Odazai - Tumblr Posts

There's a word for this -- or several, paragraphs, perhaps a novel -- of how good it is to be shouldered with the best company.

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the long goodbye

a dark era

bsd sketches!

Speaking of couple outfits, well you know it’s actually kinda canon???

https://popopretty.tumblr.com/post/653259631787966464/dazai-and-the-striped-shirt

i've been hoarding this ask for so long just to sketch something inspired by this because it has triggered something in me i thought wasn't there before (aka the capabilities of drawing something that isn't angst). i can't believe... they are married

Dropping the hc that dazai appreciate kunikida reading to him cause it reminds him of oda

hewwo am perfectly aware of how it looks (the cover especially) buuut tldr odazai oneshot not really odazai one of dazai’s nights after odasaku’s death

i have no idea how advertisement works nor communication with people i wrote a thing and i’d be glad if people gave it a shot !!please!!  also thank please ignore the tags

why it sounds like Dazai came from another life just for Odasaku? 🥺

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why it sounds like Dazai came from another life just for Odasaku? 🥺

Dazai poking the two people that he Loves.

I think types of memes are stupid, What the hell is a gay ship for straights anyways?

I personally don't ship Oda and Dazai because I just can't Oda catching romantic feelings for someone he knew when they were 16, and in the new Light novel, This man was contemplating whether he should smoke in front Dazai or not. Because he saw Dazai as a kid. For context: (Oda was 21 when he met Dazai who was 16 at the time)

I like their relationship platonically, If I were to see it in a romantic lense, I can only see it being one sided in Dazai's side. And Not reciprocated in Oda's side. I guess it's just hard for me to believe that Oda would date someone who he knew when they were 16 and saw and described them as just kid. Only to start hitting on this kid when he turns 18. :/

I just don't see it. but that's just my opinion though.

a personal summary

“Nothing in this world can fill the hole that is your loneliness. You will wander the darkness for eternity.”

“Awaken me from this oxidizing world of a dream.”

That was when Dazai first realized: Sakunosuke Oda understood him much more than he’d ever imagined - right up to his very heart, almost to the center of his mind. Dazai didn’t realize until then that someone had know him so well. 

“Be on the side that saves people,” Odasaku replied. “If both sides are the same, then choose to become a good person. Save the weak, protect the orphaned. You might not see a great difference between right and wrong, but… saving others is something just a bit more wonderful.” 

“How do you know?”

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

Dazai gazed into Odasaku’s eyes and saw a glow of conviction. It was clear that those words were supported by some sort of strong basis. Wheter it was past experience or someone’s advice - Odasaku was trying to show Dazai the path he himself had once tried to walk. 

Dazai knew that. 

That was why he could bring himself to believe it. 

Asagiri kafka, “Osamu Dazai and the Dark Era”

Listen. LISTEN. “A life in which you have someone to say goodbye to is a good life. If your farewell to that person is very painful, there is nothing more to say.” The fact that it’s Dazai of all people saying this strikes me. Dazai is someone characterized by the fact that he does not see the value in living life. He does not find anything in the world to be worth living for. He’s tried to commit suicide time and time again because, to him, life simply offers nothing substantial enough to justify the experience of living it.

And yet. By saying those words, he implicitly tells Oda that his life was a good one. Not just passable, not just alright, not just tolerable, but good. His life was a good one because Oda is the person that he has to say goodbye to, because saying goodbye to Oda like this is very painful to him. Even though, in this universe, Oda hates him, even though Oda considers him an enemy, even though Oda says he has no right to call him ‘Odasaku’ - Dazai still says his life was a good one, simply because Oda existed in it.