Sorry if it looks a bit rushed, I did this quickly because I wanted to translate it and show it to everyone as soon as possible -- Fyodor is finally appearing in a Wan chapter as one of the main characters!!! I'm so happy!!!
to live, even when it feels unbearable. | Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945) / The White Book (Le Livre Blanc) by Jean Cocteau, 1930 / Mieko Kawakami, Heaven / Insomnia, Mark Andres, acrylic on canvas, 2021 / Florence Welch, from Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry; “Maybe it would be fun” / Aleksandra Waliszewska / El Sur (Víctor Erice, 1983) / Deer On the Side of the American Highway by Devin Kelly / neil hilborn, numbered days / Sun on the horizon (Naomi Kawase, 1996) / Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Eat”
since Sigma ran Sky Casino he was really good at dealing and shuffling and nifty tricks like that so back at the agency he does his fancy card tricks and shuffles to entertain them.
Everyone, especially Kyouka, Kenji, Ranpo, Atsushi, Junichiro and Naomi are completely spellbound by him and watch his moves like ✨o✨
As a side hustle he gets his nails done in very cute whimsical styles and runs a YouTube channel where he does like card shuffling asmr or something and it’s moderately successful because he has beautiful hands and some people are way into that.
He is also their guy when then agency and mafia have like game nights and feel like gambling a little.
Yosano and Kouyou are making very sexually charged eye contact and everyone around the table is just like 👀
“they’re either going to be at each other’s throats or someone’s waking up in the other’s bed tomorrow” Dazai says and Chuuya nods.
They’re both a little scared.
Kunikida is sitting awkwardly with Kajii who’s trying to convince him to bomb the place and run away with the money.
Fitzgerald, Mori, Fyodor and Fukuzawa are at the big bois table, engaging in big brain high stakes gambling, because they can, and they mean business.
Fukuzawa does not want to be there, he’s not that kinda guy, his boyfriend made him do this, and is internally panicking.
He is winning.
The kids are somewhere else having a game night of their own. Atsushi, Lucy and Akutagawa are playing Mario Kart and are at each other’s throats constantly.
Steinbeck is teaching Kenji, Kyouka and Kyusaku how to play Stardew Valley.
Tachihara, Higuchi, Gin and Mark are playing COD.
Junichiro, Naomi, Louisa, Edgar, Ranpo, Margaret and Nathaniel are playing monopoly.
something something everyone addison loves always being more in love with somebody else than they are with her something something her holding on too tight anyway if there’s the slightest chance they want her instead even though she knows better because she spent her whole life begging for scraps of affection and maybe this time somebody will choose her
TWIN PEAKS (2017), Part 18 x Part 15: Cooper considers. Something slips into place. The woman he's with begins screaming. The lights crackle out. Darkness. (And during it all, a parent and a child communicate distantly.)
The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
A while ago I commissioned @starfleetspacecadet and they did this fantastic piece of Seven hanging out with the Wildmans! (Or, Seven assisting Samantha with some hands-on xenobiology research and Naomi doing her best to also assist). It’s wonderful, please gaze upon it.