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caelanglang · 2 years

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Lippmann’s last photo, he really thinks Chuuya’s got potential to join him on his ‘main job’.

Edit: (close up shot bc i just realized tumblr ate the quality)

pov: the undefeated prince is judging ur billiard playing skills hhh

#stormbringer spoilers #im sorry im trying to move on from the novel and its been hard they all deserve better :#what do you meam chuuya is not the muse of the flags skdjfksjasjjfks #they literally called chuuya the ‘undefeated prince’ YES PRINCE ROYALTY LEZGO #bsd nakahara chuuya #chuuya nakahara #bsd fanart #bungou stray dogs #bsd #bsd flags #stormbringer #my art

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lnkedmyheart · 1 year

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This one is in response to @fizzytastic asking

"I would LOVE to know what you mean regarding the light novels."

Dazai in the light novels has been down BAD since the day he met Chuuya.

I know the whole "must be because I love you" can be viewed as a joke but my man actually "whispered with a look of regret" at being shot down.

He also proceeded to cheat during the game by tampering with the machine to ensure Chuuya would lose the bet and become his dog. He was also stated as being in awe of Chuuya's fighting ability, repeatedly refering to him as "incredible". Dazai also flat out admits to wanting to try out living because "Chuuya convinced" him.

He is even described as having forgotten how to breathe watching Chuuya fight.

Moving on to the events of Stormbringer, Dazai spends too long exposing his obsession with Chuuya, telling the big bad that he spends all his "days and nights thinking about ways to annoy Chuuya".

He further proceeds to insist that Chuuya is human because of how strongly he hates Chuuya and due to a specific word it can be viewed as him saying Chuuya would hate him less if he wasnt human as was stated in the stage play of the same.

Furthermore at the end of Stormbringer he offers to come up with a new plan to give Chuuya an out if he needs one when he has to use corruption as a last resort. And he fully intends on coming up with a new plan within 2 minutes.

In general Dazai does a lot of staring at Chuuya throughout the light novels. On a lighter note Dazai jokes about wanting Chuuya as his personal maid at one point and demands that Chuuya let Dazai look inside his head and know everything there is to know about him.

But then we move onto the dragon head conflict as mentioned in Dead Apple where after making light of an executive's death and getting punched in the face by Chuuya, Dazai is so shaken up by Chuuya implying he's inhuman, he actually pulls strings to try and bring the conflict to an end. He also stops corruption by touching his cheek and pulls Chuuya's head into his lap while he is unconscious after his fight with Shibusawa. The following is from the manga.

Now everyone knows about the whole Snow White and Prince reference but in the light novel its clarified that Chuuya's ability was not affected by the fog and Dazai knew this but he still forces his head down. Even more telling is that Dazai cradles Chuuya's face for no real reason because Corruption had already been nullified when Chuuya made skin to skin contact when punching him in the face.

And of course that was how their expressions are drawn in the manga panel

Then we move to the present day and you have Dazai saying this to Sigma about Chuuya

But then his comment about Gide has him claim the exact same behaviour is romantic in his messed up troll brain

Basically Dazai has a history of staring at Chuuya in awe since 15, "jokingly" confessed at 15 and then got somewhat upset about the rejection, cheated to be able to keep Chuuya as his, repeatedly makes remarks that imply he is vaguely obsessed with him at 16, tends to let Chuuya rest his head in his lap post corruption, has nullified him twice that we have seen by touching his cheek (as per the movie and once as per the ln). Is actively affected by how Chuuya views him (which was shocking to me).

Aside from that he has also talked about Chuuya to the ADA off screen because Yosano knew about Chuuya and his ability (though this could just be a random update about the membera of the mafia to watch out for during meetings) and I heard he talked about Chuuya to Oda in The Day I Picked Up Dazai ln.

This is not counting any of the seriously insane amount of wan content because I dont view it as canon or atleast entirely canon but there Dazai admits to keeping 27 journals detailing things about Chuuya and its an exaggeration of the canon fact that Dazai prides himself in being a Chuuya Nakahara Encyclopedia. It also plays with how close they both actually are with several character refering to them as besties, Chuuya being forced to admit he doesnt actually hate Dazai.

