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Why Azai Nagamasa?
Someone from Final Fantasy XIV asked me yesterday about why I like the Azai and particularly Azai Nagamasa so much.
To me the event that says so much about Nagamasa's character is at the fall of Odani castle, funny enough when the Azai are destroyed.
If you look at the fall of Odawara (the Hojo), or the fall of Osaka (The Toyotomi), entire clans getting destroyed and mass sepuku weren't uncommon. Nagamasa, however, insists on sending his wife and children to Nobunaga. Ultimately it is Nagamasa, and the Azai retainers, who commit sepuku in the castle.
To me that act speaks volumes both about his concern for his family but also about who he was as a person.
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The fallen warrior of Öndheim
“Now, at the hour when ignorant mortalsDrowse in the shade of their whirling sphere,Heaven and Hell from invisible portalsBreathing comfort and ghastly fear,Voices I hear” The pain is a fading memory, my wounds are gone. A gentle breeze dances with the grass and the blue little flowers around my feet. Öndheim always has these little flowers everywhere, it seems odd to see them growing between…
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#Azai#BeSpoke#Drunken Brokkr#Events#Fairelands#Fantasy#Fantasy Faire 2024#Flying Horse Head Studios#Legacy#Poseidon#Poseidon poses#Rakshasa#Second Life#Simple Stuff
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amygdala/elite 9 in a nutshell
#just shitposting aughhah hh#own art#own ocs#amygdala stuff#tw eyes#tw blood#oc azai#oc saran#oc vika#oc suyo#oc noah
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Château d'Azay-le-Rideau, FRANCE
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more strawpage woooahhh
#d4dj#d4dj groovy mix#eimi azai#rei togetsu#abyssmare weronika#tsukumo sana#takao toka#mana kase#hololive en#my art
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4☆ [don't miss the barking] date-chan
4☆ [catch hold of dog tail] Shimazu Shika
4☆ [bite at mad dogs] Bessyo Bell
4☆ [underdogs answer] Asai Eimi
New song: Buzz yori bite you
#d4dj#d4dj groovy mix#dig delight direct drive dj#long post#abcd#a bad cynic doggo#azai eimi#shimazu shika#bessyo bell#date chan
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happy 4th anniversary, d4dj!! (sorry for the lighting in the first two drawings)
#art stuff#d4dj groovy mix#d4dj#um.... apparently i cant tag them all bc tumblr's tag limit is 30 LMFAO-- (going by unit sorry!!)#happy around#peaky p-key#photon maiden#merm4id#rondo#lyrical lily#call of artemis#unichord#abyssmare#ichinohashi mikumo#eimi azai#couldn't learn how to draw abcd and egoegg in time to confidently draw them for this sorry....#first two drawings were made last year when i was rewatching first mix and all mix#might post a few more drawings here actually.... hm
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they're so silly
(justice for cherry i cant draw cats im so sorry)
#roboscara#kunikuzushi x reader#kunikuzushi#wanderer x reader#genshin impact#genshin x reader#wanderer fluff#wanderer fanfic#scaramouche fluff#scaramouche x reader#scaramouche#wanderer#genshin wanderer#azai's#sketch#art#shitpost
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Eishika but they actually kiss woahhhh
I hate them sobsbbdjabrjwvrBAKDGQKHRKWBRIWBEKRBWKJFISHTTHEYRESUCHLOSERS
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ALSO EITHER AZAI
-Azai and Saran anon
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don't know how to format this post so welcome to waterfall is craving things and she doesn't know if it's more h-rny or lonely so enjoy a little snippet of what is playing on loop in my mind~
Person A: tshhieew!
Person B: Bless you, poor little thing~
Person A: I'm- eshh'iew! tschh- kngt'shhew! I'm not little!
Person B: Even if you aren't, your sneezes sure are~
Person A, blushing: No they're- eh'tnshiew! aeshh'iee!
