all is beautiful (because we're doomed)

fan behavior (x) by isaac dunbar - extremely kaisagi coded ohhh mygod

miyazaki (x) by paris paloma - just immaculate vibes idk

anniversary (x) by autoheart - thank u for this tan @tangerinedarker it lives rent free in my head very much a bop

perfect 10 (x) by the beaches - more kaisagi energy i swear that's not the only brainspace i have in music lmao (surreptitiously crosses out one of the songs i considered adding which is also kaisagi coded)

all of us (x) by the summer set - summer set my beloved,,,,,banger album overall but this one has been in my head recently

Throw Away Your Mask by MollyPollyKinz

Fandom: Persona Series

Rating: M

Relationships: Akechi Goro and all the various Persona teams, implied/background: Iori Junpei/Yoshino Chidori, Mochizuki Ryoji/Arisato Minato, Hanamura Yosuke/Narukami Yu, and Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira

Instead of dying, Akechi finds himself eight years in the past. With his persona abilities still intact, he has to find a way to stop the end of the world. And work with a bunch of teenagers who thinks he's a child. Akechi would've preferred to stay dead.

Complete. Over 600k words and all of them are freaking amazing. Well worth the read. I went in without any knowledge of Persona 1 and 2 and I feel like that improved the experience for me since I didn't have any reference for certain aspects of the mystery. Connecting the dots later on was very satisfying. Akechi gets friends against his will lol.

marigolds by colbub

Fandom: Persona 5

Rating: T

Relationships: Akechi Goro and various P5 characters, Akechi and Arisato Minato, slow burn Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira

Akechi meets a mysterious being chained to a door after death and gains a second chance.

Ongoing. One of my favorite fics of all time. This one is over 700k and still going so strap in for a long read. Akechi is handled really well as is his relationships with all of his confidants. There are various ocs throughout the story and all of them are well fleshed out and add so so much to it. These characters do not exist in a vacuum.

“there’s a restaurant two miles from my house called—” nope

“today I learned [celeb] went to my high school—” nope nope nope nope nope

these are all real posts I’ve seen on the internet that allowed me to identify a user’s hometown instantly. if it’s a small town, that’s doubly dangerous, because a bad actor could trace you just by a unique first name or selfie you once posted. in an age where doxxing and stalking are some of the worst I’ve ever seen it, you HAVE to think twice about what you’re posting online.

i once saw a 13-year old post an image they noted as being “a few miles from their house.” it had a theater in the shot with a unique enough name to be local. one google maps search, now everyone knew not only what city they lived in, but the possible neighborhoods in that radius too. and they had a HUGE following…who all knew this was a 13-year-old child.

so yeah. not to sound like a 90s internet safety PSA…but I’m gonna be that PSA for a minute.

if you’re posting an image, there is NO need to say that you live there. you could just be traveling. “saw this in Montana” is better than “saw this by my house!”

before you post about a venue, especially a restaurant or small store, check and see if it’s local—CRUCIALLY if it has only one or two locations. people might travel to arenas or convention centers, but they’re far less likely to be traveling to Bartleby’s Fish and Chips. if it’s an anecdote and you still live nearby, you can honestly just leave the name out entirely.

if you’re sharing a news story, it can just be a story you found and wanted to share. you don’t have to clarify “it happened in my town,” because even if you don’t mention your town name, an easily-googled news article will.

if you’re seeing a concert or meeting a celebrity on a tour that’s stopped locally, wait until they’ve hit a few more venues before you post about it, or at the very least wait until you get home. this is honestly a smart move for any event you attend: unless you’re marketing yourself, there’s no need to advertise your location in real time.

check your selfie backgrounds for anything identifying. this includes city names on venues, school names, street signs, and house numbers.

this stuff is flexible if you no longer live in your hometown, or if your city is particularly big, but there’s STILL no reason to tie yourself to your school, your workplace, or your street. you can call it paranoid, but as someone who’s seen my friends get literal death threats over fictional characters before, the last thing I want is someone willing to act on those threats finding out where they live.

I once had a friend post a photo while visiting me with both a unique local business and a set of street signs in the background, while they knew I was being stalked by someone who knew and potentially followed their account. I wasn't in that photo, but other posts from that weekend made it obvious they were staying with me. They hadn't yet been in a position where they regretted having that information publicly available, so it didn't occur to them to avoid sharing it.

2.7k | T | Oliver Aiku/Itoshi Sae | @bllkrarepairweek day 3: Assassins/Spies

The meet-up location was a run-down shed, far enough from the Itoshi’s area of influence to ensure that they wouldn’t be bothered. As always, waiting for him inside was a lackey, a forgettable man in a suit. An expendable life. It was pretty much routine work for Aiku: he nodded at the man and silently opened the envelope with the details that had been handed to him.

It was pretty standard material, he skimmed through the details of the event that the target was supposed to attend and he pocketed the first half of the payment. However, when he reached the last page and saw the picture of the target, he felt his heart sink.

Sae Itoshi. The current leader of the Itoshi group.