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Happy Birthday Nakajima Atsushi-sensei!

To celebrate Nakajima Atsushi’s birthday here are his top three quotes from my blog:

Quote #3:

He endures that entire tragedy and then still bravely goes on to seek the good and the beautiful.

- Nakajima Atsushi, “On Admiration: Notes by the Monk Wujing” from The Moon over the Mountain and Other Stories

Quote #2:

I suddenly began to wonder if I was happy. But then I have no idea of what happiness means, because it is beyond self-consciousness.

- Nakajima Atsushi, Light, Wind, and Dreams

Quote #1:

Little by little I grew apart from the world and distant from others. I fed my cowardly self-respect with dollops of rage, shame, and self-pity. We are all of us trainers of wild beasts, it is said, and the beasts in question are our own inner selves. In my case, the beast inside was my self-important sense of shame. That was my tiger, and it damaged me, brought sorrow to my wife and children, wounded my friends, and, in the end, changed my outward form into this animal that befits my inward state. I realized now that I wasted what little talent I had.

- Nakajima Atsushi, “The Moon Over The Mountain” from The Moon Over the Mountain Short Story Collection

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Humans are sorry, pitiful beings. No matter whether we succeed or fail, are intelligent or dimwitted, win or lose: we will harden our expressions and exert our strength, running around sweating from morning to evening, and meanwhile only grow older. I wonder if that is all we were put on this earth to do. What separates us from insects? It’s so stupid. I have lived and worked all my life… but now I realize I am a fool. I have been deceived… They all have deceived me.

Dazai Osamu, A New Hamlet

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Happy birthday to the Hozier of BSD!

"I'd rather take my whiskey neat."

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Happy Birthday Nakahara Chūya-sensei!

To celebrate Nakahara Chūya’s birthday here are his top three quotes from my blog:

Quote #3:

Searching for memories that aren’t there, this heart of mine Closes itself up, languishes like an old moldy box of trinkets And then there are these sunken cheeks, these cracked lips- Bitterness bred in cruelty comes rushing out in silence…

I’ve grown accustomed to it all, and have leaned to bear it But sometimes any degree of loneliness can bring you down And while I cannot know for sure, sometimes it seems as if These tears are no longer tears for having loved someone…

- Nakahara Chūya, “Poem of the Sheep” from Poems of the Goat

Quote #2:

Soiled Sorrow: today too snow falls on it; soiled sorrow: today too wind blows on it.

Soiled sorrow is like, say, a fox’s fur; soiled sorrow in its torpor dreams of death.

Soiled sorrow frightens me piteously; soiled sorrow can’t be remedied, and the sun sets…

- Nakahara Chūya, “Soiled Sorrow” from The Poems of Nakahara Chūya

Quote #1:

Now in this world full of sadness, Don’t let your heart harden. For the sake of whatever intimacy we could have, Don’t let your heart harden.

Hardened, the heart is oblivious to the world, And words fall silent on the soul. Nurturing serenity, man returns to that dreaminess Known at the beginning, and can make sense of it all.

- Nakahara Chūya, “Untitled” from Poems of the Goat

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My love was torn as a flower is torn, whose delicate petals can never be restored to their stem.

Ozaki Kōyō, The Gold Demon

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Arcane art style study with Fyolai

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It pains me when no one includes these queens in one of those "Smartest characters in BSD" videos. Louisa literally helped piece Francis back together and had amazing strategies. And Agatha? I hope she becomes an important character one day.

BSD is full of amazing female characters, but unfortunately we don't get enough screen time for them.

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And people still think the casting wasn't good?