Person B, with a smirk: What a poor, sneezy little thing~
#waterfallsnzarios#waterfalltalks#i guess??? idk man waterfallcraves is more accurate#just B taunting them and A being such a little blushy mess by the end#knowing that they ARE little but even if they arent! the sneezes are! they cant fight that!#not like they can fight being little either buutttt~ ;3#yes im picturing c/huuya but gotta be honest not seeing d/azai as the other#perhaps in a private little bedroom... away from prying eyes and ears...#or perhaps this is just something I crave okay i just- lil with lil snz auhegughguh#im a sucker for a kitten snz and i am! feeling things so welcome to this randomness that does NOT have a point~#(and yes okay maybe id like to be on either side of this BUT! shut up! i do not!)#(using this as a blog again- starting to get more and more used the idea that like... maybe i DO want attention???)#(always knew i craved attention but like.... always used to it being the kind of attention that i GIVE to others and maybe i get something)#(but not used to like... actual genuine attention thats just for me and that isnt kinda... idk- you give me things? so i give bak?)#(gonna be so honest!! i do not feel cute! most of the time! and usually thats okay! i like being a lil chaos gremlin :3)#(buuuuuut recently been having more friends call me cute and idk!!! maybe its not the worst thing to get to be a lil soft sometimes~)#(ANYWAYS blog post over im so sorry to anyone who read these tagssssss but here is a lil snzario that hopefully makes up for it!!)
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What are the things you like or appreciate about shin soukoku? /gen
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I like sskk! I like everything about them. I feel like there's just so much to unpack about them, and there's no end to it!! After all this time I'm still finding out new possible dynamics and ways to interpret their relationship, it's so much fun. They're both very very complex characters, and their dynamics together are pretty awesome? There's the whole deal– I hate myself, so I have to hate you, because you're just like me. It's sooo cool. It's nice to see characters who hate themselves so much, but who also try to do better (Atsushi), try to be better (Akutagawa). They're both so so complex individually, and I simply adore what becomes of them when they come together. I think that when they're together, their individual characterization shines the brightest, because they're souls precisely created as parts of the same whole. And I've written about this forever ago, but I really like how their journey goes from hating each other to loving each other to loving themselves, I think it's a very nice concept to explore.
It's just a... Low-pressure ship in a lot of ways? It's something very very comforting to think about for me. As a ship, it constantly feels like saying “yeah, you do kind of suck. That doesn't mean you can't be loved.” It's just such a sweet sentiment for me!! It's not saying one shouldn't try to be better, but sometimes you do feel like you're utterly bad and unlovable, and there's no helping it; and sskk is there telling you “look. Here's two of the worst people on earth. One of them is unlovable by definition. And they still have in them to love, and to be loved.'” It's just :')
I genuinely love how both of them are kind of awful people. I mean, there's probably not a single thing about their moral code I agree with. But for some reason that makes them very compelling to explore? It's interesting to engage with characters that share worldviews so strikingly different from mine. Them having such fucked up ideals, so many flaws and selfish goals, makes them feel terribly human, and also makes them very sympathetic, in a way. They're a true mess, but one that reminds me so much of how sloppy and incoherent humans are like. Them being so distant from me greatly adds to their appeal tbh! Generally, I have a very strong moral code, and I try to do the right thing, while they're terribly selfish and self-survival driven. I'm mostly perceived as a woman, and they are two men with superpowers who fight and die for each other. I like reading about characters I can't see anything of myself in! I already have enough of myself irl lol.
Now that I think about it, I really really love how they don't mince words. Again, it's something personal, but I heavily dislike the habit of using euphemisms to sugarcoat reality. Sometimes things are unpleasant and ugly, and trying to deny it feels insulting more often than not. Sskk are always very direct, and never hesitated to tell what they think to the other's face, even if it comes at the cost of throwing insults; weirdly enough, it's something I appreciate. I think deep down, they appreciate it too.
The perspective of having someone who makes your true nature emerge is nice. Again, instead of mincing words and faking it, it's nice to imagine there's someone who could see them for who they really are, and loves them still. It's compelling to explore the true terror anyone would feel from being completely naked in front of someone else, but at the same time the sort of relief that comes with it? “This is the part of me I've always beaten up and suppressed and hidden. Look! Isn't that deeply disgusting? Yet that is nothing but the real me.”
