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08.06.2024 🩷

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I don’t understand why people who cannot accept any moral grayness or complexity decide to join fandoms for the most emotionally complex stories and then try to shame everyone there who actually is able to understand the material.

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Durarara

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Durarara!!

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too real

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Same voice actor btw

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⚠️ background exists in real life but is HEAVILY inspired by one of @/joze_smk's illustration on ig!! ⚠️

I will not rest till I find you

I'm coming, I'm coming

You can run but you know that you can't hide

To my enemies, those were the best days of our lives

When our hate made us feel so alive

So wrong it's right, so wrong it's right, alright

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We are so back.

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hi I come bearing detective au shizaya

that’s all goodbye

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“fanon is so much better then canon” bestie, you literally took a complex character with personality flaws and turned him into a living stereotype.

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special defense

does this count as anything ???is this art

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What she says: I hate antis

What she really means: I don’t mind people disliking a ship for their own reason but the anti-shipping movement is driven by hate and bandwagon bullying to police what people are “allowed” to enjoy. They use fundamentally abusive and manipulative tactics on real people in the name of protecting survivors from speculative things in fiction. Antis want to act morally superior over ship wars and claim that to ship something problematic you must be a survivor. By doing this antis force survivors who may be uncomfortable with coming out with their status to out themselves and then hold them to impossible standards. Except when it does come to survivors who ship anti-deemed problematic things we are attacked, harassed, and then pushed under the bus anyway. Antis trivialize terms such as abuse, rape, and pedophilia by using them so often and out of place against a group made up of many survivors and minors– the people they claim to be protecting. They have bullied and suicide baited artists and other content creators they dislike in the name of “policing the bad ships uwu.” All antis are at fault for this, even if an anti claims not to send hate themselves they are still influencing this bad behavior because they are part of this hate group. The entire anti-shipper movement is a toxic cesspool that makes me feel sick.

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forreal tho the whole Point of durarara as a work of art is thhat nobody is wholly good (obviously) OR wholly bad, people are complicated and their relationships with each other and the world are complicated as well

izaya as the closest thing to an antagonist the series has, ALSO serves as mikado's foil- he's the bad end to mikado's story, explicitly becoming that way because he had no true friends- shinra only cared about celty and his parents were never around and thats kind of all he had. he was a young boy with clear mental problems, to the point where his father instilled that people love into him in order to prevent a worse outcome and help him be more normal. the way this is framed, as a young boy exhibiting a concerning disconnect from other people to a point where it scares a usually neglectful father into acting- is very reminiscent of media depictions (and real life examples) of parents worrying that their child is a sociopath. this could very well have been intentional, and narita EXPLICITLY makes a POINT to state that izaya is the way that he is because he has a fragile heart- any sort of genuine effection and a betrayal of it could shatter him. i really dont think the takeaway here was "lolllll hes suchhh a loser" OR "omggg hes so scary hes iredeemable." it's another piece of the central theme that humans are nuanced and messy and conplicated and oftentimes in very unglamorous ways that make them unsympathetic to most people. durarara AS A SHOW is about shining a light onto these people and inviting the viewer to sympathize with them, and if someone doesnt get that and is just disgusted by most of the characters then durarara is not the show for them

also vis a vis izaya and mikado being foils- the reason mikado got a happy ending was because of his friends- because of the connections he has with other people. izaya did not have those connections, hence his own instability drove him farther and farther down into a death spiral that culminated in his CRIPPLING, a major loss of freedom from someone who valued it so much, and i'm saying that as a disabled person

anyway yeah

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shizuo for character meme

no bro u dont get it durarara isnt a tragedy bro no shizuo doesnt have to reckon with becoming the monster he always fesred he was when he crippled a man its ok bro its ok thst didnt happen becaude i turned. the tv. off

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Imagine hating on my baby and this is literally him

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> make a bad post misinterperting and generally shitting on a character

> puts it in the character's tags, which is generally regarded as in poor taste when hating

> fans respond to it, since it is in the tags of the character they like, not even being mean about it, just saying that you might have misinterperted him

> get pissy about someone responding to you on your public post that allows replies

> make another post shitting on them

> put THAT post in the tags as well

masterful gambit ma'am. you are absolutely not the target of mockery right now, your takes are so true and real and i am giving you my english degree because clearly your masterful analysis proves you deserve it more than i