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Mel 🩰💌🎀

@mymelantine.bsky.social

27 ❀ they/love ✿ #BSD (Bungou Stray Dogs) survivor ❀ multi-ship writer ✿ "The Tale of Twin Doves" author ❀ not spoiler-free ✿ ENFJ ❀ ic: @/romantization ✿ @PortMafiaZine ✿ carrd: https://mel.uwu.ai ❀ #Fanfiction for my works ♡ ✿ #Headcanon + #Threadfic

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Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · last yr.

Here is a preview of my piece for @literaryladiesbsd.bsky.social zine. Please support the official release around the end of July! 💌

“The government has never once given a single shit about what I or any kid from The City wants or needs. They left us there to rot until we became a problem – a problem that they squashed without a single care in the world. If I’m such a burden and so broken, then why even bother with me? Just send me back to a cell. Let me live out my days cold and alone, somewhere where I can’t hurt or piss off anyone else! So why?”

“Because that’s what parents do.”

A flash of white-hot rage alights her magenta eyes, her nose wrinkling into a snarl as the next words come from the heart, storming away as she says them:

“You’re not my real parents.”

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share a snippet of what I have cooking for @portmafiazine.bsky.social 🎀 Please support this project upon release in the coming months ♡ #zine #zines #BSD #WIP

"Wartime never ceases.

On the contrary, it rages on with an unwavering fervor, uncaring of those uninvolved. Waged by the rich and powerful, fought by the young and cornered. Somewhere in the long line of wealthless fate, dying for the sake of someone else’s pockets became a motto of familial honor.

The war spread from the battlefield to the streets and even among the citizens of Japan, infesting their livelihoods with the ever-looming prospect of being next."

-By Melantine

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · last yr.

【Fanfiction】 🤟🏾 "Give Me A Sign" 🤟🏾 (Originally written for an event) ♡ • #TachiGin • Genderfluid + Selectively Mute Gin • Star-Athlete Tachihara • Tachihara learns SL for Gin (the most beautiful person he's ever seen) 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/63733729 #BSD #Fanfiction #BungouStrayDogs

[Fanfiction Title]: "Give Me A Sign"

[Quoted Summary From The Work]: With a hefty sigh and narrowed golden eyes like chips of gold, the team captain readies to repeat his order for the play in question:

‘Shotgun formation, Tanizaki forward.’

The words wilt in his throat, the petals of duty on the field floating back into his lungs. The dirty-redhead’s eyes focus behind the head of someone else he could not care less to name: she stood right there, just beyond the fence overlooking the field. And the only pitiful mutter that seeps from his lips is:

“Wow.”

[Unquoted Summary]: In which Tachihara Michizou, the quarterback with a bright athletic future, finds that football is merely second-string to finding out the identity of the most beautiful human being he'd ever laid eyes on.

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

【Fanfiction】 🎀🩰 "Lex Talionis" 🩰🎀 🎨: @moonsmess.bsky.social 🩷 • Ballerina Fem!Sigma MC • famous!AU • self-indulgent drama • multi-chapter passion project (ch. 1/??) • revenge • Dazai fucked around... now it's time to find out. "Here's to new beginnings." 🥂 #BSD #Fanfiction #FemSigma 🔗 below!

[Fanfiction Title]: "Lex Talionis"

[Summary]: "Sigma is SKY Ballet Company's very own almost-crowned Prima Ballerina: a once-in-a-generation honor that she spent most of her life working toward. Her husband is her high school sweetheart and also known as the one-and-only A-List actor and resident heartthrob, Dazai Osamu,

Fame, talent, and a gorgeous husband - Miss Sigma has it all.

The world-class ballerina is the star of her own fairytale and the illusion of happiness crumbles to her En Pointe feet.

With public opinion swayed by a caption, a pretty face, and a lie-by-omission, Sigma's enchanted life morphs into a barren field of open betrayal laid upon the depths of Instagram.

After her cheating husband rips her of any-and-all earned success as a oh-so-loving parting gift, like a phoenix materialized out of ashes, Sigma must find her footing and herself as she is cast away.

Hell hath no fury like a woman truly scorned, burned by love... and one Dazai Osamu may soon find out that instruments of karma come readily to those who have been victimized in cold blood.

The law of revenge is one of equally-inflicted pain: an eye for an eye."

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

An art piece by @romantization on Twitter/X.

It features Sigma as a ballerina performing on stage with roses strewn at her feet.

