#bsd 23

[saoirseyun]

⸝⸝ x fem reader

CW :: SUGGESTIVE

—Imagine borrowing Chuuya's wallet in search of his credit card and—there—a photo of you. Tucked aside safely near the thousand upon thousands bulk of yen... Black lingerie, legs spread, and bent over his bed. What remains of last, last night. You knew he took photos of you but didn't knew he printed those moments in his wallet.

"I mean, I miss my girl. Gotta pull up a reminder somehow, you'd get it."

"That has to be the worst excuse I've ever heard."

[kyouka-supremacy]

Atsushi really actually said “I'm going to get a good grade at agency member, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve”

[sad-emo-dip-dye]

Have you ever seen someone so beautiful

[soukokumychildren]

Hello, hi, how's it going everyone, it occurred to me Chuuya's birthday is tomorrow (for me) but for some people it's today (technically, it should be today, lol). So I present to you a comic! Atleast, the first half...I'll send the second half tomorrow since it'll be his birthday for me. :) Enjoy!

[littlemusic-muse]

Day 23 and 24- Writer AU and Broken

Inspired by Man Lacking Skill by Iori Kanzaki

"For the sake of burying the whole of my life,

for the sake of burying the whole of my solitude,

I wrote days every morning and daytime and night

to the brink of collapse.

But nothing

can satisfy me!

Yes, I'm greedy, aren't I?"

For Dazai, who has lost Atsushi without telling him of his love, he buries himself in writing about Atsushi, to hide from his loneliness, and from his feelings. Perhaps he is searching for someone to fill the broken hole in his heart, that he writes, blots down ink on paper, to create something messy and with meaning.

Note: The song is really good btw!

[sskk-manifesto]

Been 22 days but it's still insane that Akutagawa took “knight in shiny armor coming to the rescue” to a literal level

[lippmannssplatteredblood]

Was it ever confirmed Lippmann was based on Walter Lippmann?

No.

But wait, there's enough evidence! (Ty anon im using this ask as an excuse to ramble and getting these off my chest)

As we all already know, most of the characters in BSD, especially ability users, are based on real life authors. Stormbringer explicitly stated that bsd!Lippmann was "an extremely powerful skill user" so he must be based on someone. And guess what? There happens to be a writer with the exact name as his.

Walter Lippmann was an American journalist, politician, and writer. He was deemed as "the most gifted and influential American political journalist of the twentieth century". His works mostly took the theme of public relations and stuff. Sounds familiar?

I'd like to add this part from the etymology section of his(bsd) wiki btw, just in case you didn't know.

Does it end there? No, not quite.

Let's take a look at his most popular work; Public Opinion.

"...The pictures inside the heads of these human beings, the pictures of themselves, of others, of their needs, purposes, and relationship, are their public opinions. Those pictures which are acted upon by groups of people, or by individuals acting in the name of groups, are Public Opinion with capital letters."

"The pictures in our heads", page 29

People, generally, have some sort of "persona" of themselves that they would try to plant on other people's minds. Kinda like the Japanese "three faces" proverb, you may say. And how do they achieve it? By only presenting that persona; by masking; by acting.

"Royal personages are, of course, constructed personalities. Whether they themselves believe in their public character, or whether they merely permit the chamberlain to stage-manage it, there are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human."

"The pictures in our heads", page 7

Simply said, him being an actor might be a reference to (or a representation of) that human nature which P.O. talks of. An actor acts—they dive into the role of another character that's not them. (Which, when you think about it, is just what us humans do on a daily basis, except they do it professionally and for a living, which when you think about it again—)

Mr. Lippmann also published books titled "A Preface to Politics" and "A Preface to Morals" which is....interesting.

Okay, "preface" and "face" technically are different. Though they still share somewhat a similar meaning.

But hear me out. Let's go back to the persona thing. Generally, what people would want to be perceived as is as the perfect, ideal versions of themselves. To make that happen, they would have to put on a good first impression. And what's usually the first thing that people notice about a person? Correct—their appearance; their face.

Lippmann(bsd) was multiple times described as "perfect" (like okay asagiri, he's pretty, we get it), especially regarding his looks (and capabilities). See what I'm saying?

Lippmann was the stage face, the public image of the Port Mafia. He was the preface to the Port Mafia. He created the pictures in people's head of the Port Mafia.

