#ALL THE OTHER CHARACTERS ON ONE ARE CANONICALLY QUEER

[ammstify]

So I wanted to (for funsies!) throw in my two scents as a moot who has been involved in the Arcane fandom, but like not a vocal member other than some reblogs?

[THIS IS A LONG ONE APOLOGIES :'3] One of the biggest discourses currently right now, in the fandom, besides some of the fumbling with the more politically intricate storytelling, is COMPLETELY about the fact that the two male characters, Viktor and Jayce (Jayvik), are being shipped at all. Quite a few people have harassed fans and folks for merely suggesting the idea, some being hardcore straight shippers of Jayce and Mel (Jaymel), while others are (sadly) the shippers of the lesbian couple Caitlyn and Vi (or Caitvi).

At lot of this is focusing on the insistence of what is "canon", with many folks putting jayvik shippers down for that, along with viewing them as "degenerates" or "gross straight women fetishizing gay men" or "ignoring the canon lesbian ship willfully", which is all.... Just wrong.

A lot of the fans I've seen are queer, with one of my favorite artists @/hexhomos, being a trans man who prior to Arcane, has extensive HISTORY about shipping the League of Legends versions of Viktor and Jayce, but also minimally Cait and Vi. There are also other artists who are trans, lesbians, nonbinary, and many other forms of queer too, so the statement of it being just "straight women" or "degenerates" just... Bothers me so hard.

Hell, even I'M QUEER, and happily ship Viktor and Jayce, because their story was intrinsically romantic to me and reminded me of the soulmates sort of relationship Vash and Wolfwood have in Trigun.

And truthfully, it sucks that they can't be canon like Cait and Vi, who also have a very interesting, complicated, and beautiful relationship where the fight but work together to fix things. It makes me happy though that fans from League, or those who began with Arcane did get to see these ladies finally be together in animation, and trust me I was on the edge of my seat waiting for their first kiss and first time together!

And, it also sucks you don't see much of them, because you kinda have to brave through Tumblr or Bluesky's algorithmic waters to find content of them! Which in turn, creates this false view that folks are lifting the (mostly) noncanon gay relationship above the canon lesbian relationship and making them seem more important, which in turn makes many fans of Caitvi, or lesbian/female fans feel lesser represented. But it shouldn't have to be that way!

As for Jayce and Mel [MINOR SPOILERS], I did ship them before S2 and its ending, and realized in episode 6 that the two of them basically had broken up! They vocally disagree with each other, and while it isn't spelled out, they're no longer romantically or sexually interested in one another, and decided to simply go forward as allies in war, and continue their lives focusing on their goals.

And lastly, for the insistence it's not canon well... It's not my fault that the writers made a seemingly queer-like, romantic, soulmate relationship between two men, who's lives are entwined in every universe. Like if you made Viktor a woman, or switched him with Mel, pretty much everyone would go "OH MY GOD ITS ROMANTIC!"

But yeah, there's my two cents. It sucks to see that people view only straight or lesbian relationships as more "okay" (especially only if the latter is considered 100% canon, cause trust me, some folk in this world try to insist vi is bisexual and into jayce/men to this day), and I hope that one day we CAN have both f/f and m/m relationships further normalized in media and taken more seriously alongside m/f relationships and other queer relationships.

(also for the fanfic well... A majority of mainstream content usually is centered around M/F ships, but I'm genuinely shocked that F/F fanfic is so low... I guess its just more popular in the fanfic sphere to write M/M fanfic :'3)

reblog if you prioritize women to the point you mock people for liking m/f or m/m ships. im insane

[chocolatepot]

Saw a post about how you need to read original fiction and not just fic to write books, and I had some thoughts but they're not so much a direct response so I figured I'd make my own post ...

You do need to be conversant with original fiction to write it, but also - that doesn't mean that your fiction diet as you write needs to be primarily original fiction. If you want to write a book, you've probably spent a lot of your life reading original fiction even if you're in fandom now. That all counts. (Assuming what you want to write bears at least some resemblance to what you've read.)

Fanfiction really doesn't teach you to develop characters and settings on your own, it's true. It particularly lets you be lazy about not describing them physically, and not having to do any work for walk-on characters who exist in canon. You also can get used to writing romantic short stories that would be completely unmarketable if they were not fic.

