wahh anon i'm so sorry for the slow response, i've been not feeling well for the last week ;_;

ANYWHO yeah i did quit english to pursue biology! my situation was a little bit complicated, i dropped out of college because i couldn't afford to stay in school (very long story skdjfhg) and worked for 3 years in retail then kind of stumbled into biology (i thought i wanted to be a physical therapist, then fell in love with evolutionary biology instead, although for my graduate work i am doing neither of those things lol i'm doing neuroendocrinology/neurogenomics). i totally get how you feel, when i went back i had to take placement tests to get back into classes and it was a very humbling experience, i had to retake a lottt of math in particular ;_; i'm not sure how much help i can be, but i think if you want to pursue it then don't give up!!! i don't know how old you are, but i was definitely older than the average student when i finally finished my degree (the time between the year i dropped out of college attempt 1 and the year i finished my undergraduate degree was 9 years). it really took me a long time and a lot of grinding but i think if you want it, then it is worth pursuing!!

twitter is a mess so i may not respond fast BUT my dm's are open (or should be open!!) if you ever want to talk about it!

i think this is an interesting headcanon! i wish we had seen kouyou and dazai interact while dazai was in the mafia, i'm curious what their relationship was like.

YEAH i never really see anyone talk about this bc i think it's too adjacent to ship discourse (barf) i think, but i definitely agree that atsushi being an "older man" (this feels like a silly term to use to describe atsushi given that he was a freshly minted barely adult but idk what else to use lol) was something kouyou was very aware of and i definitely think it played a role in her rage in that initial attempt to bring kyouka back especially. i think the situation would have been a little different if she had been saved/invited into the agency by like. yosano or naomi, although i think she probably still would have tried. definitely a lot to unpack wrt atsushi and kyouka that i think the fandom is just too insufferable to handle in good faith lmao.

these are very good big brain thoughts!! i love this contrast to nikolai/his speech about the caged bird, i hadn’t thought of her in that context but she really is a caged bird. it’s even how we’re introduced to her, the way she spends half of the guild arc in captivity looking pretty. sometimes i wish we got to see her with a bit more power in the manga. i know she’s an executive but when do we ever see her REALLY use it? she’s arguably been there longer than the other executives (idk about ace, but definitely chuuya, verlaine, and dazai) and yet she is not the designated interim boss when mori is out of commission. not saying kouyou has NO power, and i’m sure she does important things off screen, but even that to me is on-theme with “luxury items that don’t belong to the wearer”. she has so much power/status, and yet simultaneously very little power. a very interesting paradox.

RIGHT thank you so much for sending this bc i think about it SO OFTEN. what are tanizaki’s secrets … i love how the beginning of ln3 has him acting all “i’m just a littol guy, untalented, a regular little normie even” but the minute you threaten naomi even black lizard is like “oh this man is TERRIFYING”. i really want to know how fukuzawa found him. especially after getting that backstory chapter for kenji, i really want something similar for tanizaki. the way he’s based on the author i see most often at the top of peoples’ “greatest japanese literary masters of all time” lists and yet we know so little about him … asagiri what are your plans 👀👀👀👀

i really don’t think saying “pls do not give me prompts for this ship bc i don’t enjoy writing them” is me being nasty? like. i have mutuals and even good friends who ship them. i don’t care that other people like them. they’re all having fun and i’m happy they’re having fun, it doesn’t get any deeper than that. i just don’t ship them personally. i really do not get why people always get so MAD at me for this. every time i ask for prompts and (politely imo!!) request to not get ones for that ship, people get hopping mad like i insulted their grandma or something. like why are YOU getting so nasty about me not liking your favorite ship? why do you CARE about what EYE ship so bad?

(i'm SOOO sorry i am so slow to respond to this one, my life has been very chaotic lately) fukuzawa side hustle as a matchmaker unlocked 😩 to be honest i think he would have given anyone who walked in that door for a job to kunikida, but especially someone like dazai who fukuzawa initially did not totally trust. i have a lawwwt of feelings about fukuzawa & kunikida and even tho i would not have been mad about fukuzawa dying in this arc bc i think the character development for the remaining ada would be so good, i am hoping that his survival means we will get more fukuzawa and kunikida content bc i wants it!!! SORRY THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU ASKED this is just getting me in my fukuzawa & kunikida feels 😩😩😩😩😩

hello yes!! my partner got it for me for chrimbus, i started playing a few weeks ago. i'm really enjoying it! my main party has been karlach, shadowheart, and astarion, i like them all a lot!

