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Apparently, there is a Kuramerukagari manga!!

There's tiny Eiwajima and Iseya. The writing in the middle says they have some kind of "friendly rivalry".

Eiwajima's predecessor is addressed here as the previous Komainu father (is that his dad?? their dad??)

Aww look at this future Komainu heir with his big family and lil puppy 😭

and these are probably the closest we'll get to official art of Izaya as a little kid (middle school doesn't count.) No glasses yet.

There's a baby. Omg ain't that Kagari's parents? Is that baby Kagari?!

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🎉 HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE WORST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME: THE RELEASE OF THE FIRST DURARARA!! NOVEL 🎉

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I- i wanted to draw aoba...

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For the writing asks: 13, 14, 37, 38!

I know this is almost a whole year late but like. I dunno I'm vibin' so here:

13. What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?

This is super specific to personal style and craft but I was struggling with a fic in another fandom once, trying to manage a heavy tonal shift that didn't seem to want to happen because I was stuck in the head of a character whose plans and control on the situation was rapidly spiraling out of control. A big part of writing for me is how deeply I get into the heads of the characters. I like to pick their brains and elaborate on what they're thinking and feeling, but in this particular fic there came a point where the focus character had to finally give up and let go and it just wasn't happening because I wanted to make sure he was still lucid enough to have those elaborate descriptive thoughts.

@wawawawawawawawawawawawawa advised me to not worry about the loss in descriptive power to instead go whole-ham into the tonal shift and slam that tonal shift of the focus character giving up into the reader like a train as he just stops paying attention to the plan and instead starts focusing on other, more menial things because he's given up.

Immediately fixed the problem, and now I've internalized it as another tool in my personal style of sticking so heavily in the heads of my focus characters. If there's a sudden change in the way a character thinks or feels, then the narrative reflects that and starts abiding by the new status quo. It's very powerful, I think, to actually show the cognitive dissonance. Wa-kun's an amazing writer tbh and mooooost of my writing style is derived from their powerful craft.

The funniest part though is that they actually forgot they were the one who gave me that advice, and complimented me on that stylistic choice once while rereading what I'd written. I got to joyfully inform them that it was their idea in the first place, dumbass.

14. What’s the worst writing advice you’ve ever come across?

I'm not entirely sure honestly, because I get like 99% of my craft advice from Wa-kun and they. Like. Live and breathe the craft and it's honestly amazing to learn from them about the subtle intricacies of writing.

But like, I guess in the general sense, I didn't really mesh well with the advice to not show people your stuff until it's done to motivate you to actually finish it. I don't think it's bad advice, per se, it just doesn't work very well for me personally due to accessibility reasons more than anything.

I have this problem where it's actually really difficult for me to get my thoughts out on paper without some kind of prompt or trigger to help keep the ideas flowing. As such, when I create, it ends up being mostly collaborative in nature, either bouncing ideas off of Wa-kun or getting input from others or asks like this one. It's something that I really don't like because it bars me from a lot of stuff that I'd like to do.

I'd like to write more, I have ideas, but it gets near-impossible to solidify those things outside of the esoteric transience of my brain without someone else to help me. If I don't have someone to help me along, it just doesn't happen, so I have no choice but to show my work to people and talk about it and essentially beg for attention so I can jog the rest of it out of my head. Makes me feel bad, though, so I end up just. Not doing anything about it instead. Rip.

37. Talk about your current wips.

Unfortunately, most of my wips and such that I'm really trying hard to work on are on my Danganronpa blog, @lockpickingliar. Please check it out if you have some interest! Most are heavily ask-interactive AUs and character ask formats to try to mitigate my accessibility problems I've mentioned above, but no one seems to be biting so I've been kinda upset about it while stuck in a rut trying really really hard to write something, anything the proper way.

I still have some Durarara!! things on the backburner, like Severance, an AU where Izaya's spinal cord injury was a lot more severe than in canon, resulting in him being paralyzed from the waist down; or a Psyche/Tsugaru fic exploring Psyche's BPD/ASPD comorbidity that I had an idea for and tried to start for BPD Awareness Month (May).

But if anyone wants to hear about the Danganronpa AU train I have going, I have. Truly so much over there. Mostly Kokichi-centric, but also I subscribe to Rantaro Amami Conduct Disorder (Baby ASPD) Trutherism, so like. I still got my roots, y'know?

Although part of what brought me back on this blog enough to answer a random ask from 10 months ago is that I was just thinking about how Izaya and Kokichi would be like. THE Father/Son duo. They were made to be. I don't make the rules.

38. Talk about a review that made your day.

Listen. Severance was my first attempt at something so heavy, so I was nervous about getting the Vibe I was going for. Even though it's just the first chapter, the reception there made me really happy. In-depth responses that talk about specific parts and tell me what the readers were feelings as they engaged are most helpful to me with my issues to write. I especially love ones that ask questions. I got a lot of helpful and encouraging reviews like that on Severance, and because of that I definitely intend on continuing it when I have the space amid Danganronpa special interest hell!

A highlight:

However, there was one reviewer I had back when I was in the BNHA fandom that I will never forget because they had this extension to be able to write their comment as they read like they were annotating it and some of their shit will stick with me forever because of the Live Slug Reaction air to it:

Get yourself a guy like this lmao.

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go girls give us absolutely nothing!

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Happy 20 years old to the series these mfs live in 💯🎉

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is the fandom still alive

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i didnt drive 4 hours to the polling place and have my dad almost blow up my car for trump to win jsyk

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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