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lonely? develop a god complex.

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08.30 — to the one who walks alone. (insp.)

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—i am an i d e a l i s t walking the earth, and a pragmatist in pursuit of ideals.

kunikida doppo for @kunikidaz​; happy belated birthday chrys! ✦

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kermit is a doomer

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the boi is back

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REIGEN IS ON A PBS SHOW

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it’s them, ya boys

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i may be far from this gay stuff but mori and fukuzawa doing some intense shit and behaving like 15 y.o soukoku will always be my icon

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—  REIGEN

Mob’s mentor and boss. He is the self-proclaimed “Greatest Psychic of the 21st Century” as well as owner and operator of the Spirits and Such Consultation Office. He has few to no qualms about manipulating clients, enemies, allies, and even spirits to his own advantage. Conversation is his speciality. Throughout the series, he has been shown to remain composed in almost any situation, and he is extremely reluctant to admit to his own mistakes.

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「SERIZAWA + REIGEN, OVA 2」

“You’re still a trainee! Don’t get too excited.”

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remember when you were fifteen and you were convinced you were evil and irredeemable and completely insane but it turns out you were just fifteen

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HAVE YOU SEEN CHAPTER 79 OF BSD?!

Yes!!! Everyone say thank you @akai-koutei, the hero the fandom needs.

It seems to be setting up for a final battle this arc (dare I hope we see Akutagawa?) but obviously, the chapter is mostly set up and a lot rides on who exactly “Kamui” (god) is and whether “erasing” the ADA is his ability or the book’s.

Suggestions I’ve seen:

Mishima Yukio, the writer of The Decay of the Angel. Started a coup, which could be related to what he’s doing now.

Kawabata Yasunari, the first Japanese author to win a Nobel Prize. He committed suicide by gassing himself. He was friends with Mishima, and since we know there are two  more DoA members, they might come together. 

Rilke, which was suggested on Twitter for the way his works notably inspired Mishima and for the er, stunning resemblance here. His poems are great.

Tolstoy, for no other reason than no collection of Russian writers is complete  without him and War and Peace as an ability. But to stretch things  further, Tolstoy is known for exploring concepts of God in his works, and he got heavily religious in his later life. TBH he’s the least likely on this list and will probably appear in a later arc.

Honestly, I think the remaining DoA members are the first two, so Kamui is one of them. But I’m happy to be wrong.

But let’s get back to Sigma,who might not appear again for a bit. Through exchanging the information he most wanted to know with Atsushi, Sigma for the first time experienced a relationship that wasn’t transactional, but transformational. He most wanted empathy, which Atsushi gave him. It’s what his ability could be used for, rather than using him as essentially a safe vault of information.

Sigma seems to be a middleman for Gogol and Fyodor, a child who matters… I plan on writing another meta on Fyodor and Gogol and how they’re basically two sides of the same coin (they both represent aspects of Dostoyevsky’s Kirillov) with Sigma in the middle and, perhaps, key to them not destroying each other.

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Sweetheart, even though you treated me kindly, My stubbornness prevailed. After we parted last night, I went and drowned my sorry self in booze again. Waking This morning, I remember your kindness And sadly reflect on my vile behavior. And now, I - a complete fake - now I’ll openly confess: Stripped of all dignity, lacking any sense of honesty, I was spurned on by my own illusions, into madness.

When had I ever tried to grasp the feelings of others? - Sweetheart, even though you treated me kindly, I was as stubborn and selfish as a child. Waking to intimations of morning breaking outside, Which somehow register through this pounding in my head, I remember your kindness, and also that drunken other. And as I sadly wonder who I really am on this chilly morning, Something tells me that I am nobody at all.

- Nakahara Chūya, “Untitled” Part I from Poems of the Goat