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Nikolai Gogol drawing

I do not know what I am doing 🫪

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if the amulet is (dean’s) parentifiction that sam hangs onto, that awful duty and mission and “please protect the one who i expect to protect me no matter what and put nothing in front of me i’m a scared child afraid to lead”

the overcoat is cas’s husbandifiction, a symbol of burden-sharing and dean’s longing for a mate, that awful mantle dean clings to like an animal skin, long after cas is bloody/corrupt -> “please come back and share my awful everything when i am falling down - i need you through all the hurt and pain of life”

#back on my kelpie bullshit too #the overcoat #note i think dean sharing his amulet w cas is also so!!!#cas traces dean’s journey re:fathers indeed #so interesting then #that they BOTH toss it and continue together #in misery forging a different path #it’s faith it’s obligation it’s pressure it’s family

The Miraculous Horror of Stop Motion

From the same artform that brought you Coraline and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, comes three stories that evoke the existential fear of art.

Original Music by Molly Noise

Bibliography below

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Imagine if the real bsd authors looked at what the Fandom is saying abt them. "Fem Nikolai has big boobs", if Gogol saw that he would have a stroke. Chuuya would be mad about people making fun if his height, because he actually was really short. Idk if Dazai would be ecstatic or even more suicidal after seeing that. Fyodor would definitely write a book anylising his character's philosophy and motivations. DONT GET ME STARTED ON SOUKOKU

#fyodor dostoevsky #philosophy #nikolai gogol #osamu dazai #chuuya nakahara #bungou stray dogs #bungou gay dogs #bungo stray dogs #no longer human #crime and punishment #the overcoat #for the tainted sorrow #soukoku

#soviet cinema #leonid trauberg #grigory kozintsev #shinel #the overcoat #шинель #andrei kostrichkin #gif set #1926

⋆ ♱ RATS IN THE DEAD HOUSE AND THE DECAY OF THE ANGEL LITERARY REFERENCES ♱ ⋆

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Who is Nikolai's character inspired by?

I love reading the actual books of Bungo Stray Dogs characters because often, (not always) characters are highly inspired by a particular character. (Like Raskolnikov to Fyodor and Yozo to Dazai) So, because I had only read the General Inspector, and not The Overcoat, the namesake for Nikolai’s ability, I picked it up.

The surprising thing is that Akaky Akakievich ,the main character, is NOTHING like Gogol (BSD). The novel is a short comedy in which Akaky was an old (by old I mean in his 50s) copyist who enjoyed and was satisfied with copying various texts all day. He would not defend himself when others poked fun at him, and was shy and had a stutter. One day Akaky Akakievitch went to get his coat mended, but because it was so thin the tailor told him he must get a new one. Akaky came back later when the tailor was intoxicated to get a better deal on the coat, and settled on a price. He kept adding various things he wanted on the coat while he saved up for it. It took some time, but he ran into money and purchased the overcoat. When he returned to work, they insisted on him attending a party to bless his new coat, which he did. He was uncomfortable at the party until he became intoxicated, left, and had his coat stolen. The watchman failed to notice so shortly after he went to an “Important Personage” to get the coat back. This official looked down on everyone who had a lower rank than him, so he eventually made Akaky leave. The “Important Personage” felt kind of bad about this, so he sent someone to get Akaky, only to find Akaky had died of fever.

You think the story is over? No. Gogol adds an insane twist to the end of the story. Akaky haunts the streets as a hideous ghost that steals peoples coats and doesn't stop until he steals the coat of the “Important Personage” which apparently fit him just right.

Perhaps Akaky has nothing to do with Gogol (BSD) and the name of the book solely inspired the ability, or maybe Gogol (BSD) is simply given his personality because of the satirical nature of Gogol’s (IRL) works that actually had a deeper political meaning. (Especially in the General Inspector)

I have yet to read other books by Gogol (IRL) because I have SO much to read. Have you read anything else that might be what inspired Nikolai’s (BSD) character? Did I miss something? Was there a specific book that inspired him, or does Asagiri just use his name in his manga?

(Also, both of these are hilarious, especially the General Inspector. It’s definitely worth a read.)

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