#manga are books too

[lotus-pear]

bsd fic authors i understand yalls pain SO well right now why is it so fucking HARD to write dazai. like i have a whole fucking spreadsheet dedicated to tireless analysis i have done on my part so i can accurately characterize him but he is such an unpredictable and morally gray character that it's hard knowing his limits and boundaries and where he draws the line for himself.

#i hate when ppl make him out to be a sadistic villain with no remorse. like did we read the same manga 💀 #but at the same time he is NOT crying abt all the ppl he sent to the grave. he sleeps just fine at night knowing he committed atrocities #yes he feels remorse? but he isn't like kunikida to weep at someone's grave for failing to save them #and then we have his emotions themselves #dazai isn't emotionless. far from it. he has difficulty expressing affection but yk he finds someone endearing when he trusts them #trust is very important to dazai and is one of the aspects of human emotion that he can fully grasp #but like everything else is in a hazy gray area that he does not feel like exploring. he feels alienated from his humanity bc of this #AUUUGHH can someone help me with character analysis PLEASE #I WASNT PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS MF UNTIL RECENTLY SO I MISSED OUT ON A LOT OF IMPORTANT DETAILS #see i would go and reread a few light novels but like i don't have time for that #and this is for dazai specifically. i am very well versed on his relationships w other charcaters #but just like asigiri himself said: it's very difficult to write dazai and write him WELL #so yeaaa i have a lot of smart ppl following me pls help #bsd #ALSO MY FRIEND STILL HAS NO LONGER HUMAN UUUUGHHHHHH I NEED THAT BACK BC I TABBED IT A SHIT TON #FOR LIKE CONNECTIONS TO YOZO AND BSD DAZAI AND WHERE ASIGIRI DREW INSPIRATION FROM YOZOS CHARACTER FOR DAZAI #THAT WOULD BE SUCH A VALUABLE FUCKING RESOURCE BC I DID SOME ANNOTATIONS IN THEM TOO BUT MY BOOK IS ANOTHER FUCKING STATE #I HATE IT HERE FML

[be-it-so]

Just reread mission 90 and only now noticed this panel

And it's seems just funny when you first go through the chapter without even paying attention to this, but then you stop and think and it become even more funny.

I mean, for Yor it isn't something important, like, yeah, they were shooting at us, another normal day, she doesn't really think it maybe something you should be concerned about.

And Anya? I think you can see her face and understand that she is totally okay with this too.

And I like to imagine that they return home, start doing their normal things and then Anya is just describing her day to her father and randomly mentioning like, "oh and, by the way, we almost got shot". Twilight thinks it's just Anya with her fantasies, but then Yor is regularly confirming this, like it's nothing special, because she has no idea how normal people live their lives

So Twilight will just spend his next two hours rereading some books and trying to understand is it normal that his wife and his daughter consider shooting as a usual thing and, finally, coming to conclusion that Yor is just very brave and strong and Anya is just Anya

#He doesn't know how normal people react to ths too #So yeah he has books about how normal people act under his pillow #Next to his gun of course #spy x family #twiyor #anya forger #loid forger #yor forger #manga

[littledashdraws]

elise and her little buddy from the aviary

#fire emblem #fire emblem fates #fe14 #elise #thinking about the fates manga again + how they showed the nohrian aviary being full of owls :) #i am honoring my roots (my first chapter book series being guardians of the gahoole) #northern saw whet owl is probably too small to carry letters for u!!! but it's just the right size to be stinkin adorable!!!! #my owl assignmence from twitter are leo and barn owl. camilla and snowy owl. corrin and great horned owl #(their 'ears' are matching. hehehoho) #and xander i am undecided about. but i kind of think sooty owl because those look cool as fuck

[kyouka-supremacy]

I think we should just bring back Wungo Wednesday and start a fandom collective anime rewatch

