― Han Kang, Human Acts
[text ID: After you died I could not hold a funeral, / And so my life became a funeral.]
Chaghan: I can still hear his voice…
Altan’s ghost: GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY
Kitay: *gets a papercut*
Rin, who has fought a god, lost a hand and has hundreds of battle scars, tearing up: hasn't he been through enough?
『📚 the genius, the soulmate 📜』
Chen Kitay from the Poppy War trilogy
still thinking about how rin was willing to blow up an entire country, sacrifice thousands of soldiers, tried to kill nezha several times, murdered altan in multiple visions, and due to her terrible decision making was responsible for the end of the cike, but she drew the line at hurting kitay, who would have let her do it anyway …… that’s love honestly. their friendship is so important to me
“She was in love. But she was frightened, and she felt utterly confused. If she said one thing, he would laugh at her; if she did another, he would hold her in contempt. She could not even answer a simple question. She would cringe and begin to pull dust balls from the matting on the floor - piling them up, piling them up, like the mountain of thoughts weighing on her ind. How she longed to see him! Yesterday she would have said it openly. She blamed herself for her predicament: she would not speak his name or mention his family, and it only made things worse. Clearly something must be done - even tears would have cooled the fire in her heart. She couldn’t sleep at night. Finally, exhausted from her yearning, she would doze off. In her dreams, he would come to her. His gentle hand would tap her on the back. ‘What are you thinking about?’ ‘You,’ she could not bring herself to say.”
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Higuchi Ichiyō, “Flowers at Dusk” from In the Shade of Spring Leaves
“Reality is in the things one believes, but reality can never make one believe.”
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Dazai Osamu, Tsugaru
tomato-bird
I was born in a land straight out of a fairy tale (Many people died there)
Kazuha: Wh-what are you doing
Traveller: (sobbing and putting way too many sea Ganodermas in Kazuha's hair)
Traveller: *sniffle* giving you your welcome home present
