#Intelligence For Your Life

[grimalkinmessor]

Just to put a lot of my posts and beliefs about Light Yagami's character in one post (headcanons not included):

• He does not do anything for purely moral reasons. The reason he started killing criminals was because he was curious, and then afterward his "crusade" was built from panic and spite. He thought using the Death Note was going to kill him, so he decided to take everyone he considered a threat to society down with him—that way he would still be good. He would still be remembered. If he can't live, then criminals don't deserve to either. The weight loss and the insomnia shown in the manga, were more likely results of a fear of dying than moral stress.

• Then Light discovers he won't die. This negates part of the spite, but not the need for a moral justification to keep himself "good". He no longer needs to be a martyr, so instead he's chosen to become a God.

• During this week and half of time, Light goes from being a bored, lonely, listless teenager disgusted with the world because it's not how his father taught him it should be, disgusted because if he can manage perfection why can't the rest of the world—to a boy with a new friend and a new mission that gives him purpose. Something interesting. If the world can't be perfect on its own, he'll have to help it. The world needs his help, making him its "savior".

• In comes L. It is no longer about Kira, no longer about saving the world from itself, even if he might tell himself it is—it's about the game. Kira was a fun pastime, yes, but L has made things so much more interesting. (Light and Ryuk are actually wildly similar in several ways it's just not immediately obvious). This game is more fun, too, because this time he has an opponent—one not so nebulous as "the criminals of the world", who offered no challenge. Light is still justifying his actions through a lens of morality, because he has to, but they're beginning to run rather thin.

• Both the broadcast and the obvious taunts to L through changing Kira's killing methods supports the above. "You're too stupid, L. If you were just a little smarter, we could've had some fun." Drawing L in was to progress their game, not Kira's goals. If Light truly only cared about Kira's vision, Kira's new world, Kira's righteous justice; then he wouldn't have continued to play the game after the broadcast. There was no way for L to find him without Light drawing him in—the Death Note is literally the perfect murder weapon. Light knew this, he just ignored it because he wanted to play.

• In the same vein: Yotsuba Light doesn't know he's playing the game. He's forgotten that there even is a game, and so he sees L as someone who's been duped, who either isn't as intelligent as he's been made out to seem, or someone who's being purposefully cruel just because he can. Either way, to Yotsuba Light, L's threat level has only increased, because Light no longer has any sort of weapon to go against him with. He can't even wield his own innocence against him, because his innocence is not certain. Even to himself. Yotsuba Light knows that he has to play along with L's plays of friendship and morality in order to secure his freedom, but he does not respect L or like him. At least, not until near the end, where they're closing in on Higuchi. Where his freedom seems closer....and yet he sees his own, true innocence as more tenuous than ever. Notably, even when Light feels positively towards L there, he still does not share his suspicions about himself with him. His own life still takes precedence over any sort of justice or morality he might have, because Yotsuba Light is still Light. And Light will always put his own self-interests first.

• After killing L, something interesting happens. Because the game ends, but Kira is still left. And Light was willing to take risks and make wild plans in his game with L, but Kira's goals always, always came after his own life. And when only Kira's goals are left, Light stops taking those big, potentially lethal risks. (i.e. bomb desk trap, killing Raye Penber in person by handing him pages of the Death Note, killing Naomi Misora in person right in front of the police station, writing Higuchi's name while sitting right beside L with the murder weapon literally in his hand, etc. etc.). Winning the game was worth dying for—Kira's ideals are not. Or, to put it even more simply: His pride is worth dying for, but his morals are not. Five years after his victory against L, he's presented with another game, but instead of feeling fearful and excited as he did with L, Light is angry. Arrogant and angry. Because this isn't a game to these opponents, as it was to L—they're playing against each other, and Light is merely a piece in it. This game is not like his game with L; it's more like his "game" with the criminals of the world. One with no true challenge, just another defense of Kira's world—worth winning, but not worth dying for.

