WHO COULD EVER LEAVE ME, DARLING

His brain: I love you

His mouth: consider us even. Away with you, you fool

shin soukoku are so imperfect and that is what makes them so good. what do you mean you hate this guy because he’s like looking in a mirror, but you can only see what you deemed as the flawed parts of yourself. what do you mean you are always putting up some kind of front around other people but you can show your enemy the worst and truest version of yourself. what do you mean you are so far into your rivalry that even dying for each other becomes a competition.

So like

Akutagawa is in love with Atsushi

If you took this out of context this would genuinely look like an enemies to lovers romance manga scene 🙏

Also Harukawa wrote an illustrator's note (I think it's at the end of volume 5?) about how she draws eyes, and how she portrays the character's current growth, personality and aspect on the world through their eyes

Akutagawa's eyes have almost always been dark, the representation for how dark his life and character is

But Atsushi brings light to them

In chapter 121.5 where Akutagawa's eyes grow wide as he sees Atsushi die, it's not just a show of how shocked Akutagawa is, it shows how Atsushi lightens Akutagawa's eyes, how much he's affected him for the greater good. Atsushi brings out a new side to Akutagawa

His eyes are incredibly light as he recalls his memories and gets hit by Atsushi's death that wasn't even just a death, but a death to save him. To protect him

Because Atsushi thinks Akutagawa is worth protecting

So just, like, I really love how chapter 122 not only shows Atsushi finally seeing Akutagawa's past and fully understanding Akutagawa's trauma and even relating to him, but it also shows how Akutagawa truly feels about Atsushi (although the "and then..." definitely left us on a cliffhanger)

I love them

IT'S 👏👏 BECAUSE 👏👏 HE LOVES 👏👏 YOU!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏

Can anyone be more dense omg I can't with these two

I’m screaming

wait, wait, wait; bsd fandom. hear me out.

a skk ratatouille au where dazai is linguini and chuuya is colette.

(i’m not sure who’d remy would be in this situation? perhaps atsushi?)

now does akutagawa realize that it isn’t just his sacrifice that mattered to atsushi, but the loss of his life as well? that it isn’t only about what he could do with the final moments of his life, but about the void his death, his absence left? now that it has been reflected back to him by the very person he gave everything for—now that he has been given it all in return—does he realize that he might now feel what atsushi felt when he lost him? does he finally understand that his life is as important to atsushi as atsushi’s is to him?

Black and white sketches

sskk reunion hug but now atsushi knows that by embracing akutagawa he's also embracing HIM

I WILL NEVER GET OVER BSD X TAYLOR SWIFT THINGS 🙏 they're always so good 😭

reputation by Taylor Swift

Shin Soukoku from Bungo Stray Dogs - My take on how the album reputation by Taylor Swift represents SSKK with each song with a bonus perspective.

1) ...Ready For It?

Perspective: Akutagawa

Lyric/Quote: "I see nothing better, I keep him forever, Like a vendetta" & "I know I'm gonna be with you, so I'll take my time"

2) End Game

Perspective: Akutagawa

Lyric/Quote: "I got a bad boy persona, it's what they like, you love it, I love it too 'cause you my type, You hold me down and I protect you with my life" & "You've been calling my bluff on all my usual tricks"

3) I Did Something Bad

Perspective: Atsushi

Lyric/Quote: "This is how the world works, You gotta leave before you get left"

4) Don't Blame Me

Perspective: Atsushi

Lyric/Quote: "For you, I would cross the line" - "My name is whatever you decide, and I'm just gonna call you mine" - "And baby, for you, I would fall from grace"

5) Delicate

Perspective: Akutagawa

Lyric/Quote: "My reputation's never been worse, so you must like me for me" & "Sometimes when I look into your eyes, I pretend you're mine, all the damn time"

Bonus from Atsushi's perspective: "Handsome, you're a mansion with a view"

6) Look What You Made Me Do

Perspective: Akutagawa

Lyric/Quote: "I don't trust nobody and nobody trust me" & "The role you made me play of the fool"

Bonus: "The old Taylor can come to the phone right now, Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead"

7) So It Goes...

Perspective: Atsushi

Lyric/Quote: "You know I'm not a bad girl but I do bad things with you" & "But when you get me alone, it's so simple"

8) Gorgeous

Perspective: Atsushi

Lyric/Quote: "There's nothing I hate more than what I can't have" & "'Cause you're so gorgeous, it actually hurts"

Bonus: "You should take it as a compliment that I got drunk and made fun of the way you talk"

9) Getaway Car

Bonus: Dazai/Chuuya

10) King Of My Heart

Perspective: Atsushi

Lyric/Quote: "You are the one I have been waiting for" & "My broken bones are mending"

11) Dancing With Our Hands Tied

Perspective: Akutagawa

Lyric/Quote: "I, I loved you in spite of, Deep fears that the world would divide us" & "And say, say that we got it, I'm a mess, but I'm the mess that you wanted"

12) Dress

Perspective: Atsushi/Akutagawa

Lyric/Quote: "Even in my worst times, you could see the best in me" & "Everyone thinks that they know us but they know nothing..."

13) This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Bonus: Dazai to Ango

14) Call It What You Want

Perspective: Atsushi

Lyric/Quote: "My castle crumbled overnight" & He built a fire just to keep me warm"

Bonus: "My baby's fit like a daydream"

15) New Year's Day

Perspective: Atsushi

Lyric/Quote: "But I stay when you're lost, and I'm scared, and you're turning away" & "Please don't ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere"

Bonus: "You and me, forevermore"