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Zanka heading to sleep after sending "love you guys" to the cleaners groupchat just because he felt sentimental 2 hrs before his birthday:

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He wakes up 5 minutes later to Enjin beating down the door like the police and Gris with a fire axe.

degenerateshinji

local anime artist gets bored and does realism.

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Fanfiction. Zanka. Vampires. Good talk.

#idk #I posted this last night at 1am and didn’t feel like promoting it cause then I’ll have to open TikTok which I hate doing #gachiakuta #gachiakuta zanka #zanka #zanka nijiku #ao3

enilehtnorevol

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Kunikida and Dazai e-dated each other when they were 14 and neither of them have any idea

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Elaborating on this Dazai was trying to find a like 30 year old guy who’d pay for discord nitro for him and keep him entertained and then when Kunikida showed up claiming he was 14 while using commas, apostrophes, and semicolons in basic texts Dazai was like “perfect this is my cue”.

And Kunikida did not know what internet safety was so he was way too open about having a shitty home life and school struggles which were all mundanely appealing to Dazai who’s never had anything resembling a normal life so he ends up sticking around a bit after it becomes obvious that he’s not getting free nitro out of this.

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Katai accidentally letting it slip that Kunikida once had an online relationship and Dazai immediately goes "omg Kunikida you dated an old man!", Kunikida eventually is somehow manipulated int showing Dazai his phone and Dazai is kind of just, staring at it and puts it down.

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I’ve got a cold rn and this just made me laugh so hard I started coughing I’m just imagining that one scene in bsd wan where Dazai acknowledges Chūya’s presence and all of the light leaves his eyes

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writing aave dialogue in fanfic

this poor attempt at dialogue for Jabber was making the rounds & ig I wanted to give my non-expert Black opinion.

imo the issue isn't just the slang but also the awkwardness of the dialogue. Like yeah, I can't really see Jabber using "blick", and he's never called anyone "shorty" canonically--but I think you could get some of the slang to work with better dialogue. The problem is that I can't imagine any Black person saying this out loud and it sounding natural at all, not just Jabber.

People were laughing about the "EJ" here, but, again, it might work in the right context. Jabber's known to give people names, and I could see him running into Enjin after they've met a few times and shouting some shit like "YO, EJJJJ!" at him. But you have to understand why a character like Jabber would use a nickname or epithet to know when & how to write it. Jabber does it to mock, annoy, and provoke people into fighting him.

Here's an example I wrote:

Lost in the sewer system, Enjin and Zanka wade through the underground tunnels with their shirts pulled up to their noses. It's dark and musty in either direction. Enjin's favorite lighter is the only thing illuminating their path as they strategically avoid the mystery liquid (no way that's water) running through the middle of the tunnel like a river. Another light pops into existence further ahead in the darkness. Enjin grabs Zanka's shoulder and slows to a stop, caution stirring to life in the pit of his stomach. He calls out, "Yo, who's there?" It's silent. And then a burst of familiar, unhinged laughter. "Ay, is that my man Big EJ?" Jabber begins to cheer out his name. "Woo, Big Eee-jay, Big Eee-jay! You still packing heat with that long, thick umbrella of yours, big man?" Zanka starts cussing. "Not this motherfucking dreadhead again, fuck--" "And you got Mr. Bad Attitude down there with you? That's two bad bitches for the price of one!" Jabber's whoops of excitement echo through the tunnel, the light from his lantern jumping in the dark as he races toward the two Cleaners. "C'mon, c'mon, c'mon. I been hard up for a good fight. Them other folk act scary when the Raiders come around, but I know y'all like to get freaky on the low. Ain't gon' blue ball me this time, right?" Enjin sighs, utterly dismayed, as he readies Umbreaker. He should've known the moment he got lost with Zanka instead of Rudo.

In this, Jabber calls Enjin "Big EJ" as a form of sexual innuendo & to purposely overstep social boundaries by using a nickname as if he and Enjin are close friends when they’re not. It's different from his canonical "Mr. Bad Attitude", which mocks the idea that Zanka is deserving of respect by attaching a formal honorific to a negative epithet.

