#durarara ending

[toipandan]

Trust Me Parody

Older art from September I made before II2 Finale, which is why this won’t count for II spoilers btw

I don’t watch Durarara! but the ending is nostalgic and many artists redraw characters from other medias and memes /lh 😭

May have bad quality for resolution 💀

[shouts-into-the-void]

Happy pride month to:

Cancer patients with a history of arson

Former detectives with attitude problems

Goth athletes forced to wear orange

Lesbians in the survival version of American Idol

Lactose intolerant gangsters with a napoleon complex

Female manipulators with anxiety

The sole living heir to a line of psychics

Autistics from Vegas with a special interest in math

Redheads who like antagonizing the FBI

Gay models whose crush will never like them back

Former cult members

Guys with homoerotic relationships with their nemesis

Monsterfuckers who actually have fucked a literal monster

Playwrights who give their OCs trauma as a coping mechanism

School headmasters with no teaching degree

Bleach blondes with questionable relationships with the police

People on the ace spectrum

Lobotomy victims

Cannibals

Stage magicians murdered by their assistant

And also the rest of you lovely queer people :)

[thinkingfandoms]

Why are masked characters so hot?

only it becomes more and more weird

[bigcheesefan]

Idk why but every time I hear that guys voice it makes me think of Shizuo, maybe I’m just crazy 🤷‍♀️

[slavhew]

∞ if ur still doing these !

You're always talking, but you're not playing It doesn't match your face Gotta find my way, away from this place Can you take me now? I-I want it, I want it real Are you afraid of me now?

Chaos Chaos - Do You Feel it?

[subarashiihibi]

hi... i'm feeling particularly hateful towards izaya rn and i found a few more of these bromides so i wanted to tl them so we can all make fun of him together<3

"I'm off to buy ingredients for hot pot. When it comes to hot pot, nothing beats eating it in the dark...♪" (Note: 闇鍋 is a type of hot pot that is actually eaten in the dark it's not just him being strange here (for once))

"Unhapppy birthday! Shizu-chan!! The most frightening day in all of history on Earth...

Here's to hoping this stupid event ends this year once and for all (^□^) - Izaya (born May 4th ❤)"

"Hey. How are you? (^□^)／ A Shinjuku without me is surely pretty boring, huh? There's bound to be a lot of interesting stuff happening in the future, so look forward to it ☆ - Orihara Izaya (°ε°)"

"Let's see... how can I mess with Shizu-chan today... ♪"

"Of course, you're coming as well. I'm looking forward to it (^□^)"

This is the shikishi from Shizuo's birthday set back in 2011, but Izaya writes something here for his bday too and it's made my blood boil ever since I read it so I'll put it here too.

"Happy birthday, Shizu-chan. I hope you'll continue to amuse me. Hurry up and die (^□^)"

He's so irritating...

(Sidenote he is the only person here who doesn't write their name. I suppose he doesn't really need to tho lol...)

My translations aren't perfect and I'm still not very good at JP→ENG so it might sound a little unnatural in some spots but I hope I could convey the general tone and message. Izaya likes using kaomojis and symbols a lot in his messages which is... really cute... (balling my hand into a fist and grimacing really hard) Izaya gap moe is such a powerful thing.

Regardless that's all the bromides I can find atm. If I find any more I'll reblog this post and add translations for them as well! Of course if anyone else finds some as well I'd love to tl them too . ^_^ Thank you !!!!! :333

[metalandmagi]

I think I figured out that my ideal ship is just the "There is something wrong with me but together, there could be something wrong with us <3" meme.

Akito and Shigure from Fruits Basket. Damen and Laurent from Captive Prince. Luo Binghe and Shen Qingqiu from SVSSS. Shizuo and Izaya from Durarara. Kaz and Inej from Six of Crows. I have a type, and healthy isn't it.

[autisticshizuo]

airports and duels

[threadmonster]

Concept:

It's May 4th and Shinra has been talking about his plans to marathon Star Wars with Celty. He isn't particularly interested in the series but Celty is intrigued by aliens and all. Izaya is annoyed. Of course Shinra, as usual, only cares about Celty. It still makes him feel gloomy though, it's not like Shinra ever forgot his birthday before.

He gets even more annoyed when Shinra calls him for a favor. Why should he care if Shinra forgot a few things at the store? But it's fine, whatever, it's not like he has anything better to do. Even his own sisters didn't bother to send him his birthday death threat.

Shinra told him to let himself in. He doesn't know why all the lights are off. He huffs and turns them on all just to be bombarded by a chaotic mess of "Happy Birthday" wishes and a camera flash in his face.

He doesn't know what to say or how to react. He sees Shinra, Celty, his sisters, Kyohei and the van gang, Simon was there. He wants to get mad, how dare he be fooled like this. In truth, he doesn't even know how to feel about it.

You see, his self-worth is so low that he can't understand, people do care about him.

