Those Aren't Vikings; They're Team Rocket.

[rionaleonhart]

Last night, I stayed with th_esaurus, which was thoroughly delightful. We played silly Pokémon games and rewatched the first Pokémon film (in which the moral is, apparently, 'Pokémon shouldn't fight'. Hmm), and we concluded that L would have a Porygon. (Light has a Banette, as illustrated, but it is visible only to those who have touched the Death Note. Alternatively: a Gengar.)

She also showed me quite a few things relating to, ahem, the Jonas brothers. I concluded that Nick should be a woman and Kevin should have a Death Note. YOU WILL REGRET NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO HIM, WORLD. Of course, as th_esaurus pointed out, everyone would suspect Joe, so in the end Kevin's plan to make himself noticed through murder wouldn't really work.


Before we went to sleep last night, we had the following mildly horrifying conversation:

RD: Do you actually 'ship Light/Light in a serious way?
Riona: If I could think of a plausible way for Light to meet himself, I would leap upon it immediately. I don't just want some cracky 'oh, there are two Lights now' thing; I want it to make sense. I am ridiculously serious about this stupid pairing. I think it's the most believable one in Death Note.
(pause)
Riona: I'd prefer it if there were two of him, but I would happily read fanfiction in which Light just masturbates whilst thinking about how great he is.
RD: ...I'm a bit shocked to hear you say that.
Riona: I was a bit shocked to realise I was thinking it.

Death Note has obviously done some very bad things to me. Seriously, though, I cannot 'ship Light with anyone but himself. I cannot think of any other character for whom I can believe in only one pairing.

I suppose that makes Light/Light my first OTP, then.

Oh, dear.

(kadrin actually wrote Light/Kira commentfic for me, because he is amazing.)


In the 'It Just Bugs Me' TVTropes page for Death Note (beware of clicking; TVTropes is an endlessly fascinating Internet black hole and you may be trapped there for hours), which consists mostly of musings on the minutiae of using a Death Note:

Suppose "Steve Jones. Heart attack. Eats a cookie and finishes the milkshake he put in the freezer last night before collapsing on the floor," was written in a Death Note. Before Steve can do any of this, Daniel Plainview drinks his milkshake. Does Steve still eat the cookie before dying?

I laughed until I wept, and I don't know why. I think it's just the fact that people have actually thought about these things.


Tomorrow, I am off to Birmingham for the 'Asylum' Supernatural convention! I have never been to anything remotely conventionish before, so this is to be a new and perhaps slightly frightening experience.

th_esaurus has suggested that I turn up in a Jeffrey Dean Morgan mask. This, I am sorry to say, is probably unlikely.

Comments

[th-esaurus.livejournal.com]

I'm working on something else before I stab at Light/Light, but it IS still in my head. WE SHALL SEE.

........When did you conclude that Nick should be a woman?

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

I was planning to make a Misha mask for one of the fancy dress parties. I kinda regret not going through it with :(

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

Have fun in Birmingham! Try not to get shot.

You shall be a two and a half hour train ride away from me while you are in Brum Land.

...I did not mean for that to sound so stalkery.

Also, you're going to be rather near Misha Collins. Hngh.

[calamitysxchild.livejournal.com]

you bitchhh

I wanna go to a convention so bad :(. Damn me living in New York with no money.

Everyone seems to be getting into this Death Note thing. Including my siblings. Hm. Perhaps I should look into it.... ;)

[thrennion.livejournal.com]

Have fun at the con!

[honeymull.livejournal.com]

RIONA. I have watched the first episode of Death Note and am totally drawn in. \0/

I have another window open with the youtube episodes all queued up and it is massive.

Creepy, dark, and gorgeous and lfvjkhdglfskjg. Love.

[timydamonkey.livejournal.com]

Good luck at the convention! Could be lots of fun. Too far south for me I think, plus I'm really bad with crowds. I'd be standing back against the wall looking confused most probably! I shall save myself the embarrassment. Do tell us about it? :D

Also, every type of fic - and thus pairing - can be written at least half-way seriously. See this fic (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4728760/1/Adaptation) for example. (You should read their other Death Note fics. They are amazing.) Sorry for the plugging, feel free to ignore if you like - I just really like this fic author's stuff. :)

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

"Those Aren't Vikings; They're Team Rocket."

Oh, Jessie and James and their AMAZING RIDICULOUS costumes!

Also, convention? BEWARE OF THE INSANE SUPERNATURAL FANGIRLS.

[bouncywild.livejournal.com]

YAY ASYLUM. For the Hollywood night on Sunday, if you see the Wizard of Oz characters, I'll be Dorothy. Unless there's more than one Dorothy. Either way, I'll be there! Wave or something! :D

I'm so nervous. :(

[bubl.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever read a character paired with themselves, but I know my sister has read Harry Potter/Harry Potter. Strange strange.

Have fun at the convention! (Don't wear a mask, that would be horrifying.)

[emmarrrrr.livejournal.com]

I studiously avoided clicking the TvTropes link, as it is half eleven and I have spent the majority of the past three nights/early mornings on there, reading various crowning moment of awesome pages. and a few it just bugs me ones. the one for iron man makes me lol, as does the crowning moment page.

"Any time Robert Downey Jr is on screen, a CMOA has either just happened, is about to happen, or is happening right now. It's that kind of movie. The awesome kind."

[emmarrrrr.livejournal.com]

also WAT JDM MASK

i kind of want one.

[hold-onhope.livejournal.com]

You're going to Asylum?! ... Did you mention this earlier and it completely escaped my attention?

Have fun!!! It's probably a pretty easy-going convention. SPN cons are more about Q&A panels than anything else, there's not a whole lot of dress up going on. Some crazies, but not too many. :D

[cryforthemoon.livejournal.com]

Have fun. :D

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Great, now my brain's got Clarence the angel from It's A Wonderful Life dragging Light back to when he was innocent and good, and trying to persuade him he can make another choice, only to have Light go "I'm damn hot!", start testing whether the Death Note works on angels, and step over the corpse of poor Clarence to make out with himself.

Why must you put these ideas in my head? Why?

[saaski-moql.livejournal.com]

I'm aware that you're on Death Note right at the moment but I've gotten back to Merlin and you need to read this NOW as in IMMEDIATELY it's not long. (http://community.livejournal.com/merlin_flashfic/25536.html#cutid1)

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Suppose "Steve Jones. Heart attack. Eats a cookie and finishes the milkshake he put in the freezer last night before collapsing on the floor," was written in a Death Note. Before Steve can do any of this, Daniel Plainview drinks his milkshake. Does Steve still eat the cookie before dying?

I just realized that I know this. In the manga, Light did experiments. If he gives them orders they can't fulfill (defies the laws of physics, just doesn't work, involves them revealing information they don't have - specifically L's real name), they do the parts they're capable of, don't do the rest, and still die. So yes, he'd still eat the cookie, even if Daniel Plainview drank his milkshake first. Although, if it was "Steve Jones drinks the milkshake he has in the freezer, and dies of milkshake poisoning", and Daniel drank it instead, I'm not sure what would happen. Maybe nobody would die?

ETA: Actually, Steve Jones would die regardless, because his name was in the death note. If the means of death wasn't there, he'd just have a heart attack (which everyone would blame on all the milkshakes and cookies). Daniel Plainview might die, at least by movie rules, provided Light had put something down like "Steve Jones accidentally spills rat poison in his milkshake and fails to notice" (or something more plausible).