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Please help the family of a non-verbal autistic child (who has been losing weight because he only eats certain kinds of food, largely unavailable during this time) leave Gaza!

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I'm a little surprised nobody else has commented on this, but - it's kind of interesting that Dazai and Fyodor were, actually, completely honest with each other during that 'therapy' moment.

Fyodor mentioned that his underlings wait for his instructions and have no initiative. We have, actually, observed that this is entirely true.

Dazai's solution for this was likewise honest - he was telling Fyodor what he does to get other people to do things. Namely, pretend to be a lazy jerk so that everyone else is forced to pick up the slack. (Translation: Don't give them orders. Stand back and let them do what they'd do anyway, and take advantage of that.)

Dazai mentioned the waitress in the cafe he always flirts with, who responds to his flirtations with 'seriously, get a really good life insurance policy and I'll think about it'. He is asking an honest if tangential question.

Fyodor's solution is equally honest - the whole 'ruin her family and make her so desperate she has no choice but to turn to you' plot is in fact how we've seen Fyodor force people to do what he wants. He railroads them, driving their situations to get the ending he desires.

Just...think about this. They both asked honest questions, and both gave honest answers. Then apply this to the wider plot.

Fyodor basically said, "I have already set up this entire situation so that your people have no choice but to be destroyed."

Dazai's answer was, "I know my people and know they'll be able to survive without me while I deal with you".

And even so, both of them still tweak events from their cells - but Dazai's methodology works better at a distance than Fyodor's does. Because he does need to be able to give instructions; his underlings aren't the type to be able to fill in the blanks without him.

#bsd

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So I'm reading a translation of a completely different series, and there's a translator note that says, "There's a Japanese phrase borrowing the strength of a tiger that means, basically, 'being an arrogant coward who talks big but hides from repercussions behind a more powerful superior'."

And I remembered that Atsushi would, when talking to his inner tiger-self, talk about 'borrowing its strength'.

And that Kunikida told Atsushi "the tiger is strong, but you are weak".

And then I remembered that the poet in Nakajima's "Moon Over The Mountain" that gets turned into a tiger is described as having 'arrogant cowardice'.

....I love it when I find out clever things like this, I really do.

Not least because yes - Atsushi is a coward, usually. And the more he gets used to his tiger form, the less that's the case.

But it also makes his declaration in Dead Apple make a lot more sense, when he declares that the tiger is himself. Because he'd always treated the tiger as something else, a kind of alternate being sharing his body - meaning using its power was literally 'borrowing the strength of a tiger'. But to declare that the ability is him is to say he's not 'borrowing' its strength - the strength is his own.

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[reverse au]

reasons reasons reasons

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I love those "asking cosplayers at a con what their day job is" videos because it's always like

*muffled voice issuing from a huge suit of armor* im a cybersecurity specialist

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My top surgeon said since I'm so crazy betitted, my scar is likely going to be in one piece across my whole chest, so I'm going to talk to him about getting my scar done in a sort of V shape, almost like I've been autopsied, but from under my armpit. No idea if it's possible, but it would be really funny. And yes I'm being serious. This isn't a bit. If I'm not gonna have nipples, I might as well go full silly.

"Transgender? This is from when the aliens took me. I'm an LGBabducTee."

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shout out to the patient I called to remind to pick up their medication, whose voicemail message was “HEWWO? HEWWO?? WHO IS THIS??? WEAVE A MESSAGE” that rang out throughout the whole pharmacy, killing me instantly

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a little follow-up ig

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bike stickers

#gorgeous

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Bandageless Dazai you are my roman empire...

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HAPPY 114‼️‼️ take these silly doodles i did

#bsd

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Apparently Miles is a JJK fan (in the comics)

If you put these two in a room together I think the result would be adorable 🥺

#miles morales #itadori yuuji #jjk

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anyone know why there's some ginger kid on the wing of the plane im in lol should i be concerned

#bsd

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fifteen my braincells

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The mental math he did to calculate the risk of having his friends in society

#dungeon meshi