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if i was kenshi i would be bricked up

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My unhappiness was the unhappiness of a person who could not say no. I had been intimidated by the fear that if I declined something offered me, a yawning crevice would open between the other person’s heart and myself which could never be mended through all eternity.

Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human

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Dazai Osamu’s “The Flowers of Buffoonery”

“The Flowers of Buffoonery” (道化の華, Dōke no hana) by Dazai Osamu is being published in English. The story has been translated by Sam Bett and will be released March 7, 2023. 

This is one of the stories foreign fans of Dazai have desperately wanted to be translated. It is the story that Dazai submitted on his first attempt to win the Akutagawa Prize in 1935 and one of the stories included in Dazai’s first collection The Final Years, published in 1936.

The story is described on many websites as "Dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human”. While the story is a sort of prequel to No Longer Human, it’s not a prequel in the sense that Dazai wrote about what happened before the events No Longer Human took place. The description for the English translation on Amazon says the following:

The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba―the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age―is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against this dispiriting backdrop, everyone tries to maintain a lighthearted, even clownish atmosphere: playing cards, smoking cigarettes, vying for attention, cracking jokes, and trying to make each other laugh. While No Longer Human delves into the darkest corners of human consciousness, The Flowers of Buffoonery pokes fun at these same emotions: the follies and hardships of youth, of love, and of self-hatred and depression. A glimpse into the lives of a group of outsiders in prewar Japan, The Flowers of Buffoonery is a darkly humorous and fresh addition to Osamu Dazai’s masterful and intoxicating oeuvre.

“The Flowers of Buffoonery” is a sort of prequel to No Longer Human in that the protagonist of both stories are named Oba Yozo, both are I-novel works (semi-autobiographical, confessional literature) so the characters and events are loosely based on Dazai’s own experiences, and both stories share similar themes. “The Flowers of Buffoonery” was written thirteen years before No Longer Human, which may be why the overall atmosphere in the story has a much lighter atmosphere. There is a definite change in Dazai’s writing from his earlier short stories, which are more hopeful and charming, to his later works that are much darker and forlorn. In a way, “The Flowers of Buffoonery” could be considered a starting point in the journey Dazai took to write No Longer Human. The differences in the character “Oba Yozo” of “The Flowers of Baffoonery” and the “Oba Yozo” of No Longer Human are a sort of reflection of Dazai himself and how he changed from the beginning of his writing career to the end of his life.

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Something Good – Negro Kiss is a short film from 1898 of a couple kissing and holding hands. It is believed to depict the earliest on-screen kiss involving African Americans and is known for departing from the prevalent and purely stereotypical presentation of racist caricature in popular culture at the time it was made.

“There seemed to be something a lot more intimate and having more to do with self-presentation. And that’s unlike anything I had seen from that period when all moving picture images of African Americans were through a white lens and are distortions, misrepresentations, or pseudo anthropological. And this is none of that.”

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AGDJFK THANK YOU SMM!! That au brought me out of my writers block. You don’t know how much I appreciate it!! And Np I’ll send you the link! TYY ❤️❤️

Hiii~ I was so intrigued by one of your satosugu au’s. Where gojo’s trapped in the cube and he’s having the scenarios he knows isn’t real. IT’S AMAZING and i was wondering if i could use your concept for a fanfiction. Only if that’s fine with you! Ofc I’d give you credits n link your post^^ HOPE U HAVE A NICE DAY 💖💖

THANK U omg i would actually keel over if u made a fic about that /pos PLEASE do and hmu with the link if u do write it 🙏

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au where being in the prison realm makes gojo hallucinate different made up scenarios that makes him happy (being with geto, his students, etc) but they always end abruptly, leaving gojo to realize that he's still back in the pr and it was all an illusion.. and so when he actually gets out, he has moments where he struggles in believing what’s happening is actually real

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A proper proposal.

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jjk artstyle x bleach

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“Many of my movies have strong female leads - brave, self-sufficient girls that don’t think twice about fighting for what they believe in with all their heart. They’ll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a saviour. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.” -Hayao Miyazaki

Happy International Women’s Day!

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Wholesome Sailor Moon’s creator

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DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY 

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(210928) ho5hi_kwon instagram update

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SUGURU ✌️