(Oh and this is not even considering just how much Dazai touches Chuuya, like in the manga there is a part where Dazai keeps tugging at Chuuya's hair and refusing to let go while complaining about how much he doesnt want to touch him. Just let go dude...)

So yea, I would not be surprised if Dazai has his vows prepared by the time the last pre defection ln drops. Ofcourse this is mostly a lighthearted joke about Dazai being down bad but in all seriousness, Dazai genuinely cared about and still cares about Chuuya and its made extremely obvious throughout the novels. Its actually worth noting that it was actually Chuuya who seemed to be more vitriolic towards him until the end of Stormbringer where Dazai actually gives Chuuya a choice and shows open concern for Chuuya's needs. Hell Dazai was also the one insisting on Chuuya's autonomy, while he keeps insisting Chuuya is his dog, he hates the idea of people using him like a tool, its why he always gives Chuuya a choice. Chuuya always actively chooses to go rescue Dazai in Dazai's plans of getting kidnapped. Chuuya can always go, "nah, I dont wanna use corruption" but he doesnt because he knows since the events of stormbringer that Dazai will always give him a choice even if corruption seems like a last resort.

Chuuya has good reason for trusting Dazai. Its cause Dazai has in fact proven to him that he can trust him. Its why he went in to fight a dragon despite being told Dazai was possibly already dead.

(And yea I know the current arc would have people go "lol he tried to drown Chuuya, he clearly doesnt care" and you know what? That's so dumb. Dazai tried to drown Chuuya, yes. But we dont actually know what is happening with this arc rn and what he is doing or if Chuuya is in any way involved in whatever he is doing. Dazai said all those things and there was no need for him to say that but the fact that he even remembered several moments they shared, yea no, he was clearly affected by it. Maybe I am wrong and Asagiri decided to yeet out all of Dazai's characterization we saw with his behaviour towards Chuuya in 2 entire novels of his past but IDK I think I'm gonna wait till this arc ends and everything unfolds before making a conclusion about how Dazai is such an asshole he tried to drown his partner.)

Seriously, vows are like the least they could do at this point.

#soukoku #ah my ramblings #i just really really love the light novels #i am mostly joking about the romance of it all #mostly #but Dazai cares about Chuuya and idk I think this is such an important aspect of Dazai's character #like even if you dont lile the ship its really not fair to ignore how much Dazai genuinely cared for Chuuya #not because it supports the ship but because it shows that Dazai despite his claims of being a monster was ridiculously human #he saw this boy he was fasicnated by and he said- I need to keep him as my friend #and proceeded to do it in the most unsocialized troll brained clown way #i love this boy so much #someone hug him please #dont get me wrong I dont think dazai and chuuya's relationship was super healthy but it wasnt as toxic as people make it seem either #yes Dazai desperately needed Oda and Ango but Chuuya was also and is still an important part of his life #long post #i am not going back to chexk for writing errors. I'm sleepy.

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sacchiri · 22 days

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Hellsing 2002 calendar illustration.

Ein wunderliche und erschröckliche Hystori von einem großen Wüttrich genant Dracole wayda Der do so ganz unkristenliche marrter hat angelegt die mensche, als mit spissen als auch die leut zu Tod geslyffen

A wondrous and frightening story about a great berserk called Dracula the voivode who inflicted such unchristian tortures such as with stakes and also dragged people to death

