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that's... not how it works. you can't guarantee that your work definitely won't squick anyone. what do you think you're saying?

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Chuuatsu

Beast Chuuya: Alright listen up you little shits.

Beast Chuuya: Not you Atsushi.

Beast Chuuya: You’re an angel and we’re thrilled to have you here.

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Being 30 is fun. I was discussing anime with a teen at work and asked her how much of bnha she had watched. She had trouble answering and wasn't sure how to approach it. I said "better question was who was your husbando" and she turned bright red before mumbling an answer. They never expect me to know how deep their love of anime boys runs....

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i was jumanji’d too when i was a kid but no one cared

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some of your goofy asses for the past 20 years

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i wrote a little mini platonic (or not platonic, whatever makes ur heart happy) dazatsu thing based on the new art with atsushi in glasses! i feel like it's too short to post on ao3, so u guys can have it instead haha

fair warning, this requires some suspension of disbelief as ranpo's glasses as probably not prescription lmao

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It takes Dazai far too long to notice, all things considered.

Atsushi’s been fairly clumsy since day one, always bumping into doorknobs, sometimes seeming a bit disoriented. He never does Dazai’s work for him, like a good kouhai should, and he struggles so long to finish his own that Dazai sometimes wonders if he can even read. But when Dazai broached it to him once, Atsushi got so offended his fur was practically standing on edge.

“Of course I can read!” he had hissed.

Dazai had simply peaceably put his hands up and walked away.

But, after watching Atsushi for a while, he has come to one conclusion: Atsushi’s nearsighted.

Why he’s never breathed a word of it, Dazai doesn’t know. Does he see it as a weakness, think the agency will judge him? But that doesn’t make much sense, Atsushi’s never been ashamed before. He opens up so easily if people are only to ask.

Atsushi simply doesn’t realize. Probably thinks everybody sees things blurry, wonders why he struggles so much compared to everyone else.

Well, only one thing to do.

He plucks Ranpo’s glasses out of his jacket, ignoring his protests.

“Atsushi,” he calls, holding out the glasses. “Put these on.”

Curiously, Atsushi takes the glasses. “Why?”

“Just do it! Don’t you want to make your senpai happy?” Dazai pouts.

Atsushi hesitates before putting them on. After a moment, his eyes widen, and Dazai smirks.

“Better?”

“Is that what you look like?” Atsushi breathes. He pulls the glasses down before putting them back on. Dazai hands him a paper, some of his own paperwork, and he looks it over. “Oh my god, I can read it…”

“See, Atsushi? All you needed was a little help,” Dazai says.

Atsushi looks back up at him, and Dazai can see tears starting to stream down his face. He rushes forward and suffocates Dazai in an embrace which, after a moment, Dazai returns.

“Thank you,” he says, sounding strangled.

Dazai huffs. “Anytime.”

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So, okay, fun fact. When I was a freshman in high school… let me preface by saying my dad sent me to a private school and, like a bad organ transplant, it didn’t take. I was miserable, the student body hated me, I hated them, it was awful.

Okay, so, freshman year, I’m deep in my “everything sucks and I’m stuck with these assholes” mentality. My English teacher was a notorious hard-ass, let’s call him Mr. Hargrove. He was the guy every student prayed they didn’t get. And, on top of ALL OF THE SHIT I WAS ALREADY DEALING WITH, I had him for English.

One of the laborious assignments he gave us was to keep a daily journal. Daily! Not monthly or weekly. Fucking daily. Handwritten. And we had to turn it in every quarter and he fucking graded us. He graded us on a fucking journal.

All of my classmates wrote shit like what they did that day or whatever. But, I did not. No, sir. I decided to give the ol’ middle finger to the assignment and do my own shit.

So, for my daily journal entries, over the course of an entire year, I wrote a serialized story about a horde of man-eating slugs that invaded a small mining town. It was graphic, it was ridiculous, it was an epic feat of rebellion.

And Mr. Hargrove loved it.

It wasn’t just the journal. Every assignment he gave us, I tried to shit all over it. Every reading assignment, everyone gushed about how good it was, but I always had a negative take. Every writing assignment, people wrote boring prose, but I wrote cheesy limericks or pulp horror stories.

Then, one day, he read one of my essays to the class as an example of good writing. When a fellow student asked who wrote it, he said, “Some pipsqueak.”

And that’s when I had a revelation. He wanted to fight. And since all the other students were trying to kiss his ass, I was his only challenger.

Mr. Hargrove and I went head-to-head on every assignment, every conversation, every fucking thing. And he ate it up. And so did I.

One day, he read us a column from the Washington Post and asked the class what was wrong with it. Everyone chimed in with their dumbass takes, but I was the one who landed on Mr. Hargrove’s complaint: The reporter had BRAZENLY added the suffix “ize” to a verb.

That night I wrote a jokey letter to the reporter calling him out on the offense in which I added “ize” to every single verb. I gave it to Mr. Hargrove, who by then had become a friendly adversary, for a chuckle and he SENT IT TO THE REPORTER.

And, people… The reporter wrote back. And he said I was an exceptional student. Mr. Hargrove and I had a giggle about that because we both knew I was just being an asshole, but he and the reporter acknowledged I had a point.