However, fanfiction still can teach you a lot of transferable skills, if you want it to. You can write novels to stretch your ability to plot a longform story and follow through on 60k+ words. You can consciously work to improve your prose, your pacing, and/or your physical/emotional descriptions no matter what your subject matter. You can write a story that focuses on how a character changes and develops, and you can focus on a minor character from canon and do the work to make them three-dimensional. If you're into AUs, you can also work on worldbuilding or writing a believable historical setting. Literally the only thing you don't really have the opportunity to do is create your own main characters from scratch.

And I feel like that's actually the easiest part of writing. Sitting down and writing a story that lasts over 80k words or so, is compelling all the way through, has defined character arcs, etc. is way harder than making up the initial concept. If you're in fandom, you clearly Do Stories whether they're on the paper or onscreen, and so you probably have a lot of character types in your head already to start messing around with.

There was also a point in the post about how if you don't read you're not going to understand where your story fits genre-wise, and you're probably going to think that it's new and genre-breaking when it isn't - and that leads me to two thoughts. One is that not feeling able to place your own story if it crosses genres might be more common to writers than you think: it just came up in a Bestseller Experiment podcast ep I listened to the other day as a normal thing due to the writer being too close to their story. I have good comps for my novel (there's a T. Kingfisher that is incredibly similar in concept and key characters) and I still feel like "oooh ... is it more fantasy or more historical ..."

The other is that fic makes it so you're more likely to actually write something that genuinely doesn't quite fit in the boxes. That's something I've been thinking about since Winter's Orbit. That book, if you don't know, was originally written on fail_fandomanon's spinoff writing meme and posted on AO3. It was always original fiction, but it has a fic-like sensibility: there's a strong political intrigue plot alongside a strong queer romance plot between a playboy who's not really a playboy and a smol bean with trauma. If you read the GoodReads reviews from when it was published, you can find many sf fans complaining that the romance takes up too much space and romance fans complaining that there's too much plot outside the romance. I think now with the rise of "romantasy" there's more tolerance for that, but that label feels like it's getting less useful as it broadens to mean "fiction written by a woman that includes a romance" (and it feels very m/f to me but we don't have time for that now). Because so much of ficwriting fandom focuses on stories that heavily foreground romance but don't hit the traditional romance beats and also writing the characters figuring out who's committing industrial espionage or whatever. In a romance novel, the romance is absolutely the A plot and the whatever is very much B plot (if not somehow C). In sf/f and thrillers, the whatever is the A plot and the romance is around the edges. Fic teaches us to do them both equally, because the point of the story is to see the characters getting together (often not like canon, when it comes to m/m and f/f) while having a plot to deal with (like they have in canon). Also, in a lot of cases of genre-mixing, determining which one it "counts as" is really determining which one it will sell better under, and that's not something a person outside of the industry can generally tell, regardless of what they're reading on their own.

[mrincrediblyblind]

Button ups are queer culture and i do not care what else you think!

Mike wheeler in the yellow button up undone and over a T-shirt is literally so queer coded, they may as well put him in jorts, i know it’s not the same time period but he so for real right now because this f4g canonically put this together as an outfit.

stranger things costume designers really said: “what’s the gayest outfit we can give him?” because no matter the hurry he was in, remember he left the house wearing this.

he put the purple shirt and shorts on and went ‘you know what’d go really well with purple? yellow’ so then it was the minion button up and then the fuck ass hat and glasses and not even socks and shoes

my man is in jandals 😟 flip flops even.

because yeah, you haven’t seen your girlfriend in a year and instead of… you know, dressing similarly to the other on screen encounters we have of your gay ass dressed well normally? what happened to the t-shirt and shorts? he didn’t have to wear his hellfire shirt, of course. that’d be rude because his ass saw a metalhead with tattoos and long hair and joined his D&D club after not playing D&D with his best friend for like… ever? (i know what you are wheeler.)

i saw someone headcanon that Max convinced Mike this is what people wear in california. This is why i don’t think this is the case;

Keep in mind, Max has been avoiding everyone since Billy’s death and started seeing a shrink. She probably had bigger issues than going out of her way to gaslight Mike into wearing… this.

I just don’t believe anyone for that matter convinced him. This was a conscious decision.

Mike also got on the plane to California and looked around and still decided the fit was fire? This was the fit he’d show up to greet his girlfriend with?

