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who are you? this au has been on my mind since the first art of it popped up on my dash. i love abstract concepts so much n this really took the brainrot and ran with it. the original au is by @mllsbrn !!! pls go check them out.

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do y’all also have that one mutual who posts funny shit and interacts with you loads and you want to be their friend but you keep forgetting to dm them or is that just me

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POW right in the kissa

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near: together, me and mello can surpass L

mello:

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dick too big to die (near death note)

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gatekeep: near

gaslight: matt

girlboss: mello

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i’m not actually ia i have plenty of death note thoughts i promise

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Mello as a child

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mello orders food for the rest of the wammy kids because they don’t like making eye contact with the servers

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i’m probably gonna keep this in drafts but i’m gonna take my time to try and understand this panel in particular witth mikami. i really don’t believe that mikami thinks of himself as a god himself - rather, he thinks of himself as someone who was gifted the power of god and sees himself as a vessel that god works through. his ultimate “power” is the power of justice. let’s get that straight, he does not think of himself as a god whatsoever. it’s like when near was throwing the darts in the anime, he kept getting closer to the bullseye with each statement, but his closing was at the edge of the dart board. off the mark. god (light, of course) accepted mikami and granted him his power and to mikami there was no greater honor. but he never thought of himself as a god that stood next to light. he was always sure to mention that these were GOD’S moves, this was what GOD needed him to do. i mean, if given the death note outside of living in kira’s world, i’m sure he would have been caught in the same situation and used the death note on his own accord. but that isn’t my point. his desire for someone to answer his questions to who had been delivering divine punishment to the people he wanted to delete, his desire for someone who was like him down to a T — kira was just that (and that isn’t even analysis. it’s written right there) and it was his answer. he wasn’t his own answer.

i know this is contradicting exactly what’s in front of me but i think we’ve all seen how i pick the contradictory parts to analyze. i think it’s really really important to remember that this portion of the manga was written in a third person perspective, which is a large contrast from what we’re originally used to and what the story usually goes by. these aren’t mikami’s direct thoughts. this is an outsider’s perspective. anybody could look at what mikami had been granted and secured with and think “he’s definitely a god now”, which is what this specific panel does. idk exactly why his backstory is written in third person but im thinking it’s either for the sake of the story so it’s easier for the reader to understand, but it’s also a hunch that mikami just views his life like that. like a story, until the real, big opportunity came hurdling towards him — the death note. but it’s VERY likely i’m wrong. and pls do feel free to tell yalls thoughts in the notes.

i really haven’t examined mikami a ton (not like some other blogs on here at least) even though he’s definitely up there with my favorite characters, but i thought this little part was really interesting to me. mikami supremacy. i believe in it.

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there was gonna b 2 more pages but im kinda lazy lol,,,,,,and liek i have hw to do xd

i might upload the “”final”” two pages in another post cuz honestly those could be read seperately.

anyways dialogue inspired by diary of a wimpy kid

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beyond birthday think-piece

Lately, I’ve seen a lot of claims that Beyond Birthday (the primary antagonist in Death Note Another Note) is a pedophile, often citing a specific passage from the novel as their only source. Naturally, this concerned me, and I took a look at the novel to decide for myself the validity of this statement. Now that I’ve got a Tumblr to post this on, and because I believe I have the resources and ability to refute this claim, here’s my analysis of the specific scene I see cited most often.

TL;DR, he’s probably not a pedophile. To the credit of those who are quick to criticize Beyond Birthday’s actions and are wary of a character that rifles through a young girl’s underwear drawer, it’s easy to see how his choices in the novel are questionable at best, and incriminating at worst. I would like to be very clear that I am neither attempting to invalidate the experiences of those who feel uncomfortable with Beyond’s behavior, nor defending any pedophilic actions. However, in the spirit of critical media consumption, I believe it’s important to account for the author’s writing style, the way our narrator, navigator, storyteller Mello understands the LABB story, and Naomi Misora’s complex (and often fraught) perception of Beyond. For the sake of clarity, this is the exact quote from the novel; “He was not down on all fours. She had come in just as he was inspecting the top shelf of a chest of drawers. But it was hard to think of this as nice timing. The drawer happened to be filled with the thirteen-year-old victim’s underwear. Ryuzaki looked less like a detective investigating the scene than a pedophile stealing panties. 

Not the best way to start the day. She’d been planning to funnel the frustration from her fight in the alley into a fairly aggressive approach to Ryuzaki, but he’d already yanked the rug out from under her. If it was deliberate, she would have been impressed, but that seemed unlikely. It seemed much more likely that Ryuzaki actually did have a fetish for children’s underwear.”

Now, at first glance, it’s pretty obvious that there’s warrant to the pedophilia claims. It’s easy to take the passage at face value, and we’re inclined to accept Naomi’s opinions on the situation (as filtered through L and Mello) as the objective and correct interpretation. However, the fact that this claim has been filtered through multiple people, ⅔rds of which have been known to obfuscate to reach a preferred conclusion renders this description of the situation subjective at best. It’s hardly enough to be counted as fact when you consider this scene through the eyes of Mello, L, and Naomi stacked together. We know L has omitted information in order to garner a specific response and lied to Light’s face to determine whether or not he was Kira, demolishing Light’s trust in L, and many others’ respect for him. Mello’s subjectivity and unpredictability (which is the reason so many tend to think of LABB as canon-adjacent instead of canon material) and desperation to stroke his own ego make for a shaky combination. Beyond was caught at an awkward time, and Naomi, Mello, and L alike took every opportunity to solidify Beyond’s reputation as a creep with no morals in the mind of the reader. 

One question about this situation I see over and over is, “Why would Beyond feel the need to investigate the panty drawer if he already knew where everything was? He did kill her, after all.” To that, I have to remind you: he was Rue Ryuzaki, un-private detective, here, not Beyond Birthday. Of course he knew where everything was, already, but if he hadn’t made a show of crawling around on the floor, inspecting every bit of the room (even places that Naomi wouldn’t), he would immediately place himself in a position to be suspected. Beyond’s entire character is a collection of loosely connected theatrical performances, and this scene is no exception. 

“But the police would have already investigated there,” I hear you saying! The police had checked every nook and cranny in Believe Bridesmaid’s room, but both Naomi Misora and Beyond Birthday had been sent to investigate a second time. No one in this story, not even our narrator, seems very willing to put their trust in the hands of the LAPD - why are you? It should also be noted, even offhand, that there’s nothing that tells us with any certainty whether favorite morally grey antagonist was actively picking up each undergarment and basking in the general creepiness of the situation. Never once in that paragraph did Naomi, a trained FBI agent, see fit to mention that Beyond was handling Quarter Queen’s underwear. If he had been picking up each piece of underwear, we would have a different situation on our hands, and I would not be defending Beyond. That being said, it feels fairly safe to assume that he wasn’t doing anything more sinister than standing over the open drawer - if he had been, then I get the feeling that Naomi would have jumped at the opportunity to drag Beyond through the dirt for it. 

Now let’s get into why Naomi made the deliberate decision to describe Beyond as a pedophile: as we’ve seen in previous chapters, Naomi developed an intense dislike for Beyond right off the bat- so much so, in fact, that in an earlier chapter, she claims that the world would be better off without him and that he’s so undeniably weird that he probably should have killed himself. This happens after an approximate ten minutes of interaction between BB and Naomi (p. 56, “If we divided everyone in the world into those that would be better off dead and those that wouldn’t, there’s no doubt in my mind that he’d be the former. Such a complete freak that it amazes me he hasn’t killed himself.”). When Naomi walked into the room, Beyond undoubtedly looked suspicious, he never  gives Naomi any tangible reason for her hatred, aside from her detective’s intuition and his weird vibes. Naomi thinks he’s really strange, and she obviously isn’t fond of him, therefore it would be foolish to assume that her pre-existing opinions of him have no influence on the assumptions made in this chapter of the book. Of course, being aggressively eccentric has no measurable ties to pedophilia, which makes this wild assumption nothing more than that - just a wild assumption. I would bet my money that if Naomi had been with L, who shares a plethora of mannerisms with Beyond, the same thought would’ve crossed her mind. Finally, we must remember that this is Mello who is narrating. The narrative style in LABB has more personality than most, and Mello isn’t exactly known for his professionalism and unfaltering integrity. As a self-described unreliable narrator, he compares himself to Holden Caulfield in the prologue (p. 09 “The harder I try, the more bored I’ll get and the lazier the writing will be. To put it in terms Holden Caulfield (one of history’s most famous literary bullshitters) might use, detailing what Beyond Birthday did and thought does not suit my purposes …”), who is, without a doubt, the least objective narrator in the history of narrators, so painfully arrogant and opinionated that even the most upstanding of English teachers get a raging boner whenever Catcher in the Rye flits across their unsuspecting students’ radars. We have a line where Mello almost praises Beyond for his technique, as well as those where he’s eager to share how abhorrent he believes Beyond to be. An entertainer at heart, our narrator is determined to show off his knowledge of L, even if that requires a certain level of cognitive dissonance and unreliability. This style of narration exists to dramatize, to  stretch the truth and leave a piece of Mello behind. What would give him greater joy than telling the story as if he was inside Naomi’s head? Why not give as much detail as possible, even at the expense of the truth? Why is it that the rest of the book is seen as canon noncompliant, but when this particular scene comes up, it’s done-and-dusted truth? It’s absolutely in line with Mello’s personality to mess around with wording and interpretation to get a more shocking result. He thrives off of attention and reaction, in his personality to lie. Taking Mello’s words, filtered through Naomi and then L, as any sort of ultimate truth, is lazy reading at best. 

So, to conclude: Beyond isn’t a pedophile. This, as many things in Death Note are, is a case of wording, context, and assumptions. It’s important to consider every possible interpretation before writing a character off as irredeemable.

[And by all means, feel free to correct me on this if you’ve seen any incorrect facts, or something that needs clarification!] [Double also, thank you @melloing for editing my 3 am rambles. :*]

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mello and near are in love and dating

source: my boyfriend is near and i am mello and we are in love and dating

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I’ve presented my powerpoint to @mihaelkeehl​ and @trans-l-lawliet​ so that means I can finally post it here !! The rest is under the cut

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death note au where everything is the same except mello wears a shirt that says “shawty a li’l baddie ... it’s me, i’m shawty”

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The face of a man who has successfully thrown a megablock into nears Cheerios.

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mello ur jujuing on that beat too hard. someone stop him he’s gonna hurt himself