#expect more bsd…

[6goist]

supa lazy drabble w/dazai. cw mild ooc (ㅅꈍᴗꈍ)ᰔ

DAZAI softly whines your name with pleaded eyes “my sweet dear, ‘m soooo cold” a lie, of course, with that tone. he stuffs his face on your neck, feeling the soft fabric of your velvet-colored sweater at his chin.

he already feels the warmth radiating from you and his racing heart. he earns a breathy chuckle, catering his words—you grab the thick, fluffy blanket on the left edge of the bed with your feet, diagonally your leg up before grabbing it with your hands and drift it to cover the both of you “that better ‘samu?” humming, he snuggles impossibly closer to you.

your smile widens. your fingers wander his brown, messy hair in a waving motion, massaging his scalp in a snail pace. you can smell the fresh vanilla shampoo he uses, only faintly. a smell that feels so home to you.

dazai has a tight feeling in his chest, a delicate, gentle feeling he thought he could never experience truly; love. the saki feeling that he could just indulge in this, live like this, with you.

[yomeiu]

いまに、ここから出ても、自分はやっぱり狂人、 いや、癈人という刻印を額に打たれる事でしょう。

Inspo: Neil krug baptism by fire

[freyadragonlord]

Some people seem surprised that Chuuya managed to fool Fyodor about being a vampire for less than 30 minutes, but you gotta remember that when he and Dazai first met, Chuuya succesfully hid that he was Arahabaki for two or three days, all while Dazai was specifically investigating Arahabaki.

Chuuya has always been an extremely good liar, and he is kryptonite to people like Fyodor or Dazai (or at least Fifteen's Dazai, he learned from that experience) because he looks brash and impulsive and ""simple"", but actually Chuuya has been lying about who he is for most of his life, and nobody knows how to be a mindless monster better than him.

[kunikiiida-kuuun]

My heart wished to stay here, because it gave me a reason to live ♡

Fukuzawa + The Founding Trio

[benetnvsch]

KNKDZ- Nasty Dog

Finally done after weeks yippppeee !! First thing like this ive ever done- Credit to Rakkutron on TikTok for the original

[gratielalovebot]

poor sigma

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Dazai Osamu and the Dark Era: the visual novel (a fan project)

On a whim, I've decided to finally just publicly release this project that I've had laying around for two years at this point, for Dazai's birthday today. It was originally made for my very dear friend @letmereachforthestars , when I first introduced her to the series and wanted her to be able to read my favorite BSD light novel in an easier-to-read format. You need a computer to be able to play. The details and links are under the cut:

If you've never played a visual novel before, it's basically a novel in the form of a video game. Text will appear line by line, one a time on the screen, and it will be accompanied by relevant background visuals, music, and sound effects, to make the reading experience more immersive, and more stimulating than just reading from a book. Some visual novels have actual gameplay elements to them, and some are just books and nothing else (oftentimes dating sims/choose-your-own-adventure novels), the latter of which this is. If you've played the mobile game Bungou Tales/Mayoi, the story sections of that game are basically mini visual novels.

This game was made with screenshots and music from the anime, sound effects from the anime and Bungou Tales and free sound effect online sources, as well as graphics and fonts and other assets from Bungou Tales and other official BSD art (particularly the official anime soundtrack cd covers). The script is taken entirely from the official Yen Press translation of Dark Era, with the exception of about two or three iconic lines that I used different translations of because I felt like they had more impact. Additionally, at the very, very end, I added on the original ending scene from the Dark Era stage play and wrote a few fanfic lines of my own to accompany it you can tell because they are very cringe and don't match Asagiri's writing style.

Before playing the game, there are a few very important things to keep in mind; PLEASE read all this:

I am not a professional in the slightest. I took some coding classes in high school, and have some photoshop skills (when it comes to the design elements of the menus), but for the most part the former wasn't much help here; this was my very first time ever using the Renpy engine, and I made this entirely from scratch. I used my knowledge of playing other visual novels to emulate the kinds of effects and timing that is typical for these games, and I think it turned out pretty well all things considered, but it's still very amateur. This is most evident in the sound effects. The sound effects have no volume consistency between them, and some of them, particularly the gun/battle sfx, can come on very suddenly and be loud. I highly, HIGHLY encourage going into the settings and turning down the sound effects volume (the music should be fine), so that you're not startled by certain sounds when they happen, and for a lengthy time. I wouldn't blame you if you decide to turn the sfx off entirely if's too distracting, honestly 🫠 I am no expert in sound files equalizing and making sound files loop seamlessly, so this was by far the most tedious and frustrating part of the process of making this for me. Hopefully it doesn't ruin the game or break immersion too much if you decide to leave them on (I hope you do, for the rain and clock sounds at least, but again I wouldn't blame you if you can't).

