else can it be described? You feel isolated in a prison of your own mind. Dazai's like that, but on loop.

It's hard to put it in words, when it feels like that. Spiraling, maybe, the sort of existential angst at 5am while you watch the sun rise alone before you return to bed. Close to the kind of noiseless crying you do so that you don't bother anyone. Staying at a polite distance away from everyone.

The Architect has to go out with a bang. What better reference than Standard Island?

Aya jumps off, yeah, we know... Fukuzawa and Fukuchi have their old man yaoi fight, more reminiscing of the past... Fukuzawa used One Order to save the world, Fukuchi dies, Fyodor is questionable, Sigma is on the floor... you can watch the episode.

what is his workout routine. seriously. I want him to drop it.

for references:

this is how harukawa explains how he's holding himself up (image attached below for those who can't open the link):

Mostly Aya and Bram focused, which I'm okay with. My question is: when is Agatha Christie going to step in :(