#i do become not a minor this year

[theoldworldsrunnerup]

I think one of the reasons why Light’s death feels so much more satisfying in the manga than it does in the anime is because he genuinely has nobody.

In the anime, after Matsuda shoots him, he cries out for Misa and Takada who very obviously aren’t there (and nobody says anything), but Mikami, who is, despite everything, still devoted to him, literally takes his own life to distract everyone and give Light a chance to escape. He still dies in the end, but there was still someone there who was on his side.

In the manga, Light initially orders Mikami to help him, but, upon realising how pathetic Light is, he yells at him, telling him that he isn’t god, he is just scum. Light then cries out for Misa, but Near reminds him that she is not there and is currently staying at the Teito Hotel. He calls out for Takada, and again, Near reminds him that she’s dead (Near’s silence in the anime vs his reminders in the manga seem like a small difference, but I feel like they put a lot of emphasis on how no one is there to save him and it’s his own fault). He starts pleading for someone, anyone to help him. Finally, with no one else to rely on, he turns to Ryuk and begs him to help, but obviously Ryuk doesn’t care and writes Light’s name in his death note.

In that moment in the manga, he is truly alone. There is nobody who both can and wants to save him, and he dies in the warehouse, screaming about how he doesn’t want to die. He doesn’t get the opportunity to escape, he doesn’t get the flashback of his past self, and the tone doesn’t feel sad, like in the anime. It just... happens.

[randomfandomisuppose]

Honestly a batfam fic I want to see, as someone who immigrated to a new country and had to learn a new language, is one where there’s a language barrier between Damian and the rest of the batfam. Also I think not a lot of people talk about how huge of a thing it is to suddenly be uprooted by one of your parents and moved halfway across the world like I was.

By language barrier I don’t necessarily mean that he only speaks Arabic (although that would also be fairly interesting) but also in the sense that even if he is fairly fluent he learned English from a textbook and doesn’t understand any slang or even random things in everyday use.

He gets confused by sayings he hasn’t heard before. He doesn’t know/remember the word for random household objects. Occasionally he pronounces a new word in an odd way. He meets someone with a strong accent he isn’t familiar with and suddenly he has trouble understanding what they’re trying to say. He tries to say something to someone else and suddenly blanks because the word he’s thinking of doesn’t exist in English. Sometimes he directly translates a word or saying into English and everyone else is slightly confused.

Something else I’ve also experienced is kinda feeling out of place because there are some things that I can’t share with people. Not in the sense of “oh I can’t tell them about it” but in the sense of “this is only funny in my own language” or just kind of feeling like an “other” because everyone around you is speaking their first language and you’re over here speaking your second, third or even fourth language.

Just people talking about the things they did or liked as kids and just not being able to relate at all cause you had completely different experiences. You learn their pop culture references and the everything into the intricacies and smallest details of their culture that they don’t even think about but they don’t know where your country is on a map, they don’t know how people speak there, the food, the cities, anything really. You spend your time learning everything about their culture, but it just feels so one sided because you’re speaking their language and they don’t speak a word of yours. Both literally and metaphorically. You are tuning yourself in on their wavelength constantly and not a lot of people will ever make much of an effort to tune into yours.

There is no one around you that you can have a conversation with in your own language, apart from maybe family, and you can’t easily find books in your language. The more you surround yourself with people from your new country the more easily you can feel like you’ve lost contact with your own country and your own language. The longer you stay in a new country the more you feel like if you went back to your own country you’d be just as out of place as you feel in the one you currently live in.

It goes the other way too. The more you look and sound like you fit in the more uncomfortable it gets because people like to put you in one box or the other and a lot of people don’t understand that you might never completely feel completely like one or the other is “your country”. You’ll never be completely the same as the people in the new country. You may know all the same cultural references as they do after some time but you don’t have the same emotional basis or nostalgia around it as they do. You don’t have the same acquired tastes as they do. There are things from your old country that used to be a common thing where you came from but just do not exist there.

You end up missing the dumb things. The differences in the trees. The food. The dumb children’s characters. The holidays. The dumb little sayings that people would have. Body language and verbal cues that people in your new country just do not have. The way buildings are built. The way the weeds in the pavement are different. The way even the DIRT has a different composition. The way the seasons aren’t the same, the difference in weather and temperature throughout the year. The shittiest, cheapest candy they sold in every store but don’t sell here.

This is all stuff I’ve experienced before myself and I think it would be fun for Damian to have some of the same experiences with it.

[sagegreenconverse73946]

OdyPenDio Modern AU what vibes does Diomedes give off more

For reference this is what the different fights are like:

Boxing: only punches, jabs, and uppercuts above the waist. No grappling.