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

i'm working on a piece for the side-zine with all of these talented contributors. please continue to give them a warm reception! this project is going super well and i can't wait to show you what we've been up to!

"As Night Falls" - A Port Mafia Zine@portmafiazine.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌙 Spotlights: Day Ten🌙 🌘 @melantine.bsky.social * (Writer) 🌕 Suumi (Page Artist) 🌗 Ami * (Page Artist) 🌒 @monkeybanana.bsky.social * (Writer) #BSD #BungouStrayDogs #zines #zinecontributor #contributorspotlights

"As Night Falls" - A Port Mafia Zine @portmafiazine.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌙 Spotlights: Day Ten🌙 🌘 @melantine.bsky.social * (Writer) 🌕 Suumi (Page Artist) 🌗 Ami * (Page Artist) 🌒 @monkeybanana.bsky.social * (Writer) #BSD #BungouStrayDogs #zines #zinecontributor #contributorspotlights

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

Dazakiko prayer circle 😭😭😭😭

BSDVolunteers@bsdvolunteers.bsky.social · 2y ago

💫📖 SHIP NOMINATIONS 📖💫 With contributor apps now open, it's time to let us know which ships you'd like to see from our event! QRT your favorite BSD ships 💫📖 #bungostraydogs #BSD #ships #qrt

The text reads:

"QRT Game!"

"Multiship Event"

"QRT with the ships you'd like to see included in the event!"

BSDVolunteers @bsdvolunteers.bsky.social · 2y ago

💫📖 SHIP NOMINATIONS 📖💫 With contributor apps now open, it's time to let us know which ships you'd like to see from our event! QRT your favorite BSD ships 💫📖 #bungostraydogs #BSD #ships #qrt

The text reads:

"QRT Game!"

"Multiship Event"

"QRT with the ships you'd like to see included in the event!"

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

【 Fan-Poetry 】 🌠🌙 "Never The Sun" 🌙🌠 • Dazakiko / Akizai / Dazano / Dazsano • Space allegory • Yearning • I realized I could just write poetry by itself on ao3 and went insane #Fanfiction #BSD #BungoStrayDogs #BungouStrayDogs #Ao3 #Poetry 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/64122037

[Fanfiction Title]: "Never The Sun"

[Summary]: "The stars, collectively He, forever omnipresent, watch with fervor as they cycle through endless death and rebirth.

A shared organism with one specticle:

She who effortlessly shines brighter than He could ever fathom."

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'M SO EXCITED!!!

BSDVolunteers@bsdvolunteers.bsky.social · 2y ago

📖💫 Contributor Apps are now OPEN 💫📖 Our applications will be open from now until May 18th, so please read through everything and fill it out to the best of your ability by then! Due to potential confusion regarding which form to use during sign up, please read the thread 🔻 #BSD #applications

"Contributor Applications"

"What is the best option for you?"

BSDVolunteers @bsdvolunteers.bsky.social · 2y ago

📖💫 Contributor Apps are now OPEN 💫📖 Our applications will be open from now until May 18th, so please read through everything and fill it out to the best of your ability by then! Due to potential confusion regarding which form to use during sign up, please read the thread 🔻 #BSD #applications

"Contributor Applications"

"What is the best option for you?"

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to be working with such an awesome group of talented and passionate individuals as Head Social Media Mod! Can't wait for contributor apps to open soon! See you then 💌

BSDVolunteers@bsdvolunteers.bsky.social · 2y ago

💫 Social Media Mods

BSDVolunteers @bsdvolunteers.bsky.social · 2y ago

📖💫 Mod Team Announcement 💫📖 Meet the team who will be bringing this event to life!

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Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

【 #Fanfiction 】 🚬🍸 "Only Wednesday" 🍸🚬 Written for @/OBSIDIANKUKRI! • Albatross-centric • Angst • Dead Dove (SH + alcoholism) • A weird little guy understands more than he lets on • I don't think "hurt/no comfort" covers this one, folks... #BSD #Albatross 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/63978184

[Fanfiction Title]: "Only Wednesday"

[Quoted Summary From The Work]: "You know where to find us, Albatross."

Something passes through the older man's face as he turns away, a silent acceptance of his parting. The breath that Albatross had been holding slithers out between his lips and his gaze falls briefly to the floor beneath him before he turns on his heel, trying to mask the way his faux-smile had slipped off of his face.

"Yeah, yeah."

