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[k3woru]

BSD 109 spoilers!

This detail of the scale in the new BSD official art with Dazai and Fyodor is more than life and death on a scale and let me explain why

I was inspired to make this even though i don’t use tumblr much (i want to now after twitter died) after reading @soupthatistohot ‘s post on BSD as an absurdist text - I found it rly interesting!!

To summarise it for context, “Absurdism is the belief that the world around us is irrational and inherently absurd and that explicitly seeking meaning is pointless … All of the animanga’s main characters are on a journey of discovering their meaning in life, and their place in the world, and they do this by rebelling against its absurdity — especially Dazai.”

We can think of the scale as an allusion to Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, where the scale has been famously used to represent the 1 pound of flesh with no extracted blood- essentially no violence or death- that is to be given in exchange for being unable to repay a loan - ultimately, an exact pound of your flesh being extracted would result in death. The scale in the official art depicts that ‘flesh’ in the form of a heart (a vital organ) is of equal weight to an angel wing. Presenting the angel wing which cannot exist in the real world, Asagiri utilises the fantasy elements of BSD to fully drive the possibility for the ability users to thrive within the non-ability world, ‘discovering their meaning … and their place in the world’. This is important because earlier as stated, BSD rebels against absurdity. Dazai’s side with the angel wing suggests his nature to rebel from the original narratives - to subvert our expectations and come out of this through his own means, using his ability for good. To be on the side that saves people.

The sheer fact something like an angel wing-a miracle, basically, from Dazai’s side is possible to resolve conflict and be of equal standing to the pound of flesh that was demanded to repay the loan is crazy. The pound of flesh/flesh on a scale representation has been seen in multiple pieces of media- within animanga, It’s seen in Moriarty the Patriot as a direct reference in one scene too!

Bringing this back to the scale itself, the skull represents mortality - important because multiple character’s mortality are at stake as a result of the present saga’s conflict. Skulls can also represent the opposite however, protection, power, and a gratitude towards life. Further if you wanted to draw upon the ideals of Memento Mori it’s just an overarching symbol that lies perched at the very top of the official art that reminds us that despite these character’s absurdist rebellions, nobody can escape death overall … well, maybe Dazai can here 🤷‍♀️

There’s a lot more I want to say about the official art’s intertextual symbolism… I love how BSD official artworks always have some dichotomy between the setting and the characters that prove something or else.

Let’s hope for a happy ending!!

[tucbilo]

This is actually what happened and we got a better ending

[castlingvanias]

calico u need to know that i simply dgaf abt anytime michael calls cc little man or when cc is called a he

i live my truth that cc is a tomboy little girl

last thought before bed, was the crying child ever described as a boy in fnaf 4? for all we know they could have been a little girl with short hair

[ryuubff]

when your first impression on the carpenter's hot son goes wrong just yell "plot twist!" and move on ✩

yeah no jia didn't really give seb a good impression upon first meeting eachother ... it took sebastian a good while to warm up to them because of this (ill draw it... evnetually)

this is based off my gameplay when first encountering sebastian 😭😭 i didnt know you need 2 hearts w a villager to enter ur room (he wasn't there atp) and when i tried to leave he was blocking the way so i just stood there... until he had the "..." speech bubble and ran past me it was SO EMBARRASSING

this is their current impressions of eachother! maybe when i post more comics i'll update it !!

close ups below the cut as always sorry for a super duper long post LOL

face cards......

this is so can we pretend airplanes in the night sky are shooting stars i could really use a wish right now wish right now wish right now

[got-brainrot]

tbh i like daenerys in daemons visions bc it makes sense the targs r only getting visions of their families involvement in the battle and it also makese sense that the sheer amount of arrogance held by house targaryen would lead them to believe it meant they were even more important and their super special dragon girl was gonna single-handedly save the entire world

[mikaikaika]

TALLULAH MY BELOVED

[fluffydisneyprincess]

*finally meets Caleb*

Oh he's so cute!

I bet he'll be a love interest later 👀

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[bubblehead-02]

The Evangelion Best Girl Poll Round 4 is now over! Congratulations to the winners! And especially congratulations to Unit 02 (Berserk) (NGE) for the last-minute win!

[hybbat]

"You saved me so I can kill you", "my wretch of a wife", and "30 seconds" all happened in this series, yet y'all cry divorce on the ranchers.

[mazojo]

I've never seen a manga page that has altered my brain chemistry more than this one

[undefeatablesin]

ALTAR 🩸 : PAGE 9

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[starfleetwitch]

[daenystheedreamer]

if loras was just like a little less of an absolute 16year old jaime could have been a mentor to him! but no loras is like youre old and ugly and im young and hot and cooler than you :/ fuck yourself skank 🖕 and actually now that i think about it that’s really the closest to actual fatherhood that jaime has ever gotten

[deus-ex-mona]

c o m pletely missed the fact that they have kissmarks here (fake fan)

[mizukisdaycare]

who up being tiny akito’s biggest advocate (me. i am)

[twobellsilence]

Listen I know it doesn't match their modern style so there's a whopping 0% chance they'll ever do it. BUT I would no joke sell a kidney for GLAY to re-record, or at the very least remaster, MOON GOLD

please I need this song in hq SO BAD