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I don't like the result.. there was no inspiration

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WHY am I seeing a lot of Valentines Day fics in the soukoku section of AO3?!!!

Valentine's Day hasn't been moved to December... RIGHT?! It makes no sense.

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Soukoku Fanfic Recommendation

Temptations (37,212 words) by allmytroubles Chapters: 9/? Fandom: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs Rating: Mature

The fic is about angels and demons and the grey area. Chuuya's an angel and Dazai's a demon.

I really like this. I like the style, how Chuuya and Dazai are written, and I like the plot. I highly recommend this. I didn't expect it to be this good.

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Dazai Osamu/Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs), Akutagawa Ryuunosuke/Nakajima Atsushi (Bungou Stray Dogs), (only side tho) Characters: Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs), Dazai Osamu (Bungou Stray Dogs), Paul Verlaine (Bungou Stray Dogs), Oda Sakunosuke (Bungou Stray Dogs), Original Characters, Nakajima Atsushi (Bungou Stray Dogs), Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (Bungou Stray Dogs) Additional Tags: Heaven & Hell, Hurt/Comfort, Manipulation, but he’s a demon so yk, Eventual Smut, Eventual Romance, Angst with a Happy Ending, Dazai Osamu is Whipped (Bungou Stray Dogs), Nakahara Chuuya Needs a Hug (Bungou Stray Dogs), Top Dazai Osamu (Bungou Stray Dogs), Bottom Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs), Angel/Demon Relationship, Older Sibling Paul Verlaine (Bungou Stray Dogs), Wet Dream, Dazai Osamu is Bad at Feelings (Bungou Stray Dogs), Slow Burn, Possessive Dazai Osamu (Bungou Stray Dogs) Summary:

“A bet. Something to shake you out of your little slump. How about…” He paused, his grin turning wicked. “An angel.” Dazai tilted his head, intrigued. “Go on.” “Not by tempting them,” Izarath clarified, his tone almost mocking. “Anyone can do that. I’m talking about something… intimate. Break their resolve in a way they’ll never recover from.” Dazai laughed, the sound low and dangerous. “You mean I need to seduce one?” “Exactly,” Izarath said, leaning back with a satisfied expression. “Unless, of course, you think it’s beneath you.” Dazai’s smile turned razor-sharp, his golden eyes gleaming like embers. “Oh, Izarath,” he said smoothly, setting down his chalice. “You should know by now—nothing is beneath me.”

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Kittens

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Snowball fight ☃️❄️

(Also sorry for not posting often i’ve just been really depressed and tired recently lol)

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Hi!!!

I'm a fanartist and fanfic writer & reader. On this blog I will post some of my fanfic and fic recommendations. I have a second blog where I will post short fanfic and series.

I will tag the fic recommendations with "rating: e" if they are explicit and it will probably be stated in the post, too. So please be careful.

This blog is purely for Bungou Stray Dogs content. I am a soukoku shipper so don't be surprised to see them A LOT. Other than the ship, both of them are my favourite characters.

If Asks are open, you can use it to ask about fanfic recommendations (though, even though I read fanfic EVERY DAY, I still am new to the fanfic side of things. Before I just obsessed about the show and manga.) or give me short prompts for fanart (for Chuuya and/or Dazai. And I am still an amateur in art but I'll do my best).

Old Welcome Post Here

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How long have you known that I wasn't what you had wanted?

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Fanfiction Writers!

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Hey, so this caught my eye when I was on AO3. Should I be concerned about AO3? I don't live in the US so I have no clue what this is about.

I don't want AO3 to disappear. I use it practically every day.

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So, Bungou Stray Dogs fans,

(I'm talking about the content of the most recent chapter. Chapter 120.5 that was posted December 4th.)

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it’s so painful to watch yourself grow cold, bitter, and resentful, even toward small, irrelevant things, when all you’ve ever wanted was just to be warm, gentle, kind, and loving.

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One month left of 2024!!!

Where did it go?!

Happy new year everyone!! Let’s start 2024 with some ssk! 🥳🥳

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AO3 vs Wattpad

When it comes to posting stories online, there’s a near endless number of sites you could post on. There are sites specifically meant for it, and even general sites could work. Several times I’ve seen people use Youtube as a platform. Wattpad is definitely a widespread and popular used site as a means for sharing stories, but AO3 (Archive of Our Own) is a better site because the tagging system is amazing, doesn’t use book covers or chapter art, and generally has an older audience. Each has their pros and cons; there isn’t a perfect site to post on. However, AO3 is a better built suited site for fanfiction (works based off another medium, such as books, movies, and TV shows).

