While scrolling through the BSD tag, I’ve come across a lot of debate about whether Oda “Truly understood Dazai” or not. And it’s made me wanna share my view on the topic:
Does it really Matter?
He was Dazai’s friend, and that’s what I think is the most important part, because that’s what makes a difference. If he just an acquaintance, understanding wouldn’t matter, because it wouldn’t have affected Dazai in the same way. The entire reason it was impactful was because it was Oda. At the end of the day, Oda’s death made Dazai want to become better no matter what understanding he did or didn’t have. It’s a meaningless debate when the impact he had was clear.
Alright I’m gonna draw a comparison to The Black Lizard that is maybe not the best but makes sense in my head (I’m sorry I just can’t go one post without talking about these guys).
Tachihara is an undercover operative for a government force, and due to this, he probably can’t tell The Black Lizard any part of his story that might blow his cover, so they probably don’t fully understand him and his motives. But even so, Tachi cares for his teammates enough to save their lives, and later believe in what they say so much that he literally retcons a Reality bending book (ik there more to it ofc but I know I’ll start rambling). Hirotsu and Gin make him feel happy, despite not understanding everything about him as a person. They trust and care about each other which is what brings them together, not a feeling of understanding.
To wrap this up I wanna say this: even if you don’t fully understand why someone acts the way they do, if you care about them enough, you’ll want to see them thrive. Whether Oda understood Dazai isn’t the point, the point is that the entire Lupin Trio cared about each other in a way that hugely impacted all of their lives when one of them departed. Understanding doesn’t hold a candle to caring and being there for them.
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The parallel between Sokka and Tenzin as their fathers' sons.
Sokka, left at 13 as his father and all the other men head off to war. Hakoda tells him "being a man is knowing where he's needed the most" and he needs to protect his sister, his home.
Tenzin is the second airbender. He is also half water tribe, he's a man. When Aang dies, he will be the last airbender. He understands what he needs to do.
Untold amount of pressure and responsibility have been thrust upon them by their fathers. Though, I believe it is not all intentional, but the unfortunate circumstance of being the fathers of sons who take responsibility incredibly seriously.
In Sokka's case, "protect your sister" is a vague instruction. It was meant to give him purpose, to help him feel okay about being left behind, He is too young for war, his father does not want to bring his child to slaughter. But Sokka will die with purpose. He will train the children of his tribe so they will be protected, he will face a fire nation ship until his last breath. He cannot go to war, but Hakoda did not see that war was all around them. In trying to give Sokka purpose, Hakoda put their world on his shoulders.
We do not get to see Aang be a father (in the TV shows), but we know he had hopes for the future. All his children were air nomads, and the air acolytes brought his culture back, but Tenzin could bend. This part of their culture is one ONLY they share. I do not think Aang would hide this, he is joyous that he gets to share his culture. When he feels respected, he always is, he taught the air acolytes after all. Off handedly, he could say, "I'm hopeful for a future where there are lots more air benders," and that, which feels mostly innocuous to him, is the nail in the coffin of Tenzin's fate. He is Avatar Aang's son, and the future of the air benders. It would not matter that Aang meant a future in generations. Tenzin sees the responsibility and it's his. He is his father's only air bending child, he knows what he needs to do.
Being a parent is not understanding the way the things you say harm your children. Even those things that feel innocuous in the moment can be life altering. Especially the more the child respects the parent. Purpose and Hope for those with a broader perspective, can be death sentences to a life that could have been when expressed to those who idolize the former.
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It's been rolling around in my brain the last few days for some reason, but I still hate the family backstory reveals for Sophie and Eliot. I've seen some of the meta for it, but quite frankly, it still makes no sense. If it had been something actually thought of and intentional in the original, I think it could have been so fascinating. I mean, Sophie's willing abandonment of Astrid to contrast with Nate's loss of Sam or Eliot's adoption in contrast with Hardison's and Parker's? Could have been excellent! But they came out of nowhere in Redemption and don't work with these characters.
