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This blog's been around for a year now, time sure flies!

Anyway, once again, Happy Birthday Odasaku, the guy that you are ❤️❤️❤️

Happy birthday to the most guy ever!

No better time to get this blog going I guess. I'm J, and I love Odasaku, nice to meet you.

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"was it someone you loved" wednesday, breathe if you agree.

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Realized i never actually posted odazai caramelldansen to my tumblr whoops

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i was having a rather fun conversation w folks in the server and i think i should say this here as well

i think it's deeply necessary to see oda as a character outside of "guy who is supposed to fix dazai" because. he's such a well-written character. i don't like it when his passivity wrt dazai is judged and ango and...chuuya? for some reason? are touted as "better influences" on dazai who "actually worked to fix him" while "oda just sat around".

it's overlooking a LOT of things, mainly how everyone is supposed to be quiet about each other's pasts in the mafia (at least from oda's perspective), and that oda doesn't see himself as qualified to offer advice to anyone.

he definitely would've overcome this to some extent with time, given how freely and boldly he advises akutagawa in BEAST, and:

it's not really his fault they're doomed by the fucking narrative.

it's very important to me that oda be allowed to have his issues and display symptoms of those issues without judgement, as well as the fact that i think "odasaku, tell me what i should do" was the most important sentence dazai could've spoken for himself. that is, while it would've been nice if odasaku really had spoken up and deepend his and dazai's friendship (and it is a very big part of their tragedy that they didn't), i do like the fact that it was dazai himself that chose to ask how he should live from here on out.

tldr i don't like the "odasaku was at fault for not fixing dazai sooner" take because it very much feels like seeing a character as a narrative device instead of a character (which is boring, especially when the character is as interesting as odasaku), and i don't like the "ango and chuuya had the correct response to dazai" take because i don't think you can wrangle someone into fixing themselves. acceptance and lack of judgement were the most important parts of why dazai listened to oda of all people in the cast ("you're humble, i don't dislike that").

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>:3c

Od*ango

(You knew this was coming)

from the one true od*ngo hater? of course i knew <3

very naturally, ship negativity under the cut. also, long post because if i don't justify every other consonant in my post i might die i think.

first of all, KEEP THAT GIRL (ODASAKU) AWAY FROM HIM! why would odasaku ever love his betraying ass when being betrayed is like. his one true set-off button. and also his gun's. why would he-

honestly you already know and share all of my opinions and then some, but i'm gonna elaborate for public convenience. look, i'm not the kind to hate on a rarepair. they would've made a perfectly good rarepair. do you already see the problem here? it's not! a fucking! rarepair!

anyone that has been deep into the buraiha enjoyers side of the fandom (me. us.) knows why exactly this ship is so popular. it's not only a pair-the-spares ship, it's also mOraLLy pURe. basically, it's only selling point to like 99% of its shippers is that not only it isn't odazai, it also retcons odazai. it's a fucking hub of godforsaken antis. that's why i ticked the harrasment magnet box. if you ship that ship (in the eng fandom), you will end up on the harassers side of the fandom inevitably. and they will the fuck not spare you lmao.

but that's why most of the shippers suck (mandatory not all shippers, especially not my lovely friends who ship it). let's move on to the ship itself.

1) it's so fucking obviously a pair-the-spares ship with all the spark of a soggy bread. it's the worst thing a ship can do: be. fucking. BORING.

2) the dynamic i've seen being touted in fanon is just...odazai. because they don't really have a canonical interesting dynamic of their own, the anti ass kids have decided odazai is free real estate anyway. straighten your spine and just ship the ship whose dynamic you actually like ffs.

see what i mean? when we have wan of odazai flirting and ango screaming internally about it?

("we need ango to protect oda from people who want him dead" throws the BEAST LN at this mf he had the chance pre-dark era and didn't take it)

hey. guess who brought him flowers first. (lmao bringing flowers to a grave has to be romantic for this ship to work, fucking miserable).

3) little miss characterisation. this is what bugs me about most ships i dislike for reasons other than a simple "i just don't fw it". and BOY is this ship FUCKING trite with it. all the variants of this ship (other than by like. the 2 people i personally fw that ship it as OT3 anyway) just fucking suck. "od*ngo and their baby son dazai" WRONG "dazai forgives ango when he comes to know ango was in love with oda" WRONG "oda and ango make out while dazai is annoyed" WRONG. the sheer disregard of dazai's feelings for odasaku (platonic or otherwise), mischaracterisation of the parts of odasaku that make him fucking interesting (no he isn't Forgiving Level Headed Dad, that's a 23 yr old with Unaddressed Issues), dazai's infantilisation when he is just as much an equal and a friend to them both, minimising ango's role in the friendship breakup, yada yada yada you get the point.

there was this take of "in the buraiha breakup scene, oda was protecting ango from scary old dazai!" which i can and will post a wall of text ass screenshot to debunk:

this guy used to shoot people point-blank if they betrayed him, even at the cost of going to prison. don't tell me he wasn't hurt by ango's betrayal and was entirely unforgiving of it. in fact, had he been alive, he would've been just as vengeful as dazai if not more.

it's as the shipping gods say: if you have to bend the characters' personalities and interpersonal dynamics, and even canon entirely to ship it...it just Ain't All That.

tldr: it's a nothingburger pair-the-spares ship rife with antis that wish it was odazai and mutilate odasaku's entire character to make it work, while trying their hardest to ignore dazai's existence as much as possible. can't say i fw that, so i just avoid it.

