#and move on to bungo stray dogs

[madraleen]

Moriarty the Patriot - Ryōsuke Takeuchi & Hikaru Miyoshi Chapters 65-76 : A heavily ship-oriented commentary.

-louis thanking william for choosing to live, he's so sweet

-aw lil louis hugging his brother

-the three brothers are together again :')

-i don't recall seeing louis this peaceful ever before, as now that william and albert are returned

-i feel like i'm reading a prolonged happy epilogue and i'm alright with that

-why is albert's and mycroft's reunion so soft omg

-erm? bond/mrs hudson, y/y? THIS IS SO WHOLESOME I SHIP IT

-THE CLOSE-UP ON SHERLOCK'S EYES AS WILL WALKS INTO THE ROOM, WTH! groom meet groom

-i love smiling william. i really do love smiling william, i smile along with him

-ah, sunshine billy!

-louis pretty much loves everyone on this dinner for helping his brother

-AHAHA BILLY IS ONTO YOU, SHERLOCK, HE KNOWS YOU DOTE ON WILLIAM (re: the fruit being 9o% for him)

-i'm really happy for louis, he looks so content

-OKAY BUT LOOK AT HOW BOND LOOKS AT MRS HUDSON! I SHIP IT

-"SHERLY"

-ASFDKM, WILLIAM "I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF BUT I KNOW I ENJOYED BEING WITH YOU." finally william is also reciting his wedding vows. he opened up his heart to sherlock (or rather, sherlock barged his way in it) and now the world suddenly looks beautiful, yes.

-aw will bb cries :(

-oh. liam and sherly lived in brooklyn. *steve/bucky flashbacks*

-the amazing thing is that neither sherlock nor liam make a fuss about others commenting on their relationship, ever. they're like, "yeah, i simp for this bitch, and?"

-"sherly." i'm sorry, i'll stop making a note of it, but... it comes so casually now. "sherly" :')

-aww, william crying at being thanked by the girlie

-argh william and sherly separately staring at the fire and worrying for one another

-one liam was indeed more troublesome than 100 soldiers, but this is such a cute comment, sherlock, shut up

-fucking william, literally a knight on a white horse

-that one time holmes and moriarty were in a western

-oh i'd say william's body is done recuperating, sherlock. you missed that action hero entrance

-i can't wait to see sherly's face when he sees liam. okay yeah i saw it, it's predictably soft. he's falling in love all over again

-sherly be like "i've dragged that man back from death kicking and screaming and nursed him until he couldn't take it anymore, YOU AIN'T SHOOTING HIM!"

-"why did you come," asks sherlock, with a grin up to his ears

-LIAM WANTS THEM TO LIVE TOGETHER, SHARE THEIR WORRIES TOGETHER, HELP ME! me? help sherly, is he okay, is he fainting right about now?

-SHERLY WANTS THEM TO LIVE TOGETHER AND GUIDE EACH OTHER TOO, GUHHH. they're getting married. again.

-it had been a long while since liam looked like a kitten

-LMFAO EVEN BILLY CALLED THEM WEDDING VOWS HELP. and literally no one contradicts him. 

-seeing the gang react to sherlock's story like we just did is hilarious

-william had been looking for moran but he was too good at hiding? hilarious.

-hahaha the entire gang will be working together for mi6, nice. this feels like a "and they all lived happily ever after” fanfic in the best way

-we interrupt for a "moran becomes a cooking show judge" interlude

-OKAY, the happiest of endings! i'm glad!

[cloudyshade]

my darling son sushi who has 8 mental illnesses and 4 dollars to his name

[anticidic]

The silly way Oda hauls Akutagawa over his shoulders in every universe and how unhappy Akutagawa looks about it. 🤧

[falling-star-cygnus]

can someone please tell me why Dazai is holding that joystick like a fucking wine glass 😭

[askchuuyanakahara]

Dazai you should know better by now than to think you can stop Chuuya when he’s put his mind to something

Dazai: "Seriously, doesn't Chuuya have work? You're going to be late."

Chuuya: "I'll talk instead."

Chuuya: "As a kid, I'd always catch you staring at me at times. I thought it was kinda weird. Still do, really."

Chuuya: "Didn't think it was about my eyes, though."

Dazai: "Why are you suddenly agreeing with this random letter?"

Chuuya: "Quite.. a lot of things, actually."

Chuuya: "Hearing you say it won't change anything!"

[notavalidblognamebut]

I look at this panel every once in a while to convince myself it wasn't a fever dream

[originalartblog]

Do you understand how much Dazai dancing means to me

[originalaccountname]

Reinforcing my "Dazai didn't know anything about Chuuya's acting in Meursault" version of the events by pointing at this moment

This scene plays out like a series of wrong turns, with Dazai having had the forethought of checking the elevator cables just in case, but then having to improvise on the fly to keep both himself and Sigma alive. When the flooding turns out to only have been part 1, and having no ways to stop the elevator from falling, he decides to save Sigma at his own peril because he made a promise and won't bring Sigma down with him. One last person saved.

Dazai dropping little hints of why he's doing all that to Sigma on their way there reads less like a manipulation tactic, since he actually avoids telling too much, and more like tragic storytelling when Dazai is, in the end, left with no choice but to hand Sigma the reins and hope it works out.

Dazai was probably really surprised the fall in the elevator didn't kill him, or he would have told Sigma to hold on and trust him, I think. Everything "conveniently" happened the way it did because we're telling a story and we're trying to hit specific beats.

It works better as a story, thematically, if Dazai wasn't pulling at every string but was saved by his numerous allies working alongside him. Chuuya was sent/came in undercover as backup. Sigma empathized and tried to complete Dazai's mission. They managed to "kill" Fyodor because Ranpo helped, even from far away, by allying with Bram. Dazai's hand was "full of uncertain cards", to quote him, and it was his friends and allies that got him out in the end.

[orangeejuice]

i spent too much time on this

original image below

[dazaistabletop]

He's like a Pokémon trainer

[lotus-pear]

double black

[weretiger-be-my-horse]

so a while ago i read a theory on reddit (can't recall the user, sorry) that said that asagiri purposely shortened the manga chapters after season 4 was released so that the anime adaptation caught up to the manga. if you are a manga reader, you already know this is true and that season 5 episode 11 goes in fact beyond the manga plot.

this reddit user gave various reasons for this. one (and perhaps the most plausible one) said that it was to force manga readers to watch the season 5 finale. but i think i recall that another option may have been to tie up the manga and the anime, since parallel worlds have a special and pivotal role in bsd (we literally have the beast universe there) and therefore asagiri would be treating the manga and anime storylines as parallel worlds/universes.

and i can't help but worry because i was so relieved when dazai and fukuzawa came out of the conflict alright and everyone started to wake up. we got the detectives back, the hunting dogs (except for yosano, tachihara and jouno) and some port mafia members such as akutagawa and chuuya. both enemies (fyodor and fukuchi) were defeated AND killed. this puts the entirety of the fandom at ease.

the last few seconds of the episode show atsushi and akutagawa fighting against an ame-no-gozen wielder, who has fukuchi's scars and is also wearing a mask similar to the one he's wearing in an official art. so it's HEAVILY hinted that it's him.

now, the thing is, what if the manga takes another direction? what if that fukuchi is there because in the manga the ada loses and fukuchi/fyodor uses the book to jump into the reality where they don't win, which is the anime?

like now we manga readers are sort of relieved because the anime showed us how the arc ends, right? we just watched it. we will read that in the october chapter, right?

but what if

[soukokumychildren]

@sensitiveheartless Tis done yes I imagined the mermaids like that because...well, I was only raised on two types of mermaids >:) Everyone else, enjoy my most favorable angst from Dazai's moving castle lol (If anyone's wondering which chapter it was featured in, it was the 13th :})

[artpikuuhnah]

"Won't forget when heaven touch upon,

My...love"

[thornedarrow]

…because the painful words of the past have essentially nothing to do with who you are. - 2.24 if i may shed away my burden now

[mothonthewall]

I Will Always Think About You

The flowers are Japanese Primrose, Freesia and Rhododendron, and yes i put thought into the meaningssss