Sophie was still actively using the fucking alias that she met Astrid under! She met with someone from her past on the show! Like. Quite frankly, that one is unequivocally bullshit that they made up and threw in and pretended could fit with the established canon. (And I'm sorry, but the idea of Sophie abandoning Astrid and never telling Nate about her just... So much of Nate's trauma was rooted in the loss of Sam, and I think that introducing this element after he's gone and unable to respond to it taints Sophie and Nate's relationship in a way bc I'm not exactly sure how Nate would've responded to learning about this but I think that it's something he'd have needed to know. I don't know how to fully express my thoughts on that but yeah.)
As for Eliot, I don't like the adoption aspect literally at all. The way that he would interact with his family and the memory of his family would be different, and I think that it's flat out ridiculous to think that he'd have never mentioned it to the team in the original show, especially when dealing with the kid cases. (I also dislike the biracial adoption as its own element because if Eliot was actually raised by Black parents in the... idk what 80s/90s? That just. doesn't feel congruent with how they write Eliot interacting with PoC, not necessarily in a bad way, but babe, he's written like a white southern man raised in a specific kind of culture that does not jell with that. It also makes Eliot look... really bad that he was apparently raised with the knowledge of how fucked up the military was and his parents' history and made the choices that he did.) Like the show may not have explicitly stated it but the implication of that relationship was vastly fucking different throughout the original show.
Just. These were not backstories that were congruent with their depiction and characters in the original show, and they're also just moves that I don't particularly like or find interesting directions for those characters. There's also something to be said about how it was apparently unacceptable for a woman to not have kids or someone not reconciling with their biological family when that was something that the original show handled a lot better. Out of all the directions to take Sophie and Eliot's stories, that's just not really one that I think was a good idea.
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𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎. answer the following for your muse(s) so people know how shipping works on your blog.
𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐎𝐓𝐏 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐒? — 99.9% of the time I have no set otp from the canon materials, so my otps are always the ships I get going with my friends on this blog through rp & plotting! I don't think something canon can give me will ever beat the love I gain for a ship when I see how well my version of a chara meshes with someone's portrayal and how excited we both get while writing/talking about them!! Every single ship I have on this blog is my otp for that respective muse and usually my only ship too bc I grow to love it so much it completely overshadows any other romantic possibility for my muse.
𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐏 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐈𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆? — Pretty much anything that's not part of the disgusting de.ad dov.e/in.cest/pedo.philia/chea.ting category! I go equally as hard for vanilla ships that are the sweetest couple that has ever walked the Earth, and for batshit insane ships that would murder others and even each other out of love or possessiveness! Most of my muses are erm....... full of Issues so the chances are they'll be the perfect partner for their s/o but bring a whole bag of toxicity when it comes to others (<-particularly possessiveness; someone looks at their s/o and that person is GONE gone).
𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐄 𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐆𝐀𝐏 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐈𝐓 𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐅𝐘? — It depends on the muse! If the muse is a minor, then someone within a year or two of their age is the most I'd be willing to accept. But for adult muses I'm much more flexible, especially since I have a bunch of mortal/immortal ships going on! Typically I'm more of a fan of ships that are roughly the same age since they'd understand each other better thanks to no generational gaps, but again, this depends entirely on the muse and dynamic we're talking about, and I'm always down to try something else if the romantic interest is there between our muses!
𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆? — Definitely. Shipping with me means my muse will forever be tied to yours and I don't take that lightly at all! For us to ship we need to be friends, we need our portrayals to mesh well, we need our muses to fall in love organically instead of us discussing shipping from the get-go ooc, and I need the other mun to be fine with becoming singleship with me for that muse (<-aka only shipping that muse with me); all of which are pretty big steps to get through! But rest assured that if we do ship I'll always be thinking of our ship and my muse will never move on to someone else (<-guy whose muses regularly turned noship the second their partner left tumblr bc they were unable to feel interest for any other charas they interacted with henceforth). If we ship, your muse becomes part of my muse's canon; they'll be in hcs, threads, even ooc chatting with other people. They'll become a huge part of my portrayal, so I never hurry into it! I want to be sure that the other person won't take their muse off the roster or drop the ship in a few months' time while I'm still sat thinking about our ship 7 irl years from now.
𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐅𝐀𝐑 𝐃𝐎 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐘 𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐆𝐎 𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘'𝐑𝐄 𝐍𝐒𝐅𝐖? — More or less around the undressing part, but I'd already be tagging it as ns.fw as soon as I'd imagine the scene is too much for someone to see while randomly scrolling tumblr near irl people!
𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇? — Like I said above, I don't really have any ships outside of the ones I cook up with my ship partners! It's very rare for me to dwell on canon ships and I never ship my muse with more than a single portrayal so I never end up seeing them romantically inclined for anyone else other than their singleship partner. At best, I could maybe list two people overall for a few select muses, but more often than not that's already a stretch.
𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐀𝐒𝐊 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐘𝐎𝐔? — If our muses are just flirting with each other and there's no intention to get properly romantically involved with one another, then no. But if our muses are in love with each other after regularly writing together and you're willing to ship with me seriously (which, again, I know is a big decision to take bc I expect the both of us to be singleship for them!) then you can 100% ask me and chances are I'll say yes in a heartbeat! I myself don't usually ask people to ship bc I don't want to mess with their flow and potentially make them uncomfortable (<-especially if I know they're multiship and I'm unsure whether they'd be willing to become singleship with me) so unfortunately the other person will always have to be the one doing the asking, but rest assured I'm harmless so there's nothing to fear! ADHSAJDHSJ
𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐎𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐍 𝐃𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏? — I don't plan to ship (hence 50% of my muses being noship) so when I do ship it's because a dynamic I'm writing with someone has me and my muse #Obsessed. MEANING, I like to ship whenever chance wills it that my muse meets a chara they're really interested in and my + that mun's portrayals mesh well together! Whether that happens weekly or once in 5 irl years is not up to me though.
𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐌𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏? — No. ADHGADSAJDJH I might sound #quirky but I simply don't have the energy to keep several ships going considering how many muses I have. If I had 2+ ships per muse I would simply turn to dust on day two of writing them! That, and my muses tend to love so deeply when they fall in love that it's literally a mission impossible for them to even look at someone else after they've fallen in love with a chara. I used to try to be multiship a few years ago but frankly neither my nor my muse's soul was in the 2nd/3rd/etc ships bc my muse didn't feel it as much as they felt the 1st one, so I simply stopped forcing my muse & myself into writing ships just for the sake of shipping. This is why I'm not multiship and since I don't want to feel like ship fodder, this is also why I won't ship with multiship blogs. [Romance lead vc] If we ship you're the only one for me 🌹
𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐎𝐁𝐒𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 - 𝐎𝐑 - 𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒? — That depends on what we mean by this ADJSAHDSAGDJ if you mean wanting more ships, then usually nah. I'm good with my muses being noship and maybe occasionally flirting with people they come across with no intent of transforming that flirting into romance. Shipping is never a priority on this blog. But if we mean how I feel when I already have a ship going? Absolutely, downright obsessed with it. I'll be thinking of them while awake and while asleep and giggling about it like a highschooler in love all the while!!! No matter how much or little I post about my ships, trust me that they always are on my mind no matter what I'm doing or how much time has passed.
𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐈𝐍 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐌? — I feel like I'm repeating myself atp but back to #1 we go JADASDHGASDGHSAJ my favorite ship in every fandom is the one I'm actively shipping my muse with (<-also typically the only ship I have for that fandom). But outside of ships for my muses, I'm always the biggest fan of me x my favorite character <3
𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘, 𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐘𝐎𝐔? — Write with me! Chat with me! Come up with various intertwined plots/verses for our muses! The easiest way to get me and my muse interested is by sending me a bunch of things to reply to. Some might not spark inspo, but others might! That said, there's no 100%-going-to-work recipe I can give you for shipping with me. The main point that leads me down the shipping route is if my muse likes yours (<-which can only happen if we actively interact first) and is willing to let go of their ~lone wolf persona~ for your muse. Now what that entails depends on which muse we're talking about since the thing that would make one of them fall in love would disgust another. If you want to know a specific muse's romantic preferences, feel free to shoot me an ask or dm about it anytime!
