My wife and I have a little game we play called "Speaking From Ignorance."
To play Speaking From Ignorance, all you need is a phone with a voice recorder, and another person who knows considerably more or considerably less about a topic than you do. The topic can be anything: from "how to bake a quiche" to "what happens in the Peter Jackson Hobbit movies" to "who is Florence Pugh" to "how does the traveling salesman problem work." All that matters is that one of you has a firm grasp on the material, and one of you absolutely the fuck does not.
Then the person who knows about the topic turns on the recorder, and says to the person who knows barely anything: "Hey - tell me everything you think you know about [X]."
The speaker is then not allowed to ask any questions. Nor is the expert allowed to volunteer any information. The expert is allowed to pipe up with a faintly incredulous "Oh--really? Do you--do you think so?" from time to time, but for the most part, the expert's job is just to sit there and make encouraging sounds while the speaker digs their own grave.
This is never not funny.
The reason you record it is because, very often, the first thing the speaker wants to do after finishing the recording is find out how you actually make a quiche, or whatever. Then you both get to go back and listen to how wrong they were.
We have a small library now of Speaking From Ignorance recordings, and I'm going to be listening to them until I'm eighty.
"Behind every gay person there is an evil, gayer person" is literally
Inspired by @originalaccountname's post about Atsushi's vision of Dazai being warped.
These are all panels where Dazai either appears as a memory or hallucination for different people. Probably not all of them, but a small collection I literally just gathered in the last hour.
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Atsushi
I think it's interesting just how lifeless this hallucinated version of Dazai is. He doesn't smile, he doesn't joke. It really does just feel like Dazai's face placed over Atsushi's conscience to guide him forward.
Akutagawa
Scraggly little guy. There's mystery behind his eyes, he knows something you don't. Has never seen a hair brush in his life. Akutagawa's vision of Dazai always looks like he's the one in control and he knows it. But also, he looks so young.
Chuuya
This ones admittedly a little different because the 1st panel is from the fifteen manga BUT I'm counting it because I love the visual and it makes an interesting contrast to how Chuuya saw Dazai when they were both teens, to how he remembers him now. One a mastermind demon, the other a lost looking boy surrounded by demons.
Ango
Bratty, criminal child. Someone who needed to be saved. The handcuff representing Dazai as someone trapped by his past and Ango trying to pay penance by saving him from it. He envisions the boy he was, because his betrayal meant he never got to know the man Dazai became.
Ranpo
Happiest little guy out there! Considering how much Dazai says he admires Ranpo, it's not surprising that when Ranpo envisions the agency he sees Dazai smiling at him. This is the Dazai Ranpo wanted to protect, the smile and joy he never wanted to lose.
“how did you get into writing” hey so writing got into me
An incomplete list of things that one "T" has done during his time attending Night Raven College
Accidentally drew the attention of one Rook Hunt, who has decided that because he is mysterious and hard to keep track of, he’s the perfect target to hunt
Accidentally angered Riddle by breaking the same rule 12 times in 14 days. Apologized every time, claims he forgot
Befriended Jade Leech, much to the horror of Azul
Set Crowley’s office on fire. Claims innocence
Gotten into a contest with Lilia to see who can jumpscare the other first. Neither party has been successful
Got both himself and Lilia a lifetime ban from the NRC kitchens
Photobombed Cater by trying to say hi, resulting in blurry ass backgrounds (7 times)
Pickpocketed Ruggie and then just returned the stuff out of sheer boredom (11 times. Ruggie is out for blood)
Gone through and pickpocketed half the student body when he got bored enough and then ran a big table to return everyone’s stuff, because he can’t remember who he stole it from
Started a collection of shoelaces stolen from everyone who insults his friends in his presence
Broken onto the RSA campus for no particular reason, mostly just hangs out with Chenya while there (14 times)
Somehow convinced Yuu that he should be Ramshackle Dorm's Vice Prefect
Taught Grim to say fuck
I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(
"You have to become comfortable with the fact that most people who enjoy your fic will never bother to kudos or comment on it."
Shockingly, I am comfortable with this fact. Lack of kudos or comments doesn't bother me.
That doesn't mean it shouldn't change.
If you enjoy a fic, leave a kudos or a comment.
first year sleeping arrangements
I say I ship Ahavili, and I do, but when I say this I mean it specifically in the sense that I don't think their relationship was necessarily romantic nor was it platonic but rather a secret third thing entirely incomprehensible by human mind requiring the specific level of devotion to another being required to literally BREAK THE LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE in order to mourn them
But also in human terms they were married
Star - It/its || If you found this blog then congrats I guess. I really don't what I'm doing here this is just a thought dump for my hyperfixations
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