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***Headphones Recommended*** Style: calm, relaxing piano Notes: a gentle lullaby as Dazai and Oda snuggle in each other’s arms
“Some of the strongest people you know are waiting to curl up in the right pair of arms & let out the sigh they’ve been holding in forever.” - Nitya Prakash
@odazaiweek2020 - Day 2 // Dawn & Dusk
[BSD fic] chiaroscuro
Title: chiaroscuro Fandom: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs Relationship(s): Oda Sakunosuke/Dazai Osamu, Dazai Osamu & Sakaguchi Ango Characters: Dazai Osamu, Oda Sakunosuke, Sakaguchi Ango Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Words: 5,231 Tags/Warning(s): Alternate Universe - Vampire, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Implied/Referenced Torture, Minor Violence, Blood and Gore, Injury, Manipulation, Unhealthy Relationship, Not between odazai, Light Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff
Summary:
In the light of the dawn, Dazai idly noticed Oda’s coat was threadbare, a burn mark on one of the sleeves that wasn’t from a cigarette, and a small spatter of stain on the inside of the collar. The last one was familiar, scarlet when fresh, faded as amber when dried. Couldn’t be washed off easily—blood stains. It might not be visible because of the color, but Dazai had them too. More so than Oda’s that the decaying smell clung to him. Had it not been black, it would’ve been painted as such for blood had permeated it.
In which Dazai learns about warmth, salvation, and what it means to be loved.
> Written for @odazaiweek2020, Day 2: Dawn/Dusk, Vampire AU
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“When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought of being an artist at all. he sat in his cheap little room writing a letter to his younger brother in Holland, whom he loved very much. He looked out his window at a watery twilight, a thin lamppost, a star, and he said in his letter something like this: “it is so beautiful I must show you how it looks.” And then on his cheap ruled note paper, he made the most beautiful, tender, little drawing of it. When I read this letter of Van Gogh’s it comforted me very much and seemed to throw a clear light on the whole road of Art. Before, I thought that to produce a work of painting or literature, you scowled and thought long and ponderously and weighed everything solemnly and learned everything that all artists had ever done aforetime, and what their influences and schools were, and you were extremely careful about *design* and *balance* and getting *interesting planes* into your painting, and avoided, with the most astringent severity, showing the faintest *academical* tendency, and were strictly modern. And so on and so on. But the moment I read Van Gogh’s letter I knew what art was, and the creative impulse. It is a feeling of love and enthusiasm for something, and in a direct, simple, passionate and true way, you try to show this beauty in things to others, by drawing it. And Van Gogh’s little drawing on the cheap note paper was a work of art because he loved the sky and the frail lamppost against it so seriously that he made the drawing with the most exquisite conscientiousness and care.”
— Brenda Ueland, from “If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit”
nothing else matters except this.
魔王先生…
VNC Chapter 45 Analysis
This chapter had a little bit of everything and I love it. So much. There are also numerous implications throughout and they’ve all given me some food for thought. The first thing I want to go over is Jeanne, Dominique, and romance. These two are approaching things very differently, which Dominique herself is all-too-aware of. It took Luca pointing out that Jeanne was talking about Vanitas as if she loved him, but once she had the realization for herself, she decided to pursue it wholeheartedly. Not so for Dominique, who has literally known her entire life who she loves and has never said anything. Jeanne is, in fact, very forward now that she knows she loves Vanitas. In fact, her sentiment about love is kind of similar to the description Vanitas gave to Noé.
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I just love reading your metas. You always put to words the things I find difficult to express.Yes to everything you say!
And you’ve probably already thought of this, but I still wanna say that I think VaniJeanne is just a stepping stone to VaniNoe. VaniJeanne just doesn’t sit right with me.
Jeanne fell in love with Vanitas because he saved Chloe… but that was only because Noe told him to. And with Vanitas’ insecurities, I’m sure that one day he’s gonna ask Jeanne on why he loves him. And what do you think Jeanne is gonna say?
Jeanne would definitely tell him that it’s because of the qualities she saw in Vanitas that day he saved Chloe… but which were basically a reflection of Noe. Vanitas didn’t even want to save her. He had even given up at one point.
If Noe was the wielder of the Book of Vanitas, then he could’ve just dived in and saved Chloe without having to convince Vanitas.Vanitas could have just stood by if he wanted.
But because Vanitas had the book and was the only one that could use it, he became the “hero.”
Vanitas + Book = Hero
And this “hero” is the person whom Jeanne fell in love for.
It’s like saying if A is B, and B is C, then A is C.
Jeanne falls in love with Hero. Hero is Vanitas. Jeanne falls in love with Vanitas.
The “hero” here could be anyone. It could’ve been Noe if he had the chance. And if it had been Noe, then nobody would be even surprised, because, as Domi said it, he’s “strong, dashing, kind, and loveable.” (Though Domi would be surprised coz she likes Noe too.)
