#anyway. thanks for indulging me

[katsdynam1ght]

pov you just pissed off the most dangerous husbands in japan

[remcadll]

Gen obsessed with how.. *dead* your Jason's color pallete is. Like, that's corpse pale right there. Not a spec of blood left flowing in there (also father Todd's skin being full of color in comparison is a nice touch)

THANK YOU I love making him look a bit ghoulish. Guy who's not supposed to be alive but yes he is. no he isn't <3

[lucabyte]

my favourite big-hatted not-men with giant holes in their brains where their memories should be (and their kinda-dead doubles called loop/lup)

+bonus doodles because thinking about the taz balance cast for 0.2 seconds reminded me how much i like themmmm

[i-think-2-loud]

i’ve said jeremy with a praise kink before but hear me out on jean making jeremy praise HIMSELF. making jeremy translate whatever french compliments jean is whispering to him while he fucks him. making jeremy compliment himself while he rides jean’s cock. pavloving jeremy to the point he naturally knows to start babbling praise about himself while jean eats him out.

[docdufresne]

Flirting 🙄

[xxplastic-cubexx]

I hope you draw Erik and Charles with fangs at some point. Love me some pointy teef. Love the AU too

ok just one doodle set... for the road...

[miraculous-lesbians]

This new ML black girl might be my Roman Empire

[qiornono]

could we get fugio angst? just for sillyness :3

an excerpt from “the war of vaslav nijinsky,” by frank bidart. featuring phf fugio. just for sillys :)

[artilite]

have a lion dance for these trying times ♥♥

[daeyumi]

selfshipping cringe af. Get a real bf

anyways here’s me & my longtime partner Link kissing 🩵

[averlym]

"We are pleased to inform you that you have been awarded the Phaethon Prize...."

[lucabyte]

leering

[corviiids]

ooh idk if you've talked about this one before, but what about goro akechi for the kira game?

HI RAPS

verdict: im prepared for this to be controversial, but consider this: ive never been wrong in my whole life. i think goro akechi could beat kira, but i don't know if he'd be happy with the outcome.

could goro akechi identify light yagami

im answering this one first because i want to make a point about this. listen. i feel like due to akechi's whole Plot where he Fakes Solving Cases For Clout, people forget that he actually is a really smart person and a good detective. like, he's not the super prodigy genius he pretends to be, but he's not a fake detective. he faked solving those shutdown cases for extremely specific reasons:

he was the fucking perpetrator so it served him to take control of the public understanding of the investigation into them and control the narrative; and

those cases were particularly high profile and would have been impossible to solve by anyone else, so 'solving' them would catapult him into notoriety faster than anything else - it was a clout speedrun, which is what he and shido needed.

but there are numerous other cases and puzzles in various bits of p5 media that he solves without faking them, plus we see plenty of occasions where he demonstrates his high intellect. the casino is a great example because i feel like the game takes that palace as an opportunity and relishes in letting you know what akechi can really do. the anime and the mementos mission manga both have subplots where akechi solves / helps to solve legitimate mysteries. and of course the famed unused mementos request in p5r which i think about all the time. it's kind of a shame that akechi's fake cases end up overshadowing all his real ones when he's a legitimately competent detective, even if he's not the impossible prodigy he projects as and even if he's nowhere near the level L is.

of course there's also the obvious one! while we are all aware that the phantom thieves are the least subtle people on the planet, and all ren's confidants eventually work it out just because he's so deeply unsubtle about it, it is still the case akechi identified them as persons of interest very early on, before pretty much anyone else (partly by intellect, partly by his metaverse advantage, i'll get to that). that's relevant because i think the phantom thieves are reasonably analogous to kira in the sense that they're utilising supernatural methods to target individuals which are untraceable via ordinary means.

now i dont think akechi could identify kira nearly as quickly or cleanly as L could, but i do think that if you placed him in charge of the investigation with all the investigative resources of the prosecutor's office / police department, he would be able to identify light as at least a person of interest in a reasonable amount of time, for two main reasons

light is more sneaky than the phantom thieves, but also makes the same kinds of identifiable mistakes that the PT do (eg targeting people in a set area, operating in such a way that it's possible to identify him as a student, being easily provoked, etc); and

unlike L, akechi has supernatural powers.

which brings me to:

could goro akechi intuit the mechanics of the death note

no, i don't think so, not on his own. but he wouldn't need to, because he has access to the metaverse.

we're back at the universe question. i think to fairly answer 'could they beat kira' questions we have to give our detective character all the advantages they have access to in their home universe, which means that akechi not only has his intellect but also has the metaverse, his persona, and his experience traversing the collective unconscious. (by the way, here's my post about what if light yagami had a palace.)

which means that once goro akechi has identified light as a person of interest, not even needing to ID him as a particular suspect, he can check whether the metanav gives him a hit. then he could infiltrate light's palace / find him in mementos (let's be real it's gonna be a palace) and find out the rest of what he needs to know from there. the metaverse isn't only useful for changing hearts and causing shutdowns. shadows are very forthcoming about their evil plans. all akechi would need to do is find light's shadow, and he'd find out everything he needs to know about the death note and kira's new world.

