this article made me so sad it triggered my acid reflux and im on the verge of crying
“You’ve never had to chant: ‘Shame on the Israeli aggressors!’, you’ve never had to protest the criminal war in Vietnam, read news about provocations in revolutionary Cuba. How far away these events are from you! […] Young crowd of 2017! We are sure that you have justified the trust your heroic predecessors have invested in you, that you have created a new world.”
heyyy lawlight ship chart, I got bored, so I made a ship chart, hell I'm tired. I know it looks like dog water, but like be nice....
浜崎あゆみ 「Duty」 2000
have you seen him? now you have.
ide is so cute and no one ever talks about him. I love my eyebrowless freak.
“Is it okay if I draw fanart of your fanfic?👉🏼👈🏼”
My brother in Christ we shall have a spring wedding
it has been less than 24 hours
ty tho whoever did this ily
ummm i made text posts with death note characters. enjoy. there's more but I can only embed 10.
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shocked that i haven’t seen a post about this already but the way that “full body deodorant” is being pushed on us is so vile. that woman in the commercials being like “i’m a woman and i know how it feels to be ashamed of your body’s natural odors. that’s why i invented this shit to rub between your thighs so you, too, can feel ashamed of your body’s natural odors. unless you buy my product :)” die die die die kill yourself fuck you fuck you
the people in my grandparents’ generation who were marketed baby powder to keep their pussies dry and odorless and got fucking cancer from it are rolling in their graves rn. please stop i’m begging you just let your body do its thing i promise hey. look at me. i promise you don’t smell bad. no one can smell you. and if they can, i promise they will be fine. please i’m begging
if i take a girl’s underwear off and smell chemical imitation lavender or rose or whatever instead of sweat and musk and girlstink the way god intended i’m burning down a cvs
to be clear this isn’t just about ppl with vaginas and it’s not just about genitalia. stop putting this shit on your feet, your thighs, your chest, etc. stop letting companies who see you as nothing more than an easily manipulated sack of money convince you that you’re gross because you don’t naturally secrete coconut and vanilla from your pores
finally someone said it
artificial scents from perfume and deodorant and shit burn my nose, make me severely nauseous, and damn near close my airways
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Your side characters shouldn’t just exist to cheer on the protagonist or drop exposition. They need their own lives, their own goals, and their own arcs, even if we only see a glimpse of them. The best side characters feel like they could be the main character in a different story. Make them flawed, make them memorable, and give them something that makes the reader care. Maybe they’re sarcastic, maybe they’re loyal to a fault, or maybe they’ve got secrets of their own. A well-written side character can steal the show, but more importantly, they make your world feel real.
THERAPIST: —That's all the paperwork dealt with. So! What brings you here today?
LIGHT: My… My friend passed away a few weeks ago.
THERAPIST: Oh. I'm really sorry to hear that. How do you feel about it?
LIGHT: Well… awful? (laughs self-deprecatingly) I'm, um… I'm okay, I think. I haven't had the urge to hurt myself, or anything like that. But… I do miss him.
THERAPIST: Would you like to talk about him?
LIGHT (INTERNALLY): This is a campus-licensed therapist and shouldn't leak any information to my father or the rest of the task force, but I can't let myself off guard and spill anything. Light Yagami is grieving his friend right now, so it's only natural he'd say…
LIGHT: N-not really. No. Can we… just skip to the evaluation part?
THERAPIST: Of course.
LIGHT (INTERNALLY): Heh. So easy… Almost too easy.
[SOME TIME LATER]
LIGHT: Well, I guess I used to struggle with guilt more often…
LIGHT (INTERNALLY): Wait. Kira would say he's stopped feeling guilt. Or that he's never felt guilt in the first place. So I should say I do often feel guilt… But what does Light Yagami have to feel guilty about? …No, I'm overthinking this. This is just a therapist. He's not Ryuzaki and he'll never be Ryuzaki because Ryuzaki's dead and I WON—
LIGHT: …but I think I've gotten better ways of dealing with it.
THERAPIST: Hmm. Could you elaborate on that?
LIGHT: Well, the way I see it, it's like this, right? Humans feel signals like thirst and hunger, which we need in order to survive. And guilt is the same way. It says you've done something wrong, and you need to fix it.
THERAPIST: Right, I'm following.
LIGHT: But if you feel guilt all the time, then it becomes a useless signal. Like an alarm clock that never stops ringing. So instead I've learned to tune it out.
THERAPIST: "If" you feel guilt all the time?
LIGHT: Just hypothetically, I mean. I think there are better ways to know if you're right or wrong anyway, you know? Morality isn't something we're born with, it's something we should develop as society changes. I mean, lots of people feel guilty for watching TV shows, even though it doesn't make them bad people. So I think it's not a very useful stimulus.