As a verb, however, "face" has another meaning:

He negotiated with front companies, met and talked with political figures, and even dealt with the press if push came to shove.

I feel like this might be merely a coincidence or a pun, though. But the fact that his field of work in the Port Mafia was specifically negotiating with the "real world" is definitely not something Asagiri just pulled out of thin air—or so I believe to be the case, at least, having read this paragraph.

"This is the underlying reason for the existence of the press agent. The enormous discretion as to what facts and what impressions shall be reported is steadily convincing every organized group of people that whether it wishes to secure publicity or to avoid it, the exercise of discretion cannot be left to the reporter. It is safe to hire a press agent who stands between the group and the newspapers. Having hired him, the temptation to exploit his strategic position is very great."

"The nature of news", page 344

Oh, by the way, remember this scene?

It's just a silly, filler interaction that seemed not to reference anything, but just you wait.

"Men cannot long act in a way that they know is a contradiction of the environment as they conceive it. If they are bent on acting in a certain way they have to reconceive the environment, they have to censor out, to rationalize. But if in their presence, there is an insistent fact which is so obstrusive that they cannot explain it away, one of three courses is open. They can perversely ignore it, though they would cripple themselves in the process, will overact their part and come to grief. They can take it into account but refuse to act. They pay in internal discomfort and frustration. Or, and I believe this is to be the most frequent case, they adjust their whole behavior to the large environment."

"Intelligence work", page 383

Then again, these are but my interpretations and/or speculations which I'd like you to take with a grain of salt, as I could very well still be wrong (because Asagiri loves to trick us, apparently).

I could go on and on and on and on and on but I'm afraid I'd just be blabbering nonsense at some point. Thank you for reading my (hopefully coherent) ramblings.

[rivalmelty]

they are fukuzawa’s boys, adopted twins, and menaces to the yokohama police

(pls do not tag as beast)

[bungoustraydogs-tr]

Bungou Stray Dogs Dazai, Chuuya, 15 Yaş Manga 23. Bölüm: FİNAL

Bu bölümle beraber 15 Yaş mangası tamamlanmıştır. Okuyan ve destekleyen herkese teşekkür ederim.

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[saoirseyun]

—Welp... Your life is about to drastically change. If not twice after dating a fine gentleman by the names of Chuuya Nakahara, affiliate of Port Mafia. Returned home from work four hours less than the usual! Keys stumble as you obligated to open the door for him even though Chuuya could just placed down whatever he was holding—more expensive things he bought on the way home? A small animalistic whimper heard outside. "...Babe?" You turn the knob. Stray pups dirtied and injured with lewd bites from possibly other dogs—they all so happen to mewl in sadness after Chuuya gently puts down the box.

"I brought home babies. Can't just leave ‘em in the alley, darl."

"...Too many! How many are there, four? No wait, six?!"

Chuuya slide his hands into the pockets of his own pants. Whistle absentmindedly.

"In my defense, ya said you wanted a huge family once. Didn't you?"

[kyouka-supremacy]

When Atsushi's soft smiles... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[sad-emo-dip-dye]

Yk I think they should blow them ugly pm buildings up. Save the Yokohama skyline

[ssaraexposs]

Oh, I love it and I hate it at the same time You and I drink the poison from the same vine

[oliveden]

thinking about reincarnation/immortal au again

i think sigma actually does try to be productive. he genuinely figures. well. i'm not going to die, so i might as well use all my knowledge. he has an obscene amount of degrees. it takes him a while to get to this point, originally terrified someone would figure him out, but he does gain the confidence to help people and be more active.

dazai... not so much. sometimes he's incredibly well-known, such as that one period of time he published a series of novels, and sometimes sigma goes to visit him and he's homeless and robbing rich people for fun. there are warrants out for his arrest in multiple countries. he goes back to them decades later just to fuck with the government.

[saaraofthesand]

i just saw someone describe odango as “middle-aged yaoi” … Ango is 25

[starcollectorsilas]

'"Yeah. If we go, I won't try to die again," he promised, meaning it, and there was a third click.'

HE PROMISED. MEANING IT. AUGHHHHHHHHHH WHY DID I DO THISSSSSSSSSS

Also this chapter is so batshit insane I did NOT realise I'm so sorry to the (not so) perfect pair enjoyers everywhere