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Animal of the Day!
Ribbon Seal (Histriophoca fasciata)
(Photo by Josh London)
Conservation Status- Least Concern
Habitat- North Pacific Ocean
Size (Weight/Length)- 1.8 m; 130 kg
Diet- Crustaceans; Fish; Cephalopods
Cool Facts- Ribbon seals have a massive amount of dependence on arctic sea ice. They almost never set flipper on the mainland, instead using sea ice to sleep, socialize, and give birth. Ribbon seals have a unique form of movement on the ice, slithering across like a snake and using their clawed flippers to drag themselves along in a graceful freestyle stroke. Males have a massive air sac that helps their calls to travel in the water while searching for a mate. When the environment is less than suited for a pup to be born, a mother ribbon seal can delay her pregnancy for up to four months. Pups are born completely white and are often left alone on an ice flow while their mother hunts. Predators are rare but the pup will play dead and wait for mom to return when faced by an orca circling their icy home.
Rating- 12/10 (The only species in their genus.)
Durarara's Character Songs and the originals they were a cover of
I wasn't sure if anyone else had done it before so I'm posting anyway as a reminder to self
Season 1
Linda Linda (リンダリンダ)
Kida Masaomi >> The Blue Hearts (1987)
Tsugaru Kaikyō Fuyugeshiki (津軽海峡・冬景色)
Shizuo Heiwajima >> Sayuri Ishikawa (1977)
Gakuen Tengoku (学園天国)
Mikado Ryuugamine >> Finger Five (1974)
Tsuppari High School Rock'n Roll (ツッパリHigh School Rock'n Roll (登校編))
Kadota Kyohei >> Yokohama Ginbae (1981)
Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (時をかける少女)
Anri Sonohara >> Tomoyo Harada (1983) (for Yasutaka Tsutsui's movie of the same name)
DIAMONDS (ダイアモンド>)
Shinra Kishitani >> Princess Princess (1989)
Subarashii Hibi (すばらしい日々)
Izaya Orihara >> UNICORN (1993)
Rouge no Dengon (ルージュの伝言)
Celty Sturlson >> Yumi Arai (1975)
rain tears
Ruri Hijiribe (original)
Season 2
Ruby no Yubiwa (ルビーの指環)
Shizuo Heiwajima >> Akira Terao (1981)
Nagori Yuki (なごり雪)
Mikado Ryuugamine >> Kaguyahime (1974)
Aa mujou (あゝ無情)
Chikage Rokujou >> Ann Lewis (1986)
Sailor-fuku to Kikanjū (セーラー服と機関銃)
Anri Sonohara >> Hiroko Yakushimaru (1981) (for Shinji Sōmai's movie of the same name)
Julia ni Heartbreak (ジュリアに傷心)
Kida Masaomi >> The Checkers (1984)
Romantic ga Tomaranai (Romanticが止まらない)
Aoba Kuronuma >> C-C-B (1985)
Pepper Keibu (ペッパー警部)
Celty Sturlson >> Pink Lady (1976)
Vacance de l'amour (恋のバカンス)
Kururi & Mairu Orihara >> The Peanuts (1963)
Koi wo Nosete (君をのせて)
Walker Yumasaki & Erika Karisawa >> Azumi Inoue (1986)
Fuyu no Inazuma (冬の稲妻)
Kadota Kyohei & Saburo Togusa >> Alice (1977)
Katte ni Shiyagare (勝手にしやがれ)
Izaya Orihara >> Kenji Sawada (1977)
Kimi ga iru dake (君がいるだけで)
Shinra Kishitani >> Kome Kome Club (1992)
little world
Ruri Hijiribe (original but composed by Toshiyuki Toyonaga and I'm almost sure there was a video of him singing it live once)
Let me know if I missed anything <3
Why's it always gotta be the pretty indifferent ones
You can’t tell me, Kano’s not their child from another world, but maybe he got brought up in the wrong world, this boy needs love; what better way then a ex gang leader mom and a powerful informative dad
Izaya Orihara Headcanons.
Some headcanons for Izaya and his S/O when in their high school years.
You would meet in your high school years.
He’d instantly find you interesting since you didn’t have an immediate interest in him.
His fan club of fangirls thinks your weird.
You also didn’t wear the uniform like him.
You and Shizuo got along great since you both didn’t like him.
Izaya would always say Shizu-chan was just brainwashing you.
He would bug you and constantly ask you questions about yourself.
Getting annoyed with him and somehow being able to lock him in the janitor’s closet.
Always walking you home to the point you get used to it now.
Slowly starting to warm up to him, and starting to like doing work together and projects.
Definitely acting like you don’t care.
Him trying to ask you out on dates, at least a hundred times once a day.
You finally saying yes to a date after months of pestering.
He turns into the perfect guy on the date from opening doors and sitting you down, to paying for everything and walking you home safely.
This boy just showers you in compliments and cheesy pick up lines.
When you decide to go out with him, he does any and everything for you!
He’ll make you food, do your homework (even the teacher recognizes his handwriting but doesn’t say anything), always wanna take you on dates.
This boy can be precious when he truly cares for someone.
A little doodle of my favorite information broker to celebrate the first episode of Durarara!!x2
If that doesn't spell CANON, I don't know what does...
