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THEM… it’s long overdue

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don't go Nanamin don't go

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pink lady and granny smith 🍎🍏 all the best apples are women. makes one ponder

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Rules: Without naming them, post a gif from 10 of your favourite films, then tag 10 people to do the same!

Thanks @cursedvibes for the tag! I haven't recognized all of your movies but you sure have great taste <3

It was incredibly hard but i think this is a good selection! Both serious and silly movies!

I tag @hxhhasmysoul @theatredelabsurde @flight-of-death @tenitchyfingers whoever else wants to do this

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Art by ANANANANZ

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3 a.m. in the morning, someone busted Nödt looking for a piece of biscuit that fell to the kitchen floor

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My contribution to the Äs Nödt fandom

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he's quite a gentleman...

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Oikawa from that one official art

cause I literally can't stop thinking about him

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@cursedvibes

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Lucio Corsi & Topo Gigio - "Nel blu dipinto di blu"

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𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲 𝗢𝗱𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗸𝘂. 𝗠𝘆 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁.

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wait omg PLS elaborate on how adazai mischaracterization is really just ranpo that's so interesting

oooh let's go, let's FUCKING go about how ranpo is denied his spot in "fucked up amoral genius" camp because "smol baby bean 🥺". for context, anon is referring to my tags on main under this post:

(sorry post that you got drowned, but it helps me differentiate)

rest is under the cut because it got long 😭

i'll let y'all have a peek at the conversation i referred to in the tags as well. it took me ages to censor everyone's name, kill me.

initially i came across the "facts about dazai" post and sent it to my friends so we can give it the middle finger in private ("hE vALuEs hiS sAfeTy-" looks like someone read STEM domesticated cats), as one does when they see a shitty take in a fandom. and THEN a certified ranpo understander pointed out how a lot of the points made about dazai are...actually very fitting for ranpo. lemme run y'all through some of them:

❌"dazai's moral compass is defined by odasaku"

✅ "ranpo's moral compass is defined by fukuzawa"

i've talked myself hoarse about this, but people take dazai asking oda for advice, and believing his advice because oda walked the talk as dazai filling some gap in his own morality with that of the friend he loved. that's not true at all, he asked oda to tell him what dazai himself should do, and in that he establishes his autonomy (...? this word doesn't fit here because when i contrast this w ranpo and fukuzawa, ranpo wholeheartedly decided to take up fukuzawa's directive as supreme. he wasn't coerced into it.) over his mindset. he still does kill people, he doesn't take up oda's no-killing rule, because they're different people with different goals, that's all 🤷

now contrast that with ranpo:

he's RIDICULOUSLY wrong here, and was saved from fucking dying on that ship because of dazai's measures. would dazai believe someone like that, just on odasaku's words? they don't have this kind of a relationship.

the Agency is dazai's vehicle to save people. for ranpo, the Agency supersedes others.

a lot of times i kinda see a muddled "dazai saves people under the influence of the Agency" type of thing? while i have no doubt that being around the Agency has made him a better person, his motive to save people...doesn't really spark from that! ranpo's working hard because he has the Agency depending on him. he loves his friends and shachou! he won't let them fall to harm again! ...and the other people too. them neither.

one difference between the other ADA members and dazai can be best described, at least in my opinion, by the following observation: of all the members whose backstory we know, dazai was the only one who scouted the ADA and not the other way round.

this is not to say that if dazai had to choose between saving a rando or an Agency member, he'd choose the rando. but i'm just marking a difference in the source of the motivations.

❌ dazai didn't give a shit about atsushi (esp beyond having him as a weapon)

✅ ranpo was fine with atsushi being trafficked

this take is hogwild to me already but i've seen numerous people whose takes i otherwise respect dying on the hill that atsushi isn't anything more than a weapon to wield for dazai. i too make chazuke for my weapons in the middle of the night, he's just manipulating him i prommy 🤞. just because dazai doesn't treat atsushi like a father would, it's "abusive" and "manipulative" and other such things. folks. they're 4 years apart. dazai's like a college senior to him.

on the other hand, the idea of fukuzawa's praise was canonically a better motivation for ranpo to look for atsushi...over atsushi being fucking sold to the guild. if it weren't for fukuzawa and dazai, our favourite catboy would be gone (AND KYOUKA TOO, but atsushi was also very involved in that). the danger to the ADA was likely not worth saving atsushi to ranpo, or maybe he was like "well dazai's on the case, isn't he!" internally. who knows.

❌ dazai would be a dangerous person without odasaku

✅ ranpo would be a dangerous person without fukuzawa

now look, this isn't my attempt to say dazai's not capable of being dangerous. he was very dangerous even WITH oda 😆. but let's be real, his ass would be dead in a ditch somewhere without odasaku. even the stage actors agree with me that dazai wouldn't have lived long past dark era had the events of dark era not happened.

contrast this to the line said by Asagiri that was: if fukuzawa didn't find ranpo in untold origins, god knows what kind of beast he would've become.

an unmoored ranpo would've become resentful of the world that refuses to be honest and make fun of him all the time. this resentment would've surely ended up being taken out on the world. dazai is the kind of character that internalises his lack of understanding of the world, but ranpo might've externalised it.

the tldr of all this is that dazai gets wayyyy too much credit for characteristics my other favourite amoral genius holds. free him you ableist shitbags! let the fucked up people save the world in peace!!!!!!

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I went to a library book sale this weekend and I found a very old book called “Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers,” which was published in I think 1975? I’ve been reading it kind of like how I would read a historical document, and it’s lowkey fascinating