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lippmannssplatteredblood · 7 months

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Was it ever confirmed Lippmann was based on Walter Lippmann?

No.

But wait, there's enough evidence! (Ty anon im using this ask as an excuse to ramble and getting these off my chest)

As we all already know, most of the characters in BSD, especially ability users, are based on real life authors. Stormbringer explicitly stated that bsd!Lippmann was "an extremely powerful skill user" so he must be based on someone. And guess what? There happens to be a writer with the exact name as his.

Walter Lippmann was an American journalist, politician, and writer. He was deemed as "the most gifted and influential American political journalist of the twentieth century". His works mostly took the theme of public relations and stuff. Sounds familiar?

I'd like to add this part from the etymology section of his(bsd) wiki btw, just in case you didn't know.

Does it end there? No, not quite.

Let's take a look at his most popular work; Public Opinion.

"...The pictures inside the heads of these human beings, the pictures of themselves, of others, of their needs, purposes, and relationship, are their public opinions. Those pictures which are acted upon by groups of people, or by individuals acting in the name of groups, are Public Opinion with capital letters."

"The pictures in our heads", page 29

People, generally, have some sort of "persona" of themselves that they would try to plant on other people's minds. Kinda like the Japanese "three faces" proverb, you may say. And how do they achieve it? By only presenting that persona; by masking; by acting.

"Royal personages are, of course, constructed personalities. Whether they themselves believe in their public character, or whether they merely permit the chamberlain to stage-manage it, there are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human."

"The pictures in our heads", page 7

Simply said, him being an actor might be a reference to (or a representation of) that human nature which P.O. talks of. An actor acts—they dive into the role of another character that's not them. (Which, when you think about it, is just what us humans do on a daily basis, except they do it professionally and for a living, which when you think about it again—)

Mr. Lippmann also published books titled "A Preface to Politics" and "A Preface to Morals" which is....interesting.

Okay, "preface" and "face" technically are different. Though they still share somewhat a similar meaning.

But hear me out. Let's go back to the persona thing. Generally, what people would want to be perceived as is as the perfect, ideal versions of themselves. To make that happen, they would have to put on a good first impression. And what's usually the first thing that people notice about a person? Correct—their appearance; their face.

Lippmann(bsd) was multiple times described as "perfect" (like okay asagiri, he's pretty, we get it), especially regarding his looks (and capabilities). See what I'm saying?

Lippmann was the stage face, the public image of the Port Mafia. He was the preface to the Port Mafia. He created the pictures in people's head of the Port Mafia.

As a verb, however, "face" has another meaning:

He negotiated with front companies, met and talked with political figures, and even dealt with the press if push came to shove.

I feel like this might be merely a coincidence or a pun, though. But the fact that his field of work in the Port Mafia was specifically negotiating with the "real world" is definitely not something Asagiri just pulled out of thin air—or so I believe to be the case, at least, having read this paragraph.

"This is the underlying reason for the existence of the press agent. The enormous discretion as to what facts and what impressions shall be reported is steadily convincing every organized group of people that whether it wishes to secure publicity or to avoid it, the exercise of discretion cannot be left to the reporter. It is safe to hire a press agent who stands between the group and the newspapers. Having hired him, the temptation to exploit his strategic position is very great."

"The nature of news", page 344

Oh, by the way, remember this scene?

It's just a silly, filler interaction that seemed not to reference anything, but just you wait.

"Men cannot long act in a way that they know is a contradiction of the environment as they conceive it. If they are bent on acting in a certain way they have to reconceive the environment, they have to censor out, to rationalize. But if in their presence, there is an insistent fact which is so obstrusive that they cannot explain it away, one of three courses is open. They can perversely ignore it, though they would cripple themselves in the process, will overact their part and come to grief. They can take it into account but refuse to act. They pay in internal discomfort and frustration. Or, and I believe this is to be the most frequent case, they adjust their whole behavior to the large environment."

"Intelligence work", page 383

Then again, these are but my interpretations and/or speculations which I'd like you to take with a grain of salt, as I could very well still be wrong (because Asagiri loves to trick us, apparently).

