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Idk who y'all think this is because this is not Ciel Phantomhive.

If you remember...

Ciels soul was absolutely devoured by Sebastian and he states that when this happens, their souls completely and utterly disappear which means it would not be possible for Undertaker to fix his cinematic record.

Whoever we are seeing now in the manga is not Ciel Phantomhive

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Honestly. I report them, rather than block, but it really is annoying. And it isn't even just a my hero academia issue. I have seen AT LEAST 3 buttholes, and 5 pairs of breasts. Please stop posting naked pics.

Can pepple PLEASE STOP POSTING THEIR NAKED TITS WHILE TAGGING MY HERO ACADEMIA ??? I just want to see head canons but nooooooo I have to block a lot of gals because they are showing their breast or their ass

#for the love of the gods please stop #ted talk #please

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Taking another break from posting (probably not rebloging though lol)

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Posted this a while ago

I present to you, young Midoriya Izuku! (Kinda looks like a fluffy Tokoyami)

#my hero academia #boku no hero academia #midoriya izuku #chibi

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fanfic writers, here’s a friendly reminder that you are not less of a writer if you haven’t posted anything in years, you are not less of a writer if your works aren’t as popular as other writers’, you are not less of a writer if some trolls left you rude comments (they either just want your attention or are simply intimidated/threatened by your talent), you are not less of a writer if you write short one-shots instead of a 100k novel-length fanfic, you are not less of a writer if you’re not satisfied with your writing (I promise you it’s so much better than you think, you should be proud of yourself), you are not less of a writer if you’re not comfortable posting any of your works at all.

you are always as valid as any other fellow writers out there.

another reminder: fanfic writing is not a competition, and it’s not a job. don’t put so much pressure on yourself. always remember, the point of writing fanfictions is that we get to have fun, escape reality into the world we create in which we can write anything we want.

it stops being a getaway and a safe place the second we treat writing fanfic as a job or a competition. no, you’re not writing for anybody. you’re writing for you. this world you create is just you and your blorbos. have fun. it’s your getaway.

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Bungou Stray Dogs thoghts

I see people thinking Fyodor isn't dead, but if he was alive it'd feel like a thing for shock value. That and Dazai said that Fyodor was dead without a doubt, & we know Dazai is meticulous so it'd be weird if he investigated the helicopter crash & thought Fyodor was dead & he wasn't.

My guess is that the two hours later thing happend because it wasn't Fukuzawa who killed Fukuchi. Probably something about what was written on the page & the conditions of activation.

The reason I'm writing this now is because the Manga is easier to understand, as I can go at my own pace while reading.

Bungou stray dogs belongs to the proper license holders

#bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #bsd manga #just an observation #random observations #fukuzawa yukichi #bsd fukuzawa #bsd fukuchi #fukuchi ouchi #bsd dazai #bungou stray dogs dazai #fyodor dostoevsky #bsd fyodor #its 3am #im tired

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I just finished playing "Cats And Other Lives". It was fantastic! Great pixel art, interesting story, characters with enough depth to make them believable, and great understanding of how kids act! The idea of 'Aaru' and how it impacted the story was interesting, and the ending nice!

#Cats and Other Lives lives #video games #not usual content #pixel game #pixel graphics #Developer: Cultic Games #Cultic Games

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Hey y'all I made a cursed discovery

Nendo Riki and Sebastian Michaelis,,,,, share a voice actor

I guess you can say,,,, nendo is one hell of a butler

@crispy-saur @queenclarityblu @theonlyrealerin @spookyyarn @hoarding-citrine @skania @sals-corner @it4ch1 @iconsistentartist @a-grammarian-who-makes-mistakes @suckerforsaikik

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Vomit About Abilities and Their Users

These are just random thoughts I’m having on a Sunday night. It’s not really like a good essay with sources cited or anything.

Part 1: Chuuya, Mori, and Atsushi

Stormbringer confirms something important, which is that all abilities and manifestations of those abilities are part of the characters.

I’m glad this is basically explicitly stated in that LN because there are a few characters (and I’m using 3 in this section) whose abilities people tend to treat as separate beings.

