[phervert]

i’m ramona. i like music and movies and the world (she/they 𓃶 white tme autistic adult & lover of succession hbo) nsfw/bdsm blog is @whorne & i follow from @wearenemies <3

[pjackk]

Ok but why are the suckers and losers trying to kill me today

[phervert]

i’ve become quite enthralled by video essayist big joel’s huge beautiful wet eyes

[innerchildabortionclinic]

my sons ranked from most to least hard to love

[beadyeyes]

Heartwarming: he will never be happy

[beadyeyes]

We are taking away every thing that made him a person.

[sodiumfreak]

#yepppp 😁

[jenny-holzer]

[theambitiouswoman]

[phervert]

crosswords & limited screenings of cult movies with my buddy thomas & death note musical at the barbican will keep me going inshallah

[phervert]

remembered that i had letterboxd and can feel myself becoming a worse person. of course everybody needs to hear about the fact that i saw and was immensely irritated by obsession

[phervert]

*zero drinks in* everyone will be hearing from me

[phervert]

remembered that i had letterboxd and can feel myself becoming a worse person. of course everybody needs to hear about the fact that i saw and was immensely irritated by obsession

[kiyomitakada]

i don't know the first thing about visual analysis but i am obsessed with the way this sequence is drawn alternating between light's eye and different little features of L like you can see which things stand out to light about him immediately because they're unusual (GET YOUR FEET OFF THE DESK) (why does L even have his feet on the desk. that's not even how he usually sits. was he trying to draw attention to see if light would turn around or was the chair just too small to crouch on.) and none of this is #symbolic or anything i just think it's drawn so well!!! look at the way light is initially surprised and then closes his mouth and starts narrowing his eye and you'd think that would mean his eye color goes from lighter to darker (the way it usually does when he's surprised and then collects himself) but no it turns lighter the more he stares and it's because

because light realizes that L is staring directly at him and this understandably throws him off enough that by the end of the sequence his eye color is almost completely translucent while he glares ISN'T THAT INTERESTING.

[brawltogethernow]

The way that the desire to visually contrast them forces some SUPREME anime girl glimmer out of Light's eyes in shots like this - which then stops entirely forever when he kills L which is probably still art-motivated but is also INSANE. Kid look what you did to yourself.

[mikami]

What are your personal headcanon of kiyomi takada?

I... don't really have any, but what I do have is an interesting bit of cultural context that might put her personality in a new light:

The news are a notoriously difficult field for women in Japan. It's a field that is extremely male-dominated and absolutely rife with sexual harassment that is entirely normalized, even today. (x)

The job Takada specifically holds is that of a TV Announcer. It is another field with incredible gender inequality.

Near is looking at a ranking of 'female announcers' here and it absolutely has to be noted that it's not a ranking of 'announcers who happen to be female' but of 'Female Announcers' as an almost separate job category. The Japense wikipedia page for announcers has a whole subsection about female announcers.

They are basically treated as idols - hired from top universities but primarily for their looks, and designated as eye candy for the viewers. The sexual harassment they face is likewise immense and they are often forced to retire in their mid-20s as they stop being of the 'desirable' age.

The TV station NHK which Death Note's NHN is a based on is more serious about it, at least - their female announcers are trained well and selected for the quality of their work, women in their 30s can also be announcers for NHK - so Takada did score the most serious 'female announcer' job that she could, but it is obviously a profession with a lot of prejudice speaking against it.

We see this reflected in the series by Near who immediately dismisses her abilities based on her gender and age, seeing her as just another of those 'basically pop star' announcers.

Which is notably different from how Mikami, who has very high standards, describes her work:

Takada is a woman who has chosen a career in an excessively hostile field because she is dedicated to social issues and reporting. She's evidently passionate about politics and social ills and putting her all into her job. She's a go-getter who traverses difficulties because of her strong conviction and own drive to get ahead.

(Now, I concede that Ohba probably wrote her with female announcer stereotypes well in mind, uncritically, but I think the character he came up with still reads as exceptionally strong-willed and ready to carve her place out in a world that does not take her seriously by default.

Frankly, the way the narrative makes fun of her for being stuck between distaste and smugness at being seen for her appearance is sick, considering society ingrains it in women that they should want to be desirable first and foremost. Of course she has conflicted feelings about a) being seen as a Good Pretty Woman vs b) wanting to be taken seriously as a professional and just as a person.

Her dislike stat of 'stupid women' also reflects that - she has the internalized misogyny of somebody who wants to surpass the rigid gendered expectations she was raised into and that she never felt fit her - but who has not yet realized that those are not the fault of other women for 'not being emancipated enough'.

It's such a common expression of wanting to be More than society allows but feeling like the only way to do this is to be Not Like Other Girls.)

[kiyomitakada]

i don't disagree with the view that near eating chocolate at the end of the manga is a very sweet tribute but i will not lie the first time i read it i was like (nodding) symbolic cannibalism (nodding some more) i support you forever near

[oldmanpusspuss]

most euthanizable mutuals of 2026

[phervert]

light has a seemingly boundless talent for compartmentalisation and that reflects on his behaviour largely by ensuring that he experiences a firm and frankly blisteringly instant sense of depersonalisation upon first using the note that doesn’t let up until his death. in this vein i’ve always viewed L’s insistence on calling light ‘light-kun’ (to his face) as needling not purely by way of infantilising condescension but also (somewhat comparably to light calling L by his aliases) by way of recognising light’s detachment from himself even outside of the formation of the kira role. light has evidently always felt a level of detachment from his public persona & his work as kira simply emphasised that detachment by giving him a secondary outlet through which to direct the abstracted internal self. he frequently refers to ‘what light yagami would do’ in a manner so similar to that in which he refers to the actions of kira; there is an implicit true identity disconnected from these outlets - one which L is, to light’s chagrin, able to recognise with an invasive clarity - but that light is hesitant to directly acknowledge & that both identities in their ways serve to obfuscate.

[transfemdave]

quillsh wammy is genuinely so funny. literally a dude going ok this omelas kid idea is working out so well I should just build an omelas kids factory