And that was it. That was the moment. Not THAT EXACT moment, but that year with Mr. Hargrove taught me I had a knack for writing. And that knack was based in saying “fuck you” to authority. (The irony that someone in a position of authority helped me realize that is not lost on me.)

So, I can say without qualification that Mr. Hargrove is the reason I am now a professional writer. Yes, I do it for a living. And most of my stuff takes authorities of one kind or another to task.

Mr. Hargrove showed me my dissent was valid, my rebellion was righteous, and that killer slugs could bring a city to its knees. Someone just needs to write it.

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Two things can be true!

Mahmoud Khalid us a terrorist supporting antisemite who broke US laws, per evidence that Jews have been gathering for a year and a half, and should face legal consequences, up to and including deportation, if that's what the terms of his green cad call for, and

The Trump administration tried* to deport him without due process, in a clear attempt to set a precedent that could be used to deport any immigrant or persecute any protester.

*a judge, who just so happens to be an observant Jew, intervened and, now Khalid will get due process.

The second fact absolutely should be addressed. (And has been, by said judge.)

But if you deny the first fact, then you are contributing to the epidemic of antisemitism and terrorist support on the left.

Also, it makes me question if you actually believe that due process is a right that must be given to everyone, or if you're just mad it was denied to someone you like.

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you guys are so fucking stupidddd omg "rapists and pedophiles should be chemically castrated, this is a good thing" quick tell me about historical precedents of this idea and who or what ideology they are connected to......... 🤔

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Look at the CUTE BABYYYYY💜🖤🩷💜🩷💜🩷🖤🩷💜🩷🖤

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there's a thought I keep having, and said thought is simple:

Demanding that the world simplify itself down for your comfort doesn't work for anyone.

The world is not composed of Pure Good People And Evil Bad People. There are no "Ethical States" that are unproblematic, but there are nations that are walking travesties of human rights abuses, and they are not equal, and refusing to distinguish between them is not a Good Thing. There is no Grand Conspiracy full of a small and finite number of Evil People who can be defeated in order to bring about the Revolution/Rapture.

It's fine--laudatory, even!--to have a vision of how you want the world to work. But trying to simplify down human beings into spheres of equal density on a frictionless plane and expecting people to successfully adapt that into solutions for real world problems is not going to work.

And there will be times where you (individually or collectively) will be faced with a trolley problem, and trying to pretend that there is some magical third option available--"I would just shoot the person tying people to trolley tracks!"--is just moral cowardice. There will be times where nuance and an understanding of world history is needed. There will be plenty of times where your outsider perspective is actively in the way of understandings. There will be times when you have to get your hands dirty doing something that you don't like. There will be times when you need to compromise to meet others halfway in order to achieve your goals.

And refusing to accept that reality, and demanding that the world simplify itself to suit you is not a moral stance.

It's an immature tantrum.

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if the sight of a jew doing culturally jewish things and/or practicing the religion makes a person go 🫵 POTENTIAL EVIL LYING CHILD KILLING ZIONIST, APPROACH WITH CAUTION🫵 they are already antisemitic. and it’s going to take a lot of research and self-reckoning and uhh talking to jews in good faith for them to come back from that mindset. and many won’t undergo that process because it’s uncomfortable and shame-producing. and i honestly can’t show grace to folks who have unknowingly fallen down that rabbit hole because the conflation of “jewish” with “evil and bad” has already gotten jews killed this year. and it’s gotten jews killed for thousands of years. and unless gentiles start unpacking that long-ingrained cultural assumption that Jew = Suspicious, Probably Evil, Destroy Now we’ll see more pogroms in the future.

and before you come into my mentions with “but israel,” please understand that gentiles have never needed proof to believe jews are evil and murder them. right now, antisemites are gleeful that they have a “reason” and too many of y’all are just following their lead because you refuse to engage with this information. because you’re not an antisemite, right? you just hate zionists, not jews. and you definitely know what zionism is and you definitely can surmise when zionist is being used as a dogwhistle. right! of course! there is no historical precedent that would lead me to not believe a single word you say.

so like. if you truly want to help fight antisemitism, you have to engage with these ideas even if the process is uncomfortable and shame-producing. you have to unlearn 2,000 years of lies about us and the deeply ingrained instinct to believe we are evil. idk why i’m making this post i just wish gentiles would be believe us when we say It’s Really That Fucking Dire.

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If you follow me this is probably already clear, but after seeing the monstrosity of some people on this issue I feel the need to state it

If you think that what happened to the Bibas family is anything other than a horrific tragedy

If you think there's anything a 9 month old and a 4 year old could do to "deserve" being kidnapped and brutally murdered

Or you say you don't care because they were "settler children" (THEY WERE A BABY AND A TODDLER!)

Don't just unfollow me. BLOCK ME. I want NOTHING to do with you, ever.

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you cannot honestly call your tumblr a safe place for jewish people if:: *you hate zionists *you call for the death of zionists *you've supported hamas *you eat hamas propaganda for breakfast *you've spread blood libel *you celebrated october 7th *you cheer for the death of israelis *you're a holocaust denier *you've agreed with literal nazis *you want the destruction of the jewish homeland *you continue to be an ignorant shit who refuses to listen to a single actual jew

you are not safe

your tumblr is not safe

reblogging a post doesn't change that

it just makes you a liar pretending to be the good person you aren't

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