I Just Started Watching "Apothecary Diaries" And I Absolutely Love It.

NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE SAYS I will always love Skk, you can't make me hate them, never!!!!

I was going to add RanPoe too but I have never really seen people actively hating on that ship. Most people love it or are neutral but I rarely see anyone hating it!

We all have a ship that's so popular that people often call it overrated. What's yours?

"I love you" ❌❌❌

It's boring, overused and predictable

"Just the two of us?"

"Do we need more?"

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In a world full of Serena van der Woodsen's I wanted to be a Blair Waldorf, why? Because Blair Waldorf said THIS:

"I'm not a stop along the way, I am a destination"

"If you really want something, you don't stop for anyone or anything until you get it"

"Destiny is for losers. It's just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen instead of making them happen"

"You can't make people love you, but you can make them fear you"

"I look forward to never seeing you again"

"Whoever said money doesn't buy happniess, didn't knew where to shop"

"Fashion is the most powerful art there is. It's movements, design and architecture all in one. It shows the world who we are and who we would like to be"

"People don't write sonnets about being compatible, or novels about shared life goals and stimulating conversation. The great lovers are the crazy ones"

"If you're going to be sad, might as well be sad in Paris"

"Things are never as bad as you think"

"You deserve someone who would move mountains for you if he had to.”

"I know what I want and I’m gonna get it.”

"There aren’t enough curse words in the world to satisfy me right now"

"I’m the best of the best. I’m Blair Waldorf"

See? I believe in a Blair Waldorf supremacy.

Francis: Rules are made to be broken.

Henry: They were made to be followed. Nothing is made to be broken.

Richard : Uh, piñatas.

Charles : Glow sticks.

Camilla: Karate boards.

Bunny: Spaghetti when you have a small pot.

Francis: Rules.

Henry:

Looks like a cinnamon roll, is actually a cinnamon roll: Richard Papen

Looks like they could kill you, is actually a cinnamon roll: Francis Abernathy

Looks like a cinnamon roll, could actually kill you: Charles Macaulay

Looks like they could kill you, could actually kill you: Henry Winter

Could kill you by feeding you too many cinnamon rolls: Camilla Macaulay

Does not deserve cinnamon rolls, will actually get killed: Bunny Concoran

Death Note happened and kept going on because Light, Ryuk and L were just bored with their lives and I respect that.

I know my "unpopular opinions" seem so normal here. But I am gonna be honest, some of these takes have been SHITTED on Reddit and Twitter (no I am not from Tiktok but there are some WILD people I have seen there)

I do mean minor/major thing in legal one. I have seen people call a huge amount of ships toxic, you can see it again and again, the same rhetoric.

With the bsd women, they do have lead roles but if you compare it to the guys, it's less. And I understand this is more than mangas have, but I still wish for more you know. Since BSD ladies are so well written.

I also don't care much about the Hunting Dogs lol. With the guild, I really can't remember anything huge with them. They don't stay in my brain a lot.

You may be surprised how many absolutely unhinged people out there will disagree with these very normal opinions.

"I hate Skk" "I hate sskk" is very common in reddit

There are people who constantly say "Dazai and Chuuya are not gay they are straight" if anyone ships them

Ranposano lovers HATE it if anyone says "I see them as siblings"

There are people (small amount) who defend Atsushi/Kyouka (some even ship worse ones)

People also demonize and hate Dazai constantly

Some don't acknowledge PM (or even DoA) are criminals

Since I saw so many of these opinions floating around, I originally wanted to post this on reddit but for my mental health and not seeing people hate on my opinions, I posted it on Tumblr lol

✨ My BSD hot takes/unpopular opinions ✨:

1. Identifying BSD characters as Queer, is not problematic. STOP being so Heteronormative. Gay characters are not gonna kill you.

If I see another "BuT tHe ChArAcTeRs nEvEr SaId tHeY aRe GaY" I would bomb you 💣/j

2. Skk/SSKK/Fyolai/other popular ships, exist because people like it. If you don't ship them, don't engage with their content. Not all shippers act crazy and toxic. Stop blaming everything on shippers.

