#but they can be applied RETROACTIVELY?

[corviiids]

genuinely so sorry to slide into your dm's like this, not sure that this is proper tumblr etiquette, etc., but i just got so excited when i read in your sayu-gets-the-death-note ask that you've been trying to talk yourself out of doing an entire statutory interpretation of the manga death note rules because i've been trying to talk myself out doing an entire metaphysical interpretation of the manga death note rules, so... if you, like me, simply cannot talk yourself out of a stupid idea once it sinks its claws in your brain and would at some point like to share notes about I THINK one of the sexiest and most broken parts of this series, i'd be delighted.

oh my god dont apologise im just excited a single person on earth besides me is interested in a pseudo-legal (very pseudo) perspective on the death note rules. high fives you. for the most part im just incredibly impressed that they manage to retain so much internal consistency especially since so many of them have the vibe of, like, random amendments which were included just for funsies. it's incredible they don't overtly contradict each other. ive been obsessed with them since i first saw them and have already spent way too much time reading over them but yeah i'd honestly love to dig into them more. HTR13 does organise them into something closer to Parts or Divisions which makes the structure a little more coherent. it drives me nuts that sometimes a numbered rule will have sub-provisions that have absolutely nothing to do with each other. drafting that gives me a stress migraine

[schneiderenjoyer]

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[sprout-senior]

demon old man and his forever 12 years old ghost adoptive son he hates and is stuck with.

terror speaks all prim and proper while dressing like shit, while moon dresses all prim and proper while talking like every 12 year old boy ever. does he know the meaning of the swear words he’s using? no but that’s not gonna stop him

image descriptions under the cut

[image one: a drawing of corrupted nightmare sans, done with black ball point pen and colored with a light blue marker. he is wearing a baggy unzipped sweatshirt and sweatpants with slippers. he has one hand in his pocket, and his stance is wide. his shoulders are a little hunched. his singular eye has a heavy eyebag, and his expression is neutral, but could be seen as annoyed. he has no mouth. beside him, written in purple ballpoint pen, is the word Terror, with a capital T. this is implied to be his name. end image one]

[image two: a drawing of passive nightmare sans, done with purple ball point pen and colored with a light purple marker. he is wearing a long sleeved collared shirt, with a very simplistic belt around his waist. his pants do not have a distinct style, but they are shaded to be darker than the rest of his clothes. he is wearing boots with two rectangular buckles. he has his arms resting at his sides, and his legs are positioned together in a way that implies he is floating. his singular eye socket is empty, completely colored in. half his skull is caved in, with a few cracks spiderwebbing out from various parts of the hole. his expression is neutral, but could be seen as frightened or upset. he is frowning slightly with his mouth open, revealing that he is missing a tooth due to one of the cracks in his skull. the rest of his teeth are not defined. beside him, in black ballpoint pen, is the word Moon, with a capital M. this is implied to be his name. end image two]

please let me know if there’s any way i can improve my image descriptions! accessibility is important to me!

[chicago-geniza]

She gets it, I think in part because she's often typecast in turn-of-the-century settings and does research to build the characters, which gives rise to the same sorts of thought exercises + experiments you engage in as an intellectual historian

[para-psychopathology]

[clonerightsagenda]

It did not take me long after watching/reading FMA to recognize that Greed was a fan favorite, but as with many fan favorites I feel like people apply his character development retroactively. Like yes, he was fonder of his Dublith gang than he verbally acknowledged, but he also ditched them as soon as things broke bad. He's not happy about Wrath killing his people in front of him, but iirc he only ran into them accidentally while fleeing - he didn't set out to protect them. He believes everyone is his, but he doesn't owe them anything - it takes being combined with someone whose worldview is instead 'a specific group of people are mine but I have a duty to those people' to get to the mindset of 'everyone is mine and so I will protect everyone' and fussing over background extras with papercuts. That's growth.

[chemicalarospec]

hold up guys I am being plagued with visions of Magical Girl L

okay so everyone's heard of talking cat Ryuk, but now get ready for: talking cat Watari

he's actually a wizard who's been trapped in this form and there's a whole arc about breaking that spell

but at the end he decides he likes being a cat better (to the great exasperation of L) so he only turns back into an old man when L needs him to

he's got his Wizard Realm Tower (of books and knowledge)

yeah Prince of Darkness Light Yagami is cool and all but personally I feel like high-concept AUs that cast Light as an Open Villain miss the whole point of him being a liar in plain sight

so you know have most Magical Girls have a team of friends? L has NO FRIENDS

also idk what like his powers are. Magical Girl is just a category of its own, right? I'm between a girl outfit and a prince outfit (like one in a fic I read) tho.

well, he has no friends... until he meets Light!

and they start vanquishing The Forces of Evil or whatever it is Magical Girls do together

until Light gains a black Book of Forbidden Knowledge

yes that's right I'm creating a new plot of Magical Girl (I think) and there's gonna be BETRAYAL.

