I forgot I was reading Lackadaisy so I’m going to completely finish it bc I already watched the pilot
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We’re as smart as evolution made us. So we’re the minimum intelligence needed to ensure we can dominate our planets.
Project Hail Mary
—Andy Weir
1.28.2023
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Thinking about early relationship Soukoku again
About Dazai being reluctant to change anything about their dynamic. Everything in his life is so different to what it used to be, he's different. But him and Chuuya, their partnership? That's constant. He's afraid of it changing, afraid it will break somehow, that he'll mess things up and loose Chuuya for good.
So despite being a romantic at heart, he fights that change. He tries to keep things as much the same as they've always been before the relationship. He thinks it's the safest way to maintain it. Even after getting together, he still tries to hold some distance from Chuuya because he's afraid what will happen when he doesn't.
What he doesn't know is Chuuya secret craves the mundane coupley stuff that comes with relationships. His whole life has been one messed up event to the next. A relationship, going on dates, getting dumb matching sets, flowers, remembering anniversaries, that's a whole world of tenderness and care Chuuya's never had.
But he doesn't know how to go about it. Chuuya definitely doesn't know how to ask for it. So his attempts to engage in the romantic stuff are clumsy and forced.
Dazai seeing this, misunderstands, letting his own fears cloud his judgments. He thinks it's forced because its not something Chuuya wants, but that he feels he has to do. He sees this as their partnership changing, he thinks Chuuya is uncomfortable. (And Chuuya is, a little, from being out his comfort zone, but not in the way Dazai's thinking)
Its awkward and tensions keep building, because despite getting together, they are still terrible at just telling each other what they want.
Until it all implodes on them. They probably get into an argument over something really silly like matching mugs and half way through they realise how ridiculous they're being. Finally, they talk it out, which is still one hell of an embarrassing conversation, but they struggle through it. Because that's what you do when you're adults who care about each other, you talk.
And then, once Dazai has basically gotten permission to be the very embarrassing romantic he is, he doesn't hold back anymore. Something Chuuya almost definitely wasn't prepared for, but doesn't regret. (Even if he sometimes lies and says he does)
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"the second day of autumn," huh?
In episode 3, Mizu agrees to duel Taigen on the "second day of autumn" when it is currently winter in the story
So can we talk about how
the day Mizu met her husband was probably in the springtime
the day Mizu finally slept with her husband was during autumn
and so was the day they "dueled"
where it becomes clear that fighting isn't just what Mizu is good at - she associates fighting with pleasure. she LOVES it
at least, when she's fighting the right person
In the brothel, when current-day Mizu sees the threesome in the throes of pleasure, while Madame Kaji is opining on being honest about desires -
Mizu instantly thinks of THIS
THAT FRAMING SURE LOOKS FAMILIAR
now HEAR ME OUT
a lot of the Mizu+Taigen adventures happen in the snow/winter, but you know what happens in the spring?
YEAH
YEAH
spring is when their characters AND their relationship both turn a corner
so Mizu's life turns a corner and she meets her husband in the spring, duels him and sleeps with him in the fall - and is betrayed
Mizu's life turns a corner and she reconciles with Taigen in the spring.......... and has agreed to duel him in the fall
it would've taken a few months to sail from Japan to Europe. March plus 6 months is September. Taigen is absolutely gonna end up in London because he fucking wants that fucking duel
do you see what i'm. do you see what i am saying
do you understand that the cherry blossoms blooming in Edo bloom in late March
during the spring equinox
and the "second day of autumn" is the autumn equinox
DO YOU SEE
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