#Because otherwise I can feel I won't last much longer #Because like. The last two hyperfixations of mine ended the moment I started feeling like there wasn't any new content #And two days ago in one day I started a new manga a new book and rewatching a favourite show #Whereas I hadn't started anything new in the two years ever since I got into bsd. Which makes it NOT a good sign #But the bsd anime has now ended for one month and 25 days and that's the last time the plot actually moved forward. #And if I counted right. The manga took 4 chapters (that is chapters 110-111) to adapt 6 minutes #That means it's going to take another 12 months (18 minutes left to adapt. that's 12 more chapters) to catch up with the anime #Yeah I'm not. sticking around this long with nothing new to see I'm sorry #Best case scenario I take a one year hiatus but that doesn't make it sound likely that I'll be back #And I know it's fresh news as early as this morning that author said they were introducing a new character but like. #They also said they finished writing this arc like. One year and half ago if I remember correctly? #And we still have yet to see the end of i t so... #That is to say. I'll probably be starting an anime rewatch starting next Wednesday. I've been meaning to do it for a while anyway #I don't want to leave the fandom I like the one chapter a month format #On the positive news I still have a queue of original posts that spans over ten months #And I was meaning to start the reblogs queue too in these days. So there's that #random rambles

[5-pp-man]

no you don't get it. i literally love stories where they dive into people's hearts/minds (literally or figuratively) sm it's my favourite type of storytelling.

#p5s #fairy ranmaru #shiguang daili ren #limbo the king #king in limbo #pet anime #pet manga #pet 2020 #dmmd #homunculus #homunculus manga #sankaku mado no sotogawa wa yoru #the night beyond the tricornered window #sarazanmai #id invaded #paprika 2006 #wonder egg priority #tedpost #it allows them to portray emotions in such visually interesting ways #and is a great way to make parallels between the person who's mind they're in and the main characters #these were all the ones i could think of rn but i bet theres more that i havent seen yet #also i only mentioned scramble here because i think it does this concept better than regular p5 lmao. #FEEL FREE TO SUGGEST ME MORE OF THESE #doesnt matter what medium or genre!! could be a book a movie idc i eat stuff like this upppp #EDIT; updates the post after reading ltk and checking if tricorner fit this desc #EDIT; added homunculus too because whilst technically he never actually enters anyones minds he does visualise them into the real world #so its the same end result of seeing a person's true thoughts and feelings. but a slightly different method to get there

[macaulaytwins]

unstoppable force (books I want to buy) vs immovable object (amount of money I have)

#and books are so expensive rn ??? #why is one (1) volume of manga fucking $16 #ho hum #i just spent Too Much on The Secret History 30th edition via Waterstones #books #dark academia #unstoppable force vs immovable object #dark academia aesthetic #reading #books aesthetic #book store #manga #capitalism #lol #barnes and noble #barnes & noble #light academia #chaotic academia #academia #college #university #waterstones

[petricorah]

what if i got really into haikyuu again

#its back on netflix and ive been watching it #still as good as ever #i stopped watching it in high school when i stopped playing volleyball because it made me too sad but now im back... #back to my roots... #scared to draw oikawa again after so long #also cant focus on anything because of this fucking tinnitus that keeps getting worse wtf #anyway...oikawa drawing...hopefully...soon #notmyart #someone send me good oikawa screencaps to practice #god i should read the manga too... #also completely unrelated but i was thinking about learning a bit of japanese again but i think i gave away all my books...ugh #'again' i say like i didn't read a really good hq fanfic that changed the trajectory of my life

[up-in-flames-writing]

In lieu of Stuff Your Kindle day, can we talk about the issue of how the m/m genre of books, romance or not, is almost entirely dominated by women? Can we talk about how the most recognisable gay couples in media are written by women? Can we talk about how queer men can't even write about ourselves, how we are only allowed to exist when it's from the point of view of a straight woman sexualising us?

