#Death note shit post

[ikeepforgettimypassword]

Do you understand my chart?

[corviiids]

in the one (1) month since i watched death note for the first time i sure have been doing a fucking posting

bonus:

[exlibrismortis]

never not thinking about light's normal guy Diary. what exactly is he putting in here. it's unobtrusive but also classy. it has DIARY written on the front in big letters just so we can be sure that there is in fact nothing unusual going on here. it feeds into the manifold means he has for turning literally every facet of his existence into another piece of counter-evidence in the trial he seems to see as inevitable - another way of outwitting some imaginary pursuer (no one has even COME for him yet) and always, always having the upper hand with feigned expressions of vulnerability. it's kind of sad. light yagami sitting down at the end of every day to write around what he is, he'd be dilligent with it too. if he stopped at any point, the trap would seem too elaborate, far too much for a few pages of nothing.

anyways, I like to think he sits down and goes 'Dear Diary, today I was normal. I went to school normally, and didn't talk to anyone and didn't do anything unusual or even peculiar. I went home and studied while pointedly not looking at the news (who even watches that anyway) and thought kind and sweet thoughts about the state of the world. I love it here. Xoxo Light Yagami.'

[monakisu]

lawlight toxic yuri i never posted

[raileurta]

*On the Nemesis*

Arcee: Where could that relic be???

Miko: Let's check the flight deck!

Jack: Nah, nah the call of the void is too much temptation for you Miko.

Arcee: “The call of the void”?

Jack: Uhhh, you guys don't have that?

Bulkhead: No, what is it?

Jack:

Miko:

Raf:

Jack: You explain it Raf, I'm not doing it.

Raf: What- why me??

Jack: You're the smart one.

Raf: I-....

Raf: One of these days that excuse is not going to work anymore.

Bumblebee: (⁠・^・)???

Raf: Well Bee it's… kinda dark to talk about.

Miko: If you don't explain it I will.

Raf: *Sigh* The “call of the void” or L’appel du vide as the original French phrase it was translated from is a psychological instinct where humans feel compelled to throw themselves into “the void.”

The autobots: 🤨?

Raf: Aka want to jump off of really tall things that would definitely kill us or do other dangerous stuff.

Arcee: W-WHAT??! WHY DO HUMANS HAVE AN INSTINCT TO DO THAT!??!

Raf: It's theorized that it's supposed to remind ours brain not to do things to hurt us or others.

Bulkhead: Your processer has to remind you not to do that?????

Miko: Yep! :D

Bulkhead: That's some Unicron type scrap.

Jack: I mean he is our planet.

The autobots: ....

Arcee: I need to start drinking again.

[ranchuspond]

oh em gee is she thoo🫶

[coddda]

Light's relationship with his father is such a heartbreaking multi-faceted tragedy to me I hate it so so so much.

Soichiro loves his son so much, and while he's certainly not a perfect father I know that he cares deeply about Light. He wants to prove Light's innocence so badly but he can't let go of the underlying doubt that he might really be Kira and it gnaws at him. He does not know that from the very beginning he was being used by Light, whether it was to obtain information about the investigation, or to get to L, or to strengthen the foundations of his own lie that he wasn't Kira, this entire time he was simply another resource. He'll hang onto this doubt for years, even after L is dead, even if he doesn't express it in the latter half of the series, until he himself is on his deathbed, with what he believes to be undeniable proof that Light isn't Kira. (It's a lie, of course.) He dies happy, but it's on the foundations of blissful ignorance. His own son brought him here, brought him to the point where he had to sacrifice half of his own remaining life span, to his own death march, and was still trying to use him even now to kill someone else, but he doesn't know that. Soichiro said that what was evil was the power to kill others, and that whoever used it was cursed. Light was that cursed man, of course, and he tried to bring that curse onto Soichiro too by making him kill in his last moments. Soichiro was happy regardless, because he didn't know. He'll never know. (In the manga/anime at least. More on that later).

Light loves his father but it's not enough to turn him away from the terrible decisions he's made, if anything it only fuels them. His idea of "justice" is a twisted model of what he parroted from Soichiro, and he uses his father as another pawn (and a powerful one at that) in his plans. If he can prove that Kira is justice then perhaps his father will no longer call Kira, and therefore Light, evil, so he just needs to ensure that Kira becomes justice, right? It's Light's own actions that land his own father in the hospital for a stress-induced heart attack and yet he says only a few minutes later that he's the happiest he's ever been in his entire life. Even after Soichiro denounces Kira by calling him evil, even after he calls the Death Note's power evil, even after he unknowingly tells Light that he is cursed. When Soichiro dies Light is too deep in his own plans to actually properly process the fact that his own father is dying past what it means for his goals, but at the same time he still cares enough that after the fact he'll genuinely cry, only to brush it all away later. (Personally, I don't have a single doubt in my mind that Light's crying in that scene was genuine and I Will die on this hill). Soichiro had unknowingly denounced Light one last time just before his death, openly relieved that he "wasn't Kira after all", which also reveals that he has had doubts about Light this entire time, even after L died. By the time he's caught at the Yellow Box Warehouse Light will have denounced his father too, seeing him as someone who was made to be a fool, someone who was naive, even, too earnest for his own good. He won't realize that part of this description of his father might have applied to Light himself, back when this all started. Light takes after his father so much in so many ways already, so why not in this way too?