THERAPIST: And you think this specifically because you feel it too often?
LIGHT (INTERNALLY): Shit! Did I lead him right to the conclusion that I'm Kira? But he looks concerned, not afraid. Dial back.
LIGHT: Well, no, I don't think so. Sorry, I'm not making much sense, am I?
THERAPIST: No, you're alright. Go on.
LIGHT: I just think that… more people should think with their brains, instead of going by instinct. I've definitely messed up a few times that way as a kid, anyway.
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SOICHIRO: How did it go, son?
LIGHT: It was okay. Just… a lot.
SOICHIRO: And did he say you, ah… had anything? Up there?
LIGHT: Nope. Clean bill of health.
SOICHIRO: Ah, that's a relief. …Do you want me to carry your backpack? It looks heavy.
LIGHT (INTERNALLY): No, Dad can't find out about the shredder I just bought to get rid of all the worksheets he gave me!
LIGHT: Haha, I'm good.
And they were all boys
Today I offer you a very crusty meme. Tomorrow, who knows?
adding a lil additional note here because this thing SPIRALED the fuck out, even more so than some of my usual essays. therefore, i will be going back to my roots by breaking this post down into two sections: misa and sexuality, and misa and romance/death. skip to whatever section, if you wanna. or don't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
misa and sexuality:
honestly, the way that misa engages with her sexuality in DN is such a fascinating topic in and of itself. i really have quite mixed feelings about it because while yes, to some degree the art and story does sexualize and objectify her, there is also an element of agency to it that i don’t often see people talk about…?
like, idk. misa is a model, she does act, her job primarily involves working in front of cameras. she’s selling her Image and her body and she’s well aware of how to market the appeal— we literally see her doing this during yotsuba, when they’re trying to free matsuda after he runs around like an idiot and gets caught.
i actually think it's quite interesting that she specifies being against nudity here but alright with swimsuits and lingerie— full nudity implies sex work, something that in the mainstream might be considered "dirty" or somehow less/not worthy of respect (even if that's utter bullshit). yet lingerie is fine, despite having similar implications of sexuality, blocking off the most private areas and thereby allowing profit off of the same concept but without the associated disapproval. you could read this panel as misa simply knowing her boundaries and what she is and isn't comfortable with— but i think it's interesting that you could just as easily read this as misa knowing what boundaries she is and isn't allowed to have, if she is to market herself as effectively as possible and maintain her public image.
off the top of my head i can only think of two major examples where it’s clear that misa is super overtly being sexualized by forces outside of her control/with no particularly meaningful justification, at least in terms of visuals. this panel, which managed to sneak in a panty shot:
which, weirdly enough was actually kind of foreshadowed by sayu earlier in the chapter:
(sidenote1: does light really not have any other fucking chairs? further evidence that he doesn't really connect with people pre-DN, if he's not really prepared to have any guests in his room. anti-social weirdo.)
and, of course, the classic torture cover from chapter 33:
though i must admit, it is difficult to find any image of a character getting tied up like this that doesn't have some implication of sexuality. bondage torture is just a classic like that. though the camera certainly doesn't help, L— and neither does the fact that light and soichiro are not put into an equally objectifying, sense-deprived contraption like this, and instead just get normal ass bare cells.
in many other cases however, misa herself is the one flaunting her sexuality, typically as a means of trying to appeal herself to light but sometimes i think you can definitely read it as misa just. dressing the way that she wants to dress because it's cute? like, okay, in terms of trying to appeal herself to light we've got this classic panel from after the timeskip ft. a particularly homosexual light moment:
but there's also plenty of misa moments that just look like this:
girlie is chilling. literally kicking her feet, stalking her crush in bed with her supernatural death god girlfriend.
to be clear, this is not to say that death note isn't sexist or has particularly fantastic writing for its female characters. rather, what i'd like to point out here is that there are different levels under which we can view and analyze misa's sexuality:
it both can be and is true that misa is simultaneously objectified for her body on multiple levels and a pretty fucking horny person herself (or at the very least, willing to push that for the sake of her own goals)
remember, misa is the one pushing for their "alone time" here.
just. idk. i suppose my main point here is simply that i think this is a topic that deserves to be looked at with more nuance. there is credence to both the claims that misa is sexualized in DN and that misa herself has agency in how she chooses to dress and present herself, and i don't think you can cleanly separate those two aspects without losing something significant.
honestly, when it comes down to it, my personal take is that the real problem of sexism in DN is less about the particular ways in which individual female characters are presented/traits they are given, and more about the broad strokes of how women in general are treated... if my post on that particular subject ever ends up seeing the light of day, i guess i'll link that right about here. anyways,
misa and romance/death:
if there is one thing that her parents dying, almost being killed by a stalker, and making contact with a shinigami teaches misa, it is that love is something you kill and die for.
