Light: Do You Take Constructive Criticism?

Soichiro: Kira killed about 27 people today

Light: Oh no, that's tearable. And I heard that the evidence that the police has got on Kira is still paper-thin

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

how much do the demigods really know about Percy?

Frank and Hazel first knew him as just a guy who showed up with a goddess on his back. everything he does from that point onward is equally bizarre, and certainly impressive, but perhaps not exactly legend-worthy. by the time they’ve won the battle against Polybotes at New Rome, their experience with him confirms he’s a badass, but the hints and jokes he drops about his past can’t all be real, right?

Jason, Leo, and Piper would have been showered in stories at Camp Half-Blood. did you know, Percy fought and killed a Kindly One and the Minotaur before he even got to Camp the first time? did you know, he was the first one on our side to suspect Kronos was rising? did you know, he revealed who poisoned Thalia’s Tree? did you know, he and Annabeth held the sky? did you know he crashed his own funeral? did you know he made a hurricane?

did you know, did you know, did you know?

but how many of Percy’s stories do the campers really know? what did Annabeth and Percy keep to themselves in their retellings? do they know Luke forced Percy to fight to the death in an arena? were they told Percy actively chose to be the subject of the prophecy to protect Nico, who almost certainly hated him at that point? do they know Percy was the reason Mount Saint Helens erupted? do they know he fought Hades and his army, and won?

the campers all think Percy is a legend, but when they find out there’s more? that’s when they start to think of him as a god.

i've come to realize there are only two kinds of tragedies: preventable and inevitable. preventable tragedies are the kind where everything could have maybe worked out if only. if only romeo had gotten the second letter. if only juliet had woken up earlier. if only creon had changed his mind about antigone sooner. if only orpheus hadn't turned around.

inevitable tragedies are the kind where everything was always going to end terribly. of course macbeth gets deposed, he murdered his way to the throne. of course oedipus goes mad, he married his own mother. of course achilles dies in the war, he had to fulfill the prophecy in order to avenge his lover.

both kinds have their merits. the first is more emotionally impactful, letting the audience cling to hope until the very end, when it's snatched away all at once leaving nothing but a void. the second is more thematically resonant, tracking an inherent fatal flaw in its hero to a natural and understandable conclusion, making it abundantly clear why everything has to happen the way it does.

Light: You know, I'm starting to regret showing you how that blender works.

L, drinking toast: Why do you say that?

"Curious..." he murmered. "Very curious..."

"I'm sorry," Harry said, "but what's curious?"

Olivander simply looked at him for a long moment, a strange light in his eyes, before he spoke so abruptly that Harry jumped.

"Curious, my boy, is of course the adjective form of the noun curiosity—"

My ringtone is just Light Yagami laughing and so the looks I get whenever I'm out in public and my phone goes off are absolutely priceless

Matsuda finally convinces Light and Misa to let him hang out with them. Now he's 3 hours deep in their princess themed tea party talking about their next steps as Kira. He's debating on what to do, and really doesn't want to turn in his new besties.

ohhhkay i just read the power of five series and came to tumblr expecting a positively HUGE fanbase but??? what??? why is this fandom so smallll wahhh

but god do i love richard