#hellsing #alucard #kouta hirano #translation was found in a comment by u/lazyfoxheart on r/Kurrent #fun fact this is the highest quality version of this image that exists online #i know because i've been looking forever for a version that's clear enough to actually read what hirano wrote under '1443'#but there weren't any so i had to take matters into my own hands #the real image on the back of the guidebook is only 2 inches tall so i had to take this with my smartphone and will my hands not to shake #anyway i'm pretty sure it's supposed to say Eğrigöz (the location vlad was imprisoned) so yeah. thank you hirano very cool #if i might rant for a sec it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure that out because i didn't have the guidebook at first #and in the images i could find online that part was just a blur that looked suspiciously like a person's signature and i was like. who tf #i was thinking matthias corvinus since he issued some political propaganda against vlad iirc but it didn't match his signature on wikipedia #then i thought it might be vlad II dracul's since he probably had to sign an agreement to send his sons over as hostages at some point #but that didnt seem right either so i kept skimming vlad's wiki page #and then i was like goddammit...hirano.....you just misspelled Eğrigöz didn't you.. ....#i maybe should've made a separate post dedicated to this instead of writing a novel in the tags but eh #the hellsing brainrot runs deep #also- i put it in the source link at the bottom of the post but the german inscription is copied off a real woodcut of vlad from 1491 #except instead of depicting him as an adult hirano drew him as a child which gives the inscription a very different feel imo #the one final thing that interests me about this is the fact that hirano published this calendar in 2002 #which is REALLY early in the series. like this was before volume 5 came out??#i have no idea why he decided to do a massive spoiler drop in a random piece of japan-only merch #sandwiched between a drawing of alucard as john travolta from saturday night fever and integra as a fish no less #it makes me really curious to know what the fan response to this was back then. like did people even know who this was #maybe im just an idiot and everyone back then was like 'ah yes its alucard as a 12 year old. how very informative'

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aslyran · 2 months

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Happy birthday Kim Dokja!

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featherymainffins · 11 days

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Me when the narrator is an external entity with its own motivations and agendas and the script it makes you follow is not the one you are confined to but be well aware that all folly has its limits and all relationships might sour

#the stanley parable #slay the princess #theres one more i can think of but i feel like itd look really comical next to these widely acknowledge bangers #like ah yes widely acclaimed game; widely praised beautifully drawn visual novel; and...a parody made by a guy on a whim #nonetheless funnily enough thats actually the one that i always think of in this context #like if you ask me for games where you have beef with the narrator youll get that and only after like 2 minutes will i remember tsp #oh if anyone knows more games like this or any other media like this feel free to drop names because i DIG this every time #nobody does it like this uuuh micro-trope #idk why i love it so much but i do. absolute banger. a hit every time.#what i also count as this is when there isnt a narrator per se but it turns out that the story is run by an actual script #like that there is a script the story is supposed to abide by but its literally just that. a script. its an external thing with no power.#because that implies the existence of some kind of author and a narrative and thats also a banger

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hualianisms · 4 months

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finally got a copy of the revised tgcf novels and skimmed book 4 and the fenglian breakup hurts so much more in the revised version... fx's whole line about "i really don't know, then why have i followed you all this time" is removed. instead what happens is, right after xl says "no, it was the past me who was crazy", xl directly tells fx to leave:

XL: "You should go." FX: "What?" XL: "I said, I don't need you anymore, you should go."

all the other parts of the scene are the same. these revised lines, though, are so painful... it also makes it obvious that fx did not abandon xl, he only left bc xl literally dismissed him as a servant and directly told him to leave 😭

#tgcf #xie lian #feng xin #fenglian #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #either way fx did not abandon xl!!! i will die on this hill!!!#i think it's also impt to rmb that this scene takes place right after xl comes back from being stabbed 100 times #xl is not himself at all and is extremely traumatized #me desperately reminding myself: postcanon they are happy and best friends again it's literally canon that they are reunited and friends #again and happy #oh god this is genuinely so painful in a way that i was not prepared for #im sorry for the new year angst; my copy of the revised novel just happened to arrive on jan 1 😭😭😭#my translation #mp: tgcf #i need to see what else changed but its gonna take me forever to actually read all 244 chapters omfg #oh yes mulian is gayer in the revised version btw

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dallonwrites · 7 months

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i do think as writers and creatives we would all benefit from letting ourselves embrace and enjoy being a beginner at something. and not just in a "because one day you will improve and see how far you've come" way but actually enjoying being an amateur at something in the moment. embracing the fun and excitement of something new even if you don't really know anything yet. like i'm making a worldbuilding bible for the first time and do i have any idea what i'm doing? no. am i having fun? absolutely

