wait sorry i forgot the topic lmao sorry. 🔥 for the death note fandom?
HI!!!! oh for the fandom specifically…………… hmm…………… oh i know, this is incredibly low hanging fruit but i think the manga and anime are brilliant for different reasons and deserve to be analyzed separately. please god please. i feel like most dn meta writers i've met use the manga because there's more of it and because it's much easier to grab screenshots of but the anime characters deserve their flowers as adaptations too!!!! like i don't think anime light ever realizes that heaven and hell don't exist even though that's also a canon fact in the anime and that changes so many of the original undertones. he's always running up that staircase. etc.
“I can’t keep doing this. Seriously— I’m at my limit.”
L, perched on his spinning office chair in the way which is peculiar to him alone, nibbles on his thumbnail and drifts slowly to the left. At the last moment, he grabs the desk, preventing himself from rotating past the point of no return.
“So you’ve said,” he comments blandly. “Many times now, actually. Yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that, and, if memory serves, several days before that, also. And yet you have persisted.” He smiles. “Perhaps you underestimate yourself?”
Mello scrubs his left hand over his face. He tries to use his right as little as possible these days. “No, it’s— it’s just not livable.”
“Evidence would suggest otherwise. You are notably quite alive.”
“It interferes with me eating. Sleeping. Getting dressed? It’s a nightmare. And when I’m in the bathroom, I have to angle my wrist close enough to the door, otherwise—”
“Otherwise my hand is bludgeoned against the bottom of the steel door,” Near says, presenting the faintly-bruised backside of his hand for L to inspect. “Also, I am forced to sit on the ground, or else be knocked over.”
“Sitting on the ground is typical for you,” L notes. “I don’t think that’s especially taxing.”
“I don’t like being on the ground outside of bathrooms. It isn’t sanitary.”
Before L can retort, Mello cuts in. “You don’t know what it’s like,” he says, desperation leaking into his tone. “He rolls onto the floor in the middle of the night. It almost dislocated my shoulder once.”
“Almost?” L says, unimpressed. Then: “I am well aware of the logistical difficulties and personal indignities associated with being handcuffed to another person long-term. I was chained to Kira for ninety-seven days, mind you. You have been in the same situation with Near for—” he glances to the calendar— “two and a half weeks.”
“But you did that for the case,” says Mello. “This is—”
“This is to teach the two of you how to work with one another,” L interrupts. “I remain unconvinced that you’ve mastered that skill. Now, if you’ll excuse me—” he makes a shooing motion— “I have many important matters to attend to.”
Tagged by @quicktimeeventfull thank you!! :3 Doing this in a somewhat timely manner for once yay
Last song: It's been at least a couple days since we last listened to music but probably Kraj mene by Lavina because we've been looping it a frankly unreasonable amount of times over the past few weeks
Currently working on: A BUNCH OF STUFF actually lol
Writing-wise, our beautiful to escape an empire pretty much exclusively (going slow but ACTUALLY GOING. We pick it up at least once a week these days)
Drawing-wise, actively working on three pieces (one Mello/Near we've already posted a WIP of + one Mello + one plural comic) and the Draw Everything June challenge. But there's more on the backburner
Other current projects include "write/make/code some more stuff for our Neocities website" (woefully under construction basically everywhere so I am NOT linking that one publicly dfsdf) and "declutter our storage(s)" (it's fine as in livable, but in the past nine years of living here we've accumulated a Lot of Stuff and there's not much more room for adding to it. So some things have to go and/or be Tetris'ed more efficiently)
Currently reading: A Whole List Of Things Also
Rereading the Animorphs series (IT'S GOOD. I THINK MORE PEOPLE SHOULD READ IT. I DO NOT HAVE THE MENTAL FORTITUDE TO TURN MY FEELINGS INTO A MORE ARTICULATE REVIEW AT THIS TIME BUT TRUST)
Getting through Wheel of Time book 4 (The Shadow Rising) with #book club :3
That one "The Internet for Dummies (new edition revised and edited for 1998!)" book we grabbed from the free library a while back (it's nice bedtime reading. Kind of nostalgic in some aspects, kind of "man I can't believe we used to live like this" in others (web browsers didn't even have TABS))
Probably some other things I am not remembering at the moment (we are definitely not "read one thing at a time" people)
Currently wearing: Just regular home lounging clothes -- very loose trousers, army surplus shirt we got secondhand like 15+ years ago, and the best feature of this outfit which is Cat Socks (With Shaped Ears)
