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[vague-bisexual-crimes]

‘The pen. I need to take the pen and sign my name and sign my life away.’ The new contract would have fucking killed them. I think Rowan would keep at it like he is, absolutely miserable, and just become this robotic shell of a man making his way through the shows and the interviews and everything, Lister’s alcoholism only would have gotten worse, and Jimmy is a toss up of whether he’d be so stressed that his body would make him stop or if he’d actually kill himself from the pressure. Anyway. They’re 19 year olds.

[godshideouscreation]

Mom. Get out. I'm doing spells.

[peridyke]

I like how people on tumblr/twitters examples of irredeemable media are always coincidentally media that had been highly popular online 5 years prior and would, say, potentially be something a young adult might be embarrassed about having liked as a teenager at one point

[godshideouscreation]

[atissi]

i don't really like when people say dungeon meshi is accidentally good autistic representation, because while i understand not wanting to make conclusions without explicit confirmation from the author, there's always the weird assumption that non-western authors somehow don't know about things like neurodivergency/queerness/etc. (on top of the assumptions that east asian authors are somehow more naive or oblivious to "western" social issues).

given that dungeon meshi started being published in 2014, it's not really a "work belonging to its times"—it's as contemporary as any other media we discuss on this site, which means it should be fair to assume it engages with contemporary topics (and at the very least, you shouldn't say that the representation is accidental with so much confidence)

but anyways, the chapter "perfect communication" in ryoko kui's "terrarium in a drawer" is some of the most straightforward autistic representation I've seen, and from now on I'm going to assume that laios's character writing is absolutely intentional in that regard: