#believer in your hard work

[quoteyourluck]

"I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson

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[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Remember: The burning sensation is part of the process.

[art-is-kayos]

Sight of a Star - Blue-ish Star Ryōshū and Don Quixote

[princehendir]

Finding out that buy and large what people mean when they say "it's dangerous to reheat rice!!" is that if rice is held at a tepid temperature for an extended period of time it tends to grow cultures that can cause food poisoning. A fact that is true about pretty much everything.

[otomehonyaku]

DIABOLIK LOVERS More,Blood Stellaworth Complete Set Tokuten Short Stories ☽ Ayato ver.

Original title: DIABOLIK LOVERS MORE,BLOOD ステラワース全巻連動購入特典ショートストーリ English translation by @otomehonyaku Scans can be found here (courtesy of @karleksmumskladdkaka!)

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SUMMARY | This short story provides a slice of Ayato and Yui's daily life after the events of More,Blood. Yui tells off Ayato when he asks her to prepare takoyaki for him, so he resolves to make it himself out of spite. Chaos ensues...

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Please do not reuse or repost my translations elsewhere or translate my work into other languages without my permission.

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“Tch… this is harder than I thought…”

As soon as I’d spat out the words, smoke started rising from the searing hot teppan (1) in front of me.

“It’s burning…?! Shit! How’d that happen?!”

I went over to the sink, getting increasingly irritated, and turned on the tap to fill a nearby cup with water. By that point, smoke was billowing up from the steel plate. It was then, when I reached over to throw the water onto the pan, that…

“Ayato! Stop, you shouldn’t do that!”

“The fuck?!”

“S-sorry… I didn’t mean to…”

“You’re the one who told me to make it myself, right?! Right?” I threatened, looming over her. Her lip quivered while she apologised, her voice small.  

It had all started a mere ten minutes ago.

I’d just been craving takoyaki before bed. I woke up Pancake, who’d already been fast asleep, and pestered her to make it for me. However, of all the things she could’ve done, she flat-out told me I should be able to make such a simple dish myself.

Well, she ain’t wrong, I’d briefly thought—and yet her blunt statement had really pissed me off. It made me want to put her in her place. 

Then, another thought suddenly occurred to me. I wanted to prove to her that I could, in fact, make takoyaki myself.

And so, in a petty attempt at retaliation, I’d decided to actually prepare the takoyaki on my own. But to think the same person who told me to do so would still be poking her nose into my business…

“I’m sorry, I think I should make the takoyaki after all.” 

“What?!”

Pancake sounded exasperated when she reached over to take the metal skewers from my hands and stood in front of the takoyaki machine.

“The fuck’re you doin’? Then why’d you tell me to make it myself?! Besides, they’re almost done already, so…” I grumbled while Pancake narrowed her eyes at me from over her shoulder.

“...I thought you would repetitively refuse to make it yourself, so…”

“What?”

“So I’d figured you’d go to great lengths to make me do it!” she said, somehow quite angrily.

“So what, huh? I tried to make you do it but you didn’t in the end. Why’re you yappin’ like it’s not in your favour?”

“...Come on! It’s… because… I wanted you to ask me, Ayato…”

“Huh?”

“Well… I felt a bit irritated because you woke me up out of the blue, but… you know, I actually find it… kind of… cute when you come to me asking to prepare takoyaki for you, Ayato…” Pancake’s face turned bright red—all the way to her ears—when she said it.

“W-what’s… cute…? The fuck?! Are you out of your mind?” My voice almost betrayed me.

“I’m not! Come on, Ayato…! Why did you choose to actually make it yourself this time…?” Pancake mumbled, skillfully turning over the takoyaki. 

I’d thought the takoyaki had been burning, but it turned out not to be so bad after all.

What she said made me feel like I had been a bit unreasonable. I swallowed hard. 

“Uh… anyway! I’m always fine with making takoyaki for you, okay…?!”

“Ugh… I-I don’t understand you, woman!” I retorted. 

In all honesty, I just didn’t know how to deal with being thrown off-balance this way. 

The takoyaki turned out to be… so bad that they were inedible. I must’ve messed up the ingredients somehow. In the end, it seemed like there was no other way than to let Pancake make takoyaki for me from now on, no matter how much she got on my nerves.

Well, I guessed it couldn’t be helped.

Still, though… the next time she calls me cute, I’ll drain her to the last drop!

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(1) 鉄板（てっぱん）: A teppan is a steel plate, usually in the middle of a table, on which dishes are either prepared by a chef (in a teppanyaki restaurant) or by yourself (in good company!)

