#gide tag

[philzokman]

look i’m all for rare pairs right like fuck yeah do whatever u want but tell me why in the midst of this skk fic the author decides to ship fucking tachihara and GIDE ???? FUCKING GIDE ??????

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

Sorry, but the fact that there are people who say Oda and Dazai have a father-son relationship is so weird to me. Like--

“All I had to do was talk to him to buy some time until his arm got tired. If I slowly walked toward him, he wouldn’t be able to shoot straight away. The rest was in your hands, Odasaku. I knew you would do something. Pretty logical, right?”

“Yeah.”

That was all I said. I didn’t have anything else to add. Had our ranks or relations been any different, I probably would’ve punched him right then. However, I am me, and there was nothing I could do to him.

After Dazai pulled that stunt with the sniper for Mimic, Oda’s first instinct was to punch him for putting himself in danger so recklessly like that, and he only didn’t because Dazai is his superior (in rank) by far and they were in front of Dazai’s men. That is not the way you react when someone you see as your child - or someone you see as a child, in general - puts themself directly at the risk of getting shot. Oda seeing Dazai as anything less than his equal - and even his superior in many instances - is just. What. He constantly refers to Dazai as someone extraordinary, and himself as someone exceedingly plain. He does not see himself as the “adult” to Dazai’s “child” in any way whatsoever.

[lesbiankordian]

the reason (one of the reasons?) why Fukuchi does the things he does is the suffering his comrades had to endure during the war - similar to Gide's motives. moreover, Gide was looking for someone worthy of killing him, who'd understand him. it's kinda the opposite of how Fukuchi sees Fukuzawa now.

Fukuchi's sword allows him to "look" into the future. it's similar to what Gide and Oda's abilities do.

and of course there are also parallels between Fukuzawa and Oda that the untold origins is full of: working alone, killing people...

in season 5 ep 9 Fukuzawa says he sees the past, as opposed to Fukuchi, who, even if he sees the past, doesn't take it into consideration / cares more about the future. his words remind me of Ango and Oda's abilities

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[ratsbanes]

I KEEP FORGETTING MY BABIES BIRTHDAYS HOLD UP-

Uhhh, André Guide, Louisa Mat Alcott, Mark Twain, and Lucy Maud Montgomery, happy birthday! Oh, and your fanfiction counterparts too!

[sameteeth]

the gide/oda and fukuchi/fukuzawa storyline parallels are crazy. war vet convinced of his conviction drags morally upright (generous) guy to his level to achieve his goal, which was formed by the trauma of warfare on the human mind

[selfaware-bungou-stray-dogs]

Self-Aware! BSD x SAGAU Imposter AU Crossover ideas. The Government and Others Edition

Parts: [I] [II] [III] [IV] [V] [VI] [VII] [VIII]

⛩️ Santouka Taneda is staying in the real world, taking care of people of Teyvat, who helped you and who were transported into the real world.

Taneda will teach you how to play shogi and go.

💻 Ango Sakaguchi, with his ability, collect information, that will help BSD Cast to blackmail and expose Fake Creator and their followers.

Ango will find any app/computer program you want. Renews your film/anime collection daily.

🥷 Mizuki Tsujimura is on a spy duty. She will gather information about followers and festivals, Fake Creator will take part in.

Mizuki will watch spy films and paranormal documentaries with you. Will offer you to re-create some scenes from spy movies to make you laugh.

🕶️ Ayatsuji Yukito is helping Ranpo in setting up people, who wronged you. He's also using his ability to get rid of some of them.

Ayatsuji will let you touch and play with dolls from his collection. He and his cats will keep you company. You will spend evenings in his doll collection room. You and Ayatsuji will play mahjong, his cats will be curled on your lap. Both of you will drink coffee and in every given moment you can stand up and take any doll you want.

👻 Oguri Mushitarou is using his ability to destroy evidence of BSD Cast's crimes.

Oguri will tell you about occult practices. Will offer you to use some of them to make something nasty happen to people of Teyvat.

⌚ André Gide is helping Hunting Dogs in dealing with official organizations. If needed, he will attack patrols.