               To get your story noticed, properly tagging it is very important. It will be how people find your story in the first place and be a determinate as to whether someone will read your story or not. On Wattpad, you have twenty-five tags to work with. It may sound like plenty, but you got to tag characters, the fandom (a term used to generalize a medium’s community), the mood of the story, and any sensitive content warnings. That added with the fact that some tags are very similar, but different enough to where it’d benefit you to tag your story as both, those 25 tags get eaten up quickly. AO3 doesn’t have a tag limit, which sometimes gets chaotic, but it’s much more organized. It has specific slots for characters, fandom, pairings, rating and sensitive content warnings. This avoids having to use similar tags because this character has a popular nickname, and let’s someone know if they’re getting into something G rated or something more extreme. For both readers and writers, it takes away excuses. If properly tagged, a reader can’t complain about something that was included in the story that was tagged. As for a writer, they have the ability to tag everything and have no excuse for not tagging something. Tags on AO3 can also include spaces, so not everything is a mess and the author can be more specific. Sure, sometimes this leads to their being a wall of tags and that’s a little tiresome, but benefits outweigh someone using too many tags.

               One would think having “book” covers for your stories would be a good thing. In theory, it’s great! Covers can give your story a more professional and real feeling. However, the issue lies with the images used for said book covers. While non-copyrighted images aren’t hard to come by, not everyone takes time to check. Google Images pulls up a million book cover worthy images in a second. The worst though is art. These writers will find art that isn’t theirs and use it for their stories, not asking permission to use the art and not giving credit to the artist. For artists that work on their drawings, it’s frustrating to see someone else using it for their own benefit. You can also include pictures at the beginning of every chapter, encouraging even more art theft. It may seem harmless, as long as the artist doesn’t find out. If asking permission to use art was more commonplace, there would be no issue in these cover and chapter art. That’s sadly not the case, though. AO3 doesn’t let you have covers, which might seem like it’d make a story less interesting, but I think it brings more attention to a story’s summary and tags.

               If you’re hoping for a more mature audience, AO3 is in my personal experience has an older age group. I can’t back this up with any facts, but my experiences on the two sites are vastly different. I think if you’re older or more serious about your writing, having a more mature audience is the way to go. Younger readers don’t always grasp that updates to their favorite stories can’t always be frequent, that life gets busy. Getting comments asking (and sometimes demanding) an updated is stressful. When it comes to feedback, short “I love this!” comments are appreciated, but long comments on why they love something encourages me so much more as a writer and I can see what people like. Someone younger might not put the thought and effort into constructing a long comment. When an author posts their story online, they’re not getting paid for it, and that’s something I know I didn’t really grasp when I was younger. The expectation to post regularly is tiresome, and someone older is more likely to get it. It’s easier to build a community with readers and writers alike, I’ve gained many friends I talk to every day through posting my writing. There’s entire social media group chats dedicated to writers and specific fandoms. Wattpad and be like posting into the void and hoping for a response, but I only had that feeling the first time I posted to AO3 when I didn’t know what to expect. Instead of just typing up something and posting a story, I’ve made friends and I post more now that I feel like I’m actually going somewhere with all of it.

               Now, this isn’t a perfect website, and I’m not trying to claim it is. There’s a number of things that frustrate me, but AO3 is continuously updating to meet new demands. It was quite literally made to be better than other websites. Another thing is that it is better for fanfiction rather than original writing. However, when it comes to the audience of people that use it and the way the site is set up, it’s leagues above a site like Wattpad.

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Something that gets lost when laughing about Chuuya threatening Dazai with revealing his address to "every woman he's left crying" is that this threat is high stakes

There's a bonus story that comes with Untold Origins about what the ADA was doing the day before Atsushi's entrance exam that, among other things, explains where the fake bomb came from. Dazai was the one it was sent to:

"I had a few ideas as to who it could be." Dazai. Dude. Bro. My man. What.

and later, it happens again:

What Chuuya said was no empty threat nor the threat of receiving a few slaps and choice words. That would be the least of his problems.

and so

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it aint soukover until I say its soukover

sometimes, they just need a break. time to themselves where they aren’t caught up in absolute chaos. time to rest.

Dazai is always thinking, so sometimes Chuuya checks in to make sure his mind hasn’t wandered off.

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