Piss and Hemlock

I'm gonna be thinking about this all day

If you deadname someone in the death note it kills you

In one of the Death Note live action movies (I think it was Light Up the New World), a man changes his name after harboring guilt about past crimes and trying to atone (not even answering to that name). He's only killed after his new name gets put in the book, since he shed his old name.

Man wasn't trans, but if the logic applied to him, logic should apply to trans people too!

This rule implies that birth names are not necessarily the names given to you at birth.

That means you can change your name or consider yourself to have a new name and the death note recognizes it.

Death Note is an ally.

Okay, hear me out.

Batman Beyond establishes that Batman considers Bruce Wayne to be the mask and he thinks of himself as Batman, meaning that in order to kill him you'd have to write “Batman” into the Death Note.

However you *also* need to picture his face. So you'd need to know that Batman is Bruce Wayne, AND that Batman ISN'T an alias but his true name.

Batman is... INCREDIBLY difficult to kill with a Death Note.

Also, like L, he is considered to be the world's greatest detective... 

Here’s an exercise! I cannot draw cars well. I don’t like drawing cars. 

The first sketch was from memory without looking at any photos of a car. The second was traced from a photo of a car. The third, without looking at any photos or previous sketches. I still can’t draw cars very well but a bit more about what they look like are embedded in my memory. :>

Tracing is a wonderful way to practice. This works for more than just machines, if you trace something then it helps you learn how it FEELS to draw something accurately, which gives you the freedom to experiment, exaggerate, and stylize your art without sacrificing structure and recognizeability.

I get a lot of compliments on the way I draw muscular people. If I had not gone through a phase of tracing models then I would not have learned how it FEELS to draw proportional muscles. It greatly improved my art in the long term, and now when I use reference photos I find that it’s easier for me to make sense of what I’m looking at.

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