Tagged by: @minban Red did you know I'm kissing you passionately right now.
Tagging: @achroanimus / @antinomos, @cauterisen, @effigist / @cinderlynx / @longerhuman, @diuvus, @inhaunts, @hunting-songs & whoever else sees this!
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Ngl, I really think that these bylers that are crying 24/7 about "purity culture" or whatever, are playing dumb when they start with their "but Nancy and Steve were 16 and 17 in that scene of s1!!!1" like... We got introduced to these characters at that age and the people playing them were already adults. So yeah, sorry but I think it's easy to see why most viewers would be uncomfortable with a more sexual scene of Mike and Will and it's not automatically homophobia, I think that would be the case with any of the kids since we got introduced to these characters when they were 12 and the actors were babies as well. We literally saw those kids grow. And I'm not saying byler should only get to peck or hold hands, It'd be cool if they have their epic kiss or whatever, but Will hasn't even had his first kiss yet and some of these people are already talking about sex scenes, like... Be for real 😭
funny you should say that...because i've used the nancy was 15-16 in season one argument (last tag) before while also saying that i understand why people find the sex part of their sexualities uncomfortable to discuss. and i wanna reiterate that, again, i totally understand that people feel like they've seen them grow up etc etc and that they still think of the actors themselves as children even thought they're not anymore.
i don't think it's all homophobia because like you said, people would probably feel the same about lucas and max and discussions of sex (i don't know if anyone is discussing that because there's much less discourse to have there and you can't argue that people are homophobic if they disagree with you) but i don't think it would be justified either. the "but we knew the characters when they were little" argument makes me think me of an ancient disney channel/abc show that old people and girl meets world fans who watched it for the first time in the 2010s will know, boy meets world (1993-2000). classic comic of age show, look at these kids. and eric in the back (he's fifteen).
they're eleven at the start of the show and then, what happens in any coming of age story happens, you guessed it...
they grow up. this is them in the later seasons, when the main characters are still in high school i think. they grow up, they talk about sex and about having sex at prom in season five and then they don't have sex right away because they figure it's not the right time yet or something like that, and then they have sex later and get married, the details don't matter. but my point is, who watches a show for five seasons, over years and years and gets upset at the main characters having sex because "this is crazy they used to be children"? isn't that the point of coming of age stories that cover multiple years or that focus on the latter years of adolescence, that they're not children forever and that at one point the characters "come of age" which usually includes their first sexual experiences?
i don't think the having sex part is particularly important in stranger things but also it doesn't have to be for it to be portrayed (see jonathan and nancy), teenagers have sex, it's just the way the world works. i'm not advocating for sex scenes of any kind especially because stranger things isn't a show that features a lot of sex in general, the only "explicit" sex scene being nancy and steve in season one with cuts to barb dying, but i genuinely don't think the duffers would have any qualms about portraying teenage sexuality in general with the party. if they did, they wouldn't have included erica threatening lucas to tell dustin what she found under his bed (it wasn't the communist manifesto) and they wouldn't have had max looking at a shirtless steve for an amount of time that's supposed to make the audience laugh. it's been 7 years. if they do a time jump, the babies will be about 17, played by actors who will all be around 20, the age natalia was when filming season one. the characters are teenagers, babies grow up. it happens to the best of us. i get why people would find it uncomfortable and maybe i would find it uncomfortable too but i wouldn't be scandalized. the duffers had no problem having a child actor portray everything will goes through in seasons one and especially two, i really feel like sex is fine and...not traumatizing or hard to watch compared to every single thing will's gone through lol. and again, i'm not even expecting them to have sex lmao, but i wouldn't cry myself to sleep if they revealed that everyone in the party actually knows what sex is.
last question: do we have any indication that jonathan had talked to more than one other girl (the girl at the halloween party being the one girl i'm counting for him) before he got together with nancy. i'm just asking because of your last sentence, because if we don't he should have slowed down also😭
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