Can we talk about that? Or am I going to get called misogynistic for pointing out the disparity between who gets the writing deals, & who gets their books turned into movies, & whose shit gets popular versus whose doesn't? Can we talk about how m/m fiction is only allowed when it appeals to a cishet gaze, or is that too much for tumblr to take?

Can we also talk about how trans queer men are even more hated by publishing? Can we talk about how we get shit from both sides? Can we talk about how books about the experiences of being a queer man, written by queer men, never get the same recognition as books written by women on this subject (barring academia which has its own problems)?

Can we talk about that? Can we?

#booker speaks #no bloody clue how to tag this #this is for the tags only but #people would get up in arms if the f/f book scene was dominated by cismen only #why are we not extending this same energy to ciswomen writers of m/m? #why did we forget about the original meaning of own voices? #why are queer men pushed out of publishing in the way that we are? #& im not just talking about romance here #like there are fantasy & scifi & contemporary novels about men loving men that are written by ciswomen who have a very narrow view of what #m/m relationships are like. & this extends towards stuff like manga too but im not gonna get into that cause i dont read mangs/comics #can we talk about how hard it is to find queer masc authors nowadays? #saying this both as a reader & as a writer #can we also talk about how lists of queer & especially trans novels almost always forget to include anything by transmascs & gay transmascs #or if they do include us its 1 transmasc book to 1 enby book to 8 transfem books or books about the 'trans experience' in nebulous terms #can we stop reccing detransition baby & start reccing the spirit bares its teeth? #can we look at works written by queer masc people that arent just red white royal blue & stone butch blues? #go read cemetary boys #read alexis hall & max turner #read bloom if you like comics. or nimona #read my shit too! #im gonna be focusing on my writing blog way more this year #& im working on some projects that may or may not end up being published in physical form #read more queer masc stories by queer masc authors!

[owlyjules]

Well....with everything happening on other social media I might post more little daily life update here!

I hope its ok!;u;

Here have a little wip for my personal holiday cards!

#ramble #my art #i do manga and book recs once in a while too!

[noodles-and-tea]

Got these last month and do you still like Sherlock?

I kid you not I’m literally watching it right now.

#at the time of opening and responding to this ask I am halfway through the hound of Baskerville #I have all the mangas too #the manga ironically is the one that got me into Sherlock in a convoluted sort of way #I had seen them in a book store years ago and thought anime Benedict cumberbatch was the funniest thing #and now here we are…. #they are good tho definitely enjoy #ask #noodles talks

[aubdrewanchel]

Benno when calling in a doctor.

Doc: your blood pressure is a little higher than it should be.

Benno: I hired a kid who constantly collapses, but she still managed make a new guild, think up dozen of new inventions and on top of it get connections with nobles.

Doc:...

Doc: Your blood pressure is a bit low.

#I miss him so much in P4 #Benno #Rozemyne #Book gremlin's rampages too years of his life #honzuki no gekokujō #ascendance of bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou #anime memes #ascendance of a bookworm meme #ascendance of a bookworm light novel #ascendance of a bookworm manga #rozemyne #ascendance of a bookworm #anime

[yasmeensh]

Paleolithic Media Catalogue

Hello everyone :) Short story first: When I began brainstorming for my prehistoric story, I started wondering what other prehistoric fiction there is out there. I was not familiar with it and have not seen much. That's when I started my grand literature review and began a search for what fiction exist out there. I wanted to know what kinds of stories are being made with this time period. What are the common themes or recurring ideas (I found lots of humans and dinosaurs works. And time travel). Since I've had a growing collection on my computer, I decided I should keep on enlarging it and put it online. It's nowhere near complete. I'll slowly keep accumulating the collection as I find more. I only have fiction books and comics right now. I still need to work on the film section.

You can access the blog here!