Ough. And honestly the other adaptations never miss out on this tragedy either, and I love them for that. (spoilers for the musical and 2006 live action movies I guess?)

In the musical we see Soichiro express his doubts and conflicts about who to believe, Light or L, if the son he raised really is a murderer, if everything he knows about him is just a lie. Like, there's an entire song about this, and you can tell how torn he is about it all, how badly he wants Light to be innocent but about how he also needs to face the truth no matter what it is, but at the end of it all he doesn't even get the answers he wants. At the end of the musical the only thing he finds is two corpses, Light's and L's, with no answers. No last words, no closure, only dead ends and a dead son and a grieving daughter. It's so awful I hate it here.

And the live action movie is fucking Insane. Like, wow. Okay. (Spoiler for the ending of Death Note The Last Name I guess) In the 2006 movies/novels Light writes Soichiro's name in the Death Note himself, and it's such an inconcievable move that it leaves even Misa shocked; Light tries to make Soichiro give him the Death Note for the last part of his plans, seeing his death as a "necessary sacrifice" (insert tangent essay about why I think 2006 live action movie Light is actually the most "coldhearted" Light Yagami, despite how infamous anime Light is). It doesn't work, and Soichiro does end up finding out that Light is Kira this time, and they have a confrontation, but he doesn't even sound truly hateful towards Light for it. He Never seems to outright hate Light for it, even after Light calls the whole confrontation a waste of time and instead tries to continue killing with the piece of the notebook in his watch, even after he tries to get Ryuk to kill everyone. When Ryuk inevitably writes Light's name and he collapses, Soichiro still reaches out for him and holds onto him as he's dying. Light literally dies in Soichiro's arms, still looking for the validation that he was right, that this wasn't all for nothing, that he was doing the good thing, trying to make Soichiro understand that he was trying to enact justice based on what he learned from him in the first place. Soichiro not only learns but sees for himself what his son has become, and Light dies in his arms leaving no closure for either of them. Soichiro will announce Light's death in L Change the WorLd on the news without saying his name, saying instead that it is only Kira who is dead, even though he and Light are one in the same. Sachiko and Sayu will never get to know the full truth about what happened to Light, instead Soichiro will lie and instead tell them: "Light was killed by Kira."

And then holy Shit the jdrama. If I write about it here this post is gonna literally double in length and also I don't really wanna spoil it but. Man. Man. If you watched it you know. Holy Shit dude I Cried.

It's the fact that, canonically, Soichiro will die oblivious to what Light has done, but even in the instances where he does find out, it doesn't make it any better, and it doesn't make him love Light any less, it just gives him more to grieve.

It's the fact that there isn't a single universe where Light doesn't use his father for his own gain, whether to gain information, or to try and control him with the Death Note, or make him write in the Death Note himself, and not a single time will he realize just how far he's strayed from Soichiro's ideals, and not a single time will he not forsake him for it by the end of the story.

It's the fact that, despite everything, Light will always refers to Soichiro as "dad/my dad" (informal) rather than "father/my father", even after he has been "denounced" (and this is true in every language that Death Note has been translated in, as far as I could find. Man, isn't that so cool! :) <- Through tears).

Anyways that's what I've been thinking of how's your guys' days going

[arthdoesart]

drawing my top three faves at 4 am

[totheidiot]

my specific take on lawlight is that they are both extremely in love with each other in a strange and weird way but L is like. head over heels. and he knows it, he has known it since the tennis scene. he knows 100% he loves light yagami with all he has, like the rain scene was peak gay pining in the weirdest way possible. despite the fact that L knows light is kira or maybe because light is kira, L still continues to admit to himself that he loves light with all of his being.

light on the other hand, also in love but of course, he is repressed as hell about it. not just because internalized homophobia but obviously like L is his natural enemy, he has got to kill him. he doesn't. know at all that he loves L, like i said super fucking repressed. during the yotsuba arc when he lost his memories, i imagine that he independently kind of garnered this sort of romantic interest in L. like late at night, when he can't sleep, he'll have this distant faraway thought like "hm. i wonder what it would be like to be with L." and then he goes back to sleep and he forgets that he even thought such a thing. then of course, he gets his memories back, L dies.

he thinks he is the happiest man alive. he is the happiest man alive and this will be the case for a pretty long time until suddenly. he feels lonely. maybe he has always felt lonely like this ever since L dies. that's when he starts to catch that he might have feelings for L that are akin to love. he doesn't call it love, still repressed but he describes it to himself that it's a feeling he has never felt before for a person. in actuality, it is love but light doesn't know that and he won't admit it to himself.

