#(not that the ship was inherently queerplatonic but “oh it's okay if you write them queerplatonically!” “i dont” “it's okay if you do!”)

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LOVE the way you try to keep the characters more or less true to their canon selves in your fics! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I read the story last night (about when dazai sneaks out 2 months post-mafia to buy bandages) and I LOVE his interactions w chuuya 😭😭😭😭

LIKE. WHY IS IT LOWKEY SO REAL SKDKSS

Okay this is my personal preferences coming in so take this w a grain of salt:

I love how you didn't make it skk sappy and the fact that it can be read also as just platonic - and also their characters AND relationship dynamics feels SIMILAR to their CANON selves (oh i alr said this but ye).

JWJSJAKAJS

slay cou 💅💖

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This is too sweet 😭 I'm glad you like it!!! It takes me so long to write and publish things because characterization means everything to me and if I feel like I got it too wrong I can't share it.

And I'm glad you like how I do the "relationship" aspect of it as well! There's a reason when I tag images of them together I never use any kind of ship tag or anything. They're not inherently romantic to me. I want them to be able to be read as romantic, platonic, as queerplatonic, it's up to interpretation. Because I feel like that's the nature of what they are. They're not romantic, but they are intrinsically something that has survived though however many tragedies and tests now. Their relationship dynamic to me is far too nebulous to reduce to romantic. If that makes any sense. At the end of the day, they're just... them. And they exist in the world together. And they're going to continue to cross paths or even seek each other out and they have too much history to ever be anything less than they are, but don't seem to have any inclination to be too much more, either. And I like that. And i like writing it. And I feel no desire to force their hands or my own as a fic writer to make them anything more.