• Light's pride is more important to him than anything. He needs to be able to take pride in himself and his actions. Pride comes before everything else, before Kira, before family, before L, even before his own desires and physical health. He does not enjoy killing—he just turned it into something he could be proud of. Into another mastering of craft. Light is not particularly sadistic, he's just spiteful. He'll only take pleasure in someone's suffering if they make someone else suffer first, especially if that someone is him. Attacking his pride would count as making him suffer, because that's the most important thing in the world to him. Even though Light also values his life incredibly highly, attempting to kill him wouldn't invoke as much hell-hot wrath as attempting to humiliate him would. And Light will always get even. Always. He does not forgive and forget.

• He believes every lie he tells himself. Every. Lie. He is a Good Man. He is Good Son. He is a Savior. He is Better. He is NOT Evil, he is Good. He's incredibly adept at not only fooling other people, but fooling himself. Even if he's vaguely aware of the truth, he'll take great pains to make sure that truth never comes to light—because it would crush him.

• Light does not take his own desires into account. If he likes or wants something that contradicts with the perfect image he's crafted, he purges it from his mind. Makes excuses for why he doesn't need it, or even convinces himself very thoroughly that he didn't even want it in the first place. If it's not something he can be proud of (or convince himself to be proud of), he doesn't allow himself to desire it.

• Light sees everyone as beneath him (family notwithstanding, Light loves his family deeply), and while it's a pyramid scale of how far beneath him they are, it's not actually ranked by things like gender, sexuality, race—it's ranked by morality and intelligence. The more intelligent and moral you are, the higher up you are on the scale. Light feeling hostile towards someone does not always mean he sees them as further down beneath him; with L and Misa specifically, it means that they're a threat. Light tends to only see people near the top of the intelligence pyramid as threats; evidenced by him dismissing Matsuda completely even with the knowledge that Matsuda was a marksmen, and yet him immediately setting out to kill Naomi when he found out she figured out one of Kira's secrets. With Takada and Mikami, he treats them exactly the same as each other because they're both on the same level of the scale—and he didn't hesitate to get rid of either of them. (Or try to get rid of, in Mikami's case). Everyone is either a tool, a threat, a criminal, a citizen, or family to him. People to use (tool, criminal), people to serve and/or placate (citizen, family), and people to eliminate (threat, criminal). Everyone falls into at least one of these categories for him.

• Light Yagami is a tragic character. And he's a tragic character because he refuses to believe he's part of a tragedy. He would rather swallow broken glass than be considered a victim of anything.

#death note #yagami light #light yagami #character analysis? #character analysis #the stapels of his character ✨ #i see so many character profiles for him that i thought id make one of my own :D #these are the points of contention for me—ESPECIALLY on the pride bit #if his pride isnt the most important thing to him beyond his life (and sometimes his family) then i consider it an ooc interpretation #but he's also not just. blatantly evil. he doesnt revel in the gore of his victims killing just for kicks #again its not about his own desires so much as its about his need to be seen as perfect and honorable #his intelligence bites him in the ass on that front. bc he can convince himself that his killing is righteous with very little struggle #anyway ✨ i love him #he's so interesting #this is how i see him WITHOUT all my headcanons in the way lmao #bigender light my beloved im sorry this is not your time to shine 😔

[zzzzzestforlife]

"Stop Romanticizing Tech" 👩‍💻 Software Engineer's Realistic Day

i've heard a lot of peers in tech say they wish people would "stop romanticizing tech" because of their personal experience with burnout and stress and more recently, AI and layoffs. all their complaints resonated with me and for a time, i also saw each day as a painful slog.

but i think just a pinch of romanticism and optimism can go a long way towards seeing possibilities and opportunities where others may not. we're already here, after all, at this point of uncertainty and chaos. if we tell ourselves that we can't see it any other way, we only suffer twice.

so regardless of your circumstances, i hope that as you acknowledge the reality, you also see everything that could be 💛

morning!! 🌇

woke up 30 minutes before my alarm!! ⏰ been trying to fix my sleep schedule / body clock, so this is a major win!

leisurely morning routine and breakfast before work is sooooo important!! 🥞

peer-review code (~13x!!)🏃‍♀️

fixed a major bug!! 🐛 and two other bugs i found because i'm an overachiever like that 💁‍♀️

went to an interesting lunch and learn!! 😋

afternoon... 🏙️

hot-fix!! 🔥🚒 (for a component that somehow got left out of a recent migration...)