Dark Era is the most faithful light novel adaptation in the anime, but there are still a handful of scenes, mostly fight scenes, that got shaved down significantly. Because of this, there are numerous occasions where I had to simply linger on a black screen or the same screenshot for a long period of time, while tons and tons of narration happens, because there's simply nothing I can show to accompany said narration. This is not ideal, but unfortunately I didn't have much else of a choice in those instances, so I hope it's not too distracting. There are also a few instances of straight-up inconsistencies between the novel and the anime (ex. the fight between Oda and Akutagawa happens in the woods in the novel, but in the anime it's still right outside the art museum), so sometimes what you're reading won't quite match the screenshots I use. Fortunately it's never anything major, but it does happen.

There will sometimes be long, unchanging black screens. Don't worry, the game isn't broken; just wait long enough and it will continue.

Sometimes, a character will get cut off when speaking, and when that happens the dialogue will auto-force to the next line. If you didn't get a chance to see what was said before, check the text backlog/history (in the menu or the H key).

Last but not least, this game was made with the default text speed in mind. Meaning, that when it comes to certain specific scenes, the mood/tone of them, made up of the timing of music, transitions, sound effects, etc, all of it was arranged around the speed at which things progress when using the default text speed. I completely understand if you can't, but if at all possible, please try not to change the text to go too much faster or slower, especially faster, because certain scenes will lose a lot of impact otherwise. If you already know Dark Era, you probably have an idea of some of the scenes I'm referring to. At the very least, during the more high-stakes/intense scenes, please try to play through those all at once without stopping, for the greatest impact based on how I designed the game, and only pause/quit during the slower scenes. There are specific moments that I'm really proud of how they came out, and I'd like for them to have the maximum impact that I intended :') (also note that if you make the text appear instantly, the cut-off dialogue mentioned above simply will not appear at all, and you won't even know to look back for them, so please refrain from making the text instant at the very least)

Ignore the cringe sappy final message

...I think that's everything. With all that out of the way, here are the links for both PC and Mac:

Download the PC version

Download the Mac version

This was a passion project for me for a good many months back in 2022. It started out just as a gift for my friend, but in the end I was really satisfied with how it turned out, despite how tedious and frustrating it was to work on. I've been hesitant to share it with the fandom for all this time because I kinda doubt anyone would really be interested in something like this especially since it's not stormbringer or beast, but someone on discord who tried it told me that I should share it, so here it is. I'm sharing it not just because I'm proud of my work, but because Dark Era is a truly amazing light novel — underrated, in my opinion (yes, I said what I said) — and far better than the anime adaptation, as good as that is, and I want more people to read it. If reading the books is hard for you and you've never read Dark Era before, if I can help just one more person to read it with this, I'll be happy, and consider my job done. 💖

I so desperately want to make more of these visual novels for the other light novels, but sadly, some of them simply aren't possible thanks to how many scenes are missing from the anime, like with Entrance Exam in particular. I've also been waiting with vain, thin hope that Bungou Tales will eventually reach seasons 3 and 4, so I can use their Fifteen and Untold Origins title screens like I did here, if those ever exist. However, I'm also held back thinking about certain scenes that would require some redrawing/drawing additional details to match what's written in the novels. If anyone has any ideas on things I could do to possibly get around these issues, or just thoughts in general about how the other light novels might be tackled, or if you're an artist who can recreate the anime's style and takes commissions/knows someone who does, I'd absolutely love to hear from you! As well as any advice/help on how I can smooth out/improve this project here!

Anyway, sorry for the long wall of text. Thank you for reading all this, if you did, and if you do try the game, please let me know your thoughts; I crave any and all feedback. 💙✨

[raiain]

embracing (keep your enemies close)

[miammey]

Happy Birthday Tachihara!!!

[whathorselegs]

Haven't slept 3am theories here, just go with me.

Spoiler warning for everything past the anime.

Mmmmmmmmmmmwhat if Fyodor's plan was never to rid the world of ability users? What if the dimension inside Amenogozen was meant to be a space to keep ability users safe whilst he uses the One Order to rid the world of non-ability users.

If Shibusawa was his first attempt at this, then the mist separating ability users and non-ability users was his first attempt at a pocket-space that would be able to hold all the ability users.

At the airport he said Dazai was unfit for his companionship, therefor Atsushi is the only option left, because they both have abilities that can cancel out the divine being's power and bring back the ability users.

