#bsd johann wolfgang von goethe

[plinko-mori]

Friendly reminder that Rintarou Mori translated a work made by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, being a real life connection with a Port Mafia character (Mori) and a Trascendents (Wolfgang) character

[kunikidas-lost-glasses]

I need Goethe and Schiller in Bsd.

[plinko-mori]

My heart and brain beg for Paul Verlaine (with Arthur's ability of course), Kajii or Adam to appear

BUT REALLY WE NEED LORE OF THE TRANSCENDENTS THAT AREN'T ARTHUR AND PAUL– In this arc, or not, we NEED THE LORE

William Shakespeare, Victor Hugo and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe!

I remember Ougai Mori has a real life connection with Victor Hugo, not physically but Rintarou Mori read his works– And idk I'm a Mori blog I can't say more but whatever I'll turn this Mori blog in a BSD blog

I don't remember anything else agh I'll share the Victor Hugo-fact when I have free time

[chandlerwilde]

My (Not A Cliche) Dark Academia Book Recommendation List

This is needed and I’m going to say, You’re Welcome, in advance. Here are some really amazing and under appreciated books no one care about. That put any book by Nicholas Sparks and any tortured artist’s work to shame. You’re welcome.

The Sorrow Of Young Werther by John Wolfgang Von Goethe

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai

Kokoro by Natsume Soseki

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

Notes From The Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Gauche the Cellist by Kenji Miyazawa

The Tale Of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse

Meoto Zenzai by Sakunosuke Oda

[elliotthezubat]

And here we have me and @soul-dwelling‘s group of collab OCs for BSD.

Sturm Und Drang (minus gaston due to the 9 character limit kisekae has) looking like they’re about to drop the hottest album of the year

DO NOT REPOST MY KISEKAE PICS WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!!

[bungoustraydogs-tr]

Sence William Shakespeare'i BSD' görür müyüz?

Shakespeare zaten bsd'de var. Transcendents grubunun bir üyesi.

Transcendents tüm üyeleri:

Arthur Rimbaud

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Paul Verlaine

Victor Hugo

William Shakespeare

[maximaxstreasurebox]

I'm like almost an hour into thinking about everything I can think of anything BSD related while trying to filter out the things I know thanks to BunAl-

also, SPOILERS-

idk how to categorize them really but there was an attempt;

Tier 1 - Anime

Rich Poe

Switched relationships (like Dazai & Akutagawa)

Switched genders (like Kyouka & Kouyou)

Book is titled 'Stray Dogs'

Zelda (Fitzgerald's wife)

Tier 2 - Manga

The penname 'Edogawa Ranpo' is a rendering of 'Edgar Allan Poe' (EdgarA-llanPoe)

Existence of mystical beings as abilities(vampires,werewolves,ect.)

IRL Fukuzawa's portre on the 10,000 Yen

Akutagawa has noble/rich family background

Agatha Christie & Order of the Clock Tower

Karl is based from an E.A.Poe movie with a pet raccon

Tier 3 - Novel

GAIDEN (Spin-off)

Topaz (Karma's name given by fans before anime)

Rimbaud & Verlain's relationship (both BSD & IRL)

Origin of Arahabaki (artifical ability)

Higuchi's ability (unknown but its existence confirmed by Asagiri)

Transcendents (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Shakespeare, Victor Hugo)

IRL Shibusawa's wife saw the BSD Movie

Abilities can exist as their own (like Shibusawa's ability after he died)

Tier 4 - BEAST

Yukio Mishima is part of the Decay of Angels (the IRL author of DoA)

Aya Koda is an ability user (since she's named after an author)

Kafka Asagiri is a character in BSD

Yosano's ability limits (is it only limited to lethal wounds or her trauma affected the conditions?)