MMA: punches, jabs, uppercuts, strikes w/ elbows, knees, spinning back fist, kicks, high kicks, low kicks, grappling, wrestling, etc. No hitting in groin area or pulling hair.

basically MMA is a lot more variety but Boxing is more popular, for example: Mile Tyson

[marimbles]

i miss carpisuns sometimes </3

[burning-omen]

Shout out to all the non-Americans (particularly the Europeans) who pre-election were just going on and on about how they watch the election like “reality tv” and how “it was just so entertaining” but are now posting shit like “if any of my American mutual want to talk, my dms are open🥹” go fuck yourself actually

[vani-ash]

Idk if this is a controversial opinion but I low-key hate when people make Kim and his brothers distant but decide Kim is besties with Vegas at the same time

Kim had no problem walking into a random warehouse and immediately shooting at Vegas on sight

Like idc if it's just that Vegas and Kim are friends/friendly but it's when they specifically add that they are friends and Kim hates his brothers/does not interact with them but he kept in touch with Vegas?

[sealrock]

I think another roster cull is in order

[blacktrekkie]

bruce wayne was not raised by a gay man for y'all to write him as homophobic or confused about his kids' queerness

[skunkes]

on the topic of talon's design... what's the story regarding the scars? i was always curious about where they came from but could never find any explanation about it.

the torso ones? honestly im debating on whether or not to keep em bc i always get sick of or forget extra details on an oc (did u know al used to have an arm tattoo... i got so tired of it so quickly lmaooo) BUT they're from unintentional self harm, he's got his claws (his talons wee hee) and he grabs at his sides with them unthinkingly when he's nervous....think of it like somebody not noticing they've bit their nails to the point of bleeding because of...whatever's making em bite their nails LOL....

it's why I also often draw shapes on the sides of his tops, they're patches of fabric for reinforcement or replacement... its both a Fix and also a bolder reminder (if he sees em out of the corners of his eyes) to stop ruining his shirts (this was more important when he didn't really have easy ways to get New clothing or make his own if necessary)

honestly i enjoy the character action behind em (unthinking focus, the fact that he has small harm he causes himself subconsciously along with the major, On Purpose stuff) as well as the result (the mending) but I also fear my just-for-fun ocs being Laughably Bad and I know scars are a little 🙄 especially since these also don't even look particularly good on his design ykwim...just looks like when ppl close their eyes and fling em onto their characters 😭 ah well im in no rush to figure it out, he's gonna be changing for as long as he's in my brain

[cobra-creampuff]

i feel like i remember people posting happy birthday character posts for mickey in june? is that right? well, even if he doesn't have a canon birthday (or if he does and it's. wrong.) he has a summer birthday To Me. and i've never seen a guy who is more obviously a capricorn than ian, so! if mickey's summer birthday is indeed in june specifically (i'm thinking cancer, but it would also be really cool if mickey and mandy are both gemini - twins who aren't twins), then mickey is technically two years older than ian for about half the time.

[nostalgia-tblr]

kindle books amazon wants me to buy

The latest TikTok viral sensation about a female protagonist who starts out as enemies to lovers with an elf-centaur but by the end of the seven book series (two already available) she's going to fuck that elf-centaur at least once.

Feminist Reimaginings Of Some Greek Myth

Historical novel about a FORGOTTEN WOMAN OF HISTORY but then it's just Anne Boleyn again.

Part of some series by Cassandra Clare The Infamous Fandom Plagiarist

Dan Jones's latest thing about MANLY! MUSCULAR! KINGS! who have SWORDS! and THRONES! and who are VERY VERY MASC!

A monograph about the socio-religious significance of bread baked by left-handed women in 13th century France (tempting but priced at well over a hundred pounds).

The latest viral TikTok whatever but this time the OFC fucks a dragon. Probably called 'A Noun of Noun and Noun'

It's called 'Verity' and it looks like a crime novel of some kind and I doubt it has ever been on sale for more than 99p.

WOMAN MURDERED BY A STRANGER BUT THEN HER GHOST HAUNTS A SWEDISH DETECTIVE UNTIL HE SOLVES IT.

It's a historical novel but get this... it's also set in the modern day! Will the modern protagonist turn out to have something in common with the dead one? Stay tuned to find out!

Prev but with Anne Boleyn in it (again).

Someone has worked out who killed the Princes in the Tower! At last! Hurrah!

[nereb-and-dungalef]

I keep drinking coffee thinking it's gonna make me Productive and then instead of doing the work I actually have to do I just compulsively make spreadsheets :(

[fanaticartisan]

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[venvellan]

i'm unironically so obsessed with rolan it's getting annoying. it was never ironic to begin with but i thought a post or two would get it out of my system. it's worse now. i been thinking about this side quest npc more than astarion lately. at the VERY LEAST i think about them equally. it's stupid. never in my career have i been down lower for a side character with < an hour of dialogue. i am so free. but at the same time. feel like dribbles. the way i'm clowning around (and in several pieces spread across the land)

[iftitah]

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[aroacettorney]

love how ludger rejecting divinity means so fuckin little because even if he is not a "proper" god hes still the most op and successful character in the entire multiverse