Ashfur/Bramblefake's name style is very cruel. He exclusively names people on his personal feelings towards them, and what he thinks will motivate them to work harder.

He would give an apprentice who works well for him the exact name they wanted. He would give an unfitting title to the child of his political opponent and use any arguments as a reason to punish. He would hand a mediocre name to someone who did not impress him, and remind them that Honor Titles may be earned.

things you said at 1 am 

(prompt from this list)

April nights in Yokohama are windy. Chuuya keeps the windows closed to keep them from rattling and waking him up. Unfortunately, that does not guarantee that he won’t be woken up anyway by other, much more annoying things.

“Chibikko ~!” Dazai trills from the other end of the phone, and the noise feels so much like nails on chalkboard in Chuuya’s sleep-deprived head that he almost hangs up immediately. “What are you up to?”

“It’s one in the fucking morning, asshole,” he grumbles. “You better be dead or dying for it to have warranted this.”

“I wish,” Dazai mutters dryly, then giggles, “I just wanted to know what Chibi wanted for his birthday.”

There is something about his laugh, something odder than usual, that makes Chuuya frown. “What? Are you…drunk, Dazai?”

“Yes...no? I don’t know, it doesn’t matter,” he says quickly, then laughs again.

Chuuya lets out a sigh that morphs into a growl of frustration somewhere halfway through. “Listen here, moron. We’ve got a job tomorrow first thing in the morning, and I’m not going with you if you’re wasted.”

It’s not that Chuuya doesn’t trust him. He does (God only knows how that happened) and he knows that even a hungover Dazai is thrice as capable as anyone else sober. But he also knows that even the meagre, pathetic excuses of self-preservation instincts that have kept Dazai alive up until now get blasted to kingdom come when he’s nursing a hangover. And Chuuya doesn’t have the energy to keep them both alive right now.

“That’s not the point,” Dazai whines, “I wanted Chibi’s last gift from me to be special, but you’re being so mean, I think I changed my mind.”

His birthday isn’t for another three weeks. “What the fuck are you going on abo – “

“Let’s run away.”

Chuuya blinks slowly, already feeling an ache forming in his head. “What?”

“Let’s run away,” Dazai repeats simply. “You and me. We can drop everything and run away to some far off place, where nobody knows our names.”

Chuuya is silent for a while, and finds himself thinking that he really needs to know what this bastard is on, for future reference. There’s no way that is just alcohol talking. But Dazai suddenly sounds a lot more put-together, even if the clearer his voice gets, the blurrier his words seem to Chuuya.

“We can give this a chance, no? Give us a chance.”

He’s not joking. Chuuya knows Dazai’s brand of humour, shitty as it might be, and this isn’t it. Which makes it all the more confusing, because surely Dazai knows what he would say in return, right? The words ‘let’s run away’ aren’t nearly enough to disguise the ‘let’s turn traitor’ hiding just behind them.

“You and me, huh?” Chuuya murmurs after a while, then sighs. “Even if I ignore the ten thousand glaring fallacies in this brilliant idea of yours, why do you want to go? Where would we even go?”

The words sound weird as they come out of his mouth, and Chuuya frowns distastefully. They make it sound like he’s actually considering Dazai’s offer, and he isn't. He isn’t.

Besides, there is no place we can run to where they won’t find us. But you already know that.

For a few seconds, Chuuya hears only the sound of his breathing from the other end. Then Dazai snorts. “Eh, I knew Chibi wouldn’t understand. You’re too much of a coward.” he drawls and Chuuya can feel his head getting hotter. 

“Then why the fuck did you call me?” He gripes. “Are you stuck somewhere and need me to pick you up? Is that it?”

“And make you miss out on your beauty sleep? I wouldn’t dare,” Dazai replies dryly. “Goodnight, Chibikko.”

He hangs up before Chuuya can speak, and Chuuya isn’t sure what the words that just died in his throat even were. He stares at his phone for a long while.

This wasn’t the weirdest conversation he had ever had with Dazai, but for some reason, it was the most unnerving one. Enough so that Chuuya only sleeps in uneasy fits for the rest of the night.

By the time he finally gives up and gets out of bed, the eastern sky has begun to lighten. He blindly stumbles into the kitchen for some coffee, tired eyes burning with every blink, and he curses Dazai under his breath with every step he takes. I bet the asshole did this on purpose.

It takes his bleary eyes a moment to focus on the piece of paper that’s stabbed onto his refrigerator door. With his own favorite knife, no less. He frowns, for what feels like the hundredth time since last night, and squints at the writing.

An early birthday present for Chibi. Hope you like fireworks.

I realize I am a complete hypocrite here but STOP making new servers

just stay in the old ones

1) i dislike, in full generality, the trend of making fun of children’s names. i especially dislike it when it comes from teachers mocking their students’ names but i just really don’t like it. 

2) however, this particular instance of the thing has -- as far as I’ve seen, anyway -- been almost entirely people making fun of the parents who chose the name, and saying “god poor kid who’ll be saddled with that name,” which, like, fair? poor kid. the kid didn’t ask for this shit. 

thank u for this legend <//3

1. oryx and crake by margaret atwood

if you know me you know that i firmly believe this bitch HITS. oryx and crake is a dystopian speculative fiction novel about the life of jimmy (aka snowman) both before and after a plague that wiped out a majority of humankind. this is the first novel in atwood’s maddaddam trilogy and it examines jimmy’s interpersonal relationships and struggles and how they relate to the tragedy. the only other thing i’ll say about it is that it’s kind of falsely advertised as a love story; jimmy and crake’s romantic feelings were more or less a plot device. i wrote a 15 page paper on this for my ap english class in senior year and got an A on it not to flex too hard or anything. could infodump about this for hours. everything done in this novel, including things that could be criticized, were done purposefully. atwood is a literary genius and this is her magnum opus imo

2. vicious by v.e. schwab

the characters in this novel! immaculate! victor and eli’s dynamic! immaculate! the pacing! the extremely well-done found family trope! can not recommend this one highly enough! i just read it for the first time at the beginning of the month and i intend to use the last of my barnes and noble gift card hoard to order the second novel in schwab’s villains duology and the first book in her shades of magic trilogy. this novel follows victor vale and eli cardale, who used to be roommates and “friends” in college, until they develop eo (extraordinary) abilities and something goes terribly wrong. ten years later, victor gets out of jail and shit. gets. intense. immediate all-time favorite read. can not say it loudly enough: IMMACULATE

3. maurice by e.m. forster

(there’s also a film on youtube if you don’t want to pay for the book! i can’t say it’s as good as the novel, but it’s still definitely really good) this book helped me come to terms with some internalized homophobia when i was like 14 and i appreciate it so so much. i bought it on a whim in the classics section of an airport bookstore for way too much money, but it was so worth it :) maurice follows - wait for it - maurice hall from the time he’s a young boy to an adult in dealing with his own internalized homophobia, as well as his relationships with different men. i feel like this is one of the few novels i can barely criticize as well... the pacing, characters, plot itself, etc. were all so well controlled i was actually wondering how the fuck it’s possible to write something this beautiful

4. aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire sáenz

I just wanna point out that these posts are from 2015, and afaik op has a more pro-fankink stance now?