3. Atsushi/Kyouka is problematic, stop justifying it with "only 4 year age gap". Kyouka is a CHILD, ship her with Kenji if you want. Atsushi, like a normal 18 year old would never look at a highschool freshman and date her. Even if they date in the future, he knew her when she was younger and they had a sibling like dynamic. Lucy is a way better love interest to Atsushi (Don't know if this is an unpopular opinion tho, but I saw some people justifying it 😐😐😐)

4. DAZAI IS NOT EVIL. HE IS FAR FROM EVIL. He is, despite being super popular and the face of BSD, the most mischaracterized and villified character. Morally grey characters exist??!!!

5. Mori is a way worse person than Dazai ever was.

6. PM members get a free pass for any heinous crime they commit by being hot or babygirl-ified (still love them tho, we do not often discuss how bad their actions have been, you can like criminals and acknowledge they are criminals in fiction. I would add DoA to this too, but it's worse with the PM)

7. Akutagawa's abuse of Kyouka shouldn't be forgotten just because Dazai abused Akutagawa.

8. Mori emotionally manipulated and abused Dazai when he was a teen. Just because it wasn't physical, doesn't mean it was nothing.

9. Atsushi is NOT a soft boy, he is way bitter, salty and sarcastic than we give him credit

10. Poe is important to Ranpo and their friendship/relationship is wholesome as hell

11. Ranpo and Yosano's friendship is way better than them being in a relationship in the future

12. FukuFuku is better than Fukumori (imo!!!!)

13. Buying real authors work after watching BSD is actually a really good thing, since more Gen z kids (or other people) will read classics

14. There are layers to Atsushi and Akutagawa relationship/rivalry, and they have the MOST important relationship (not meaning romantic, just in general) in the entire canon.

15. Kunikida and Yosano could be a power couple

16. Fyodor is not a great villain (yet)

17. Nikolai CARRIES the DoA

18. Sigma shouldn't be in the ADA, he needs a happy home, family and some time to adjust to normal life

19. Q and Elise are both underused characters and could become a great dynamic

20. Ango deserves more love, the amount of pressure and stress he deals with is INSANE

21. It's OKAY if everyone joins the fandom for Dazai or skk (I did at first too!!)

22. Higuchi is annoying as hell. I do not get her hype, I like her but not as much as most people (just personal opinion, do not flame me 😭)

23. Everyone in The Guild is forgettable or boring (except Fitzgerald, Poe and Lucy. I like Louisa, but I forget her all the time)

24. Hetero ships are just not that great/interesting in BSD to me 🤷🏻‍♀️ (except maybe AtsuLucy or rare pairs) and female characters are not best utilised, I wish they play more major roles (can't wait for Agatha to arrive!!)

25. Some fan theories/arts get the story better than "canon" stuff at times. Fanon is NOT always the worst (sometimes enjoyable when the canon gets too dark or sad)

26. Toxic ships are okay in fiction as long as they are legal. Humans like toxic things, we consume it like junk food 💅🏻

(These are all personal opinions of mine and do not matter. Feel free to disagree. But, do not hate or be toxic!!!! 😇😇😇😇)

Richard at the beginning: I want to study the classics, the arts and languages with Julian and his group of beautiful pupils.

Richard in the middle: I want to help these crazy people murder their best friend who is annoying.

Richard in the end: I...just want to sleep for ounce.

I don't know how many times I have to say this:

I DON'T NEED HELP

I just want to sleep and not wake up again

Is that too hard to ask?

I genuinely believe the reason Dazai wants to protect Atsushi at all cost is because he has grown to care for him. It's not even because of Oda's promise or because of the huge bounty on Atsushi or even his big bad final boss plan for the future. He sees a little bit of himself in Atsushi, or more likely, the version of him that could have existed if he wasn't fucked up since he was a child.

Dazai admires Atsushi for the person he is, something he himself could never become.

Atsushi is someone innocent, naive, good at heart and caring. Someone that changes other people through his kindness and love. Someone who has gone through so many horrific things and still retains his humanity.

At this point Dazai has completely accepted his love (platonic) for Atsushi and his entire mission hinges on that.