I could go on and on and on and on and on but I'm afraid I'd just be blabbering nonsense at some point. Thank you for reading my (hopefully coherent) ramblings.

#its their birthday btw!!!#(23 september)#i hope im making sense and if not just hit me with a mallet.#i feel like that one meme of a guy going on conspirational rants. i am connecting the dots!!! i swear!!!!#tried to read his other works but never got the time to really finish them. if you have something to add please do!#bungou stray dogs #bsd stormbringer #bsd lippmann #ask #this ask is like three weeks old im sorry anon

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am-a-disappointment · 2 years

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Chuuya asking the flags why before anything else when they gave him the documents they'd found about his past, because chuuya isn't use to getting something for free, people give him stuff in order to use him and he's unclear on the terms of friendship and he's shocked that the flags are going to all this trouble cuz they're his friends and they care about him... I need a minute

#i don't think its smart to read this rn cuz im about to start my period ive cried like six times already #emily reads stormbringer #emily reads bsd light novels #bsd #my posts #bungo stray dogs #stormbringer spoilers #bsd light novel #bsd storm bringer

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mishiami · 10 months

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almost bsd s5 day i'm sticking with the guess that the opening arc is gonna be stormbringer

#read: im delulu #if not stormbringer then MAYBE 55 mins #but i barely know shit abt 55 mins other than like. analysis' ive read.#and the fact kunikida broke into a government building for getting the weather wrong #i also see people talking abt a stormbringer movie and like #idk about that but it'd be COOL #so i'd LOVE THAT TOO #anyways see you guys when i'm inevitably proven wrong

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bsdwherearethedogs · 1 year

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happy bsd season 4 day

#gonna put a buncha spoiler in the tags so i'll tag for that #bsd spoilers #bungou stray dogs #bsd season 4 #i am SO happy we're getting untold origins #i haven't read it before so im really excited to experience it for the first time #tbh i was terrified it was gonna be stormbringer with the way people were talking about it #not that i wouldn't be absolutely ecstatic if it was but let's be real theres no way 3 eps could do stormbringer justice #so far i feel like the pacing is fine i've seen people complain about it being too fast but #from the perspective of someone who hasn't read untold origins it seems relatively on pace #i'm definitely gonna read it now though #anyways!!#fukuzawa immediately being forced to adopt ranpo is both hilarious and adorable he's such a good dad #and little tiny 15 year old odasaku!!!#i've seen people make parallels between how he looked at 15 and how dazai looked and tbh i definitely see it #i wasn't expecting to see him so that was a pleasant surprise #i can't wait to get to the main story though i miss babygirl poe #homegrown bsd post

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jalapenobee · 10 months

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*sigh* rb for more results or whatever

#time for you guys to decide what type of suffering i will put myself through this time #stormbringer isnt on there because it comes after fifteen and i like reading things in order #aaaa im scared #because if fifteen ends up winning ill be compelled to read stormbringer right after hnnggggg #anyways lol #dark era bsd #untold origins #55 minutes #bsd fifteen #bsd light novel #bsd #bungou stray dogs

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12ratsinagnomecostume · 6 months

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I have a near encyclopedic knowledge of bsd, so whenever I consume any fan content, it just ends up being stuff like this :

"why doesn't Chuuya have his hat? He can't just not have it because *insert very minor Stormbringer spoiler leading to explaining the entire plot bc no one EVER GETS CHUUYAS STORY RIGHT-*"

"ah, Dazai's bandage is on the left I see. Not like that's anything important, no, no! It's not something that was done with purpose. Multiverse, what multiverse?"

"what do you mean Dazai was a mafia boss at 15? He didn't even join until he was 15!"