[wawawawawawawawawawawawawa]

okay, fuck it. let's talk about remorse. more specifically, the lack of it

there was a post going around a while ago that claimed that izaya couldn't possibly have aspd, because he feels remorse, and its simply so subtle that it's hard to pick up on, and he simply hides it to maintain his image. given that this post is a jab at me and my work, i feel no guilt nor will feel remorse over jabbing right back.

(especially since, if you pay attention to the wording of the post and OP themselves, it's clear that they had a... certain other neurodiverse headcanon for izaya, and was for some reason mad at me for having a different one)

(but i digress)

let's talk remorse.

first of all, the "lack of remorse" criterion isn't, as some might be tempted to think, the most important "hallmark" symptom of aspd. let's break down how disorders are diagnosed!

in the DSM, disorder symptoms are classed into criteria. these criteria are sometimes grouped together. here's the criteria list for ASPD in the dsm-5-tr, the most current version;

under group A, we have the standard "this is what the disorder is like, and these are the symptoms of it. you need X amount to have this disorder." the criteria listed in groups B, C, and D are on their own because they are required for diagnosis. if the lack of remorse criterion was truly SO important that it was the hallmark of the disorder, the one symptom that sets it apart from all cluster B disorders, then it would be in its own group like those 3 criterion! but it's not, because while it's the symptom most people associate with aspd, it's not the hallmark of the disorder, nor is it explicitly required for diagnosis.

in fact, the main Thing about aspd is, uh, right there actually- a pervasive pattern of disregard for the rights of others. in layman's terms, aspd is categorized by a consistent behavior pattern of treating other peoples' boundaries, wants, needs, and human rights, as trivial. this overall behavior pattern is then identified by specific actions or feelings the patient has- hence the criteria.

i could end this post here, honestly- who cares if izaya does or doesn't feel remorse? it's not needed for diagnosis, and it's izaya's whole thing to violate the rights of others- he consistently treats people as his playthings, wether or not they want him to (usually not!) he disregards others' feelings (the suicidal girls come to mind wrt this) and is incredibly reckless with both his life and the lives of others. it's kind of a done deal!

but i won't because i have more to say!

so. izaya. remorse. he feels it, but keeps it hidden. he represses it. and honestly, he always has some justification or another for whatevet it is he's doing. his targets had it coming because they're monsters. or stupid and cowardly. or had it coming. or it doesn't matter because he's a god amongst men. BUT- he does feel remorse! ASPD cured!!!!!!!!!!!!

guys i hate to tell you this, but i've felt remorse before. sparingly, but i have. i am a Person With ASPD from Real Life, i've been diagnosed professionally and even had multiple second opinions check and re-check, to the point that it became a running gag. i, without a shadow of a doubt, have antisocial personality disorder. And I Have Felt Remorse.

(my verdict is it sucks and is terrible and i have no idea how you people do it. yall need like, medals or something)

because, as you might have noticed... a lack of feeling remorse isn't actually the only thing listed. now, a lot of websites don't actually list the second half of the criterion, they just say "lack of remorse" with no elaboration. it's hard to find a website with the proper informatiom on it, especially if you haven't read the dsm to see the full criteria list, so you don't know what you're looking for. truly, i don't blame laypeople for not knowing this- it's not easy to find short of going to the source itself

but if you're writing long posts filled with "facts" about a disorder that you do not have, you better make damn sure your facts are right lest you spread misinformation.

(hell, i HAVE the damn thing and i make sure i'm as accurate as possible, because i acknowledge that Having The Disorder isn't a ticket to immidiate expertise. but imo it's especially egrigious when you don't have it)

but, the criterion itself is defined as "being indifferent to or rationalizing" harmful actions. Or Rationalizing. you can feel remorse as much as you want, but if you stomp it down with justifications about how you were right, it still counts!

and finally, the name of the game with diagnosis of any disorder is consistency. if someone can make their abuser cry because of them and feel no remorse, that's not aspd. that's just a special case. if someone can make anybody cry because of them and feel no remorse, that's aspd.

similarly, if someone can make most people cry because of them and feel no remorse, with one- or maybe two- exceptions, that's... still aspd. because the behavior expressed most consistently is a lack of remorse. one or two exceptions to the rule don't suddenly make you not have aspd, especially if you have multiple other symptoms. (in fact, in some aspd circles people do talk about having "exceptions," kind of like the aspd version of a pwBPD's favorite person. pwaspd feeling remorse or otherwise not meeting criteria in incredibly specific circumstances is in fact a documented phenominon. once again, this happened to me and i've been diagnosed multiple times over. were all those doctors wrong, or does aspd just not work like you thought it did?)

izaya consistently represses most of his more vunerable feelings. that's another one of his main things. if remorse is included in this, which it would be given the pattern, then izaya most consistently does not feel (or otherwise accept) remorse. a few slips of the mask here and there, where he can't stomp it down or ignore it, don't change that the most consistent behavior from him is a lack of remorse. in fact, him feeling remorse here and there makes the portrayal of aspd more realistic, imo-

people with aspd are still people at the end of the day, and aspd is just another mental illness. people are varied, mental illnesses present differently in everyone, and people have good days and bad days where symptoms are more or less pronounced. any symptom isn't going to be set in stone in severity or even presence in someone's life- severity of disorder changes with age, someone's circumstances, or even day-to-day, especially with cluster B disorders, where the people who have it are defined as being "dramatic, emotional, or erratic" (pg 735)

things change. people change. mental illness isn't as simple as people think, and aspd isn't as different from other illnesses as you'd think. people with it- including izaya- will have their good days and their bad days and their rare moments where something breaks through the clouds and for one moment, you feel normal, however distressing the feeling may be

that's not proof that the illness was never there. that's just life with it!

