Needed To Clip Just This Part Of The Interview Bcus It’d The Funniest 25 Seconds Of All Time

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life / Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot  / Donna Tartt, The Secret History

John Galliano S/S 2004

Young people in Amsterdam at the Monument on Dam Square (1973). Photo by Bert Verhoeff.

my dead goth son and his friendly neighborhood personified concept of insanity

bsd 123 has some insane moments but i genuinely think this is the craziest.

like, yes, this is about how atsushi helped akutagawa realise that dazai’s word is not something he can rely on, and that dazai’s validation is not a reason to live—but it’s not the only thing to take away.

firstly, this is the first time that akutagawa has realised that somebody believes in him. this person hated him, didn’t get along with him, fought him to the death on more than one occasion, saw the worst of him, yet still believes in him. atsushi believes in him enough to bring back his consciousness, and to try and do it twice. atsushi believes in him enough to reassure him often, even if it doesn’t feel like reassurance all the time. atsushi believes in him enough to protect him, even though akutagawa has been the protector his entire life.

secondly, i don’t believe that atsushi has now become akutagawa’s reason to live from this panel. akutagawa thinks about two things after his epiphany that dazai’s words don’t hold the same weight anymore. the first is his promise to atsushi, and what that means to him. the second is atsushi’s words about true strength—which akutagawa realises he now has. it’s not about a reason to live anymore, but that akutagawa has someone who believes in him and because of that, he feels alive.

this panel isn’t about akutagawa’s mentality shifting. it’s about him finally finding his strength and fighting for something that he, and not anybody else, thinks is right. he’s hoping. he’s caring. he’s understanding. he’s strong. he’s alive.

“mary wollstonecraft sent a volume of jean-jacques rousseau's bestselling novel julie, or the new heloise (1761) to her lover william godwin in 1796, with the request that he ‘dwell on your own feelings: that is to say, give me a bird's-eye view of your heart.’

the shrewdest lovers marked up their books by highlighting the passages that they most agreed with, thereby ensuring that they found a spouse with a similar intellect, interests and outlook on life.”

we have loved the same way for centuries.

Stella Tennant at Chanel spring/summer 1996

tendres esclaves - robert chouraqui (1990)