#and Dan is me hehe

[kleiner-ghost]

Autumn's Scent

"Smells like fall." Dan was the first to comment.

They'd left the ruins of Crago only a handful of moments ago, and yet everything had completely changed around them; the scenery, the air, the lack of hostiles - both the dead and the living kind. At first Farrah had mistaken it for the smell of freedom, one that comes moments after imminent danger passes. But Dan was right, the overgrown fields, and stray trees lining the road they were walking down did smell like autumn.

Farrah put the cigarette she was about to light back into its tin. There was something extremely nostalgic about this smell that she wanted to enjoy.

"It does," She finally agreed with Dan. "Really goes to show that the world didn't change as much as you'd think it would."

At that Dan scoffed and gave the cracked concrete a dirty look.

"I'm not sure a season can have a smell." Vega spoke.

She'd been trying sniff the air for the past few minutes. Her enhanced abilities were clearly doing nothing to pick up on the mixture of wet leaves slowly decaying on concrete, or the freshness of the gentle breeze that wandered through the orange branches.

Dan glanced at her with suspicion. He hadn't been buying her concussion story before, and he was believing in it less and less with every passing day.

"It smells like the past," Farrah tried to explain, "Like when I was a little girl, 5 or so, i think, and I'd play on the slides, but the playground was shit, so there'd always be leaves in them. It was one of those long closed slides, you know? The leaves would get in from the top." She explained. "And Amy and I would always dare each other to do down the slide first," Farrah continued, a smile crawling over her lips at the mention of her best friend. "That slide smelled like wet plastic, but the second we'd be out, it's like now, the autumn smell would hit us."

"For me it's the college days, when I moved to Candwell, and would run in between lectures through the fields we had."

"I'm sorry Candwell?" Farrah interrupted, failing to contain ger genuine surprise. "I never took you for the literary and arts type."

"You've known me for two weeks." Dan dryly cut her off. "It's a historic campus, preserved and maintained since 1820. No walking on grass, no swimming in the canals, no loitering by the library,"

"Because they have no benches, but about three dozen too many steps by the library," Farah clarified for Vega.

"You've been?" Dan asked, slightly surprised. Farrah hadn't stroked him as the university type. Not the type to travel three hours into the countryside to visit a random campus.

"After the, umm," She gestured around.

That raised more questions than it answered, but Dan continued, as his story had a point:

"Yeah, it was an interesting experience. But in fall, I'd have to walk a good ten, fifteen, minutes through one of those grass parcs. Sometimes I'd stop, and take it all in. The smell of grass and falling leaves, warm coffee and sweetcorn being sold at the edge of the park. Dogs running around, even though they should be on leashes. Children throwing leaves at each other, and play fighting with stick swords..." He pressed his lips into a sad smile, and shook his head. Those were memories of an era bygone. "What about you, Vega Tesla?"

Farrah chucked at the mention of the name. She still wasn't fully over how that'd been the made up name Vega had decided to go with. Although, at the back of her mind, she still partially hoped that they'd stumble upon Vega's real identity somehow, and that those nine letters would be indeed written on her passport.

"Huh?"

"Your happiest, or at least notable memory relating to fall."

Farrah was about to tell him to drop it. Unlike her, he'd been more skeptical of Vega's situation. Well, Farrah was skeptical too, in a way, but she liked Vega enough to let it all slide. Afterall, she never shared much of her past either.

"Well," Vega began. "Did you see that - up in that tree?" She suddenly exclaimed.

[yj-98]

While the Captain may not always win, he may not always save the day, he is always kind. And that's a reputation to be proud of.

Billy Batson — Shazam! #1 (2023)

[jelloia]

// hsr trailblaze quest spoilers

WAIT STOP I JUST WANTED TO PINCH YANQING’S CHEEK I WASNT EXPECTING SAD DIALOGUE AND THE TRAILBLAZER TO TALK-

^^ aww yanqing’s sad expression… but poor express crew rly must be traumatized huh… first tingyun then mischa…

but yanqing’s line when you click the second option is so cute! the fact that it’s jing yuan worrying about his height and not yanqing himself im melting

anyways our boy is so cool I missed him so much

[ahappyphjl]

