#bsd fandom is wild

[lotus-pear]

just found out bitches are uncomfortable/don't ship kunikidazai bc they perceive a large age gap w kunikida being in his early thirties and dazai being twenty two. allow me to clarify.

they are both the same age. kunikida is younger than dazai by two months.

[sorcerersandskillusers]

A message to newer manga readers

I've seen a few people talk about how" BSD is completely off the rails now", or "I can't keep going with this anymore". and I wanted to give some advice.

I've been reading this manga for a long time (~4 years) and this kind of thing happens when a series like this comes out weekly, and there were many times when I thought that things were going to far and the situations had gotten too bad.

When the ADA was framed, and it seemed like half of them were dead, when Fukuchi was revealed as a villain and seemed completely unstoppable (Because of the fucking time sword), when things at the airport seemed completely unwinnable...etc. Reading monthly, all of these made me put down the manga for a while, felt boring and like things were just going to keep getting worse forever.

But I've found that coming back to those parts again and reading them all at once, they are some of my favourite parts of the story now. Sometimes if you feel like you just can't follow what's going on or feel like the series has lost its charm and become something you don't like. Just give it some time, maybe stop reading for a while and let a few chapters build up, then reread from a few chapters further back so you can see the story unfold more organically instead of waiting a month, and half forgetting everything that has happened in the last chapter, only to be confused and annoyed by the new ones. (This happened to me a lot)

[the-armed-detective-gaygency]

I don’t know what’s funnier

the fact that we as a fandom had been theorising how a character that was poisoned, stabbed, was in a helicopter crash and lit on fire was still alive for months

Or the fact that we were right

[mioang3lz]

oh.

[gayapprentice]

Once again we have bsd to blame for the creation of this little raccoon guy. Also, I can't believe I picked this pattern as the first thing I knit after around a year of only crocheting. Very ambitious project lmao

(Pattern is by Sara Elizabeth Kellner)

Anyways, Karl is so cool god I wish raccoons were real

(also yes he does fit on my shoulder I love him)

[bsd-verse]

Ah yes top 100 ships on Ao3 in Summer 2023 and guess who is top 4

LMAO THEY EVEN INCREASED +15 FROM THEIR LAST SPOT back in 2022 and not them being the most popular anime ship on Ao3 currently (click to picture btw tumblr quality is so baaad)

They are so pathetic i swear chuuya go get ur bf

[always-a-joyful-note]

Thinking Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun thoughts and realising that, actually, Romantic Killer And GSNK are basically the same show/manga but different flavours (shonens parodying shoujos from a place of respect but also giving absolutely zero respect at all, the bit >>>> romance, okay there's a little romance and it's cute but the bit is still more important, physical humour, evil small creature (tanuki vs potato wizard))

[rosalinesurvived]

I prithee thee, shut up

[thebluestar17]

I found this when I was scrolling through Pinterest. It was so random but like imagine if it is really true tho. It would be really wild lol 💀

[circusfable]

I need to finish editing at least one of my fics bc I have 3 wips that are like this 👌 close to being ready to post

[benetnvsch]

thank you for translating the meow drama and allowing it to be in my life forever

AWW YEYEYE OFC o7 the world needed to know of it-

also fun fact I started translating that entirely bc of The Amount of Sheer Spite I felt about bones cutting out that one knkd mention in the recent episode KDHF if they refuse to produce more kunikida content, I'll do it myself -

(and, ofc, big thanks to Stellar for letting me help her with that lil project to begin with and doing a wonderful job editing it and making me aware of that audio in the first place kajhdkh)

[dazais-guardian-angel]

For the ask game 💚❤️can you do professor Laytonn *raises eyebrow* 🥺🙏

Sure!

💚: What does everyone else get wrong about your favorite character?

I'm gonna be honest... I really can't think of anything 😭 the PL fandom doesn't exactly have many wildly polarizing opinions I feel like, let alone about Anton because no one ever talks about him lol... Maybe that's my answer then; the thing everyone gets wrong about Anton is not giving him enough attention, at least compared to other popular sad pretty boys 😔 give my sad pretty boy vampire turned cute grandpa more love

💖: What is your biggest unpopular opinion about the series? (assuming you meant this one for the red heart?)