i think in terms of like. general character vibes? my favorite is karlach, she's so funny and every time she does her lil idle jig it makes me laugh. her story is interesting too so far although i think i still maybe have a lot of story left of it? i just got to the point where she can touch people now, idk how much is left. in terms of storyline i think my favorite right now might be shadowheart. i'm about to finish gauntlet of shar and i'm very eager to free her from her evil shadow cult (although i had to stop bc i realized if you get too far without going to that creche quest for lae'zel then lae'zel gets mad and LEAVES??? DFKJG so i'm doing lae'zel's stuff right now) 🥰 astarion is also fun, his VA really did put his whole pussy into that performance and his story seems very interesting so far although i haven't unlocked a lot of it bc i decided to go all in on romancing shadowheart so all i know is that he's a vampire, a sassy bitch, and has an evil tramp stamp hbbdfhbhbh i hear there's fun stuff in act 3 (trying to avoid spoilers tho).

i hope you write it!! i think there is not enough tsujimura fan art/fic in this fandom ;_; i've done my best to contribute to tsujimura nation but it's hard out there for a gaiden enjoyer. i do super agree that he really seems to have like. an interesting "soft" spot for her despite putting up a cold/harsh exterior? i think post-dark era ango really took dazai's "everything i want i lose" mini speech to heart, and i think he's actually been WORSE about avoiding close relationships with the people around him than dazai. like dazai keeps his distance from his peers too but i also think dazai is a natural extrovert (the fandom tends to disagree with me on this kjfgskjdf but idk i think dazai very clearly desires to be around people but punishes himself by avoiding them. born 2 extrovert forced 2 introvert etc etc) whereas i do think ango is more of a natural introvert already, so like between that and his enormous guilt over what happened in dark era, he's so so reticent to even appear approachable to his colleagues and subordinates i think. which just makes a potential relationship between ango and tsujimura even more spicy to me. tsujimura also has so much baggage and i think ango would be a really interesting person to help her unpack this too? especially with the way his ability works and whatnot. they're an interesting pair!

i wonder about this sooo much. i honestly really like the "dazai was the former mafia boss's son" theory. i don't think it's gonna ever be canon bc i think if it were it probably would have been revealed in 15 in that opening scene where mori and dazai are talking about why dazai isn't dead yet (honestly i wouldn't be surprised if asagiri never gives us dazai's full pre-mafia backstory, it feels like a donut hole we are meant to fill on our own) but mafia heir dazai is a juicy concept to me. idk i think that mori's explanation of choosing dazai to witness the boss's death because he would be easy to get rid of (due to dazai already being suicidal) is kind of weak to me. like it never really made sense to me that the entire mafia believed this random kid in mori's clinic. why was dazai allowed in the room in the first place? maybe mori just had that kind of power already that he could drag some random 14-yo into the mafia boss's bedroom on the pretense of him being a suicide risk, but also idk it's all mad fishy to me. it does make "dazai's blood runs mafia black/dazai was born to be a mafia" a little more literal which some might find cliche but i think is a fun concept. dazai working against his nature AND his bloodline to be on the side of good, etc etc. it would also explain his loneliness and his weird fascination with death, if he had grown up around all that carnage, especially as the previous boss was starting to go mad. like maybe he was meant to be the previous boss's heir. or maybe he was an illegitimate child. it's so hard to tell, but i feel like dazai doesn't give off "grew up in the streets" to me energy, even if the sheep tried to recruit him (allegedly, assuming dazai wasn't lying lol).

but honestly idk. in no longer human, oba grows up very lonely and also is sexual abused, it's possible that this is dazai's trauma too :( i've seen a lot of fic explore headcanons of dazai and sexual abuse under mori but not a lot exploring the possibility of dazai experiencing this prior to mori (or maybe they exist and are just for ships i don't read fic for lol, very possible ksjdhfg). i think the most plausible answers for why dazai is the way he is is probably in no longer human. which i am due for a reread on, but maybe not in the middle of winter ldkjfhg

ohhh that's a really interesting theory!! i'm so curious about the tanizakis' backstory, like junichirou being based on SUCH a famous author and yet kind of being sidelined most of the time is so fascinating to me. like every time i see someone make a "top japanese authors" i always see tanizaki at the top of the list, and yet in the ada he's like. this unassuming guy. can't tell if this is asagiri saying he's overrated (lol) or if he has big plans for him that we just haven't gotten to yet. bc also lowkey he IS the most insane in the ada lskdjfgh i think a lot about how asagiri said in that bsd exhibition that popopretty translated about how tanizaki is closest to "evil". i think government experimentation is super plausible in this universe!!! his ability is so powerful i have a hard time believing he was never on anyone's radar as much as he tries to self-describe as just a little guy with no skills or talents.

also SUPER AGREE about naomi being smarter than she looks, i feel like she is really smart and capable actually. like i just really wanna know what their DEAL IS. government experimentation would be really fun. in a situation where the tanizakis escaped some sort of experimental group i could see naomi being the one actively plotting their escape while junichirou carries it out with his powerful ability. it would be a fun reveal!!

tbf i think a couple of the asks i've gotten are from another anon. like this one i got yesterday where op ... went on a really bizarre tangent about how they write rape fic? the whole ask was pretty incoherent hjfhgf this is what i mean when i say the people who keep treating my inbox like a degen confessional needs to be studied). but yeah i'm getting at least one from what certainly READS like the same anon like ever other day lkjkhjf. like 4 asks? 5? including the most recent from this morning where they slapped in a really lazy "no u" at my tweet last night about being pressed. this is the kind of stunning intellect i am dealing with lmao. like the degree of obsession this person has over a week-old tweet that the rest of us have already moved on from is so baffling that i can only conclude that either they are deeply unwell, or they are a friend/mutual of the person who tweeted the thing i screenshotted. or maybe they're op of that tweet themselves, idk. i hope anon gets help though (or a job!), stalking the twitter page AND retrospring of an account you hate that much can't be a healthy way to start the new year

i'm so sorry i am responding to this so late, i haven't really talked about this on main but my grandfather died i think around the same time i got this message and i didn't have the energy to give it the lengthy response i felt like it deserved ;_;

ANYWAYS YEAH, i really need to rewatch this scene because i haven't thought about it too much but it's so INTERESTING because i agree, i think that this likely worsened his mental condition. like what did fukuchi MEAN he got the prophecy from a sword? what did that LOOK like? i really hope asagiri expands on it more when the manga version comes out. i feel like asagiri is sitting on a lot of lore about sentient abilities/abilities turned into objects, and i have soooo many questions about it. like my conspiracy theory (this is so much copium lol) is that this is why the anime producers have been sitting on 55 minutes. like they HAVE referenced standard island now as well as the shell, so they are acknowledging the novel tangentially, why haven't they adapted it yet?? is there a hint in there that they are trying not to focus on because they want to save it for later when it's more plot relevant??? maybe maybe not but gab being a sentient island and fukuchi's sword being possibly sentient .... shibusawa being a sentient ability .... i have so many questions

i also wonder what will happen with the sword after .... will fukuzawa keep it? will we learn more about it that way? i'm dying for this information so baaad. we're so close to the end of the arc and i'm really really eager for what's next

"clearly a nerve was hit" is a revealing thing to say when you went out of your way to leave a whole entire paragraph in my retrospring about how mean i am lmao.

you seem to be willfully ignoring is that if op had never posted that tweet in the first place, none of those nasty responses to it would even exist. like. you are defending a person who is actively soliciting this stuff every minute they keep their tweet up. anyone who has been on bsdtwt for more than a day KNOWS that a tweet like that will be read as a challenge, and that people will respond with nasty and spiteful content. it begs the question: what were they really trying to accomplish? maybe you should waste less time in my retrospring crying to me about how mean i am and start questioning why your precious so-called odz-dislikers are the reason why all those nasty tweets that you are so obsessed with are increasing in quantity?

you know what is also really funny? that i have more odazai mutuals than you do and yet YOU GUYS seem to be the only ones looking at all this nasty stuff. like, i haven't seen a single gross tweet on my tl, nor have i gone out of my way to look for them. and yet i have SKK SHIPPERS in my replies crying to me that they are seeing gross shit. why are they looking? why are YOU looking? why is it that the only people who seem to be putting this nasty content on your tl are the so-called odz dislikers? why is it that the algorithm is giving you those tweets and not me, an actual odazai shipper? like. the only people who seem to be going out of their way to find and interact with this stuff is people like you who claim to hate it. also very revealing to me.