#this is about L death note. btw

[eyeoftheaxolotl]

"but you call every one of your favs autistic" yeah and i mean it every single time

#this is about L death note. btw #been reading the manga for the first time #everyone ive talked to about it has only seen the anime #but ive been busy and honestly prefer reading anyway so #manga is better for now lol #enjoying it tho #did i mention L is autistic. dude. #dude. he is so......

[corviiids]

death note is an entire series of L and light correctly clocking each other's character intentions trains of thought personality ideals beliefs next moves etc etc etc and then either not identifying or being resistant to taking the most advantageous course of action because they simply cannot resist taking the more interesting path. there are multiple points throughout the series in which either one of them could have ended the game by simply flipping the board but they don't do it because then they don't really win. that's not to say they won't play underhanded or use hidden advantages but if they're going to do that it needs to be something the other could feasibly respond to or else they won't be satisfied. they both need to know, if i continue to play by the rules we've mutually set, could i come out on top? could i outplay him in a legitimate fight? could i beat him if i did it right? and the answer is the reason why they both lose

#death note spoilers #in next tag #this is part of what makes L's death just a little unsatisfying to light btw #he used too many elements L had no idea about and had no chance to discover: #that rem was in love with misa and that shinigami would die if they extended a human's life #it almost feels too easy to win this way and that's why when light first realises that's an option #he doesn't take it #rookposting #death note

[jammyjamster]

IM SO FUCKING TIRED OF PEOPLE CALLING L’S LIPS SUGARY OR SWEET IN FANFICTION. IT FUCKING ISNT.

NEWSFLASH BUDDY, THERE’S AN EMZYME IN YOUR SALIVA THAT IS CALLED AMYLASE (there’s also lipase for proteins but this isnt about that) THAT BREAKS DOWN STARCH AND CARBOHYDRATES INTO SUGARS TO MAKE DIGESTION EASIER!! THERE IS BACTERIA IN YOUR MOUTH THAT FEASTS ON THESE SUGARS, THAT MAKES YOUR MOUTH SOUR!!!!

L wouldnt fucking have a sweet kissable mouth because all of the sugar he eats will feed those bacteria which causes more sourness which makes his mouth very very sour. The only times where your mouth would taste something, would be when you drink coffee or any potent drink/food where the smell lingers on your body which your nose inhales when you’re kissing your partner that makes your brain think that they taste of coffee/any other potent drink. Cake and other sweets arent very potent, so L wouldnt taste of cake either. Also, before anyone says this, sure if your mouth actively contains sugar (like solid sugars) then the kiss would taste sweet just like how when you kiss someone with food in their mouth you’d also taste it. But i dont think that L somehow has sugar in his mouth 24/7. I always see in fanfiction where they describe his kisses as ‘sweet’ or ‘tastes of cake’ when that wouldnt make any fucking sense!!! I learnt this all in year 7, so this should be really really common knowledge but somehow people still write it differently?? Then again its not that big of a deal and that im overreacting but whatever let me be mad for once

#death note #l lawliet #light yagami #talking about lawlight fanfiction btw #lawlight #fanfiction #death note fanfiction #death note fanfic #L isnt kissable #kissability-ness has dropped by 1000% after i make this post #this is just a pet peeve of mine in fanfiction #i see it ALL THE TIME and it always makes me silently fume #i log off for a few moments to rant to myself about how it wouldnt make sense #idk why im so upset about this #im not planning on kissing anyone currently or in the future #txt post #ranting #death note lawliet #death note rant

[13eyond13]

love it when a character that's hard to read intuitively for you has like a dedicated fandom interpreter who can just glance at their blank face in a panel and then give you a 3k word essay on their innermost thoughts & desires & fears and neatly tie it back into the themes & whatnot as if it's the most obvious thing in the world

