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we're not kids anymore.

if i look back, i am lost
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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda

Andulka
Jules of Nature

pixel skylines
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her

oozey mess
Cosmic Funnies
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@perfectnezushi
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White: Colourblind
Bottles series
Pairing: Jeon Jungkook x Kim Taehyung
Author: Ghoulie_cruz
Rating: M
Status: complete
Summary: A collection of individual Taekook stories based on colour prompts rooted in love, wonder and sex. Every instalment is a single bottle sent out to the lonely sea.
White is every colour of the spectrum, reflected.
White is Taehyung.
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Jungkook is colour blind.
He doesn’t mix his greens up with his reds. It’s not just a case of missing pigment or a two-dimensional glitch in his photoreceptors. It’s not a narrowing of his spectrum because there is no spectrum to narrow.
He sees black. He sees grey. He sees white.
Sees light and shadows, but not the saturated sky as it changes from orange to purple as the sun goes down. Sees details, but can’t tell you the colour of someone’s skin, the colour of their eyes. The colour of their lips. And it’s not tied to some romantic notion. Nothing to do with soul mates. It's not timers on arms, tattoos on skin, coming of age—concepts Jungkook thinks are mostly ridiculous, is jealous of, because for him there is no gain. There’s no rainbow at the other end. No love, no switch. No inbuilt trigger that’s going to change the way he sees; when he’s walking home from his job, when he’s in the midst of the busy city on a Saturday night, when he’s on a train hurtling through the country. It is what it is—the hand Jungkook was dealt. Genetic monochromatism. Rare, but so are shark attacks. So are plane crashes. Rare doesn’t mean things don’t happen. All it means is that if they happen to you, you’re unlucky—that is, if the thing that happens is bad, and in Jungkook’s case, it is.
Or at least he thinks it might be.
Reality is, he doesn’t know what he’s missing because you can’t truly miss something that you never even had.
But the older he gets, the more he learns about the world, the more he learns about people, the more he feels a snaking grief. Grief for something he’s never known but still knows is lost. Is gone. Is different. It wraps around his lungs and squeezes the air out when he hears people talk about flowers, fireworks, fabrics, what they’ve seen on film. Because, to Jungkook, it’s just a change of contrast, a shift from dark to light.
Illumination and nothingness.
Jungkook’s never had a boyfriend—or a girlfriend, for that matter—because he is afraid. Afraid he’ll say the wrong thing or give the wrong advice. Feel the wrong feeling. Bore them to death because he’s heard that grey is drab and Jungkook thinks he might be what he sees. Dreary and dull. Tedious and tiring.
He steers clear of galleries. Doesn’t enjoy spring. Never goes out to the movies. Can’t tell the difference between an orange and a grapefruit, so how is he supposed to tell you that your outfit brings out your eyes, the highlights in your hair? How is he supposed to smile when you crunch through Autumn leaves and yell that they’re so vibrant? When you say that you only go to the beach on rainy days because the sea turns green, like an uncut emerald?
Jungkook thinks that there might be a limit to how much grey a person will endure. How much they’ll bend before they fake it. He lays awake at night trying to fathom how many unshared observations, how many failed interpretations it would take for a gleam to fade from a smile, for a glimmer in patient eyes—a lover’s, say—to tarnish like cut-rate gold. And, as he calculates the cost, weighs up the risk of sure rejection, the inevitable discarding of something incomplete—something dysfunctional—he decides that he won’t ever be the cloud that eclipses someones sun, and he doesn’t have it in him to try and shine for two.
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The day he meets Taehyung, it’s because colour, or lack thereof, almost nearly kills him.
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No.6 + OST covers
No.6 [re-watching/reading] Episode 01: “Drowned Rat” (びしょぬれネズミ)
“I had a bad dream...“ Shion began softly. ”I wanted someone to help me, and I reached out as far as I could... and I grabbed onto your hand.” ― Atsuko Asano, No.6, Volume 1
i feel safe with you
I can’t return to the past, but even my tears will change into light that will surely shine on tomorrow
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Continua a leggere
change will heal you
I’m never shutting up about he in this fit
— If I hadn’t met you, I never would have realized what kind of person I am. I would have grown into an apathetic, clueless, obedient adult. However, after spending time with you, in tears, laughter, and anger, I now know that I have all these emotions inside me, too. And that makes me proud. I’m glad to have known you.
for @xingkari
never change yourself for anyone
MAP OF THE SOUL : 7 ‘Outro : Ego’ Comeback Trailer
MAP OF THE SOUL : 7 ‘Interlude : Shadow’ Comeback Trailer
A new art for Nezumi from the Twitter account of Kino Hinoki, the mangaka of No. 6, to celebrate the year of rat 🐀💜
Kansai Square interview with Asano Atsuko
This small excerpt comes from a larger June 2018 interview featured on the Kansai Square website. (link: https://www.kansai-square.com/feature/2018/06/post.html) The interview is about a recent work of Asano’s, 「君を殺すまで」[Until I Kill You], which was published in March 2018. @aowyn has kindly translated the section of the interview which pertains to No.6:
Yamazaki: Changing the topic for a little, it’s already been 10 years since you finished Battery. What’s it like looking back on Battery as a writer now?
Asano: The truth is is that No.6 is incomplete. Until I Kill You [the novel the interview is mainly about] is a little out of the ordinary, but as for other works, there are people [characters] who want me to write them, so I’m pursuing those people and writing. In the case of Battery, I wanted to write about the protagonist, Harada Takumi, so I followed after him and came to write about him. I really intended to stop after two volumes. I wanted to end it with him on the mound as a pitcher, but no matter how much I wrote, I couldn’t quite grasp it, so I pursued him and wrote with all my heart. But as I tried to write, I became unable to see him at that moment. I became unable to pursue him. I grasped his back a little and wanted to write the story from there, but I became completely unable to see him at all, and felt like it ended like that. Truthfully, with No.6 as well, there was that feeling of wanting to write what happens next. Shion and Nezumi are the two male protagonists, but Shion is a state administrator and takes the role of an overseer. How does he change there? In relationship to that, what would Nezumi do with the complete freedom that he has obtained? I had thoughts about how I wanted to write that far. With those two works, my ability as a writer doesn’t go that far, and I can’t see. I don’t have foresight, and feel like I am unable to follow after, and so they really are incomplete works.
Yamazaki: So in the future, which one would you feel you might write a continuation of?
Asano: I feel like I especially have to write No.6, but I’m a little unsure. I don’t know how far within me my abilities as a writer come, or this power to pursue.
While this interview does not promise more material from Asano set in the world of No.6, it does show that even as recent as a year and half ago she is still thinking of what happens after the end of the published novels. Perhaps one day, she will find that “power to pursue” and write more of Nezumi and Shion’s story. We No.6 fans can only hope!