"wha- the agency didn't exist until around a year or two after Ranpo and Fukuzawa meet, so it couldn't have existed for 14 years-"

#am i annoying? yes #wtf is wrong with me #i have to stop reading fanfics sometimes bc of this #the stormbringer stuff bugs me the most #minor spoilers for stormbringer ig #people will be like “chuuya is the vessel for a god” which like? no?#arahabaki is a sentient skill singularity- SHIT IM BEING ANNOYING AGAIN #JUST GO READ 15 ERA AND THEN STORMBRINGER ITS GOOD #IT HAS TWO VERY GAY MEN AND BACKSTORY AND STUFF AND- UHHHHHHGHGGGGG #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs

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i-write-shakespeare-not-disney · 1 month

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Two seconds from info dumping about bungo stray dogs and their real life author counterparts and how the writings and lives they led influence the depictions of the characters and are in some cases inverted to my two coworkers who mostly speak Spanish someone PLEASE talk to me about bsd

#i feel like #im goi g through withdrawal or some?????#idk #i still need to read Stormbringer t.t #i need to meet Verlaine and Rimbaud #of course hes tied to chuuya OF COURSE IM #im gonna eat my keyboard #bsd

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mirsvintagesonytv · 2 years

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AU where The Flags are sent to infiltrate a government facility to steal records on a new weapon being created to harness the power of abilities. Except they break in and go to all the trouble to find a seven year old kid being held in the facility. It’s Chuuya lol. (i put a read more link for ur convenience this ones long boi)

And once Pianoman realises “oh shit the kids the weapon we came here to steal” they just kinda take Chuuya and run, but instead of taking him back to the port mafia (because they feel bad also it’s literally a kid they’d have to be pretty fucked up to let the mafia have him) they burn the lab to the ground and lie to Mori saying that the “cloned ability weapon” was already destroyed. So it’s just the gang of teenage flags adopting traumatised child Chuuya who has no memories and or recollection of how he got there in the first place other than the fact that he’s dangerous/possesses Arahabaki. And the flags all get really attached to Chuuya really fast bc he’s this adorable little kid who can’t control his ability and pianoman ends up having to make one of his wire weapons into a leash instead bc Chuuya will randomly float off after activating his ability like a balloon and they’re scared he’s gonna float off into space.

(One time he gets excited at something and floats upwards and gets stuck on the ceiling where none of them can reach him, and the entire time is just the flags panicking because HOW THE FUCK DO YOU RAISE A SUPERPOWERED CHILD THAT FLOATS??!)

And chuuyas never had positive human interactions before since he can’t remember his childhood and from the ages of 5-7 he was being experimented on by N, so he immediately like imprints on the flags like a baby duck and just follows them around everywhere (especially Pianoman, being their leader he’s the most responsible of them and yeah Chuuya calls him Pianodad a few times) And originally the plan was to just find the kids family and then give him back to his parents, but they know almost nothing and by this point when they actually find some information Chuuya has already decided that THIS is his family now and so the flags just adopt him instead.

And at some point like a year after they initially rescue him from the Lab, Verlaine comes looking for Chuuya, expecting like this fully grown teen or whatever but is met with eight year old Chuuya who still can’t speak Japanese fluently let alone control his mess of an ability. He takes one look at Verlaine and just starts crying and Verlaine has no clue what to do bc he’s trying to kidnap this kid but the little shit won’t stop screaming and floating away. Like Pianoman teaches Chuuya about stranger danger and Verlaines like "I’ll get u some candy" and chuuyas like “no my dad said not to take candy from weird men in suits who break into our house. >:[“

Also Lippman likes to dress Chuuya up in clothes that definitely shouldn’t be worn by a kid like cute little suits and hats. And chuuya absolutely hates this bc he just want to play but actually ends up keeping one of the hats lippman puts him in bc he likes it. He’s also definitely tried playing with Doc’s IV once or twice and Doc is there like “this kid fucking terrifies me he’s gonna pull the plug on me one day by accident”

Iceman and Albatross have both definitely played peekaboo with him at some point when they first took him in and made him cry bc Chuuya had no clue what object permanence was. And then as he gets older they try to entertain him the same way and 11 year old Chuuya is like “…what are you doing”

