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No, you don’t understand HOW MUCH I adore Ghost-L-Haunts-Light!au

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i think i could be trusted with The Book That Kills People from the classic manga series "No One Can Be Trusted With Power Of The Book That Kills People" imho

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the end of kira is near!

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parallel play

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Misa from the 2015 musical💃

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i watched one episode of death note and this show is soooo funny for opening on skull demon guys and youre like oh shit its the evil freaks and then theyre just like chilling playing cards. and then you meet your mild mannered middle schooler boy protag and hes like i want to kill everyone forever

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this is for a very specific audience which may or may not be non existent by now

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January 26, 2010:

Kiyomi Takada is abducted by Mello.

Matt is killed by Kiyomi Takada’s guards.

Mello is killed by the power of Kiyomi Takada’s Death Note pages.

Kiyomi Takada is killed by the power of Light Yagami’s Death Note.

Teru Mikami writes Kiyomi Takada’s name in the Death Note (but without effect).

Media frenzy over the Kira spokesperson abduction.

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happy death day to mello 🥲🤲

I did this in 2022 for Mello's birthday but i forgot to post it here and only shared it on twitter

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delivery man mello 📦

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not to be a downer but while i agree with the sentiment of what the "death note AU where hbomberguy solves the kira case while investigating light yagami for something unrelated to the murders" post is trying to go for, it gets a bunch of stuff fundamentally wrong about light as a character and of how the death note itself works, and as a noted Light Yagami Hater™ i feel like i should set things straight here:

light was top of his class in high school and got into one of the most prestigious universities in his region. he does his research pretty thoroughly and would not even consider plagiarizing anything, especially with how unreliable it would make you look if you got caught. this "light would probably be a plagiarist if he was a youtuber" bit seems like it's there just because the james sommerton video is so fresh in our minds; if that post was drafted like a year ago there'd probably be a bit in there instead about light straight up lying about his accomplishments and how his mother is very proud

"light would have unhinged right-wing political takes if he was on youtube" there's a pretty significant possibility that he would, although not intentionally. light would brand himself as more of a center-left intellectual debater type and gets popular going up against people who are so right-wing that his points seem progressive by comparison (on top of him being conventionally attractive), and that would make stuff like his misogyny and pro-cop stances and "there are some types of people the world would be better off without" sentiments stand out when comparing him to more leftist youtubers. hbomb's initial investigation into light likely started out with the thesis of "light yagami can get away with saying shit like this because he's an extremely fuckable twink"

the thing about that post that stood out to me as its most egregious mistake though was the insistence of legal names being the ones you need to kill someone with the note. you've probably seen joke posts going around before like "if you write a trans person's deadname into the death note it kills you instead," and that's built upon one of the rules of the death note:

[id: The names you see with the eye power of a god of death are the names needed to kill that person. You will be able to see the names even if that person isn't registered in the family registration.]

a name doesn't have to be legally registered for it to work, and a legal name might not even work in some cases. granted a change of a legal name could still be a viable defensive strategy to throw off someone trying to research what your name is, but outright saying "i've legally changed my name to something you won't be able to find out so you can't kill me" will not protect you from the death note at all.

in my opinion, i believe the point in which hbomb spots the thread leading to his conclusion of light yagami being behind the kira murders is around the end of the yotsuba arc. he'd be able to intuit the first, second, and third kiras being separate entities by the types of people they kill, and the situation of "this guy i've been looking into has dropped off the face of the internet for like two months and the kira murders are suddenly different" would probably be too interesting of coincidence for him to ignore

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waiting game

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Mello nail set

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some of my favorite cards from the death note tarot set i made. which you can get here, by the way

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Did Mello ever directly kill anyone? Just a curiosity which came to my mind thanks to one of your recent posts, I don't intend to comment it, it's just that I can't really remember xD

It’s rather certain he did.

I don’t know what the Japanese said there, but since every translation of this line I know says ‘brought in a  head’ specifically I am… inclined to take that literally. (If anyone knows the Japanese, feel free to chime in and all.)And even if it were metaphorically, Mello’s still the killer here.

I mean, I am personally very disinclined to give Mello the leeway of saying ‘it was indirect’ about murders he directly ordered and caused… but this one is the one that is pretty certainly committed with his own hands, specifically. 

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Okay, look. I read @mihaelkeehl s tag under my recent post about M2 in their 30s and I had way too much fun with the idea--

I threw a whole ass Netflix page together for them lololol