tealmussel

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[tealmussel]

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[tealmussel]

Blue Light

id be so mad if i have to deal with L's laptop shining on my face every night

[toyota-supra]

hey. good luck with everything, okay? [cutting the rope connecting your boat to the dock] just good luck. [starts pushing your boat further towards the stream] just have a good luck out there

[aokozaki]

[not noticing I'm drifting out to sea] Meow meow meow meow! Meow meow meow~

[toyota-supra]

good luck! good luck!

[eymurn]

In your 20s, you'll feel like you're losing the race. It's important to understand that there is no race.

[pinkmoondoll9shihtzu]

My favorite emoji expression me and my friends came up with is "throwing rocks at it"

Basically if you ever see or hear something that displeases you, You go like this:

🫳🪨

🫳🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨

☺️🫳🪨🪨🪨

So on and so forth. But also if something is beautiful or true you throw lotus.

🫳🪷🪷🪷

[phineastratchet-deactivated2025]

I have one that;s called "picking grapes off the vine"

🍇🤏

🤌🟣

this method could also be used to pick other things, if you'd like...

🎂🤏🤌🕯️

🐒🤏🤌🦟

[slightlydraconic]

⛰️🤏🤌🪨

🫳🪨

[satyriconmp3]

admire folks who reblog posts which contradict eachother. exactly! keep em guessing

[severalowls]

fuck people who reblog posts which contradict each other. no! be explicitly clear

[vryfmi]

post so bad tumblr offers 5 delete buttons and no post button

[id: screenshot of broken tumblr queue footer ui with one reorder button, 5 delete buttons, one edit, and one unreadable button where post button should be./end id]

[fillianore-moved]

so metropolitan museum of art has a register of books they’ve published that are out of print and that you can download for free! they’re mostly books on art, archeology, architecture, fashion and history and i just think that’s super useful and interesting so i wanted to share! you can find all of the books available here!

[egberts]

idk who needs to hear this right now but stop messing with that thing on your face, you're making it worse

[quasi-normalcy]

We Are the Daughters of the Microbes Who Could Survive in an Oxygen-rich Atmosphere

[halosnothere]

well that can't be good

[nolaplantdaddy]

I love when people ask "how did you learn this skill?" I just started, there's no secret. that's it. a vast majority of the time the only thing holding you back is your trepidation to start.

[noegrets]

[stefisdoingthings]

XI. JUSTICE

[smugchihuahua]

bruh your art is on AliExpress 🤣

The link @protowilson @joking-hazard @virtualmish  @slimsnipes

(theres a bunch of other people but I dont know who it is or theyer no longer active) also there more images on the link

[slimsnipes]

haha, thats so funny.. out of all of my drawings.. i feel like thats the last one i'd expect to see made into a button pin..

[thereisnofood]

(clicks blog) (clicks gay little carrd link) (clicks anime boy to get to dni page) "dont interact if youre a freak/weirdo" ... (frowns) aww man...really?... well, whatever... i didnt even wanna follow you anyways. (sigh) (walks home alone with my head downand hands in my pockets kicking a can along the road as i walk)

[optimisticgardenhologram]

Thinking of this part of in the LA BB Murder Cases spin-off novel, which notably is narrated / written in-universe by Mello, and blown away by the parallels to the manga confrontation between Soichiro and Mello.

Particularly relevant in these excerpts (spoilers for LABB).....

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Ok so -

If you just swap out the names and context, it seems these passages (again which are in-world authored by Mello) are SO eerily similar to the events in the manga confrontation?! It almost feels like an AU flashback of Mello's own experience, like a re-contextualization of lived trauma.

And I can't help but imagine Mello thought a lot about that encounter with Soichiro in the days and months afterwards....about how close he was to being killed on the spot; and how the only thing that saved him was the inherent goodness and mercy of the man who would have (by Mello's own estimation, should have) been his prospective murderer.

A man who, despite intellectually acknowledging and accepting it as a possible duty in his job, has never killed before - and who in the end doesn't have it in him to follow through and pull the trigger when the moment comes. And how that moment of hesitation -borne of this man's compassion and gentle heart- is what gave José the opening to fire leading to Soichiro's own death.

I also think of how after the explosion and his escape from the hideout Mello may have surmised Soichiro died from his injuries, but really had no to way to know for sure or to confirm it either way. Did it hang over his head, did he wonder what ultimately happened to this gentle-natured man, a man who he never intended to die?

I suppose his family or professional associates may have prepared and printed an obituary for Soichiro in Japan, so if Mello looked for it he may have been able to find out that way, but there's no indication in the manga either way.

Relatedly, it's actually pretty sad how completely Soichiro was erased from the story after his death. Like no one ever thought of or mentioned him again until the very end when finally Matsuda brings him up.

[kiyomitakada]

#if you’re looking at this through the lens of re-contextualised trauma then this has some VERY interesting implications about how mello felt about the confrontation #“but he should have known‚ he should have been ready to die the moment he first took a life. as any criminal would.” #<— this REEKS of projection to me. like idk. maybe he felt like he should have been more prepared. maybe he should have been able to face the consequences of his actions head on. #like MAYBE that’s just naomi’s thoughts but it sure feels out of place for someone who isn’t a criminal #speaking of naomi. this might be a bit of a stretch but i wonder if her thoughts align with how mello thought soichiro might have felt about the confrontation. or maybe even how he wanted him to feel. like. #“what had misora expected from someone like that? how cruel was it of her to have expected anything? She knew as well as anyone that that child was living the only way he could. he had always been doomed.” #<— do you think he would have pitied you mello? did you want his pity? #do you wonder if/hope his hesitation came not just from his unwillingness to kill in general but maybe because he saw something in you? (via @theoldworldsrunnerup)