I've heard a lot of people say that videos and pictures don't do Phil justice irl, can you confirm? :3

yess can confirm!! phil’s not usually as expressive in pictures as dan, so maybe it’s that, but yeah he’s incredibly lovely and those eyes omg!!! they really are like a beautiful, calming ocean :’) and the fact that he’s just such a sweetheart and has a very comforting presence makes him even more angelic in person <333

[sledz-z]

i'm not sure if anyone else has done this

[renxamamiya]

Mart Fire Emblem Wallpapers

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[blushouyo]

🗡🍁 

[kittyeekcube]

the phour with @artromantic and the pheals!! 🦭ahhh we went to the terrible influence tour and met dan and phil and i gave them pheals i made for them in their pheal forms! it was so sweet and special to be able to meet them and show them the pheals!! i hope they enjoy them as we much we enjoyed such a fun and wonderful night!! 🩵

[r1caner]

Taking an edible being like No im saving weed to let my creativity flow and to focus on writing. like Patti smith did! and it's so I can write dan and Phil fanfction.

[labratgrl]

rip sand dan glokta you wouldve loved elevators

[periwinklefemur]

I like to imagine that secretly Herbert West has a fondness for sweets, but nobody knows that because they don't bother to ask.

Dan would presume that West would eat little to nothing for breakfast based just on appearance and behavior alone. One dull bagel and one cup of pure black coffee, in his opinion, would make up the average Herbert West breakfast.

Meanwhile, West's down in his lab taking notes as he's working away on a sprinkle donut from the box of donuts Danny brought. Meanwhile his mug of coffee is purely more sugar and creamer than anything else.

[blossoms-phan]

cornetto and a hot chocolate (a03)

by moi 🌸🫶🌸

based off of a little story shared in this stereo show!

[midwestwaldorf]

nobody asked but here's Dair x TTPD

fortnight: the entire song. no notes

the tortured poet's department: I mean Dan is kinda a tortured poet you're in self-sabotage mode, throwing spikes down on the road but I've seen this episode and still loved the show. who else decodes you? "you're not Dylan Thomas, I'm not Patti Smith. this ain't the Chelsea Hotel, we're modern idiots"

my boy only breaks his favourite toys: 'cause it fit too right. puzzle pieces in the dead of night. I should've known it was a matter of time. There was a litany of reasons why we could've played for keeps this time.

fresh out the slammer: now, pretty baby, I'm runnin' back home to you. fresh out the slammer, I know who my first call will be to My friends tried but I wouldn't hear it, watched me daily disappearing for just one glimpse of his smile. all those nights you kept me going, swirled you into all of my poems. now we're at the starting line, I did my time.

guilty as sin?: again, the entire song.

loml: Still alive, killing time at the cemetery. never quite buried. in your suit and tie, in the nick of time. you lowdown boy, you standup guy. you cinephile in black and white. all those plot twists and dynamite. Mr. Steal Your Girl, then make her cry. you said I'm the love of your life.

the black dog: I move through the world with the heartbroken. my longings stay unspoken. and I may never open up the way I did for you.

chloe or sam or sophia or marcus: If you want to break my cold, cold heart just say, "I loved you the way that you were." if you want to tear my world apart just say you've always wondered. could it be enough to just float in your orbit? can we watch our phantoms like watching wild horses? cooler in theory, but not if you force it to be.

so high school: and in the blink of a crinklin' eye. I'm sinkin', our fingers entwined, cheeks pink in the twinklin' lights. no one's ever had me, not like you.

i look in people's windows: i look in people's windows, in case you're at their table. what if your eyes looked up and met mine one more time?

the prophecy: a greater woman has faith, but even statues crumble if they're made to wait. I'm so afraid I sealed my fate, no sign of soulmates

peter: and sometimes it gets me, when crossing your jet stream. we both did the best we could do underneath the same moon in different galaxies.

the bolter: when it's all roses, portrait poses, Central Park Lake in tiny rowboats. what a charming Saturday. that's when she sees the littlest leaks down in the floorboards and she just knows, she must bolt.