Sigma is Sigmund Freud (before we knew he was 'born' from the Book)

IRL Mori's daughter, Mori Mari (introduction of the BL genre in Japan)

Tier 5 - BOOK

Kafka Asagiri's ability is the Book

IRL Ango's shenanigans (just read trivia)

Naomi & Gin are related (that one official art)

Naomi is an ability (like Elise is part of Mori's)

Kenji has eating disorder (most common is fanfics)

Verlain assassinated the Queen (meme)

I’m thinking about making one of these for bsd memes and theories, obviously I won’t be able to fit in every reference, but put your favorite meme/theory/funny moment in the tags or comments and what tier you think it should go in (1 being the most well known to 5 being the most obscure)

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#5

Bungou Stay Dogs from story to novel (Spoilers for the manga, Gaiden and Beast)

So, I like to collect the Bungou Stray Dog books. I have collected Volumes 1-17, 20, Beast Manga Volume 1 and the Gaiden manga volumen 1, as well as the Dark Era, Beast and 55 Minutes light novels.

On my journey I have noticed something: the separation of the title with the volume art. 

From the very first volume we see that title “Bungou Stray Dogs” is almost completely separated from the rest of the art, with just little thing connecting the two, like Kunikida in volume 1 and the blood splatter on volume 12. Always switching between black title background (in odd numbers) and white title backgrounds (in even numbers ).

But that change on volume 15: 

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49 notes - Posted June 8, 2022

#4

Nobody cares about Bungou Stray Dogs: 55 Minutes and I will make it everyone’s problem. (Spoilers for the manga, Dead Apple, Dark Era, Fifteen and Strombringer).

I love this light novel. It’s like one of the only ones light novels I actually care about, and you should to if you care about world building on BSD.

But nobody has read it so I have decided to write some fun facts and food for thoughts that the synopsis and summaries can’t make it justice. Also yes, all those works are mentioned or connected to 55 Minutes.

Firstly, I want to point out how Atsushi’s transformation is described:

“He visualize a tiger… the complete opposite of his weak self… Like night cooling the ground, the frailty hidden deep down inside Atsushi grew until it was sinisterly ferocious. The tiger was not of this world. It only existed within him. It was his arrogance and cowardice, his pride and sense of shame. The more he tired to hide his weakness, the more exposed it became… His skin corrugated as his bones started to creak strangely.”

I just love how despite this taken place after the Guild attacked, he still consider himself weak, a coward, and needs someone to help him.

Europe, in average, has more skill users than Japan, and using the war they manufactured a lot of weapons. Nowadays, a lot of those weapons seem to be hidden or in the governments possession. 

Victor Hugo, Shakespeare and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe are all canon, they are all Transcendents (just like Rimbaud), they participated on the war, and he fought and caused more casualties at once in the entire history.

H.G. Wells is also a character in the story, she is an ability user that can send the memories of someone 55 minutes to the past and only once, and she also participated on the War and created a weapon of mass destruction. Which is what most people are fighting for in the story.

Apparently Dazai knows how to control his heart beat because of his suicide attempts… know he does it to be a spy.

Andre Gide is also mentioned in the novel and they are partially part of why one of the villains, the Colonel, it’s obsessed with getting a secret weapon. By the end of the light novel, they were trying to piece together Colonel’s story and that it matches, only to find nothing, because the Mimic attack is hidden to the public and cover the event completely, which Dazai of course says so the ADA stops looking for it, since the government just won’t let them. Only for Atsushi to ask “do you know anything about them?” WHICH HURT MY SOUL WHEN I FIRST READ IT.

Dazai famously gets stabbed on this novel, and it’s so noticeable and impressive because he didn’t predicated it at all. The ADA had to make their own plan to rescue his ass. (And this is important to show that they can solve a case without his help).

It’s implied that Dazai is not the only ability user that has a nullified ability.

If an ability user has a to-the-touch ability (Fyodor) or one that doesn’t turn off (Fukuzawa) and they are dead, their ability cannot be used, but abilities can used on them. So if Dazai dies, Yosano can use her ability because he is dead, and like IRL, there’s a time in which people can still be brought back even if they are dead.

The main reason why I wanted to read 55 Minutes was because of Jules Verne and his relationship with Gab (his ability who obtained consciousness).Verne’s ability is Mysterious Island, in which he gains the ability of any user that dies on Standard Island (where the events of the light novel take place). Gab is what happened when someone abuses their own abilities and said ability mutates and grow. 

Jules Verne was someone who suffered in the war, his parents died and they did everything to stop the War and suffering of others. He met Wells long after the war was over, and they actually met because they were stopping a terrorist attack on the island Verne swore to protect, not only because it was part of his ability, but because it gave him a purpose.