'Don't worry, I won't find y'all tonight.'

[Unquoted Summary]: "Sometimes the most unexpected action is a show of kindness for a suffering soul."

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

Against a gray background is a picture of Albatross from Storm Bringer, holding a bottle of champagne with a happy expression. Layered behind it is a mysterious figure that looks a bit dwarfed in the coat he wears.

The text at the top left reads "And it was..."

The text at the bottom right reads: "Only Wednesday"

"As Night Falls" - A Port Mafia Zine @portmafiazine.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌙 Contributor Spotlights Imminent 🌙 The case files for the contributors behind "As Night Falls" are being compiled as we speak! It looks like April will be the month when identities come to light... Are you ready to support our sinister (and talented) team of contributors? #zine #zines #BSD

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

【 #Fanfiction 】 🥐 "Golden October" 🥐 attributed to @/Eden_luvs_sigma (thank you ♡) • #Rimlaine || 3k • Hurt/Comfort + Angst • "Happy birthday, Arthur." • Grief and Acceptance • Perfectionism + Stress Baking • Bittersweet Ending #BungouStrayDogs #BSD 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/62861491

[Fanfiction Title]: Golden October

[Quoted Summary From The Work]: "His features harden as he focuses now, barking out clear orders to any Port Mafia member on-duty to join him… and when all three available charges rally to his call, they are shocked to see Port Mafia Executive Paul Verlaine with his hair properly pulled back and in the largest kitchen that the headquarters has access to: in the confines of the basement.

“Don’t stand around and gawk. Get your hands washed and put your hair into nets. We have some croissants to bake.”"

[Unquoted Summary]: Today, like no other, had to be absolutely perfect for Paul Verlaine.

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

A collage of four photos.

The top left photograph is of a spread of croissants and coffee on a dark wooden table.

The top right photo is of a page of a book with the text:

"But as long as there's grief
I will endure it
because it means
that you were here
and that it mattered."

The bottom left photograph is a black-and-white picture of two people holding each other's hands very delicately.

The final photo on the bottom right is a manga panel of Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud from Stormbringer. It is slightly blurred, perhaps from unshed tears of the living lover.

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

【 #Fanfiction 】 ❄️ "Baby, It's Cold Outside" ❄️ • #Dazakiko • Rated T+ / SFW • not-a-songfic oneshot • Fluff for once??? • Disgustingly soft touches • I love the holidays • Self-indulgent lol #BungouStrayDogs #BSD #Dazano #Ao3 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/61182439

[Fanfiction Title]: Baby, It's Cold Outside

[Quoted Summary From The Work]: "“To be honest… I don’t have many memories of holidays.” Dazai let slip, attempting to keep his mask of indifference in-tact. “Not positive ones, anyway.”

“I know.” Yosano nods and she gestures toward where everyone else is: they are all having different conversations and messing around in their own little bubbles. The air is light and carefree, despite their usual work environment. “...but you can always make new ones.”"

[Unquoted Summary]: In which a certain detective finds himself realizing that taking things as they are is a gift in itself.

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

A collage of four photos under a glaze of snowflakes.

The top left photo is of Yosano Akiko, sitting at a desk with a smile and her hand propped up by her head.

The photo to her right is a banner of a winter-filled day, with frosted trees and low visibility.

Beneath that photo is the title of the Fanfiction being promoted: "Baby, It's Cold Outside".

The photo at the bottom left is a picture of Dazai, who is smiling and pointing at a board nearby, conducting a meeting.

The final photo at the bottom right is a landscape of a snowy inner-city at night.

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

【 #Fanfiction 】 ❤️‍🩹🍷"In Sickness and In Health" 🍷❤️‍🩹 attributed to @/romantization (thank you ♡) • #Soukoku (22 #SKK) • 3.2k word count • Sickfic • Sick Dazai / Caring Chuuya • So fluffy I died ngl • Typical SKK tomfoolery + Fluffy Ending #BSD #BungouStrayDogs 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/60614926

[Fanfiction Title]: In Sickness and In Health

[Quoted Summary From The Work]: "“You’re gonna put that in my mouth?” Dazai mumbles hazily, pointing to the thermometer.

“No shit, jackass. Where the fuck else do you think it’s gonna go?” Chuuya snaps, not even bothering to keep his voice down despite the brunet’s throbbing head.

‘I should’ve let this dumbass rot.’"