He is acting as your bodyguard. Will offer to read to you.

🐉🍎🍏 Tatsuhiko Shibusawa is using abilities from his collection to cause harm/apply damage to anything/anyone he can from Teyvat.

Shibusawa will bring ability crystals, that you might find useful, to you. Will let you do whatever you want with his hair.

🐈‍⬛ Natsume Soseki will join "The Steambird" to keep a track on Teyvat's news. He will spy on people in his cat form, to find dirt on any important figure he can find. Will publish found information in the newspaper.

He will read books to you. He will also become your moral support cat.

🤖 Adam Frankenstein is on a rescue mission to transport people, who helped you, from Teyvat to the real world. Working as a lie detector, if BSD Vast capture someone

Adam will talk to you about everything, starting from the animals and ending with space.

👧🏻 Aya Koda is staying with you and act as a moral support. If needed, she will act as a spy to gather information about Fake Creator.

🚸 Oda's kids are always trying to include you in their games. They will draw pictures for you. Sakura, Kousuke, Shinji, Yu and Katsumi, same as Aya, are ready to do some spying on Fake Creator, because, as kids, they have more chances to get close to them.

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Tag list: @withered-blossoms

[liemurienn]

9 people tag ★

tagged by mutual @a-luran :3 btw i’m sure the last film they watched is cool…. another movie added on my watchlist..

Last song : tender by stuck in the sound

Current obsession : is drawing masculine chests a sin ?

Last film : i rewatched ip man (the 2nd movie) just for those fight scenes and its wing chun propaganda

Currently reading : just finished reading the counterfeiters by a. gide

then there’s that spamano fanfic i paused reading ;-;

Currently watching : the new pope

tagging @doodlin-moons , @vimishu, @sorvete-de-pacoca, @artemiswolfheart, @ironic-orange, @wuhhluhhhwuhhh, @starsmadeinheaven, @cupcakes-and-british-tea, @jewelsmoment, @roszabell and anyone who would like to do it :3

[adlerboi]

Behind the OC Name

I was tagged by @iamcautiouslyoptimistic

Anja Petrochenka

Anja: The name is inspired by a character from a French book "Les faux monnayeurs" by André Gide. But also my character from the Polish resistance when I was doing re-enactment.

Mary Peterson

I was inspired by my first name to make her first name. It was basically my OC "Bell" but I decided to change it to give it another history

Elyana

It's a name I use for my fantasy games (like Aleyna). I find it beautiful and whimsical. I find this name sweet for a brave and fighting woman

I'm tagging : @pricescigar @eccentrcks @cloudofbutterflies92 @cyberghostdraws @alexxmason and Those who want to do it 😊

[jazzfic]

First lines.

Rules: List the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern! Thank you @thelaithlyworm for tagging me!

Emil once told her that mechanisms for coping came well camouflaged. (from and what if we’re really not okay, what if we still stay)

settlement wide priority transmission :: please broadcast to all affiliate systems and personal devices (from Party on the Cube! (Synths, Bring a Plate))

“Nope, not doing it.” (from Friend Corn Wants to Play)

“What’s the 20th?” (from Make it Shine)

She isn’t supposed to be here. (from say you got lost)

static. recording clicks. (from This is Our Get Along Glitch in the Holo-Matrix (Tee Shirt))

It was Raffi who made the decision. (from any little welcome)

He was doing it again. (from Never had a Crew)

From the notes of historian Camille Gide, for their biography of Jean-Luc Picard, covering the last decade of his life, index 114: ‘The inner circle, La Sirena’. (from another ocean in which to swim)

Three minutes after Seven departs for the Stargazer, Emmet materialises into the silence and shuffles to the operations chair. (from Twelve)

Pattern? I don't know them. One of these is a sound effect. A few words to open hiding the fact that therein many long, convoluted sentences flourish in the high grass? Ah, well.

