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hamliet · 3 months

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BSD 112: War and Peace

Now that the manga has finally caught up to the anime, I shall say that I am still pretty convinced Fyodor will pull a Jesus and be fine.

That said, I hella loved this chapter. The themes, man. Essentially Fukuchi is inviting Fukuzawa to become God, though I would NOT be surprised to see a certain new character show up considering this entire chapter is basically Fukuchi and Fukuzawa trading paraphrased quotes from A Certain Novel.

It's a battle of free will vs peace, and how we walk that line as individuals and societies... war is futile and hell, and pointless because what even is a state anyways besides some arbitrary idea we've all agreed to for... reasons, and yet if you remove the ability for war and conflict as a whole, you don't really have humanity but instead mind-controlled slaves.

War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a game of it... as it stands now it's the favorite pastime of the idle and frivolous.”

Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own freewill is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity... Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

It's true that people are born where they are born, and caught up in the stories that are grander than they are. Everyone likes to imagine what they know and what they experience and what they want and believe is True, but is it? Or is it merely a product of how they've grown? Is it a product of the centuries and millennia of people before us who create wars and conflicts and use us in them?

Yes, humans are used as unconscious instruments. But is that all they are? All they should be? Fukuchi seems to think yes. If they're currently used as instruments of war, then why not use them. as instruments of peace?

Fukuzawa, however, thinks otherwise.

It's an existential question humanity has been wrestling over since human beings have existed, and it won't be answered anytime soon because there is no neat answer. It's the paradox of human nature and human existence.

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.

Dictatorships are known, obviously, for suppressing free will and free expression.

Now, in War and Peace, Tolstoy's answer is love. And God, who is Love. But love first and foremost since Tolstoy himself wasn't super religious when writing it (later on he was though).

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

Yet, if you remove the ability to choose love or violence, then:

A man having no freedom cannot be conceived of except as deprived of life.

And it's pretty clear what lesson Fukuchi has to learn:

Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one's suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering.

Life sucks. War is hell. It makes life feel like it's not worth living. But without free will, you are not alive at all.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

Anyways, even if Leo Tolstoy does not appear as an actual character with the supreme ability of "War and Peace," well, he sure is influencing this arc a lot.

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originalartblog · 3 months

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Dazai take the fucking antidote

#open to reader interpretation #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd fanart #bsd 112 #bsd manga spoilers #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #bsd dazai osamu #bsd nakahara chuuya #skk #soukoku #nawy's comics #cw seringe #cw needle #cw needles #for safety #even if very cartoony

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bsdtual · 3 months

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HEAR ME OUT--

#i'm shaking #two beautiful brothers indeed #bungou stray dogs #bsd #bsd 112 #bsd stormbringer #chuuya #chuuya nakahara #paul verlaine #bsd verlaine #manga panels #bsd icons

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sableeira · 3 months

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the side by side comparison is so cruel and fucked up

#Nikolai holding the arm as close as he can while Dazai holding the arm as far away as he can #bungou stray dogs #bsd spoilers #bsd #fyolai #bsd 112

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saapphirx · 3 months

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I'm so silly rn this is making my day

#bungou stray dogs #bsd #bungou gay dogs #dazai #bsd dazai #dazai osamu #fyodor #bsd fyodor #fyodor dostoyevsky bsd #bsd 112

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kyouka-supremacy · 3 months

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They both had enough cringe gay moments that give them NO RIGHT to look at Gogol like that

#Losers!!!#osamu dazai #chūya nakahara #skk #soukoku #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd ch 112 #mine #Total 0 self-awareness

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etrevil · 3 months

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They're trying to ignore the fact Dazai just spouted two confessions in under thirty minutes, the embarrassment is REAL

#maybe should have thought of the aftermath before being so corny dazai but then again that's why we love you #BEHIND EVERY EVIL GAY PERSON IS A MORE EVIL #GAYER PERSON #bungou stray dogs #bsd #bsd spoilers #bsd manga #bsd chapter 112 #bungou gay dogs #bsd shitpost #skk #soukoku #bsd dazai #dazai osamu #osamu dazai #bsd chuuya #chuuya nakahara

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shittydazai · 3 months

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how fast the night changes or something

#nikolai holding fyodor’s hand compilation ❤️#i’m not okay 👍#nikolai #fyodor #fyolai #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd spoilers #bsd 112 #max is speaking

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originalaccountname · 3 months

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btw today we got our clearest views of the back of Chuuya's head in Harukawa's style ever

My previous compilation:

and somehow I still struggle to understand what is happening with the side hair.

So I would like Harukawa to truthfully, honestly answer this question: do you know what Chuuya's haircut is or have you been winging it for over 10 years

#bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd chuuya #bsd nakahara chuuya #bsd 112 #apparently i talk sometimes

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sorcerersandskillusers · 3 months

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*SPOILER WARNING CHAPTER 112*

Something is really off about Fyodor's death in the manga

Having just read the latest chapter, I noticed something really weird with Fyodor death scene. It all comes down to Dazai's reaction.

Before Fyodor "death" we see Dazai being all smug and gloating about what Fyodor missed, very typical of his character in general.

But then his mood suddenly shifts completely

He suddenly becomes very sombre, no triumph or gloating, this could be him regretting having to kill Fyodor, but the next few panels make me think there's more too it then that.

Look at Dazai's expression here, the way he seems so suspicious of the hand

I don't think we've ever seen Dazai's eyes like this, they are blank white, it's almost like his mafia eyes but colour inverted. This is not the face of someone who just beat their greatest enemy, or someone mourning their loss, It looks like Dazai is unsatisfied, I can't quite describe it, but there is something more in those eyes.

After Fyodors death Dazai is uncharacteristically quiet and Chuuya even points it out, again, nothing about this says "we won!" it feels like we still lost somehow.

So why would Dazai not want Fyodor dead? While it could be because he was sad to lose the only person who thought like him, while that's possible, I want to explore another idea.

Death did not stop Fyodor.

Dazai could have killed Fyodor when he had him cornered in the cafe if he wanted to, or have someone else kill him so he doesn't break his promise to Oda.

But he didn't, he let Ango arrest him instead, even though Dazai knew what a threat he was, why?

It all comes down to this.

The only way Dazai can counter Dostoyevsky is when he's right there in front of him. So now he's dead, Dazai can't read his actions any more. It's like he's fighting a ghost, all the plans Fyodor will have laid in case he died will be 10x harder to uncover and stop since it's much harder to fight an invisible enemy.

Remember that Dazai did not order the piolet to kill Fyodor, Bram did, and Dazai admitted to not having any say in that deal

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I don't have any final point here, I just wanted to vent these thoughts. Does Fyodor quoting jesus on the cross mean he's going to come back in three days? What's going on with Sigma? I have way more questions than answers and it's driving me nuts

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs dazai #dazai #bsd analysis #bungou stray dogs theory #fyodor bsd #fyodor dostoyevsky bsd #bungou stray dogs fyodor #bsd theory #bsd theories #bsd manga spoilers #bsd spoilers #bsd chapter 112

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flamie-42 · 3 months

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Chuuya this is the least gay plan y’all have made stop being embarrassing

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #skk #soukoku #dazai x chuuya #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #bungou gay dogs #bsd manga spoilers #bsd manga #bsd 112

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skkpaws · 3 months

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see now personally if i was nikolai and i was conflictedly mourning the death of my situationship and i looked up to see skk staring at me like THIS id either kill them or myself