The whole complementary-in-everything thing hits that specific part of my ocd brain that has me do stuff like organize my posts in a coherent string so that every post is connected to the previous, have every post posted at a round number timespan, count the pixels in every single picture I trim etc. Atsushi is mostly white in his design and Akutagawa is mostly black but the colors are reversed when they use their abilities combined. Atsushi is good and Akutagawa is evil. Tiger & dragon & cat & dog. Blue and red. government-affiliated job and mafia. Healthy and regenerating vs. sick and decaying. Loved & hated. Attractive and hideous. One loves reading and the other finds it unnerving, one knows how to cook and the other is a cooking disaster, one likes coffee and the other likes tea, early bird and night owl, so on and so forth. Then, the fact that when they come together they end up looking so deeply similar is kind of neat, it's like there's some sort of Hegelian synthesis in their love.
Their canon moments are truly great and exciting. I care relatively little about the amount of moments a ship has in canon– an interesting dynamic is an interesting dynamic no matter their screentime, right? And you're free to imagine what the characters interacting would be like in your head any time. And while I still like to believe their relationship would still be very compelling even without the moments they share, wow. Their canon screentime is crazy, it's outstanding. I think the depiction of their dynamics in canon is exceptionally good, and extremely well-written. The “the words of your past are fundamentally unrelated to who you are now”, the Atsushi wearing Rashomon, the “you damn fool // hurry up and go”, the “just the two of us?”– they're all such epic and sublime moments, every time they leave the reader gaping and bewildered and, frankly, wondering if that really happened. And their scenes are so consistently homoerotically charged!! From the “it's been reserved solely for you today” to the “the man-tiger's my main dish” to the “their eyes met. Akutagawa's lips moved, mouthing the words I found you” to the “once this is done, I'm going to teach you things other than ‘killing’ ” to the “as long as I can't deny your very being, I'll never be able to move forward” to the “don't touch me! Disgusting!” to the “I'm sorry”. From Akutagawa piercing Atsushi with Rashomon to kicking him to getting unnecessarily close to his face. From every second they've spent admiring each other to the way they call out each other's names with so much passion. The list goes on forever. And chapters 84-88 are short to a masterpiece. The characters' growth is madly well-executed, how we see them go through it almost step-by-step, and it's all so consistent, and it's all so human.
Finally, the picture that made me go “Ah! There's something about them!” for the first time. It's very dear to me :)
It's got Atsushi being cute and Akutagawa looking at him with a fairly undecipherable expression that yet is distinctively non-hostile, and this precise illustration made my brain go “Wow, what if Akutagawa actually had a soft spot for Atsushi. What if there was tenderness in his eyes.” Then it all went downhill from there ahah
#Then after seeing that picture I selected the tag beneath the post and grew increasingly frustrated on why I only kept finding–#C/huuya and D/azai posts (yes I had selected the wrong tag and searched for s/kk instead. I didn't know what the ship names were yet.)#sskk#shin soukoku#bsd#mine#people asks me stuff
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I should really be doing my school work but whatever. Low quality d4dj memes be upon ye.
#d4dj#d4dj groovy mix#shika shimazu#weronika d4dj#haruna kasuga#rinku aimoto#michiru kaibara#neo d4dj#lumina ichihoshi#kokoa shinomiya#date chan#date chan d4dj#azai eimi#eimi azai#shinomiya kokoa#ichihoshi lumina#kasuga haruna#shimazu shika#a bad cynic doggo#unichørd#unichord#dig delight direct drive dj
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promise
#wanted to draw some azaisaran non canon parallel to this but posting normal vika version separately#bc azai version might turn into smth longer? oof#own art#own ocs#amygdala stuff#oc saran#oc vika
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strawpage stuff wahaha
#d4dj#d4dj groovy mix#dalia matsuyama#marika mizushima#tsubaki aoyagi#towa hanamaki#noa fukushima#date chan#eimi azai#my art
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