Last search: "Samsung screenshots fail to take". Which is a problem we've been having on and off for years (and aren't trying very hard to solve tbh, but on occasion it annoys us enough to look it up, continue not finding easily implementable solutions, and then proceed to ignore the issue a while longer)
Favourite flower: We do not have a collective answer to this at all. MY favourite is this guy
Tagging: @inseparabiles @xenomorphvevo @storybook-riot @stagsprite @valodia @ohveda @lasalebete @joyrid3z @transsam @jrrtrek @navelgazed @chupacabrafritz @squidish @lilbittymonster and this...... is starting to be a Lot of people so. If you see this and are not tagged and still want to do it. Feel Free To Make Us Tag You In Spirit
If you had asked me this when I was in middle/high school, the answer absolutely would have been The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester. Because I was a gay and autistic and trans child, and this was my first exposure to the concept of conversion therapy (and empowerment that it’s wrong and the things that make you unique are worth fighting for)
But as for now, I’m having a really hard time picking a favorite out of all my favorites. There’s the Murderbot Diaries, the Queen’s Thief, Discworld, the Thursday Murder Club, Iron Widow, the Goblin Emperor, This is How You Lose the Time War… augh!
I might genuinely have to go with a nonfiction book for this, simply because it’s the one I recommend to absolutely everyone: How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis. Straight up life changing. You can feel it untangling your brain and the knots of shame you’ve been tied up in. Also the chapter about moving away from the “equal work” mindset in relationships (fighting over who works harder and therefore doesn’t have to do additional care tasks) towards a “fair rest” mindset (it’s not about who works harder, it’s about making sure everybody gets the care and rest they need) is something I’m going to be walking therapy clients through for the rest of my career
14. Who is your favorite author?
I mean it’s definitely Terry Pratchett, but if it weren’t him, it would be Martha Wells. They both have such a way of combining humor with genuine commentary on the cruelties of the world, both small and large. They both encourage you to be kinder, to seek out and value the humanity/personhood in people you might otherwise dismiss, and show that a kinder world is possible. And in between all that they make you laugh out loud in public because a joke caught you completely by surprise. But Martha Wells talks about nonbinary folks and space socialism so like… it’s very possible she will overtake Pratchett in my heart someday
im sorry to be so predictable but i would like to ask u light for the headcanon meme
what a surprise to find you in my inbox asking about our special boy!! here goes......
Headcanon A: realistic
he's lactose intolerant. his preferences in fake milk are as follows: soy, macadamia, pistachio, almond, coconut. i think, like all good lactose intolerant people, he occasionally caves and drinks one of those banana milk things for children made from real dairy, and immediately panics and takes 12 lactaid.
Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious
i think he's extremely meticulous with grooming and has learned from youtube to thread his own eyebrows, trim his bangs, and give himself manicures. like i think he owns a full set of clippers, hair shears, nippers, tweezers, extractors etc like his bathroom cabinet is basically a sally's beauty supply. i also think he is the type to drop a rack on gadgets like the nuface and the foreo luna. but he won't wear makeup because that's for GIRLS >:(
Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends
i have already talked your ear off about this but i will say it until i'm blue in the face. light is always on the verge of tears. i truly believe, in my heart of hearts, that he excuses himself from various stressful situations to cry in the bathroom, splash his face with cold water, and then rally like it never happened.
Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.
might be ooc based on canon!light but i literally do not care at all: he's into Weird Fashion Guys. like the guys who wear techwear and cyberpunk style. like anything he wouldn't be caught dead wearing himself makes him salivate but he would never admit it. also he once saw L with a tiny ponytail and immediately blacked out.
18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...
HALLE. she has wayyyyyy more on-page lines and overall character development than [almost non-existent male character, redacted for politeness but we all know who i am talking about here] but is conspicuously less discussed and depicted by far. i am not immune to the occasional delight of a mass-hallucinated figment of fanon so i am nawt telling anyone to stop but i AM telling everyone to put some love on halle too. together we can make her the new matt. in fact you could even do this by having her top him <3
19. you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...
honestly im drawing a blank. i think all my tastes and opinions are good and sexy (人 •͈ᴗ•͈)