When the whole Verlaine thing happens the flags have to come clean to Mori that they’ve had this kid that was the weapon for like a year, and that now Verlaine is kinda on a war path bc of said kid. And Moris like “Lmao I knew but what am I gonna do with a seven year old I just let you handle it.” And so when he gets old enough Chuuya joins the mafia/knows other mafia members and is basically the golden child that everyone loves/dotes on. Pianoman has definitely forced both Kouyou and Hirotsu to babysit at some point to which they struggled bc this child is a menace and CAN HE NOT FLOAT OFF THIS IS SO INCONVENIENT. But Albatross taught him the art of puppy dog eyes, so Chuuya basically gets away with everything and nobody can tell him off because he’s too cute. Like he breaks one of Kouyous favourite vases and just pulls out the puppy dog eyes and wobbly lip and kouyous like “ugh fine I cant shout at that face” he’d also gatecrash Hirotsus missions when he gets somewhat older (maybe 12,13) and then avoid trouble by preying on hirotsus weakness for the eyes. Chuuya is an absolute menace.

When Dazai joins the mafia the circumstances are very different since in this Au chuuyas been in the mafia since day one basically. And Mori partners the two bc he sees potential in Dazai and Chuuya is literally begging at this point for missions and they’re both the same age. Which is funny because in the beginning everyone is much more worried about chuuya getting hurt than dazai (Kouyou and Pianoman definitely had a few talks with him that if he let Chuuya get hurt they’d kill him) but then Chuuya is like a public menace who’s committed so many crimes instead of the sweet kid they all think of him as. The flags and Hirotsu definitely take every opportunity to embarrass Chuuya in front of dazai by telling embarrassing stories about him as a kid too and Kouyou also likes to embarrass him in front of his subordinates when he eventually rises through the ranks to which Chuuya is like “I fucking hate all of you” to which all of the executives will tease him and chuuya can’t even threaten them because they don’t take him seriously.

Iceman definitely used to take photos whenever chuuya would float off using his ability, so now there’s just an entire photo album of Chuuya as a child floating in obscure places. This is like the bible to dazai he’s dead set on finding it so he can embarrass chuuya and chuuya wants nothing more than to find it so he can burn it. Also the flags get living privileges I let them live bc I can. Verlaine is in France living his best life with his boyfriend Rimbaud and Pianoman is an executive because I SAID SO. BECAUSE I SAID SO. LET ME HAVE THE SILLY LITTLE FAMILY DYNAMIC. the executive seats are so funny because it’s basically just Chuuyas adoptive mafia family + his boyfriend. Dazai walks into meetings like “woah am I interrupting a family reunion?”

Dazai leaving isn’t the big mess is was in canon, he even asks Chuuya to leave with him but Chuuya declines because the mafia *is* his family and despite Mori fucking them over with Oda and various other instances he can’t leave the flags or Kouyou. Dazai tells him they could find out about his past but. Chuuya still refuses because he doesn’t care anymore now that he has people he wants to protect. They’re on good terms when dazai leaves (Although the car still gets blown up lol) and they still keep in touch/on good terms when dazai joins the agency.

When Kyouka joins the mafia Chuuya goes big brother mode because fiNALLY there’s someone younger than him around for them to dote on. Kouyou takes her in and often asks him to babysit and chuuya will help her with her hair and buy her snacks etc. he’s just enjoying being an older brother. And because he was also a kid in the mafia he understands her to an extent that Kouyou and the others can’t, and Kyouka finds him to be her favourite in the mafia because of this. Chuuya is actually one of the ones to push for Kyouka to leave the mafia, because although he has the flags and everyone he’s still horribly adjusted to the world growing up around violence and a part of him wishes he could’ve been a normal kid and now he wants that for Kyouka. Kouyou is set on bringing her back but Chuuya sits her down and convinces her to let Kyouka go and live a normal life. Dazai receives a lot more messages and phone calls from Chuuya from that point on whenever he wants to check in on Kyouka and make sure she’s okay. During the guild arc he’s blowing up Dazais phone like “how could you let her get caught I’m going to kill you” and Kyouka often complains about missing Chuuya which leads to him visiting the agency quite a bit whenever this happens. (LOOK I JUST WANT THEM TO BE HAPPY IM COPING RN LET ME COPE)

Hc that Chuuya is really dramatic about “passing down the mantle” of big brother to atsushi and threatens to set Akutagawa on him if Kyouka so much as even gets a scratch on her because of him. He also complains a lot because he wishes Kyouka could’ve gone to school after leaving the mafia instead of joining the detective agency since he wanted her to have normalcy but this way she still faces danger. But after she assures him she’s happy and okay he backs off.

