canonically he is doing So good. did you know? post-canon it becomes fashionable for mortal couples to tie red strings on their fingers because hualian have a red string of fate and they're worshipped together :)
though in the current fic im working on ive thrown him into the emotional meat grinder. so mixed reviews
i dont know how the board artist of this scene in sing 2 looked into my brain and visualized everything i wanted to see from paranatural chapter 9, but they did. they did it. and they did it in the way that made me feel weirdest because they did it with a gorilla who has gang history and wears a leather jacket. named johnny. this is the coolest most nervewracking scene ive watched in ages. oh my god
had another angel encounter at the weigels across my store otw out of work. She complimented my hair n we talked about anxiety and how i gotta be myself and shit
love having a dogshit memory. the insane detective work i just did to find someone's url so i cld check they didnt in fact change it w/o me noticing i have just discovered someone else with the same name + same niche interest
Firstly. Something isn't computing with me. The thing of Dazai already having a plan for a new shin soukoku when he obviously wasn't going to leave the mafia or break up with Chuuya. Whatever you might say about Dazai's predictive genius powers, I do not for a moment believe that he really needed Akutagawa for something other than an unlikely backup, or that he thought he was ever going to leave the mafia, or that he really thought Chuuya was die or leave either. You know. For a suicidal guy, lots of plans sure hinge upon him staying alive, so maybe his little messed up plans and manipulations and contingency plans are just ways to give himself excuses to live even as he tries to kill himself but what do I know?
The reason I think Fukuchi and Fyodor get along so well is that they both have this weird thing where they think they have the right and the destiny to carry out heaven's will upon the earth. Fyodor "I am only doing the will of god" Dostoyevsky and Fukuchi "I wield this sword and want recognition from heavens, who will not let me rest" Ouchi are both living cycles of self-delusion
In my (probably wrong) opinion, Akutagawa telling Atsushi that he had lung disease was probably the hint to tell Atsu that he could trust Aku. "See. I'm telling you something I've never told anyone before. I'm trusting you. So trust me, idiot" Except Atsushi heard Dazai and was like "oh yeah, Akutagawa's not gonna turn me in dead." Oh, well...at least it worked
Fukuchi is basically Yoo Joonghyuk from ORV if Yoo Joonghyuk did actually defeat the end of the world, but only after dying for it several times before winning. And then if he had to witness another end of the world and go through it several times before beating it.
That ending. I am dead and so is Akutagawa. Send help
i started listening to mabel and its really great so far, but it reminds me a loooot of alice isn't dead- have you listened to it? its themes are very different but the tone and writing feel like they might've been the core inspiration for those of mabel 👽
ooh, that's a super interesting connection!! it's been a while since i listened to alice isn't dead and i don't really remember much of it (i think i binged it during finals in college at one point, which is... generally not the ideal environment to actually retain podcast information lmao), but from what i do remember i think you're def right about the tone being similar! i think it's kinda unlikely that alice isn't dead was the core inspiration since alice isn't dead began airing in march 2016 and mabel started in september 2016, and that feels like a really short turnaround time to me for them to be directly linked in that way imo? but i do love drawing parallels between stuff & whenever i get around to relistening to alice i'm definitely gonna listen with mabel in mind!