Let's pretend I know what I'm doing!

literally stream JUST chapter one of death note to understand what i think of as a compelling tragedy

like it's about light killing someone essentially by accident, panicking and losing himself because he thinks that means he is damned, killing a bunch more people because he can and he thinks he's damned now anyway, being almost relieved when a divine being comes to punish him, being explicitly informed by said divine being that he is not damned and no one is going to punish him, being unable to tolerate this, and therefore declaring himself god because if he is not damned then there is not enough damning going on

i don't really love this translation also. the correct translation for the line that's rendered here as "i shall reign over a new world" is "i will become the god of a new world." for those of you who are not familiar with the text

like the thing is that light believes that the thing he is doing (killing criminals; during the first chapter killing only the interpol most wanted list) is good and should be done, but he also believes that it is evil to do. but he also needs the world to reflect that evil. he needs moral structure. he needs god to come down from on high and tell him, yes, what you are doing is evil and you are evil. and then god comes down from on high and says "nah, you're fine," and it completely breaks him. he needs the universe to have moral structure, and if it doesn't, he will create it

Oh no job for me thanks I just wanted to fill out this really long and condescending job application for you☺️

Coworker (60) was cursing under his breath to himself trying to get something to work on his computer. Other coworker (25) asked, "Are you winning son?" which went unanswered for quite a while, until finally coworker (60) very quietly went "..........'son'?"

Yes we explained Loss.jpeg to him

At lunch, coworker (23) was talking about all the ingredient combinatorics possible at the local lunch bowl place, which seemed as good a time as any to tell him about None Pizza Left Beef (tradition must be kept alive). I watched him pull out his phone and check in real time that you can in fact order None Pizza Left Beef from Dominoes. At which point he stared at his phone for a long and contemplative moment and went, "I really want to order this."

Also we're all learning here. The other week coworker (23) explained the concept of "lowkenuinely" and "lowkirkenuinely" to me. Never fucking heard of that shit in my life but the kids are up to something.

@uwathebestgirl

i am an unreliable narrator both because i do not remember and also i love to lie