#this chapter’s gonna wreck me

[hippolotamus]

Seven Sentence Sunday

Managed to make a good bit of words yesterday for ye old WIP. Here’s some of them 💙

I love you too. Wouldn’t miss it he sends back, smiling and tossing the phone on the now neatly made bed before seeking out his son.

Christopher is already seated at the kitchen table with sugary, marshmallow cereal and a glass of orange juice. He’s wrapped in his fuzzy robe, wearing the stripey blue pajamas. Eddie’s heart cracks open the tiniest bit when Chris grins up at him, and all he can see is echoes of his little boy, feet dangling above the floor, surrounded by stray Rice Krispies and Cheerios spilled out of a favorite bowl decorated with planets and rocket ships.

“Are you okay, Dad?” Chris asks, tilting his head.

Eddie crosses the short distance to press a kiss to Christopher’s curls. “Yeah, buddy. I’m good.”

Tagging @shortsighted-owl @alysiswriting @stereopticons @blackandwhiteandrose @apothecarose @jesuisici33 @rmd-writes @ajunerose @alyxmastershipper @elvensorceress @fatedbuck and a very open invitation to anyone wanting to share what they’re working on

#seven sentence sunday #this chapter’s gonna wreck me #gonna wreck me *more* i should say #there’s a whole lotta damn feelings about where eddie is compared to where he was #hippo writes #and probably needs therapy #i am just so damn proud of my little marshmallow man #eddie diaz #christopher diaz #whatever may come #please let me finish this so i can go sob somewhere

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Chapter 110 is 13 pages long welcome to hell!!! so in a lot of ways this is just more fuel for a theory that I've had for a few weeks now, that's only gotten stronger with each recent season 5 episode, which is that the last episode of the season is gonna end on 110, and that Asagiri/Harukawa and Bones have been collaborating to make this happen, specifically because it's a major turning point that would be the only good place to end the season on.

When we started getting especially long chapters again (like from 25-35ish pages, with the exception of 107.5, the last two being some of the longest we've ever had), at first I just assumed that Asagiri/Harukawa got freed up from some other obligations they'd been having to cause the extremely short/half chapters, like promotional stuff for the anime/Beast movie, or working on light novels. But then 109 happened, with the "supposed" death of Dazai, and heavy emphasis at the end on how literally everyone is at their lowest point right now, and I got to thinking. 11 episodes is a strangely specific number for an anime season -- why not 12, or 13, or even 10, like you'd usually see? Why have we gotten suddenly gotten two 35 page chapters out of nowhere, that's almost unheard of at this point? They're both beautiful chapters, don't get me wrong (as always), and maybe A/H simply just didn't want to cut them in halves because they felt like the full emotional impact wouldn't hit/that there were no good cutoff points in them, but you can't deny that it's surprising, after all the shorter chapters we've been getting. Why has the anime been going at such insanely breakneck pacing for the most part ever since around the Sunday Tragedy chapters, even more so than it has in the past? So much so that it feels dangerously close to overtaking the manga?

Well, maybe, just maybe, it's because..... Asagiri decided a long time ago that whatever happens in 110 is the only point that feels "season finale"-worthy enough, in an arc that still isn't anywhere close to being completely wrapped up, and so both the manga and the anime have been specifically coordinated to reach that part within 2 and a half weeks of each other?

I've seen a lot of people now think season 5 will end with 109, and as much as my sadistic side would find that hilarious, I honestly don't think they'd do that and realistically don't want it to happen; it'd be so cruel to cliffhanger the anime for years like that, and just doesn't feel like a season cliffhanger BSD would do, a series that is ultimately hopeful and uplifting. Seasons 2 and 3 had a positive, conclusive ending; the only reasons seasons 1 and 4 didn't was because they're technically not really full seasons of their own, and are more like the first cour of another "season" that also came out that same year (seasons 1 and 2 both aired in 2016, so they're more like one big season, and seasons 4 and 5 have both aired this year, so they're also more like one big season, again taking into account how episodes 12 and 50 are not satisfying finales like episodes 24, 37, and hypothetically, 61, are). I really can't see season 5 ending with Dazai and Fukuzawa's supposed deaths, Sigma being unconscious and maybe close to death, Atsushi being vulnerable and limbless again, everyone we love still vampires, and the entire world being basically doomed; that's just too depressing and not like BSD at all. However, having said that, if it doesn't end there, there really isn't any good place to end the season before that, either, that feels in any way satisfying or like a finale at all. And so, to me, that only leaves after 109: chapter 110.

