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my phone slid right out of my hand, just like my resolve

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Resources & Info

What are the BSD Anthologies?

BSD Honorifics and Nicknames Reference

Translations

Light Novels

Untold Story of the Founding of the Detective Agency

55Minutes 1/10

Anthology 1 - Rei

Do not make yourself ill to make friends

Dislikes and Likes

The Devil Comes to Take Care of You

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The Detective Agency Manju Incident

Job Guessing Quiz

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Me and Cake and Sometimes Pugs

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Anthology 2 - Hana

The Detective Agency’s and Port Mafia’s Day Off

Limited Time Sales Are a Battlefield

Q’s Perfect Day

Dazai Osamu Quiz Tournament

Ru-Ruru! Fitzgerald’s Room

Chapter 32.5

Higuchi Ichiyou’s Off Duty Top Secret Mission

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The Tiger Repays a Kindness

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Anthology 3 - Rin

Mom

When the Mafia Accidentally Read a Story Written on a Whim and Got Transported to an Alternate Universe

As You Like It

The Devil’s Automatic Door

How to Find Happiness

Hello, again winter dreams.

Visitor in the Rain

Senpai’s Health Is Part of My Job, Too

A Flurry of Cats in Fair Weather

Breakfast Harmony

“Elise-chan!” the Game

Q’s Suffering

Tiger, Sometimes Cat

The Port Mafia Physical Exam

Hats, Men, and Beef Bowls

Anthology 4 - Akatsuki

Poe and Ranpo’s Afternoon Tea

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BSD Wan!

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The one with the dogs

120

Miscellaneous

Asagiri Kafka’s message on Kubodera Akira’s passing

BEAST Manga - ch. 1

BSD Manga - ch. 80

BSD Manga - ch. 83 (script only)

BSD Manga - Volume 11 Omake

[bsd-bibliophile]

Do you have any idea why was yokohama chosen as the main city in BSD story

I seem to remember reading somewhere that Asagiri Kafka grew up in Yokohama… but I can’t find the original source, sorry. But I think that is the main reason why the story is set in Yokohama.

Another interesting idea is that because Yokohama is a port town and had a lot of influence from the West that also meant it was a central location for exchanging cultures and ideas between Japan and other nations. This would have also been true for literature and authors. 

The authors also have a lot of ties to Yokohama. Fukuzawa probably sailed out of that port to travel to the United States and Europe, and he came back to Japan with knowledge and ideas for modernizing Japan and that is what he wrote about and dedicated his life to. Mori actually wrote the lyrics for Yokohama’s city song. Tanizaki lived in Yokohama at one point. Dazai visited Yokohama with friends one one of his first suicide attempts was on a hill just outside of Yokohama. Atsushi lived and worked in Yokohama as a school teacher. And they may be more, but those are the connections I know about.

So I think the official reason would be because Asagiri-sensei has ties to Yokohama, but then the city fits the series so well because of its history and because the various authors tend to have some connection to it. Whatever the reason it is a breathtaking city full of beautiful parks, modern architecture, history, and culture. I was lucky enough to visit Yokohama last year, and you can find some of the pictures here if you’re interested.

[thegenerationofgirls]

Lee Soo Man quotes Tiffany!

Giving encouragement to the young students, freshly enrolled, SM Entertainment rep, Lee Soo Man, returned to Seoul National University to welcome the incoming class of 2013.

On March 4, Lee Soo Man stood at the podium as an alumnus from the class of 1971. He gave the students four keywords to remember – pride, challenge, personal responsibility, and social responsibility

“When you focus on something you’re interested in, passion begins to grow. Passion gives birth to effort, which leads to genius. I believe that genius isn’t innate, but something that can be learned through effort,” said Lee Soo Man. “To a person with passion, an opportunity of success will arrive, and the most successful and meaningful life is when a person enjoys what they’ve chosen because they liked it.”

During the speech, Lee Soo Man quoted Girls’ Generation’s Tiffany.

“A while back, SNSD’s Tiffany said in a thank you speech, ‘It’s already a happy thing to find a job that a person loves, but I am even happier because I’ve received an award while doing that happy thing,’” said Lee Soo Man. ‘”Like this, a successful and meaningful life is to truly enjoy something based on the knowledge and wisdom that a person has worked on.”

He asked the freshmen to continue dreaming and striving for that dream, in order to create a better future for tomorrow.

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Kyosuke Chinai aka 智内兄助 aka Kyosuke Tchinai (Japanese, b. 1948, Namikata Ochi, Ehime Prefecture, Japan) - 無何有郷 山守花明り from Utopia exhibition  Paintings: Acrylics on Board

[amatara]

I’m pretending all the time to be, kinder, stronger, funnier, more sociable than I am. I guess we’re all like that but it just feels so inadequate.

[animate-mush]

What’s the difference?

I know it sounds flippant but… certain things are fundamentally performative.  And other things are so close as makes no difference.

