Game: which of these Bunal characters is Edgar Allan Poe? (At least three have BSD counterparts and one is based on a BSD author's son)
Ooh a game! :D
I did check the Bungo to Alchemist character list once, and I remember seeing Poe there. If I remember correctly he is this gentleman in the feathered hat:
I think I recognize the teal haired man in the upper second box to the left. I want to say he’s Kunikida, but I think Kunikida had pink hair. I have no idea who the counterparts could be… is the third down on the very left Tanizaki? The man with beads in his hair, I mean. The guy with the bird on his shoulder is a little suspicious, I have no idea who he could be though. I’m going to say the punk-rocker man in the far right column is based on a bsd author’s son.
It's a bit of a late ask, but if you feel like sharing about it, I'm curious about Chibi's Superior Autobiographical Memory
No worries! This is a late answer ^w^'
I've said this before, but the friend who got me into bsd is a skk shipper. One of the first bsd fandom things they taught me about was about the famous skk fic A Spring Without you is Coming, better known as the "Look, Dazai, it's snowing in November" fic. So I thought to myself, "Hm. What if I took a crack at giving Chuuya some sort of fatal illness?" But nothing really came to mind and I wasn't very passionate about the idea, so I discarded it. However...
One day I learned about the condition Superior Autobiographical memory and I thought to myself, "Wow. Wouldn't it be so angsty if I gave this to Chuuya?" According to one of the people in the 60 Minutes documentary I watched, emotional pain came back just as vividly as the day it happened, and with all of the suffering Chuuya has gone through in bsd, well, hehe... It's just an angst-fest waiting to be unleashed! :D
The skk aspect of the fic was that Chuuya would kind of reflect on his memories with Dazai ig (✨oooh even more angst✨ because he thought Dazai was dead 😭). Now that I'm beginning to think of it... The plot of Black Marigolds and a Silence is just this reskinned ;-;
The plots of most of my unfinished, unwritten fics tend to be just: "Character Thinks About Things"... Yay? :,D
This fic actually does have stuff written for it buuuuuut... It's- so cringe- sososososososo cringe ;-; I probably won't pick this fic up again, since I don't think I could really do justice to either Chuuya or Dazai's characters. Getting characterization right is really important to me in fics, and I don't feel like going on a deep-dive to characterize skk correctly at this point in time 😅
The way I got into BSD was that I was writing a The Disastrous Life of Saiki K crackfic for a friend, went down a rabbithole trying to find media for the characters in it to talk about, came across BSD, saw Rimbaud was in it, and was intrigued. While I still mean to finish the Saiki K fic, I haven’t updated it in well over a year and had forgotten what the title was until I was notified that someone commented on it
It’s called “The Serendipitous Life of Iridatsu Yuuta”, and it’s about someone developing superpowers after a run-in with a platypus. I almost never used the word serendipitous at the time, and I wouldn't have read BSD or ended up in the fandom if it weren’t for that fic
Serendipitous encounters leading to a serendipitous encounter with serendipitous-encounters
Wow! That is serendipitous indeed :D
Saiki K was one of the first animes I had ever watched as a child (I watched it many years ago, so I remember some of the characters and vague plot points). Recently one of my friends, the same one who got me into BSD actually, has also watched Saiki K and they’re obsessed. /pos So I guess this is my sign to give the show a rewatch haha. I will also definitely give the fic a read!
Steinbeck's writing isn't known for being humorous, but from time to time, it really can be. What are 3-5 of your favorite funny Steinbeck moments and/or pieces of trivia?
Hello Taliehoffbeck, thank you for the ask! :D
I wholeheartedly agree that Steinbeck is definitely funnier than people give him credit for. As for some of my favorite funny moments… Well, The Winter of our Discontent is chock full of them, but I think “‘Good morning, sir. My name is Ethan Allen Hawley. I’ve met you in pissing’” has to take the cake. (For context, the main character was talking to a dog 😅 Anyways, Ethan Hawley is an absolute gem and he has to be one of my favorite Steinbeck characters.)
A few more from The Winter of Our Discontent that I really liked were:
“The man [Ethan Hawley] who swept the morning pavement with metronomic strokes was not the man who could sermonize to canned goods, not a unimum unimorum man, not even a silly-billy man.” <- Particularly because the mental image of 6’0 Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck writing out the words “silly-billy” with a completely serious look on his face was funny to me. And then there’s also:
“‘I dieth of dryth. Why is it so dark in here? Are mine eyes failething too?’” Which was, surprisingly, not said by Ethan Hawley, but is funny nonetheless. This is turning out to be more of a “Steinbeck out of context” post than I had expected, but I hope you don’t mind ;w;
Another quote I found funny is Steinbeck very casually roasting one of his characters in East of Eden:
“Adam drank the milk greedily, vomited, drank more, and was on his way. His father did not find the reaction alarming, since he was doing the same thing.” <- I guess this might be considered more disgusting than funny… I suppose my sense of humor could be warped. 😅
Moving on to Travels With Charley, which is generally considered one of Steinbeck’s funnier works, I like this passage from the beginning:
“It was said that my New York license plates would arouse interest and perhaps questions, since they were the only outward identifying marks I had. And so they did—perhaps twenty or thirty times in the whole trip. But such contacts followed an invariable pattern, somewhat as follows:
Local man: ‘New York, huh?’
Me: ‘Yep.’
Local man: ‘I was there in nineteen thirty-eight—or was it thirty-nine? Alice, was it thirty-eight or thirty-nine we went to New York?’
Alice: ‘It was thirty-six. I remember because it was the year Alfred died.’
Local man: ‘Anyway, I hated it. Wouldn’t live there if you paid me.’”
Steinbeck talking in what could be considered meme format is funny to me haha 😅
And, finally, I would like to share the “Sea Cow” rant from Sea of Cortez. All of it was humorous imo, but if I had to pick out some favorite lines I would say: “The outboard motor mentioned in this book is purely fictitious and any resemblance to any outboard motors living or dead is coincidental” and “It had many cleavage points, and when attacked with a screw driver, fell apart in simulated death, a trait it had in common with opossums, armadillos, and several members of the sloth family, which also fall apart in simulated death when attacked with a screw driver” have to be some of the best in my opinion :D
RULES: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous, and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then you post a snippet or tell them something about it.
