Can you imagine Dazai confessing to Chuuya for the second time at 22 using the same words he used at 15. Something something they're bickering and he goes "we really do get along so well, and that's what makes me love you!"

Chuuya stares at him for a moment, turns his face away and says "I guess that's what makes me love you too."

only a man

made a fake poster while playing w texture brushes lmao

oracle, ban this guy

(some shitpost while i work on that bernard comic)

"The Stoppables"

I'm a little surprised nobody else has commented on this, but - it's kind of interesting that Dazai and Fyodor were, actually, completely honest with each other during that 'therapy' moment.

Fyodor mentioned that his underlings wait for his instructions and have no initiative. We have, actually, observed that this is entirely true.

Dazai's solution for this was likewise honest - he was telling Fyodor what he does to get other people to do things. Namely, pretend to be a lazy jerk so that everyone else is forced to pick up the slack. (Translation: Don't give them orders. Stand back and let them do what they'd do anyway, and take advantage of that.)

Dazai mentioned the waitress in the cafe he always flirts with, who responds to his flirtations with 'seriously, get a really good life insurance policy and I'll think about it'. He is asking an honest if tangential question.

Fyodor's solution is equally honest - the whole 'ruin her family and make her so desperate she has no choice but to turn to you' plot is in fact how we've seen Fyodor force people to do what he wants. He railroads them, driving their situations to get the ending he desires.

Just...think about this. They both asked honest questions, and both gave honest answers. Then apply this to the wider plot.

Fyodor basically said, "I have already set up this entire situation so that your people have no choice but to be destroyed."

Dazai's answer was, "I know my people and know they'll be able to survive without me while I deal with you".

And even so, both of them still tweak events from their cells - but Dazai's methodology works better at a distance than Fyodor's does. Because he does need to be able to give instructions; his underlings aren't the type to be able to fill in the blanks without him.

They fact they're openly admitting this is wild to me.

So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

A small victory to celebrate for today

Yoohankim vs romance

wearing way too many belts all by yourself handsome?

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sometimes people dont really understand that having schizophrenia doesn’t permalock me as an angsty 13 year old evanescence fan

dazai. dazai you fool. what are you doing running? how high is your pain tolerance? dazai. dazaaaiiii

HELP HIM HE’S INJURED

(YOU SHOT HIM)

unbothered king. i concede.

can't stop thinking about ranpo being the one person dazai is close to who he can touch without worrying about nlh., with everyone else, every touch is paired with the sensation of his ability cancelling out theirs but with ranpo it's just. normal touch. and it's so strange and almost eerie at first because casual touch is always so much. dazai's touch is meant to be used as a weapon, and he's forcibly reminded of that every time he pats atsushi's head or pokes kunikida's cheek or brushes up against kenji. gentle, casual, touch is not what dazai is meant for.

but then he touches ranpo and there's nothing. there's just the surface-level feeling of his hair pinched between dazai's fingers. he touches ranpo, and it's only skin-deep. ranpo touches him, and never once flinches at the sensation of no longer human. and dazai starts to think maybe his touch doesn't have to be a weapon all the time, maybe just this once, it can be skin-deep and gentle. maybe with ranpo, he can learn how touch is supposed to feel.