#what's that thing where it's like it can be harder/less enjoyable to be intermediate than a beginner #because becoming aware of your improvement makes you more hyperaware of where specifically you're struggling #anyway being a beginner is so fun i think all of us should be beginners more often #don't think about your lack of experience or knowledge compared to others just have fun because yayyy shiny new thing to play around with #also i dont believe in the scale of beginner to advanced writer really!!!#like yes i would say i'm 'experienced' but only in some ways! like litfic and flash and character development #im absolutely a beginner when it comes to proper novel writing or speculative worldbuilding #that's not to diminish anybody's hard work or progress it's just to say that beginner and advanced are not too far off separate entities #they're things you can be simultaneously and i think its actually very beneficial to be simultaneously #because you should never believe you are Too Experienced or Too Knowledgeable to keep learning new things #trying a new angle of writing as a beginner will teach you things about writing you won't learn from #and staying where you have the most experience etc #and also its just fun! mix it up!! try new things!! be free #even if its just a silly little side project

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theribbajack · 6 months

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Just finished G.I. Joe: Renegades for the first time and hoo boy. It's been a long time since I was down this bad for a ship.

Lineart below the cut:

#my art #g.i. joe #scarlett o'hara #snake eyes #snakescar #g.i. joe renegades #gi joe renegades #hasbro #this pic has a target audience of about three people #inb4 people reblog thinking its some sort of buckynat au #for real tho i love how committed this show was #they really said “yes snake eyes IS the coolest character”#“and scarlett IS his gf”#and i love them for that #i know army dudes aren't as novel as big robots that turn into cars #but i wish this franchise got as much attention as transformers #at least give us a season 2

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doctorwhoisadhd · 2 months

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[ID: For a large chunk of the twentieth century, Jack hadn't been drinking, and he'd never got the hang of roller skates. But he still fancied he knew how to twist up a rug, and this seemed pretty, well... A few parties stood out. He'd gone to the Cavern Club in Liverpool in the early 1960s to hear The Beatles' first-ever concert. Not so much cos he liked the music, but just in case He turned up. He never could resist a spot of showy nostalgia. Actually, he hadn't, but Jack had still had a surprisingly good time with a party of student nurses in Biba skirts. /end ID]

inconsolable at the way this novel doesnt even mention the doctor by name but still manages to give a heartbreaking picture of jack still being in love with them with one paragraph

#almost perfect #torchwood #jack harkness #the doctor #doctor who #almost perfect by james goss #btw this book is misogynist but still a REALLY fun read #just yknow #its a genderbend novel from about 2008 #so.#ari opinion hour #(yes genderbend. ianto is a woman. its weird about it.)#some bonff #also the very last chapter is also doctorjack in a way that fucks me up

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thebibi · 1 year

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I think its funny how no adaption can capture how bizarrely intimate Van Helsing's and Jack's relationship is with each other.

I remember seeing a clip of Coppola's Dracula, where Anthony Hopkins (VH) is asking Richard Grant (Jack) to help him cut off Lucy's head in a very abrupt tone, which is indeed lifted straight from the book! In the movie, they are having this conversation next to the staircase, a little away from everyone, which is fine. When you make a movie the scenes have to flow together.

And then there's Dracula (1931), where Jack is older and Mina's father. And like, it would be logical to assume they would keep that same energy where they're both the same age, right? But its not! They discuss whether Dracula is a vampire or not but there's not real payoff. Since the movie is so short, in the end Van Helsing asks Harker (called John not Jonathan) to help him stake Dracula, while Jack is sidelined.

But in the novel, Van Helsing barges in to ask the question of staking Lucy while Jack is undressing in his own bedroom. Like, just this moment alone is bonkers. He barely knocks! And Jack doesn't even act surprised! And it makes perfect sense since the professor cannot let anyone else overhear this conversation, as it is a frantic, private request no one else would understand. In just one scenario we can see how comfortable they are with one another.

Of course, that's just how adaptions work. Like others have criticized, when you want Dracula to be the lead, every other character's relationships get shafted. But still, the more you think about it, there is something hilariously weird and untranslatable about Van Helsing and Jack's relationship.

#dracula (novel)#dracula daily #helward #jack seward #abraham van helsing #yes I watched legosi dracula and had to make this post #i debated tagging it as such but like #its my blog i can do what I want #thebibi on vampirez

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elbiotipo · 9 days

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Someone once said in the tags on one of my posts that "Asimov was the serious science fiction guy and Heinlein was the whee space opera guy" and I almost deleted my blog.

