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random thought and i know there's always angst paired with the fact that Chuuya didn't know what bread was when he first escaped the lab but i'm just thinking about him innocently eating certain foods completely wrong and Shirase or Yuan (or whoever) needing to keep an eye on him bc of that,,,

like for example once Yuan handed Chuuya an orange and he asked if he could eat it and when she said yes, he just fucking chomped on it (peel and all) and she was like WAIT. NOT LIKE THAT

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I love them

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It's incredibly lucky that Rimbaud and Verlaine argue with each other in Japanese so when Chuuya sees Verlaine's memories 9 years later he'll understand what they're saying, or else in that crucial moment Chuuya would have just been like:

And even luckier that Rimbaud wrote his journal in Japanese years before he even got dispatched for a mission in Japan (or even met Verlaine) so Dazai would understand what he's saying when he reads his notes. (Or maybe the journal is in French and Dazai knows French? 'Cause there were some French words in it....oh, god, does Dazai know French?!)

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skk alternative methods of communication during the no contact phase

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rb with your most common recurring theme in your nightmares. mine is pregnancy

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demon boy

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this is fine :)

(pssst stickers of this are available on my etsy shop along a few new iwtv entries)

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im ignoring the past few manga chapters and am instead thinking about these two enjoying a french honeymoon post prison break

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Dan Da Dan episodes 1-6: A fun anime about teens with sudden supernatural powers. They fight aliens and yokai. Great animation. Dick jokes. Romance leads with great chemistry. A chase scene to a techno remix of the Willhelm Tell overture and the Can Can.

Dan Da Dan episode 7: Hey what the fuck.

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‏I am mohammed Ayyad, I am 17 years old, high school student, I have 7 brothers, including 4 girls and 3 boys and my mother.

‏Since the beginning of the war, my family and I have been displaced 4 times, each time more severe than the other.

‏The first is from Gaza City to Khan Yunis, and the second is from Khan Yunis to the shores of Bahr Khan Yunis, then to the city of Rafah, and then to an area called Al Qarara .

‏My house was completely destroyed , everything is under the rubble my childhood, my memories, my books, and my ambition and Many relatives and friends were killed and life was completely destroyed.

‏ so l please you to help me and help my family collect donations to evacuation the war zone, get out of Gaza safely, and complete my school studies, via my donation link.

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I am so sorry you and your family are going through this. I will give what I can and am posting in case any of my follower are able to donate as well!

Here is the link to mohammad's fundraiser

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Children.

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This is one of the funniest things I've found on tumblr and I've seen some shit

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‘don’t you want your favourite character to be happy???’ no? i want my favourite character to be interesting. i want me to be happy. which sometimes involves my favourite character being in exquisite agony

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CHUUYA!!!! and his bike

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irl chuuya became consumed by his grief. in bsd, chuuya is met with rending grief, over and over. but he chooses to persist and love anyway, over and over.

in stormbringer, he says, "I can feel their lives burning right here inside me, and till those flames die down, I can't just do whatever I want. I'm gonna do what I need to do. That's who I am."

bsd chuuya is explicitly not one who wallows or pines or lives in tragedy. he chooses life and love because even when the weight of his grief threatens to crush him, those he loves and has loved fuel him and his stubborn defiance.

also in stormbringer, he says, "'Being born was a mistake?' Sounds like the kind of garbage Dazai would spew, and no way in hell am I ever gonna think the way he does!"

chuuya rejects defining himself by his pain. he rejects meaninglessness. he finds purpose in those he's chosen to love, and they never leave him. people who've touched him can't die. he carries their embers in his chest.

his peace isn't defeatist, it isn't complacence, it isn't avoidance. it burns.

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putting this under the cut so you all have the same emotional experience i just did

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All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it. It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this. But these are all just symptoms. The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned. Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even basic steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future. Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment. At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development. The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital. And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism. They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative. So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

Jason Hickel