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#image #shiki haruya #akabayashi mizuki #aozaki shu #kazamoto takaaki #awakusukai #awakusu #durarara!!#i absolutely couldn't resist this one #every time i look at shiki's face and think about how hard he is trying to ignore them i just burst out laughing

I want to talk a bit about the new story I'm writing before I actually publish it because it's pretty outside of what I've written before.

First, it's a complete genderbend and reimagining a group of tough as nails yakuza men into high school girls is... Well. A struggle. I'm many years away from high school and I was never a typical teen anyway so this is a tad outside my experience bubble... 😂

Second it's wlw which is far outside my experiences. My experience with women has been awkward at best. I don't know how to talk to girls and girls don't seem to know how to deal with me so... Writing about girls in potential relationships is stressful. 😅

The big thing that I want to talk about is the content. The story is dark. Which is not to say that there won't be a happy ending, but it definitely doesn't start in a happy place. I don't want to spoiler but none of the girls are really in a good place when the story starts and I'm going to touch on a lot of subjects that could be triggering for people.

They are also a sukeban - a girl gang. There's actually a lot of history to the sukeban movement in Japan, some of which has been skewed by media. The sukeban movement started in the late 60s and continued into the 70s. It was very much a movement of women, for women. They fought against a society that dictated to them who they were allowed to be based on their gender and they did so in a very violent way.

The schoolgirl uniform, a symbol of conformity, was altered to show their rebellion. Rather than short skirts or unbuttoned blouses as you see in the modern day, they went long skirts. They cut short the sleeves of their blouses or turned them into crop tops and added embroidery or lettering like in the picture above. Their message was very much "this isn't yours to look at" in the sense of the male gaze. And hidden in those uniforms were definitely weapons.

These girl gangs rivalled their all-male counterparts, the yankii gangs. Just as large and violent. Never as large as the yakuza, but the larger gangs operated similarly. They had rules and punishments. They live on today in the form of the all girl bosozuku gangs, though not nearly as strong in presence.

It's really interesting, being able to write these women and incorporate this concept. Not just any thugs. These girls are rebels fighting for their own futures, very much a reflection of their male selves but also very much different. Thinking about how they would react to different situations, facing very different circumstances and limitations as girls is really complex and I can only hope I will do them justice.

#Fanfiction #Durarara #Awakusu #Genderbend #Raijin high school #Sukeban #Japanese girl gangs #There will be much angst #But don't worry #Thems some tough chicks #What can kick ass #:3 #my writing

Anyone know who made this awesome fanart? found it online could not find a source.

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