we still get immediately shoved out of our immersion in tv shows or films when The Girl find a dead body and immediately shrieks - we just don't find it realistic because we're pretty confident most people would gasp rather than shriek (i.e. sharp inhale rather than sharp exhale) and it also feels unnecessarily (and predictably) misogynistic too, as men encountering corpses almost never do the same on screen

also of course please do tell us if you've actually encountered a corpse unexpectedly, because tumblr is absolutely a place where some people have done this thing and we love a good anecdote

suddenly imagining "burst into song" as a potential response

I would like to sit outside since it’s so nice and warm and sunny today, but I need to charge my phone and where I was sitting had spiders. Little ones but I saw like 3 of them and I had to leave or else I’d end up stressed and upset to the point of crying. Perhaps I will go sit in the lounge area at the end of the hall…for now the classroom is nice and dim and quiet and I’m okay

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I've been thinking a lot about Dazai and the fact that he put a bomb in Chuuya's car when he left the the Port Mafia. I kept wondering why, because this is after Oda told him to be a good person, and putting a bomb in someone's car kinda makes it seem like you want that person dead

but this is Dazai, and what you see on the surface is only half the story. so again -- why? well, I think it's for two reasons: the first is to protect Chuuya. because they're Soukoku, they're known to be a team that works together terrifyingly well, a team that knows and understand each other even despite their vocal distaste for each other, and that means that if Dazai leaves, it'll put suspicion on Chuuya. it's a public statement of cutting ties that ensures no one is going to look at Chuuya, either for answers or otherwise negatively

that's only half the reason, though. the other half is this: don't try and find me. because Chuuya was forced into the Port Mafia, and I don't doubt that if he saw the opportunity to leave at the time, he wouldn't take it. if it included Dazai, well, he won't say it, but there would be relief because that's the person that knows him best, that he trusts with his life and can bring him back to himself when he looses himself to corruption

and the thing is, Chuuya understands why Dazai cut ties with him, but oh, does it hurt. Dazai has always been a sore spot, but this abandonment stays an open wound that just won't heal

as for Dazai's feelings, well -- they're complicated, as things often are. he thinks that leaving Chuuya behind was the best way to keep him safe -- Mori might have let him go, but loosing them both would have been a blow Mori would be unable to ignore -- but I wonder, for all the safety he provided, does he still regret actively harming one of the few people he's ever actually cared about?

sometimes I think about the fact that we might not have gotten the Aeneid at all, because Vergil wanted it burned when he died because he wasn't finished writing/editing, but Augustus himself said no publish it anyway

it's not even technically finished and it's still my favorite piece of writing ever created

have you ever had a crush on your best friend?

What if I went back to my tumblr roots and had an icon of Kohaku from CLAMP’s Wish

I don't know what the fuck happened -- I had 3 10 pulls for Aventurine today, and I either hit pity or something said "yeah you can have him today. as a treat" because he came home in the first 10 pull

I'm happy for Luka, but I'd rather've gotten Lynx instead of Serval 'cause I'd like to have another healer besides Natasha...

so according to the Genshin short A Song Burning in the Ashes Arlecchino's name is Peruere. seems awfully close to the Latin perurere which means "to burn up or through" or "to consume with fire". and given Arlecchino's association with fire and the House of the Hearth, I think the name is quite fitting

Sucks that “sleeping together” refers to sex. Sometimes a fella just wants to snooze with a pal.

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.