at this rate basically an Akutagawa blog | "The words of your past are fundamentally unrelated to who you are today" - A Mysterious Thing Called "The Heart"
Shin Soukoku from Bungo Stray Dogs - My take on how the album reputation by Taylor Swift represents SSKK with each song with a bonus perspective.
1) ...Ready For It?
Perspective: Akutagawa
Lyric/Quote: "I see nothing better, I keep him forever, Like a vendetta" & "I know I'm gonna be with you, so I'll take my time"
2) End Game
Perspective: Akutagawa
Lyric/Quote: "I got a bad boy persona, it's what they like, you love it, I love it too 'cause you my type, You hold me down and I protect you with my life" & "You've been calling my bluff on all my usual tricks"
3) I Did Something Bad
Perspective: Atsushi
Lyric/Quote: "This is how the world works, You gotta leave before you get left"
4) Don't Blame Me
Perspective: Atsushi
Lyric/Quote: "For you, I would cross the line" - "My name is whatever you decide, and I'm just gonna call you mine" - "And baby, for you, I would fall from grace"
5) Delicate
Perspective: Akutagawa
Lyric/Quote: "My reputation's never been worse, so you must like me for me" & "Sometimes when I look into your eyes, I pretend you're mine, all the damn time"
Bonus from Atsushi's perspective: "Handsome, you're a mansion with a view"
6) Look What You Made Me Do
Perspective: Akutagawa
Lyric/Quote: "I don't trust nobody and nobody trust me" & "The role you made me play of the fool"
Bonus: "The old Taylor can come to the phone right now, Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead"
7) So It Goes...
Perspective: Atsushi
Lyric/Quote: "You know I'm not a bad girl but I do bad things with you" & "But when you get me alone, it's so simple"
8) Gorgeous
Perspective: Atsushi
Lyric/Quote: "There's nothing I hate more than what I can't have" & "'Cause you're so gorgeous, it actually hurts"
Bonus: "You should take it as a compliment that I got drunk and made fun of the way you talk"
9) Getaway Car
Bonus: Dazai/Chuuya
10) King Of My Heart
Perspective: Atsushi
Lyric/Quote: "You are the one I have been waiting for" & "My broken bones are mending"
11) Dancing With Our Hands Tied
Perspective: Akutagawa
Lyric/Quote: "I, I loved you in spite of, Deep fears that the world would divide us" & "And say, say that we got it, I'm a mess, but I'm the mess that you wanted"
12) Dress
Perspective: Atsushi/Akutagawa
Lyric/Quote: "Even in my worst times, you could see the best in me" & "Everyone thinks that they know us but they know nothing..."
13) This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Bonus: Dazai to Ango
14) Call It What You Want
Perspective: Atsushi
Lyric/Quote: "My castle crumbled overnight" & He built a fire just to keep me warm"
Bonus: "My baby's fit like a daydream"
15) New Year's Day
Perspective: Atsushi
Lyric/Quote: "But I stay when you're lost, and I'm scared, and you're turning away" & "Please don't ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere"
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every episode of my royal nemesis is a rom-com for forty minutes intercut with ten minutes of the most devastating historical romance you've seen and ten minutes of psychological thriller brought to you by a cousin/brother with an unnatural fixation on the main leads.
Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.
Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).
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I read etiquette and homemaking guides from the 1800s mostly because they're a FASCINATING insight into cultural norms that we often don't think about. I honestly really recommend people crack one of these open at least once--it goes way beyond, like, "what to wear to a ball!!!"
The best ones have advice on decor, how to select high-quality furniture, childrearing, fashion, etc--from a contemporary perspective, and the things the authors feel the need to clarify vs the wild shit that will just casually mention like it's something everyone knows and agrees on is REALLY revealing of the culture and how it's shifted.
And while a lot of the advice is WILDLY bigoted or just outright funny, you'd be surprised how much of it is...just genuinely timeless, and shockingly compassionate.
They ALSO, as a writer, have INVALUABLE resources--because, again, they're talking about things that are so MUNDANE that a lot of the time nobody really sat down to formally document what normal, everyday people thought or cared about--because that's boring! But a book written to provide advice and information to, say, a young woman who's never run her own home before? You can fully expect an entire chapter dedicated to The Types Of Oven, and which features are useful and worth spending money on, and which features are a huge hassle to clean and a waste of space, and what to spend that money on instead.
And like. As a writer who frequently works in the 1800s? Fuck inflation calculators, this is the kind of thing I need. This is absolutely priceless.
