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  1. Public Bookmark 1

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    Dazai’s eyes are on the hidden sun. The bandages around his throat flex as he swallows. Down down down, peristaltic around the bitter black holes he shoves down his throat daily. “Time washed away all my sins.”

    Yosano smiles. It twists and breaks on her river-mouth like an ocean current. “Did it wash away the blood?”

    (Or, an angel and a demon walk into a detective agency.)

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    18 Jun 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 12

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    The two things Dazai hates most in life are pain and losing.
    And this is what losing looks like: a dance with Death, a sweet embrace, a gentle caress, and then Death leaves. It looks like one eye opening to find life once again crashing in; a promise of breath, not of rest.
    And this is what losing feels like: biting metal and bubbling, boiling blood. Something manic rising from the chest into the throat, escaping lips like a high pitched bark. It feels like slicing skin to slivers but still not ever feeling like anything was pieced together in the first place. Losing feels like a lack of control and a fire formed from a pile of bones.

    or; Dazai, pain, losing, and identity over the years

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    07 Jun 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 12

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    Dazai can't stand the taste of contradictions and yet, he is one.

    or, a collection of headcanons of Dazai's time in the Mafia placed into a semi-linear narration.

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    07 Jun 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 36

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    Odasaku is dead. Odasaku is dead and not coming back, never coming back, because he’s dead. He had asked Dazai to become a “good person,” despite the fact that Dazai’s barely a person at all. It’s just like Odasaku, to be requesting something so ridiculous when Dazai can’t refuse or argue.

    It always comes back to this.

    (or: oda sakunosuke is dead. this is what happens next.)

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    06 Jun 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 7

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    A knock on the door.

    (No no no no no no no no)

    Silence.

    Then another knock.

    (Don’t let him see you don’t let him see you don’t let him see you don’t let him see you don’t let him see you he can’t see you like this)

    or:
    Dazai has a mental breakdown and therefore hasn't been to work in a while. Chuuya searches for him to bring him a little care-package.

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    26 May 2025