#THEY WOULD NOT SAY THAT #IF HEINLEIN CATCHES YOU WRITING ABOUT A SPACESHIP WITHOUT CALCULATING ITS DELTA-V HE WILL BURN YOUR NOVEL #yes it was the one hijacked by that stupid 'Tolkien vs. Lewis' meme #cosas mias

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akimojo · 14 days

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I finally ordered the first ff13 book last week and it's gonna take another 1-2 weeks to arrive... dude i feel like a rabid animal, I'm dying of impatience rn

#i finally have a shelf to put it on 😩 and yes thats why it took me so long lmao #ik i can get the novels digitally too but naahh it HAS to be physical #its my baby we're talking about here

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oni-1-oni-none · 1 month

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another hc bc i think it fits - john doe's curl type is a mix of 3a/3b, i don't make the rules

examples:

#yes i used dan fucking avidan #its the only way i can see his hair #the only other thing i have to say is that the fact that john likely doesn't have a hair routine will make his hair less defined-#-and more frizzy #<-- that's due to him not being able to be in contact with water though #that's my ted talk #speak louder into the mic for me #john doe #john doe game #john doe visual novel #headcanons

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ninjagocrohw · 3 months

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collected the outfits ive actively designed for morro(not just slapped together without planning)

first one is his canon gi, colour corrected,

that i only ended up using in his initial arrival pages of @juniorjago oops lol. Ill probably use it for flashback stuff to morros babby years

second one is what i designed for him to wear in the post where he apologises to the kids for being a shit

third one is a failed design(yay!) where it was meant to be just. some clothes he threw on, but it looked too. formal? worky? so sCREW IT. he gets a new gi at some point in juniorjago! The fourth is what i ended up going with for this next arc that will EVENTUALLY come about.

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be-bi-do-crime · 1 month

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me: yeah i’m sure that because of censorship, jlfx had to cut out fu rong kissing mo fang entirely, which is fine, i understand—

jlfx in the scriptwriting room: HOLD MY LAPTOP

#she is my mother. my lord and saviour. my queen. my hero.#yes this scene was still cut however THE FACT THAT IT EXISTS #AND SHE CHANGED ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FROM THE NOVEL EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT MO FANG ‘turned into a woman’#and ofc the lip kiss turned to a face kiss but everything else was kept???#like its literally word for word otherwise??? she was fighting WARS to keep her ship canon and i owe her my life for it #so now when watching the ep i know that this scene was supposed to happen. it was written and possibly even filmed. god i love it here #this is my translation btw thats my twt username #the legend of shen li #与凤行 #anyway once again as a jlfx fan i NEVER LOSE

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yrrtyrrtwhenihrrthrrt · 3 months

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A long ass time ago I made a post talking about the Nimona characters from the Comic and Movie meeting each other (I have made several and I cannot remember which of them this specific post was) and I was making the typical jokes that were funny six months ago like "M!Ambro would try to beat up C!Ambro haha" and one of the notes made a joke to the effect of Blackheart would intentionally allow M!Ambrosius (a twenty-something able-bodied man) to beat up his (disabled, middle-aged) partner. and it was before I felt comfortable saying shit but it has rubbed me the wrong way ever since. And I can't find the post or the person who said that, nor do I really want to bc I'm not in the business of opening cans of expired beef, and if it was you and you still follow me or you see this, no hard feelings at all like dw about it lol it was ages ago in fandom time and I don't hold it against anyone, but please accept this very late message:

He Would Not Fucking Do That

#it made me rlly sad because I feel a lot of connection to that love story ok #“if you like enemies to lovers its because you like the idea of someone seeing you at your worst and loving you anyway”#yes and? me fr #and the idea of finding that kind of love and they'd let someone hurt you when you can't even defend yourself made me sad...#which is reading too much into it but its low-key bothered me ever since #so I felt the need to clear that up lol that I Did Not Like that joke #nimona #ambrosius goldenloin #goldenheart #nimona graphic novel #ballister blackheart #ballister x ambrosius #blackloin

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