He got off the plane, had to go through customs and all that. He had the time to stuff the button up in his bag or take the hat and glasses off,

But no.

Now, as a gay mlm man i can confirm button ups are peak fashion in summer, @danni-california101110 can confirm the fit i’m about to show you is one i actually was going to wear

ok. but like i said, i’m a gay man. i’m a boy kisser (not really, no boy would want to kiss me)

Mike Queerler is supposed to be meeting his girlfriend he hadn’t seen in a year.

but guess another gay icon that comes to mind who also wears button ups over shirts? it wouldn’t be maybe��

another finn wolfhard character? who is also in love with his best friend?

Button ups are queer culture, fight me

Because for me, whenever i search up “masc outfits” or “masc summer outfits” on pinterest, there’s these fruity guys in button ups!!

Also do not forget about my pookie Rodrick Heffley from the live action Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

he is not getting out of this because there is no heterosexual explanation for this man.

So button ups are queer culture, and i’m right because im always right.

Mike Wheeler is gay, he wear button ups over a t-shirt

gay, end of story.

[nobigsecrets]

Been seeing many posts assuming that Tommy's the one who got hurt before and that he broke up with Buck to prevent getting his heart broken again. While I do agree with the second part, that Tommy tries to protect himself by being the one doing the breaking up, I don't think the reason behind it is necessarily that he's the one who got hurt. I think it might be because Tommy was the one doing the hurting.

Tommy knows how much he hurt Abby back then. He knows he not only canceled their engagement but by leaving her, he also canceled all their plans for a shared future together. And he’s afraid Buck will do the same to him. I think what Tommy does is projecting. He basically reverses their roles and puts Buck in place of his former self who was just figuring things out and broke up with Abby in the process.

Coming to terms with being gay was so difficult and painful and confusing for Tommy and he probably let Abby on for a while despite suspecting or already knowing it wouldn’t work out. He does regret putting Abby through that pain but he knows it was inevitable. He knows that there was no alternative for him, nothing he could have done differently. And he thinks Buck will inevitably end up in that same place. He even says as much: "Because. I know how this ends."

That’s what he’s scared of, that’s what makes him afraid of committing to Buck, that’s why he fears to get his heart broken. That Buck will inevitably figure himself out and come to terms with being gay/bi/queer/whatever and that he won't want Tommy anymore when he's reached that point. That's why he's convinced he's Buck's first and not his last. Is it hypocritical? Yes, probably. But it’s also borne out of his own experience and trauma (in a pre-glee world) that he’s now projecting onto Buck.

Is this anything the show runners have thought through? Definitely not. It's just my way of reading the break up scene and trying to make sense of Tommy's reaction.

I wrote this in reply to someone's post a while back but I wanted to expand on it and decided to make it a new post.

Also disclaimer: I hate that they made Abby/Tommy canon. I have massive issues with the fact that they picked this idea out of fan content just for the lols. And don’t get me started on the timeline or the other characters not knowing or not mentioning anything to Buck.

[nakedinm4nhattan]

Here’s some lesser known sapphic tv shows that I recommend

Yellowjackets — only two canon lesbians and a gay man but in my opinion like half of them are lesbians, they get stranded in canada because of their plane crashing and eventually resort to cannibalism. Season three comes premiers on valentines day.

Teenage Bounty Hunters— one lesbian and one bisexual, they go to a religious school. Enemies to lovers, show ends on a cliffhanger

Bodkin— Irish journalist lesbian returns to Ireland because her boss sent her there due to complications involving a guy who killed himself, along with two other people to do a Podcast. The girl she kisses only has like 5 minutes of screen time and they don’t end up in a relationship. Hasn’t been cancelled or renewed for another season.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer— no lesbianism until season 4, this show is especially good if u love the whimsigoth aesthetic. Theres a really popular ship involving Buffy and Faith, unfortunately the writers didn’t make them canon. But there’s two canon witch lesbians.

Dare Me— so underrated, two canon lesbian cheerleaders. Very homoretic friendship, they kiss once. It’s like Jackieshauna but more toxic. There’s definitely some dark themes, unfortunately it was cancelled. But it’s still worth the watch in my opinion.

The Boys— this show is definitely really known, but most people don’t know that there is in fact a sapphic relationship in the show involving one of the main characters. Shes bisexual and her girlfriend or situationship is lesbian. They get a happy ending, at least so far. Theres another season coming so I can’t be sure.