Jules Verne, after his parents died, joined an organization to stop the war when he was around 12-15 years old. They were named the Seven Traitors. They stopped the war by kidnapping a bunch of world leaders so they signed peace treaties to stop the war… and it worked. Once the war was over, they disappeared essentially and they put Verne in charge of guarding the island. He was fine with it, because those years he spent planning with the Traitor, they all became friends. And with no family, and with the knowledge that his friends were safe, it gave him a purpose.

He is pretty similar to Sigma in that way with DOA. They got attached to a group and were put on a place that gave them a purpose. 

The difference is that Verne had the ability to steal the abilities of anyone that died in his island, and that would be his downfall. During Wells and Verne’s plan, she died and he was able to use her ability so she wouldn't die next time, and the problem was to that, in his next try, not everyone was safe, people still got injured. So he continued to go back, and something unexpected happen. The found out that Wells’ and his own ability grew every time he used them. He was able to travel more than 55 minutes to the past. So he started to go back in time over and over again, in part to save Wells and the people he cared about, but it got to the point he tried to go back in time enough that he could stop the War itself. That would be good in theory but the island got free will, and as it grew stronger he overpowered Verne, and eventually took over his body.

I have wanted to read this because this could happen to Atsushi at any time, if their abilities get free will. Which sadly they are. Verne's ability was Standard Island, but he got a name Gab. Atsushi's ability name is Beast Underneath The Moonlight. And we see this struggle with Verlaine and Chuuya on Fifteen and specially Stormbringer. They struggle to keep their sense of humanity, and the separation of them as people and as abilities. 

Alongside this, I want you to remember the war was 13 years ago, Jules, Gab and Verne and the entire island have being on a time-loops for over a decade. 

Something important I want to point out: Atsushi didn't fight Gab, it was only Byakko (the white tiger). During the whole battle, Atsushi just let Byakko took over, and defeated him. And most importantly Gab is talking to it. He said:

“I’ve been conscious ever since my master, Verne, controlled this body- but I couldn’t say anything. My voice reached no one. I was neither alive nor dead. I was just alone in lukewarm darkness, wondering who I was.”

(Which sounds kinda familiar if you have read Stormbringer)

There’s also an interesting parallel to the themes of DEAD APPLE: the connections of souls, abilities and the reason to live. “Gifts are lodged deep inside the human soul. You shouldn’t remove them” Which is interesting and notorious since Shibusawa and Verne NEED to kill the users to obtain their abilities.

ALSO, IMPORTANT: Even if Gab is on control, Verne is still conscious inside of the body. He just can’t reach anyone at all. Except, curiously, Atsushi. I wonder why (I have theories, but nothing is confirmed)?

Also @yarrayora here’s your “Bungou Stray Gods can be canon” evidence:

“I think a lot of skill users believe their skill is part of them” Atsushi said as if answering his own question “But maybe they’re wrong. Maybe they come from somewhere else and stick to us. Maybe they’re something we can’t understand… I don’t really know how to put it into words, but that’s how I feel.”

Atsushi, at the end of the events, thinks back to Verne and Gab, wonders if Verne and the Seven Traitors acted like the ADA, and maybe that’s why Gab joined the same group of people while stuck on the time loops, so maybe he could experience what Verne felt with the Traitors; and if Gab ever had true friends that he could have ended differently.

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#3

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140 notes - Posted April 13, 2022

#2

They are on their way to adopt the internet

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My #1 post of 2022

Welcome to Tumblr @captainpuffdaddy! As is tradition, you shall be drawn in a maid dress. I have seen some people saying you should be drawn in a butler outfit, so I did both. 

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[elliotthezubat]

MY LIST OF BSD SHIPS (as of November 4 2017)

includes canon x canon, canon x oc, oc x oc, m/f, m/m, f/f, and ships with nonbinary people

Mizuki Tsujimura X Yukito Ayatsuji [I know nothing about the gaiden novel, but I'm shipping it purely on fan art lol]

Kyusaku ‘Q’ Yumeno -> Aya Koda [I have mixed feelings on this one.]

