at this rate basically an Akutagawa blog | "The words of your past are fundamentally unrelated to who you are today" - A Mysterious Thing Called "The Heart"
Shin Soukoku from Bungo Stray Dogs - My take on how the album reputation by Taylor Swift represents SSKK with each song with a bonus perspective.
1) ...Ready For It?
Perspective: Akutagawa
Lyric/Quote: "I see nothing better, I keep him forever, Like a vendetta" & "I know I'm gonna be with you, so I'll take my time"
2) End Game
Perspective: Akutagawa
Lyric/Quote: "I got a bad boy persona, it's what they like, you love it, I love it too 'cause you my type, You hold me down and I protect you with my life" & "You've been calling my bluff on all my usual tricks"
3) I Did Something Bad
Perspective: Atsushi
Lyric/Quote: "This is how the world works, You gotta leave before you get left"
4) Don't Blame Me
Perspective: Atsushi
Lyric/Quote: "For you, I would cross the line" - "My name is whatever you decide, and I'm just gonna call you mine" - "And baby, for you, I would fall from grace"
5) Delicate
Perspective: Akutagawa
Lyric/Quote: "My reputation's never been worse, so you must like me for me" & "Sometimes when I look into your eyes, I pretend you're mine, all the damn time"
Bonus from Atsushi's perspective: "Handsome, you're a mansion with a view"
6) Look What You Made Me Do
Perspective: Akutagawa
Lyric/Quote: "I don't trust nobody and nobody trust me" & "The role you made me play of the fool"
Bonus: "The old Taylor can come to the phone right now, Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead"
7) So It Goes...
Perspective: Atsushi
Lyric/Quote: "You know I'm not a bad girl but I do bad things with you" & "But when you get me alone, it's so simple"
8) Gorgeous
Perspective: Atsushi
Lyric/Quote: "There's nothing I hate more than what I can't have" & "'Cause you're so gorgeous, it actually hurts"
Bonus: "You should take it as a compliment that I got drunk and made fun of the way you talk"
9) Getaway Car
Bonus: Dazai/Chuuya
10) King Of My Heart
Perspective: Atsushi
Lyric/Quote: "You are the one I have been waiting for" & "My broken bones are mending"
11) Dancing With Our Hands Tied
Perspective: Akutagawa
Lyric/Quote: "I, I loved you in spite of, Deep fears that the world would divide us" & "And say, say that we got it, I'm a mess, but I'm the mess that you wanted"
12) Dress
Perspective: Atsushi/Akutagawa
Lyric/Quote: "Even in my worst times, you could see the best in me" & "Everyone thinks that they know us but they know nothing..."
13) This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Bonus: Dazai to Ango
14) Call It What You Want
Perspective: Atsushi
Lyric/Quote: "My castle crumbled overnight" & He built a fire just to keep me warm"
Bonus: "My baby's fit like a daydream"
15) New Year's Day
Perspective: Atsushi
Lyric/Quote: "But I stay when you're lost, and I'm scared, and you're turning away" & "Please don't ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere"
noooooooo sakura don't go outside and stare longingly with the far and unreachable moon in the sky above that connects both you and suo for unexplained metaphorical and symbolic reasons
fun fact about me: When I was 6 years old I sent so much hate mail to the president (the second Bush) that the mail carrier had to tell my mom I needed to stop before we got FBI’d
I was COMPLETELY unaware of the US political scene or why the adults in my life hated Bush, but I knew I hated him because he let people shoot wolves from helicopters and that’s mean and shitty
I also had a poor grasp on how stamps worked, so given that I wasn’t allowed to continually throw money away by putting stamps on my presidential hate mail, a lot of the times I just drew squares with little pictures inside on the corner.
Love, love, love reading more proof that everyone should encourage the children in their lives to write to elected officials--it teaches them about citizenship and can also be very funny.
When I taught second grade, one of the options for students who had finished their work was to write a letter to the president. I would send all of the letters in a big envelope at the end of every month.
Watching my students get more and more frustrated with him (and concerned about his wellbeing) was not the result I'd hoped for when I came up with the idea, but it was kind of hilarious.
See, Obama had a standard packet with information and activities about his dog he'd send in response to letters from very young citizens...and of course his office sent one back to our class every single time we sent mail.
So eventually all of the letters looked something like this:
Dear President Obama,
I am writing about the environment. I am sad that the Great Barrier Reef is hurt. Also the Amazon Rainforest. Can you help? PLEASE DON'T WRITE BACK TO TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DOG AGAIN. WE ALREADY KNOW ALL ABOUT BO. WE COMPLETED THE MAZE AND COLORED HIM IN. It is good that you love your pet a lot. But try to remember the environment. It is also important.
