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hey moon , hope you are doing good .
I had a question, do you have any plans of making a "my year in media :2024 wrap up " , the other one was very interesting and fun , I'm very tempted to check your notion but I'd rather hear you talk about it first .
No pressure tho I just thought I'd ask 🫶
Ps :I really enjoy your ytb videos , your analysis and your tweets .
hi moon, have you watched I Saw the TV Glow? i'm sorry if this is typecast or targeted like "hey queer person have you seen this queer film?" but regardless i value your opinions, and personally i thought the movie was remarkable and very important and would love to know if you have any thoughts o7
hello moon have you read the new ruiner chapter yet >m<
opinion on the British kpop boyband Dear Alice?
Skk wear matching earrings, chuuya wears only one in his ear and dazai wears both of them.
Chuuya looks like the type to un-ironically call women/his significant other "mamas" and i stand by that and love it.
Hi haha funny question...WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME DAZAI IS GENUINE TERRIFYING!? THE ANIME DID HIM NO JUSTICE...MANGA DAZAI WILL GIVE ME NIGHTMARES
Random but what if dazai had loving parents and just decided to join the pm cuz he was bored of life and Hella smart and one day his parents just pop up like "osamu...when are you gonna stop telling people we abandoned you..." and he's like "Ah...so you heard about that" and they're like eyes twitching and annoyed "yea...many times...in many magazines! Thanks BTW! Christmas dinner was awkward last couple of years" 😭😭😭
(Uodate on me watching case study on vanitas that you can ignore cuz you didn't ask for it but I neeeed to talk to someone about it) I love how vanitas seems like a well rounded person with set straight ideals and motives, he seems calm and collected to other, but there's these moments with noe where he genuinely loses his temper so fast because noe sees right into him and past all the rizz flaunting and grand standing, sometimes without really meaning too, and it P*SSES vanitas off. Like him yelling at noe(paraphrasing/off top head) that he is just a chess piece in vanitas grand scheme and he can discard him, in fact he never wants to see him again. And NOE BEING THE SOUND, AND PILLAR OF- I don't even know...he's what captain America wishes he was💀and being like...nah...Noe character in this whole thing really brings this entire anime together flawlessly I'm-
Does kouyou hate/dislike dazai is that a Canon thing? (Genuine question)
the way kouyou feels about dazai can be inferred from the way she treats chuuya with such easy familiarity vs dazai with her regular coolness. being so closely intertwined with the mafia, and the fact that her own escape was thwarted, we can also assume she dislikes dazai because he left practically unscathed (he did not leave unscathed, but i don't know if she knows about odasaku). so the whole 'she DESPISES HIMMM' thing is very much fanon, but not entirely baseless yk?
Say I wanted to make a tattoo using dazai book and kunikida book, but I also wanted to add a symbol or wording at the bottom...what would you suggest? Cuz I already have a skk one, but that was relatively easier since there is a million skk symbols and works you can add to inspired tattoos of theirs...I'm just having trouble with kunizai and ALSO yosano :(
some great symbols for kunikida could be his fountain pen, the gun he uses in dazais entrance exam, or maybe a blue ribbon (for the azure messenger!) and for yosano, there's her butterfly clip, one of her favourite ~medical instruments~ (a chainsaw comes to mind for me first lol) and the dog tag with 'you are too just' written on it!! that's just off the top of my head, but i hope it helps 🥺
SO, I've seen you post about vanitas case study and I wanted to watch it...um...when vanitas was whispering "I'll kill you" to Noe...it was practically manical...feral...rabid..um and I wasn't prepared and now I need to read the Manga. Cuz omfg
What are some of your favorite fantasy novels if you have any?
i do have a few!!
she who became the sun (shelley parker-chan): chinese historical fantasy; queer; 2 novels (the second is 'he who drowned the world'). literally life-changing; addictive writing style and characters you'll see the worst parts of yourself within <3
salt slow (julia armfield): short story horror/fantasy collection; magical realism; mysterious; lots of tension. i read this in a single sitting and would give anything to read it for the first time again!! once more, i'm obsessed with the writing style, it's very very addictive.
this one will ruffle some feathers, cause you either love it or hate it: the power (naomi alderman): fantasy/sci-fi; feminist; dark & fast-paced. approach this one with the knowledge that it's not meant to be an accurate depiction of what would happen if women were suddenly running the world instead of men; it's a depiction of what would happen if misandry was actually real :)
i have a bunch more fantasy recs for other media (mostly animanga lol who's surprised) but i hope this is a good start for you!!
Thoughts on Dazai and Ango? Friendship, hateship, anything.
they make my heart ache so bad, and if i'm being honest, there are no words that perfectly describe why. we have two near-preeminent characters who blame themselves and each other for the loss of one of the most important people in their lives. there's so much hatred there, but i'd argue a lot of it is projected onto the other person- they hate themselves for how things turned out with oda. oddly, they also trust each other in such a way that we don't really see in any other relationship. they make me sick your honour
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