A. Chuuya

Before Stormbringer (and alas, even after) a lot of people thought that Arahabaki and Chuuya were separate entities with Chuuya forced to host a being called Arahabaki because his ability was compatible with it. But Stormbringer shows us that Corruption (Arahabaki) is just an extension of Upon the Tainted Sorrow. One that Chuuya has little to no control over, but an extension nonetheless. It isn’t a separate being. It’s just as much a part of Chuuya as anything else.

B. Mori

The Chuuya-Corruption thing is why the way the fandom often treats Elise was so confusing to me. Because Elise isn’t separate from Mori. She isn’t her own person. She IS Mori, and I mean that very literally. Yes, he dresses her up and gives her what appears to be her own personality, but she’s still very much an extension of Mori himself. And for a while (and this essay finally gave me evidence), I’ve suspected that she doesn’t represent what Mori wants to have but instead what Mori wants to be.

C. Atsushi

So, Byakko is treated as separate from Atsushi to a lesser extent, but I’ve still seen it done so I wanted to mention it. The thing is, I think Dead Apple may have confused a few people. I mean, it confused all of us but here I’m specifically referring to Beast Beneath The Moonlight.

Dead Apple wasn’t about Atsushi accepting his ability i.e. Byakko. It was about Atsushi accepting himself, his trauma, and his ability as a part of himself and that trauma. Byakko is a very literal defense mechanism that Atsushi manifested to protect himself from physical danger, and Dead Apple is about him coming to understand that.

Essentially it boils down to this: abilities are part of the characters and they can’t (and shouldn’t) be treated as separate because they tell us something about those characters.

Part 2: Abilities, Trauma, and Conditions

Okay, so it’s well established that abilities are linked to characters’ trauma, and in the same way, I think the conditions surrounding those abilities are also related to their trauma.

A. Yosano

I never see anyone talk about this, but Yosano’s backstory shows us that the conditions around her ability didn’t always exist.

Thou Shalt Not Die as first introduced to us only works if the person being treated is close to death. But in her backstory, the first time we see Yosano use her ability, not all of her patients have fatal injuries. When Yosano stops wanting to treat the soldiers because they should be allowed to die or recover naturally, Mori forces her hand by giving them fatal injuries.

In my opinion, that basically tells us that new trauma can change how someone’s ability operates.

B. Kyouka

Kyouka is really interesting because her ability itself is not a result of her trauma since her mother gave it to her. However, the conditions of her ability may be the result of that trauma.

The way Demon Snow operates before Kyouka is under All Men Are Created Equal is almost reminiscent of dissociation.

Kyouka has separated herself from Demon Snow to the point that it follows orders on auto-pilot whenever someone calls Kyouka’s phone. At the beginning, she’s just a conduit for her own ability.

But like with Yosano’s conditions, the condition of Kyouka’s phone hasn’t always been necessary. In the scene where Kyouka’s parents die, her mother doesn’t communicate via phone. She just tells Demon Snow what to do as she passes it to Kyouka.

Unlike with Tsujimura’s mother (we’re getting there), the instructions left for Demon Snow by Kyouka’s mother (i.e. “Protect my daughter”) don’t seem to have specifically influenced Demon Snow’s behavior, except for when Demon Snow killed Kyouka’s mother. Otherwise, Demon Snow can still be easily used by others on people who Kyouka doesn’t need to be protected from.

Had the transfer not been traumatic for Kyouka, the conditions likely wouldn’t apply. She would have full control over Demon Snow on her own.

C. Tsujimura

Basically what I said with Kyouka, except where Kyouka’s mother’s instructions don’t seem to have specifically influenced Demon Snow, Tsujimura’s mother’s did. Her instructions were, "Kill anyone who my daughter Mizuki Tsujimura tries to kill right before she kills them," which is a LOT more specific and essentially turns Yesterday’s Shadow Tag into an ability that cannot be triggered at will.

And I still have a lot of questions about YST, but I’m putting them aside because…

D. Q

Okay, we’re getting into the territory of conjecture now. And you can take all of this theorizing with a grain of salt. I just have so many thoughts about Q.