Another tricky question for this fandom lol. I guess I'd say the fact that I think Miracle Mask is really good, a lot better than people give it credit for? I don't really know if that's changed now, but I know back in the day most people thought it wasn't great, even if they liked the characters. But I'll defend MM any day 😤 idc how predictable it is; that's one of its strengths, and it's up there as one of the best games in the series imo

Ask game

[nakaharasknife]

hit 15k posts on this acc 😻😻😻 thank you hannibal for rooting itself into my brain

[kaurwreck]

Dead Apple is immensely confusing until you're able to collect enough information about singularities for context (such as by reading Fifteen & Stormbringer, both released years after Dead Apple).

Dead Apple was Kafka Asagiri's first time writing a movie; it's okay for it to be a rough cut gem.

i love dead apple so much it's such a blatant showcase of how the skk brainfog grips so many in bsd nation by the throat. only ever talking about dead apple in context of that specific scene meanwhile the most insane atsushi lore drops happen in this fucking movie. there are FAR more interesting things than a blowjob in here

[kyouka-supremacy]

I was asked why I like Beast and why I prefer it over the main universe, so obviously I ended up with a 2k+ words essay on why Beast is great. Now I feel like it diverges too much from what the original ask was actually asking for, so I'm leaving it to its own post. Enjoy.

Why do you like Beast? So, first of all you MUST know that this is a question that could keep me talking for days to no end. I'm not kidding. Here there will be some disorganized rambles but trust me, if I had time to actually do so I'd keep going on forever.

Alternative universes are cool I love Beast. I think it starts off at a point when the bsd author was more experienced from having already worked with the main series for many years, and ultimately ended up making an alternative version of the work that is more mature and refined, while still maintaining bsd's core themes (and conservative worldviews at that lmao). Starting off, the “what if” concept is endlessly fascinating, pretty much the entire fandom culture is based on it. It IS unfailingly cool to see what could have happened if Akutagawa sided with the ada and Atsushi with the pm, it is extremely interesting to see what changes out of their personalities and on the other hand what stays the same, what is intrinsically them. About sskk, I find it really compelling how Beast tackles intimate aspects of their lives, pasts and traumas. The café scene is genuinely brilliant in the way it shows, completely unexpectedly and to the reader's full disbelief, them getting along in normal circumstances. Who could have predicted that! Of all things, Akutagawa and Atsushi getting along. But it happened, and nothing before had ever shown to that extent how similar they are, how much on the same page they are, how much they're meant to be– like yeah obviously I mean romantically, but even if you're not particularly into that, it displayed just how deeply connected they are. I'm forever grateful for that scene.

Beast Akutagawa is great But I think… More in general, I just really like Beast Akutagawa and Beast Atsushi, even better than their canon counterparts 😅 Again I do think at the point when they wrote Beast the author had already gathered a lot of experience from serializing bsd for at least five years, and ended up making characters that are more solid and compelling (although please don't get me wrong, I LOVE canon sskk and I believe canon Akutagawa's character arc in particular is amazing. It's just that at least to me Beast sskk is everything I could ever ask for.) I love Beast Akutagawa! It was so so capturing to see him grow outside of the pm. And especially it was infinitely interesting to see Akutagawa grow outside of Dazai. And don't get me wrong, I love the influence Dazai has on canon Akutagawa, I wouldn't have it any other way: it made Akutagawa who he is, and I love reading about his character. But I also found it wonderful and pleasantly refreshing to see how he would be if he had never undergone Dazai's training; I like this Akutagawa who's possibly even more immature and impulsive, wild and untamed than his canon counterpart. Beast is also the universe where Akutagawa gets his chance at being a good person - which is something he desperately strived for but never got to have in the main universe -, and in the end I am a little attached to Akutagawa, so I'm happy for him! His relationship with Oda and the whole ada are wonderful, I like getting to experience a universe where Akutagawa is loved and supported, unapologetically, for who he is.

