#things funishment-time posts instead of doing work

[funishment-time]

last night i saw this complaint on YouTube about how DR is constantly contradicting itself, citing a particular example: Maki pretty much telling you in her FTs she had a bestie she cared about more than anything in the world, then later acting like Kaito is the only person she's ever given a shit about. this was cited as a reason DR is "mid" or whatever snide thing the kids say these days to dismiss being Genuine.

and, okay, DR's far from perfect, i'm not saying it's A Work Of High Genius, but sometimes i feel like the Art of Filling In The Gaps Yourself™ has been lost on people young and old. there's like a thousand reasons you can make up that would slot in fine there and bring the narrative into balance. maybe Kodaka was lazy, i don't know, but maybe it's just more fun and interesting to decide yourself why that contradiction happened, and that doesn't make DR (or any piece of media) bad necessarily