[25melodies]

Rules && requesting:

What I can do: icons, reply icons, Tumblr headers, Tumblr layouts, moodboards, stimboards, mobile wallpapers (specify screen size or phone model), promos && chatter

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Sources:

Bold = favourite/prioritized

The Rising of the Shield Hero, Danganronpa (thh, sdr2 udg + v3), Master Detective Archives: Raincode, Project Sekai, Bungo Stray Dogs, Fairy Tail, Doki Doki Literature Club, Your Turn to Die, Pokemon, Cookie Run (Kingdom + Ovenbreak), Obey me!, Demon Slayer, Attack on Titan, Spy x Family, Yuri!!! On Ice, Sk8 the Infinity, Sasaki and Miyano, Fruits Basket, Death Note, Puella Madoka Magica (original anime only), Jujutsu Kaisen, Lilo & Stitch, more may be added.

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• Please credit me if you use any of my edits

• Be polite. A simple ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ goes a long way

• Be considerate. Remember that I have a life, do not rush me, will get to your request when I can

• No Chihiro Fujisaki discourse (I use he/him) (all hcs are valid here)

• No general discourse

• Only one request per ask, it makes things much easier

• Do not spam me with requests, I find it very overwhelming

• I only take requests for listed sources, so please don't request anything outside my sources

• Let me know if you don't want your request to have kin or f/o tags!! I will be glad to remove them

• Requests will be semi-selective, as I sometimes struggle to work on requests. I'll try to do as many as I can, but sometimes I may end up denying them. Sorry

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Blacklist:

General/aesthetics: pedophilic/abusive ships, incest, nsfw, glitchcore, scenecore, traumacore, weirdcore, grandmacore, clowncore

Characters: Haiji Towa, Hifumi Yamada, Myne/Malty Melromarc, Aultcray Melromarc XXII, Kyo Ethnina, Biscus T. Balmus, Idol Rabier, Naomi Tanazaki, Kajii Motojiro, Mori Ougai, Gide Andre, Adam/Ainosuke Shindo, Muzan Kibutsuji, Zenitsu Agatsuma, Mertle Edmonds

Ships: ougoku, sounia, togafuka, dazaku, Junko x Anyone

Character x opposite sex: Kiyotaka Ishimaru, L Lawliet, Light Yagami, Tenko Chabashira, Ibuki Mioda, Aoi Asahina, Toko Fukawa, Genocide Jill, Mahiru Koizumi, Hiyoko Saionji, Ymir, Historia Reiss, Misa Amane, Rem

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Whitelist:

Characters: Naofumi Iwatani, Raphtalia, Osamu Dazai, Doppo Kunikida, Sakunosuke Oda, Natsu Dragneel, Erza Scarlet, Mondo Owada, Kiyotaka Ishimaru, Peko Pekoyama, Maki Harukawa, Yuma Kokohead, Shinigami, Yakou Furio, Halara Nightmare, Vivia Twilight, Stitch, Leviathan, Lucifer, Kanade Yoisaki, Mizuki Akiyama, Hatsune Miku, Kyo Sohma, Sasaki Shuumei, Yuuri Katsuki, Victor Nikiforov, Rui Ayaki, Homura Akemi, Red Velvet Cookie, Cocoa Cookie, Sasha Braus, L Lawliet, Light Yagami, Alice Yabusame, Yuji Itadori

Ships: Raphumi, Odazai, Kunikidazai, Soukoku, Nalu, Dialuci, Kyoru, Ishimondo, Chishimondo, Chimondo, Pekobuki, Celespekomaki, Owaguji, Kaemondo, Lawlight, Madohomu, Mafukana, Mizuena, Renga, Victuuri, Sasamiya, Itajun

Aesthetics: Lovecore, Candycore, Cloudcore, Raincore, Coffeecore, Pastels

[antigonick]

Hey Pauline! So I went through all your Persephone recs list (all I could find at least) as well as your underworld tag (it's not a problem if I can admit it!), inclunding your play (loved it! you really got hold of plenty of some less obvious but equally important aspescts of the myth), and was wondering whether you could recommend some french variations? I already have my hands on Gide's libretto

Oh, thank you very much for your interest! I... actually don't have much, I'm way better at English-written literature, damn. I know Bonnefoy focuses on Cérès (Demeter) in Les Planches Courbes, and in exploring her point of view hints at Persephone's rapt; and I'm aware (but haven't read) of Perséphone 2014 by Gwenaëlle Aubry, which sounds quite neat? Yourcenar in Feux goes back to a few mythical figures and couples to explore them beautifully, so I would recommend it too if that's your jam more generally, but she does not include Hadès and Perséphone to it.