[decarath-s]

Listen ofc all of the Unreal Unearth songs are amazing because it's Hozier we're talking about but holy fuck-

Personally the song in this album that smacked me across the face at first was Abstract (Psychopomp), and I can't believe more people are not going feral over it like I am, look-

H U H

I saw you perform this ultimately fruitless yet incredibly significant, humane and selfless act of kindness. You put your own life at risk for something others would have considered "too small". I saw you run into moving traffic, stain your own hands, just to offer a little comfort to this poor animal in its dying moments. I was terrified, I knew I had no choice but to love you.

[starflungwaddledee]

What’s Bandana Dee’s opinion on The totally normal waddle dee?

he's pretty protective of his friends!

[talesfromthebandgeekmafia]

JASPER WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT FUCKING GREATEST OF ALL TIME just pulled a perfect title drop in a GODDAMN D&D GAME

[headslikekites]

water bubble dream

[comixandco]

cleo sertori had a fear of swimming since she was a child and nobody considered for a second that getting stranded on a boat in the middle of the sea then falling into a cave system where she had to swim through subterranean water tunnels to the ocean where she had to tread water until a s&r team found them would be traumatic and exacerbate her fear into full aquaphobia

secretly becoming a mermaid helped her get over her fear but to everybody else her being cagey about the pool party and washing the dishes makes 100% sense when they stop for a moment and consider she’s probably terrified

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

It's all fun and games until...

[Commission for @dontheckinswear]

[cream-and-tea]

oh pallas and agnes power dynamic you really are SO unbelievably fucked,,,,,

[jeanpatrice]

Discipline over talent When asked if he truly trained every day at dawn, Mike Tyson responded: "I run at 4 a.m. because I know my opponent is still asleep. That gives me an advantage. If I find out my opponent is running at 4 a.m., I'll start running at 2 a.m. And if someone trains at 2 a.m., I'll stop sleeping just to keep training." This mindset speaks volumes. No matter how much talent you have, it won't take you far without the grit and discipline to outwork your competition. Talent alone isn't enough – consistency, sacrifice, and relentless effort are what truly separate the best from the rest. Prioritize discipline over everything.

[venomouslilith]

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[ahli-stuff]

I know im just the silly guy who posts bsd ship spam. but, let me be real for two seconds. if you’re like me, then these characters have provided so much comfort during the hopeless and darkest times in your life. It’s easy to feel confused, lonely, and alienated navigating a world that seems to have put you outside of the invisible drawn in lines by society.

It is unmistakable that what has drawn a lot of us to these two characters (and by extension, their real life authors) is their isolation and suffering. It is so attractive to find that there is power in your pain when it is represented through fiction. It is a relief to be able to romanticize your own suffering.

Fyozai, to me, represented a couple who were a means to an end for a long time. I could not imagine myself happy, so I could not imagine the characters as happy. And then, when I read the novels associated with both authors, the authors also struck me as unhappy. With my cynicism affirmed, I felt comfortable believing that maybe the truth of the world was unhappiness.

But, it isn’t.

You have to stick around, you have to have hope, because hidden between the waves of the dark sea which affirms your despair at every moment, there will be no grand revelations or secret existential meanings but. There will be moments. Whether it is the morning air, clean sheets, a good song, a great video game, or a new favorite blorbo, there will be moments. They will not last, but they will come again, and again, and again.

I think Fyodor Dostoevsky and Osamu Dazai are often characters and authors that represent pillars of human misery. Because of that, their unhappiness, and subsequently our own unhappiness, is the most prominent thing we tend to analyze and indulge in.

But you have to remember, that Dostoevsky and Dazai, in the heart of their writing, desperately wanted to believe in love, redemption, and above all, happiness.

I guess my point is, see yourselves in the misery of these authors and characters. I wouldn’t deny you that. But this is a PSA: remember to see yourselves in their desire for happiness too.

“Tomorrow will probably be another day like today. Happiness will never come my way. I know that. But it's probably best to go to sleep believing that it will surely come, tomorrow it will come. I purposely made a loud thump as I fell into bed. Ah, that feels good. The futon was cool, just the right temperature against my back, and it was simply delightful. Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late. The thought occurred to me as I lay there. You wait and wait for happiness, and when finally you can't bear it any longer, you rush out of the house, only to hear later that a marvelous happiness arrived the following day at the home you had abandoned, and now it was too late. Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late.” — Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

[vaguely-concerned]

fnsdkfnsjkdfaskdjfaskjdl taash' level 1 bond description (the 'associate'/'contract killer'/'fellow necromancer' sort of blurb under their level on the companion screen) is just 'Here'. taash. you have to understand. I know you don't give a fuck, but to me, you are perfect