[daz4i]

yknow what i have nothing to do and need to distract myself from *gestures vaguely* and i mentioned it a few times in the last few days so i may as well talk abt that one theory i like

first of all let me say. it's not my own original theory lol i can't remember where i saw it first but it's p common so it'd be a bit hard to trace who was the first to bring it up

second. i know it contradicts some themes or at least some messages bsd is going for. which is why i don't think it's too likely (on the other hand some elements in the story can def allow a plot point of that sort to happen without being contradictory asdfhg matter of perspective ig)

ANYWAY the actual theory:

dazai knows he's in a story and aware that he is a character

backup for that theory:

honestly not much. a minor fourth wall break for laughs (the "wow~" scene. you know the one) isn't really proof, but if it was true it'd add some depth to that scene i think!

the main thing i think is cool abt this theory is how it recontextualizes a lot of things about him;

the thing that made me think abt making this post is that collection of dazai saying "you can't kill me" at various points of the story. most of them have context for each scene (atsushi can't kill him bc nlh will nullify the tiger, fyodor can't kill him bc he has the power of friendship, etc), but the fact the same line repeats multiple times makes it stand out to me

so consider this: dazai is confident that he won't die because he knows he can't die before the story is over, bc that's what the narrative decided. that's why none of his suicide attempts ever work (tho you already know my opinion on why that is, in the context of the story itself). he keeps trying tho bc man. it's tiring to be aware

that being said! well. we know he's been suicidal from a very young age. he sees no meaning in the act of living. and, being a character in a story, knowing that your life is all fake, can certainly make one's life feel meaningless, huh.

and ofc, alienation from those around him, since he seems to be the only one aware of the story. he is quite literally separate from the human experience bc of this

also some more angst :) i do firmly believe dazai feels a lot of guilt, more for meta reasons than him really showing it. guilt is a very big repeating element in no longer human and its protag yozo, whom i think dazai is obviously very inspired by. soooooo now consider this :) guilt over odasaku's death. in the context of the story, there is no reason for him to feel that, more or less. maybe nothing beyond "if only i called ango out earlier" "if only i got there in time and got him help", he didn't actually cause oda's death, not more than mori did for example, and he did the best he could too.

buuuuuuut what if he's a character in a story. he doesn't know if the story is about him yet, but given how other people around him don't seem to notice they're characters, it must be, right? the narrative depends on him. and, in that narrative, odasaku ends up dying. if he didn't exist, odasaku could live (really interesting to think abt that in the context of beast, too)

actually since i brought it up. beastzai definitely seems to know he's a character. he knows his existence doesn't mean much, i mean his whole universe is just an offshoot of the main one, literally an au of canon. that's even more meaninglessness on top of canonzai's meaninglessness, and he experienced both of them at once. no wonder he ended up killing himself damn 😩 (sorry this is a joke. ik he killed himself for some noble reason. but also i bet this made it easier)

an awareness of this level can explain some things like how dazai knows things are gonna play out in certain ways - he knows he's in a story, so he knows the narrative has to end in some satisfying way. the main characters have to win, so the doa have to lose. fyodor can't kill him. and we're back to the start

problem with this theory:

that thing i mentioned abt themes and messages in bsd. a lot of the story seems to tell us dazai is HUMAN. having him aware of everything on a meta level, imo, may cheapen that message, bc that quite literally makes him More than others in the universe.

then again the story (and asagiri in interviews lol) also seems to show again and again that he is exceptional and knows best so eh. like i said, matter of perspective

how i think it might work:

no longer human lmao

yknow how it was said The Book was created by an ability (and that's probably why it caused a singularity when beastzai touched it). well. what if the whole narrative we're following, in a way, in the universe of bsd, can count as an ability too. like a combination of The Book and poe's ability, kinda. (i've seen some theories in the past abt how asagiri is gonna be the final boss of bsd lol and that he would indeed have an ability that's just. *gestures at everything* this)

sooooo while nlh can't take him out of the story physically, it nullifies his ignorance to the situation. in a way, he's out of the story because he sort of watches it from an angle others can't

ok i officially ran out of brain power. i might add more in a reblog at some other point but for now these are the only thoughts i have. if you subscribe to that theory as well, or even just thing it's cool, i would love to hear some of your ideas - what other parts of dazai and his story do you think this changes? what does it mean about his relationships with other characters? please share if you have any thoughts on the matter!!! :)

[undistortedworld]

hospital just phoned me and the surgery i thought id be having MONTHS from now has been scheduled to next week im fucking bricking ittttt

[cuckhowell]

NASHVILLE TIT TOUR?!?

YUPPPPPPP hii :3