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As for where I am in my reading, the one's I've finished reading are Earth's Children series (book 1-4. Dropped it afterwards lol. I made a post on with fanart) Dance of the Tiger and it's sequel Singletusk (They were good! I'll upload my review on the blog), and Sisters of the Wolf (It was ok!). I got my hands on The Inheritors and excited to start reading it. I REALLY want to read the Shiva trilogy, but I found no PDF online... and it's out of print :( There is certainly old copies on ebay. And I want to read Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. There seem to be lots of good books out there.

#For whomever might find it useful... I'm doing this #I actually found another huge catalogue by an awesome person called Stephen Trussel #However their site has not been updated since 2016 #I've linked their site on my blog when referencing the ENG translation for 'paris before man' #I'll make a paragraph dedicated to that site too #This has gone beyond my initial literature review lol #But for someone writing in this genre.. I've got to get to know it well #Because If I do end up publishing it I KNOW for sure it will be set up against other prehistoric fiction #mainly earth's children series #LITERALLY every book I checked had people in the reviews comparing it to Auel's series. Like it's the blueprint of prehistoric fiction #Like it's 'The Lord of the Rings' of its' genre. #and since it's a graphic novel maybe it will be compared to other comics?? Which I haven't found a lot YET #Emmanuel Roudier's work looks SO GOOD #I say looks because it's in French and I can't read French #I'm tempted to try translating it with what little French I learnt from public school and actually learn French in the process #Mezolith is great but it's not a full story. Just small snippets/short stories #Same with Tiger Lung. It's great. Also very very short. I recommend both. #I have not read the mangas yet. I read the first few chapters of Grashros and it's 100% Shounen stuff so far lol

[loxosceleslolo]

Miquella is not Griffith because Griffith would never ever willingly abandon his strength or his flesh or his "destiny"

I hate the Elden Ring Berserk stans

#elden ring #elden ring posting #miquella the unalloyed #fromsoft #elden ring lore #miquella might not be purely a good guy but he's no griffith either #read past the golden age arc i am fucking begging you #maybe read some other manga too #also a book

[sad-emo-dip-dye]

How did Fyodor even know about Atsushi in the first place? In Dead Apple, Shibusawa said he heard about Atsushi’s skill from Fyodor, who told him that Atsushi’s skill was envied by skill users all over the world. But later on you learn that the tiger didn’t awaken until after he killed Shibusawa. Part of his skill had to be present at the time because Shibusawa made a comment about the Director misunderstanding it, so was it just the regeneration ability? And all of this happened when Atsushi was like 12. But still, how did Fyodor know about Atsushi before that? Did he know his parents? Who even were Atsushi’s parents?! We still don’t know!! I have so many questions!!!

#atsushi my little sunshine boy what the fuck is up with you #I feel like we know so much and so little at the same time #I have a big theory on his relationship to the book but there are too many missing parts #I keep coming up with new questions #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd manga #bsd dead apple #bsd atsushi #atsushi nakajima #bsd atsushi nakajima #bsd season 4 #bsd season 5 #bsd fyodor #bsd shibusawa

[yourhonoriwoulddieforthem]

Let me just say this about Nora Sakavic’s All For The Game trilogy — if you read it as if you were watching an anime, it totally makes sense.

#murder lacrosse? Japanese mafia? the foxes? 100% crystal clear in anime #the pacing is so anime too #Neil’s confrontation with his father isn’t even the CLIMAX of the third book! #but the championship game is? #the drama #the tropes #the build up to andreil? #100% anime #change my mind #all for the game #nora sakavic #the foxhole court #the raven king #the kings men #andreil #neil josten #andrew minyard #kevin day #anime #manga #books #tv #film

[epickiya722]

Can't believe Izuku had to eat a strand of hair in the first place...

#don't take this too seriously #but imagine you had to digest hair and then potentially lose ofa because you're pushed into a situation where it becomes dire #and on top of that he was JUST getting the hang of some of those quirks #he was already number 1 hero in my book since the beginning because honestly the kid is a trooper #just kiya's thoughts #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #bnha manga spoilers #bnha spoilers #bnha 414 #midoriya izuku #izuku midoriya #deku