#THANK YOU FOR THE ENRICHMENT

[zzztlk]

*holds up a hollow pumpkin filled with raw meat over your little enclosure*

[musical-chick-13]

Hey, can you re-imagine a wholy genderbent Deathnote, is too cursed?

Okay, it is SO funny that you mention this because I was talking to my Long-Distance Best Friend the other day about the fact that there is, apparently, (or at least was, at some point before the strike?) a plan to make a live-action TV series adaptation of this for Netflix. Which is...a whole other thing I don't want to get into, but ANYWAY.

The POINT is that we were talking about what would have to happen to make me have some modicum of hope that this might not be the worst idea ever (remember what happened the LAST time we did live-action Netflix DN, we got the 2017 movie no one needs to live through that again). And what I ultimately came up with was:

Every single character, except for Light and Raye, is now a woman. (Obviously this isn't wholly genderbent, but. It's close enough to this ask that I found it to still be a humorous coincidence.) I think in the hands of the right writer, it could be an interesting examination of misogyny and how baked-in that concept is to the justice system. (And I think it would lend extra context to the fact that Light was able to keep operating for so long. If the people opposing him are all women in a historically male-dominated field, they'd all have to contend with a type of professional and societal discrimination that he'll never have to, thus giving him an advantage. Also L would be a Weird Girl™, which would absolutely raise some interesting questions in terms of the scope of this character's influence and their societal perception. Also femslash Near/Mello would be canonically possible which is OBVIOUSLY the most important factor to take into consideration.)

Soichiro's difficulty in believing Light's guilt would gain an extra dimension if this character were also grappling with the societal expectations of motherhood (especially while being in a position of authority in a """masculine""" career). And Matsuda...I just think some woman, any woman, should get to shoot Light repeatedly in a fit of rage. (Also something-something calling women in the workplace idiots/making them the butt of the joke/consistently overlooking them, I think you could do something there.) I think this theoretical concept I spent way too much time thinking about really only works if, even though the major and supporting characters are women, it's still made clear that they work in an environment overwhelmingly occupied by men.

As for a FULLY genderbent story...Light as a female character is, to me, indeed an idea too cursed. I will not elaborate.

And I don't think the Shinigami experience the concept of gender in the way that we do, so tbh I'm not really sure a whole lot would change in that regard. But I do think a female Ryuk would be very funny.

Naomi being a man I think would be...not cursed, I just don't particularly enjoy it. But mainly that's because I am A Gay™, and I love thinking about women who are tough enough to have the word "massacre" as part of their nickname. :)

Misa being reimagined as a guy could be really interesting, though, given how a) the entertainment industry treats women differently from how it treats men, and b) the world at large generally expects men to react differently to trauma than women do. (Although I still very much prefer the version of Misa that serves as a deconstruction of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl). And I'd be curious to see what the viewer/reader response would be if this character were a man. (Mainly because, historically, audiences are a lot more positively receptive to extreme, unhealthy displays of devotion when they come from a male character than when they come from a female character, but this answer is already probably too long, so we don't have to talk about that.)

(Best Friend ALSO mentioned the idea of Rina Sawayama playing L, and I am now gay on a level I previously didn't ever think was possible, but we don't have to talk about that either.)

Uhhhh....TLDR, full-genderbent DN kind of cursed, but there are some really interesting ideas you could examine. (The one veto I'm gonna make is that I do not think this story works if Light is a girl, but-you guessed it-we really don't have to talk about that.)

Also, stan the stage musical for serotonin and clear skin!

[lulu-nightbon]

🌟If you get this answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send this to the last 7 people in your notifications, anonymously or not 🌟

you just not send it i just wanna learn more about you cus you seem really cool

oh! well, uhm...

my birthday is august 15

i was diagnosed with autism level 1, pdd, and anxiety summer of 2021

aaaaaaaaaaaaand i am absolutely horrid with decisions unless it was preplanned

[wankstain-mcgee]

second question/enrichment: would an octopus girl do an emoji like this:

c:≈

or like this

C•=

Definitely option 1, because it's cuter

[nibbelraz]

Mobei Jun is a proper mother and makes sure his skin babies are well fed

[slushyseals]

👽 Alien seal with antennae?

[post-it-notes7]

hope nobody saw that

[applepixls]

not quite sure where this originally comes from but i saw this picture and couldn't help but think of the permit office people-

[zorionbbq]

Yes Man from Fallout New Vegas!

HI GOLLYGEEDASH THANK YOU FOR WAITING 1000 YEARS 🙏

[moonilit]

@punnifullife sure lol I just didn’t want to dump them for no reason

[cawsceries]

Pretty please can codywan kiss in global warming? If ur not doing ships then just cody having a silly/light-hearted/nerdy moment maybe!

yeah i’ll do ships!! BAD color palette did not enjoy it. the green… it’s killing me

contribute to my misery by sending me one of these color palettes :)

[neatnete]

they're bonding

[wankstain-mcgee]

I'm enriching you with an ask. here's a question: the phrase "at midnight on new year's eve" is clearly meant to invoke the turning from one year to the next, and yet 00:00 is midnight and the start of the new day, ergo "midnight on new years eve" would be when new years eve starts and not when the new year starts. what is your stance on this?

I agree with your conclusion, but I find it a bit pedantic, maybe?

Ngl I had a whole argument written out, but yeah. Common English language L. I guess it's just a case of collective meaning overriding arbitrary rules 🤷🏻‍♂️

Best not to overthink English words and phrases though, because you'll realise they're just gentrified sound waves that mean nothing at all, but some of them are Frencher than others 👍🏻

[blue-lollipops-and-ice-clouds]

Vessel's fight immortalized.

(Source - the amazing, brilliant, and talented MetalMuseMedia)

[toastsogwich]

[kawareo]

I love that cuckchair!Gortash looks... So fucking pissed. Like full on "Those should be MY GUTS HE'S PULLING OUT!! 😭😭😭" But his bulge is way too busy saying "This. We like this. We want MORE of this. 😈😋" (being turned on by watching your lover murder someone is a double-edged sword sometimes... Especially when whoever he's killing won't fucking die. And is actively inside of him.)

Fantastic, as always~ ❤️

He's smiling and gritting his teeth and furiously enjoying himself while planning on how to kill Ketheric forever