Naoya Shiga (OC) X Kafu Nagai ( @crystal-doll‘s OC) [7w7]

Child!Ougai Mori X Elise [rintarou did nothing wrong]

John Steinbeck X H P Lovecraft [I'm slowly sinking into the ship halp]

John Steinbeck X Mark Twain [one of my weird rare pairs]

John Steinbeck X Emily Dickenson (OC) [who knows~? idk\]

Doppo Kunikida X Kanae Minato (OC) [an almost ship that ended tragically] ((based of an RP with my friend @soul-dwelling ))

Lydia Zinovieva Annibal (OC) X Natalia (OC) [canon lesbianssss~<3 hell, lydia’s whole reason for joining the rats was for her girlfriend’s sake, hoping to use the book to save her from a coma]

Mark Twain X Edgar Allan Poe [another of my rare pairs]

Ryunosuke Akutagawa -> Atsushi Nakajima [you remember Helga and Arnold from hey Arnold? its exactly like that. sorta]

Alice Arisugawa (OC) X Rowena Poe (OC) [occult club shipping! plus I think alice does have a crush on Rowena in the canon story]

Miyoshi Tatsuji (OC) X Sakutaro Hagiwara (OC) [cheer up miyoshi! one day sakutaro will notice you!]

Katai Tayama X His Futon [do I need to say anything?]

Motojiro Kajii X Leo Tolstoy (OC) [one of those unexpected ships that turns out to be really really cute.]

Yana (OC) X Anya Hepburn (soul eater not) [if you’ve read death city days, you’ll understand]

Kirako Haruno X Osamu Dazai [another rare pair/friends with benefits sort of thing]

Chuuya Nakahara X Rain (OC) [THE MEGA ONE! IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ONE SIDED ON RAIN’S PART BUT THE RP WITH @soul-dwelling CHANGED THAT AND IM IN TOO DEEP WITH FLUFF AND ANGST AND SCREAMING I LOVE IT]

Osamu Dazai -> Sakunosuke ‘Odasaku’ Oda [I think dazai had a slight crush on oda, don't lie]

Osamu Dazai X Doppo Kunikida [another ship I have started shipping recently]

Nathaniel Hawthorn X Margaret Mitchell [the canon source material does give evidence to the ship, so... yeah]

Edgar Allan Poe X Ranpo Edogawa

Edgar Allan Poe X Louisa May Alcott [in this ships timeline, louisa is aged up. I am still not over her canon age fam]

Edgar Allan Poe X Lana Shephard (OC) [blame @soul-dwelling]

Henry Poe (OC) X Molly Poe (OC) [poe’s brother and sister-in-law, they’re so cute and have a daughter~!]

Shousaku Katsura X Kiku ‘KEEK’ Harue (OC) [another ship spawned from the RP between me and @soul-dwelling]

Hans Christian Anderson (Collab OC) X Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Collab OC) [one of the ships with me and @soul-dwelling‘s collab OCs]

Ranpo Edogawa X Snacks [aroace ranpo FTW]

Gin Akutagawa X Ichiyo Higuchi [so cute~]

Ango Sakaguchi -> Sakunosuke ‘Odasaku’ Oda [ango was totally in love with oda. feels man]

Elizabeth Poe (OC) X Roderick Poe (OC) [poe’s parents. they are precious old people]

Lucy Maud Montgomery X Atsushi Nakajima [I really love these two a lot ok?]

Kenji Miyazawa X Kyouka Izumi [perhaps when they are older~]

Etta Hoffman (Collab OC) X Franz Kafka (Collab OC) [another collab OC ship with me and @soul-dwelling. kafka y u so tsundere]

Sakunosuke ‘Odasaku’ Oda X Andre Gide [blame the translator of the dark era light novel, who’s username escapes me]

Andre Gide X Colette (OC) [so many feels]

Sakunosuke ‘Odasaku’ Oda X Andre Gide X Colette (OC) [when in doubt, polyship]

Gaston Leroux (OC) X Christine Daae (OC) [QuQ]

F. Scott Fitzgerald X Zelda Fitzgerald [REMINDER THAT HE IS MARRIED IN CANON AND LOVES HIS WIFE SO FUCKING MUCH IM CRYING]

Mushitaro Oguri X Yokomizo/Kindaichi [this ship fucking killed me man Q___Q]

