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shigaeru · 26 days ago

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aci art dump

#shizaya #shizuo x izaya #izaya orihara #shizuo heiwajima #durarara!!#a cheap imitation #ACI #a cheap imitation comic #i kept posting those on my priv and finding them not good enough for main but it's been a while and i love them again so: for u <3 #hi i'm not dead i've just been very overwhelmed with life #i'm still working on the comic it's just very slow :sob:

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popagan · 8 months ago

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I download AO3 fics occasionally, mainly DRRR ones. But since Apple Book default covers are downright hideous, I took matters into my own hands.

Truthfully it isn’t any better than the default, but it is an excuse to draw Izaya.

#a cheap imitation #aci #durarara #izaya orihara #durarara izaya #april 23rd #just medicine #after the story era #the gift of hands #there are two aci covers because i didn’t like the first one #but i also don’t like the second one #i’ll have to revise it soon #my friends told me to post it and i mulled over that idea for a month #popaart

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loppiopio · 1 year ago

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in a flash.

#durarara #izaya orihara #shizuo heiwajima #shizaya #a cheap imitation #i made a thing #back with more aci posting!!#for chapters 39 and 40 #i didn't draw the second one though #my good friend @eriunleashed on twitter helped me out with that one #i came up with the concept and thumbnail for it myself though #most of it was there #except for the positioning of the hands #erica put a little of that artistic rizz on 'em thanks eri <3 #i don't think she drew it with a full understanding of what i intended for it so the way it worked out is great :)#after she left me with the lines and some flats i went ahead and played around with the colours myself #to try and sell the kinda vibe i wanted to convey #i even took a picture of the coloured art on my screen to give it that extra oomph #isn't it cool??#i thought i was big braining #please someone get it 🙏#i love the photo snapping scene btw #it's sooooo cute #wrhghghhghh they are so !!#izaya's the silliest....#and shizuo is so <3333 #ugh #i spent soooo many long arduous hours trying to figure out his hair in that one #i REFUSED to just let him be ugly like my friend so unhelpfully suggested #i really like how soft he turned out in the end 🥺

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slavhew · 1 year ago

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overdue backposting of the one man mental illness (and two man, sometimes)

#drrr!!#durarara!!#durarara #drrr #orihara izaya #izaya orihara #shizuo heiwajima #shizaya #a cheap imitation #aci #admin draws #fanart #its like one a m and i hav e been up since 7 beause exam season yaaay #which is why again no art #i drew a little today an d it wasnt any of this but it did remind me to finally fkn post this #and also to stop waiting for doodles to pile up jgdgsljlh i shuld rly stop doing this #formatting is also always a nightmare #anyways cough. hope that last one makes it through #not all of these are up to my standard but too fucking bad

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krinklefry87 · 11 months ago

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this is so self indulgent dont even worry about it bros

#drrr #durarara #izaya orihara #shizuo heiwajima #shizaya #a cheap imitation #aci #lalalala #my art

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gemini-twinz · 1 year ago

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Basically Izaya every 5 minutes in A Cheap Imitation (fic by @spoontasti )

#durarara #a cheap imitation #izaya orihara #shizuo heiwajima #shizaya #drrr!!#spoontasti

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arolemii · 2 years ago

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i fucking love a cheap imitation its so good

THE BURN IS SO SLOW THOUGH 😭😭😭

#a cheap imitation #durarara

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trashdumper · 1 year ago

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#A cheap imitation #maybe next time with one that has higher definition and blank background #I'm just. too lazy to do the cutout #*being chased out of the room*#kraftwerk #ralf hütter

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thebibliosphere · 6 months ago

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Sat too long in my feelings about the Gotham Knights video game Jason Todd going to therapy and trying to engage with his siblings from a place of healing and hurt myself, so now I'm inflicting this on all of you, but:

Do you ever think about how Jason only ever gets to experience Dick as an extension of the breakdown of Dick and Bruce's relationship at that time? Granted, depending on the comic era, Dick maybe doesn't show up as much as he should, or Jason acts like an antagonistic little shit, but overall, Dick's falling out with Bruce overshadows all of it.

And, like, yeah, it's funny to joke that only Jason knows that Dick went through a shitbag teenage phase and that no one ever believes him. (Gaslight, Gate Keep, Gotham ✌) And Jason is irate about it because how can they not see through what is clearly The World's Best Big Brother Act? How can no one else see it's fake?

(Unless it's not fake, and Jason just wasn't worth loving... No, fuck off, he doesn't care, he doesn't. Leave him alone.)

But at the same time, what if Jason's the only one who realizes it's a trauma response?

What if Jason's in the middle of a therapy session or reading one of the self-help books we see him ordering, and he just has to take a moment to breathe because, of course, it's a fucking trauma response. Of course, it is.

Dick's not pretending to be anything. He was, in fact, so severely affected by Jason's death that he over-corrected and now refuses to let himself be anything other than the Perfect Big Brother. Because he can't. Because when he's not perfect, when he's not there for them, they die.

Suddenly the golden retriever's cheerfulness is less grating and more worrying. Dick's need for perfection is less an annoying personality trait to compete with and more an exhausted cry for help that no one else seems to see. Not even Dick.

Because Jason realizes now that he might have never managed to live up to the Golden Boy mantle, but Dick will never get to put it down, either. Because he can't let himself. Because bad shit happens when he does.

So what if that's what he hopes Dick reads between the lines in the email he sends him in GK?

What if, by saying, "Hey, I realize now trying to hold myself to your standards was damaging my relationship with you, but I need you to know it wasn't your fault," was also Jason saying, "Hey, this shit isn't healthy are you fucking okay?"

#gotham knights game #jason todd #dick grayson #I just have so many feelings about their dynamic as the eldest sons #the one who gets called golden #and the one who gets tarnished and turns green #like a cheap imitation #except he's not gold #he's bronze #(like the comic era he was written for)#he's supposed to be a little green and weathered around the edges #it just means he's still here

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nona-gay-simus · 9 months ago

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Some days I truly feel like TLT has ruined... books for me. Like, I don't even like ACOTAR but I can think of at least four series that are basically ACOTAR with dragons, ACOTAR with gods, ACOTAR with vampires, ACOTAR with witches, and that's just off the top of my head.

But there's truly nothing out there that captures all or even some of the elements that enthralled me about TLT. The characters, the character dynamics, the magic system, the voice, the mix of science fiction and fantasy, the prose that knows exactly when to be funny and when to be serious, the queernorm world-building and variety of lesbian genders... It does not exist. Even if I find something with similar themes it will be bland fantasy voice and (most likely) boring straight ship of fem4fem.

It's even ruined audiobooks narrators because no one can compare to moira quirk and her sexy accent and wonderfully animated narration that makes the characters come to life.

And it makes me really sad to think i might never discover another series I love as much as this one. Not even close.

#im writing my own #but they feel like cheap imitations #tlt #the locked tomb #griddlehark #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #alecto the ninth #gtn #htn #ntn #atn #bitter sweet #bitter sweet rant

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redsea8me · 7 months ago

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