#im talking about griffith btw #guts i feel i get intuitively - maybe because i have some personality traits in common with him #and we get more about his life concretely told to us in canon. so he is a bit easier to pin down as a character and feel attached to for me #but whenever i was reading the manga i just kept wanting more insight about griffith's actions and feelings #like ok yeah its fun to have mysterious antagonists and suspense /tension etc but its also fun to feel like you deeply understand them too #and i felt like that was a bit missing from him for me in canon #so reading about him in analysis and fics is the most fun for me rn #he always felt kinda half unreal to me- which maybe was the point of him - but i wanted a bit more about his childhood or something? #and wished we had more stuff explicitly from his pov in the story to read or explanation about his transformation or wtv #and now he's so much more closed off to me even than he was in the golden age. i keep waiting for him to explain stuff and he does not #ANYWAYS all this rambling to say some people out there are very good at interpreting him and making his like. insecurities #more obvious to me bc i didnt really get that side of him from canon intuitively well #also im really enjoying reading the first few berserk fics ive read #there may not be a ton of them out there but there is def writing talent in the fandom #i'll share some recs once i'm done sifting through most of what's out there to read #also (not to tie everything back to death note but it IS my home fandom after all) #i feel griffith is obvs the more light-like character here and L maybe a bit guts-like? but unlike berserk in death note #light is the one you get to know best and L is the mysterious / unreal one you don't get a lot of concrete insight into #and in the DN fandom I can read the more mysterious character intuitively but had to warm up to the less mysterious one instead #and the mystery of L makes sense to me and doesnt bug me as much due to like - he HAS to hide a lot about himself or else he will die lol #so some similarities there but also some opposite feels as well #berserk spoilers #p

[atomicengineerdetective]

I've been watching Hazbin Hotel in prime. Just watched episode 5 and I gotta ask

Why, oh, WHY DON'T I SEE MORE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT "MORE THAN ANYTHING" WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE HAZBIN HOTEL MUSIC???

Like I get it, the song before it "Hell's Greatest Dad" Is a bop reminiscent of other music from the era its parodying. I loved it.

BUT why are you only putting clips of that song when this MASTERPIECE comes a few minutes after

I honestly don't even know where to begin with this song. The visuals are beautiful, especially when we get moments like this where you can just see the absolute LOVE this man has for her daughter is so sweet and Heartwarming I just-

The voices are fenomenal but what else can you expect from the broadway talents of Erika Henningsen and Jeremy Jordan.

There is also the whole Symbolism with passing the baton to the next generation and stuff. I- I can't even get into the specifics right now Im too emotional.

But above all else THE LYRICS

ESPECIALLY THAT LAST ONE

"I'M GRATEFUL YOU ARE MY DAUGHTER/FATHER MORE THAN ANYTHING"

DO YOU WANT ME TO CRY?? CAUSE I AM. I AM BAWLING MY EYES OUT RIGHT NOW.

It's just so fucking beautiful man. Probably the best song I will hear all year. Obviously my favorite from Hazbin.

#Call me Sir Pentious cause Im crying like a baby over here. #WHY HAVE YOU BEEN HIDING THIS GEM FROM ME. THIS ABSOLUTE DIAMOND #I didnt even mention lyrics like “I've been dying to find out who you are. looks like the apple doesnt fall far.” #“You are a part of who I am” “you are the only thing worth fighting for” that just BREAK ME #but oh well #BTW of course I was gonna watch and become obsessed with Hazbin Hotel. I am a theater kid that loves animation. It was like meant for me #could do with a little less obsenities but thats alright its a staple of the show #On another note I almost went insane when I found out lucifer was Jeremy Jordan. #Like its insane how that man always ends up in my obsessions. Newsies. Tangled the series. The Death Note Musical #(Im team L btw in death note but GOD Jeremy's singing made me reconsider for a milisecond in Where's the justice he is just THAT GOOD) #Erika I knew from the mean girls musical which I also deeply enjoy #its Insane the Talent this show brought in. my theater kid heart is ELATED #Last thing is I gotta say I LOVED Lucifer #Like I thought I was gonna hate him because everyone was talking about charlie's daddy issues #I thought he was gonna be neglectful and manipulative #BUT NO. He is a silly (little) father who just loves his daughter but doesnt know how to show it #And had DREAMS and AMBITION and fate in humanity. And he is just such a fun character to follow I had such a riot with this episode #Hazbin Hotel #charlie morningstar #lucifer morningstar #charlotte morningstar