The Fall of the House of Usher— a variety of queer characters, only two have canon sexualities. One of the main characters, Madeline Usher kisses a girl. She sees that girl everywhere as her brother’s kids start dying quickly. The only canon sexualities is her brother’s kid, shes a lesbian and has a wife. Definitely check out Mike Flanagan’s other shows, almost all have some sort of sapphic rep.

[sailorsnightmare]

Got blocked from Narumitsu’s shipping wiki for “false info” because I’ve been changing their false “fanon” status to “canon.” Going to share my thoughts as this is just another case within a larger issue regarding queer media and media consumption in general.

God forbid the franchise have literary context and in-game subtext regarding their canonical status as a pairing.

A canon pairing does not need to directly state to the camera that they’re in a romantic relationship, word for word, and make out for them to be considered canon. Spreading blatant misinformation while keeping a page underdeveloped with hardly any of the genuine context and dialogue from the games and spinoffs is ridiculous, no less even more absurd to block people who provide an accurate portrayal of the pair and locking the comments so no one can call you out. It’s ridiculous to insinuate that implied information is not grounds for fact when a vast majority of storylines, no less pairings even depicted on the wiki itself, involves canon basis through implications. Through context and subtext.

There’s something about queer pairings in media suddenly requiring information to be spoonfed to them despite the opposite when it comes to cishet pairings. Have we seriously fallen so far off in terms of reading comprehension that subtext holding canonical information is just irrelevant now when it comes to depicting a romantic pairing?

You could argue that media in the romance genre would require direct confirmation as that’s the intention from the get go, but that isn’t the case here nor is it the case for romantic subplots in non-romance centered genres.

Ace Attorney in of itself is not an explicitly romantic game, that is not its sole focus. The entire point of the games’ design is to help lead you throughout the story by introducing you to hidden subtext, it forces you to read between the lines. Why would its story writing be any different? Why would its character writing?

The developers, the authors, the creator of the franchise itself have made their canonical status clear through story context. Hell, I’ll even make a master post soon including ALL in-game context and out-of-game context depicting their relationship as romantic. If a story writer has to break their creation down into its most basic forms for you to understand its intentions then you should not be in charge of dictating whether a pair is “real” or not.

It’s incredibly irritating that an old, renowned queer pairing’s romantic status is blatantly erased just because it involves participation in its source media to understand its existence. Why include any pairing at that point?

Narumitsu has been and continues to be a beautifully written depiction of canonical queer love. The very fact that it is read and understood to be romantic despite not involving explicit statements of confirmation (which is already debatable in of itself) is what makes it such a great depiction!

And no, it’s not wrong to view them platonically. They’re still friends, their romantic status doesn’t void that fact. Intimate platonic relationships between men is desperately needed in media and sorely lacking but they are not an instance of this.

This issue is reminiscent of the aroace status of canonically aroace characters being erased and replaced with other queer identities, which is its own can of worms that I’ve already gotten into and will continue to rant about until the end of my days.

[novella-november]

Queer Writing Pro Tip: Neopronouns

If your main character uses neopronouns, and you are using the first-person perspective, so we never actually "hear" (read) the pronouns they use regularly, please, *please* take the time early in your first story, and reinforce it throughout the whole series, to firmly, canonically, *in the text* state what their pronouns are, and correct people when they are misgendered.

If you want a character who uses neopronouns to be more than token representation, they need to be more than a background character, or a first person narrator with in-built plausible deniability for the audience to not use the correct pronouns because they're so rarely used in the text and only by outsiders speaking about the main character as property or a second class citizen.

If you want to have a character who is actual representation for people who use neopronouns, you can't just use the neopronouns a handful of times scattered across five pages total, and then shove them off screen never to be seen again.

You need to use the as constantly and regularly as you refer to he/him and she/her characters. You need your audience to not only learn to use them through reading, but learn to respect them as well.

You should have more than one character who uses these neopronouns, to further normalize them, and especially, you need to have, in fantasy and scifi stories, have these neopronouns not be exclusive to a single fictional race, with no humans or other aliens using them ever.

Say, for example, you have some aliens in a scifi setting who use xe/xem pronouns and are monogender + monosex as a general rule for their species (aka, they ""don't have gender"" and are ""all the same sex"")

Because this is the accepted *norm* for this species, this is not inherently any kind of queer representation from them, merely an example of neopronouns and speculative biology.