You know how Q’s ability will only work on people that injure them? Yeah, I’ve always had questions about that condition. Was it always a condition of their ability? Or did it come about after Q was brought to the Port Mafia?

Because Q hates Dazai, and has zero control of their ability once it’s activated. We have canonical evidence that Dazai resorted to abuse when training subordinates while he was in the mafia, and No Longer Human is the only thing that can stop Dogra Magra. Q cannot terminate their own ability. Something, something, it’s almost like Q was conditioned to be that way.

Say, Q didn’t want to use their ability or was resistant Dazai’s methods of bringing that ability out. It’s possible that Dazai started resorting to physical abuse as a trigger, and then would use No Longer Human when they didn’t need Dogra Magra anymore. But that came back to bite him because physical abuse became the only way to activate Dogra Magra and No Longer Human became the only way to stop it.

Again, this is all just theory. It could be nothing. But I wanted to throw it into the ether.

Essentially, abilities and/or their conditions are all related to a character’s trauma. Which also makes me think it’s possible that characters could’ve manifested entirely different abilities (or no abilities) if their trauma or circumstances had been different.

And that makes me wonder if the need for conditions could be healed with like therapy or something.

Part 3: Abilities Are Not Genetic

So, I know I may make some OC people upset, but yeah… abilities aren’t genetically inherited traits, or I should say, we have no evidence to suggest they are. We actually have more evidence to suggest they aren’t genetic in any way.

First, with our sibling pairs: the Akutagawas and the Tanizakis (Ik there are theories that Naomi isn’t real etc etc and while I find them intriguing, we’re gonna ignore them for this discussion). If abilities were inherited traits, then we’d likely see them in both siblings, but we don’t. Now, we could argue that the gene is recessive or something (I haven’t done Punnett squares since I was in ninth grade shut up). But thematically, genetic abilities don’t make that much sense anyway for a story like BSD, so I’m not going to go into possible biological explanations, Kay?

Our biggest evidence that abilities aren’t inherited is actually found in the characters of Tsujimura and Kyouka. I’m going to look at Kyouka specifically.

Kyouka was the child of an ability user. Yet, she wasn’t born without any kind of ability and it doesn’t seem like she would ever have manifested one of she hadn’t inherited her mother’s.

As I already mentioned, abilities are essentially manifestations of characters’ trauma, and as such, they’re more likely to be a phenomena that is possible in the universe of Bungo Stray Dogs, and not traits the characters are born with. Especially considering how different each person’s ability is. You aren’t born with your trauma, so you aren’t born with your ability.

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So, I have another theory.

What's Asagiri's name? Kafka. Who else is Kafka? Franz Kafka. And who's this Franz? A writer. He's mostly known for the book "The Metamorphosis". Metamorphosis means change, right? And what can THE BOOK do? Change the reality.

So, in the Metamorphosis is told the story if a young man who suddenly transformed into a bug. His family tries to help him come back to normal and even give him food he would like in the new body, like rotten cheese. But after around a year the bug/guy overheard a conversation between his parents and sister. They all said they hated him and that they didn't need him anymore, so the guy/bug died from depression in a day. (This is a very short summary, I skipped over a lot of details)

The idea of the story is that one's change will change the whole world. And that's exactly what the book does. Changes the world.

So, according to my theory, the book is the ability Metamorphosis.

Now, about the author/character. He meets the criteria to be a BSD character. Dead, depressed, daddy issues (this is only half joke), religion trauma (kinda) and so on. He was a fan of Dostoievsky's and Gogol's work. So he could easily be a BSD character.

But this book doesn't exactly seem the kind of ability the good guys have, does it? So I think Kafka is a villain. If you may, the last antagonist they will fight. So I made some research to find ties between him and Atsushi Nakajima, because as mentioned in the Guild arc, Atsushi is the only one who could find the book. Turns out that Nakajima was a fan of Kafka and translated his works in Japanese. And not only that. The story Atsushi's ability is based on is about a guy who transformed into a tiger because he's very frustrated because of his poems that don't seem to work. I haven't read this one, but from what I've seen online it's very similar to the Metamorphosis. And this is why he'll be the only one able to find the book.