[hylianane]

The most homoerotically charged scene in the Death Note franchise is not the feet washing scene you guys, you freaks and fools, it’s this moment from the musical

[numbuh424]

Create a Death Note x Taskmaster crossover.

Your time starts now.

[percuma]

i hope light will like the pics i took for him! (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)

[feroluce]

On Sampo's name (ALL of his names!)

I feel like everyone who's a fan knows the meaning of Sampo's full name by now- the sampo was a legendary item that could magically make endless supplies of gold, flour, and salt, all priceless items at the time! So it works perfectly for a scammer businessman like Sampo. ☆

"Koski" is the Finnish word for "water rapids" which might seem kinda random but actually makes sense for him, since Aha and the Masked Fools are also referred to with water terms:

This kind of analogy isn't specific to only Aha and the Masked Fools, but it does still tie them together. So water rapids fits perfectly! Sampo wants to stir the pot! He likes to shake things around and spice things up! He's taking that stagnant pool and turning it into water rapids! It would actually explain his ridiculous hair color, too; a dark blue wave tipped with white foam haha

EDIT: an amazing contribution from @ricochetlovebombs, who heard it from hoyolab user Rattaboy. If you interpret his first and last name together, instead of separately like I did, you would get something like "money river."

In other words, Sampo's name literally means CASH FLOW SKXJMDMDMD

What I really wanted to talk about is his drag alias name, though, Brughel Poisson, because to me that's where it gets really interesting.

So like in the English version, Sampo goes by Brughel Poisson when he's in disguise. Searching for just "Brughel" itself doesn't seem to get you much at first: a Flemish and Dutch Renaissance painter named Pieter Brueghel the Elder, who was famous for his landscapes and peasant scenery, especially Hunters in the Snow and The Blue Cloak.

He's referred to as "the Elder" because he had a son also named Pieter Brueghel (the Younger), and he began a long line of painters, all named Brueghel. Some of them did original work, and many of them created reproductions of the Elder's art to sell. The Elder was also famous as a printmaker. All of this is hilarious when you remember that Sampo is an infamous counterfeiter and has sold a relic called the Parallel Universe Printer JSKZJSMD

There is also something called Brueghel's Syndrome, named after one of Brueghel's paintings called De Gaper, which pictured a man yawning widely. It's a condition that causes the mouth to open and gape uncontrollably, twisting a person's countenance into a distorted mask of their usual face.

Tumblr doesn't have a way of censoring pics like twitter, so for the sake of the medically squeamish, I'm just showing De Gaper here. But if you look up Brueghel's Syndrome, you can find pictures of actual patients, some of whom really do make faces resembling Aha's comedy and tragedy masks!

In the Chinese and Japanese versions, his alias last name is a lot more silly- In those, "Sampo" is phonetically written as "san-bo" and "san-po." And in disguise, his last names are phonetically written as... "Bo-san" and "Po-san." The Chinese version uses different tones, but still. This smug asshole seriously just decided to write his own name backwards and called it a day NDMKXMDMD

In the English version, Poisson itself is kind of a reused Hoyo asset- it's also the name of Navia's fishing village in Genshin Impact. Which is a really silly name for a village, because it literally just means "fish" in French smzjxkdkdk but!

Again, more water imagery. And in English, if something is suspicious, we say that it's "fishy," which is perhaps the most fitting association yet for someone as shady as Sampo ☆

And for a good while I thought that was the only connection. But then. My beloved @hydrachea, who is an actual native French speaker, dropped this on me right after April Fool's Day:

Poisson is literally the word you use to pull an April Fool's prank.

[thealmostthursday]

matt jeevas my favorite dress up doll

[monakisu]

this is probably the first time sayu has ever volunteered to help carry anything… of course light gets confused 💀 spoiled little sister problems

gift 2/3 for my secret santa @llawlieta !! for ur prompt of yagami family goodness! season’s greetings!! (<<< that’s what christmas cards always say) ₍ᐢ•ﻌ•ᐢ₎*･ﾟ｡

[optimisticgardenhologram]

Things Naomi Misora and Mello have in common:

Leather clothes

motorcycle enthusiasts

L's admirers, underlings

Doomed by their own strengths and having progressed too much too fast and if let loose they would speed run the Kira case and so were cast aside and killed off by the author who apparently just winged it week to week while writing the story instead of planning out a cohesive and intentional narrative that makes thoughtful, intentional use of its characters and skillfully plots their trajectory in a way that is responsive to their characterization and thematic roles in the story.

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