If you *do* want these species to have queer representation:

what kind of pronouns and gender identities would *they* consider to be strange? What identities would be marginalized in their society?

Perhaps within their society, neopronouns are ze/zir, fae/faer, or ae/aer, and the people who use these pronouns identify as something other than the standardly-accepted "nongender".

What would this look and feel like for these queer identities? How do they interact with the larger society, and what kind of pushback do they receive? What kind of joys and euphoria do they experience when they find like-minded people who accept them?

And what about when different alien species meet and interact with other planetary cultures?

You could have a species of sentient, genderless, sexless robots who use a single pronoun across the board meet and interact with humans, and then gradually find that some members of their species strongly identify with the alien gender known as "female" and the pronouns "she/her" and adopt that as their own identity :) *. You can also have those same sexless robots have a thriving queer culture of different identities and language expression that we get to see on screen, and especially interacting with real human queer characters and culture.

*(Hi, Transformers, I'm looking at you. Give us some on-screen trans representation of a robot who uses the default he/him pronouns realizing she's actually a woman and using she/her)

Anyways. Long post short: if you want nonbinary, trans, and neopronoun representation in your stories, please don't just throw in a token one-off character, normalize characters asking people their pronouns or introducing themselves with their pronouns, and use the neopronouns regularly and normally in the book.

It should not be up to audience interpretation whether or not your main character uses neopronouns or what those particular neopronouns are, because they're so rarely used in the text it is difficult for the average reader to even grasp that what is happening is neopronouns, and not just dehumanization the character needs to overcome.

If your main character uses it/its, xe/xem, ze/hir, they/them, or ae/aer pronouns, that needs to be stated explicitly within the text by that character so the audience can't ignore it, or the whole story needs to be done in third person to actually have the audience learn how to use and respect neopronouns, instead of just tossing them into out-side dialogue only, once in a blue moon.

If you have a different character to your main protagonist be the one who uses neopronouns, do not make them a side or background character: give them a prominent role, such as the main character's best friend, partner, party member, etc.

[lilithofpenandbook]

Honestly? I think it's because of this strange wave of puritanical idealogy through fandom. I feel like they think it's morally wrong to like the canon Marauders because they were awful people.

And it's not. It's okay to like these awful lil boys. I like them because they're awful lil boys. They're complicate because they're awful. In fact, one of the things I truly enjoyed about the books is the fact that nobody was perfect. All the characters could be downright awful at times, and I loved it.

There's no need to change the canon Marauders' personalities to the point that they aren't the same characters and are the correct kind of people for someone to enjoy them. There's no need to make everything impossibly diverse to the point of it being ooc (Sirius can be queer, for sure, but feminine? No. That's against his character. The most I can imagine is him doing drag ironically. And also why the need to make him feminine for Remus of all people? Like, Sirius is clearly the leader out of the two. And also, very masculine people can be gay, even if they are traditionally masculine like Sirius) and claim it's to spite JKR. It's not. You're still using her characters, in her world, so they have to follow that world's canon. Otherwise, just change everyone's names and make it an entire seperate world that exists soley online.

Am I against diversity and queer headcanons? Of course not. Am I against shipping? Hell no, to the point that I fear some may call me a 'pro-shipper' (simply because I do not give a fuck about other people's shipping). What I am against, however, is when a character is far changed (without it being an au), that it's just an oc with a stolen name, and then THAT'S treated as canon.

And, once again, it's perfectly okay to like the original characters, even if they're awful.

Back in the 2000s, before the Marauders fandom became a parallel reality filled with original characters that no one could recognize, who were only there to paint their nails and talk about horoscopes, Regulus Black wasn’t a token to turn James Potter into a queer icon, nor was he some misunderstood, abused twink in need of a Gryffindor knight to save him from the darkness. No, Regulus was the second son of a magical aristocratic family who was perfectly aligned with his family’s ideas, and the drama and angst didn’t come from some romantic Brokeback Mountain-style drama but from his broken relationship with his older brother. Regulus’s fanon storylines weren’t centered around finding him a partner or his forbidden love for his brother’s best friend, but around his relationship with his brother—exploring how the years and their differing ideologies had driven them apart. It was about how Regulus resented his older brother for leaving home and how his way of externalizing his frustration and sadness manifested as anger and hatred towards everything surrounding Sirius.