I think things are really gonna turn around next chapter. Like I said, everyone is at their lowest point right now, it cannot possibly get any worse, the framing of Dazai, Fukuzawa, and sskk at the end of 109 is telling us that; this is the time for the heroes to finally start winning again, with Aya being so close to pulling out the sword, and for all the thematic reasons other people have talked about to death that I don't need to go into here again. This upcoming chapter being so short again makes a part of me wary of 110 being "the one", so to speak, I won't lie, but at the same time, it's very possible that it needs to be that short because that's all the final episode of the season will be able to reasonably fit in, since it's already gonna be VERY close if they do make it all the way to 109. And at the end of the day, I don't doubt at all that Asagiri and Harukawa can make these the most monumental and game-changing mere 13 pages ever if they wanted to; a chapter does not at all need to be extremely long in order to be an important and impactful one, even if short ones we've gotten in the past haven't felt the most important.

An additional thought I've had, though this is much more crack territory than all this already is, is that since we know from Anime Expo that a Stormbringer movie at some point is highly likely (judging from Asagiri's reaction when someone brought it up), it's possible that chapter 110 and thus the final episode will involve the long-anticipated return of Verlaine and/or Adam, or at least some other major reference to Stormbringer, that would naturally and smoothly lead into a Stormbringer movie to explain things to people who haven't read the novel. It would make a lot of sense, especially since the s4 OP has the Old World sign behind Chuuya, which might be a hint that this has been in the works ever since seasons 4/5 were first in planning with Asagiri. We also know that Dazai and Chuuya's voice actors apparently struggled to record their lines together this season, which probably relates to 101 and possibly 109, but it could be 110 too.... I could be very wrong, as I'm no expert on this kind of thing, but I kinda doubt they would bring Chuuya's actor in for just the vampire growls, and Asagiri placing heavy emphasis on Chuuya's importance this season in that one interview gives me the impression that he's talking about much more than just 101/109. But that's the least solid evidence I have, that's just mostly based on vibes I get.

So basically, I think a lot of factors -- the unusual episode count, how close the anime is to catching up to the manga with three whole episodes left, the seemingly arbitrary recent chapter lengths, and the climactic events of 109 -- can tell us that 110 might be a very, VERY big deal. Again, there's of course no way this arc is anywhere near close to being finished, with so much left to address and resolve, but since it is currently incomplete in the manga, unlike the previously adapted arcs, if the anime was going to adapt it at all, they'd have to find a place that feels satisfying enough to end this season, knowing there won't be more anime for a long time after this, and so I think they specifically planned for that, from both Bones' and A/H's sides. 10 episodes might not have been enough to reach that point, but 12 or 13 might have been too many it wouldn't have been if Bones actually decided to slow down and let the story breathe the way it needs to, but this post isn't meant to criticize the anime, so maybe 11 was just right. And maybe Asagiri and Harukawa specifically pushed to make recent chapters longer than usual, in order to make sure that the manga reached the story content in 110 the monthly release right before season 5 was to end.

Is this just copium? Absolutely. Am I going to look like an absolute clown in two days when this post ages like milk? Probably. But the evidence is There, so let me just enjoy my delusions until Sunday, okay 🥂🫡

#bungou stray dogs #seriously call me a clown and point and laugh at me if I'm proven wrong all you want #but I really feel like there's solid evidence for this #either s5 isn't gonna reach 109 at all (but I seriously cannot fathom where you would want to stop before then) or they'll go beyond it #if they really do end it with 109....... well i'll give Bones kudos for having the balls to do that ig lol #maybe i'm underestimating (overestimating???) them idk #also just to clarify I don't wanna make it sound like I think Asagiri let the anime/Bones dictate the manga's pacing #like I'm sure these were his/their (him and Harukawa's) own decisions first and foremost #not that (if this theory is true) the anime had a major impact on how the chapters were split and that it- #-would have been extremely different otherwise #i'm pretty confident in that Asagiri does not do anything with BSD he isn't comfortable with #and he doesn't let anyone tell him how to write his story #I just feel like he worked with Bones to make this near-simultaneous release happen #BUT if this is the case I don't feel like it had any major effect on the writing/final product that is the manga #like the last handful of chapters have been so incredible #so I at least am still perfectly happy lol #(i mean i'm devastated and a nervous wreck but u know 🫡 in a good way lmao) #anyway 110 in two days please let this theory be true because I need some fucking hope already #please let Oda show up as Dazai's guardian angel to help (see what I did there-) #it would be the perfect way to end the collective season that is 4/5 with s4 beginning with Oda and now ending with Oda #Asagiri are you reading me are you picking up what I'm putting down please please a ghost Oda is long overdue please- #Oda Verlaine Adam just GIVE ME SOMEONE ALREADY 😭😭😭 #MAYBE EVEN A TASTE OF THE FYODOR BACKSTORY TO TIE INTO HIM BEING IN ANIME UNTOLD ORIGINS. THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS

[xiiiwayfinders]

Yuffie thinking about Sonon before the assassination attempt 😭

#i knew they would probably mention him at some point but i wasnt ready :( #im only on chapter 5 and this is the first thing that almost made me tear up #im gonna be a wreck at. certain other parts #final fantasy vii #ff7 rebirth #rebirth spoilers #ff7 rebirth spoilers #yuffie kisaragi #sonon kusakabe

[ythmir-writes]

dr. zayne "i'll use my body as payment" and "i always pay my debts" is all bark bark woof woof at first but then i remember his Myths and -

or, what you (i) would like to say the moment zayne decides its a good time to self-sacrifice

i hold his hand tightly, pull him back into a tight embrace because No, you don't have to, you don't have to do this zayne. there is no situation dire enough to come to pass in this world that should warrant that extreme a sacrifice

do you think you going on there and freezing yourself so you can stop a Wanderer attack will make tomorrow a little brighter? do you think its only you specifically who can save us all from the worst case scenario and save the world? dr im-so-brilliant-i-finished-medical-school-and-got-a-license-in-the-time-it-takes-someone-to-sneeze?

i dont want your sacrifice! i dont want to walk on roads paved with your bones. i dont fucking want to live in cities thawing from your frost because you thought unleashing a blizzard only you could do and wiping yourself out in the process would be a brilliant move to protect them. i dont want to take the cup that holds your blood, i do not want to have to look at the world and see you only in memory.

i want you here. i want you holding my hand. i want you poking at my forehead because i didnt bring enough warm clothes again or because i wasnt able to take my meds on time again or because i freaked out you werent calling when you shouldve -

i want to be there to bandage your wounds. i want you bandaging my wounds

you are the most selfless, kindhearted, driven, and dedicated person i know. your bravery is second to none - most infuriatingly so whenever you think you can save even just one soul but please!! dont ever fucking think you have to carry that burden alone.

remember that time you managed to parry that Wanderer attack and reminded me consistently of it for three days? do you remember? because i do! every day. every goddamn day i go out to do my work and you do yours, it all rattles in my head. you told me that i could rest easy because you have my back. that whatever happens, safety is a priority.

you told me that im not fighting alone anymore. i cried at that, remember? and you did too, you sentimental shmuck

so why the hell do you think you have to do it all alone? what kind of mental gymnastics did your brilliant brain do for you to reach the conclusion that its okay to leave me behind when youre out there fighting for the world, for Linkon, for us

for me?

i want you fighting with me, please

please

pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease

dont do it. dont go -

let me fight with you too

#im imagining MC yelling their heart out in this #no i have not yet read his myths I AM SCARED #but also work has me in a chokehold #love and deepspace #zayne love and deepspace #theres so many tags for lad writing im just gonna have to stick to one #my lad #ythmir writes #i have only read his chapter 01 #i have upgraded both his cards #i have all the resources #except the courage and emotional capacity to be wrecked #i have seen snippets of whats going though #and i have heard the voiced stories in game #so i have an inkling #i know im gonna be sobbign by the end of it #ythmir fanfics

[h0estar]

dawg, one thing abt me is that i've always been an advocate for yukine and yato's happiness.... so i'm just curious.... WHEN EXACTLY WILL ADATCHITOKA PAY FOR THEIR CRIMES AGAINST THIS KID AND HIS SILLY SELF-PROCLAIMED DAD 😭 LET MY BOYS REST MAN DAMN

