You Ever Feel Like A Little Guy Whos Just A Little Too Unhinged?

You ever feel like a little guy who’s just a little too unhinged?

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What does this mean??? Ryo what does this mean?? DO NOT CANNIBALIZE THE BUNNIE

I’m not letting this hide. Y’all are wild.

I think one of the saddest things people tend to overlook (at least in what content I’ve seen) about Yosano’s past is what happens after the war.

Yosano says that the war was one of the worst parts, she was actively traumatized by Mori, and exposed to things no child should see. She was attacks, hated, used and manipulated emotionally. Not only is that horrible and horrific and she lost her only friend in the military to suicide, and that’s a huge amount of trauma for an eleven year old to go through.

To me the saddest part of when she says; “Even after the war they kept me in isolation in a mental facility. I don’t imagine I would have left, even if the door was left open.”

It really shows that Yosano didn’t just leap over her trauma, the war started when she was 11 and the show and manga starts when she’s 24, it’s been years of living with Fukuzawa and Ranpo learning to deal with her trauma in a healthy way. A lot of situations, even if not as severe as Yosano’s deal with the victims feeling the same way!

As if they wouldn’t be able to leave, even if the door was wide open and freedom was right there staring them in the face. The emotional and mental manipulation can even make freedom be scary, it’s new and not routine and not, sad as it is, comforting or familiar.

🫵🏻 G A Y

I love codependent freakish iwaoi so much… give me the toxic!! give me the insane!! give me the relationship that ruins the life of everybody else around them and ultimately may get them killed!! please!!!

Fuck it, I’ve decided this is gonna become my place to info dump to the void, if it picks up any traction know I know nothing

Mori’s character makes no sense compared to the others, and here’s why.

Mori Ougai, the boss of the port mafia, canonically a pedophile with a disgusting ability and a mind for manipulation. All of this makes sense in the realm of BSD and to the plot line, he’s not out of place at all! BUT all the characters are based on authors, and their abilities based on a book they’ve written.

Dazai being suicidal makes sense, if you’ve read No Longer Human, it’s very obvious why. Kunikida was a very strict idealist in his own works, his character makes sense.

I’ve made it a challenge to read every book that a character was based on in Bungo stray dogs, and I’ve read Vita Sexualis.

Vita Sexualis, despite what the character may lead you to believe, is a commentary on how sexual society is (of course this being a topic at the time the novel was published, in 1909; and still relevant today) and how asexuality is not discussed.

In the novel a literary teacher is writing a journal of his life’s sexual experiences starting from his childhood at the age of five or so for his son to read when he becomes a teenager.

Throughout the journal entries, marked by age, its detailed what comments and behaviors were pushed on him, as well as the behaviors he was expected to engage in that had sexual connotation well into his adult hood.

As someone on the asexual spectrum I highly recommend reading this book, it puts many feels I have that are hard to explain. It details how sexual society is and how taboo it remained despite people indulging in such acts.

It’s such a vital commentary on society as a whole and how we perceive sexuality. Not once was there a mention of pedophilia, or children being viewed by the author or main character in any sexual way. In fact when it detailed comments made to the protagonist at a young age about his expected sexual behaviors, they were treated as seriously as they should be. That it was off-putting and disgusting to expect such behaviors from a child, especially how it was expected and not something to be reprimanded for because the protagonist is a boy.

Within the BSD anime, manga and light novels the hints of Mori’s ability being sexual are constantly there. Fukuzawa and Oda refer to his ability as ‘disgusting’ and morally wrong. In the anime, Mori out right states “I prefer the women in my life to be under the age of 12.” Before he’s told to be quiet by Kouyou. Even in an end card in one of the manga, he tells Fukuzawa that Elise is not his daughter, but his wife.

The choice to make Mori so morally and sexually disgusting is something I never understood. He’s a well written villain, and I do love the head cannons around what he may have done to Dazai, Yosano and Elise don’t get me wrong, but the choice to go against the novels intentional teachings still confuses me.