[1driedpersimmon]

Oh, I just died in your arms tonight~

Edit: it’s been about 2 days since I posted this and I did not realize I forgot to include the word “died” in the lyric caption I’m actually going to hurl (kidding but I’m screaming my head off rn)

#death note #I’m posting this now so I stop trying to fix it hhrrggggggghhhh #L #Light #yup I’m finally at the point where I’m starting to paint for dn what a time to be alive #Uhhh let’s see #I referenced this pose from a scene in Romeo and Juliet… heheh #l lawilet #light yagami #umm umm it’s supposed to looks like they’re on a stage… #heh #BTW IM TALKING ABOUT THE SONG IVE HAD THAT DANG SONG STUCK IN MY HEAD FOR AGES #By the cutting crew #arghhhh #I hope you guys like this L s pants alone was like 60% of the draw time cuz I just couldn’t get the pose right for the life of me bchfbfhdh #I mean it looks ok now… hell hell hell

[cinnamon-girl-writes]

lost the game of chance, what are the chances?

Song: "How Did It End?" by Taylor Swift

#THIS SOOOONNNGGGG IS SO LAWLIGHT CODED #i can't listen to it without thinking about them #i imagine it in L's pov btw #lawlight #death note #l lawliet #l death note #light yagami #gay note

[nateriverswife]

crying over the realisation that L pushed Aizawa to choose his family over the case because he's also an orphan, that understands what's like not having parents, and didn't want Aizawa's daughter to grow up with a father as he did and because of him.

#Au in which Aizawa dies and L comforts that kid in the same way he wished someone comforted him #Btw the fact that he's an orphan is so overlooked in the grand scheme of things #he is surrounded by two good dads I say that care about their kids #and he's like there 🧍‍♂️ why not me #death note #l lawliet #shuichi aizawa #soichiro yagami #I can't really say if Watari filled that void for him #but he wasn't the stereotypical dad to him #since he also worked for him #dn.l

[balsemicvinegar]

Someone dies and it trends on twitter with Kira fangirls going “Maybe if he stanned Kira....”

#im brainrotting btw #no im not okay #death note by the way #this is about death note #death note #lawlight #light yagami #L lawliet #idk

[darklight-owl]

I'm back on my Death Note shit

#this is how i see them btw it always will be #literally if you ever see me sad show me a picture of the Wammy Boys I'll be better right away #hiiii Death Note hyperfixation it's been like 5 months #(i was watching Death Note with irls and it triggered it again) #(I didn't notice until I realized that I wouldn't stfu about it after we had already stopped) #death note #wammy's house #wammy boys #l lawliet #mello death note #near death note #matt death note #mihael keehl #nate river #mail jeevas #owl's art

[burningarchitecture]

Alright I'll bite, here's my contribution to this meme... (They're supposed to be in the frame if the answer is yes and leave it empty if the answer is no in the middle part of the questions btw)

#I tried to be in character okay #death note #dn #death note fanart #death note meme #death note art #my art #l lawliet #light yagami #sorry for the respect L answer btw but he has significantly different levels of respect for light in different parts of the story okay. #death note fandom #death note analysis #it isn't but I tag things with analysis when the post contains a statement I would argue about with other fans regarding the characters #l death note #yagami light #death note manga #stick figures #idk why they're there but. they are #character analysis

[infizero]

ok after listening to the english version of the death note musical....... unpopular opinion i think but i actually prefer the japanese version? dont get me wrong, with some of the songs i do think i might like the eng version more but..... idk i like the lyrics of the japanese version a lot more? and obviously i only know them via a translation but i know for a fact that the entire focus of certain songs are different between versions.

like in the english version of the game begins, L is talking about his strategy to track down kira. but in the japanese version, he's more so talking TO kira directly and saying that he's going to take him down from his "god" status to hell. or mortals and fools, which had a wholeee different vibe in the japanese version being called like a cruel dream. and uhhhh am i insane or was rem's song before she dies an entirely different song? cause in english it was like a sort of generic love song that was pretty chill considering the context, while in the japanese version it was this superrr melancholic and striking ballad she sang while floating around misa.

idk but i really do think i prefer the japanese version. but the og english version is good too!!! i really liked hurricane and the way it ends in particular

#in ''the way it ends'' btw light saying to L ''i've always stayed a step ahead; but you were with me all the way'' almost made me cry WHATTT #WHO MADE HIM FUCKING SAY THATTTTT THATS SUCH AN INSANE LYRIC #but anyway yeah i think i prefer the jp version a good amount #another thing was um. and this might be a stupid thing to be weird about but. L's actor was too passionate for my tastes #<- that sounds insane but if you know anime L you know what i mean right. like hes pretty reserved #and i felt in the japanese production i watched L's actor there was still a great performer and singer like putting work into those songs #while still keeping that air of L being more reserved and like. flat almost? i feel like the guy playing L in the eng version was too much #like ''im BELTTTINGGGGGG HOW IM GONNA FUCKING CATCCHHHH KIRA!!!!!!!!!!'' like bro calm down...... #ITS A GOOD PERFORMANCE it just doesnt read as L to me. and like thats fine whatever its an adaptation #but also in the japanese version they still did that adaptation while making L feel more like himself. so idk man #but anyway I WANNA SEE THIS NEW LONDON PRODUCTION SOOOOOOOO BAD #IVE SEEN PHOTOS AND IT LOOKS SO GOOD THE SET IS SOOOOOO COOL LOOKING OML #i need to see this musical live at SOME point in my life. pleaseeee can we get a north america production after this #serena.txt #death note posting

[ben-man]

Painting night got out of hand.

#lawlight #death note #death note fanart #l lawliet #light yagami #listen man im so good at drawing in person #you have to believe me. i hate digital art it makes me forget how much I love painting and drawing #anyway #enjoy this #don't ask me about foxes and crows #L's eyes are multimedia btw if anyone cares #i ran out of white paint so he gets cut up paper eyes with black pupils drawn in #i have MORE THINGS BREWING... lawlight related #if any one of my few little followers cares

[13eyond13]

one of the funniest things B shippers do is portray B as the superior alternative to Light for L

#like ofc i read those fics and enjoy them and love lxb too but its just funny to think about #like in what world is Bs behavior better marriage material #is it when he takes out a kid's eyeballs and crushes them or when he turns a guy into a clock #lets not pretend that B with a death note wouldnt also be an absolutely atrociously behaved boy btw #l lawliet #light yagami #beyond birthday #lxb #lawlight #p

[queersturbate]

did smth for @translightyagami's fic - The Forest Holds Strange Creatures because I think it changed the trajectory of my life lmao. I was going for a grim storybook-y look.

timelapse under the cut (TW-the letter E)

also James, if you see this, I did this entirely based off memory of my many reads of it so I might of gotten a few things wrong but I included some details i specifically remembered - excluding the flowers L grows on his body when he's happy :(

#the changed the trajectory of my life is not an exaggeration btw #i think about the fic like every day #including the oneshot in hand in unlovable hand #anyway #death note #light yagami #lawlight #l lawliet

[qeyond]

some more classic Death Note icons

#flash #flashing #death note #qeyond sucks #gif #i think we should bring these back btw #yall i have so much WHORISH B and B x L art saved in my computer #im absolutely sobbing #if there is demand i will post a compilation of old sexy B and BxL art but also the reposting u_u #what are the rules about ancient fanart lost to time that we probably cant trace back to the artist in this day and age? ; - ;