i really don't think that you can separate out "death" from "love" when it comes to misa, not only in terms of general themes, but also when it comes to how she personally views the world. i mean, just look at rem and gelus— death literally loves her, and in the process of loving her, allows her to cheat her way back to life. ryuk calls light a better shinigami than the actual shinigami, but honestly, if anyone fulfills that role, it's misa— she's the one whose life gets cut down until others stock it back up, who has so little regard for life (both in terms of others' and her own), who gambles her time again and again and does whatever she wishes, when she wishes, how she wishes.
it's that second point in particular that really gets to me here. throughout the story, misa shows herself to be equally detached from both the world and herself— she kills without care, gives up half her lifespan without a speck of a second thought, throws herself into dangerous situations and pushes for what she wants even when she knows it's stupid and probably going to get her caught. i'm slightly tempted to say that death's love for misa is the only mutual love she ever has, but that has some implications that i don't think quite fit. misa doesn't get a kick out of killing, she is not (overtly, or very explicitly) suicidal in the sense that she constantly expresses a yearning to kill or be killed. it's more of a toned down attachment than that, which... kinda gets into my next point, on misa's relationships. namely, with two very important people: rem and light.
in terms of rem... i struggle to analyze this relationship sometimes in the context of canon because at times it just feels like there is so little to work with. but perhaps that also fits, in a way...?
one thing that i think the musical really got right about rem is the fact that she has some of the most genuine feelings of love in the entire series, just in general but also specifically in terms of how other characters treat/approach misa. again, misa is a person whose job revolves around people loving or being attracted to her. i have a very hard time believing that the person who tried to kill her was her first or her last stalker, but even without getting to that level of intensity, much of the love surrounding misa is superficial, distant. she is beloved for the image she fits and the role that she plays, but very few people (if anyone) are even capable of getting close enough to recognize the self she hides under that mask (assuming, of course, that she ever lets that core part of her out).
rem is perhaps one of those few people, seemingly having watched misa for years alongside gelus before breaking that parasocial divide and meeting her idol in person. yet, it's also that very period of watching that puts a strain on their relationship, in my mind...
to put it bluntly: apologies to any and all remisa shippers, but i simply Do Not see there being much canon evidence that rem's love for misa is in any way mutual. not only do i struggle to think of any notable scenes where misa displays even an inch of affection or care towards rem, but misa is also kind of horrifically apathetic to rem's death, iirc. i mean, in a way, she's basically the cause of it— in failing to remember L's name upon getting her memories back, she pushes the first domino in the line leading up to watari, L, and rem's deaths.
misa basically treats rem like just another stalker, accepting her love so long as it is somewhat distant or gets her what she wants.
but, like. as shitty as that is to think about, it does kinda fit that misa would treat genuine love this way. at no point does she push back on or try to change rem's mind about this, or even really say fucking anything in response to rem's overt romantic/threatening overtures about how she'll kill anyone who tries to hurt her. i'm kinda inclined to view this as misa's attempt at kindness, accepting the love of her fans for what it is but never pushing it in either direction. she neither demands rem's love, nor attempts to dissuade it— it is what it is, and what happens, happens. and if it results in rem's death, or results in her own... at least it all happened out of love.
now, in terms of light... i was gonna make this its own post but it's on topic, so i might as well just add it here.
it is simultaneously so, so sad and yet also so, so utterly fucking funny that misa is perfectly designed to be everything that light absolutely hates. like, to just list it out cuz i literally have too many points to simplify this down into proper paragraphs rn, misa is:
(sidenote2: it's kinda interesting to compare misa to L in this regard, actually, especially in terms of why light gets so attached to L but hates misa so viciously, despite L also being quite a bit like light? i guess you could say that misa reflects back the parts of light that he doesn't like as much, or even more specifically that she reflects KIRA back at him, where L matches/opposes light in terms of what he sees to be his better traits— his intelligence, his social power, etc. something to consider.)
to follow up on the sentiments of this post: misa does not love light. she relies on him to fill the hole in her life, in her, as a quick fix to avoid having to engage with the deep-seated grief that haunts her, an answer to the horrifying question of why she is even still here, alive, so long after her appointed bell has already stopped ringing.
to tie this all together, then... i suppose it's fitting that both love and sexuality are are so essentially Empty when it comes to misa amane. ultimately, she is a character defined by a misery she never allows herself to show to the world, a girl stubbornly sticking to the first reason she managed to find for living. again, just like light, she is a character that never grants herself the ability to truly grow up, stuck in the same childish, immature cycles of thinking and methods of presentation she came up with when her life first failed to end. a tragedy in her own right, unable to even remember the face of the one being that genuinely loved her at the moment of her own true death.
born on christmas, dead on valentines. how fitting.
