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After spending the summer in crunch hell basically I Finally had time to catch up on Kpop Demon Hunters and absolutely loved it Unfortunately I have a disease that's called "everything is an au for your hyperfixation if you squint enough" so obviously I immediately got down to draw it.
not the Albatross fashion influence omg…
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Why is it that every time I google something like "Are olives poisonous to cats" the top results are always like "Fun fact: Cats are carnivores! This means that they eat meat. There is no reason to include olives in a cat's diet. You should feed your cat cat food, which is dry or wet food especially designed for cats. You can purchase this at a store." like is there a single person alive on the planet who's googled "Are blueberry muffins safe for cats" because they're planning on switching their cat to a muffin-only diet??? No, I'm asking because the little bastard somehow popped open the packet while I was putting away the groceries and dragged one under the couch before I could react and now I need to know if I should call the after-hours vet. "Cats should not eat spaghetti." NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!!! "Try to keep human food away from cats." i live in a studio apartment with a completely silent and permanently hungry apex predator who has the intelligence of a toddler and the desperate Machiavellian cunning of a creature who spent his formative months on the streets. He can already open doors and he is this 👌 close to learning how to open the microwave. He is stronger than me and covered in knives. So im gonna do my best but for the moment i just need you to tell me whether this yoghurt is going to kill my son y/n
I've been using the pet poison hotline's poison list cause it has a search function. It also tells you whether something is mildly, moderately, or severely toxic which can be very handy! It doesn't contain like everything but it might be a good place to start, it also includes plants for fellow houseplant lovers <3
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For plants specifically, there’s also a wildly detailed set of posts and listings about toxicity on the old, wonderful, Plants Are the Strangest People blog
when you see your pet yawning and you can't resist the urge to stick your finger in there to bother them
You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.
By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.
I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?
it's probably from assholes making asks a minefield of trolling/harassment for years with no real blocking ability, which turned people off from allowing asks on their blogs so as a whole the site moved away from it
but now that we do have better blocking, we should try to revive it.
Reblog if your ask box is open.
"We want more complicated female characters!"
Ya'll couldn't even handle HER.
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Do you think that Chuuya and Sigma could actually get along well since they do have some similarities? In which both struggle with identity in being inhuman and then also get very attached and loyal to the thing that made them feel welcome or a sense of belonging. (The Sheep/Port Mafia for Chuuya and the Sky Casino for Sigma)
I might... write a fic about this. Eventually. If we don't get anything in canon first.
But yes! I do think that if Chuuya ever overheard Sigma doubting his own humanity because of his lack of memories or alleged origin, Chuuya would 1) immediately get it and clock what's going on 2) shut it down quick. I actually would really love to see the two have a conversation about Sigma's origins, because this is Chuuya post SB. This is Chuuya post learning his true origins, but also post him realizing that origin has nothing to do with someone's humanity. And Sigma doesn't have that yet. Sigma thinks having an origin or a family is what would make him human. And...overhearing that, no doubt Chuuya's response would be something like "Wow that's dumb. So you were made by a book who gives a shit." Because that's where he is now. And that straightforwardness, after Fyodor and countless others manipulating him, would probably be exactly what Sigma needs.
FINALLY THE ADA!CHUUYA PROPAGANDA IS SPREADING!!!! PEOPLE SEE THE LIGHT!!!!
Ahem. Anyways.
Ssk are always gonna be a ridiculously slow burn, so you know the betting pool in the office about when they're finally gonna get together has got to be insane by now.
ADA!Chuuya will always have a special place in my heart because as a kid he's always acted like a typical shonen protagonist. It's super interesting that Asagiri made a character like that be an anti-hero as an adult, we see him contrasted with the ADA's attitude pretty frequently whenever they meet. But also, us who have read the light novels know he has so much more in common with the people he sees as naive goody-two-shoes.
the fact that right after 1989 tv dropped I saw skk edits to suburban legends in like. god works fast but bsd editors work faster ig. (and "you kiss me in a way that's gonna screw me up forever"???? oof)
I unironically headcanon that Dazai is a Swiftie because of course he would be.
Inside Out by Eve 6 and Idiot by Deaf Pedestrians are both SKK songs
Casually adding these to my Spotify playlist for later~
Also I've been listening to the recent Mitski and Noah Kahan albums, If I Leave and Deny Deny Deny feel very skk from Dazai and Chuuya's perspectives, respectfully.
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THIS IIS NOT A DRILL. BSD IN LONDON!!!! NEXT ARC IS LONDON ARC!!!!!!! LONDOOOOON
Not just London. 19TH CENTURY LONDON. Atsushi traveled back in time? Something tells me Wells might be involved.
Am I the only one who gets annoyed when people talk about the "abuse web" in Bsd?? It's just that it makes it seem like a character's faults aren't really their own, and it's actually someone else to blame which is downright ridiculous?