They're also possibly both the only ones capable of killing Fyodor and not activating his ability. Which given the fact the divine being is attached to Fyodor by the holy sword's seal, Fyodor's death might be necessary to stopping the divine being and releasing the ability users.

It could also explain why Fyodor is lying about his plan, because he would need Atsushi/Dazai to hate him enough to want to kill him. He alone takes on the sin for destroying the old world, so the ability users aren't guilty going into the new one. He brings about this new world and then dies as penance for the hurt he caused to make it. (just like Beastzai)

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Jesus cries as he takes on the punishment for the world's sins. Just as Fyodor believes he is doing.

He called Atsushi the "bookmark". Bookmarks are meant for keeping the page, for knowing where you paused a story and where to pick up from. To jump in and out of the world of a book.

Atsushi's hallucination of Dazai said a regular person would wander and get lost forever in the realm of Amenogozen.

Atsushi is the guide to the book.

The book is the world.

He's meant to guide the ability users back to the world after it's all over.

[anticidic]

Getting violently ill thinking about BEAST and Chuuya attending Dazai's funeral.

He's already had to attend The Flags' funerals, but at least he was still surrounded by others in the mafia he knew and could find comfort in. But now it's just looking at the portrait of a man who couldn't manage a smile as the photo was taken and whose coffin is sealed shut to keep prying eyes from seeing the aftermath of what he did to himself.

Chuuya looks around, but there's no Mori, no Kouyou. There's a few familiar faces in the crowd of agents also mourning over the sudden loss of their exboss, but he feels more alone than usual. There's no possible chance of having that kinship with anyone anymore, not when all of Dazai's expectations are suddenly upon his own shoulders and everyone's now looking to Chuuya.

Now I'm also thinking about Dazai's ashes being given to Chuuya and how he doesn't know what to do with them because they haunt him, are full of bad memories and regrets. The only logical answer is to destroy them along with himself.

[headslikekites]

Awh, hope you can rest well soon,,, And for the drawing idea uhh, maybe moth sigma? :3 there’s no particular reason for this, I just think it’d be prettym

Anyways have a nice day and make sure to take care of urself, or at least try to ! And once again hope you’ll be able to get good rest soon ! ^^ I love your art lots btw !!

thank youu !! it's been tough but I think I'm getting there ^_^

sigmoth....

[unicornpopcorn14]

Kunikida genuinely snapping at Dazai makes for an interesting scenario...

It isn't a 'haha Kunikida is strangling Dazai for not pulling his weight' moment, but one filled with yells, flailing hands, rage and spilled tears because he's overworked and stressed and Dazai isn't helping and he's just so, so tired.

It could be due to him having no proper sleep all week. It could be due to a failed mission and only him getting reprimanded by Fukuzawa. It could be due to Dazai pushing his buttons too far. It could be the frustration piling up to the brim and finally spilling out.

But all the same, Dazai thinks that it's their typical ritual of Kunikida getting angry at him at first, so he pushes further, until the yells get hearty, the words get harsh, the tears spill, and Dazai just stares, stupified. He isn't sure what to say or do, blanking because things are currently out of his depth. Can't even say a word when Kunikida storms and leaves...

Later, when things settle after Kunikida receives the space he needs, Dazai would try to go and apologize, to own up to his mistakes in the ways he knows how, which isn't to say are right or great ways, but close enough...

Of course, Kunikida doesn't expect Dazai to magically switch from slacker to hard worker just because of this single instance, but he conveys his appreciation for Dazai's apologies anyway, saying sorry himself for the unwarranted yelling and harsh words. They make it work.

And they spring right back the day after...

[kunikiiida-kuuun]

Me anytime Asagiri talks about Kunikida and Dazai

[batartshikns]

sigh. redrew thy trans chuuya practcing unsafe binding(which was heavily inspired by @/carrotkicks). reminder kids, NEVER do this. And never wear your binder for more than 8 hours!

(uncensored ver. under cut)

[hackedxy0x]

We don't talk enough about the fic trope where soukoku ends up being in an ambiguously labeled relationship by the end of the story.

Like, yes, they are boyfriends, but they're also the kind of mess the words just can't decribe.

"Hello, this is my ex-partner who I occasionally treat as a current partner, but I hate him with a burning passion. I also want to kill him and/or make his existence as difficult as possible. But he's also the only person who truly understands me and makes me feel human. Would save his life without hesitation. Also, I may or may not want to kiss his face and have him belong to me alone. But that's kinda cringe, so..."

Like how do you label this?!