A Zutara parallel I've never seen pointed out is that one episode where the gaang is infiltrating a party at the Earth King's palace and Toph says that Katara is mannered enough to fit in with high-society after a little coaching, and simultaneously the B-plot for Zuko and Iroh is working in the tea shop. And Zuko not being able to work a single day in customer service without jumping at the opportunity to swordfight someone (valid).
So at the same time Katara is a commoner disguised as high-society, Zuko is high-society disguised as a commoner.
It's like it's showing that each of them could meet the other halfway and fit into each other's worlds.
Yin and Yang, push and pull, each contains a piece of the other within themselves.
When Katara says "I'm just glad we finally have another girl in the group because you two [Aa.ng and Sokka] are disgusting," and then Toph immediately joins them in being disgusting, I wish there had been a parallel moment where after Zuko joins he's like "You three [Aa.ng, Sokka, Toph] are disgusting. How is Katara the only one here who knows what hygiene means? The rest of you act like you were raised in the jungle." And Katara is still mad at him but begrudgingly appreciates that finally there's someone in the group who washes his fucking hands and who she doesn't need to clean up after.
"You really want Katara to become Fire Lady and spend her life improving the nation that committed cultural genocide against hers?"
YOU KNOW WHAT YES I DO BECAUSE IT SUPPORTS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF HER ARC. SHE LEARNS THAT NOT ALL BENDING IS BAD AND NOT ALL BENDING IS GOOD, AND THAT BY EXTENSION NOT ONE NATION OF PEOPLE IS ENTIRELY BAD OR GOOD. SHE CANONICALLY HELPS FIRE NATION PEOPLE AS THE PAINTED LADY AND WHEN SHE DEFIES HAMA TO SAVE THE CIVILIANS SHE IMPRISONED. THIS IS SUCH AN INTEGRAL PART OF HER STORY THAT IN HER LAST FIGHT SCENE OF THE ENTIRE SHOW, SHE LITERALLY SUBDUES ONE FIREBENDER WHO REPRESENTS THE EVILS OF THE FIRE NATION AND WAS NAMED AFTER THE FIRE LORD WHO ORDERED THE FIRST RAIDS ON HER VILLAGE IN ORDER TO HELP ANOTHER FIREBENDER WHO EARNED HER FORGIVENESS AND SACRIFICED HIMSELF TO SAVE HER, THEREBY RESTORING BALANCE TO THE ELEMENTS BY SUPPORTING NATIONAL UNITY AND JUDGING PEOPLE OFF OF THEIR CHARACTERS RATHER THAN THEIR BACKGROUNDS.
AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Happy @sskkbigbang 2026 !! Please take a moment to pass out and cry like I did from this FREAKING ART by @tealeaf-master (Also there’s another spoiler one hidden in the fic!! 🥹❤️🥹). Please check out her Tumblr OMG
Here’s to Shin Soukoku - the greatest idiots rivals to idiot lovers I’ve ever had the great fortune of becoming head over heels obsessed with. Please enjoy my humble offering of a fic.
Saturday (read on Ao3!)
He was still restless, fidgeting, eyes on high alert. He felt like a caged beast, limbs aching to run and defend his territory. But alas, he was but a simple human detective with a simple godlike tiger inside him. And today was his day off. He grinned as he bounced out of bed and headed to the shower.
At least it was Saturday.
or
Atsushi, bored and restless now that the world is more or less saved, ropes Akutagawa into exploring various hobbies together in an effort to deal with that distress. However over time, for some mysterious reason, these "hobbies" start looking a lot more like dates...
(Inspired by the song "Saturday" by Twin Shadow ft. HAIM)
Atsushi leans down, hovering at the edge of the bathtub, hand extended, fingertips brushing against Akutagawa's jawline and gently guiding him to look up. The glow of the halogen lightbulb feels as if it's burning his eyes. Its light settles on the whites of Atsushi's hair, making them look like a halo around his hair. And maybe Akutagawa's mind is still too groggy from the blood loss because it feels all too fitting.
my @sskkbigbang '26 illustration for metal's gorgeous gorgeous fic "the sickness unto death, and then..." which you can read here. a true and angsty delight 💕
Happy @sskkbigbang posting week!! <3 <3
My first time ever participating in a big bang and it was such a great experience! @lithermitcrab you've been a wonderful collab partner and I loved creating something for your beautiful story!!
Please check out her amazing fic here and give it lots of love!
I'm so happy I get to finally post the comic I did for it, it's been so fun to work on! Since it is spoiler-y for the story, I'll put page 2 and 3 of it under the cut! <3 Happy reading!
if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"
“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid
