#are you FUCKING kidding me dog

[itsbasil]

"what if tumblr was more like reddit" what if I shot beams at you

[stil-lindigo]

PARTY ROCKERS IN THE HOUUUUSE TONIIIIGHT

[lotus-pear]

bsd rewatch w my friend means obligatory art of my fav found family ever

[honey-bird10]

GET THESE BITCHES A ROOM

[whirlybirbs]

cut to bucky barnes laying flat on the floor of his dark apartment, hands over his face, as chappell roan’s “casual” plays because you cannot convince me that this man has been casual about anything in his life.

[sad-emo-dip-dye]

And what if I go through the entire manga just to pick out each image of akutagawa just to see him get prettier and softer and more human as the chapters progress just because Harukawa said that he changed because Atsushi’s feelings and perceptions of him changed?

[p4nishers]

[serpentface]

Don't get too attached

[tkachukisms]

old tweets like this are so funny because like yeah he sure did :) six years later they would be codependent. you think they knew that'd happen. you think they could sense it

[lokh]

every day im reminded that though my parents may have wanted a dog they clearly did not want to take care of a dog

[shima-draws]

I started watching Bluey and when I say I was absolutely fucking ENLIGHTENED.

Me: Bluey’s such a popular show and even my adult friends like it…but why?? Isn’t it just a show for preschoolers

Me, after watching one (1) episode: OH….I UNDERSTAND NOW…..

[ssruis]

I love LSH so much it’s genuinely one of the funniest events in the entire game but I think one of my favorite things is toya getting so mad at akito (because he’s largely unrepentant about failing) & then when he finds out his older brother figure failed a class he literally does not give a fuck. Zero reaction. I know this is because he knows tsukasa has already had his 46 allotted Fits about it and will be hitting the books hard but imagining akito’s face when he realizes toya is not concerned abt tsukasa’s studying and is only being a hard ass about his studying is so funny to me. Tsukasa could go “yeah I’m just gonna cram for this exam” & toya would go “I believe in you tsukasa senpai” but if akito said that exact same thing Toya would be So Pissed.

[shig4dabi]

[GRABS AT YOU THROUGH THE BARS OF MY CAGE]

DO YOU GET WHAT IM SAYING??? DO YOU????

[1nt3rnalpu7ref4ct10n]

its 4am and im gettin viscerally upset over a kids show just because the One Character i was looking forward to finally coming back actually didnt

[mindpalaceofmyown]

ASAGIRI’S GASLIGHTING US!!!!

[kyouka-supremacy]

The thing about chapter 39 is I think dazai was trying to help atsushi and didn't do a very good job because what he's good at and has learned how to do is manipulation and not helping someone in hard times. With what dazai said to hirotsu in the art museum about being ready for fyodor. I think he was trying to speed up atsushis personal growth but it back fired and messed atsushi up more

Okay there's a lot to unpack here. Main thoughts are: doesn't really align with how I personally read the chapter, but at the same time makes for a truly compelling interpretation that would be so interesting to delve into!! Please keep up the great work!!!!! I could totally accept this as some kind of au that I'd love to look into.

I really like to explore how the act of manipulation as some sort of instinctive response of Dazai, one he can't really help. I like it when a virtue (let's say, charisma and superhuman intelligence) bent to its extremes becomes a flaw. And the fact that it may be involuntary on Dazai's end, that he's gotten so used to making puppets out of people that it became a sort of addiction for him that he can't escape even now that he's doing good, is very tragic / juicy to explore. Because I think Atsushi is for Dazai a friend that he loves, and he wouldn't want to manipulate him; and yet Dazai falls for the vicious circle of “it's ultimately all to do more good, so it's okay, isn't it?” again and again.

I find the concept of Dazai setting up the orphanage director's death extremely appealing as well. I'm a firm believer that Dazai set up the killing of Akutagawa's friends, so that'd be an insanely neat way to parallel that for Atsushi.

Back to how I personally interpret the chapter (within canon that is), I simply don't feel like the author is trying to put Dazai under a bad light / give him flaws? Which makes me reluctant to believe Dazai is lying at any point in that scene. Yes I know we shouldn't take what characters say at face value. Yes I know the author explicitly stated they didn't mean that chapter to come off as abuse apologism. Even then, that chapter feels to me like a clumsy attempt to carry on bsd's deeply grey morality and themes that “good people can do bad things and bad people can do good things”, with the outcome of stating that the abuse Atsushi underwent did him good (and also that abusers are to be considered fathers). But it all might be just my own shortcoming ¯\_(ツ)_/¯