#NO BC THIS ABSOLUTELY WRECKED ME #YUKINE HOLDING ONTO YATO AFYER HE SAW HIM FADING AWAY I CANT DO THIS #BRO HAS JUST BEEN THROUGH IT AND NOW HE'S GONNA LOSE BOTH YATO AND HIYORI AT THE SAME TIME ATCYALLY GONNS #naw i gave up on the direction of this manga ever since father decided to create his lil nation #i ABSOLUTELY DISLIKE THE DIRECTION THEY WENT FOR #and SEKKI SHOULD'VE FINISHED OFF FATHER NOT HAKKI I SAID WHAT I SAID #but anw LET MY BOY REST FR HE'S BEEN THROUGH SM SHIT ADATCHITOKA U CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY W THIS #i'm actually sobbing this part hurt me sm 😭 #noragami #yato #yukine #noragami spoilers #i still love noragami despite the writing. i've just been way too emotionally invested in the story and characters for years #save my boys bro #they've had enough fr #no bc wHAT HAPPENED TO YATO 😭 #ion even wana think abt it bro. i see nothing but tragedy and absolute pain in the next & last chapter #adatchitoka is so gracious giving us a whole month to prepare for what's to come 🥰 #man i hope yato is okay 😭 i doubt it tho 😭😭😭😭😭 #mine

[crimeronan]

i just went digging thru some tags to see if my fics had ever ended up in reclists i hadn't seen before, for obvious reasons of being full of myself but Also so i could remember what people like about them n get back in touch with my writing brain. there WERE in fact a couple recs i'd never seen before, which were very sweet. my absolute favorite involved someone politely asking "hey, you recced this fic really highly but i don't..... like darius..... does he play a big role here.....?" and the response being "he Technically does, but also. you will like him in this fic."

#i write at an intersection darius haters and lovers can all embrace (loving that fucking wreck of an idiot screwup so much) #this alone has me like yeah okay. i SHOULD buckle down on the next chapter. Fine #i don't actually know if people still read toh fic this far past the ending but. we'll find out #(i'm not gonna finish it today. i might not even work on it today. but i am pondering my orb) #toh #darius deamonne

[andorerso]

Chapter 22 - Mirror | Blood Red Rose

After the night Jyn and Cassian spent together, it's time to return to reality and start making battle plans...

#rebelcaptain #rogue one #my fics #vampire au #oh my god this new editor won't even let me change the link title............... #can it be any worse honestly tumblr you SUCK #anyway pls be excited or im gonna cry #sorry that sounds like emotional manipulation i just mean i've agonized so much over this chapter 😭 #and updating after a big hiatus is always so nerve-wrecking because DOES ANYONE STILL CARE IS ANYONE OUT THERE

[orcelito]

i need the fucking fluffiest goddamned vashwood fic around

pls if someone could hook me up PLEASE help

#speculation nation #i mean i could look for one myself. but listen i have gone through. the wringer. #i Cannot continue onto trimax volume 11 like this. gonna need to ruminate on 10 for like. at least several days lol #honestly 98 anime would probably be the perfect pallet cleanser (at least to start with) #except i promised my friend id watch it with them (aka the true reason i havent watched it yet) #oughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i am never gonna fucking recover from this #AND ME STARTING MY WOLFWOOD POV OF SENTIDO Ouogughghghghgjfg #maybe i should just reread chapter 3 of sentido. though tht might just get me crying too #i feel like a wet paper rag wobbling in the wind like a torn up flag on a pole #or a pair of underpants. the worst underpants ever. full of holes. drenched in the rain. and purple polka dots. #not that you could tell in the dark rain and mud. the worst goddamned underpants on a flag pole to ever exist. just wobblin #thats me. thats how i feel rn. #/ shinji ikari on the chair. that also displays it. Obviously it is synonymous. obviously. #head in my hands. i am fucking WRECKED right now.

[zehecatl]

manga (and assorted) haul!!

technically from different sources, but i got them all over this weekend, so. compiled they are

#ze.txt #i've read exactly three (3) chapters of a tropical fish yearns for snow #but holy fuck those three chapters. HAD to get the whole set #also i was gonna get scum villain instead of 2ha but v1 was just?? sold out?? lmao?? #multiple people had apparently asked after it too like. damn. MXTX be popular #also if you don't know what little mushroom is; it's a post apocalypse danmei following a mushroom turned not-really human #i am excited for it to emotionally wreck me :) #also mom got me nausicaa which. 🥰🥰

[woundthatswallows]

started dream brother today for jeff's bday and oh man :( oh man..

