I Think The Most Solid Thing I Could Find Was Akutagawa's Wiki, Specifically On The Section On Dazai

“Everything passes. That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.  Everything passes.”

             — Happy Birthday to my darling, Dazai Osamu | 06.19

I should really play the game more 😭

I'm no longer asking I am begging you to read Asagiri's additional prologue to the Dragon's Head Conflict from the Dead Apple event in the mobile game it has Oda it has Fyodor it has Dazai it has SKK it has more Shibusawa it has lore about the Dragon's Head Conflict and the Port Mafia PLEASE

you can read it on the wiki

Personally, I think this song fits Dazai

The title translates to 'Tefu tefu', a sort of outdated way for saying 'butterfly'.

+ Obligatory Manga Screenshot

The Lyrics.

if your asian activism doesnt include ALL asians then it is useless. if your asian activism thinks asia is japan, korea, and china and MAYBE a few s/se asian countries, it is not asian activism. asia is a massive continent that includes north asia and the middle east (surprise, the middle east is w asia).

yes weeaboos and koreaboos are asian issues and so is anti chinese racism and general anti e asian racism spiking bc of covid, but those are not the ONLY asian issues. 

what’s happening to palestine is an asian issue. what’s happening in armenia is an asian issue. what’s happening in india is an asian issue. there are asian issues i am nowhere near informed enough about to bring up on this post. include these communities and countries in your asian activism. they are a part of the larger asian community. do not forget them.

Kafka Asagiri, Bungou Stray Dogs / Dazai Osamu, The Setting Sun / Kafka Asagiri, Bungou Stray Dogs / Dazai Osamu, Blue Bamboo / Kafka Asagiri, Bungou Stray Dogs / Dazai Osamu, A New Hamlet / Dazai Osamu, Blue Bamboo / Kafka Asagiri, Bungou Stray Dogs / Dazai Osamu, Seagull (self translated from Chinese) / Dazai Osamu, On Love and Beauty / Kafka Asagiri, Bungou Stray Dogs

so I'm making this character, and I really wanted her ability to be called 'Mad Dog' because of the connotation. I was also researching stuff and found out the dangers of them, which I wanted to explore with her ability. At the same time, I really like the sorrowful meaning behind bulls and the masculine connotation that's had with them.

so could I like, combine it?? like, if the ability is called 'Mad Dog' could I get away with it actually being personified as a bull?

Especially in BSD, there's alot of sorrow being confused with anger, and anger with sorrow, etc. Like Dazai & Chuuya and Atsushi & Akutagawa, Ango & Dazai.

So, hypothetically????????????

I pulled Dazai!! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

I love him and his antics so much <3 who flirts with a lion and then gets bitten <3 he does, he shouldn't be trusted in any public spaces please (read: PLEASE) keep him away from any public spaces <3

The snow lying on the roof tiles is a touch hard, the dead trees’ twigs are sleepy like a deer; six o’clock on a winter morning, my head too is sleepy.

The birds pass by singing - the garden earth is sleepy like a deer. - The wood has fled, the farmhouse has fled. The sky is sad weakness.    My heart is sad…

- Nakahara Chūya, “Winter Daybreak” from The Poems of Nakahara Chūya

Something I find really beautiful about this chapter is Atsushi subconsciously finding his tendency to rely on his emotions as a strength — he had no logical conclusion as to why the ADA members were alive, but instinctively, in his heart, he knew.

The same for Akutagawa — he knew that Akutagawa would remember, in his heart, with the doubt of his mind. I believe it was a quote Atsushi had said earlier, but I believe it's the core of his character — "The head may err, but never the blood".

The heart is a mysterious thing, because it makes sense without any logical basis. The heart is a trust, a senseless trust with a sense of clarity. Dazai in Atsushi's subconscious saying, "Feel strongly. That's what you do when you want to experience the past", brings me to believe that Atsushi has become better at living. Atsushi, by only living in the present, has become the only person fit to defy the space, because the present in the agreement of the past and future.

In other words, I believe Atsushi is the heart.

stupid smelly crows