It gets to the point that the entire ADA just don’t see chuuya as a genuine threat to them bc he’s so friendly with them almost. And Fukuzawa offers him a job at some point which chuuya again declines. Of course he’s still a threat to them but his existence alone is like a buffer between full out war between the organisations since the mafia wouldn’t do anything to anger him and that includes hurting the ADA. The mafia knows that Kyouka and Dazai are off limits to them because those are both people that Chuuya cares about. And the ADA know that the flags are off limits in turn. Like the easiest way for the ADA to win a war against the mafia would be killing Doc or the other flag members who are close to the executives, but they know that if they do that the invisible truce would be broken and chuuya would probably kill them because that’s his family and the people that raised him. Cannibalism arc gets a bit messy in that sense that the mafia disregard the whole “don’t touch Kyouka or dazai” thing and the ada in turn get antsy about whether they should break their side of the unsaid rule and go after Doc (who’s the mafias doctor and an executive bc fuck Ace I actually don’t care about him) and chuuya is in the middle of it trying to protect all the people he cares about simultaneously when half of them are on the opposing side.

Anyways that’s my rambling for today bc this was bouncing around my head all night like I love the flags sm I need more content. And found family with Chuuya is just the single most best thing to exist. The au where Chuuya gets the love and care HE RIGHTFULLY DESERVES. and I selectively get rid of characters I kinda don’t care about (cough cough ace) also I just thought the premise of Verlaine trying to find Chuuya only to realise “this is a child what am I meant to do with a child I can’t mansplain my evil plan to him he won’t understand!!” and "Why wont he stop crying why is kidnapping actually kind of difficult??" so he just gives up and ships himself back to france.

#just do puppydog eyes We'll get away with it #yeah not worth it #bsd #soukoku #bsd chuuya #pls leave notes i crave validation #read the tags please i promise im kinda funny #dazai osamu #skk #chuuya #chuuya nakahara #bsd headcanons #bungou stray dogs #bungou stray dogs alternate universe #canon divergent au #canon divergence #chuuya gets the love and care he DESERVES!!!!#stormbringer happens but instead Verlaine is like what the fuck this is a child i cant mansplain my evil plan now guess im giving up #and leaves #therefore no trauma for my fave chuuya the flags they are alive #im sad bc of stormbringer lol #kyouka is everyones little sister everyone loves her as they should #the flags bsd #chuuya is a public menace and definitely uses puppydog eyes to get away with shit #to the point that dazai is like whenever they fuck up a mission #and it fucking works #the flags #dazai #i love the idea that kid chuuya couldnt control his ability and so just randomly activates it and makes himself weightless and floats off #like theyre grocery shopping and he does it over a motorway

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abanjoplayingplatypus · 8 months

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If stormbringer ever gets animated and dub Adam doesn't sound like norm from phineas and ferb I'll actually be so disappointed icl

#bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd stormbringer #bsd adam #pnf #phineas and ferb #he sounds like norm in my head every time i read sb so im correct

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nyxi-pixie · 3 months

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thinking about yosano again. honestly its so wild how her backstory is the most heart wrenchingly depressing of every bsd character when shes up against like. the horrors of stormbringer and the misery of everything atsushi has ever experienced. and like akutagawa in general. and she still wins the misery competition

i have only actually shed tears consuming canon bsd content ONCE and it was watching a dream of butterflies. ITS SO SAD FOR WHY.

anyway every time i see this image i start eating my walls

#i newrly cried reading stormbringer but most of my sadness was expressed through near vomiting bc a lot of the sad in that is just #like WHAT THE FUCK😟😨😨😨😟😟😟 yk so im like retching instead of sovbing #anyway. that kind of unique Fuckery of your compassion and love for people becoming an insidious thing #like i care about you so i Need you alive and i will keep bringing you back because i cannot let you die #and that means that im going to watch you go through unimaginable pain again and again and again #all cultivating in NOTHING bc you were all doomed from the start and nothing i could do could save you from that fate #however many times i brought you back. and then she just goes fucking crazy #little yosano i want to give you a hug😭😭😭

