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ok i have like a hundred #(%&ing posts on this thing, i guess i should introduce myself and make a pin out of it. 📌✨

hi, hello!! you can call me whatever you already know me by, but if you don't know me from elsewhere, a. is fine. you can use any pronouns you like to refer to me because this is the internet and on the internet i'm nothing but words. i'm in my early 30s; i don't live in the united states; i write for a living, for an as-yet-indeterminate amount of time; and i really like death note, 19th/20th century literature, getting weird/creative about intimacy, and art. there's just nothing i love more in this stupid beautiful world than art.

thanks for reading! 🌼 if i follow you, feel free to slip into my messages/asks any time.

#deathnotaboutly #reference

fadedlovemp3

www.destroyedandbetrayedyourselffornothing.com/careers

#deathnotaboutly #laughs tag #SOMEDAY this will make me laugh. i hope

knightingaleforce

happy valentines day

#yay #fire emblem

charlesoberonn

I thought about this question ever since learning that the mangaka claims Light and L were never friends.

Were Light and L friends?

No, they were just pretending

Only when Light lost his memory

L considered Light his friend, but Light hated L

They were friends

Some other nuance

Voting ended onJan 18

My friend thinks that at least in the anime (the definitive version) they were friends.

What do you think?

emberslimehunts

@corviiids this feels like a topic you have an Essay on lol ^_^

corviiids

ill spare op the essay, hahah!! the short version is i think they ARE friends but neither of them knows this or would say so on pain of death.

i think op was talking about this part of htr13 (please correct me if not!)

and my take on this is that L WAS lying when he said that but that doesn't mean it's not true

deathnotably

a caveat about using htr13 in this way: ohba and obata had very little to do with this book. this attribution disappears in the english version, but the japanese makes clear that all content (besides the text's interviews with the creators, presumably) was developed by a commissioned team.

all this to say: if this tidbit does not come from one of ohba or obata's interviews in the text, it is the commissioned team's interpretation.

deathnotably

an additional caveat to this caveat, lol: iirc ohba and obata barely communicated while they were working on death note together, so some of the hints in canon regarding how light might feel about L (ex.. that infamous scene where L says light is his "first ever friend" and light looks stunned/touched) is something we have obata to thank for -- that's his contribution to the storytelling, not ohba's, and may have influenced some of ohba's writing decisions down the line. (i think the most famous example of this is ryuk's obsession with apples. iirc that's something obata put in and then ohba really ran with it for the rest of the series, such that it was elevated to the status of the series's symbol, etc.)

idk i just think their co-authorship process is neat. who knows how ohba really imagined light felt about L but obata's art makes it clear that light had very conflicted feelings about him (ex., not looking at ryuk/hiding his eyes while he muses about having to kill him soon, which is obata's tell for when light is being cagey about his emotions).

#death note #deathnotably originals

charlesoberonn

I thought about this question ever since learning that the mangaka claims Light and L were never friends.

Were Light and L friends?

No, they were just pretending

Only when Light lost his memory

L considered Light his friend, but Light hated L

They were friends

Some other nuance

Voting ended onJan 18

My friend thinks that at least in the anime (the definitive version) they were friends.

What do you think?

emberslimehunts

@corviiids this feels like a topic you have an Essay on lol ^_^

corviiids

ill spare op the essay, hahah!! the short version is i think they ARE friends but neither of them knows this or would say so on pain of death.

i think op was talking about this part of htr13 (please correct me if not!)

and my take on this is that L WAS lying when he said that but that doesn't mean it's not true

deathnotably

a caveat about using htr13 in this way: ohba and obata had very little to do with this book. this attribution disappears in the english version, but the japanese makes clear that all content (besides the text's interviews with the creators, presumably) was developed by a commissioned team.

all this to say: if this tidbit does not come from one of ohba or obata's interviews in the text, it is the commissioned team's interpretation.

#death note

hello tumblr death note fandom! were you on livejournal when the series was ongoing and/or care about the fandom's history and old fanworks? then read on!

according to dreamwidth's founder, denise, it seems that livejournal is for real super on its way out this time. unfortunately, the death note livejournal community has not (yet) been transferred to dreamwidth. (both the capslock comm and kink meme have already been transferred, however.)

i'm making this post in case someone in the fandom is still in contact with the comm's mods and might be able to ask them to transfer the comm to dreamwidth. perhaps the mods are even on tumblr somewhere! (hello! 👋) this is the easiest way to save everything that's on the comm, inclusive of links and comment threads. otherwise, consider this a PSA to save everything you care about on the comm asap. an easy way to do this is simply by tricking your computer into thinking you're going to print the website and saving it as a PDF.

if you've read this far and you're not in this fandom: now is a good time to check if your favorite livejournal communities are backed up to dreamwidth -- and if not, you might want to get in touch with the comms' mods or get a group of friends together to save your favorite pages.

thanks for reading!

#death note #livejournal #dreamwidth #deathnotably originals

diasdelfuego

our spiritually elevated rejection of canon vs their intellectually dishonest refusal to engage with the text

#laughs tag #except this is just. real. lmao

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Link’s home

PS there are a few more on patreon, that are a little 🌶️

#i fucking love them your honor #zelda

sodiumfreak

light sounds soooo cocky in this one it is making me feel violent

#this will forever and ever be the best adaptation of the manga imo it perfectly captures its camp and drama #death note #music #the “i don't care who gets hurt now as long as i get one more shot” captures L and light's fundamental similarity PERFECTLY

waifu4waifu

im sorry but what other anime can like replicate the absolute cinema of death note. the omnious latin chanting. the blatant mental health disorders of every single character. the saucy trombone as ppl drop dead. the swoosh of the pen, hand jerking around, arm fully extended. the fucking helicopter shootouts over literally a notebook. the dark catholic imagery. the typeface. the significance of a single letter. the sexy lesbian goth model with a bubbly personality and undiagnosed bpd. ok. the autistic honor student who has to be god or else he really is a criminal. the autistic detective who immediately solves the mystery and nobody believes him. the dramatic irony of every aspect. the bury ur gays trope. the bury most of the cast. the diabolical laughter of a shinigami with a gay earring and snatched waist with a crippling apple addiction who set up the whole show. random bondage. ok. doomed yuri. doomed yaoi. everyone who uses this book is doomed.

#death note