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I'm proud to announce that this blog has now reached 100 Followers! 🎉🎉🎉

I want to take this opportunity to do something special - look forward to announcement once my personal life stops being so horribly busy.

I'm so incredibly grateful for everyone who's made this silly little blog even just a little bit more fun 🩷

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Today this post has surpassed a personal milestone of mine and i just wanted to shout out rq everyone who has added to the notes to make my dream come true.

Truly, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Dazai "everyone's project" Osamu

(Plz don't @ me with any suggestions or "corrections", thank you.)

Edit: holy shit this blew up way more than I ever imagined lol. Thank you to all who reblog, your tags are everything ❤️

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hi! for the ask gamr: i followed you for your odazai posts <3

As it should be, anon. As it should be 😌

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"was it someone you loved" wednesday, breathe if you agree.

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Why did you start following me?

Bonus points off anon

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LOOK AT HIM-

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I canNOT believe i didn't already reblog your fic - it's absolutely phenomenal and you deserve every single kudo and more!

Everyone go read it NOW!

Summary:

Oda Sakunosuke has as satisfactory a life as someone like him can dream of. He works for the famed Armed Detective Agency, writes (or, well, tries to write) his novel in his free time, and spends time with the orphans and provides for them the best he can.

This doesn't stop his heart from mourning things his mind doesn't know to mourn.

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Uuuh excuse me, right back at you?? Anyone who isn't yet should ABSOLUTELY go follow my brainrot pal @deathbedtime-story , he's got the BEST and MOST CORRECT bsd takes!

I can't believe I am this close to hitting 100 followers DAMN what do y'all see in me.

Anyway I'm gonna think up something fun for when I hit the mark =)

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I can't believe I am this close to hitting 100 followers DAMN what do y'all see in me.

Anyway I'm gonna think up something fun for when I hit the mark =)

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convenience

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"was it someone you loved" wednesday, breathe if you agree.

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You're doing fantastic dear, i don't have anything to add ❤

help! give me reasons to appreciate kuniango pls 🙇🙇

chance to spread kuniango agenda? i love you anon!!!!

they're literally perfect for each other. if you ask me, kunikida is the only one who can fix ango. ango's sleep schedule is a shit? kunikida, The Schedule Haver™, will force him into some semblance of normalcy. taneda keeping ango at work again? kunikida spits on authority, he will drag ango by the collar out of the office in front of taned. overtime will become such a thing of the past for ango that even he will go "bitch you live like this?" at his past self. ango will have at least 3 proper meals a day as per kunikida's schedule. overtime, skipping meals, no sleep-all of these are NOT how kunikida's other half will live his life because according to his notebook they're gonna live long, happy, healthy lives dammit.

(some of @curry-and-gunpowder 's and my messages about them: )

(context: the "killing taneda" is just a long-time half-joke i've been making lol. sometimes you just want a bald man dead. as a joke.)

and then they can have sticks up their arses about work ethic together 🥰. i just know their glasses clicked together when they tried to kiss. i love bullying both of these characters independently, so making them a package deal seems the way to go as far as i'm concerned ^_^

(jokes aside, i think that their personalities are such good matches for each other? how they both value human life so much and yet have had to neglect that value for the "greater good" because "you can't save everyone". something to bond over i think.

so here was the actual plot for them to get together: (@curry-and-gunpowder 's messages again, we're in this rarepair hell together.)

so the plot is that ango gets more involved w the ADA post-DoA arc. kunikida is initially like 💢 because he has even more bones to pick w the government and government figures after everything, but hey, it's not ango's fault right? he went against his organisation to help them out. so they somehow end up going out to get drinks from then on, and hit it off as two of the most high-strung people ever. you can throw in a shitton of odasaku and dazai-related angst here ehehehehehheheheh. heh. it's a pretty amazing ship.

now for some of my personal bullshit: i love the ADA odazai + kuniango combination. more specifically, i think they should 2v2 each other.

i hope, in the midst of the sheer chaos of stuff i typed out with no regards for readability or consistency, i still somehow managed to sell it to you. i'm sorry, i might have gotten a bit too excited. honestly speaking, i think @/curry-and-gunpowder might be able to put things better sjhdnshs.