meeting with some beta testers that went really well ☺️ i'm so proud since i led the project and endured a lot... like, A LOT for it 🥲

another meeting, this time to finalize documentation across teams in preparation for release... kinda boring tbh, but necessary 🤝

set up even MORE monitoring in preparation for release + clean up some tech debt while i'm at it 🖥️

evening~ 🌆

meetings with my manager and manager's manager 💼 i can't deal with office politics, tbh, so i just view these as catch ups with older friends who i happen to work with...

internal testing meeting for a colleague's project~ 👏

company-wide meeting~ (basically my time to be nosy about all the other departments) 👀

💌: until next time~! 🧡

#codeblr #progblr #workblr #software engineer #software development #romanticise everything #romanticise your life #coding #programming #day in the life #lifestyle #100 days of positivity #100 days of code #100 days of productivity #100 days of self discipline #daily routine #daily habits #techblr #women in tech #artificial intelligence #comp sci #zesty's life #lifeblr #motivation #inspiration #women in stem #life lessons #light academia #career advice #warm aesthetic

[shuunnico]

A moment of silence for all the potentially real blogs I may have blocked in the crossfire of fighting off the spam bots.

#I beg you #Reblog something to your blog #Just don't leave it empty #SHOW ME A SIGN OF INTELLIGENT LIFE

[bonefall]

where’s that little horror piece about kits never growing up in Starclan? because I remember it so vividly but I can’t find it.

The one about Bright Stream?

Weird that it's so hard to find! It's probably because it's got such heavy tags lmao.

I really mean it though like, canon's permakitten system and the idea that Bright Stream is up there, forever taking care of fetus children who were filled by sudden knowledge and yet never grow past that point absolutely horrifies me. Jesus Christ. I don't know how anyone reads that final scene in Path of Stars and isn't filled with itching, white-hot existential dread, man.

Sometimes you just gotta write horror about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#partner and i were joking the other day about how like #they are the one known as The Horror Blogger and im the funny cat guy #because it's literally the opposite irl. you have NO idea #They are the one who is squeamish and I am the one that is like #only scared if there's 17 different kinds of existential horror #Which tbf is important in my line of work #But let me tell YOU. One thing that gets me every time? Fucked up afterlives #Probably from all the religious trauma but. Still. #''turns out your whole life is actually teetering on the precipice of a steep drop into the jaws of unknowable gods-- #and their concept of omnibenevolent and omnimalevolent are self-defined'' #''in death your life only has meaning to those still living and yet you're conscious to experience it'' #''you will helplessly watch people you thought loved YOU reduce your memory into how you SERVED them'' #''Powerless to stop it you will find that you were only valued as a tool in someone else's life'' #''There is no peace in death just being tired and uncomfortable forever'' #EURGH #It's why my most feared monsters are actually ghosts and vampires and certain zombies #Because it's not really about the monster it's more about what that monster implies for the afterlife #Certain zombies especially. ngl. Night of the livin dead 2 has the scariest ones ever #Intelligent. Violent. Able to FEEL themselves rotting and the only relief is to consume everything you ever loved #BRR #they did eat a bunch of cops tho so... at least they have that going for them #BONES MCRAMBLES IN THE TAGS #bone babble

[stratospheric-bebop]

— The Uses of Intelligence, by Caroline Kizer, 1959.

#I really loved this one... gave me such a more fond and expanding perspective of intelligence. #One of my favorite things I've read this month. #So many intellects exists; and yet their attitude towards it can entirely rearrange what intelligence even means- #-and how it takes form. Either in their life or to them or their work and arts. Etcetera... #I've never really thought about intelligence within the context of your attitude towards it and how you specifically equip it; we're sort- #-of taught that intelligence is amalgamated all into this one thing but it's often much broader than that in practice. #And that's just so fascinating... WHATTT! #poetry #the uses of intelligence #caroline kizer #the poetry foundation #quotes #excerpts #words #philosophy #writing #intelligence #poetry on tumblr #poetry on intelligence

