#shin was so pretty

[beolh]

sskk based on the now famous dream tiger by govy9807

[ruubesz-draws]

Congrats Minus One!🎉

Ya did good buddy... ya did good... :')

His brothers are proud of him :)) He's still the same lil gremlin tho...

[kyouka-supremacy]

Oh...

[mitskiluvr]

beast will always mean SO much to me because of everything it tells us about atsushi and akutagawa. all the parallels between them. they were both victims of circumstance—akutagawa ended up on the side of “good” in beast and atsushi didn’t and at their core they were both just teenagers trying to find a way to survive with the hand that was dealt to them

[sskk-manifesto]

Fitzgerald coming in to sskk sskking: Am I interrupting something

[reislesbian]

SW Rebels characters in the Clone Wars style>>>

[gagad]

HI JUST BACK FROM DEAD,, WAIT YOU THINK YOU GONA ESCAPE FROM MA REACTION ON DLNEW MERCH??? ' LOL DREAM ABOUT IT

SO LIKE WHAT PEOPLE SAY EVERBODY GANSTA UNTIL A REAL ONE SHOW UP ??? SO WHO IS THE THE REAL ONE HERE ? OF COURSE IT'S YOU MY CHARMING BABE 😫😔🫣😭,,,,,,I♥️🫵🏻and I ♥️ YOUR SLUTTY SMILE 😩🫵🏻💋YOUR THE HOTTEST BITCH I EVER SEEN👉🏻👈🏻😍😈.

[kastillia]

[tokyo-daaaamn-ji-gang]

It's also father's day here today so here's an appreciation post for all the tr dad's.....actually ykw nevermind they're all either dead or somewhere between not great to straight up awful. So instead shout out to Draken, I'm sure he's gonna be great!

[ssaraexposs]

He's so casual and chill about it

[doodlesdreaming]

How far will you go…for Vengeance?

HD version and progress shots can be found here:

[astranauticus]

you 🫵 go watch my animatic now

[kyouka-supremacy]

Hey (^-^)/

I have a question: What did Atsushi mean in this panel when he said "the fact that you're the one standing in front of me"? I don't get it.

And why Akutagawa's face seem conflicted by hearing that?

I'm not entirely sure - that line is fairly ambiguous - but I can share my own interpretation! Here, Atsushi is trying to explain Akutagawa that the reason why Dazai has not acknowledged him yet is not, as Akutagawa is convinced of, because he isn't strong enough, and that his being powerful is actually of no interest to Dazai. Atsushi suggests that there's something else Dazai is waiting for Akutagawa to grow better at before acknowledging him, and Akutagawa will only be able to see what it is by keeping himself from killing (likely, what Atsushi is thinking Akutagawa lacks is moral virtue to some extent, compassion and humanity. I feel like that's also consistent with how Dazai sees Akutagawa in Beast, and what believes is wrong with him: “It’s human nature to lash out with violence. But if hurting others is your natural instinct… then you are nothing more than a mindless beast” (Dazai, Beast novel, page 18) ).

Akutagawa so far has believed that everything he could do to be seen by Dazai, was proving his own strength; and that his current situation of not being yet recognized was due to his own limits on that front. With that last line, I think Atsushi is telling him: “The reason you are where you are now [both in terms of his path towards being acknowledged by Dazai and overall current status as conjunction of events that led him to be where he is] has nothing to do with your strength or lack thereof. You're here in front of me [in your current situation that led you to this place in this moment] because there's something you've yet to realize [that would be, once again, that strength is not what Dazai seeks in him but rather for Akutagawa to accomplish a moral step up]”.

Additionally, I think Atsushi might also imply: “The reason you're here in front of me, the reason Dazai decided you had to be here, is so that you could see something you still can't grasp”, since both sskk and the bsd author seem to be fairly assured that everything sskk themselves do is because Dazai wanted them to, in some sort of weird determinism (“Why were you so eager to put Akutagawa-kun against that tiger lad? [...] How long have you been aiming for this scenario?” “From the time I met Atsushi-kun.” (Hirotsu, Dazai, chapter 37); “Why do you think Dazai-san put us together?” (Atsushi, chapter 51); “Dazai-san didn't abandon me after all. This was all a trial. A guidepost, lined with wailing.” (Akutagawa, chapter 85); and even more examples could be made; everything sskk do, seems like it's because Dazai wanted them to at some point.)

The reason why Akutagawa looks so conflicted, then, is probably out of bewilderment for Atsushi's words, for the revelation that proving his strength - that is everything Akutagawa has tried to do since meeting him - is actually not the way to make Dazai acknowledge him.

Here's an alternative fantranslation to the official English translation + the raws of that page for further insight :)

[oreonyu]

that lake in smt v,,, i was mesmerized !!!

[inamagicalhallucination]

atsushi: you look like you should be a lot uglier than u are

akutagawa:  what.

atsushi: yeah like ur face looks like it should be ugly. it’s weird that ur actually kinda pretty.

akutagawa, a little blushy: what.

[sskk-manifesto]

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