Stan the spider

Fanartist mostly, Artfight: SnailFanatic, he/him, mostly death note tbh... I may be cringe but I am free.

[stanthespider]

Average conversation in Ancient Greece:

Socrates: yeah so we're going to do eugenics and ensure only certain people can have children at certain times, all other children outside of this may as well be killed and also they'll all be brought up like brother and sister and not know who they're related to but they ABSOLUTELY CANNOT have sex with someone they're related to Unless ☝️The Lottery approves in which case yeah that's fine. Glaucon (blinking in morse code): yeah that's really cool dude

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

I just need a beautiful woman to tell me that my bizarre imitation of human social skills is alluring and sexy

[rixareth]

I don’t know a lot about “the show that goes wrong” but do you think they would perform death note the musical and if they did perform death note the musical who would get which role.

I'm going to say that Max would play Ryuk - he's got the grin for it - and Chris would give himself the role of Light. Annie would be fun as Misa! I can see Sandra as Rem.

Robert demands to be L. Chris refuses to cast him as L; he instead casts Robert as Light's father and gives the role of L to Jonathan. Inevitably, though, Jonathan is unable to get onto the stage during the performance, and Robert gleefully steps in. Chris and Robert definitely capture the intense hostile homoeroticism of Light and L's duets, although some parts of the audience are confused by L apparently being Light's father.

Weirdly enough, I've actually written a ficlet about the Cornley Drama Society putting on Death Note: The Musical before. Is 'weirdly' the right word? I'm not sure anyone's actually surprised.

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“Could I take a look at the Death Note prop?” Robert asks.

“No,” Chris says, without hesitation.

“It’s a book, Chris. It’s not exactly going to shatter if I drop it.”

“If I give you the prop,” Chris says, “you’ll refuse to return it. This is a plot to steal the lead role from me.”

“Don’t be ridiculous; that had barely crossed my mind. This is serious. You’ve heard about the recent deaths of criminals, I trust?”

Chris nods. “We did use a few of those names in the last rehearsal. I suppose we’ll have to find replacements for the actual show; it seems in poor taste to write them down now.”

“It doesn’t cause you any concern?” Robert asks. “You wrote their names down in the heart attack book, and then they died of heart attacks.”

“For goodness’ sake, surely you don’t think there’s some sort of causation involved.”

“Seems like a hell of a coincidence,” Robert says.

“And yet the alternative is impossible,” Chris says, “so a coincidence it must be. Plenty of the names I wrote weren’t reported dead.”

“Did you know their faces?” Robert asks. “It only works if you know the face, doesn’t it?”

A frown flickers across Chris’s face, just for an instant.

“I’m not going to give you the Death Note,” he says, after a moment. “But, if you must compare the names to the reports…”

He flips to the two written-on pages of the Death Note, tears them out. Hands them to Robert.

Robert screams.

“What’s wrong?” Chris asks, jerking back.

“Hi,” says the vast, feathered monstrosity behind Chris.

Robert points wordlessly at it.

Chris looks over his shoulder, frowning. “You’re afraid of Max?”

“Max?” Robert echoes, incredulous.

“Of course it’s Max; who else has that perpetual grin? He made his own costume, I think. It’s certainly impressive, but I do wish he’d stop following me around everywhere.”

Right. Yes. Of course it’s Max.

“Don’t appear out of nowhere like that, Max,” Robert orders him. “It’s unsettling.”

“Humans are weird,” Max comments.

[meroniaevent]

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reblog if you need a hug

[northerlygale-deactivated202307]

Reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a much needed hug

[mafuyuh]

Even if you're children, you'll get no mercy from me. The laws of the Day of the Pact are inviolable.

[stanthespider]

yeah so i was inspired by @saltycoal's amazing witch hat atelier au and therefore made one of my own, so behold Elroy Maiy (yes I know it's not particularly lore accurate but like I didn't bother fact checking so shhhhhhhhh)

[naga-noia]

Being uncomfortable with femininity being pushed onto you does not make you misogynistic. not wanting to be feminine does not make you misogynistic. rejecting feminine qualities does not make you a pick-me. embracing traditionally masculine things does not automatically mean you’re embracing toxic masculinity. wanting to be a man does not mean you want to “benefit from the patriarchy.” Anyone who implies or tells you these points is acting in bad faith.