(follow-up question for fun: if akechi didn't have the metaverse, would he be able to intuit the mechanics of the death note? i think that akechi would ultimately get to the same point as L, namely, that kira needs a name and a face, but the specifics of 'magic murder notebook' would escape him. so no.)

could goro akechi survive

i think this would really depend on the context in which this investigation is taking place, but broadly i think it's likely? not certain, but it's likely. it depends on how reactive light is and depends on how well akechi reads the kira situation early on.

akechi is pretty shrewd, with the exception of major blindspots where someone he has a grudge against is concerned (hence why he's vulnerable to shido and to ren's plots). but i think kira is dangerous enough that akechi would be on pretty high alert from the start. in canon he's cunning enough to make false statements to the media to trick the thieves into thinking he's at least partially on their side / not an unambiguous enemy (that's the same strategy used in romance ha ha ha) so i think once akechi identified a person of interest he wouldn't be stupid enough to publicise that he's closing in on them and would probably start leaking false theories to make light think he's completely off the trail - after all, unlike L, akechi's name and face are completely public, so it would be way too risky to make light feel cornered. it would be smartest to play up the shallow celebrity angle to make think light he's just a dumbass idiot talking a big game.

i think akechi would bank on kira's MO of only killing criminals. after all, light didn't try to kill L until L deliberately goaded him into it - it's unlikely that akechi would have a reason to think that light would try to kill him just for investigating. up until that point kira has been masquerading as an icon of justice, so it would (and canonically did) take a lot to make kira veer from that ideology into killing investigators just because they threatened him. however, it's not impossible given nobody really knows anything about kira at that stage, so while akechi might make it public information that he's investigating kira, he wouldn't let on that he thought light was a threat.

then he could either:

initiate a surprise raid on light to get the death note based on information gained from light's shadow - risky because if it goes wrong light will kill him, but this will net him the most glory

(pre-phantom thieves) kill light - stops the murders but means akechi doesn't get clout for solving the kira murders single-handedly, not preferable

(post-phantom thieves) change light's heart - akechi also doesn't get credit and would be reluctant besides

so it depends how we're defining success i guess. could akechi beat light by killing light? likely yes, by simply causing a shutdown before putting light on notice that akechi was on his trail at all. could akechi beat light by apprehending light? maybe, it depends, it's risky. could akechi beat light by changing his heart? only if the thieves are involved.

so i guess the answer is yes i think akechi has the capacity to beat kira but probably not in a way that akechi himself is satisfied with and it wouldn't be a sure thing. it could go either way.

[sforzesco]

HAPUNAN MO ANG AKING KATAWAN

I can't...stop thinking about Sulla dedicating his memoirs to Lucullus.......what the fuck.....

Plutarch, Lucullus (trans. Scott-Kilvert)

Lucullus: A Life, Arthur Keaveney

I will probably redesign Lucullus the next time I draw him, but we are. getting somewhere. I want to give him darker hair, I think. but mostly this comic is because I've been playing U-Know's Reality Show album pretty regularly since it was released and Vuja De is one of those songs that really hits when I think about relationships people had with Sulla (either in the positive, negative, or generally kind of messy). it Inspires, it Compels, and I also just wanted to do a 9-panel grid layout because it's been awhile since I've done one. they're Satisfying

[glamfellens]

~~~ oooo you should write the 5 page benny essay ooooo u wanna write the 5 page benny essay so bad ooooo ~~~

well!!!!!!!!!!!!! if u insist

so benny is not a nice guy. from what we see of him anyway. to be fair in most of the courier's encounters with him we are either being 1) shot, 2) confronting him after being shot, 3) reuniting with him in pursuit of the platinum chip surrounded by roman cosplaying fascists who are actively thinking about murdering them both. so its safe to say that the ben man isnt at his best or most charitable. maybe if we met benny in a different context he would be nicer. he's kind of nice to you if you fuck him (i'll get to that later). but at the same time i truly do not believe benny is an evil guy. its up to the player if their courier takes being shot in the head personally but i dont think it was personal for him. getting the chip was what he cared about, and to him, you were just a loose end that needed cleaning up. and i dont think being part of the rat pack bugsy siegel dress up post apocalypse mob really inclines you towards explaining your entire plan of ejecting the current autocrat so you can replace him and put a better system in place. shooting the courier is just much more convenient. (or it would have been if they stayed dead lol)

we never really find out exactly what benny's plans for new vegas were. we just know that he thought that it deserved more than being controlled by mr house. we don't know if benny would have done a better job himself, but since passing on his scheme to the courier in order to make sure vegas gets its freedom is what is important to benny during that final conversation at fortification hill, we could assume that he isn't doing it for personal gain or power. would he personally have benefited from deposing house? yes. but i dont think it was his sole or major motivation as for the black widow route. i know i've talked about this before but honestly one of the most fascinating things about the black widow encounter with benny is that if he survives the night, he wakes up first. he could have killed the courier while they slept, like they have the option to kill him in the middle of the night! but he doesnt! he sticks around long enough to write a note about going on a date and leaves them be. benny new vegas is definitely an antagonist. but is he evil? i dont think so. he is ruthless and manipulative and self-absorbed and a fucking liar. is he niceys? i think when it suits him he can be niceys but he is not a nice guy

[ilsabet]

Today on "Reliving Summerset feels because seven years is definitely enough time to process all of that angst no really I'm fine everything's fine haha hahaha..."

When your friend makes a Darien clone and you still have your old Summerset-era outfit saved, clearly it's time to recreate some iconic moments from your self-indulgent headcanon.

No matter the dangers we might face, the man I loved would be with me. The hero and her Knight in shining armor. And nothing was going to stop us.

And then... I saw my name. He wrote that he didn't know if I would ever understand how much I truly meant to him. And... that's the moment when I finally gave in to the tears.

No really I'm fine, everything's fine... 😭