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watcher lore still confuses me but the DESIGNS from it are stunning

W-watcher… Grian…

Him just being an inter dimensional being hanging out with some mortal peeps is my favorite part of this watcher head cannon thing

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L could never win on his own

recently rewatched death note with the roommates cuz one of them hadn't seen it before and ended up in a bit of a debate over the second half of the show. (spoilers ahead)

essentially the sides boiled down to the fact that after a rewatch i really appreciate the second half of death note (even tho its rushed and got some holes) bc i don't think L could have beat Light. and this isnt out of hatred for L. i LOVE L. to an insane degree. my roommate did not agree with this idea of L not being able to win tho.

basically the way i see it is there's a couple things against L winning:

hes too close to the case and the criminal, to the point where he considers the perpetrator a friend

he doesnt have all the cards in hand to solve the case

Light holds all the power. all of it.

for point one you gotta understand that i believe L is a bit more emotional than Near ends up being (a different convo is the split of L's personality between Mello and Near). he's so unused to having someone next to him or on the same level that he's a bit emotionally affected (as much as he might tell himself he's not) by potentially accusing someone who is his friend. he actually says this in the show: "that is, it would be a problem if you WERE Kira, because i feel you're the first friend ive ever had". he also explicitly states that the case not going his way makes him depressed and sort of ruins his ability to do things. there are limits to how logical L is. Near ends up being able to cut himself off from emotion a bit more because he's grown up with Mello and had to compensate for Mello's extreme emotional outbursts, imo. that's strike one against L being able to effectively solve this case.

point 2: L doesnt have all the cards and he knows it. he's not playing with a full deck, whereas Light has pretty much all the cards and all the information since he's both an investigator AND the villain. this is an interesting callback to one of the first meetings of Light and L where L gives Light 3 photographs and asks him to interpret them (then later revealing there were actually 4 photographs and Light should have known). idk if this counts as irony or just dramatic irony and foreshadowing but its definitely interesting.

this lack of cards leads to L having to take risks during the investigation that are life-and-death for him, whereas for Kira, most of the risks he takes can be solved by killing someone if it goes wrong, or manipulating a shinigami into doing something for him.

point 3: because L doesnt have all the cards, and Light has all the power, he stands no chance. Light can control people in death, he's also a master manipulator who has wrapped around his finger: 1) all his classmates and community, 2) his family, specifically his father, 3) the entire task force, 4) an entire news station and a good portion of the internet, 5) a literal GOD OF DEATH. TWO OF THEM. (Rem moreso than Ryuk but Ryuk is still manipulated a few times via apples and the promise of seeing more human action). 6) the Japanese police, 7) the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 8) the second Kira/Misa, 9) another unhinged Kira in Mikami, 10) a news anchor/woman who loves him? and later 11) basically all of Japan/the world. he can afford to take risks as his power grows. (this power and cockiness is eventually his downfall but he's held in check by the mental chess game with L.)

with all of this, L didnt stand a chance. but a lot of it was because of his unique situation and proximity to Light. Near and Mello, on the other hand, had outside distance from the case. they were wild cards that eventually ended up causing Light to break (partially because he saw too much of L in them).

so L could never win on his own. but it still took two geniuses to match his power, which i think is a testament to how cool L is as a character.

i dont think this is enough to convince my roommate but i figured i'd write it down anyway and yall can judge me

#death note #ryuk #rem deathnote #anime #light death note #l death note #light vs l #character analysis #l is the best

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yeah i gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss

Gaslight myself

Gatekeep my thoughts

Girlboss into the sun

#gaslight gatekeep goncharov #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #therapy

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Times when a lanyard comes in handy:

when you accidentally banish your keys to the shadow realm between your car seats.

Times when a lanyard does not come in handy: when you're trying to open a door handle and the lanyard sends YOU to the shadow realm

#first world problems #car seat shadow realm

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you ever meet someone and realize they have an entirely different level of trauma than you

like wdym you don't relate to the tortured antihero with the terrible tragic past

#mental health #fictional characters #self portrait

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i don't want people to ask for my pronouns I want them to come up to me and ask "what are you" like i'm an unidentified species of alien

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*slips a normal egg in with my hard-boiled eggs to make a future breakfast more exciting*

#it's a surprise #a prank at my own expense

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unhand him officer that's my emotional support war criminal

#writing #anime

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"with great power comes great responsibility"

yeah well luckily i am a Great Menace™ so the rules don't apply to me

#great power great responsibility #spiderman wouldn't DARE #for legal reasons this is a joke

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my mental image of you is whatever your profile pic is

sorry i don't make the rules

#i dont care if your profile is a dead rat #that's what you look like now #if you change it i will be confused for 2-4 business months

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sometimes you gotta let your inner child be free

“I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.”

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

#inner child #growing up

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do you ever come across those pieces of media that are good, but there's something missing? like you can feel how close they were to being spectacular but they're missing just...something and you're not sure what?

and they just kinda linger in your heart for way too long because you love them and you want more but there isn't any. the book, the show, the movie series, it's done. there's just your memory of it and the cracks that you patch up with your own belief in the media.

it's still broken, but at that point it means so much to you that it doesn't even matter if the cracks are showing

#movies #fandom #this may be about tron legacy but i refuse to admit it openly #poetic death of a film #writing #stories

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“Let’s raise children who won’t have to recover from their childhoods.”

— Pam Leo

#relationship trauma #parenting #i know others have it much worse #but we all get traumatized by expectations that are too high #poetry #quotes #literature

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I'm tired of people gatekeeping media bc it "isn't serious enough"

like??? let me enjoy things??? it doesn't matter that it's not edgy enough for you - i still like it even tho its "cliche"

sometimes media can be cliche and still be good media. if everything was a dark, gritty portrayal of life and the meaning of death and how this is a perfect analogy for war and the human condition, it wouldn't be entertainment. we need both. i like a good gritty show as much as the next person but sometimes i actually wanna be happy okay

#this is a callout of my brother specifically #no he's not on tumblr #writing #anime #anime and manga #it makes me so angry you have no idea #gatekeeping #i haven't seen evangelion but it feels appropriate for this

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ITS COMING BACK I"M SO EXCITED

SPY×FAMILY Part 2 OP »» “SOUVENIR” by BUMP OF CHICKEN

#I DONT CARE THAT IM CAUGHT UP WITH THE MANGA #IM STILL WAY TOO HYPED FOR THIS #spyxfamily #yor forger #anya forger #loid forger

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sometimes i think my friends hate me bc im weird but then i remember i was weird from the second we met and its too late for them to escape