#i haven't read the light novels so

[justatree75]

i came into re:zero season 3 with a wishlist of what i wanted throughout the season and episode one check every single fucking box

[astersofthesky]

It's been hours since I discovered that this exists and yet it still feels so surreal. L felt such huge anguish that his heart was aching inside his chest at failing to save Maki from being kidnapped and the first thing that comes out of his mouth is "Light... It hurts. My heart—" and honestly, I felt like being punched repeatedly on the gut because this is honestly... *breathes* I am in awe and in disbelief because why would L speak Light's name like this, when Light was the reason why he's dying now?? Why would he confide in him, when Light had only shown him fakeness and lies since they met. It's so easy to think of all the evil things Light had done to him yet L doesn't think of any of those things.

He wasn't even thinking in this scene because all he can register is how his heart hurts and that it was telling him to speak Light Yagami's name, no matter how absurd, how silly, or how pathetic it seems. Because like Light, people NEVER sought him beyond the great detective L. No one bothered to know him beyond the gothic letter on their screens. Which honestly, isn't their fault because L kept them at arm's length.

But somehow, someone forced L's arm to minimize that distance and he's left with Light and his deceptive yet all-knowing eyes that managed to understand L. And it's so effin funny that a twisted individual like Light was the only person to actually see beneath the iceberg that is L. The one that caused his demise. It's so sick and ironic that Light is the one person who L thinks can understand his pain. He didn't think of Watari, his father-figure.

He thought of Light. Because at this place, at this point, he knew no one would understand his pain, his ideals, his everything, the way they didn't understand Light and his twisted sense of justice and his genuine distaste for the judicial system and how childish his black-and-white morality is EXCEPT L himself.

He called Light's name because deep down he knew, only Light would be able to understand the pressure and the lies the facade he'd been wearing all this time.

It's honestly insane how these two has something worse than romance, and that no matter what universe, no one really wins because all that is left of the other is the empty, shallow void caused by the other person's non-existence.

Lawlight, you both got some toxic codependent sht and honestly i'm here for it.

[robinmage]

[xserpx]

Ankh-Morpork, largest city in the lands around the Circle Sea, slept.

That statement is not really true.

On the one hand, those parts of the city which normally concerned themselves with, for example, selling vegetables, shoeing horses, carving exquisite small jade ornaments, changing money and making tables, on the whole, slept. Unless they had insomnia. Or had got up in the night, as it might be, to go to the lavatory. On the other hand, many of the less law-abiding citizens were wide awake and, for instance, climbing through windows that didn’t, belong to them, slitting throats, mugging one another, listening to loud music in smoky cellars and generally having a lot more fun. But most of the animals were asleep, except for the rats. And the bats, too, of course. As far as the insects were concerned…

The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty into reporting. Thus, if a legend said of a notable hero that "all men spoke of his prowess" any bard who valued his life would add hastily add "except for a couple of people in his home village who thought he was a liar, and quite a lot of other people who had never really heard of him." Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like "his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three," and any loose talk about a beloved having a face that launched a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed look like a bottle of champagne.

Quimby was eventually killed by a disgruntled poet during an experiment conducted in the palace grounds to prove the disputed accuracy of the proverb "The pen is mightier than the sword," and in his memory it was amended to include the phrase "only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp."

So. Approximately sixty-seven, maybe sixty-eight per cent, of the city slept.

— The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett

[dazai-on-my-mind]

I keep getting notes about how others see Aroace Dazai AND YET THERE'S NO POSTS ON IT????

Like where are the analysis about Dazai feeling disconnected from humanity and how things like love and sexual desire are two of the main things that people say make us human (incorrect but not the point). Why is no one talking about the vulnerability required to even participate in a romantic or sexual relationship???? Dazai Osamu the man whose bandages serve as an allegory on how he won't allow anyone to come too close and see underneath his facade.

And as much as I keep thinking about the nurse scene and Chuuya's threats to send Dazai's address out there are still multiple plausible explanations that aren't related to him having a sexual relationship with any of those women.

[ohmaosama]

From torrey story about how he met "mage" for the first time :

is it them??? From the Mahoutsukai shihen inazuma jack to yousei jiken

But they also lived in the same timeline as the mahoyome chise elias tho...

But again changelings have long lives, so yeah it's probably them. Do you think they'll encounter each other someday? 👀

[ilovereadingandstuff]

"Haruka wasn't going to deny that there was someone who could swim faster than him. But he wasn't going to acknowledge it so easily, either. It wasn't that he wanted to win, or that he hated losing; it was just that he couldn't simply accept that there was someone who could feel the water more than he could."

Haruka Nanase's relationship with water is...passional.

like...he's possessive over water. I'm just gonna say that. And, of course, Rin is the cause to that possessiveness and his unusual drive to compete.

Water and Rin represent...something to Haru.

[saeraas]

they both just had a super casual moment "damn, we're old" at age 27 and 28 while debriefing this mission. they are not serious

[pampamtiger]

it's hard when none of your friends like your current hyperfixations lolololol

[gothamcityneedsme]

gonna.... buy fingersmith soon.

[rotisseries]

rori bestie what is 55 minutes

a bsd light novel!! idk the plot let me google it rn actually

ok so the ada has to go to this island for what they think is some jewel thieves but ends up way more serious there's some bombing, time travel, and a guy named h.g. wells so. sounds like a lot of fun actually

[catboydan]

fiance got me a kindle for my birthday <3

[snailchimera]

I decided to go look up The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System because fanwork from it kept showing up on my dash and I got curious, but I'm wondering if I found the wrong thing, or at least a suboptimal version of the thing. According to DuckDuckGo results, it's a Chinese web novel that was eventually picked up for traditional serial publication, and I found a sample for the first part of the series on Libby. Libby is a service that provides ebooks for libraries, so it has to be an official translation. But it's... really stilted. And it's really stilted in that specific way that often results from a poor, over-literal translation, although it's also kinda lacking in details in a way I'd assume comes from the original text. Is there a different translation I should be looking for? Is this a situation where the writing and/or translation improves over time? Is the entire fandom reading it in the original Chinese? Is there in fact a different work entirely that I should be looking at? Is this a case of the fandom stealing the characters/basic plot premise and running with them? What is going on here.

[shidoukanae]

drawing for a scene in the TME light novel (specifically, Paris helping out Lyla!!).

I drew this scene immediately after I read it because oh my god of all the things I was expecting from Paris's first introduction, him lending a (unneeded) helping hand to Lyla was NOT what i thought his first introduction would be like

[altruistic-meme]

as we can all see, the bsd brainworms got me. so i am adding bsd to the manga collection chart 🫡

[saltmilea]

misc orv doodles I’ve made + yoohankim study

TL: KDJ stands for Cockroach Demon