[Unquoted Summary]: Dazai Osamu has come down with a nasty illness and is much more vulnerable than Nakahara Chuuya could have ever expected.

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

A collage of three photographs with decorative pieces of paper and flowers strewn about the image.

In the middle on a lined sheet of notebook paper, the text reads the title of the Fanfiction being promoted: "In Sickness and In Health".

To the right of the text, it is an illustration of Chuuya and Dazai relaxing together. There are flowers lining the illustration.

Beneath the illustration is a manga panel of Fifteen Soukoku's eyes meeting.

To the left of this is a matching panel of Dead Apple Soukoku's eyes meeting when Dazai nullifies Chuuya's ability. There are flowers lining this manga panel as well.

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

【 #Fanfiction 】 🤕 "What Am I Going To Do With(out) You?" 🤕 attributed to @/adaintern (thank you ♡) • #Odango • 3k • Sickfic • Hurt/Comfort + Angst (ending) • Vulnerability and realizations • ft. Manipulative Dazai • Bittersweet Ending #BSD #BungouStrayDogs 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/60041293

[Fanfiction Title]: What Am I Going To Do With(out) You?

[Quoted Summary From The Work]: "“So, you’re implying that I take the entire day off, then?” Ango finally sighed, gripping the front door tightly as he stifled another cough. “And you didn’t call or text because…?”

“Because I’m here to make sure you actually do it.”"

[Unquoted Summary]: In which Sakaguchi Ango comes down with a cold... and that becomes Oda Sakunosuke's problem.

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

A polaroid-style photograph atop of a photograh background.

The top polaroid photograph is a manga coloring of Ango and Oda from BSD. The caption in the polaroid's extra lip is the Fanfiction title: "What Am I Going To Do Without You?" The "out" in Without is crossed out.

The background photograph is Ango visiting Oda's grave in the rain.

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

【 #Fanfiction 】 🕊 "The Tale of Twin Doves" 🕊 🎨: @/alchiiro ♡ • AU: Dazai and Yosano stay in the Port Mafia (canon age) • Traumatized!Yosano + Vengeful!Dazai • Arranged marriage • Multi-chap -- drama/thriller • Mafia-heavy violence #BSD #Dazakiko #Dazano 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/592239...

[Fanfiction Title]: The Tale of Twin Doves

[Quoted Summary From The Work]: "“Only under two circumstances does the trust pay out to you: either you marry, or you turn twenty-five – whichever comes first – and it seems to me that despite only being twenty-two, you’ll become quite the rich man soon, Dazai.”"

[Unquoted Summary]: Mori Ougai's two protegés, Yosano Akiko and Dazai Osamu, both have an opportunity to skyrocket the Port Mafia's influence tenfold. A traumatized Yosano meekly agrees, while a vengeful Dazai finally begins plotting a long-deserved visit from karma to his dear uncle.

For the Tale of Twin Doves and the harrowing Nightfall before them spares no soul.

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

The promotional artwork for the Fanfiction "The Tale of Twin Doves" by Melantine on Ao3.

It features artwork by @Alchiiro on Twitter/X.

The artwork is a dark background with a spotlight. Dazai is on the left, holding a gun above his head in a lax manner. He is dressed in his Port Mafia attire.

On the right is Yosano Akiko, a hand over her face. Her expression is somber, as if she is about to cry. She sports a business-casual dress-suit fit for a Port Mafia Executive.

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

【 #Fanfiction 】 🏠 "My Home and My Heart Lie With You" 🏠 🔞 (N)SFW 🔞 attributed to @/thisnonsns ♡ • 22!Soukoku || M/M • Switch!SKK Domchu/Subzai • 4k • Friends-With-Benefits • Smut w/ Feelings • Slight angst + happy ending #BSD #BungouStrayDogs #SKK #Soukoku 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/58403608

[Fanfiction Title]: My Home and My Heart Lie With You

[Quoted Summary From The Work]: "“Well, currently, we’re two humans with needs that are comfortable enough with each other to allow those needs to be met.”

Chuuya’s heart sinks as he grips the covers tightly. His instant reaction was to break something, anything, but his voice comes out quietly instead:

“Is that really all, Dazai?”

‘Is that really all I am worth to you?’

“Don’t try to make this ‘arrangement’ something that it isn’t, slug.” Dazai replies tiredly. “Our sex is great, we don’t need to complicate it.”

Okay, ouch?

