im your lost sister hello
I keep them on my wall in black and white like they're my relatives who all died at sea
Appreciation post for all the beginner artists who work hard despite the AI looming over us. You are fabulous. You are precious. Keep up the hard work, you are needed.
мы разные. мое отсутствие тебя не беспокоило, а твое — меня убивало.
dazai osamu i love you so much
i was listening to you're so dark and the idea of chuuya stumbling upon that song after dazai defected is so funny to me like imagine ur 18, ur 3 yr long situationship (guy that coerced u into joining the mafia) disappeared off the face of the earth and also arctic monkeys just released AM
С завтрашнего дня начинаем тренировать мозг на задачи с векторами 💪💪💪
Francis visits Henry’s grave every year. Alone.
No one else does — no one else wants to. Charles avoids the topic entirely. Camilla sends Francis clipped replies when he brings it up. Richard pretends he never gets the messages. But Francis marks the day like a liturgy. Like a holy feast. Like penance.
He books the same suite in a faceless hotel. Wears the same black coat. Packs the same silver lighter — an old one Henry once admired in passing. It’s all performative, of course. But what is Catholicism if not grief wrapped in ritual? He fasts before the visit. Doesn't drink the night before. He makes the trip feel like confession.
The grave is unmarked, just a patch of earth in a neglected corner of a rural cemetery, the kind no one visits on purpose. Francis had to dig to find out where Henry was buried. Had to call someone’s widow and lie. But now he knows, and he treats it like a secret shrine.
He kneels every year. Gets the dirt on his trousers, on his coat, lets the damp seep into his bones because suffering feels closer to prayer when it’s physical. And he talks.
Not to Henry. Not really. To God. To himself. To something between the two.
"You ruined everything, you know," he says once. "And so did I."
He breaks off. Lights a cigarette. Doesn’t smoke it. Leaves it burning at the grave like incense. The first year he did this, he left a bottle of scotch. Last year, he left a page torn out of a Latin prayer book. This year, he doesn’t bring anything. He just sits.
And he waits. For something. A sign. An answer. Forgiveness.
But Henry is silent. Always was. Even now, dead and buried, he’s still the one with the upper hand.
And Francis — Francis goes back to the hotel, vomits in the sink, lights another cigarette with shaking hands. He doesn’t cry. Not anymore. It’s been years. But his hands won’t stop trembling.
That night, he goes to mass. Sits in the very back. Doesn't take communion.
He knows better.
You know you’re fucked up when Regulus Black is your comfort character
Both the real life Osamu Dazai and Fyodor Dostoevsky drew.
Fyodor Dostoevsky was known to sketch in his manuscripts. Osamu Dazai painted with oils and was very interested in fine arts. Fun fact the main character in No Longer Human also wanted to go to art school and become an artist. There's actually a lot of mention of yozo liking making art in no longer human.
So of course i had to draw their twink versions painting together. <3