#once a dog always a dog

[prlssprfctn]

There is a specific thing that I love the most in Jason Todd centric fics — the slow build-up of the trust between him and his family members once things start fixing.

Not an instant "We talked once and hugged him, all good now", but the "Yeah, we just spoke, and things seem clearer, but I am still guarded and distrusting, so nothing special happens", because, honestly, with the amount of trauma it won't work otherwise.

Give me more Jason, who is not used to hugs and touches — who flinches if his family initiates it or just freezes awkwardly, not really responding back. Give me more Jason, who still carefully picks out what to say to his family — he bothers to filter his thoughts now, since they have a truce, but he still doesn't trust them with everything; especially his feelings. The Batfam, who is happy at changes at first, until they realise that they are not moving anywhere forward, they are just stuck on neutral point — they still don't know much about Jason, and he still feels tense around them. Jason, who is too afraid to move their relationship anywhere further, because he can't risk ruining a fragile peace now. So, he overthinks his actions and what to say (would Bruce be mad if he knew that I got involved with helping juvenile kids, does he still think that I am a bad influence? Will Dick get sad if he finds out I am hanging out with Roy and Kory again? Will Tim and Damian—) and chooses to stay silent. Too quiet. Almost shy.

It is an unfamiliar sight for the others, but Bruce stares at him, seeing the freshly adopted Jason again, too cautious and scared, afraid of being thrown back on the streets.

And he thinks it was easier to deal with it when he wasn't the one to cause these intrusive thoughts.

[shininas-ideals]

If there isn't a kunikidazai interaction in the next few chapters I will RIOT

Bonus:

[anticidic]

This is so beautifully devastating, I'm gonna be sick. They really are even now

[thebrainrotsreal]

Just discovered the beauty of posting wip's <3 Draw your babygirl meme I started ages ago and just brushed up for fun. Really enjoying drawing Vlad! He's calling Maddie! :) She's telling him how she would dissect a poltergeist in graphic detail.

[loadingbnha]

THE MOMENT NAOMASA REALIZED THE EXTENT OF WHO ALL MIGHT ACTUALLY IS

For refrence; a side by side comparison of how Naomasa knows All Might vs how Toshinori is when he actually lets loose

[pavlovaprin]

archive mb for @bangcakes

[lilcrushedcookie]

Jerejean are girl dads

[whippetcrimes]

This one is suuuch a troublemaker already

[dragonnarrative-writes]

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Simon’s been in the service for a decade and a half the first time he smears eye black on his lips just to see what he’ll look like. He squints, puckers his lips, rolls them, and decides it’s a bit shite. He wipes his mouth, then pauses, and tries again, leaving his bottom lip clean. He turns his face this way and that, lets his jaw drop open, just a bit. Smiles.

Oh.

He’s never been less than thorough, so the next day he goes to the pharmacy and gets a handful of tubes of lip gloss in various colors. He doesn’t bother to come up with a justification, and the girl at the cash doesn’t ask for one. He goes home and tests them all out, following tutorials as best he can with a limited color pallet. Eye black and cotton swabs are a poor but serviceable substitute for eyeliner.

When he takes in the whole of his face, he feels... not pretty. He can see where his inexperience combines with the angles of his face to make something that he wouldn’t ever consider girlish. But he also can’t deny that he looks like himself in a way he never has before. Not more, or less, just different.

[unicornpopcorn14]

Was looking through a 'bsd official art' drive folder and found this

I'm sorry,,, no one talks about this official art??? Of Chuuya, Dazai and Rimbaud drinking boba??? At a normal location like a cafe??? And them being all chill???

I mean I have no idea what they're saying but Chuuya's expression can only translate to "I wanna beat this bitch up"

[kyouka-supremacy]

do you think atsushi could ever be possessive toward akutagawa or feel jealousy? (not jealous of his strength bc that’s a little canon isn’t it? but just jealous when akutagawa’s interacting with others??)

i think jealousy mainly stem from insecurity or lack of trust in your partner, so if we’re talking about post-“away with you, you fool”, i think atsushi really doesn’t have any “grounds” to be possessive / jealous. he understands how strongly akutagawa feels for him and if he reflects on their partnership…he’s also get that akutagawa’s the one who “opened up” first, and (kinda) unconditionally. obviously atsushi’s self worth is abysmal, but weirdly enough…i think he’d kinda feel secure in akutagawa’s affections for him????

akutagawa is the jealous type. in a romantic setting i can kinda see him uplift atsushi in his head whilst hating himself, and that making him feel unloveable comparatively or just in general and insecure hence leading to jealousy. or the uplifting might just mean he’s resigned to losing atsushi, atsushi’s too good for him after all, this is the best he can get (hence being so insecure that he’s not being jealous —> he was not jealous when kyouka finding the light and living happily, even if he believed she was exactly like him, with a propensity for darkness and ability suited only for killing. yet he continues being the mafia’s dog and doesn’t seek that for himself, maybe out of resigning himself?)

idk if he’d act on it, but i can see those feelings existing. basically how they kinda exist already in canon with the whole dazai-akutagawa-atsushi thing, but even w the dazai case, it’s not to monopolise his attention exactly but moreso to fight for his reason to live, he wants the pain he endured to mean something, if no matter how hard he tries and no matter what he does, he simply loses due to his inherent nature (thus atsushi is the better protege even if he’s crap, atsushi never had to “earn” his blessings) that just proves that he shouldn’t have tried surviving in the first place, that’s pretty awful for someone who believes they can change and the past not having a bearing on who he is now- since it means he’ll never be worthy of approval. so i can’t see it as purely “he’s acting jealous just out of affection for dazai and desire for love” and i can’t precisely compare it to akutagawa in a romantic scenario.

sorry for yapping, please feel free to disagree w what i said, bc its something I’m confused on and idk how to analyse them like that. but the main question i have is does atsushi have the capacity for jealousy/possessiveness if akutagawa is his partner? and how about akutagawa? also how does their jealousy “look” (as in would they act on it?)thank you :D

So apparently Asagiri personally took it in their hands to answer this ask with this month's chapter lol

Starting off with Akutagawa, because it's something I actually think about often. I agree that his insecurity is so huge and deeply rooted, it would extend to making him believe he has no right to be jealous of Atsushi– because Atsushi is so good, and Akutagawa is so bad, it was inexplicable for them to be together in the first place; and part of Akutagawa is there waiting, expecting the fall out, because it's just unavoidable, because they're just too different, because he doesn't deserve this, doesn't deserve Atsushi's love. Akutagawa's lack of self worth being so constraining, he pretty much lies in wait for the day Atsushi will leave him forever (and then is always caught off guard when Atsushi always comes back). Very relevant to this, and something I really like to stretch on, are Akutagawa's abandonment issues that spawn from the traumatic event of Dazai leaving him. Akutagawa expects the people he's the most attached to to grow sick of him and leave, and has little hope Atsushi is going to be any different. He's so abandoned dog coded.

But like, that doesn't change the fact that Akutagawa is jealous. Even if he doesn't think he deserves to be jealous to begin with, even if he would never admit it to himself, he is. He loves Atsushi, he loves him, he wants to keep him by his side, to sink his teeth in his flesh until he tastes his blood. His impulse to keep him is violent, greedy, instinctive, the same of people who grew up with nothing and thus are ready to fight with nails and teeth to protect what little they have. Of people who grew up with too little in a too vicious environment to ever become accustomed to sharing. Of people who grew up used to everything they care for being in constant danger of being stripped away from them.

But Akutagawa can't admit it, right? Not when he has no right to be jealous of Atsushi. So I'm sure Akutagawa's reaction to anything that would trigger that jealousy would be immense passive-aggressiveness and withdrawing into himself, shutting Atsushi out and trying to leave him first as a defense mechanism. A sudden relapse of building up those walls that Atsushi is so good at crushing down as soon as Akutagawa lets his guard down. Seething rage and joyless laughs and “I'm not upset. Actually, I've always known this is how it would end up. Everyone leaves and I'm meant for loneliness, there's no new discovery in this. I didn't care that much anyway.” A little of overacting, but the abandonment issues are real. According to the circumstance, Atsushi can get a little irritated (because there's really no need to be this dramatic), but they fight and then make up as they always do.

When it comes to Atsushi... I agree that with him it's not a kind of jealousy derived from insecurity or lack of trust in Akutagawa's affections. At the same time, I think he'd share Akutagawa's same greed of someone who was never used to own much, and thus is violently defensive and territorial with what he has. And Atsushi is pretty selfish, right? He wants to keep Akutagawa for himself, and he's going to react aggressively to anything that threatens to take him away.

By the way, Akutagawa is highkey flattered by that. He's so used to meet contempt and rejection that the thought of being reclaimed is simply dreamy for him. Because you know him, he's Akutagawa, he's fucked up, he could only respond to to possessiveness with delight. Forget about being abandoned, you mean to tell him there's someone who believes he's worth killing a god for? Sign him up for life! I'm 100% sure Akutagawa was full face blushing off screen in the last chapter, and couldn't maintain eye contact for too long.

[alxastrx]

When you're one of the most selfish mc who only saves people because it's part of a job you never wanted and did not get to chose or you would've died, who took your co-workers' morals and ideals because you didn't have any and desperately wanted to fit in somewhere, be it with the heroes or the villains, who's activelly haunted by one the most tragic past to have been created and suffer from a psychosis so bad (dare I say schizophrenia) that even your enemies acknowledged that you are mentally ill and objectively flawed in your judgement, never hesitated to try to kill anyone and has the most egoistic reason to be a good person but the fandom still thinks you're just a kind crybaby "I don't know what a gun is" homosexual twink.

[fryeswiththat]

I read somewhere about the theory of Will getting possessed and Mike getting vecna'd... that is singlehandedly the most powerful plot to happen for both their character arcs. Especially if Will finds it within himself to stop Vecna's control; he really needs so much more self confidence. He's survived the Upside Down, he can survive this. He can show everyone that he's not weak by breaking Vecna's hold.

But before that, either a) Mike won't recognize that Will has been possessed, making it especially bitter for Will or b) Mike does recognize and tries to help Will to no avail

But also the idea that Possessed!Will is taunting Mike about every single thing that he's insecure about. Surviving the cliff jump, noticing Max's nosebleeds and (presumably) not saying anything, not being able to say "I love you" to El, about Will "purposefully" ignoring Mike's phone calls, about Mike being in love with him.

And Will just being helpless to stop himself as he speaks these horrible words, and finds out the truth about a lot of things. How he can't do anything but watch as Mike bleeds.

This is just an amazing concept and I pray that if it happens the Duffers do it justice.

[starset-sarsaparilla]

random sketchbook stuff from the past few months 🤠

[fatedroses]

tfw youre so mad about your healer getting hurt under your watch that you turn into a dragon and consequently cant turn back for a bit. (or alternatively, shrinryu if he was a light party platform instead of a full party one.)

[kangals]

My work building has a ton of construction going on so a few months ago I got moved from my nice in-hospital office to an off-site building which I’ve been pretty grumpy about, BUT I was just recently informed that this building is dog friendly so today I figured that Kep could try out being an office boy! we haven’t been here long so he’s still pretty overstimulated but he’s doing pretty good, all things considered. if he stays decent I’d like to maybe start alternating bringing him and Stellina in for some enrichment + it’s good practice for him for settling in new environments. fingers crossed!