Just going to leave it here but I just finished your soukoku a mouth to empty into series and wow it was amazing ♡ After part 1 I had no idea that it's a series and just wanted to check out more of your writing and was thinking it looks like the same universe oh how I wish it'd be a series and when the realisation hit me I was so happy! I really like the way you wrote both Chuuya and Dazai making both of them feel very in character and how you explored Dazai's trauma from the PM times and being a subordinate of Mori (it really made me think what Mori could've done to Dazai when he was a kid that we don't know about) while still giving us more hopeful soukoku moments. Your style is also really nice to read and sets the tone in an exciting way!
I have no idea when this ask was sent but thank you so fucking much im in tears thank u
“And with my students, I ask them: what are ten things you know that no one else in this room knows? What do you know that no one else knows? And what do you wish you could forget? And then I say, write from that place.”
— Sandra Cisneros interview with Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera
Pain: a night of submission, a morning of resignation. Is this life a mere effort at resignation? An endurance of wretchedness? Day after day, my youth is thus gnawed away; and happiness - I have found it in wretched quarters.
Tonight the sky is is bright with stars, A hollow rumble from the sea, An endless sea of almond flowers, The wind is shaking them for me....
♪ lyrics source: “Almond Flowers” by Frozen Plasma
themes & tropes — ; grief, friendship, coming of age, death, the misery of trying to live up to a potential you never had, unresolved emotions, fellas; is it gay to be haunted by the ghost of your rival – asking for a friend, sometimes it’s a boy; the ghost that haunts him; and a motel room, two bros chilling in a hot tub five feet apart because one’s dead, the eeriness of dawn and dusk, 3AM: witching hour