#and i think L knows this too

[valfeathers]

One of the stories of L's backstory that I've created in the back of my mind that will keep me up at night is how L had (intially) GENUINELY thought that he'd be taken care of when Watari brought him to the Wammy's House only to be groomed unrelentlessly, bent in all shapes to find the perfect mould, stripped of his human rights and watch as other kids his age or younger went through the same cycle of abuse.

anon,, you GET IT. you understand it. how/when did you read my mind??

i cant help but truly feel for him sometimes. of course, he isn’t perfect but i truly 1000% believe he deserved normalcy & love instead of whatever half-assed guardianship he was given. a child is just that. a child.

child L wasn’t an investment or a new project or the next prodigy or justice incarnate, he was just a kid. i recently read L file no.15 and it just made me sad to watch the beginning of this kid’s life-altering ‘career’ when all he wanted was a challenging puzzle.

i read watari realising that L was intelligent beyond his years & thinking ‘i can do something with this’

quillish wammy wasn’t a father, he was an inventor. he invested in L, and that isn’t raising someone.

and ofc watching the same thing happen to other wammy children while watari & roger look for his replacement,, that screams ‘you’re expendable & replaceable’.

which i’m sure is a very interesting thing to internalise.

(ofc i interpret L’s whole induction into wammy’s & backstory as. well. tragic but that’s just my interpretation 😭 i just think about L too much for my own good)

i always include L among the Wammy Victims™️ for this reason, it’s just presented differently because he’s the blueprint for the others. but that still isn’t good. that’s still damaging.

and he didn’t deserve to go through that.

[jesteringbug]

this was funnier in my head tbh

[ponury-grajek]

I needed the comfort content with them, so I draw it myself

[ryllen]

as much as ridiculous he is, I appreciate Pen who found me passed out after 3 AM in the middle of desert & brought me home

a l s o, smart kid fhsdhdhsh

[nerdstify]

day in

day out

likes do nothing!

[puppyeared]

its so hard to watch time pass when things like careers and assignments exist. what do you mean im supposed to take that seriously

[numbuh424]

people have pointed this out before but I love how the death note jdrama highlights how needlessly cruel L is capable of being..... calling Light (and the other Kira suspects) early in the investigation to falsely accuse him of being Kira just to see how he'd react, taunting Light relentlessly while he was imprisoned and interrogated, and of course the mock execution. all while knowing no one can really stop him. the jdrama really said "btw don't forget this guy's an ASSHOLE"

[sadkois]

10 mins later after majima convinced nishiki to go out on a guys night :)

10 YEARS IN THE JOINT

KIRYU WITH NISH EXPRESSION JUMPSCARE

[god-of-this-new-blog]

“All of the things that I've lost, I will find again”

[diamondsunbursts-and-marblehalls]

Hear me out. Howl, Sophie and Calcifer are Lockwood Lucy and George in a different universe.

A cocky boy who's seemingly selfish, actually noble, and allergic to communication. He schemes and plots, doesn't let anyone in, obsessed with his appearance and the public eye. Would kill before letting anyone in. Would die before letting anything hurt the people he cares about. Does everything he can to pretend he doesn't care. Is a business partner with his best friend, and knows he couldn't do it without him. The prettiest smile in the whole world and he knows it. An asshole. Absolutely magnetic and frightening at the same time. Falls in love at first sight, and he wouldn't change a thing. A homeowner.

A spitfire girl with a low opinion of herself, extremely nosy and will not be left out of things. Is more special than she can comprehend, completely self-sufficient, tends to think everything bad is her fault, and would go to the ends of the earth to protect the people she loves. Inadvertently manages to turn any house into a home, and any random group of people into a family. Can't not steal things? Falls in love before she can stop herself. Petty and easily gets jealous. Will call you out without hesitation. Talks to inanimate objects and thinks she always knows best. In a reluctant partnership, ends up caring about him more than she intended to.

A genius boy underappreciated by most, but knows more than pretty much anyone. Obnoxious and easily annoyed, with a big mouth and a mean sense of humor. Quite easily the glue that holds everyone together. Doesn't wear pants. The warm hearth they all come back to. Runs on his own time and doesn't mind anyone else's opinions. Knows full well his best friend might be a psycho but wouldn't leave him for anything. Generally sees more of what's going on than anyone else. Bullies his associate relentlessly but would defend her with his life. Constantly seeking to learn more. Legally required to take his best friend's side when it comes down to it.

[deus-ex-mona]

real talk: lxl should continue to explore romance fantasy concepts in their songs. it’s clearly working for them~

[sskk-manifesto]

Proof that bsd would be a lot better if they just let it pass the Bechdel test more often

[bobbinalong]

"kon would wear a crop top, jon would not" says WHO

[goldkirk]

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[pteropodidaes]

tim's fall from the skyscraper in red robin #12 is so interesting to me. so after tim tells ra's it doesn't matter whether or not ra's overtakes WE because it's tim's legacy now, not bruce's, ra's pushed him out the window where tim has an interesting inner monologue before blacking out. in the next panel we see dick catch him and take him back to the cave, where he fills tim in on what happened and asks him how he knew he would catch him. tim replies in a way that heavily implies that he knew dick would catch him at the time, but there's a lot of contradicting evidence.

first of all, tim was not even sure ra's would attempt to kill him.

he says " if you kill me now," not "when." he is gambling on a hunch that ra's won't waste his time trying to kill him because it's no use anymore, but he's also fully ready to die, because he doesn't plead for his life. all he does is present the facts.

let's also take a look at this monologue here.

this is the monologue of somone who thinks they are about to die, there is a tone of finality here. his expression on the bottom left panel looks bittersweet, like he knows he's about to face his end but he's happy that he will have died protecting bruce. plus the panel next to it shows tears coming from his eyes. why would he cry if he knows he is going to be saved?

finally, the conversation with dick.

again, the phrasing is key here. he doesn't say "i knew you would be there for me," just "you'll always be there for me." he doesn't quite answer the question here. rather than simply a reassurance to dick that tim wasn't going in thinking he would die, i think it's also deeper than that. tim is telling dick that there aren't any hard feelings between them, that they're still brothers and tim still trusts him.

in my opinion, everything was a huge gamble and tim was willing to die, but it's kind of up to interpretation since the comic doesn't outright state anything other than that one panel with dick, which in of itself can be interpreted in different ways. what i do know is that tim still remains the only member of the batfam that was a robin to have not died so he still remains on top RAHHHHHHHH

[voltfruits]

hmm. thinking about how when the party goes into Aubrey's bedroom on One Day Left and she finally apologizes, Kel's immediate reaction is to apologize to her in return. and also thinking about how Aubrey always targets Kel in physical combat but also in her verbal accusations (Aubrey's dialogue upon winning in the church fight is "serves you right, Kel" and she doesn't seem nearly as mad at Sunny despite him actually slashing her with a knife). i know the common fandom perception is that Kel and Aubrey simply drifted apart after Mari died, but... i think it's very likely that something actively bad happened between them, but neither one of them wants to bring it up again. and i definitely feel like Kel secretly blamed himself for Aubrey's downward spiral.