#it is interesting to see

[ebonysolcum]

Me: *working on a section of my story where Janeway is thinking about how drastically her life has changed since getting stuck in the Delta Quadrant*

My brain: Ooh! That’s a thought! It would be really interesting to see how a pre-Delta Quadrant Janeway would react to learning about how her life is going to change. Particularly how close she’s going to get to the man she’s supposed to capture.

Me: …

[xxswagcorexx]

maybe this is just me talking out of my ass but like. is it just me or is lifesteal fan work during s3 noticeably a Lot more...violent than lifesteal fan work during s4? not necessarily darker bc i feel like s4 had some more insidious stuff that was explored in the fandom but . s3 fan work felt a lot more "dog eats dog" than s4 (not /neg i still enjoy older and newer fan work, it's just interesting to compare the general tone of stuff respond to the seasons)

like. i feel like there's been a Lot more character studies and whatnot during s4 than s3 . stuff exploring things like zam's psyche during team awesome And eclipse as a whole (esp purple duo's devotion towards each other) . and just in general s4 felt a lot more. personal. interconnected. insidious, almost, esp with stuff like the stone sword mentality that was shown as a Direct result of what mapicc's actions has done to zam . it is darker, in a sense, in the way that everything is interconnected and everything plays out more like a tragedy but. it still isn't Violent, either. not like eating hearts to get stronger is . both concepts are dark but in different ways (which Does make sense since s3 felt a Lot more based on revenge on other players rather than huge schemes with hushed alliances and exploits that Quite Literally not even god could stop) but it Is interesting to see the shift . i think

[unsung-idiot]

don't show him modern technology; it won't end well

bonus under the cut:

[sleepygaymerdisease]

[tariah23]

White people are miserable, racist losers period. They’ve even been getting mad at Japanese people for correcting them about Yasuke as well.

[transformationofmatter]

please do look it up if you dont know the date bc there may be at least an approximate answer and otherwise the last option will completely dominate and this poll will be boring.

and dont be like 'but i cant sing'... just answer the earliest tune you know well enough that you COULD sing it

periods of western classical music provided only for reference

[sabertoothwalrus]

I want to emphasize something about the dungeon meshi ages.

So Senshi is 35-36 here, yeah? The dwarven age of maturity is 40, and he’s just shy of it.

When Chilchuck was just shy of his race’s age of maturity, he had a kid and got married. He was 13, and the half-foot age of maturity is 14.

So, developmentally-wise, THIS is how old Chilchuck was when he became a father:

This is even further emphasized with Izutsumi. She’s 17 (and actually turns 18 during the faligon feast), older than the tallman age of maturity, and still reads VERY immature to the audience. By the time Chilchuck was Izutsumi’s relative age, he was already on his third kid and had moved away from home to the city.

Imagine Izutsumi being a parent of three. Imagine Senshi having a child of his own when he was with the miners.

Like. Chilchuck was young young.

[platoapproved]

What was that you said about memory? "A monster," was it?

[brutal-out-here]

It’s kinda funny when a poll of mine on my poll blog (@pollsofrandom) blows up cause that only happens when a single popular blog finds it lol

[lgbtlunaverse]

I've seen a good number of people ask a question along the lines of "why do characters like Falin and hate Laios when they're so similar?" and i've also seen good analysis on the differences in how the touden siblings carry themselves that would, despite their shared traits, make a person gravitate to one more than the other.

But i feel like we've overseen one very central thing here.

People don't like Falin

Like... the average person in dungeon meshi doesn't like Falin. She was deeply ostrasized by her home village, in magic school she had zero friends before Marcille and the others generally saw her as strange and a bit offputting.

Characters like Namari and Chilchuck like her well enough but not necessarily more than any other member of their party, including Laios. Neither Kabru nor his party think much of her. The canaries don't give a fuck about her. Toshiro's retainers don't see her as anything else than the weird foreign girl their boss has a crush on.

The reason we think everyone loves Falin is because, despite all the indifferent side characters, the 2 most important and central characters of the story are Laios and Marcille. Who are NOT representative of the average attitudes to Falin! But necromancy georg number 1 and 2 are our main eyes into the story and they love Falin so much that it colours our perspective of the whole world.

The only side character who qualifies as liking Falin and not Laios is Toshiro (at least at first, as he ends the story on much better terms with Laios) and that says a lot about his character, with him drifting to the quiet Falin precisely because of her oddness but being both uncomfortable with and deeply jealous of Laios' much more open expression of that oddness. Because he's a repressed guy from a culture where etiquette is incredibly important.

But like I said, that's a specific aspect of him, not to the world at large.

Because there's also people that click more with laios than with Falin.

Kabru, for one, who is initially distrustful of laios but clearly also deeply fascinated by him and drawn to him.

Minor spoilers, and you don't have to read too deeply into this, because I don't think Kabru particularly dislikes Falin or anything. But it's interesting that when he talks about his distrust of the toudens in ch.32 he's talking about them both. But his big friendship declaration in chapter 76 is aimed squarely at Laios, he doesn't say "you and your sister" he says "you"

And Senshi!! He instantly clicks with Laios, well before he does so with anyone else in the party– who he also becomes friends with, it just takes a bit longer– specifically because they bond over their shared special interest in monsters!! Senshi is kind towards Falin and cares for her wellbeing, but he also... doesn't know her. The reason he is even here, helping to save her, is because he and Laios bonded over monsters and he wants to help his new friends out!

Of course, the theme of neurodivergent isolation is very present in Laios' story. I'm not denying that. He does turn people off, without meaning to and unable to fully understand why! But so does Falin. And just like there are people who like her despite of or even because of those traits, there are people who do the same with him.

In conclusion: "Average person loves Falin and hates Laios" factoid actually statistical error. Average person is neutral on both Falin and Laios. Georcille, Laiorg and Geoshiro, who live in the dungeon and think over 10,000 Falin-loving thoughts a day, are statistical outliers adn should not have been counted.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The squad of all time has arrived on scene.

[chloesimaginationthings]

You think FNAF Pit Bonnie has William’s memories?..

[femmeclefable]

definitive ranking of all kinks and fetishes by morality:

[aueua]

people with siblings: how do you feel about them?

[zekuto]

i was obsessed the first time i saw someone post leon on that stupid panda rocker but i was never able to find raw footage of it lol, so i decided to compile leon with all the playground interactions because i love him <3