Nikolai Gogol X Tatsuhiko Shibusawa [ @chris-phd LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO ME THEY ARE PRECIOUS WITH THEIR TWO DAUGHTERS I CANT EVEN]

Ace X getting tossed out a fucking window [I still fucking hate this guy so much]

Topaz X Garnette (OC) [these kids deserved better Q__Q]

Fyodor Dostoyevsky X Ivan Goncharov [my favorite Fyodor ship. vanya loves him so much~]

Doppo Kunikida X Nobuko Sasaki [I might dislike sasaki, but I feel bad for doppo Q_Q]

Alexander Pushkin X Katya Makarov (OC) [one of those ships that can be interpreted as either platonic or romantic. I'm down for either tbh]

[elliotthezubat]

MY BSD OCs Hogwarts Houses Edition

Rain - gryffindoor or hufflepuff

Naoya Shiga - gryffindoor

Shizuka Kanei - hufflepuff

Miura - ravenclaw

Ayako Sakurai - slytherin

Garnette - gryffindoor

Mary Shelly - Hufflepuff

Bram Stoker - Ravenclaw

Oscar Wilde - Slytherin

Emily Dickenson - hufflepuff

L Frank Baum - slytherin

Dorothy Baum - ravenclaw

Ebie White - hufflepuff

Rowena Poe - ravenclaw [...*cough*]

Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal - gryffindoor

Yana - slytherin

Zoey Lewis - slytherin

Sasha Petrovna - hufflepuff

Katya Makarov - gryffindoor

Leo Tolstoy - hufflepuff

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - slytherin

Hans Christian Anderson - hufflepuff

Ted Hughes - slytherin

Sylvia Plath - hufflepuff

Wilhelm Grimm - slytherin

Jakob Grimm - slytherin

Etta Hoffman - slytherin

Franz Kafka - ravenclaw

Walter Benjamin - ravenclaw

Gaston Leroux - slytherin

Colette - gryffindoor

Alice Arisugawa - ravenclaw

Lana Shephard - hufflepuff

Kiku ‘KEEK’ Harue - ravenclaw

[cathy-plus-e]

OKAY MAYBE THIS WILL LOOK WEIRD BUT I SWEAR IT HAS ITS OWN LOGIC

You can actually connect Arahabaki and Mori in a way

The Arahabaki thing is related to Chuuya, Paul and Arthur

Let's focus on the gay boyfriends, Arthur and Paul

They are from a group called "Trascendents", mentioned in 55 Minutes but even if I didn't read the Light Novel, we have information in the wiki like that image above and the members

The members of this group are: Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, William Shakespeare and Victor Hugo

Before explaining my shit, let's see a little Dazai and Natsume, in BSD it's really a mystery whether they know each other or not, but:

In "No Longer Human", one of Natsume's books is mentioned, now I will translate (not so literally) that part of the book:

“— Don't you have any interesting books to lend me?

—she said, eating the persimmon between sobs. I pulled Natsume Soseki's I Am A Cat from my bookshelf”

It doesn't make clear if the characters would know each other, we saw Natsume as a cat interacting with Dazai, and him calling the cat "sensei", it's still a mystery

This is when Victor Hugo comes in, because I think the same happens between him and Mori, in Vita Sexualis there's this part where Victor Hugo is mentioned, similar to Osamu and Soseki

I will translate everything (just in case + no the name of the book sorry) even if I will focus in a tiny part of that paragraph

“When I read Nôtre-Dame de Paris from Victor Hugo, when I saw that it speaks of a girl names after a precious stone — Emerald or something like that—, I remembered that girl who dances kappore under the umbrella, and I thought that Emerald was like her”

So, four characters in total

Two that we know (Dazai and Mori)

And other two that we don't know if they have interacted with the previous two (Natsume and Victor)

And there's a connection between them in the books of the name of the abilities (I'm talking about No Longer Human with Natsume, and Vita Sexualis with Victor)

I want to think there's a possibility that Ougai Mori knows a little of the Trascendents, that he is a little related, that Victor Hugo maybe connects the shit

So yeah you can connect Chuuya and Mori by that, end of the shit

See this is why I'm banking SO HARD on the "Mori is partly responsible for the Arahabaki project" theory cause ruining this kid's life and THEN meeting him years later and being like "damn I could try again" is EXACTLY something Mori would do.