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For every boop I get I’ll boop my dazai plush in the head

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Well, Dazai went to prison in chapter 57 which was released on October 4, 2017, it turns out today is exactly 6 years since he serving his sentence…

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Akutagawa, sweety, Halloween party is in …. *looking at calendar* 648 hours… but you can sit at the table and wait for the rest of the guys…

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I like that no one dies in bsd unlike Jujutsu Kaisen, I stay out of JJK because I don't want to face an absurdly huge amount of deaths (no hate for jjk, it's just not my cup of tea). So, for me, bsd is the perfect sandbox.

The other question is, what exactly is Asagiri trying to accomplish by devaluing character deaths so much? Because they do indeed gradually stop evoking any sharp emotions, but in my opinion it's no longer a bug, it's slowly turning into a feature, we just have to wait for the moment when it becomes clear which one.

I love that living in a world where there is so much violence, death and cruelty, I can be sure that my favorite blorbos, despite their literal deaths, can be alive at any moment

Because in creating his characters, Asagiri is inspired and grounded by figures from literature and culture, and literature and culture are eternal.

Therefore, Bulgakov was right when he proclaimed the immortality of Dostoevsky with the words of Behemoth; authors are immortal. And who says that Kafka does not play on this principle? At the same time, who says that he does not deconstruct this principle? Maybe his goal is to show that it is time to “throw old authors off the modernity steamer” and let them finally “die”?

fucking postmodernism baby

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I really liked how they portrayed the moment where Stolas walks down the corridors of the castle at a relaxed pace and Blitzo has to run after him because of the difference in their size, but I think it also shows their difference in realizing the feelings they are experiencing. Blitzo doesn't have time to digest everything Stolas has told him (literally again, he can't keep up with him, Stolas has had time to think about it, Blitzo hasn't) and takes everything to heart, because he fucking takes everything to heart.

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so, today we, russian queers, may become "extremists" by decision of russian supreme court and thus our existence will be silenced and erased. any queer activism will be impossible for us. I don't know what to do anymore. I was heartbroken when they passed the laws about "gay propaganda" and transgender people, now I'm just numb. I don't want to escape. I just want to live safely in my own country.

please hear us.

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it's very gay to celebrate your birthday in pride month, Dazai…

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`` Okay okay, at this point I have two theories in my head:

In the dark corridor is really Chuuya, this confirms, the fact that he left before Fedor ordered it and many other things

But also, I can't get enough of this note, someone who wrote it is also roaming the corridors of the prison, it could be Gogol, it could be some other Russian-speaking criminal

My head is pounding.

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fuck but you know how the whole bsd is built on the metaphor of writing books, and we have a character who literally talks directly about how he wants to write a novel-

Odasaku as the demiurge of the bsd universe? given that it's his image on Kafka's ava in twt, like ahahaa)))

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You know what I love most about light novels and manga? The fact that Dazai is never the narrator, ever.

That's so interesting to me. Because so much of the bsd revolves around him, but he's not the main character, he's never the narrator, he's a totally gray character and it's so Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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I can't help thinking that Dazai and Sigma's stay in Meursault is a direct reference to A. Camus' The Stranger, where the main character's name is Meursault and the work reveals the essence of French existentialism.

The meaning of the title is that the stranger is just the main character, he perceives the world aloof and does not care about what is going on around him. He is like a random whistler, a passerby who is not touched by anything.

When his mother dies, he expresses no sadness, thinking only of how hot the weather is on the day of the funeral. He is not indifferent to his mother, he just lives with different feelings, alien to the philosophy of the society in which he lives.

My point is that I think that the "Meursault challenge" should show Dazai's growth, we will either see similarities with Camus's character (denial of God, existential questions, sense of the superfluous), or we will be convinced of his contrast with him (Dazai cares about human life, in the arc he is not a bystander, but an active participant of events)

and i wish i could write in more detail, but i'm running off to classes yyy

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GUYS, I'M STUPID. The reason Tachihara understands that The Agency is innocent despite being law enforcement is that he sees himself as a cop. He's part of the Black Lizards, a Port Mafia group. So the page's limit on what the law enforcement can and can't believe doesn't work on him since he's not really law enforcement.

I stg if I was the only person who hadn't figured this out I'm gonna riot.

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Dazai at least once but encouraged Chuuya to put pushpin on Mori's chair...

Mori certainly didn't fall for it, because when four eyes are watching from around the corner like this👁👁👁👁, how you sit down at your desk, anyone will have a suspicion that there is something isn't right here

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"In the center of this hell was Chuuya... suffering."

Aaand as promised here's the other Stormbringer piece :]

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if you think about it, Stormbringer is such a horror…

We have the bio-robot, the super-soldier, the scene of killing friends, the first and agonizing activation of the arahabaki, Chuuya with "angel" wings, the tough battle scene with Verlaine in true form, during which so many members of the PM die, Dazai's confidence in Chuya's humanity, Dazai admitting that he thinks of Chuuya 24/7 in front of Verlaine, the whole N fucking body horror thing where Chuuya dies in his own arms, the endless existential questions of "who am I? ", Dazai lets Chuuya make the decision to activate Arahabaka himself, and then thinks urgently about a new plan, figuring that Chuya won't want to use the true form of the ability, and lots of lots of forgiveness…

Ah, and an epilogue with Chuuya's family, "The Port Mafia is my family," an epilogue with a living Verlaine, another death scene of Rimbaud

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The thought of Chuuya's clone dying in Chuuya's arms still makes me restless. This fifteen-year-old boy watched himself die and disintegrate…