#i knew it was gonna wreck me but man :( im only one chapter in too.

[emeraldcreeper]

It sucks to know everything’s made up and bullshit when it’s fully midnight and you’ve been cranky for 3 days straight, the mortgage budget we had is now shot to shit because 5 months is… too long to try and get a house????? The FUCK man

#vent #I don’t want to hear the it wasn’t the right house I told god to say if it wasn’t right #I want a house damnit #I don’t care about the rates changing for the worse which will wreck our shot at a turnkey fucking house #I don’t care #I want to live in a real house #it’s dumb I was editing but now I’m crying and feeling stupid about it #I can’t do anything to feel better #gratitude is bullshit I don’t wanna be grateful for scraps #I want nice things #like a house #and not fucking renting ever again fuck renting #I’m gonna go back to my writing and wallowing the word I was looking for was wallowing #I was looking for that word like an hour ago it was wallowing #thanks vent post for reminding me I am wallowing like my pet old man #he’s gonna get kissed and probably jerk off between 2 wips and 4 chapters I’m working on simultaneously #it’s fun it’s keeping me sane right now besides my emotional support romcom novels

[localguy2]

The second chapter of TSP:Hunted is FINALLY out. (after like a month) 

Most fun I've had writing this, there's an NGTV bit that I'm really proud of for some reason (Snaketastrophe has made me love NGTV format) 

Anyway, hope you enjoy! 

#ninjago #guy's writing #tsp au #School is absolutely wrecking me send help #Can't have shit in this country #Not even time to write <:/ #I dunno when chapter 3 would be out but it's gonna be a while #Finals are on the horizon and I gotta study #L

[butterfirefly]

Just finished reading DPR chapter 888 and now I'm covered in snot and tears.

I am never trusting any 800's chapter from any webnovel ever again.

#not gonna use memes or whatever because nothing can convey how much this broke me #I honestly thought nothing could top that flashback of the first trial but this proved how wrong I was #dpr 888 and sctir 818 have changed me fr #literally ugly cried for more than half of both chapters while reading them #and you know what's (not) funny? the grief is the same. they are exactly the same and oh my gosh what have these two authors done #3 sentences in and I was already saying no no no 안돼 아니야 no don't be like that 아니야 하지마 #<-when a novel wrecks you so hard you start speaking in different languages #seriously how am I supposed to get over this? it's not even done but how in the flipping flying fish am I supposed to move on??? #bff.txt

[grismavessel]

Hi, I just had a little wine but I just wanted to say I have a weird kind of nostalgia for Learning to Live. I have a distinct memory of reading it on break or under my desk while drinking lukewarm office coffee during my internship over the last summer. It was honestly a great time, thanks for giving me something to read. (Skipped the NSFW though, I have at least a little shame haha)

YOU READ IT AT WORK!?!?

YOU ARE BRAVER THAN ANY U.S MARINE

Oh yeah skipping the nsfw parts is a good call but opening ao3 at work is a courage I do not have :3

I’m so glad you like! Even though the updates take forever (I’m trying it’s hard to write a narrative with so many characters t-t) I’m kicking my feet in the air over the fact someone has nostalgia for it!! Aaahh tysm✨✨

#IM STILL WORKING ON IT #I HAVE HALF OF THE NEXT UPDATE WRITTEN #next chapter gonna be a wreck of emotions so yay✨✨ #it like makes me so genuinely glad that y’all like my silly lil story about silly lil guys #pokemon #answering asks #text #also have fun with the wine✨✨✨

[the-golden-ghost]

I know I shouldn’t Fic Plan when I’m A). Drastically overtired and crabby because of that and B). Had a terrible day at work so I’m in an even worse mood but I’m just like “THIS IDEA WAS SO FUCKING STUPID WHY’D I EVEN WRITE THIS”

#hilariously it kinda makes me want to finish it in a 'get it over with' way but not in a 'it should be the best it can be' way #to be honest though it's already so wrecked it's never gonna be GOOD so #I don't know! #is it worth it to put effort into something that's already broken? #I really have no clue #I might try to get a chapter up this week though

[seraphdreams]

Serrr

The baji Manga this week

I KNOW!! i’m so excited!! i seen some leaks n honestly i love it already :(

#the art style is slightly different it’s so pretty #AAAAAAAAA my HEART #this tuesday is gonna be a wreck for me #along with chapter 263 #seraph.replies!