#i need to reread bsd…..

[kokoasci]

kokoasci sigma art in the year 2025???

[nyxi-pixie]

stormbringers fucking insane for using rimlaine as a contrast to skk. these two couldnt trust each other fully and rimbaud only believed he could help verlaine feel human, not truly be so, and still considered him Other, however much he believed them to be equals, verlaines humanity only existed in rimbauds eyes because he gave it to him. verlaines inability to accept his own humanity or even really that rimbauds feelings for him were genuine because he, alone, singular, monstrously set apart from humanity, should be incapable of receiving anything resembling affection or genuine understanding, such that it left him betraying his partner. and then they cannot exist as two beings working seamlessly together. rimbaud and verlaine in fact cannot exist as two beings at all, only as one conjoined entity. verlaine kept alive with rimbauds skill, and rimbaud, long dead and refusing that reality until he can find his partner, existing only as an extension of verlaine. while skk who do trust each other blindly, who do see humanity in each other enough to look past when they doubt it in themselves, who see humanity not as a defined be or be not, but as a set of values, as a do or do not. they are able to exist as one act in two parts. interdependent, always, even down to their skills, but still functioning as one unit in two separate cogs made to fit together.

[lotus-pear]

WOULD U GUYS STILL LOVE ME IF I DID PERSONA 5 FOR MY 13K DTIYS ☹️☹️☹️☹️

[unicornpopcorn14]

//Bsd 122

There's something increadibly twisted about Dazai saying "certainly" with this much conviction, when he himself was struggling to find a reason to live in the Port Mafia.

Even worse when you remember that he'd declared his desire to watch the mafia burn in Stormbringer. Simply because he was bored of it all. Killing, death, schemes. All of it was the same. Everything became mundane.

Dazai never found any meaning in living in the Port Mafia, but here he is, promising Akutagawa the one thing he never got ahold of. Guaranteeing that Akutagawa would find it.

And the funny thing is, he did.

Dazai, in the end, did give Akutagawa a reason to live. But here's the catch: It's primarily tied to him. Not to the mafia, not to some high-end goal related to Akutagawa as a person, but to the suicidal executive.

And it makes sense, in hindsight.

Despite Dazai's visible efforts to make Akutagawa use his head more than his ability, he's the one (whether intentionally or unintentionally) who molded Akutagawa into this person, hungry for validation from his senior more than anything. And how you look at it (Dazai's intentions) determines if it was either a plan doomed from the start, or a perfectly calculated one.

Akutagawa would never want to seek more than what he was taught to seek. Would never stop being Dazai's lapdog. Would never grow a conscience that defines him, shape him into his own person. Would never hope for more than the Port Mafia, being Dazai's shadow.

In turn, Dazai would never need to worry about Akutagawa's intentions, only his executions. Something far easier to discipline someone over.

From the very beginning, Akutagawa was a wild card Dazai needed to moderate. So he made his approval all he should seek. He made him strive for nothing more.

He made Dazai all Akutagawa is.

And once he fulfills his wish to end his life, Akutagawa will be gone as well.

[fyodorsushankaaa]

WE'RE GETTIN A STORMBRINGER MANGA LET'S FUCKING GOOOO

[brushes-of-sage]

I finished Stormbringer and I have to lay down for a couple of hours

[sad-emo-dip-dye]

What would happen if dazai touched bram? Like is he closer to what lovecraft is? Would it actually cancel the vampire ability? Would bram himself stop being a vampire? When did brams ability even form? Was he turned by something or did he grow up and his ability manifested one day? Was he just a vampire who could age until he stopped? Asagiri also briefly mentioned werewolves once and then never brought it up again, wtf was up with that? Could that imply that on some level omegaverse exists in the bsd universe? I have so many questions

[calmlb]

i read Flawless by Oda Sakunosuke & all i can say is that Asagiri emulated his voice so well in bsd Oda’s pov

[jounosparticles]

ALSO??? a new character ???? he looks so cool??

[rainb0wrae]

soukoku is taking over my brain again aughhhfkeknejfk

[himejoshimarx]

[nyxi-pixie]

collection of random dazai things that the anime ignored:

he once drew a self portrait in the mafia that elise thought was a curse left by an enemy

he ate dog food once to assert dominance in front of an actual dog. the whole interaction covers four full pages.

he gets pissy about mori forcing him to study war strategy books (id be this mad too if someone forced me to read anything by a brainless war criminal😭 the only worthwhile thing kissinger ever did was die)

[lotus-pear]

bsd fic authors i understand yalls pain SO well right now why is it so fucking HARD to write dazai. like i have a whole fucking spreadsheet dedicated to tireless analysis i have done on my part so i can accurately characterize him but he is such an unpredictable and morally gray character that it's hard knowing his limits and boundaries and where he draws the line for himself.

[altruistic-meme]

oh when i get off work and have time to draw/type it's so over

[seri-tonin]

Chat it's been over three years since we've gotten a suegiku interaction..

[kaurwreck]

yall don't want agatha christie to become overly present in bsd; I'll be insufferable.