#waposts

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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

[beemovieerotica]

ngl I am very concerned when I see people on here declaring CNN, NBC, BBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc etc all irredeemable propaganda with the same broad brushstrokes as a right-wing MAGA would

so conservatives are getting their news from Fox, what is everyone on here doing? because it does feel like unsourced tiktok and twitter and tumblr and reddit threads from anonymous internet people have replaced that??

like there has to be some way to read news from actual journalists and be able to parse those stories yourself and conscientiously weigh reporter biases (this is what reading comprehension is) rather than covering your eyes every time you see a particular news logo you've decided is Fake News

there's a post floating around of everyone clowning on the headline of a WaPost article (rightly or not) but the full text of the article itself is fully readable in the screenshot and just...it's so painfully obvious that no one is reading beyond headlines anymore, because the actual text is fully calling out the IDF for horrifying crimes - but the comments are all like "look at them covering up for israel" ?? no they're not???

I'm honestly reeling from this because it was one of the most heartbreaking and condemning stories I've read recently, and it ends with "what did these infants ever do?" like this is exactly the type of story that needs to be seen!! and everyone who is supposedly in support of Palestine is passing it around without even reading it and saying that it's propaganda!! I'm losing my mind

[nothasanabi]

Fr0gan for WAPost <3

[alliluyevas]

damn apparently it’s been 20 years since the beltway sniper attacks

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important note: its fun to justify their actions if and only if ur going on the wildly insane and biased internal logic of the character in question bc the justifications i come up with under this framework range from "not the best course of action but understandable given the situation" to "you need to be shot"

[fionaapplerocks]

Fiona Apple, 2005

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ANOTHER really sad thing about izaya is that he's lying to everyone around him and also himself that the clear signs of mental illness he has are all intentional choices he makes that he doesn't suffer from and in fact actively desires having

which is why i personally think that ASPD makes The Most Sense (PERSONALLY) for him to have, because people treat the disorder as inherently Worse Than practically every other mental illness out there, just like how everyone sees izaya as uniquely worse than everyone else in drr's cast despite them ALL being fucked up

also because pretty much everyone (including, dissapointingly, wide swaths of psychologists) believes that people with ASPD don't suffer from their symptoms and that the symptoms of ASPD only hurt those around the person with it, and never the person themselves. so if you HAVE ASPD and have the gall to suffer at all, there arises this.... phenominon, where you either deny that you have ASPD or deny that you're suffering. usually, one will lead to the other: first, you'll deny the suffering, and therefore act like its less that your whims are being influenced by an illness and more that they're conscious choices on your part. and then, since they're all conscious on your part, well, can you even be sure you have ASPD? you're choosing to be like this! therefore it's not ASPD, that implies it's something that you're fighting against, not something you like!

and from there it just feeds off itself in perpetuity.

so idk it seems like whats going on with izaya. now ofc ASPD isnt the only mental illness that can cause this rationalization, but it's one of very few that i consider to be uniquely set up for it, since practically fucking EVERYBODY buys into the worldview to make it possible

Got back into Durarara!! recently, and it's really funny to me that everything that seemed cool/kind of sinister about Izaya when I watched it in highschool vs. as an adult just seems really funny now.

Like, this is a 23 year old man with an untreated mental illness who runs around the city in a giant fur coat meddling with people's lives in the most destructive way possible while trying to avoid a debt collector who throws the nearest traffic sign at him every time they get within 5 miles of each other. He will not shut up about the gang war he's been setting up but nobody takes him seriously. His only friends are an borderline-yandere doctor who literally hung up on him when he got stabbed and the most unhinged high school student to ever exist who for some reason has not figured out that he maybe shouldn't trust this guy even though everyone around him is shouting it at him 24/7. He knows Russian for some reason and risks getting murdered to buy his favorite food.

Like, somebody get this man a prescription and stop trusting everything he says instead of letting him run around unsupervised

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[hamletthedane]

Some KEY reporting here from WaPost

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i mean he's fairly caked so all hed have to do is wear regular black pants with orange on the ass part im gonna be fr

Trick or treat! 🎃

Happy Halloween!

Listen, listen, hear me out. Y'all know the game Hollow Knight? I have no time nor skill to draw it myself, but I give to you, for the Izaya ASPD Truther Association's consideration, Izaya dressing up as one of these:

This is an Aspid! (Get it? Because he has ASPD and Wa-kun and I use Aspid for pwASPD?) They shoot little acid drops and the entire Hallow Knight gamerbase HATES THEM lmao.

So consider Izaya being an Aspid for Halloween and chasing Shizuo around pelting him with little orange balls lmfaoooo

[andytfish]

Newspapers stop having agendas or keep losing readers! #wapost should be ashamed! https://www.instagram.com/p/B4LHQqmnpJm/?igshid=1fogrgfvf1ceg

[shamefulright]

White House urges federal agencies to cancel subscriptions to NYT, WaPost

White House urges federal agencies to cancel subscriptions to NYT, WaPost

The White House is urging federal agencies not to renew their subscriptions to The New York Times and the Washington Post after President Trump said earlier in the week he didn’t want either newspaper in the White House….

View the entire article: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/467331-white-house-urges-federal-agencies-to-cancel-subscriptions-to-nyt

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

why the fuck does anyone still listen to cnn, msnbc, ny times, wapost, social media, celebrities, and democrats? seriously. sandmann, smollett, wallace, russian collusion, kavanaugh, a large number of police shootings, biden's accusers, hunter biden's emails and illegal gun, the border, afghanistan, cuomo's scandals, a ton of the covid stats and data, countless trump stories, etc, etc, etc. in every single instance they lied, mislead, and covered up facts, censored anyone who questioned it, got caught lying, and just buried the story. the retards just said that horse reins were whips for fucks sake. they called a fucking pulley a noose. the called chicago maga country. chicago! like how fucking stupid do people have to be to still listen to these people?

I have no idea. Mainstream news has been very mask off about how they’re just propaganda for the left for years now. Anyone who still listens to them is the most uninformed person who actually seeks out news, incredibly stupid, or they inject the leftist kool-aid directly into the veins. 

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hey guys how dya feel about shizaya double hanahaki

theyre both in love with the other but dont do anything for their own reasons- izaya because he's scared of vunerability, shizuo because he can't trust izaya. and if izaya stopped doubling down on His Bullshit as a way to be less vunerable, shizuo might trust him more. and if shizuo didnt keep up the front of hating izaya, izaya might be coaxed to be more vunerable. theyre both enabling each others' hanahaki. they're hating each other into early graves.

A concept in my head that been rolling around a lot:

Hanahaki, but instead of it being triggered by unrequited love, it's triggered because all the love you have for a person turns inwards because you're too afraid to show it.

So it kills you, not because someone doesn't love you back, but because you don't let it out and all that love you have stored, that could grow into something beautiful, turns on you and turns your insides beautiful.

Love is growth, and without any place for it to grow outside, it grows in. If you confess, reciprocated or not, the disease goes away because it's no longer trapped. It gives self-destruction a new meaning.

[zpamtondiedinablender]

Sorry for the soul eater spam btw. Will return to WAposting soo.n