As we all noticed, usually the relationship between two characters is the opposite of the author's relationship (e.g: irl Ranpo was a huge fan of irl Poe, BSD Poe is a huge fan of BSD Ranpo, irl Yosano loved irl Mori, BSD Yosano hates BSD Mori). So, based on this, I would say that Kafka will most definitely be a villain.

The thing is, why would Asagiri choose to have the pen name of the ultimate villain?

Because the BSD story is supposed to be a world made by the book and Franz Kafka is Asagiri Kafka.

In conclusion: Franz/Asagiri Kafka will be the last antagonist of the series. His ability, the book, is Metamorphosis. And I'm delusional.

This could be wrong. After all, it's a theory. But let me know what you think, because I'm really curious.

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I do find it interesting that all of Atsushi's flashbacks show him as a child.

Other than him being kicked out.

We know Atsushi was at the Orphanage until he was 18. Having left 2 weeks prior to the start of the series.

And yet we only see events and stuff that happened to him as child.

Rather than anything more recent.

Which interests me because the oldest we've seen Atsushi in the flashbacks is 12 years old.

6 years ago.

When he was tortured by and killed Shibusawa. Shibusawa who was sent to Atsushi, by Fyodor.

Gotta wonder... What happened after that?

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Fyodor's Ability: A theory

Because we were never told his ability, I am going to share a theory of mine. Quick warning, I've never read Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (the real guy). Also Bungou Stray Dogs belongs to the proper license holders.

I think Fyodor's Ability is simple. Depending on Fyodor's opinion, or maybe reality* when someone touches Fyodor, they are punished for their sins/crimes.

The Fbi guy(?) Could have insta-died due to whatever he's done for work. Maybe he killed a criminal. Who knows?

This theory is mainly based on the times we've seen it used, and the name. I'm sure that theres more complex proof than this, but I'm tired. This just makes the most sense to me.

*What I mean by this is possibly based on what Fyodor counts as a sin/crime. Or what morally incorrect things that they've actually done. That is my opinion on what counts as a crime to be punished.

#theory #anime theory #bungou stray dogs #fan theory #bungo stray dogs #bsd #bungou stray dogs fyodor #fyodor dostoyevsky bsd #fyodor dostoevsky #bsd fyodor #bungou stray dogs anime #my thougts #manga theory #bsd manga

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I need like a wan-style spin-off of just the everyday people that live in Yokohama who have to deal with whatever the hell the agency is doing at any given moment.

Sweet little farm boy rips up a stop sign and obliterates a few structures? Oh damn somebody must have forgot to feed him.

Somebody fished the bandaged guy out of the water? Yeah that’s like his third time this week.

“How was your day honey?” “Some doctor lady got catcalled on the train and she broke his arm.” “Again? Good for her.”

“Oh yeah, I was gonna go study in the cafe but I think it’s about to get stormed by the mafia again.” “Yeah. Let’s go downtown.”

Vendor down the street tries to up-charge a little girl for some crepes and is met with a glowing katana? That’s just good business on her part.

Hey man, did you hear? A whole whale fell from the sky into the port and they didn’t even cancel class today.

The government stormed a cafe to arrest some Russian dude? Yeah man I got free drinks and food.

I just think it would be so funny

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atsushi being capable of rudeness and being mean makes the fact that he's nice and sweet most of the time more important imo, because that means that he's nice on purpose. he knows how to fight and he knows how to hit where it hurts but chooses not to because he wants to be better than that, he wants to be deserving of the life he has gained and of his place in this world. he can get frustrated and tired but not rude, not if the situation doesn't call for it

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The river scene is so funny to me because it’s so pivotal to Bakugou’s character trajectory but the moment is so insignificant in the grand scheme of things that there’s no way Izuku has any memory of it 

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Shigaraki was way more analytical in the USJ fight compared to later in his development. Clearly, he learned this style of villainy by imitating All for One. This scene also establishes Shigaraki from his first introduction as Izuku's villainous foil. Because look

Izuku's habit of analyzing his fights is also illustrated in the same chapter as Shigaraki's analysis to show a parallel between the two of them. And it's shown as being off-putting to other characters in both situations.