Multi-subject Musings

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1.  Iz snowing, so I don't have musical rehearsal tonight. I am both relieved and worried. We start performing in a week and a half. We haven't made any props or practiced cues. Eep.

2. Spent most of today working on the outline for that novel I swear I'm going to finish and my friends refuse to stop poking me until I do. My inspiration goes in phases - I'm coming off of a fanfiction kick and will now work on original stuffs. After I  finish those drabbles.

3.   As I think about it, I realize more and more that Death Note is a study in irony. The main character is the villain, and he's very charismatic and passionate and a very likable character. He's much more human than L. He's fighting for justice and  the weak - but doing so by becoming a tyrant. He's covered in Messianic symbolism - but he wants to save the world by destroying it. His enemy is the only other person anything like him, his so called first friend, callous and selfish and childish. The three most brilliant detectives in the world are an antisocial sugar addict who cares little about his causes and refuses to wear socks. The second most prolific murderer is a bouncy model with no thoughts outside her boyfriend. The first most prolific is the straight-A son of a chief investigator, who always believes in his son's innocence. The man who would become god dies in a forgotten old warehouse with none but his enemies even knowing who he was, dying for a justice that in the end, means nothing at all.

Now that I've realized that, I feel better about some of the elements I was uncomfortable with. It's supposed to be unsettling (Which it is. I identify with Light far to easily.) It's supposed to be off-balance. It's okay for it to be backwards, because it's supposed to be backwards.



That clears a lot up in my head, at least.

S