I have the exact opposite problem of other people who get their name mispronounced.

♡ happy birthday kun ♡

my fav ai specialist

ID: a digital portait of alana maxwell from the wolf 359 podcast. she is a white woman with blond chin length hair. she is wearing hexagonal glasses and a blue uniform that says si-5 and a logo for goddard futuristics. "happy birthday" is written behind her in binary. end id

i don't think I've ever enjoyed a birthday party with friends as much as today i am genuinely getting a bit teary eyed

its zeff's birthday today here so here's some progress of this wip :]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LILIA!!!

WE LOVE YOUUU (even if you don't come home and drain my account of my gems n keys)

please be nice and come home soon

I'm super late for his bday! But offer you some Ryoms chilling with cats 🤲

I'm kinda in the woods for the next 3 weeks and I forgot my sketchbook at home

✨louis tomlinson concept vinyl design✨

inspired by how much this man has fought to be where he is now and the support he receives from all of his fans. we love you louis!

picture credits! katkapuskasova.jpg | joshua halling | clock

Ourple light projections

Lilah Rose

Happy Birthday my dear friend!

I giggled when I saw your comments on my little drabble because I had written that fully expecting to come back with this art later this week and say this is Lilah the day after her birthday.

My Art ish Tag: @aallotarenunelma @storyofmychoices @twinkleallnight @thosehallowedhalls @dutifullynuttywitch

[wip] happy new year

It's my 29th birthday today!! I typically try to draw something self indulgent but I had NOO idea which character I wanted to draw for me this year because I was torn between a whole bunch. So I decided maybe the best option was to just draw that whole bunch of characters, so I did!

This past year has been a wild combo of highs and lows, but boy, I'm super proud of how much work I've put towards my mental health and acceptance of myself. I'm in a vastly different and better spot this year and I'm really grateful for all the past iterations of me that got me to where I am today.

Here's to another year of leaning more into the wild and messy chaos of being me!!

Aannd I'm 26 🎉🎂🎈

Woman of Ill Fortune ✦ Naomi Misora Meta/Rant/Essay(?)

I am always shocked by the unabashed cruelty of Light with Naomi Misora. (on an unrelated note: it feels impossible to call her just 'Naomi' and I blame the death note dub for having Light go Namoi Misora... every two seconds).

there's the obvious stuff: the tantalus-y way he dangles her promised call over her head. does she realise what he's doing? does she know? I've always wondered what the mindset of a Kira-controlled victim is. how it feels to have your will overwritten in that way. that's a cruelty in its own way. he killed her fiance with a heart attack. do we ever get a confirmation of what happened to her body? there's also the fact he played on a grieving woman's emotions, offered himself as a shoulder to cry on only to draw back and let her crack her head on the concrete.

but the worst part I think, is the fact he shifts back into the 'well-meaning kid' persona, moments after revealing his Kira-ness. not just because he gets to taunt her but because, it implicitly highlights (haha light(s)) the greatest cosmic cruelty of Naomi Misora: she was right. she was so close to being right and then she forces Kira's hand so much that he has to kill her, and conversely admit who he is, proving that she was, in fact, right.

while this is a powerplay on Light's part, I think the fact he has to make this decleration intrinscially shows how destabilised this off-duty FBI agent left him. he needs to reassure himself that Naomi Misora does not matter. and he does this by taunting her. by showing her that she is right, and she ultimately can't do anything about it. it's cockiness but as with a lot of Light's behaviour, it's also ultimately insecurity. and dread.

naomi misora scared light because she immediately and astutely threatened his cover, or maybe even just his sense of self: his ability to be topping-national-grades, kind, warm and helpful Light Yagami. because for a moment he's worried that it's not working, that the charm has run thin. so not only is it twisting the knife further when he says:

with this great single panel dedicated just to the act of opening the phone, cementing the cruelty of it all by zeroing in on the means of his own undoing that Light literally held, literally had to juggle away from Naomi Misora's hands now triumphantly and definitively in his hands, it's also him reassuring himself that he can be Kira, and then smoothly reassert Light Yagami, without being challenged. His main threat can't respond, she has been effectively silenced. Her distrust of his 'good guy' persona, her suspicion which so immediately tore at the threads of his sense of the good Light Yagami - the sort of person Kira would never have to kill - is an existential threat to Light Yagami. he has to kill it. but more than that. he has to kill and then check that the fiction/fact of Light Yagami is still intact. that she can't turn around and call bullshit on his 'moral self' anymore. even in death she scares him. the fact of her murder could undo Light Yagami further.

okay, light's really long finger aside (is that his thumb?? wow. incredible :] genuinely, love this sort of thing) look at the specific stipulations he puts forward for Naomi Misora. he doesn't just want to kill her: he wants her to have never existed. and more than that, because the death note functions off of what a victim could feasibly do, he weaponizes her insight, her abiltiy to uncover the truth, and uses it to bury her. he orchastrates her brilliant mind, her endless potential and turns it towards ensuring that she dies 'in such a way that nobody will be inconvenienced.'

the fact he has to check that he's still able to be Light, in ridiculously contrived circumstances, speaks volumes for Naomi Misora's single volume presence, and power. arguably in killing her he already proves he can't revert back to Light Yagami without Kira's supernatural powers which is !!!! interesting.

even if I regret her lack of presence and impact in Death Note beyond this point bitterly, there's just something about this moment. this little bundle of chapters that are treated almost like a prefiguring of L's apperance which had me absolutely engaged. it's the perfect fusion of plot and character. unfortunately it's entirely turned towards the building of Light's character. Naomi Misora is stoic and distant and intelligent and a plot device in service of a man and it's a reality that I struggle with. as is often the case with Death Note, the text and the themes seem to be running in tandem towards a super interesting coherence, only for things to become a bit arrested, a bit flat.

Naomi Misora could well have been L's inheritor. Or rather, perhaps she is his predecessor, narratively if not anything else, were it not for the fact that she has practically no interiority. In some ways, this is incredibly effective for tension: we have no idea what is going on inside her head, we have no clue what her plans are or what she's doing. in terms of the 'oh shit!' o'meter, it's high. but the fact that the mangaka, Ohba, felt that the best way to make a woman a threat was to close her off from any sort of interiority, to never show what she's thinking, or why she's thinking it, to never let her meet Light at the same level of mindgames as L is. infuriating. and a difficulty that is going to be continually encountered when thinking about female characters in Death Note, I think.

I've realised another reason Naomi Misora can't be just Naomi. Naomi Misora is the header of a gravestone. It's the name in a report for a body that has been missing for months. It's a name in a Death Note, never to be thought of again. In speaking and writing it, I assert her existence in counter-point to Light's erasure, but also, I do so by his terms, I negate her personhood. We don't really get 'Naomi', desperate as I was to know her. There's a hint of it: a photograph on a wall, her cynicism, her genuine surprise at Light's bullshittery.

before L had even met Light, before he had the chance to strip him of his 'good' moral citizen persona, there was Naomi Misora.

thank God for another note.

Guess who's the clown who swore not to miss his bday this year but barely managed to draw a sketch 🤡🤡🤡

Anw look at my bbg I wanna cuddle and kiss and call cute al the time

Tired boi needs a lot of rest and hugs 🥹🤲🏻🤲🏻❤️

Happy bday sleepy boi ~

Today I’m old now…. im probably classified as the “do you know him” tweet amongst the iPad baby generation