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IAN MCKELLEN photographed by Frederic Aranda for The Times (2025)

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c_tenenholtz_ceramics on Instagram

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time to get a delicious tea drink from my favorite crone, boba yaga

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Ohh, so I was looking at my storage and found these! I originally shared them on twitter before yeeting the platform. Anyway, feel free to use! Art memes for your oc :D

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fave almost throuple

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silly shinigami

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fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

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daemon x rhaenyra / we hold each other the way fire holds what it burns

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Aliens are gonna be gobsmacked by our urge to pack bond with everyone and everything on the ship, but just wait until humans are pack bonding with THE SHIP ITSELF. Giving her a nickname. Insisting on “she/her” pronouns for the ship because ‘tradition’. Saying “ouch” in sympathy when the ship takes damage, and saying “there you go, all better,” after patching her up. Hell, I bet there will still be animists meditating and connecting with the spirit of the ship on a regular basis and thanking her for doing such a good job.

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Does anyone have recommendations on good social norms for beginners? I'm looking to start conforming more but I'm not sure which norms will provide the most social currency. Thanks

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just pinterest lawlight pic redraw

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Renée Shepard and Garrus, a commission for @ashenlavellan ♥

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Did you know Silco runs a cosmetics line as well as a drug cartel?

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Reblog with your animal. It’s toucans for me

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here is my hot take: any reading of death note that doesn’t take into account light’s queerness is shallow and incoherent.

here is my even hotter take: it doesn’t actually matter whether or not this was intentional or whether or not light, the person, is a member of the lgbt+ community; the important thing is that light, the character and the construct, is queer.

ohba and obata weren’t writing in a vacuum. knowingly or unknowingly, they used themes from queer literature and culture to create light. this is a character who is so adverse to sexual and romantic connections with women that he endangers his own life; whose sole request for genuine affection over twelve volumes is made towards a male friend (yamamoto); whose only reciprocal emotional relationship with anyone outside his family is with a man (L.)

more importantly, he’s a character whose entire personality is centred around the concealment and curated presentation of the self. he is always conscious of being perceived. his private life is continually invaded and observed with his knowledge but without his consent, and he navigates this via a careful but weak performance of heterosexuality that becomes more skilled (but never perfect) as he ages. his response to cameras being placed in his private space is to display straight pornography. he attempts to throw off an FBI tail by manufacturing a date with a female classmate, and a (failed) component of his plan involves not having to follow through with the date. he conceals his relationship with mikami by conducting a relationship with takada — and, in doing so, he creates circumstances which make it impossible to consummate that relationship and which give him an excuse to dodge sexual and romantic contact with misa. so much of death note is light orchestrating dispays of heterosexuality then rejecting it the moment his performance is complete. i think light genuinely puts as much effort into not having sexual or romantic relationships with women as he does into not dying.

thematically, without a queer reading, none of this makes any sense. there’s no logical thread between his emotions and his actions. his behaviour is incoherent, erratic and ultimately shallow. with a queer reading, however, everything snaps neatly into place. there is coherency and consistency. his behaviour flows logically from a central part of the way he experiences the world. there is a texture and a richness to it. i think this is true whether or not someone personally interprets light as queer, because any sensible thematic foundation of death note is built on queerness; it’s possible not to notice this, but it’s extremely difficult not to engage with it.

[edit: follow-up in regards to light as a transgender figure]