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also i’m going to go afk for tonight bc I have a wedding to go to in the morning and I don’t want to be more tired than I’ll already be. so gn 🌹
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It’s so hard to be human he’s so real
if only he knew how hard it is when u don't have millions on ur bank account 😪
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can we have more aspd izaya posts please please please please please please please please pl [ i am taken by the fog ]
*grabs u by the leg and pulls u out of the fog* yes of course u can my fine fellow :)
so!! i was talking to a friend about izaya having aspd and whether or not it was an intentional coding on narita's part or if it was a completely unintentional yet still valid way to view the character. honestly, evidence exists for both ways- the emphasis put on izaya's impulse control issues ans disconnect from the rest of humanity, as an example that comes to mind. but there could also be a case that narita didn't mean to invoke a deliberate coding of aspd while placing emphasis on these aspects of him
theres also the whole "two brain scans" thing. was this plot point narita trying to say that he didn't intend for izaya to have any mental illness whatsoever? but then again, brain scans are not exactly the most reliable source of diagnosing mental illness- if it was, we'd just use that. there are studies about aspd and brain differences regarding it, but i have no way of knowing if narita... read them. i don't know the man and i have no idea what studies are available in japanese, since i read mine solely in english.
there's also the study that throws a wrench in brain scan studies as a whole- specifically fMRI studies. it was one of those classic "subject put in brain scan and asked to identify what emotion a person in a photo is showing" except the subject was, ironically since this is a post on izaya..... a dead fish. so did narita see THIS? the study IS from 2009, but to comfirn if its even possible, i'd have to cross-reference the book the two brain scans thing shows up in with the date the study was published, and EVEN THEN the answer is still a big ole "i dunno!"
although, thru all this, i think i settled on an idea of what Might have happened. keyword MIGHT, it's not like i can go ask narita himself. well i mean i guess maybe if i tried really hard.... but i am not going to do that. it sounds scary and frankly i am a weenie, and i don't speak japanese
so, durarara.... is a story largely about the underbelly of society. ergo, there are a lot of tropes present in other works about these kinds of people, but they're subverted here. like, for instance, shizuo- he's the "dumb muscle" trope; an angry fighter who lives for the thrill of violence and that's why he's involved in the underground. except, shizuo hates violence, has tried to hold down regular jobs and is only in the underground out of desperation, and is very perceptive and philosophical. he's a subversion of the dumb muscle trope.
i think izaya was meant to be a subversion of the sociopath as a trope... and imo, you kind of can't really subvert that trope well without giving your character aspd.
"the sociopath" as a trope refers to a character with, essentially, zero humanity. they love nobody, care about nothing but their own gain and destruction, are sadistic for sadism's sake... et cetera.
taking a character and going "they ACT like a sociopath, but they're NOT one!!" is a common subversion of the trope... but it's not really a subversion, is it? it's a bait-and-switch. if a character seems like X but is not X, they are not X. the trope of X does not apply.
imo, for a subversion to really be... y'know... subversive, the character must still possess the original traits of The Sociopath, but they're twisted around and expanded upon
The Sociopath can't love? izaya loves all of humanity... though it doesn't stop him from disregarding their rights and autonomy, ergo still hitting ASPD criteria and still being a sociopath
The Sociopath can't care about anything but their own personal gain? izaya clearly cares about and loves his sisters, but it doesn't negate everything else he's done, or the other times where he has put his own personal gain first
The Sociopath can't feel or express emotion? izaya is demonstrated to be a coward and to have genuine phobias- thanatophobia, the fear of death, IS an anxiety disorder, as are all phobias. shinra describes him as fragile-hearted, and this description is accurate. but, izaya puts on a facade for the rest of the world- ergo, he can't express emotion (at least, not in the way someone without aspd could- it's... hard and scary to Drop The Act; vulnerability is scary and removes the subject's control of a situation, so it stands to reason that it would be difficult for us to do)
The Sociopath is a sadist for sadism's sake? izaya actually has weight behind what he says and does- sure, some of it IS for entertainment, but why he chooses specifically this as entertainment (namely, suicide) has enough bits of info for us as readers to extrapolate. the text doesn't make it explicit, but durarara is a series where paying close attention to minute details is expected and rewarded, so this is par for the course, honestly. and a lot of the things he does, although they result in hurt for the rest of the cast, isn't izaya being a sadist Just Because- at the end of the day he's a scared, lonely man, trying very hard to avoid the thing he's most afraid of in life- the cessation of it.
that's not to say that anything he does is OKAY, obviously, but there's weight and nuance behind it. izaya is treated as a whole human being, just like everyone else. but a lot of core aspects of his character parallel the sociopath trope so cleanly that it's hard for me to believe that it was completely unintentional. was he meant to have specifically aspd, the disorder? i'm not sure. probably not? but "the sociopath, as a trope, but fleshed out and given humanity" is kind of... what aspd.... is. as a disorder. which is why i think you can't truly subvert the trope without giving your character it, inadvertently or not.
anyway yeah this was A Bit different, although i prefer to do watsonian anaylsis i absolutely can do doylist too. i might do more stuff like this if yall like this one idk
#durarara#orihara izaya#izaya orihara#wasks#yaayyyy new meta <3#i hope u guys like itttttt <3#please dont be weird about aspd <3 on my hands and crippled knees <3
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what a way to start October, huh
#twf#watched bunny farm with chica. drew this.#all of this#enjoy walten file fans ur not gonna get anything serious from me in a bit#the walten files#im gonan catch up everything this month/weekend#i love drawin in mspaint i can draw as terribly as i want#also dont wask why i drew so much of brian cow. you wont get an answer you like#unfinished
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Last 10 min of the day was terrible
#and i feel bad for getting annoyed w them its not like i was mean by the end but i was kind of curt at one point bc#They kept running around the room and chasing each other bc one kept taking some craft they had#Idk i let them draw nd work on crafts when they had nothing to do but it wask inda a bad idea#Lol#And then i had them lined up when were abt to leave and like students start leaving and theresna chunk of the line jhst not paying attention#and its so loud w the doors open and all the other classes outside plus my class being loud as fuck and they just arent going#bc thehre all turned around and not paying attention#idk im so done#im tired😭
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fuck your zodiac sign, which lyric of foundations fucks you up the most
#mcr#my chemical romance#foundations of decay#swarm era#gerard way#mikey way#frank iero#ray toro#mine is and so he gets to die a saint but she will always be a whore. by the way. no im not cryign why do tyou wask
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🎵 (can't find the right emoji lol)
song : life during wartime - talkibg heads
#ty for thr wask!!!#this was soo hard i love almost all thr lines on this sing#esp where they mention cbgb :0!#📨
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anyways thinking about kakashi having a panic attack & putting his fist through the wall
#ooc.#he doesn't look anyone in the eye when he buys drywall the next day#hes sweating like#no one wask no one ask no one ask#there are more layers to this thought but this is the invasive part
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I love all of your analysis on both Izaya and ASPD, it really makes me think. I really feel like Izaya would do good in the disabled community, after all, wouldn’t he have so much fun pissing off politicians and working for disabled rights?
And the fact that he treats everyone equally is going to be so much more appreciated among people who have never been treated equally.
I just want a post Ketsu story where he realizes that he has ASPD and actually works through the symptoms, enough that it isn’t controlling his life anymore. All the while making life better for himself and every other disabled person in Japan.
EVERYONE ELSE SHUT UP. YOU. KEEP TALKING
no but youre actually so correct. izaya loves humans and loves fucking with people- so why not redirect those urges into something more productive? he's still fucking with people, still pushing people to their limits
and wouldnt it be FUNNY if it came out that he was doing this? like, there's no proof, but there are rumors that izaya drove X corrupt polititian to suicide or Y insurance company CEO to resign, and NOBODY CARES like they just. look the other way. kinda like the guy with the thingamajig that assasinated shinzo abe- that guy DID get arrested, but he did what he did because abe had ties to the life church, aka the moonies, a christian cult. but then the govt looked into it and then money stopped getting funneled to the moonies. like people went "yeah that guy had a point" abt it all
AND ON THE TOPIC OF ASPD- what if izaya does aspd related activism on the side? wouldnt it be cool to see him get into a formal debate with another professional who studies aspd but has a... less favorable view on it? wouldnt it be sick to see izaya corner them more and more, ask them what EXACTLY makes people like him different from everyone else? what exactly does the field of psychiatry seek to gain by villifying these people, who have what they have because of trauma, who could be helped if people tried- ACTUALLY tried, instead of the focus being on fixing them, like their disorder needs to be completely eradicated first and foremost before they're allowed to be treared as a person, before any of the other problems could hope to be addressed? what is there to gain from the system being as it is now?
i want to see izaya orihara have a formal debate in a college setting and make the other guy cry. i think izaya deserves this as a little treat
#orihara izaya#durarara#izaya orihara#shizaya brain: shizuo seeing that izaya is still alive thru his activist work spreading around#and actually starting to really like this new side of izaya#likening it to himself learning how to control his strength#also @ the anon who wanted more aspd: HOPEFULLY THIS WILL HOLD U OVER TILL I THINK OF A PROPER META FOR U 💞#keeping his distance but watching his talks and debates on his dinky little laptop when he comes home from work#wasks#yeagh im putting this in the tags. ill dance with danger all night long
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sang animal by neon trees with my crush 🙌🙌🙌 i need him!$!!!!!!!
#and when we were at the bar he touched my thigh cis i was pointing at where i want a tattooo!!!!!!#and. i have a crush. on him. hes sooooooooo cute#and he noticed. someone else was doing make a man out of you. and when i was singing. he weny ‘oh werewolf moment?’ while i wasking#*was singing#to the ‘dark side of the mooooooooooooon part’ and i WASNT EVEN howling or thinking of it#but he knows my werewolf moments. he literally said ‘the lyrics. iused context clues’#txt#yall it’s debilitating. i want him so bad. hes just The One my crush is so stronggg i hate it here#i want to punch him until hes not cute anymore. i need to eat him. hes fine as hell#i hope he has a crush on meeeeeeee😭💀#its terrible. i need to kiss gim or i’ll die#hes so tall. and handsome as hell. and i told him i loved his performance of sex on fire#he eaid he knew id be ‘not upset but kinda upset’ that i missed gis rendition of last nit e by the strokes#cus we both like it#yall i think he does like me. idc#i cant tell if its a gut feeling or delusion but
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DAITHS >>>>> I WANT THEM TOO THEYRE A JEWISH THING FOR ME BIT THE MIGRAINE THING TOO YEAH :)
YEAHHHH THEYRE INCREDIBLE and the jewelry is so precious ive always wanted a star shaped loop for my future daiths 😭 so cute
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