Ryuk is NOT a cat btw. I think it's really funny if the scary shinigami are just there in this magical girl aesthetic. they're probably the Evil being fought

it's not the Death Note btw it like teaches him Black Magic and Ryuk tries to convince him to come over to the Dark Side and stuff

oh maybe Misa and Matsuda can also be Magical Girls. I haven't really thought about the other characters.

anyways from here we have two choices: he's just evil and they fight and stuff or

Light CORRUPTION ARC and we return to a more typical Magical Girl plot by having L save him from the corruption of the Evil Black Magic and stuff.

also I think Light's Magical Girl costume should become increasingly black during this arc and when L asks why he's like. "I spilled a pen on it."

it's important to note that in Show Form we see Light's POV as this happens but if I were to write a fic (which. so sad! I don't think I'll be able to) it would only follow L's POV -- one would only have hints of what was going on with Light up until the Big Reveal

maybe a flashback then? I like a big villain monologue though while L sits there thinking "damn! my one friend!"

but yeah speaking of turning this to prose... still working on my last big fic project, so not gonna happen on my own. It'd be cool to work together with someone on it but if you want to do something with this idea just make sure to send it to/tag me! (& credit, but only as much as I have here that's original -- I'm kinda hoping if I search there's already a fic of Magical Girl L because it seems like an easy idea to have lol)

oh update-edit: had the wild messed-up idea that after Light turns to the Dark Side once, L and the gang pull the most effed up move that would never be in a Magical Girl show, and erase his memory.

[mxjackparker]

no no no don't worry it's not generic bigotry, it's internalized, I can say it

[wrecking]

so it seems tumblr straight up fucking eviscerated the post avery made that i loved so much so like here screenshots.

[widowshill]

you forget, you're already married, etc.

[nostalgia-tblr]

In reply to the Anon who is APPALLED by me and sent a message to insult me: I have elected not to directly reply to and thus publish your Ask because it contained an ableist slur and I don't want to spread that. But otherwise "whatever."

[juror4]

It's ridiculously and infuriatingly difficult to find some casual history material on the Moors because all anyone cares about is classifying whether or not they were Black... Shut up! I want to know about the arts and the science and the clothing and the crafts and the poetry and the battles and the culture! I don't want to do race science!

[mijacoge0]

and if i drop out of university after 1 class?? then what

[hoyoverserpcpositivity]

genpactrpcpositivity ➝ hoyoverserpcpositivity

[auranym]

indie games are safe!!

good news! unity has walked back a lot of the runtime fee!

they made a blog post outlining their new terms, the link is here. but if you want a sparknotes version, here's the highlights:

1. the runtime fee is not retroactive. previously released games are safe.

2. the fee only applies to the next major version of unity. developers can choose not to upgrade if they don't want do deal with it.

3. the fee is opt-in and number of installs is self-reported. if they'd prefer, developers can instead pay a 2.5% revenue share. (for reference, unreal is 4%.)

4. interestingly, the splash screen is being completely removed. this is probably a way to improve their reputation.

overall, this is a HUGE improvement! but, if I remember right, there was not any revenue share before, so, we are not at the same point we started. unity will still be taking a larger cut of developers' revenue if they choose to use newer features. but, it is nowhere near as drastic as we thought it would be.

overall, I think we're in a stable spot now, but I also think unity has lost most if not all of the trust it had. especially with indies. there has already been a mass exodus, and I kinda hope that will keep going.

[shuunnico]

For Americans:

Apparently the “Ban TikTok” bill has loads of stuff crammed into it that, effectively, gives the government free access to everything you do online. They have access to anything you have connected online, your cloud storage, your transactions, social media, your accounts. They’ll even have access to your Steam Marketplace and your Youtube and Twitch accounts.

The bill also gives the US government the ability to say you’re working with a foreign adversary based on transactions, data sharing, etc. This can apply retroactively.

This means that if the US government labels any nation an adversary, any data sharing or transactions into that country, past, present or future, can be under scrutiny and potentially be used as evidence of aiding a foreign power. The punishment for this can be up to 20 years in prison.

They’re using banning TikTok as a trojan horse to push through other legislation that will curb your freedom and privacy on the internet forever. 

It is being called “The Patriot Act” for the internet.

Edit: Source