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Personally I feel as though the reason why the dialogue feels so corny is that it’s kinda mix and matching regional slang. When it comes to AAVE the terms change based on location, even if words like “shorty” “blick” and “freakin’” are valid terms that many black people use, they don’t feel like words that Jabber would use based on the way he speaks in canon and his cadence is awkward when you compare it to his canon dialogue. Kinda like if you wrote a New Yorker character to use surfer bro slang just cause that’s how you see all white guys, it’s uncanny.

I guess the solution would be as you said, basing Jabber’s dialogue in fanfics off of how he speaks in canon. Specifically making note of the terms he uses and personally I’d probably look up where his VA Zeno Robinson is from and use the slang from where he’s from since I’m pretty sure Robinson was given a fair amount of creative liberty with Jabber’s dialogue. (That’s just me though and for all I know monsieur Robinson didn’t based Jabbers slang off of the slang he’s familiar with)

#fuck off that is a light skin from ATL I know my kind we don’t use like half of those words #also Jabber uses slang but he also uses oddly big words at times #like when he said erect instead of hard #ngl I think he’d call guns by their government just for the fun of it mf pulling up talkin bout some firearm

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"omg all of u writers only write smut nowadays!!!! i wanna read fluff, or angst :(((( wahhh wahh wahhhh!!" ok u write the fanfiction then? some of u here are soooo entitled, we're so lucky writers even give us fanfiction to read. you know that the fanfiction on Tumblr is mostly smut, yet you still come on here and have the audacity to complain about what writers wanna make? go to ao3 where you can filter the tags if you're so desperate for fluff for your favorite character. fandom etiquette is DEAD

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Also where are you guys seeing all of this mystery smut I’ve been seeing way more fics with plot recently compared to like a few years ago

#we are getting less horny gang what are you talking about

degenerateshinji

art that i drew that was drawn by me

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First?

lilichrisie

I trully believe Zanka is bisexual. Not because he would date women, but because he was doing a lil too much with assistaff to only like men.

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He’s gay but straight for assistaff

#personally I consider him aro but kinda freaked out

itszanka

zanka and his never-ending passion for attacking 15 year olds at the slightest provocation

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Have you met 15 year olds? This is completely appropriate

degenerateshinji

anyone suggestions on how to write mermaid sex,. like . is the tail sensitive. if so where. how. why. it has to be in a way that doesnt inconvenience the mermaid while swimming obviously?? where does the. hole go. where is anything placed. fish anus is at the bottom like a bird's cloaca but mermaids are lowkey rotated wrong so should there just be a random butthole on the side. where does it go. or no hole at all??? then wheres the erogenous zones. where . how

asking for a friend all names are fictional anything resembling real life places, names, people is purely coïncidence

#*strokes chin whisker thoughtfully*#much to consider w/ this

kyouka-supremacy

"This bsd ship is toxic" "that bsd ship is toxic" actually there's only one toxic relationship in bsd and it's the one between the bsd manga and the people on my dash that keep saying "that's it I'm dropping bsd this time for real" and then keep going back to it like it was an ex they can't get over

blairbeau

I fucking hate this show

kyouka-supremacy

↑ all of us apparently

#I’ve escaped I developed a different hyperfixation everybody cheer #(incredibly homesick for bsd but it’s probably better for my mental health if my stability doesn’t depend on #no one potentially dying in the fake out deaths manga #)

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no caption i have nothing to say for myself

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GOD DAMN

#why’d you give him so much ass Taylor fuck 😭#he does not need all that and quite frankly I don’t think he can be trusted with it #missed opportunity to add a zoom on his ass but I feel #like that was intentional #sad

Headcanon that the day Mechaman Astral died is something of a holiday (local or national depending on how popular you believe he was) honoring him.

Robert doesn’t celebrate and every once in a while someone asks him why and he has to explain that while he appreciates people honoring the guy he also doesn’t exactly want to celebrate his dad’s death and that it’s actually closer to a day of mourning for him.

#“omg Robert what are you doing for mechaman day tmw?“ “ probably gonna cry and get drunk why?“#ignore the backwards quotation marks I’m on my phone ok #idk #dispatch game #dispatch #robert robertson #robert robertson iii