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The quote Oda read in Bungou Stray Dogs and quotes right before he dies is actually a pretty common idea. I’ve even found a very similar quote from one of Dazai’s short stories:

The concept behind it is that everything we do in life, even the good things, are ultimately selfish acts. People don’t do things that won’t give them some kind of benefit.

Before the Dark Era, Oda found a place in the mafia and killed in order to survive, but then he met Natsume Souseki who influenced him to change. In the beginning of the Dark Era, Oda refused to kill because of his own desire to become an author. Then after Gide killed the children Oda didn’t want to live anymore because death would be better than a life where he knew he couldn’t save them, so he fought Gide knowing he would die. Even his dying words to Dazai were an attempt to make him feel better about dying and leaving his friend behind. Ultimately, that quote means that everything that Oda did in the series was motivated by Oda’s desires to “save himself” from whatever suffering or future he didn’t want to experience.

But it’s not all doom and gloom. Even though people are motivated by what is in their own best interest, it is usually in their best interest to “become a good person,” like Oda told Dazai to do. Because of Oda’s desire to become an author he preserving a lot of lives because he, as a member of the Mafia, refused to kill. Even though Dazai left the Mafia and joined the Agency in order to find a reason for himself to keep living and to honor the request of a died friend (Oda was dead, so Dazai couldn’t have made Oda happier but by honoring his request he himself felt that he was doing the right thing so he was still motivated by what he wanted), because Dazai did that countless lives have been saved by him helping to save Yokohama (not to mention the lives that were spared because he wasn’t in the Mafia anymore). One of those lives was Atsushi. And even though Dazai initially took Atsushi in to become part of Shin Soukoku for his own reasons, Atsushi’s life along with all the lives around him were influenced for the good because of it (even Akutagawa… though he’ll never admit that their conversation before fighting Fitzgerald benefited both himself and Atsushi). 

So while we “exist to save ourselves” and do what benefits us, that doesn’t mean that we can’t be good people and do good for everyone around us. Yes, doing good has benefits for the person doing good, but it also has benefits for everyone around them. It’s a win-win situation. 

I just saw a creator on tiktok reminding followers that it’s actually a problem when someone goes back to the earliest post and watches all the posts chronologically, liking and commenting along the way. The stupid app recognizes it as spam or something and then kinda puts a halt on their account? Literally punishing people for positive engagement?? 🥴🤦‍♀️

I’ve already heard people saying years back how they don’t want to be “creepy” and go through a persons blog, liking and reblogging tons of stuff. But think how many more people are going to be worried about it now, thinking they might do actual damage! Most people, especially younger people, are so used to the way tiktok works now. So please, do not ever worry about this on here. Just remember-

The worst that usually happens is a creator going “wait, what, HOW did you find that 7 year old post that had no tags buried in the depths of my blog?”, very few people actually get mad about it (and from what I’ve seen, the people who do are all entirely immigrants from socmed sites like TT where they have entirely different cultures about it.)

Gregys and freddies

transparent version of Gregy under the cut:

SO anyway, i want something like this to happen as Gregory and Freddy’s first meeting.

A little update <3

I’m so happy to tell you all that I’ve made great progress with my mental health!! To genuinely be able to say that I feel happy is so liberating and free! I know a lot of you are still in that dark place. I’m here to say that it does get better. Much better! I still have some tough days but progress is progress! Be kind and gentle to yourselves. I love you all and thank you to everyone who’s supported me over the years!

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