Kindness is performative.  Actions are kind, and people are kind by performing those actions.  You can’t “pretend” to be kinder than you are, you can only perform kindness or not perform kindness, and choosing to perform kindness is always worthwhile, no matter how much you may second-guess your motivations.

Strength is so many things.  It takes strength to pretend a strength you don’t feel.  And the way to achieve strength is to exercise it, so long as you do it in enough moderation to not strain or break anything.  Being able to affect strength when necessary while being able to put it down again when that in turn is necessary is healthy.  Everyone starts weight training with the littlest weights.  It’s not fake or pretending to do what you gotta do in any given situation.

Funniness lives in the interlocutor, not in the speaker.  It doesn’t matter how funny you think you are (or think you are pretending to be) - that’s not how it’s measured.  At what point are you “pretending” to be a musician if the music still gets made?  And often what it’s tempting to describe in first person as “pretending” is more accurately described in the third person as “practicing” - which is of course the way you cause things to Be.

Sociability is also performative.  Pretending to be sociable is just…being sociable, despite a disinclination towards it.  It’s making an effort towards something you value.  So long as the effort is not so great that it backfires into resentment, there’s no practical difference.  

Qualities or activities or whatever are no less worthy because you have to actively choose to perform them.  If anything, the worthiness lies in the act of choosing.  It’s not “pretending” - it’s agency.

tl;dr: ain’t nothing wrong with “fake it till you make it.”  A plastic spoon* holds just as much soup as a “real” one

* I keep wanting to talk about semantic domains!  Artifacts are defined by their utility, whereas living things are defined by their identity.  So plastic forks are still forks, but plastic flowers aren’t flowers.  So there’s two pep-talk messages to take away from this: (1) for certain things, the distinction between “fake” and “real” isn’t a relevant one so long as they still get the job done, and (2) the purpose of a living thing is to be the thing that it is.  The idea of a “useless person” is as semantically nonsensical as the idea of “pretend kindness” (or fake cutlery).

[pyrrhiccomedy]

I love this post. It illustrates what I think is maybe the key difference between a developing self-identity and a formed self-identity, which is, like…confidence? If you are BEING kind, consistently, if you are prioritizing that over your own comfort or fatigue or even, occasionally, your emotional inclination (because OH MY GOD FUCK THIS GUY, I HAVE HAD IT UP TO HERE–uuughhh, but no, I’m not gonna lash out at him, that won’t accomplish anything, and besides, he’s probably had a bad day, he’s under a lot of stress, I don’t have to be an asshole about this…), guess what? That makes you kind. That is literally what kindness is. Same for patience, same for strength, same for all of this stuff. You got it. You’re doing it. You’re not faking anything. Stop second-guessing yourself and cutting yourself down. Give yourself enough credit to look at your actions and confidently assert to yourself that you are no longer just making things up as you go. 

[sturlsons]

gotham archives: batman’s writing process

Anon on CC asked: Hello! Your outlines are so pretty!! Can I ask how you plan them / your process, and do you have the outline for heretic? Thank you!!

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Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai, 1997)

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Blue Spring (Toshiaki Toyoda, 2001)

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every time I see this my grip on sanity gets just that little bit slimmer

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Forgiveness 

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I feel like I could write a 12 page essay about this video

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👀

[jimiyoong]

RAP GOD JUNG HOSEOK🔥🔥

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the sudden decrease in animation quality between the first hunchback and the sequel is both hilarious and sad 

[xavantina]

The Return of Jafar charliekelly69:

i had to reblog this because im actually pissig mysefl

Let’s take a second to compare Aladdin to The Return of Jafar:

Ouch

[once-delight]

Esmorolda and Corpet

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kelverse

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I’ve been hysterically wheezy laughing at the last gif for about two minutes solid

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I get so angry, then u get to the last gif and I’m crying of laughter

[crocordile]

what can i do

[thot]

Visit Original Link

so with the airing of “bismuth” comes the final piece of “love like you”, completing a puzzle we’ve watched come together over 100 episodes and 2 and a half years. full lyrics:

If I could begin to be, Half of what you think of me, I could do about anything, I could even learn how to love.

When I see the way you act, Wondering when I’m coming back, I could do about anything, I could even learn how to love like you.

You… Love, like you… 

I always thought, I might be bad, Now I’m sure that it’s true, ‘cause I think you’re so good, And I’m nothing like you.

Look at you go I just adore you I wish that I knew What makes you think I’m so special

If I could begin to do Something that does right by you I would do about anything I would even learn how to love

When I see the way you look Shaken by how long it took I could do about anything I could even learn how to love like you

Love like you

[kateinindia]

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justice, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

Rabbi Rami Shapiro’s interpretive translation of the Talmud in Wisdom of the Jewish sages.  (via kvshelton)

[pinkfloydd]

yoongi’s take on taehyung’s recent behavior

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The societal pressure forced on teens to decide what to do in the future when you can’t even decide who you are is ridiculous. Glad I’m way out of this depressing stage so anything reminding me of it can suck my dick be rebutted with this: