#Miserable man

[trashfactorysstuff]

Since everyone is showing their BES ocs, here I am showing mine. I present you Taisei and Aiko <3

Taisei used to be a recognized samurai in Kanazawa, he lost his title after losing a duel, which made his dojo turn around in shame and Taisei once was searching for his honor but he just ended up wandering around Japan and becoming a drunk. Mostly he is around Kyoto as Madame Kaji’s most loyal client.

Aiko is a prostitute in the many places of Mihonoseki. She was sold very young and she hated her life as a prostitute, just wanting to marry a man to just leave her job, even if it was as a housewife, she wanted that. She got married to Chiaki, an arrange marriage that didn’t really benefit him but she did for her. They hated each other but Aiko was in no position to complain, he gains a fortune and she was a housewife of a mostly empty house since he was out most of the time due his job as an assassin. Aiko wasn’t precisely sad when she heard of his death, maybe a bit.

Hope enjoy and feel free to ask if y’all curious of them, I’ll be happy to amswer more questions <3

[annanuna-arts]

Razimin

Doodling my OC, because he got no doodles in a while

[biillylenz]

i have two brain worms named david and radford

[kurohe]

He is so pathetic i wanna pour a glass of water on his head

[dizzified]

Me when, me when dead girlfriend swag, actual Jeremiah moment.

Certified guy to say he's fine and then instantly go to his house and start screaming crying and destroying shit.

Set his own house on fire on accident, he's absolutely miserable. If his girlfriend hadn't died, he would've proposed, and they would've been happy fr D:

He's not essentially a really important character, but I love him anyway, I wanted to give him a ref for funsies even if it's shit, I think he should be more relevant.

He's Will's bestfriend still after everything, and despite his own issues, is one of the most supportive people in his life, if he ever held a grudge about the circumstances of his girlfriend's death, he never let it show. In-fact, he works with Will as a part-time guard for his co-owned shop with another buddy of his. He enjoys it, it gets his mind off things, and keeps him from getting lonely.

[athena-theunicorn]

david kushner is a christian artist. did y'all know that? bc i'm a christian and i didn't know that until recently. like his music is so unique from other modern worship/christian music out there now that it didn't really cross my mind, but once you know you can hear it in his lyrics and i think thats so cool. like people that don't know wouldn't really know unless they really read his lyrics.

and not all of his songs are spesifically about christ. canon beach, miserable man, mr. forgettable, and others don't really have any christian innuendo. they're just about life experiences. but daylight, elk grove, and skin and bones have some strong religious themes. i think thats so cool of him fr.

[were--ralph]

well there goes all my savings

[insectanatomy]

Hi :D I see some of my buds on here posting about the camp we're in and I thought Id start posting my entries! Daisy bell belongs to the lovely @mumpsetc :) All other are not mine other than DNE

[theladwhoisweird]

It's so shameful that when you're roaming around the town you saw lots people of your batch or your generation are working onto their lives. Most of them are in colleges. Some of them are contented parents while some of them are on jobs and businesses.

And their you are, strolling like a dead wood in denim jacket, as if you're already a celebrity on a day off except that you're penniless and would turned into adulthood the day after the next.

[kreide-was-taken]

last one for tonight, i swear

[chaotic-theatrical-weaver]

I spent way too long wondering why the speaker of David Kushner’s “Miserable Man” refers to himself as such when the rest of the song seems to indicate he has a pretty nice life with his wife and kids after running away from their small town. I figured it out: he’s talking about how society thinks of him. 

On the one hand, small towns in fiction tend to be either idealized or depicted as some horribly stifling place with a dark secret and a bunch of hypocrites. While he’s not leaning fully into the latter, as he makes clear it is he who wants a different life (”we can’t be all we want in this small town”) and never specifies any feelings of suppression, perhaps the people there reacted negatively to his leaving (think: “oh, he sold out and left us--he’s probably miserable and he’ll come back when he realizes it’s not all he thought it would be”). 

On the other hand, Genius says that he and his wife escape to the city, but that was never how I thought of it; I always pictured him living off the grid in some distant forest, making a self-sufficient existence. The music video seems to confirm this. Perhaps the city people, while they don’t know him specifically, think of that kind of lifestyle negatively (something along the lines of ”oh, imagine living off the grid and not having public utilities, Internet, or going to grocery stores--how hard and miserable that must be”). Ultimately, neither side understands his decision and thinks he must be miserable for it, and he references their thoughts as a contrast to the satisfaction he expresses throughout the rest of the song. Their validation is not necessary for him to be happy, and in fact, their invalidation might have been a factor in his leaving.

[i-am-stressed-all-the-time]

Ugly creature

[noisyghost]

corvidae

[nipuni]

Alec 🌊

[vmkhoneyy]

I think if I could be the kind stranger in someone’s memory, that’d be enough.

[mell-3]

DAVİD KUSHNER İÇİN ÖLÜRÜM DİYORUM BŞKA BİR ŞEY DEMİYORUM.