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

Was tagged by @oculus-de-malus !

Last song:

Currently reading: strait is the gate by andré gide, hit parade of tears by izumi suzuki, dance dance dance by haruki murakami

Currently watching: working through watching the wire for the first time! and intermittently also rewatching the sopranos bc i associate it with winter gloom for some reason (esp the later seasons)

Currently consuming: sipping a can of pepsi max bc i feel sick

Currently craving: a sense of comfort in the form of a hug or a shared laugh cus i feel v anxious and dissociated rn eeeee

Sorry i never know who to tag in these things anymore!!! Mutuals do this?? (idk)

[starxlya]

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[sagemoderocklee]

Blood on the Branches (1/?) Chapter One: Missing Word Count: 5,532 Fandom: Naruto Pairings: GaaLee, ShikaTema Characters: Gaara, Rock Lee, Haruno Sakura, Aburame Shino, Inuzuka Kiba, Yamanaka Ino, Hyuuga Hinata, OCs Warnings: TBA Event: @puregaalee's GaaLee Horror Fest 2022 + @mfbingo Prompts:

blood

haunted

possessed

"I do not love men. I love what devours them." ―Prometheus Illbound, Andre Gide

"I have meanness inside me, real as an organ." ―Dark Places, Gillian Flynn

"Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. so you keep your eyes closed at the end. you don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before it's oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. you just know it." ―The Ritual*, Adam Nevill

"Are you scared?" (Bingo prompt)

Summary:

When Shikamaru goes missing on an ill-fated expedition in the south of Wind, Gaara heads up a search party in order to find him. He gathers a team from Suna and calls for aid from Konoha. Not long before Gaara departs for the south, Rock Lee arrives with word from the Hokage: the Konoha team will meet them in the south with a team best suited to the forest, and Lee will be joining them... But Lee's presence is more of a distraction than a help, and Gaara can't afford to be distracted when his brother-in-law's life is on the line. Distraction on a normal mission would be folly, distraction when entering the Komodo Forest could lead to a fate worse than death. For deep in the forest, something dark lurks, something more deadly than sand or fists, something none of them are prepared to face.

A/N: Of note, this chapter does deal mildly with Temari experiencing pregnancy complications due to Shikamaru's disappearance.

Also, it should be noted that the chapter number is a number I picked at random and may change. Tags will be added once I've had the chance to really sit and plot!

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[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Year in Review! Thank you so much for a wonderful year!

Hey! So this was my first year with... any kind of social media actually. I finally plucked up the courage to make an account and post stuff instead of just looking at other people's stuff and wishing I was more involved haha... I'm really glad I did! You people are so nice and I've seen so many incredibly creative ideas - I can't wait to see more. :)

I have a few things ready to go for the new year and I'm excited to get back to answering asks again!

Tags (not surprising):

#bsd - 605 posts

#bsd dazai - 220 posts

#random - 208 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#fukuzawa wanting to ditch most everyone he meets and only begrudgingly taking in these kids but helping them find their footing and do good

My top posts... you know I never expected any analysis I did to get too much attention. The Dazai and Q chapter one (#2) was especially surprising to me... never expected that to blow up like it did.

Fjfnfjvns and my #1 post being my stupid joke post. Sounds about right hahaha!

#5

I've been thinking a lot about the one-dimensional kinda fandom interpretations of Dazai and Chuuya in particular - the overemphasis on Dazai's weird brand of mischief/manipulation and Chuuya's anger and tendency to lash out and how it's not like these traits are... wrong, per se - these are their surface level/immediately notable characteristics - it's just that it misses the nuance as to why these traits likely exist.