[survivalove]

I could never forget someone criticizing that wretched live action because aang’s actor is gonna obviously get older and that the original show only takes place in under a year. and the root of their criticism was that “kataang is gonna look less weird” 😭

when aang very obviously matures faster (both physically and emotionally) than the average 12 year old boy between seasons 1 and 3. (like you’re gonna tell me season 1 aang on kyoshi island and finale aang look the same to you??)

because, newsflash, aang is NOT a real human boy.

he exists in a fantasy world where people bend the elements.

and expecting a live action to realistically portray a fantasy cartoon child god correctly was your first and biggest mistake.

#atla #aang #avatar the last airbender netflix #only using this cursed tag to get my point across #but if you really think aang matures like a regular twelve year old #or that a live action reboot was gonna check every box of a fantasy cartoon #i have to question your intelligence #just a tad #anti anti kataang #i suppose #for a cartoon fandom so many of y’all takes are so tied with realism #like no one cares who you would date in real life #or what your twelve year old brother looks like #but let someone talk about the cultures and real events this show deliberately takes from #suddenly you remember it’s ‘just a cartoon’ #LOL

[soliloquent-stark]

y'all it's my sweetheart's birthday today 🥹💗

#and she's currently sleeping next to me in my childhood bed in my childhood home in my country that i haven't been in three years #for... reasons #conveniently the same room i was in when we first texted each other a decade ago and #same room we slept in after she spent the money she earned working two jobs as a teenager and travelling for over 24h to come meet me #the same room i came out to my mum in #the same room we fell in love many lifetimes ago #the same room i studied in and cried in and fought with my mum in and hid from my parents in and now it's #sweet memories rewriting all the ugly #trying to make sense of my childhood again and fix the broken cracks and she's here for me though it all #and she's the best person in the whole world and it's a privilege for anyone to be her friend but to feel the depths of her love like i do? #it's like being under the warm sun every single day #except the sun is an insanely gorgeous hilarious selfless and intelligent woman #and she chose me 🥹 #whinysteve the resilient woman you are. tumblr would not handle your life story #but they're extremely lucky to have you on here ❤️

[novelconcepts]

God I hate AI. I hate AI so much. This thing was supposed to be cool and futurey and renovate society in positive ways, and instead it’s just a giant plagarism machine. Art and creativity and actually cool shit getting all the humanity ripped out in favor of quick and easy. I fucking hate it with my whole soul. I hate the idea of AI replacing actors. I hate AI writing fiction. I hate AI trawling artists’ actual blood, sweat, and tears and bundling their hard work into a facsimile. This thing could have been so cool, and instead it’s just “how do we shut out artists of all kinds and make a quicker bigger buck in the process.” Get. So. Fucked.

#sometimes you just wake up and Rage #it’s not intelligence. it’s just theft. like. this isn’t cool robot shit it’s just boring #and sucks the heart out of all the stuff that makes humanity so awesome #we are art. good art. bad art. who cares dude! if it’s made by a person it’s neat as hell #but stealing art is stupid enough when it’s trying to pass someone else’s work off as your own #stealing art on a corporate level? fuck off dude #I’m so goddamn grouchy about this #push button: get art is not art. it’s just a button. #draw it bad! write it bad! act like you’ve never inhabited a human form in your life! at least there’s a person behind all of that

[maxsix]

The High Table: A John Wick Verse. Introducing Choi Seungcheol.

#choi seungcheol #seungcheol #scoups #seventeen #svt scoups #maxsixgif #john wick au #svt x john wick #his weapon is intelligence and wit and money #if you betray him he will burn your life #The High Table: A John Wick Verse

[couldtheycatchkillerqueen]

Regarding the recent post:

Killer Queen is too short ranged of a stand to affect most sleuths and it's not in Kira's character to drop Sheer Heart Attack at the police departament and hope.

Kira generally doesn't have many ways to deal with characters that: Work in teams. Work from far away. Have any sort of records showing that they're invastigating him.

The man had to be bailed out by Bites the Dust and still lost Most sleuths wouldn't even let Kira get away for long enough for him to aquire Bites the Dust so that's not even something to consider in most of these cases.