DuRaRaRa, episode 24
I just started reading this Shizaya fanfic. Man, if that author doesn't post as soon as possible, I'm gonna *flips table* be civilized and wait for it patiently. XDD
honestly, looking at izaya's life from a third person pov, it's just... sad? like.
here's this guy who touts himself as something akin to a god and a master manipulator and someone to be feared, and he IS very good at what he does, except... when you take a look at the rest of his life, you see a mid-20s man who has no friends, nobody who really likes him- his clients fear him, his secretary isn't fond of him, and the one friend he DOES have is honestly kind of a garbage friend. and when people draw attention to this, izaya goes on this spiel about how this friendship is so intricrate it can't possibly be understood by an outsider, but what's REALLY happening is that shinra routinely doesn't care for izaya on a personal level via ignoring and ostracizing him, and izaya kind of just. takes it up the ass
he sees everyone around him as an object and the sad thing is everyone, in turn, sees HIM as an object- less an actual living being and more an abstract concept, or at least something that only exists for others to gain something from. it's this vicious cycle of izaya keeping everyone at arm's length and denying his own humanity, which in turn leads to people also denying his humanity, unknowingly feeding into this fucked up cycle of self depracation that most likely started when he was a child- his parents didnt see him as a person, just a mouth to feed and later, a way to have the life they wanted while still appearing respectable- they had kids, just like society said they should, but theyre not obligated to care for them.
and the one person who DOES notice there is something unhealthy going on can't be assed to do anything about it- in volume 9, shinra explicitly says that he doubts izaya expects to live long enough to die of old age- celty actually agrees with him! celty not being assed about it i'd expect, she already hates izaya and doesn't actually know all that much about him, but shinra at least should realize that there's something off about the whole situation. wether thats out of apathy or he just genuinley doesnt believe izaya is being unhealthy, i don't know.
but as it stands, here's a man who insists he can't be manipulated and that he's in control, who's... routinely mistreated by his only friend whom he still talks to and expects some sort of closeness from, and who ultimatley not only loses control, but loses it so spectacularly that he ends up disabled, possibly permanently. i KNOW the spinoff novels said he couldve walked if he went to physical therapy, but "ability to walk" does NOT equal "not disabled anymore."
like... it's just. a sad life! it's a horribly sad existence of a perpetual misery cycle that izaya not only doesn't pull himself out from but actively perpetuates via constantly giving in to his worst impulses and keeping everyone away from him via said impulses, ensuring nobody will notice anything wrong, and that people who DO notice and DO realize its unhealthy, won't give enough of a shit about him to help
man you know that one trope where the enemy comes to the protag's house (or vice versa) when they're hurt and is like "i didnt know where else to go"
i fuckin love that like. unconscious draw dynamic with shizaya where only when they're not in their right mind (probably from blood loss or sleep deprivation) do they start to unconsciously seek each other out
like they'll just start walking and not really know where they're going but they find themselves at each others' houses and by the time they realize where they are, the other one's already opened the door and is frozen
or like. shizuo doesnt even realize he's trailing izaya's scent until he runs into izaya himself, or izaya doesnt realize he's headed to ikebukuro until the train comes to a stop and he's like oh. huh
shizuo's walking around idly when he catches a glimpse of izaya bleeding as he runs away and izaya's thinking that he can't get caught by shizuo right now because shizuo will definitely hurt him, but shizuo chases after izaya anyway and he's not even sure why because it's not anger clouding his actions anymore but something else (concern?? nooo it couldnt be)
shizuo's always been better at sensing izaya through raw instinct than izaya is at sensing him but when izaya's tired enough to let go of some of his repressed emotions and constantly-running brain he finds that his instinct carries him to shizuo as well
like. just the magnetic force between them. i need more of it the flavor is so good because sometimes they dont even want it to be there. izaya comes to shizuo and he's like fuck. i need to go home and sleep off this fucking bullet wound why am i HERE WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME
or shizuo gets a bad feeling out of nowhere and he's like damn the flea must be getting stabbed in an alley somewhere. dont care (he sets out on a walk a few minutes later and if he unconsciously starts checking alleyways that's no one's business but his own) (he doesn't actually find izaya dying in an alleyway but he does find a gang looking for him and maaaybe he roughs them up bit)
so insane over how subconscious their attachment to each other is please give me more fics about it lest i write them myself because this post already contains like 5 different fanfic plots
out of all the izaya alternates, i think my favorite and the most interesting one (tho i Am biased) is hachimenroppi
and like, its just interesting to think how you could take this theoretical character- and what if roppi was the same as izaya on the surface, but also not?
he does the same things but with different motives behind it- rather than izaya, who worries about nonexistence, roppi worries most about legacy and importance, hence he does want to cause the three way gang war and die in it, but as a way to ensure that he's going to be remembered for a long, long time. and unlike izaya, roppi DOES call this act a suicide- he doesnt shy away from the concrpt of death. he finds humans stupid, annoying, and beneath him- which is why he toys with them! he likes to see the silly, irrational ways humans deal with stimuli, as opposed to himself, whos totallly logical and rational all the time. toooooootally.
izaya, i think, embodies anxiety- his whole arc, at its core, stems from thanatophobia. when someone pokes a hole in his armor, he tries to either forget about or rationalize it. his leitmotif is LITERALLY called "he's such a coward that he can laugh." roppi is commonly portrayed as misanthropic and suicidal- so he clearly embodies depression as a contrast to izaya. but that doesnt mean they DONT have traits of the other! izaya is well aware of his own anxiety, but denies his own lonliness and possible suicidality. it would be very interesting if roppi was well aware of his depression, but denied his anxiois traits.
and then itd be super cool if they met somehow- perhaps a suicide pact? who knows!!! idk lmao just some thoughts