It doesn’t matter how much people hurt you; unless your being forced, the choice is yours at the end. It was Dazai's choice to commit 600+ crimes. Mori may have harmed him, but he didn’t force him to kill 138 people did he? It was Chuuya's choice to join the mafia. Sure Dazai turned the sheep against him, but it's not like Chuuya is this helpless lamb (pun not intended) either. Chuuya likes being in the mafia, it's his home. He doesn’t need some big strong prince (*cough* *cough* Dazai *cough*) to save him like those skk shippers keep claiming he does. Dazai abused Akutagawa, but no one forced Akutagawa to kill or hurt anyone. He doesn’t even mind killing.
So right off the bat, in the first sentence, you don't like people talking about the abuse cycle? Like just, discussing it? Because it makes you feel like they're putting the blame on someone else? You can't discuss the nuances of characters without discussing their pasts. You didn't even say people are blaming others' for their actions, you just say it feels that way. I feel like you are missing the entire point of this conversation and BSD in general.
Starting off strong with Dazai. Um. He was groomed. It's not just that he was abused. Dazai was 14, he was taken in by a man who manipulated him into the mafia when he was 14, and groomed for violence and brutality. You cannot discuss Dazai's character or his mafia days without leaving out that fact. And you say Dazai had the choice. You're right. He did. He had a choice, and he chose to leave the mafia and become a better person. It became his purpose in life, despite not having a clear view of good or evil. He left the mafia when he was 18. The entire time he was there, he was a child, and his adult life has been dedicated to helping others. He was a bad person who did terrible things, who abused Akutagawa, tortured, murdered, but you cannot separate the fact that he was groomed and a child.
I'm also going to skip to Akutagawa here and talk about Chuuya last because he's a totally different situation. Akutagawa spent his whole life on the streets, and he became violent by necessity even as an extremely young child to protect himself and his friends. Dazai took him in after everyone he knew was slaughtered, and tried to tame that part of him. Now there's nuance here in Dazai's actions as well. Dazai does respect Akutagawa and his abilities, he was attempting to teach Akutagawa self control so it wouldn't destroy him. The issue was his methods, obviously, which were overly cruel. Something Dazai himself acknowledges. Akutagawa was left with such a gaping hole by Dazai's training that he became so consumed in it, it ate him alive. Now with Kyouka, he was attempting to give her what Dazai never gave him, what he thought he needed. With both Dazai and Akutagawa's abuse, it isn't mindless cruelty because these are characters with nuances.
Just like Dazai, Akutagawa eventually tries to become better with his promise to Atsushi. He's still in a dark place and a bad situation, absolutely, but he is recovering, he is making efforts to be better. He was a kid who grew up in violence, had that part of him nurtured, and still made the conscious effort to make a change. He just had a whole arc of coming to peace with himself and Dazai. You absolutely cannot separate these characters from their past. And what's the point of trying to?
On top of that, why would you not mention Oda? Or Fukuzawa, Kyouka, etc?
Oda was an assassin from a very young age for money, to get by as a child. He felt no emotion for who he killed, he didn't care who the victim was, and he "didn't even mind killing". He was desensitized to it very young. Just like Dazai, just like Akutagawa. And just like Dazai, he made the choice to leave it behind. He did everything he could to move on and make a better life for himself until he was pushed to his limit and snapped.
Fukuzawa started killing as an adult, and he didn't just "not mind it", he enjoyed it. He liked the thrill. That's what scared him, and he too left it behind by choice and made the change to become a better person. He was wracked with guilt and despair over his past, sure, but he still enjoyed killing.
Kyouka was just as young and Dazai and Akutagawa. She was taken in and used as a tool for killing. She struggles with seeing right and wrong like Dazai was, and she left that world like Dazai did. What is your view of "forced" here? I assume you think she was more forced than Dazai was, and to an extent, I'd agree, but you are removing the psychological aspect of manipulation. Kids are affected by these things. Sometimes, they turn out badly because of it.
It's not about justifying their actions or blaming someone else. You can recognize someones actions as bad and still understand where they came from and how they ended up like that, and see that it does not make them, to their core, a bad person. BSD has such heavy themes of recovery, through Atsushi, Dazai, Yosano, Oda, Akutagawa, etc, etc. To ignore their past and their efforts to change you're missing such a fundamental piece of what makes BSD. There is nuance in every single character that you're just missing by writing them off to be evil.
Now, as for Chuuya. He's more of a tragic character in this realm. Chuuya had no out. He had no choice but to join the mafia or risk them killing the Sheep. The one time he was offered a chance at a better life, to live in the light, Verlaine murdered it. Chuuya wanted to leave the mafia. He wanted Murase's help. But Verlaine killed him, and Chuuya was driven deeper into the mafia. Dazai was given help to leave. He had Ango to wipe his record, Tanaeda to find him a job, and the agency to give him space to grow. Chuuya does not have that. He has no support outside the mafia. I'm not saying this makes him a good person, I'm saying it makes him a tragic character.