The Executive let out a bitter sigh as he hid the initial shock of the emotional blow, simply turning away from Dazai underneath the blue covers.

“...Yeah, you’re right.” Chuuya grits his teeth as he tightens his fists. “It’s just sex.”"

[Unquoted Summary]: Dazai Osamu and Nakahara Chuuya have been friends-with-benefits ever since they got back in contact post-defection.

So why is one person unhappy with this mutually-beneficial arrangement?

Oh, right: because you're not supposed to be in love with your FWB.

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

A collage of two photos.

The first photo is in the top left and it features two hands reaching out to each other -- shadows on the wall.

The second photo in the bottom right is a picture of Dazai and Chuuya walking side-by-side.

At the top right is the name of the Fanfiction being promoted with a few circles around it: "My Home and My Heart Lie With You"

Along the left-most side of the graphic are a few phrases from the Fanfiction that have been crossed out, leaning into the "true answer" (that is circled above):

"A fragile, selfish arrangement." (crossed out)

"It's just sex." (crossed out)

"A means to an end." (crossed out)

"Mutual human need." (crossed out)

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

【 #Fanfiction 】 📗 "The First Step" 📗 attributed to @/rosewaffles organized by @bsdaction.bsky.social • Gen || 1.3k word count • Kunikida-centric • Pre-canon Kunikida + founding ADA members • The importance of organization • Kunikida finds his place #BSD 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/58065382

[Fanfiction Title]: The First Step

[Quoted Summary From The Work]: "The blond man stared ahead, but all he could really see was –

“...This place is a mess.” Kunikida huffs, crossing his arms. Not even the school-children he formerly taught could conjure up the heaps of wasted paper upon old desks and the dust gathering upon boxes that hadn’t been recycled yet. “How on Earth do you all even work here?”

A sheepish glance from Yosano tells him that she has no idea, either.

That simply wouldn’t do."

[Unquoted Summary]: Today is Kunikida Doppo's first day as an Armed Detective Agency member... and at the top of his priority list is cleaning up this messy workplace.

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

A collage of two photos and a note as a caption.

The first photo layered on the top of a picture of Kunikida Doppo with his glasses laid atop of his head.

The picture beneath that one is of a disorganized, messy desk space with a computer.

The note on the right says in neat handwriting:

"The Importance of Organization."

"Organization is the backbone of a successful business and person.
One cannot hope to be productive without a clear map of what must be done."

BSDVolunteers @bsdvolunteers.bsky.social · 2y ago

✨️ INTEREST CHECK ✨️ Hello, BSD fans! BSDVolunteers would like your input to plan our event! This interest check will close on March 18th @ 11:59 PM EST and we'll announce the guidelines for our initiative after it closes ✨️ #BSD #BungouStrayDogs #FanEvents 🔗: docs.google.com/forms/d/1ss-...

A collage black-and-white of Bungou Stray Dogs anime scenes with yellow text that states:

"BSD Volunteer Initiative"

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

【 #Fanfiction 】 🌺 "Higanbana" 🌺 🎨: @verlainette.bsky.social ♡ • Modern AU • #SKK • Funeral Director Dazai/Crematorium Tech Chuuya • Gore here-and-there (career-wise) • Eventual fluff/romance • Self-discovery + healing • Multi-chap • Medium-burn #BSD 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/573674...

[Fanfiction Title]: Higanbana

[Summary]: After the untimely death of a good friend, Dazai Osamu finds his calling in life as a funeral director. The craft fits someone as lonesome as himself and he thought he was content with the fleeting life he lives... until he meets the new crematory technician next door to his funeral home: a fiery redhead with a refreshing zest for life.

Can someone like Dazai find meaning in a mundane existence, or will he be doomed to wait until his bell tolls for the final time?

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

A commissioned piece for the work "Higanbana" by Melantine on Ao3.

The art piece is credited to @verlainette.bsky.social on Bluesky.

It features a black background with Dazai sitting in an ornate chair, dressed in a suit with a red spider lily tie-clip, his head leaning on his fist.

Beside him, standing up on the right, is Chuuya dressed in business-casual clothing.

Both of their expressions are somber and serious, as is the mood of their respective jobs in the Fanfiction (Funeral Director and Cremator, respectively).