{But you're really ignoring one thing: It can't be detected by anyone but Stand Users. Why would they think they needed to investigate Yoshikage Kira specifically? There's no evidence of the killings, since in canon, even the police didn't try to investigate the mysterious disappearances. The sleuths would mostly not be able to understand that Killer Queen exists, and even if they assumed it was something supernatural, there's still no evidence. And the man managed to impersonate another man in front of his family, landlord, coworkers, and everyone who may have talked to Kosaku on the street, with only the man's child catching on. Had Hayato never thought to set up a camera in his parents' room, Kira would have never been caught at all. And Kira doing poorly against teams of people investigating him doesn't line up when he's gotten away from them twice (he would have escaped Jotaro and Koichi were it not for Act III, and he did escape the entire Duwang Gang when they were chasing him by severing his own hand), plus managing to keep his identity secret from EVERYONE except Hayato until the kid figured out how to use the time-loop to his advantage. You're right that most of the time Killer Queen wouldn't get to Bites the Dust, but it would be because Kira wouldn't need to. He has eliminated people in broad daylight before, and he could do so again when against someone who can't see Stands.}

#ooc response #not a poll #I'm genuinely a little pissed at the idea that Kira isn't terrifying in his own right #He was an uncaught serial killer even before he got his Stand #He was undetected until Rohan met Reimi #and would have continued being undetected if a literal ghost of his first victim hadn't been there #The man can blow you up #he can turn your watch into a bomb #he can turn your clothes into a bomb #He can create a bomb that will track you as long as you're the warmest thing in the room #And will likely do so if given the opportunity #There are multiple scenarios outside of BtD where if the heroes hadn't been as quick-thibking they would've died #Josuke and the dead man-guided air bubbles #Koichi and his distraction against Sheer Heart Attack #Josuke if Okuyasu hadn't come back to life #Okuyasu if Hayato hadn't sacrificed himself #Hayato if Josuke hadn't used Crazy Diamond at the perfect time #THE ENTIRE DIU CAST IF HAYATO HADN'T THOUGHT TO CALL JOSUKE #Kira is intelligent #Kira is subtle #And Kira could have won #Thank you for coming to my ted talk #And please stop suggesting that Kira would lose against Ordinary Goddamn People #rant post #ranting in the tags #killer queen #yoshikage kira #sorry for using you as an example anon but this has been annoying me and I needed to go for the throat

[tobiasdrake]

Listening to Yuki explain the plot and just. @.@

Mmhmm... mmhmm... I'm listening....

So. Basically. What you're saying is that, from a cosmic, universal perspective pertaining to the very fabric of time and space....

#the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya #haruhi suzumiya #yuki nagato #drake watches haruhi suzumiya #haruhi is life goals #try to live your life in a way that makes the greatest intelligence in the universe go #“Yo WTF how are you even a thing”

[neuvifuri]

still obsessed with how alhaitham went to half a day of school as a child before begging his grandmother to homeschool him.

#this is my favorite alhaitham fact #his grandmother also wanted to start him in school early so he was probably only like five or six if we assume sumeru has kindergarten #the breaked for lunch and he just left school and went to his grandmother and was like #''you can’t make me go back there'' #and she was like ?? ok #and so she homeschooled him #and he didn’t go back to proper school until she died #alhaitham #lore #mine💫 #this is especially funny that one of his idle lines is ''book learning alone is not enough to constitute intelligence'' #my man you literally only read books for the first half of your life #genshin impact

[password-door-lock]

(Unknown’s route would never even get off the ground)

#I love him with all my heart but you can't get a good end with 0 participation and 0 emails sent #There is no way that he would let you keep your phone if you started trying to initiate a redemption arc while he was busy with his revenge #The game is not designed to accommodate life in the intelligence room with Unknown in this essay I will #mystic messenger #mystic messenger fake chat #mystic messenger incorrect quote #unknown

[skitskatdacat63]

Screaming at the fact that some tiktok history meme artist I follow put out a psa that they *don't* in fact like Napoleon(despite drawing him a bunch) It's okay to appreciate a flawed figure 😭 please I swear

