#a picture's worth a thousand words

[ladydaybreaker]

:3

[chirpingchorus]

[howifeltabouthim]

. . . sometimes the camera extracts from the faces and bodies of its subjects what they do not say aloud.

Siri Hustvedt, from The Blazing World

[lukolabrainrot]

Communicating Through Photos 😍😍

These two just shine/glow together... I can't quite explain it 😭❤️️😭❤️️

[team-avia]

"Who do you think you are, running around leaving scars, collecting your jar of hearts, tearing love apart"

[applestorms]

the fact that he’s looking directly at himself…

horror at the sight of your own innocence. the first thing you re-learn is that you were always cursed to fall. the rapture, the upside-down ascension, the death of the human— overcoming, overwhelming. transcending mortal bounds, crossing the bridge to the other side, seeing what makes the shadows without ever leaving the cave. self-consciousness, and the übermensch. in order to attain true godhood, one must first fully relinquish the vestigial traces of their depleting humanity. animal origins grow into human, social acceptance as the “civilized” man— but what comes next? where to go, where to run, when you fly into the sun and mistake its light for your own?

do you think it hurts, to remember?

it always shocks me how quickly he recovers after this point, how far his denial goes, the repression of his remaining empathy. the impressive extent of his dedication— and, ultimately, all for the sake of self preservation, to continue seeing the purity, the wholesomeness reaffirmed. light yagami has the survival instinct of a prey animal overdosing epinephrine. he kills two people by accident, and then takes down half the world just to prove he was right.

who is he, at this moment? where does he go when KIRA takes his body back? it seems like he accepts possession so easily, so long as it is done by the correct god— his own god, his own self. a=a, tautological identification, a soul shared between two names until the face in the mirror stops looking like yourself.

i was searching, earlier this week, for a clear instance of when he grows up— that classic coming of age moment, Manhood finally achieved. there are a few potential options to consider: his coming of age ceremony, marked by his first suit, tears shed by a chthonic companion as he matches a face to the name of the man behind the cameras. or perhaps a bit later, as he builds up to taking over the title of L, a slow transition over yotsuba as he stops automatically bowing to his father's will and takes on his role as hidden director instead. or maybe, at the very beginning? watching the notebook fall, writing his first names, his earliest stumble into grace and heavenly sanctity...

none of these moments fit. in not one of these cases does light yagami grow up. he changes, sure, he shifts, he goes through the motions, sneaks out of old cycles and breaks in the new ones. but not once does he Grow, does he sit back and truly Reflect. he looks into his past and he grieves his younger self, the stain on his soul he must take for all the lesser beings onto which he bestows his glorious salvation. he calls his actions criminal, but a necessary evil for the sake of a world, to achieve the moral standard he was always taught to uphold. he graduates. he moves out. he leaves his family behind.

but not once does he grow up.

he grows older. he watches his sister's health decline, sits by his father's deathbed and listens to him regurgitate his own lies back at him. he crawls across the dirty floor of a warehouse, soaked in his own blood, begging for the impossible as his 40 seconds tick away. he spends six years reigning as a god, believing the same lies he told himself when he was seventeen, when he made his first mistake and didn't know how to accept it. he does not move on. he does not grow.

perhaps that's the true tragedy of this moment, that for every memory he regains of the past, he learns nothing of the future. such a static entity, in the end.

compare the framing here, between ch.1 and ch.53. he never stops looking at it the same way, sweating and nervous and terrified. he knew what this entailed, right from the beginning. tragedy is to be found only in the lies he allowed himself to believe in the interim. note the addition of headphones, in the previous spread— he won't even allow himself to hear his own screams.

pack it all away, buddy. you'll face the reality of your finite, mortal lifespan soon enough.

[mamawasatesttube]

timkon version of klimt's "the kiss" but kon is the one on the right. tim may or may not have gotten something to stand on in order to be kissing him from above (even though kon's kneeling) (kon also may or may not be floating while kneeling just to make it a little harder on him) (tim's really smug that he has successfully gotten a kiss in despite this. he won. take that kon. get fucking smooched idiot!!!) (kon is going 🥰🥰🥰 bc he loves to get smooched yay yippee yay yayy). do you see the vision

[ingravinoveritas]

Photos of David and Georgia at the TV BAFTAs last night. Presented without comment...

[peanuts-fan]

class report

[dinosaurwithablog]

"We are not amused!!" That cat's expression says it all. How adorable 😍 🤣🤣🤣😍 I'm still giggling. My cat would never tolerate that.

[madderruz]

Assorted mushy gushy sumiisa doodles + a more humorous one and they're purple this time

[issalesnunes]

Maybe my Bridgerton obsession is getting to me, but this image is definitely a Renaissance painting.

The camera angle focused on Penélope, the expression on her face, the contrasting colors!

[aristaspark]

Omg I just found the ultimate proof Kenlynn is endgame, it's mindblowing. This is so much better than everything I've written until now.

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[ironunderstands]

It’s such an untalked about form of whiplash where someone interprets the same thing as you, and it’s reasonable they came to that conclusion, but in such an entirely different tone than you would that completely jarrs you back to reality. Like I read a fic today about the Final Victory lightcone, and in it Ratio doesn’t find Aventurine shooting himself 3 times impressive enough (he calculated the odds of dying weren’t high enough to prove anything), so he pulls the trigger two more times, and aventurine isn’t at all phase about it. And like it was very well written and reasonably in character, but that’s not my Dr. Ratio or Aventurine. I had a moment where I was like “people see them like this!?!”

A scene I interpreted as a display of Aventurines sheer desperation to get anyone on his side to the point of suicidal behavior, and Ratio not doing anything about it because he was so in shock at both the consequences of his actions (berating Aventurine earlier and making him feel as though he had no other choice), and being unable to move and stop him because of that and the whole “what the ever loving fuck is happening right now”…

…Into a completely different one, one where Ratio willingly accepts Aventurines challenge and pulls the trigger two more times because 3 isn’t enough to prove Aventurine could be the final victor, all while calculating what would happen if the bullet was in that gun and if he could save him. For his part, Aventurines “provocative gaze” which I interpreted as desperation (and maybe Aventurines suicidal tendencies peaking through) masked as overconfidence (which ratio would see right through and would cause him to freeze) into a genuine challenge (the underlying suicidal tendencies are still there).

And like, neither of these are wrong in my eyes. We don’t get to see how the actual scene played out, we only have the Lightcone, its description, the context and our understanding of Dr. Ratio’s and Aventuine’s characters. Personally I lean towards my interpretation being the more canon one because Dr. Ratio (as narcissistic as he is) genuinely cares for others well being (also his leaked voicelines ab Aventurine make me feel this way) and I don’t think he would care about the point Aventurine is trying to prove if it would cause him to die, so I think the only reality in which he is holding that gun to Aventurine’s chest is out of shock.

But like, if you don’t view Ratio or Aventurine like I do, which is completely reasonable, the other interpretation makes sense. Unless we see this actual scene play out, both possibilities co-exist but one of them is so brazenly different from my interpretation of the scene that I can’t really reconcile with it. I love when others perspectives do that to me

[lukolabrainrot]

The "Boyfriend" Pics of L on N's IG

I thought we needed a little good energy after the week we had. So I have compiled all the "boyfriend" pics of L on N's grid from this year. I might have missed some, and I didn't include the pics of any of the promo shoots (except one from Milan because it had a vibe). But there are soooo many photos of L on her grid. The man is ALLL over her page. Yes, some of that is due to the fact that they were promoting the show. However, all of these particular images below have a very certain energy... I'll talk more about my thoughts on these pics at the end.

N posted on her grid 4-29-24 (Bridgerton Season 3 BTS)

N posted on her grid 5-3-24 (Bridgerton Season 3 BTS)

N posted on her grid 5-11-24 (Italy stop of the WT)

N posted on her grid 5-16-24 (Bridgerton Season 3 BTS)

N posted on her grid 5-17-24 (Bridgerton Season 3 BTS)

N posted on her grid 5-19-24 (Bridgerton Season 3 BTS)

N posted on her grid 5-30-24 (Brazil stop of the WT)

N posted on her grid 6-2-24 (Bridgerton Season 3 BTS)

N posted on her grid 6-10-24 (Ireland stop of the WT)

N posted on her grid 6-11-24 (Bridgerton Season 3 BTS)

N posted on her grid 6-18-24 (Bridgerton Season 3 BTS)

N posted on her grid 7-4-24 (Bridgerton Season 3 BTS)

N posted on her grid 7-16-24 (Bridgerton Season 3 BTS)

N posted on her grid 8-22-24 (Bridgerton Season 3 BTS)-> This is the same pic from the polaroid above from 5-16-24, just a different pose, which I found interestingggg 🤔

Alright, here are my thoughts/theories:

We know photos are one of N's love languages, and she communicates through them. L WAS NEVER GOING TO BE POSTING A BUNCH OF PICS OF N ON HIS GRID RN. For LOTS of different reasons. However, these type of pics started popping up at the end of April, which is when the WT really started picking up. I think N was using these types of pics to communicate with us on her feelings for L, and how she sees him. She wanted us to see him through HER lens (if that makes sense). These photos signal trust, comfort, love, joy, silliness, safety, connectedness/intimacy etc. Regardless of the public optics of what was going on, N wanted us to know that she and L have a very special connection 😍

She also doesn't have pics like this of ANYONE else on her grid this year (I haven't looked through her whole grid, so I don't know about posts from before this year, except that one of her and L after his play that blew up lol). Now yes, like I mentioned, a lot of the pics N has of L on her grid from this year is Bridgerton Season 3 promotional material, but there was something different about these photos. I have a lot of theories on why N decided to post these, but this is what I will say. I think these photos served as a message that things were changing for L/N BTS during the WT, and tbh, I think she wanted to show him off on her grid 😉 She just did it by hiding behind Polin and the tour, so there was plausible deniability.

I also found it VERY interesting that L seemed fine with N posting all these specific photos the last few months, but A could only post his freaking hand. This could have been for a lot of different reasons, but I just find it very interestingggg 🤔 I just feel like I know who has L's heart, and hint, it's not 🐜.

Also, some of these photos were actually taken with a camera that L gifted TO N, so he knows how important photos are to her, and that it is one of the ways she communicates and shows her love 🤔

Lastly, ALL of these photos are still on N's grid. Just saying...

[thebubblesareevil]

Just a reminder!

If you have to get your inspection done and you don’t know or trust the mechanic. Take as many pictures of your undercarriage and engine and really everything as possible.

Some mechanics will be honest with you, some aren’t and always get an itemized list of any work they say it needs.

Your filters take ~10 min to change and cost roughly $10.

My sister just got her inspection and they wanted to charge her $70 to change her filters.

They also told her she needed new tires….the day after they were changed.

This has been a random PSA. You may now continue your tomfoolery.