So basically, Jeanne’s affection boil down to one point: She loves Vanitas because of the Book.
And what did Vanitas say? That no one could ever love him [for him]?
Oh boy. This pairing is gonna be a disaster.
Vanitas is not even trying to be a hero. He said it right from the start that he’s healing vampires for revenge (whatever that means). Jeanne simply fell in love with an idealized version of him.
And remember this?
Right now, Jeanne is making the exact same mistake Noe did in the beginning. But Noe realized his mistake right away. I don’t know how many chapters there’ll be before Jeanne realizes that Vanitas is not the man she thought he were, considering how blinded she is right now by her “love.”
Thank you so much for saying so and for this addition! Completely agree. Jeanne is currently where Noé was at during the Bal Masqué; she’s seeing the brilliance of Vanitas’s power and his determination to save vampires, but she’s not thinking about the actual motives or how he’s a flawed person just like anyone else. Noé has grappled with this and understood it, which is why he can honestly say he’s “happy Vanitas is the person he is now” and genuinely mean it.
Jeanne and Vanitas are going to have a difficult relationship–a learning relationship. I think it will last a while, but I think that ultimately it cannot sustain itself because of the constant miscommunication that is happening between them. Even the way they’re reacting to realizing they’re in love is wildly mismatched. XD The power dynamics are in constant flux when what you need for any functioning relationship is some sort of equality.
I forgot to post this Halloween art.
Drawing my ship when I wasn’t feeling well didn’t help. I lost my voice the next day lmao
Hope you guys are safe and have something to occupy your time during quarantine!
i have a WIP that i've been writing really slowly over the past few months, and just as i got to the part i was really excited to write, i lost my motivation for it. it's not even that long, i only wrote about 3k words of that WIP, so it feels like all that work was for nothing. i can't decide between forcing myself to finish it off, or just letting it metaphorically collect dust until i like it again. it's not on AO3 yet, so at least i don't feel like i'm disappointing anybody, i guess
I posted chapter 1 of a WIP probably a month ago now and I have completely lost all ability to write anything fictional at all in the interim. It’s still on my mind, but I know that I won’t be adding another chapter until my circumstances change, and I’ve made my peace with that.
Forcing yourself to do something you want to do doesn’t sound very fun to me, and I don’t really see the point to it. Why turn a hobby into work?
I also don’t see putting a WIP aside as letting it collect dust, metaphorical or otherwise. It’s not going to ‘go bad’ and it’s not going to be covered in spiderwebs when you go back to it. You basically just hit the pause button on that particular storyline, and you can pick it back up again when you’re in the mood for it once more.
There’s nothing wrong with taking a break from a story and there’s no reason to make yourself feel bad about doing it. You don’t have the juice for it right now. That’s okay. Take a break. Do something else. It’ll be there when you’re ready for it again - and if you’re never ready, that’s okay too.
Honestly, Nonny, one of the most freeing things I learned as a fic writer has been: Not everything needs to be finished or shared.
I know. Feels a bit counterintuitive considering half the fun of writing fic is sharing it in the fandom. But seriously.
You don’t have to finish anything if you don’t want to.
If you know how the story goes and how it ends, and you are content leaving it unwritten except in your head. There’s nothing wrong with that. You don’t have to post everything you write.
My writing folder is Full of unfinished WIPs that will probably never be read by anyone other than me.
Some of them were just “flash in the pan” ideas I had that gripped me for a day or two, so I wrote down whatever came to mind, and when the fervor passed I didn’t feel the need to finish them.
Some of my WIPs I’ve had for the better part of a decade, and every once in a while I make an effort to keep writing, even if I only add a sentence or two. But I don’t really expect to finish them.
And then I also have fics that are in a metaphorical time out. They’re on the back burner and just chilling out until inspiration strikes again. Sometimes it takes a week or two, sometimes months or years.
But there’s nothing wrong with that. Writing doesn’t have to come with a schedule or due date. You can take however long you need to write however much you need.
Taking a break from writing, or just that story in particular, can actually help. It’s that profound shower thought/constructing perfect dialogue while driving/figuring out a solution to a problem while cooking dinner thing. While your brain is focusing on one task, it’s problem solving another task. But if you focus only on the problem task, your brain never gets that mental break to step back, rest a bit, and try again.
I used to feel really guilty about every unfinished WIP and half-baked story idea waiting on my hard drive for me to return. I used to bog myself down with imaginary rules like “i won’t start a new story until I finish so many wips” or “everything i write must be posted online, but I can’t post until i finish it” and then one day I realized that I wasn’t obligated to finish anything I started. Nobody had paid me to write a story. I hadn’t promised anything to anyone. Writing was supposed to be fun, and I was turning it into a chore that made me feel bad and guilty. It took some effort to retrain myself, but I eventually cut the guilt associated with my unfinished WIPs. I made peace with the fact that some of them would never see the light of day or be finished.