#napoleon fandom is truly like fernando fandom #like people who cant admit they like smth bcs it comes off as problematic #not that fernando's problematicness comes anywhere close to napoleon JSKFKGKLV #i just mean i think its funny to have to preface that you dont like a figure #despite your whole acct being of that figure. 'yeah yeah hes intelligent but he WAS A TERRIBLE PERSON' #i swear to you its okay to like someone who has flaws 😭😭 #liek yeah idk. ik its a real life historical figure in this situation #but yknow liking him is not like you're instantly condoning anything #its okay to appreciate a historical figure but still take issue w the terrible things they did yknow #idk jist find it very funny to constantly draw a person but be like IM JUST MAKING FUN OF HIM OKAY #clearly you have some level of fondness lmao #but yeah idk reminds me of the people who will be like 'i love fernando' but need to bring up crashgate in the same breath #tho i realize how insane it is to anyone outside of me that im comparing yknow. napoleon and nando sjfkkglg #its true okay believe me i said so #catie.rambling.txt

[ihavetoomuchhomeworkforthis]

Crazy humans are weird idea I just had while I was brushing my teeth. Okay, so what if our world is the only one where people and animals are designed to be able to create and communicate with sound? Not that the other alien species can't hear or make sound at all, if they step on a twig it still snaps, if they clap their hands it still makes a sound, their breathing can still be audible, and a stampede of elephant-equivalents will still make a thunderous stampede noise you'd need to be able to feel and hear, but what if none of them have vocal cords? What if the closest they can get is a sort of hoarse screech of unconventionally forceful breathing? What if we're the only ones with speech and birdsong?

Alien species communicate through tap-stomp dancing and facial expressions and sign/body language and rhythmic drumbeat patterns and little handpats on whatever surface is available (including themselves).

Nothing could have prepared them for our thousands of languages, the sheer volume we're just effortlessly capable of, the precision and variety and eloquence in the sounds we can produce. The apparent cacophony of birdsong and crickets chirping and cats meowing and lions roaring and dogs barking and whalesong, and just all the vastly different sounds everything on our planet can make. The musical instruments which aren't just percussion and string, but also wind instruments.

Just- what if we were the only ones with speech?

If I were more creative and less tired right now I'd write a mini-fic thing, if anyone sees this and somehow gains that kind of inspiration, PLEASE do, I'd be honored, thank you.

#humans are weird #what if we're the only ones with speech #that would be so cool #like they send their ambassador to make first contact and our human ambassador sticks out a hand to shake #and that's all well and good- they aren't sure what the right response to that is but it seems like a friendly gesture #but then the human says something normal like “hi welcome to Earth we're so excited to finally meet another intelligent life form” #and the alien just freaks out and screeches awkwardly and takes a huge step back staring in disbelief #and starts doing some sort of sign language or tapdance or both at once that roughly translates to “wtf was that” #“what do you mean you can make sounds that specific and meaningful out of your eating hole” #the linguists we brought along and the hopeful attempts at universal translators we made based on Star Trek are both having a hard time #all the other humans are weird things that I've seen never seem to have mentioned language barriers #our sound is both beautiful and horrifying #humans are space orcs #aliens

[nicollekidman]

people unironically making lists of authors that are misogynists / write about hard subjects etc etc etc (shakespeare????) and telling people not to read them…. bro your desire to engage only with Good People and Good Topics are literally feeding into the right’s moral authority to pull whatever the fuck they want off the shelves like come ON why do we keep DOING THIS!!!!! you’re gonna sit there and spend your time “annotating” YA but warning people away from literature…… this moral panic in particular is so depressing

#people only wanting to interact and engage with people they have decided are Good is part of what is killing anyone's ability to engage with #and to point out how these things function in our lives like #sure put sylvia plath on a block list but can you have an intelligent conversation about antimsemitism and the way it still proliferates #in your daily life? #you gonna put a murder next to like. c*lleen.... #i make 10 posts a week like this but its SO depressing the entire conversation around publishing/popularity/problematic writing is so depres