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

【 #Fanfiction 】 🤫 "Be Quiet!" 🤫 🔞 (N)SFW 🔞 🤫 Attributed to @fugensweets.bsky.social ♡ • FitzPoe • 3k words • Porn w/ Plot • University Library Assistant Poe/Library Benefactor Fitzgerald • Transmasc Poe • Infidelity • Library Sex #BSD #BungouStrayDogs 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/57094297

[Fanfiction Title]: Be Quiet!

[Quoted Summary From The Work]: "“Sorry…” Edgar managed to mumble out, shuffling his feet a little as he lingered in their conjoined hands for a long breath. “H-have a good day!”

Fitzgerald blinked and chuckled. That chuckle was so smooth and his cologne was reminiscent of pine and nectar. Oh, Gods – how is he even real?

“Not so fast, Edgar. I’d like your help with something… that is, if you’re not too busy.”"

[Unquoted Summary]: Who knew that a tour of Silvergrove University's library would be the undoing of both a marriage and what is left of a pining university student?

Or: library benefactor Fitzgerald needed university student and part-time librarian's assistant Edgar Allen Poe's help... and they each got more than what they bargained for.

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

A collage of four photos referencing the promoted Fanfiction.

The photo in the top left is of Francis Fitzgerald from BSD. To his right, there is a photo of a classic university building.

Beneath the photo of Fitzgerald, the caption text reads: "Be Quiet! This is a library"

Beneath the caption is a picture of Edgar Allen Poe from the BSD manga. Beside the picture of Poe to the right is a picture of a bunch of books in a library on the shelves positioned next to a step-ladder.

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

【 #Fanfiction 】 🐰🐯 "Who I Needed" 🐯🐰 attributed to @/Eden_luvs_sigma (thank you ♡) • Kyouka and Atsushi • 3k words • sibling dynamic • nightmares + recovery • familial fluff + hurt/comfort • confronting trauma together • open ending #BSD #BungouStrayDogs 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/56516947

[Fanfiction Title]: Who I Needed

[Quoted Summary From The Work]: "Kyouka scrambles awake with a grunt as her tiny hand flies to her well-hidden switchblade beside her futon. The scenery bleeds back into place: the Agency’s accommodation felt so different in the dead of night. It was nothing like her childhood home. That place… is gone. Lost to time. Her small fingers tighten over the blade as her heart rate steadies.

‘There is no danger. The most dangerous thing in this room… is me.’"

[Unquoted Summary]: Izumi Kyouka has had an awful nightmare during the early days of her tenure at the Agency.

Nakajima Atsushi steps in to help with the recovery after the repeated exposure to trauma, which leads to a personal evaluation and a betfer understanding of the girl he saved... in more places than one.

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

A three photo collage with a caption referencing the Fanfiction being promoted.

The top left is a quote from the Fanfiction by Melantine (Original Poster) in handwriting with a line underneath it: "It's not your fault."

The photo on the top right is a manga cover of Kyouka and Atsushi.

The photo on the bottom left is the inside of a traditional style Japanese home with tatami walls.

The photo on the right is of the outside of a home framed with the scrawling branches of a blooming tree's blossoms.

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

【 #Fanfiction 】 🦋🐏 "Butterfly Shephard" 🐏🦋 attributed to @/matechillout (thank you ♡) • 2.6k word count • single dad Dazai/dead Chuuya • SKK daughter • grief • good friend Yosano • angst/family fluff • surprise ending #BSD #BungouStrayDogs #SKK #grief 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/56323597

[Fanfiction Title]: Butterfly Shephard

[Quoted Summary From The Work]: "“Are you ready for daycare, dear?”

Dazai walked with Hanako this bright, sunny morning. The toddler’s little dress flats scrape against the pavement as they trek hand-in-hand. Her dark, fluffy locks of hair swayed in the wind. Hanako’s tiny hand is wrapped around his index and middle fingers as she stares ahead blankly. He knows his dear little one heard him: she squeezed his fingers to alert him to the fact.

‘Just give it time.’ the compassionate grief counselor had told him after their final mandatory session. ‘She is grieving in her own way.’

‘How much time?’"

[Unquoted Summary]: Six months after Nakahara Chuuya's untimely death, Dazai Osamu is finally ready to go back to work at the Agency. Their four-year-old daughter, Dazai Hanako, is still heavily traumatized by the loss of her 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘢.

In fact, she has not spoken a word since his passing.

A compassionate coworker steps up for the father-daughter duo, and it changes their healing trajectory completely.

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

A collage of three photos on a lilac background.

The first photo on the left is a blurred photo of a woman on the ground. reaching out for a felled butterfly.

