"People Become Writers, When Nobody Listens"

Odasaku's last words were exactly what Dazai needed to hear. And were the ONLY thing that could have freed him from the Mafia and, set him on the path to the light

“You should know this yourself. No matter whether you’re on the side of killing people or saving people, there will never be anything that can surpass your mind. There is no place in this world that can fill your loneliness. You will linger in the darkness forever.”

I've seen lots of people complain that Oda is being too cruel here, that he is destroying Dazai's hope that he could be better. BUT ITS THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE! The next paragraph in the light novel shows exactly why.

At this moment, Dazai realised for the first time.

Odasaku understood him far beyond what Dazai had ever thought. He had already reached close to his heart, the place near the centre of his heart. Before this, Dazai had never noticed there was someone who understood him so well.

For the first time in his life, Dazai wanted to know something from the depths of his heart. Hence, he brings up the question to the person before him.

“Odasaku… I… What should I do?”

Dazai truly believes deep down, that he is fundamentally broken; that he is not a human being, he is terrified of any hope that he might be able to find a reason too live because everything he wants is lost to him the moment he attains it.

If Oda had said "Dazai, you can be a good person if you try" or "Your human just like everyone else" Dazai would not have accepted it, he might have tried for Oda's sake, but he would not have seen how deep Oda's understanding of him was and thus would not have asked him that crucial question:

“Odasaku… I… What should I do?”

It's because Oda understands that Dazai cannot except his humanity that he can set Dazai on the right path. He does not tell Dazai that he will find a reason to live if he saves people, because Dazai would never believe that. instead he tells him that it will be a little more beautiful, which Dazai can hold onto and follow, and hopefully find that reason to live himself, without Oda telling where it can be found.

“Since both sides are the same, become a good person. Save the weak, protect orphans. Regardless of whether it’s justice or evil, to you, there isn’t a big difference between the two… But, doing that would be better.”

“How do you know that?”

“I know, I know this better than anyone else.”

Dazai looked at Odasaku’s eyes.

Odasaku’s eyes were filled with conviction. The words were clearly said with some sort of strong basis. was it past experience? Or perhaps someone’s suggestion? —He was trying to show Dazai the path he once walked. Dazai understood this.

Dazai could trust it.

“I understand… I’ll do that.”

Oda understood Dazai, deeply and truly, better then anyone else ever has and maybe ever will. His description of Dazai shows that perfectly:

"He's sharp witted with a mind like a steel trap. And he's just a child━a sobbing child abandoned in the darkness of a world far emptier than the one we're seeing."

He saw him for both the genius he is and the child he pretends not to be, and was the only person to ever reach both half's of Dazai's soul, he was his friend, simply and truly. The only one he ever had.

CHAMPIONNAT DE FRANCE 2008 - SOUCY - MINIME

10-year-old Charles Leclerc, a tiny creature

Okay seriously. Reblog if you're OLDER than 11.

y/n: HELP! I TOLD WILLIAM I’D COOK DINNER TONIGHT BUT I CAN’T COOK! Michael, pouring milk directly into the cereal bag: And you thought I could help?

Reblog this if you ship rare pairs!

Mood

you’re telling me there’s so many characters wearing lingerie in moulin rouge and Aaron Tveit is NOT one of them???? tragic.

I made some blobs for yall

ok so apparently “Sweet Nothing” by Taylor Swift is about Paul and Linda? And he might have worked on it with her? She credited someone (an alias, “William Bowery”) on the album who she said was Joe Alwyn, her ex partner, but for multiple reasons there’s always been rumours that it wasn’t him

Taylor uses the lyrics “on the way home // I wrote a poem // you say, “what a mind” // this happens all the time”

Here’s a quote from Paul: “I would go out for a run, think of some words, get home from the run, write them down, and make a cup a tea for Linda. I'd make a little tray, and go up, and then I'd say, 'Hey, by the way, do you want to hear some poetry?' She'd always … she'd say, 'Yeah.' And so I wrote that poem. I would come back from a run. With lines of poetry to tell. And having listened, she would say 'What a mind.'”

A Paul archive account posted this quote (an abbreviated version) the weekend Taylor’s album came out, which seems…not accidental. Taylor just randomly liked the tweet, which is a year old, after it was revealed that one of her saddest songs about difficulties in her relationship with Joe wasn’t written during the breakup or shortly before, but in 2021, which makes people doubt very much if a song like Sweet Nothing could have been written by the “happy couple” in 2022.

Additionally, Paul was spotted in Wicklow more than once in 71, which would fit the theme of the song, as it’s about coming home to a partner’s love after the world outside tried to rip you to shreds. Crying screaming throwing up btw

13 days kinds of kisses up to the 14th of February✨ (\\\^з^\\\)(⁎⁍̴̆Ɛ⁍̴̆⁎)

I want someone to take me to a better life, where I don’t have to worry about anything