I see so many people shaming/belittling transmascs and trans men for their transition (including other transmascs/trans men who are ashamed of themselves), and it sucks. You’re allowed to be masculine. You’re allowed to be a man. You’re allowed to dislike being a woman. You’re not a bad person for doing so. Men aren’t “the enemy” and you aren’t evil for wanting to become one, or wanting to become attached to manhood in any way/shape/form. If I had internalized this earlier, I think I would’ve understood myself a lot sooner

[stanthespider]

Meronia doodle pages, near looks like a dead wife flashback :/

Close ups of my favourite ones under the cut

[stanthespider]

Okay hear me out, transfem quifery who is fully aware and doing nothing about it on account of the dysphoria being pretty much perfect for tree reasons

[myuminji]

wanted to draw a continuation of librarian agott and brimhat coco AU where they meet again a few years later:

Thinking of the qifrey level of obsession agott has over brimcaps after the incident (that also being part of the reason why qifrey took her in as his student) and coco who's always watching from afar until agott finally caught up to her...

thinking of agott who goes alone bcs she knows coco won't hurt her, and when their caps falls off their head and they're back to being just two girls in the tower, not witches or brimcaps,,,

[stanthespider]

wow I really hate this :/ was going to be a full illustration but I couldn’t finish it, I do like aggot though, she’s always great

[necarion]

They should just bite the bullet and make a female James Bond. Hot, athletic, suave. She wears tuxedos with a somewhat feminine cut, drinks vodka martinis, drives sports cars, and goes by "James", because why not.

Also, because this is incredibly important to Bond for some reason, she needs to be an incredibly predatory, womanizing lesbian. Some perfectly happy married straight woman needs to become gay by the end of the movie.

We live in the future, and we can admit that all of the cool things that a Male James Bond can do are things a Female James Bond can do. But at all costs, we need to avoid making this thing feel "woke" of self-aware. If Female Bond is not exactly as toxic and awesome as any of the male ones, we will have failed, and might as well be making another franchise.

[meroniaevent]

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[jeansbookshelf-deactivated20250]

I got 60 out of 1000 😂

1000 Books You May Have Actually Read

Based on the number of ratings each book has on Goodreads. And if you haven't read them, maybe you can use for a literature bucket list.

[tinyasafirefly]

Anyone who says they’ve read all 1000 is a liar because one of them is a huge cookbook and no one is actively joy reading that.

[mbrainspaz]

with some of these it’s like “fuck, I did read that,” and with some it’s like “Oh fuck, I did read that.”

I got 99, but I counted a few that I had only mostly-read before deciding I didn’t like them and never finishing them.

[stanthespider]

Tumblr glitching. Lonely whale.

[colossalfart-deactivated2026042]

I am here to rant about Mello again. Sorry if I'm being annoying and flooding the tag, but I have too many things to say about this man. This time I’ll be milking something that the fandom has already been talking about for ages, but it’s MY favourite character and I get to glaze him as much as I want. Anyways. I’ve heard a lot of people talking about how they like how human he is, and I agree so much. I think that may be one of the key factors in his appeal to people. In the world of Death Note, we see a lot of geniuses. People are constantly operating at an inhuman level — over half the cast, in fact. Point being, they set a high standard. In society there is often a certain expectation that you must possess something extraordinary to be successful, and human worth is tied to that success or ability. Why do you matter if someone out there can do everything you can better, and more? This is why people always want to excel in everything they do. And sure, hard work CAN get someone to the top, but in Death Note most of the characters are plain gifted without any effort involved. I feel as if they personify how we in the real world perceive the “top” well. They’re untouchable, they’re superhuman, they’re practically flawless. A marble statue that’s muscles never grow weary, that has skin forever fresh and youthful. Sometimes it feels like those people just possess a gene that leaves the rest of us looking inferior. Thus, Mello is a mirror that we can reflect ourselves in. Of course he is, it’s so easy to. He is somewhat realistic. Mello can’t solve three of the world’s biggest mysteries in a day with no sweat. He does stupid things. He’s emotional. He can’t easily detach himself from the world he lives in and his own head. And he is not first. Never first. He has talent, but what stings is the fact it can be so easily overlooked in the shadow of someone like Near. Does that sound like you? I mean, I can relate a lot to devaluing myself because of others who surpass me. Everyone has something they’re good at. Rarely does anyone make it to the elite standing in whatever that talent’s area is. They constantly undermine themselves because “they’ll never be as good as the prodigies.” Though when we examine Mello’s character, it’s easy to see how absurd that same mindset is. He may not be first, but he is still very talented. Because we see ourselves in him, we begin to recognize the flaws in our own mindset. Suddenly we aren’t flawed, our own self-image is, rather. Mello acts as a bridge for people to slowly deconstruct themselves and find how to work through self-set standards set so high they may as well be fiction. The truth is, the world is made up of average people. Sounds obvious, but it’s easy to forget. Mello shows us that you don’t have to have the best of the best in order to be good at all. He also warns us of what happens when you can’t accept that. To be flawed is to be human, as Mello shows us, and to be human is inherently something of value. Perfection is not real and every day you spend trying to pursue it will just end up hurting you.