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Mihael

@livingd3adqpid

He/Him 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 || Current brainrots: Death Note and Homestuck || insta/Twitter: livingd3adqpid

This is gonna feel weird now but hear me out, ok? This is gonna be good, I swear!!

I have this Death Note AU I'm currently hyperfixiating on and it's pretty much "Wammy's is a boarding school and not an orphanage". So Mello, Matt and Near have actual families and lives outside the plot of the canon Death Note story. I'm trying to humanise and expand the characters and try to find realistic solutions for the weird things canon presents without changing too much of the original.

Ok, so a while ago I read that some people see Mello headcanonically as a croatian and having a croatian boyfriend myself -- what can I say, I couldn't aggree more with that. So I did some thinking and digging and here's what I came up with.

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Listen, I have TONS of content for all the three boys and the whole Wammy's House complex, I just need to make it presentable for y'all and that's taking a while. I really hope you will be there to read it though; I don't want to keep it all to myself as I'm having an absolute blast working on this and desperately want to share this stuff with you.

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pikestaff

"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

To wit:

I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.

In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:

“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.

“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”

Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.

Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