Now that being said.
My current favorite 'etiquette guide' in the world is actually like....70% purely practical advice, written by a gentleman the groupchat has affectionately dubbed History's Most Autistic Man In The World, and thank god they didn't have Aderall back then
Because the AuDHD is strong in this one and as a result, in addition to the deeply practical and useful everyday reference points, we also have:
watching supernatural for the first time in your twenties as a longtime tumblr user is wild because i know a lot of the main beats and how the show ends but i feel that people neglected to mention the episode where dean winchester kills hitler or when lucifer possessed the president of the united states. everyone was correct about castiel being a fag though.
I just realized that for Katara to be the narrator of the entirety of atla, that means that she would have had to sit down with Zuko and have him tell her EVERYTHING about his journey. All of his actions and inner thoughts and feelings during his time in banishment and as a traitor in the Earth Kingdom and when he was back in the FN. He trusted her with all of the bad parts of himself and all of his past mistakes and all of his inner turmoil and she really listened and wanted to listen. She got to know him better than anyone i guess
I love you Zutara fandom, I love how despite all the harassment and bullying and death threats from fellow fans and the creators themselves we have fanarchically (new word I'm coining) created an extended universe that rewrites the contemporary myth so that the heroine that so many of us looked up to as kids has her interiority back and gets to be with the guy who actually respects her. I love how badly it pisses off the creators who want to use Katara as a fantasy partner for their self-insert that we have seized the story and will continue to make it our own and there's nothing they can do about it.
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when Taylor swift said "you keep his shirt, he keeps his word" she was talking about atsushi wearing akutagawa's coat when they fuse their abilities and akutagawa keeping his promise he made to atsushi about not killing anyone for six months btw
noooooooo sakura don't go outside and stare longingly with the far and unreachable moon in the sky above that connects both you and suo for unexplained metaphorical and symbolic reasons
fun fact about me: When I was 6 years old I sent so much hate mail to the president (the second Bush) that the mail carrier had to tell my mom I needed to stop before we got FBI’d
I was COMPLETELY unaware of the US political scene or why the adults in my life hated Bush, but I knew I hated him because he let people shoot wolves from helicopters and that’s mean and shitty
I also had a poor grasp on how stamps worked, so given that I wasn’t allowed to continually throw money away by putting stamps on my presidential hate mail, a lot of the times I just drew squares with little pictures inside on the corner.
Love, love, love reading more proof that everyone should encourage the children in their lives to write to elected officials--it teaches them about citizenship and can also be very funny.
When I taught second grade, one of the options for students who had finished their work was to write a letter to the president. I would send all of the letters in a big envelope at the end of every month.
Watching my students get more and more frustrated with him (and concerned about his wellbeing) was not the result I'd hoped for when I came up with the idea, but it was kind of hilarious.
See, Obama had a standard packet with information and activities about his dog he'd send in response to letters from very young citizens...and of course his office sent one back to our class every single time we sent mail.
So eventually all of the letters looked something like this:
Dear President Obama,
I am writing about the environment. I am sad that the Great Barrier Reef is hurt. Also the Amazon Rainforest. Can you help? PLEASE DON'T WRITE BACK TO TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DOG AGAIN. WE ALREADY KNOW ALL ABOUT BO. WE COMPLETED THE MAZE AND COLORED HIM IN. It is good that you love your pet a lot. But try to remember the environment. It is also important.
A Zutara parallel I've never seen pointed out is that one episode where the gaang is infiltrating a party at the Earth King's palace and Toph says that Katara is mannered enough to fit in with high-society after a little coaching, and simultaneously the B-plot for Zuko and Iroh is working in the tea shop. And Zuko not being able to work a single day in customer service without jumping at the opportunity to swordfight someone (valid).
So at the same time Katara is a commoner disguised as high-society, Zuko is high-society disguised as a commoner.
It's like it's showing that each of them could meet the other halfway and fit into each other's worlds.
Yin and Yang, push and pull, each contains a piece of the other within themselves.
When Katara says "I'm just glad we finally have another girl in the group because you two [Aa.ng and Sokka] are disgusting," and then Toph immediately joins them in being disgusting, I wish there had been a parallel moment where after Zuko joins he's like "You three [Aa.ng, Sokka, Toph] are disgusting. How is Katara the only one here who knows what hygiene means? The rest of you act like you were raised in the jungle." And Katara is still mad at him but begrudgingly appreciates that finally there's someone in the group who washes his fucking hands and who she doesn't need to clean up after.
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