The second photo on the right on the top is a brilliant blue butterfly against shrubs and greens.

The third photo beneath the second photo is a black-and-white photo of a man in a suit holding a lamb.

The text beneath the very first photo is a quote from the Fanfiction being advertized in a handwriting font:

"Let me tell you a story..."

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

【 #Fanfiction 】 🎨📖 "Watercolor Canvas" 📖🎨 Written for #ChuuyaWeek2024 ♡ • 2.6k words • Short one-shot • Teenage Chuuya-centric • AU: Murase is Chuuya's guardian • Fluffy... until its not. • Surprise Ending #BSD #BungouStrayDogs #Chuuya #Murase #PsychHorror 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/55925041

[Fanfiction Title]: Watercolor Canvas

[Quoted Summary From The Work]: ""Come on now, kiddo. Your breakfast is waiting. What do you want to do afterward, hm?”

Chuuya blinked as he turned over. The look was gone; the one most children in Chuuya's former position sported. The adult, wise-beyond-his-years scowl of stress upon the brow, the worry of providing and surviving had finally melted from his young face.

Chuuya had finally let someone else worry for him."

[Unquoted Summary]: A world in which Nakahara Chuuya is safe and under the care of Detective Murase.

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

A collage of three photos against a watercolor background.

The photo at the top left shows a traditional Japanese home in the dark, blurred.

The photo beside that one to the right is of Chuuya at age fifteen in thr Fifteen manga.

The photo at the bottom right is a side-view of a very tall traditional fence surrounding someone's home in Japan.

The caption text at the bottom left is a quote from the advertised Fanfiction. It says in handwriting: "What can I do for Murase that would show him that I appreciate him?"

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

【 #Fanfiction 】 ☕️ "Café des Douleurs" ☕️ • 1k words | one-shot • broken-up skk • angst / hurt + no comfort • familiar places • realization #BSD #BungouStrayDogs #SKK #breakup #angst #Sigzai #AO3 #oneshot 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/54782899

[Fanfiction Title]: Café des Douleurs

[Quoted Summary From The Work]: "He and that damn detective had broken up months ago.

This bakery had been their spot. The mom-and-pop business and the owners had gotten used to the mismatched duo coming by together twice a week for their treats after their respective work-weeks. Apart from the occasional light-hearted squabble, their relationship had been (from the outside) rather perfect.

But all good things must come to an end, as they say."

[Unquoted Summary]: So why the HELL did he order Chuuya's "usual"?

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

A collage of two photographs against a brown and cremé-colored background (mimicking a coffee shop).

The left photo is of Soukoku in the dungeons with the caption below: "Don't be a..."

The right photo is blurred -- it is a picture of Dazai and Sigma in the elevator beneath the water, sharing air. The caption continues: "...Stranger."

Mel 🩰💌🎀@mymelantine.bsky.social · 2y ago

【 #Fanfiction 】 🌹☄️ "Through The Cracks of Concrete" 🌹☄️ • 2.1k words • Paul Verlaine/Kouyou Ozaki • hurt/comfort + romance • acceptance #BSD #BungouStrayDogs #Poetry #Poem #AO3 #Koulaine 🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/54412600

[Fanfiction Title]: "Through The Cracks of Concrete"

[Quoted Summary From The Work]: "What he had found is not alarming, but it led him to an alarming conclusion.

One that only Ozaki Kouyou could resolve.

His pale blue eyes searched the hallway in the labyrinth of tunnels beneath Yokohama. Foot soldiers paused, tense, as Paul Verlaine stalked by. Not one dared to raise a weapon his way nor ask for his reasoning to be wandering about, as he were technically their superior.

Paul found himself on something akin to a warpath, stalking his way through the passages and the security checkpoints. His goal was clear and his footsteps were reminders of such clarity, like raindrops slamming against dirt."

[Unquoted Summary]: "Of icy comets and bloody roses: a brief moment of shared pain."

[Author's Ao3 Username Signature]: -Melantine

There are flowers on this title card in the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner.

A collage of three photos.

The top photo is a picture of a
field laden with red flowers and a
dark cloud looming overhead.
The bottom right photo is a
side-by-side of Ozaki Kouyou
and Paul Verlaine beside each
other.

The bottom left photo is a
light background with the
text "Through The Cracks of
Concrete"
""Poem by Melantine".

This references the advertised
Fanfiction work and the poem
inside the work.