Beast Atsushi is great Beast Atsushi is AMAZING. Like. Character molded appositely to my liking ahah. He's so cool! He's so tormented! He's sweet and cruel and utterly unstable! I love him so much. He truly is Atsushi at his full potential. I love this Atsushi who's biggest fear isn't the world, but rather himself. He's beautiful and horrible and deathly and kind. He killed his abuser to stop him from haunting his nightmares, but ended up turning those nightmares into his life. He takes his coffee with three sugars. He loves his little sister and would risk the safety of his organization and the boss he's endlessly loyal to for her. The only person who ever understood him is his most loathed enemy. He's one with death and indistinguishable from darkness. His laughter stops rain. He lives in perpetual physical pain due to a choker constantly piercing around his neck and yet even that is nothing compared to the damage of his psyche. He's so, so fucked up. He deserves the world. I LOVE HIM.

Beast Dazai is great Also, I really like Beast Dazai!!! He's always Dazai, but I think his character works out a lot better in Beast for the role he covers. In canon Dazai is this omniscient, all knowing figure, but he's also a protagonist, and him being so perfectly flawless doesn't go well in the long run. You've seen it in the last season 5 episode, it just gets boring after a while– it would be nice to see him face actual challenges and high stakes for once, but he's so overpowered, that never happens. In Beast, it's pretty much the same deal (author really loves Dazai lmao), but the fact that he isn't the protagonist and instead the main villain? I feel like from a storytelling standpoint, it works so much better!! I mean, his being omniscient works a lot better– he's not the one who the reader expects facing challenges and high stakes, the protagonist is. In addition, in Beast Dazai has almost universal knowledge due to his link to the Book, so that makes his being omniscient and even god-like a lot more feasible and easy to contemplate! I think that plot-wise it just works a lot better, there's an actual reason he's so overpowered, and that reason is explained, it's in the text. Oh and I LOVE his utter devotion to Oda. I know it's the same in canon, but still… There in Beast you can see it concretely, you can see it everywhere. That very universe exists how it is because of Dazai's love for Oda, because there's nothing he wouldn't do for him, because in the whole universe, in the whole multiverse, Oda's happiness is the only thing that matters to him. I think such strong feelings of love being put so explicitly is something simply wonderful to read, and makes Dazai infinitely more sympathetic than what he may be in canon. “But I do have one regret, Odasaku— I won't be able to read the novel you'll complete one day.” LIKE YEAH, SURE, ALRIGHT, JUST SHOOT ME TO THE HEAD ALREADY. That line alone is worth the whole novel, honestly. Oh and the thing about Oda harshly repudiating Dazai, the man who literally did everything for him, who dedicated his whole life for him… Man!!! That REALLY made me sympathize with Dazai in a way canon will never be able to. All those factors only contribute making Dazai's suicide in the end all the more emotional– which I believe works really well in the story, he is an enemy and he is a god and he had to die, but still makes for an extremely emotionally charged scene and a wonderful story climax. Imo Beast Dazai had to die so that canon Dazai could live (and, hopefully, find a reason to live!), and it's as bitter as it is beautiful.

The Beast ada dynamics are great And I love the ada in Beast!!! They feel infinitely more of a family than they do in canon. Kenji, Kunikida, Tanizaki, they all seem to love Akutagawa in a way that's hard to be found towards Atsushi in canon? The way they didn't falter to rescue Akutagawa even as he went, against all their advices and pleas, to a suicidal rampage was wonderful and heartwarming. They make it sound unbelievable that when Atsushi was (mind you, unwillingly) kidnapped their first response would be that it was an hassle and that he should have dealt with it on his own (this time I truly believe it was the author learning from their own mistakes, because seriously, who does that. It makes everyone instantly feel a thousand times less sympathetic). As people have said, the ada alone makes Beast feel like the “right” universe on the basis that in it they actually care about their members. All things considered, the ada treats Akutagawa as this kind of rabid murderous gremlin they just adopted who's going to bite everyone but that they still love no matter what, and it's super cute. Beast ada really is the bsd found family if there ever was one.

A cool plot The Beast storyline is just very compelling in general? The introduction chapter is amazing, I mean, The Heartless Cur is amazing. Again, Beast Akutagawa is such a great character, and the description of his struggle to find his own humanity, although in my opinion does fall weak in some points and has flaws, still treats a concept that's very interesting to ponder over nonetheless. I like how there's a series of more light-hearted chapters in the first half, it helps solidify the characters, and those chapters are really nice to read; not to mention having lighter chapters alternated with the strikingly more gloomy and violent pm Atsushi scenes makes the latter feel all the more frightening and disturbing, it's a great narrative choice. And the big crescendo of Akutagawa storming in the pm headquarters! His fight of physics and morals against Atsushi! Them telling each other they're nothing like the other when the reader knows the exact opposite is true! It's all very good, and again, Dazai's suicide makes for a perfect climax to the story.

Sometimes being a seinen can be good I like how Beast is a seinen way more than the main story is? Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with shounen manga - which bsd seems to lean towards more often than not, with only occasionally tackling more adult concepts -, but at this specific time in my life those darker themes are just something I find more entertaining to read about. I feel like the gritty and often gruesome depictions, although maybe a little overused in the manga, really help emphasize the dark atmosphere of the manga and overall effectively convey the whole “beast” imaginary as wild / violent / unpleasant / animalistic.

It's got sskk in it And in general it's just… Compared to canon, Beast is very very sskk centered. It's significantly shorter than the canon manga, and in a way that helped focus on sskk specifically, because it only had space to narrate one story, which is sskk's. And I don't know what to tell you, I'm here for the sskk. Of course I like Beast best.

Beast Atsushi is great (cont.) Back to Beast Atsushi because he's everything, really. I love how when I went into Beast I was like “I mean, whatever Dazai is making of Atsushi under the pm, if can't possibly be any worse than the constant abuse Akutagawa had to experience 😊” AND I WAS PROVED WRONG. I mean, I think the fact alone that the author could come up with something worse is remarkable. Dazai's emotional manipulation and psychological torment is, I believe, the darkest facet of Dazai we ever witnessed, and it's extremely well executed. Beast Atsushi is so so unstable, so on the brim of mental breakdown and psychosis at every second. Him being made unable to let go of the past makes him live in a perpetual nightmare. And I feel like the way his character story is unwrapped is truly masterful, storytelling wise!!!! On the reader's first encounter with him, it's evident how deeply scarred and disturbed he is, but the reader can't tell why. That adds to the mystery and feeling of unsettling surrounding the character: his story is wrapped up by darkness and it's impossible to predict, just like he is– and it's deliciously unsettling, scary, to be unable to tell anything about what made him like he is except from guessing that it must have been something really bad. And yet even then /nothing/ could have prepared the reader to what his backstory really is? And when the traumatic event is finally unveiled, it's worse then any guess the reader could have made. Atsushi's back to the orphanage flashback passage is terrifying! He didn't undergo any harm, like it would have been easy to guess; on the contrary, his torment stems from having killed his abuser. But he did so at a point when he didn't represent a threat for him anymore, when he was proud of him, when he got close to resemble a father to his eyes; and all of this he realized too late; and now he lives in constant regret, constant terror of himself. It's great, really! And even then, Atsushi carries on with being. super cool lmao. Like yeah he's unstable and everything, he's wild and violent, but he's also still very kind. He's timid and blushes easily. He also feels a lot more mature than he does in canon, and it's nice to see. He's more confident and serious, and that's nice too. He REALLY is my favorite character.

Some pretty cool scenes are in it Moving on, Beast has some truly amazing scenes. The Heartless Cur is amazing and builds up such an awesome character, Atsushi's introduction is petrifying, the Kenji / Akutagawa conversation is as deeply moving as it is cathartic. I won't be talking about the sskk café scene. Akutagawa's whole assault to the pm headquarters is rich of emotional scenes. I already talked about Atsushi's flashback and Dazai's suicide being wonderful passages both from technical and emotional standpoints. And the manga ending is just so good!!!!!!! Like it truly is the perfect ending– the way it ties up with the main story! How it feels like ada Akutagawa's story has just begun, a conclusion but also hope for what's to come. The “out behind our company's building there are some people of low character hanging about”– I can't stress enough how emotional this line, a final and definite tie to the main story, makes me, how meaningful it is in its quality of being both an ending, and a beginning. The last page showing Akutagawa at the center of the ada, it just moves me so deeply to see him being the protagonist, surrounded by a crowd of people who love and support him, getting his own chance at a life in the light 😭😭😭 “I'm going to live as an agency member. I'll solve cases, rescue the weak, and prove that I'm not evil.” Crying my eyes out 😭😭😭😭😭😭 And don't get me started on when Akutagawa and Atsushi's voices mix up to speak as one; I could never hope to be able to express what that makes me feel.

