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"
bsd villains are like “we gotta stop JRR Tolkien and Dr. Seuss before they blow up the entire city with remote activated petrol bombs they’ve rigged onto children in the sewers and we need to decipher the code from the Rosetta Stone hidden in the mafia control room.”
OH MY GOD?? LIKE THIS IS ACTUALLY SO BEAUTIFUL THOUGH?? IT'S SO GOOD
His expression is just right and oml the shading HE LOOKS SO PRETTY IM SCREAMING I love this 😭
The recent bsd chapter is crazy good and I never would have expected Asagiri to take a sudden plot twist relating to how everything has a connection in the story. Asagiri is cooking
Help imagine married sskk 😭
Atsushi: Ryuu honey can you do the dishes
Akutagawa: I already did them last night
Atsushi *with his hands on his hips*: I did not get stabbed by Amenogozen to save you just to have a lazy husband. Now go do the dishes
Like there's not even much of a joke here I just love what married sskk in their happily ever after would be like. They'd be so imperfectly perfect, and also it'd be funny to see them bicker, especially with their pasts
Do you think Beast Atsushi has nightmares of Akutagawa with his neck slashed open
WHO COULD EVER LEAVE ME, DARLING
"and then..."
AND THEN WHAT AKUTAGAWA
YOU REALIZED YOU DIDN'T HATE HIM? YOU REALIZED HE MEANT THE WORLD TO YOU? YOU REALIZED HE VALUED YOU? YOU REALIZED YOU CARED ABOUT HIM? YOU REALIZED THAT HE WAS YOUR EQUAL?
oh my god chapter 122 is killing me it's amazing
If the actual end of the sentence is "and then I realized I love him" I WILL LOSE MY SHIT.
atsushi—the one to finally understand akutagawa’s humanity. now seeing his backstory, witnessing the lowest moments of akutagawa’s life—when he was most dehumanized—through his own eyes. someone finally seeing them for what they truly were: tragedy, relentless abuse, the suffering of a wounded child. no more the image of a heartless beast. no more “this is what needed to happen.” no more “this was the only way akutagawa could have learned.”
as someone who has seen the depths of akutagawa’s heart, as someone who has brought change within him through trust, sincerity, and companionship. as someone who treasures akutagawa’s humanity and fights for it—begging him not to lose to himself, because now, atsushi equates akutagawa with that humanity. he would die before letting him surrender to its erosion—and he did sacrifice himself for it.
as someone who, when akutagawa fully reveals that deeply human side of himself, embraces it so completely that he replicates that moment in his own sacrifice.
and now, he watches as akutagawa’s humanity is torn down, again and again. but he is someone who understands—down to the depths of his heart—that akutagawa’s humanity is inherent. that no matter what anyone else, even the narrative itself, wants him to believe—nothing can take that away.
I made a lengthy list of Taylor Swift songs that fit characters/relationships from bsd, and I wanted to explain deeper about some of the songs listed there :]
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart for Fyolai really fits to me. It's from Nikolai's pov, and I think it describes his character around Fyodor very well
"'Cause I'm a real tough kid, I can handle my shit
They said, "Babe, you gotta fake it till you make it" and I did
Lights, camera, bitch smile, even when you wanna die
He said he'd love me all his life
But that life was too short
Breaking down, I hit the floor
All the pieces of me shattered as the crowd was chanting "More"
I was grinning like I'm winning, I was hitting my marks
'Cause I can do it with a broken heart (one, two, three, four)
I'm so depressed, I act like it's my birthday every day
I'm so obsessed with him but he avoids me like the plague
I cry a lot but I am so productive, it's an art
You know you're good when you can even do it
With a broken heart"
I just can't over how much this fits them. Nikolai hiding everything behind his emotional mask, how one-sided his relationship with Fyodor is, his obsession with Fyodor and his persistence
Ever since I first heard this song way back on April 19th 2024 (my life changed that day 😔), I've thought this was just such a Fyolai-esque song :>
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