What these interpretations don't fully capture is their very similar cores deep down - two people plagued by feelings of alienation, human inadequacy and repeated loss. Despite starting from these very similar places, they both dealt with the issue in near opposite ways. Dazai numbed himself to pain (remember: he hates pain! I cannot emphasize this enough!) and rarely gets close to anyone for fear he will lose them - his loss led to apathy, a withdrawal from humanity, a fear that he will always be empty inside - his ability: No Longer Human. Chuuya, on the other hand, refuses to numb himself and instead feels every single emotion in full and values his bonds with others over anything. He wants to belong and makes efforts to be perceived as a part of his group. Underlying this, however, is a kind of tired grief paired with resilience - remember that his ability is Upon the Tainted Sorrow. Not anger, or rage.

Sorrow is what results from this kind of heavy identity crisis and loss - for both of them. Think of Odasaku's read on Dazai as someone who looked close to tears when "acting" in front of the sniper poised to shoot him, describing him to Gide as a too-smart child left in the dark, or the way Stormbringer constantly reminds us that Chuuya is 16 and the desperation he feels in the scene where he holds his own dying clone, unable to help him.

Both characters carry a melancholy, resulting from their respective issues with their own humanity - I know I'm not the first one to comment on how their abilities could just as easily be referring to each other as well as themselves. This reads as very intentional to me - much like Atsushi's story begins as a clear parallel to the short story Rashoumon and Akutagawa sometimes being referred to in more beast-like terms than man, it makes sense that Dazai and Chuuya would reference each other in a similar vein.

And if that was the end of it, then we would expect that deep sorrow to shine through in both characters, but it rarely does except in pivotal moments. That's because the both of them have had to constantly deal with external threats - they believe they cannot afford to show vulnerability.

So, what you get instead is Dazai taking a kind of twisted ownership over his inhumanity and using it to make people afraid of him and to control everything so that he is never blindsided and hurt again, in the process, further alienating himself and making his issues worse. He inflicts fear so he doesn't have to be afraid. He can relax and be as silly as he wants - so long as everything around him is completely according to his predictions. There's a bonus to his foolish demeanour as well: hardly anyone can read him well enough to get close.

Then you get Chuuya, who feels so strongly and so much that it has no choice but to boil over, and due to never being able to or feeling comfortable with being anything but "the strongest", he hides moments when he is touched, or worried, or grieving, with anger and violence and defensiveness. As such, he is always seen as more weapon than person, a cut above the rest, forever standing out to others no matter how much he tries to integrate. The closest he came to true belonging was wrenched away from him before he could have a chance to know what that would actually feel like with the death of the Flags.

These surface traits are defense mechanisms. And the amusing thing to me is that likely means these two would love if that's all most people ever saw of them. (Of course, they clearly do want to be seen and accepted, but defense mechanisms become automatic over time because they often feel much safer. Likely another reason they clash so much - they see each other, and it is deeply uncomfortable for them both.)

So, you have Dazai defending himself with his two-faced nature, making jokes and/or manipulating everyone in the vicinity, and Chuuya defending himself with intimidation and anger, never letting any vulnerability show through because anger is easier but at the core of all of this is that loss and that grief and the sorrow and fear that pervades from it.

885 notes - Posted October 30, 2022

#4

Dazai and Chuuya are two people who don't need to talk to each other to communicate but who also really should

1,372 notes - Posted October 30, 2022

#3

Not to skk post on main but that scene from Dead Apple made me insane for I think a slightly different reason than most...

Ok so. Gonna be honest. When I first watched this, the ah... positioning... did not occur to me at all, other than thinking "that looks really uncomfy :/".

I was too focused on what Dazai's hand does here. He first pushes him. Ok so he was trying to stop him from getting up and losing contact due to the fog. Cool. That serves a practical purpose.

But then Chuuya falls unconscious and Dazai's hand loses that contact for a second before he lowers it back down to rest on his head.

The thing is, there's no need for him to do that. Chuuya is already in contact with Dazai's legs and his ability works through clothes. Moreover, it wasn't just a continuation of pushing him down - there's a slight delay before he sets his hand back on his head.