Siblings dynamics are my jam I also love Beast because one of the main aspects that drives the plot is Ryuunosuke and Gin's relationship, and I /love/ siblings relationships, and I //love// Ryuunosuke and Gin's relationship. I don't think Gin's character was written well at all (because the author literally can't write female characters for the life of theirs), but eh, at least it reinforced the concept that Ryuunosuke loves Gin terribly and would be able to do anything for her. Atsushi and Kyouka's relationship, too, is to die for.

The designs and manga art style slay Besides, the character designs are beautiful???? Akutagawa's Beast outfit is my second favorite out of the whole franchise, it's just such a look™. I love in general how rabid and messy Akutagawa looks in Beast, he feels so much more free? And like, good for him. In my head Beast Atsushi is the most handsome man in the entire franchise and I don't think I can take criticism on this. I find cutting off his longer bang such a witty way to represent not only how this Atsushi is different from the one we know (after all, that's the most remarkable and eye-catching feature of his appearance!), but also to symbolize how the cut with his past at the orphanage was harsh and violent. Characters designs aside, Hoshikawa's art style is GORGEUS. It's hard and rough and messy, it's dark and unpolished and violent and beautiful and exactly everything Beast is. It's PERFECT for the story, it's like it was made to portray it.

Sskk is always great And that's just talking about the canon content but like. Beast means a Beast sskk. Which is basically new and improved sskk. And I like sskk. And I like every version of sskk but especially this version where they're even more violent and fucked up and madly in love with each other and evidently meant to be. So yeah.

And this is like, just the very tip of the iceberg of what I love about Beast. Humbling offering you this Beast love letter in hope we can all give this novel the appreciation it deserves (๑˃‌ᴗ˂‌)۶

[manias-wordcount]

Hello!! Do you perhaps do crossover works? I saw that your multi fandom and wanted to know if your up to writing a platonic FMAB x BSD crossover? Basically a child reader with Q’s power & personality meeting the brothers and being taken in/cared for and it just being a lot of hurt/comfort and them starting to unlearn all the unhealthy things they were taught and thought were okay? Sorry if this is too vague this is my first time requesting!!

Platonic Taking Care of Kid with Powers HCs (Edward Elric, Alphonse Elric)

𝗔/𝗡: 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗼! 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘆, 𝗶 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 (𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝘀/𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀/𝗲𝘁𝗰. 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗰). 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗜 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗮 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀/𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆/𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿. 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗳𝗳 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲!

𝙒𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚? ⇒ 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩

𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙧?

𝙗𝙪𝙮 𝙢𝙚 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙚?

Things are definitely really rough in the beginning (like you’re six seconds away from being institutionalized and experimented on, rough)

You throw tantrums and lash out and your powers go wild practically every other day so you have to spend a lot of your time under supervision by at least one of the brothers

Though towards the beginning, you end up spending a lot more time with Al at first because he’s a bit more gentle of the two and Ed is often called away to work

But it ends up being for the best because Al’s efforts at first give you a lot of crucial steps in the right direction

Because of Al, you have a lot more moments of peace and understanding and you can start to think about caring for others (especially cats hehe)

But the occasional time you spend with Ed ends up being what really causes you to make a whole lot of progress

Ed is a bit more of a straight-shooter and can be a hardass so the two of you butt heads a lot (and he’s inadvertently caused you to lose control of your powers on more than one occasion)

But it’s during the moments where he slows down and teaches you how power can be corrupting and how everything in life feels so much better when you use it for good, that things start to work out for the better

In reality, it’ll take years for you to learn how to undo all the bad things that have been ingrained in you for so long

But you have two really powerful and really good teachers who are willing to put in the work so long as you do so too :}