[maxinajar]

i saw a post a bit ago comparing mikado and midoriya as characters, calling them similar, and, while I think they do seem very similar on the surface, I cannot explain to you the fear that went through me imagining mikado with superpowers. Like, that boy was terrifying enough as a completely regular guy, I cannot even imagine what he might do if he had superpowers of any kind. like, do I think he would be straight up evil with them? no, he is a very kind hearted character at the end of the day. but he would also not use them purely for good things either, I imagine he would get bored doing just nice things very quickly and end up causing some kind of trouble. please never give that child any kind of powers ever, for his sake and the sake of everyone around him.

[ardelien]

was it casual when he took a knife for you, and in response, you spend the rest of your life psychologically torturing the person who hurt him, and even though you’ve created an almost impenetrable mask for your true feelings, because the idea of him being angry at you upsets you so much and makes you so afraid of losing him, you hurt yourself by punching a telephone pole.

[animemusicbrackets]

Anime ED Showdown!!!: Round 2A

"Trust Me" by Yuya Matsushita

VS

"OverThink" by Fan Ka

[crownedcaps]

★ Durarara!!x2 // Episodes 01-36 + OVA

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[happyandticklish]

Fucking my man up on this fine Monday afternoon 😌

[azumasoroshi]

dude im being 100% fr shizaya fanfic writers were and are fucking insane

because my school banned ao3 (my fault, but that's not important), i saved a bunch of super long shizaya fics (which are PLENTIFUL for some reason, maybe because tastewithouttalent wrote so goddamn many) and have them open to entire work which allows it to stay open on my school devices without being “registered” per say

and they have been like. fucking destroying me

To Hell and Back by corteae started with “izaya and shizuo travel around the world and wacky shenanigans happen” and i was messaging my discord server like “SHIZAYA WORLD TOUR WOOOOOOO” and i was expecting wacky shenanigans and then suddenly everything went off the fucking rails in the way i LEAST expected it to happen

like maybe i wouldn’t have been so blindsided if i hadn’t skimmed through the tags so quickly but like it’s more fun that way. i hate when i actually see a ‘major character death’ tag warning because i want to be surprised

ANYWAY that was genuinely like. one of my favorite fanfiction reading experiences to date. it was like reading a whole novel with how much original stuff was in there but it was so focused on izaya and shizuo and characterized them so unexpectedly well that the original stuff never really felt out of place or forced even though it was so wild

and even though it got super dark at times it maintained this really hopeful outlook on everything and sometimes it was downright cheesy but it just WORKS for that fic and i love it because of that

and some of the challenges it made the characters go through just worked SO well for their canon characters especially post-ketsu and i gasped audibly at some of them and Ahrhghgghhfdgfd

and then the past few days i was reading this zombie apocalypse fanfiction (april 23rd by izayas) and it was like. the most depressing fanfiction reading experiences to date. i literally had a panic attack in school after i read this for a bit too long a session like holy shit it just felt so real and so heavy and hopeless

the writing was phenomenal and well-planned/foreshadowed and probably has the best shizuo AND izaya characterization that i’ve ever seen?? like i could believe things would actually happen in this way in canon. probably because their hate for each other is so intrinsic and they’re never really able to let go of that?? which is not what i expected because yes they bond and yes they care for each other but it was always in a way so that you could feel the wall between them, and even when they connect it’s only briefly, never enough to tear them away from their hatred fully

it almost feels shakespearean in how tragic it is?? everything is so character driven and all their downward spiraling is so poetic and sickening but utterly gorgeous to read. like at so many points you’re like GOD if only they had done this one small thing different, if only if only if only and it’s just htrgrhgfhgd drives me insane which is probably what izayas-san was going for lmao. esoecially at the end you can really feel the shakespeare tragedy kicking in

it’s notable that although it’s tagged shizaya and very much centers around their relationship, it’s much more an exploration of the will of human nature and their individual struggles with coping and growing from their experiences, and there’s like. no typical romance whatsoever

it’s about their sick, twisted, passionate love and whether it’s enough to save either of them or if it’ll kill both of them and just. god. i am empty after that fic i didnt cry but it feels like all the tears have been drained from my body i dont even know how to feel or how to function. i had to take a break from writing this review and it’s been a whole weekend and there’s still this weight on my chest that i cant get rid of :sob: for my sanity’s sake i sincerely doubt i could ever read it again but i honestly treasure that experience

ANYWAY READ SHIZAYA FANFICTION IT’S BUIILT DIFFERENT