He sets his hand there just because. And, due to the delay/hesitation, it appears to be a conscious choice to do so as well. Chuuya's out. There's no one around to act for.

I watched that and went holy shit that's genuine, isn't it? It's such a simple gesture of fondness, maybe even a bit of protectiveness, but it means a lot from someone as emotionally closed off as Dazai.

It's... weirdly sweet. He appears to have done it after Chuuya lost all his friends (again...) during DHC in the manga adaptation too, which is... :(

And now, with seeing Dazai immediately start playing with Chuuya's hair in the latest Fifteen adaptation, it also doubles as really funny to me. He saw a chance to touch his hair again and took it. What is wrong with this man.

1,565 notes - Posted December 12, 2022

#2

Genuinely don't think I've seen anyone talk about chapter 25 as a pivotal moment for Dazai so I'm gonna put this out here because I think his reactions here kind of negate that whole omnipotent Dazai interpretation which I hate with every fibre of my being.

Firstly, he's like, clearly caught off guard here. And don't try to tell me he wasn't, because this is just one instance of his genuinely horrified reaction to Q's release and when he realized what was actually going on with Atsushi, Naomi and Haruno.

Him being caught off guard carries significance here because you'd never catch him screwing up this bad later in the series - which is exactly my point.

I wrote a post earlier about how I don't think Dazai really is very much like Mori or Fyodor at all, and I stand by that, because their motives are different. Tldr for that post: Mori and Fyodor are ambitious and proactive, while Dazai is empty/numb and reactive.

What this leads me to believe is that Dazai is less a chess master like those two and more of a contingency planner - he's so good at "predicting" because he is uncannily good at thinking like his opponent and then planning for literally any possibility under the sun he can come up with. He's no gambler. Everything and everyone is practically (and unknowingly) micromanaged. It's almost paranoid in a sense, and I definitely think it's a trauma response to something he went through that we don't know about yet - after all, he was more than capable of this before he even met Mori.

...which brings to me to Mori's influence here. It's straight up like Dazai forgot how willing Mori is to gamble huge risks for a good outcome. It's like he forgot the mafia could be a real threat to his best-laid plans.

Going to throw out a wild claim here that I don't think is actually all that baseless - I think it's widely assumed that Dazai molds himself to what he needs to be (true!) but I think this misses the idea that he is also easily influenced by the mindsets of the people around him (see: the difference between Entrance Exam Dazai and early manga Dazai, the whole "the longer he was in the mafia the darker and more incomprehensible he became" thing from Stormbringer, how dark his eyes get in the prison sections with Fyodor, etc.). I could go on, but for the sake of not making this post too much longer, let's assume this is true because it suddenly makes sense as to why he failed to predict Q but predicted other events much later that were inherently more difficult to predict:

He was in the wrong mindset. He was thinking like an Agency member, and dare I say, he even got a little complacent. He started to get used to not having to manipulate every last variable - he was removed from a toxic environment - only for Mori to pretty much instantly fuck that up in one scene.

Let's also not forget what happened the last time he miscalculated Mori's intentions.

The consequences of this blunder could've been a lot worse and he knows it.

In his mind, thinking like an ADA member wasn't good enough to stop a potentially awful outcome - awful outcomes that could bring him pain. So, he goes back to what he knows - think like the demon prodigy. Think like Mori. Later on, think like Dostoyevsky. Because it seems to me that he believes as long as he is still working for the light that it doesn't matter if he uses these horrifically manipulative and inhumane methods of getting there. But he is wrong. Darkness within the context of good intentions is still very much darkness, and it hurts people all the same.

In the very next chapter, Dazai arranges Ango's car accident. And he only gets worse and worse throughout the series as he regresses back into his paranoid darkness that manifests as this omnipotent facade - his safety net that ultimately prevents him from developing in a positive, more human direction.

1,999 notes - Posted October 6, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

live mafia reaction

2,124 notes - Posted November 26, 2022

Cheers, and have a happy new year! I hope you can find something to be proud of, even if that was just making it through another year. See you in 2023!