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sav3yee · 3 months

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I want a physical copy of bsd stormbringer so bad aaaaaaauaghh

#I haven't actually read stormbringer at all and this is a crime #it's not that I don't know where to read it online but AAUGH I hate pdfs with a passion man idk why #I really really really really wanna read it pleasepleaseplease #😭😭😭#anyone who buys me bsd stormbringer im kissing on the lips #like actually

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chuuyasdog · 10 months

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The feminine urge to stop reading the book before the traumatic shit happens so that the characters stay happy

#If im rereading a book and i know theres like a death coming up or something ill often just put the book on pause #to try to prolong the characters happiness #Its not canon if i dont read it #I have been halfway through bsd Stormbringer for at least a month now cause i dont want Chuuya to find out about the lab and the clone #books #reading

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professor-glasses · 1 year

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People who only watch anime bsd really just get the tip of the iceberg

#im thinking of both just general stuff they cut from the anime that's just like character moments and also some of the fucked up stuff #AND THE LIGHT NOVELS AND ALL THAT WAS CUT AND CONDENSED THERE #not to mention the ones that haven't even been adapted #sorry i was originally thinking about the fucked up stuff in stormbringer and i haven't even read all of stormbringer yet #thinking about fanart of some of the lab scenes and just H. yow

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prism2674 · 2 years

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So I started writing my own book list for the Bungo Stray Dogs authors because I got bored yesterday and decided to read Gogol’s “The Overcoat" which was actually quite entertaining go read it-

But it somehow turned into me just making a list of authors I want to see in Bungo Stray Dogs and I need to tell someone about it so tumblr is now my outlet: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Ok literally anyone who knows me could have guessed this one

I have been obsessed with Sherlock Holmes since I was 7

Also I just want to see him interact with Ranpo and Poe

Franz Kafka

PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEEEEEEE

So we read "The Metamorphosis" for my AP Lit class last year and I did not expect to like it

it is now one of my favorite stories

idk I guess I just really like Kafka's writing style

anyway JUST PLEASE PUT THE BUGABOO MAN INTO BSD

I would be so happy

Zora Neale Hurston

I just think she would make such a cool character

her life story is just really interesting to me

For one she was an Anthropologist and I absolutely ADORE the field of Anthropology

She writes about the experience of black American women

as a poc myself it would honestly be so cool to see a female black author in the Bungo Stray Dogs universe

I don't think I've ever seen her mentioned in all the posts I've seen about adding authors to BSD so I think she deserves a spot here

So yeah, there were definitely more authors I've thought of but I don't want this post to get too long so I'll probably just add them on later or in another post, Let me know which author's you would include bc I honestly love hearing differenot people's reasoning

#bungo stray dogs #bsd #sir arthur conan doyle #franz kafka #zora neale hurston #I would need to think about what each of their abilities would be #OR I could just take it as an excuse to read all of my favorite books again-#or both both is good #Idk I just like classical liturature #even before I got into BSD #I blame Mary Shelly's Frankenstein on that one #she would also be on the list but shes actually already in Stormbringer #yet another book I have to read #Ahahahha Im gonna be in college in like two weeks when am I going to have time #also where am I going to put all my books in college #because I am definitely bringing them with me #Frankenstein is coming with me bc it is still my absolute favorite book #Catch-22 also has to come with bc I haven't finished it yet #same with Journey to the West #and I refuse to leave any of my Sherlock Holmes books behind #and I don't want to leave Little Women here either #its just a nice book to pull out on a rainy day and read a chapter or two of #ahahahhahah #there are two many books this is unfair #if you've made it this far first of all my condolences for you listening to my college packing struggles #second of course I hope your day is going well #here's some tea or a beverage of you're choice #whenever I ramble in tags like this I offer you a drink for getting this far #I feel like nobody notices but it makes me feel better so HA #Raed Rambles in tags

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