This has turned out longer than I anticipated.
Tl;dr: You aren’t obligated to finish a story by a certain deadline, or at all if it’s just not vibing with you. It’s good to take breaks from writing and sometimes necessary. The story will always be there when you’re ready to come back. Don’t turn something fun into a chore and ruin the enjoyment for yourself.
After tinkering with AO3′s site skins a little, I’ve customized it so I myself can’t see all of my stats. Oh, and I also have a bio there now
Welcome to Odazai Week 2020!
Hello everyone! From May 17th to May 24th, join us in celebrating the romantic/platonic relationship between Dazai Osamu and Oda Sakunosuke!
PROMPTS: There are two prompts to choose from per day + an AU suggestion + a quote. You can use any four of these in any combination or lack there-of! The AUs/quotes are merely suggestions and are in no way required.
Day 1: Insomnia // Trust
AU: Fantasy
“I’ll be here just waiting and hoping for every long dream of you to come true.” - F.S. Fitzgerald
Day 2: Dawn/Dusk // Freezing touch
AU: Vampires
“I don’t know where it comes from, all this love I have for you. I don’t know where to put it now you’re gone.” - Lang Leav
Day 3: Seasons // Meteor shower
AU: Soulmates
“I am too young and I’ve loved you too much.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Day 4: Devotion // Letter
AU: Royalty
“Ask me why I keep on loving you when it’s clear that you don’t feel the same for me… The problem is that as much as I can’t force you to love me, I can’t force myself to stop loving you.” – Anonymous
Day 5: After dark // Cigarettes
AU: No powers
“If brokenness is a work of art, surely this must be my masterpiece.” – Neptune, Sleeping at Last
Day 6: Forget-me-not // Vulnerability
AU: Childhood
“You are worth finding. Worth knowing. Worth loving. You and your one million layers.” - Danielle Doby
Day 7: Forgiveness // Broken mind
AU: Odasaku has the Book
“I write because you exist.” - Michael Faudet
Day 8: Free day
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I know that quarantine is giving many people time to write/draw a lot of stuff and that's really amazing! Seriously, the fandom content is keeping us sane during these times! But I'm going through the opposite, that is, quarantine murdered my ideas and I know that happened to a lot of people.
So friendly reminder to everyone who isn't able to produce content: It's okay. We're in this together. It sucks that we can't do something productive when we have a lot of free time, but please don't be hard on yourself. This is a very stressful time already, so please don't make yourself more anxious if you're having a writer's/artist's block.
Take care of yourself and stay safe! I love you all! 💛
New Doppo/Jyuto fanfic!
God, this is finally complete, I can’t believe it! I gave my blood, sweat and tears on this fic. lmao It’s a DopJyu fic where Doppo hires Jyuto, who works in an escort agency. It’s mostly porn, but it has a little bit of plot. I hope you guys can enjoy it!
Title: Saturday Night Rating: E Ship: Doppo/Jyuto Warnings: prostitution Summary: Doppo is stressed and pent up so he decides to hire an escort.
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The Remains of Regret
Fandom: 鬼滅の刃 | Kimetsu no Yaiba Pairing(s): Agatsuma Zenitsu/Kamado Tanjirou Characters: Kamado Tanjirou, Agatsuma Zenitsu, Tomioka Giyuu Rating: G Chapters: 1/? Tags: Slow Burn, Developing Relationship, Alternative Universe - Modern Setting, Platonic Relationships, Literary Fiction, as in litfic as a genre, Purple Prose, Kimetsu Ghost AU nobody asked for but gets anyway, Slow To Update, Other Additional Tags to Be Added
Summary: When Zenitsu moved into a small apartment in the city, he found out there was someone already occupying his new home. One that couldn’t leave unless Zenitsu helped.
* (Or, melancholic introspective Kimetsu Ghost AU nobody asked for.)
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KNY actor AU part2! 🎬🎬 (part1: here)
I was editing my fic earlier and realized there was no point in having the third scene, it serves no purpose. There wasn’t any development nor revelation. Not precipitated by the previous scene either. It only introduced two side characters that might be mentioned briefly. So, goodbye 700+ words. I won’t miss ya.
Probably.
it’s ok to not be perfect. you don’t need to stick to a strict schedule or be hard on yourself. it’s ok to want to improve yourself, but it’s easy to burnout or start to hate what you’re doing if you’re constantly breaking your own heart or belittling your own efforts. it’s ok to make your routine as comforting and enjoyable as possible rather than forcing things. growth and productivity happens more naturally when you’re at peace with yourself and treat yourself in a nurturing way.
Speaking of, I have an urge to write Ramuda/Ichirou and Jakurai/Samatoki while I’m drafting a fic—the niche story I mentioned earlier. Not sure if that is a good sign or a bad one (*ﾟ▽ﾟ)ﾉ