Most importantly: Regulus was often portrayed as someone who despised and resented James because he saw him as the first and only one responsible for influencing his brother and leading him astray from the “right path”—which was just a mask for his resentment over feeling that James had “taken him away.”

That was a realistic and coherent portrayal of Regulus. Those were headcanons consistent with his story and trajectory. It was a fanon representation that made sense—someone who wasn’t forced to believe in anything but believed in what he was taught at home and thought it was his older brother who had been brainwashed, yet at the same time, he cared for him and resented him leaving because, in a way, he felt abandoned. Because Sirius was the older brother and was supposed to be the head of the family, but he left, and that wasn’t fair, and it was all James Potter’s fault, who had put strange ideas into his head.

That’s much more coherent, realistic, and interesting for a character we know little about than just turning him into a whining child because his parents wanted to make him a Nazi, with his biggest life drama being that he secretly likes his older brother’s friend but can’t be with him because they’re in different houses. Do you realize the terrible mess the new fans have made with these characters? It’s honestly shameful. They’ve taken all the interesting aspects these characters could have had, thrown them out the window, and turned them all into crybabies whose lives revolve around their love dramas and putting on eyeliner and earrings. It’s truly pathetic.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The squad of all time has arrived on scene.

[knifearo]

ultimately when it comes to shipping and fandom space treatment of aspec characters i just don't accept "aro/ace people can still date/have sex" as an answer from nonaspecs. like yeah. mhm. okay. now i think we both know that you're not saying that out of real interest in the diversity of aspec experiences. so you can turn in your seventeen-page essay on why and how you plan to examine this character's aspec identity within the context of a romantic or sexual relationship complete with evidence from canon and peer reviews from multiple aspec people within the next week or i'm putting you in the pit from the edgar allen poe story

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Elliot is Bisexual and uses he/him pronouns!

[izartn]

On Blue Lock, Episode Nagi movie:

It was like one of those outsider pov fics from a secondary character pov but official. Given that's one of my fave genres of fic amd I knew that about the movie coming in I enjoyed the perspective it offered, and also the melodrama of NagiReo xD

Also why was the ost so much better than in the anime itself? Did I blitz too quickly through the episodes? It made the kinda recap this was, entertaining as it got, much better. Why XD I hope that ost is in season 2.

Liked how NagiReo were the last ones to cross that door and that Ego had to bait Ngi into it. Would have messed up his 300 teens plan for Blue Lock is these two refused lol though I think he was absolutely prepared for that. Funny how Nagi is the one who gets the Blue Lock mentality despite being the reluctant of the pair.

I loled at how little the other guys in V mattered though, and at the replay of the match against Z, Nagi getting more and more fixated in Isagi and football for himself, to Reo alarm and happiness respectively.

I am not the only one who thinks Nagi is/was depressed due to a lack of challenge and isolation in his life, right? That whole, leave me I don't want to even try, just want to stay in my comfort zone idling the days away....

Going to other matters....

Also. Why did that Isagi and Bachira separation at Stage 2 look 100% more gay than it was in the anime? I swear it was the typical Shonen friendship on the season. Ah I know. Because Nagi, BL character that he is, was there remembering himself and Reo in rosy flashbacks. Hilarious taking what happened just before between them. But then Nagi is confident on their friendship in a way that Reo just isn't.

The contrast between their mental states re:change are so fucking funny in a sad way too. Reo is so insecure, compared to Nagi, I guess it comes from his family reputation and money being all he was before he meet Nagi and so he's insecure about his own merits but really. He's coping about as well as my bestie in HS did to her situationship with another girl collapsing when she was 14, that's the level of gay ass failing were talking about. That Nagi just didn't voice aloud the emotional reassuring parts to Reo during the breakup was so teenage boy of him, he just thinks he's being clear enough and then, everybody else can see Reo is just. Not manging it well. Love that they just fucking went pass Nagi being brutal to Reo on the 3vs3, like. Yes this is Nagi PoV the movie no you don't get to see what the fuck was he thinking. I personally imagine he was trying to like, do a reverse psychology on Reo, but it didn't work(?) (except it kinda did) bc Nagi has a 0 in interpersonal communication. Who knows though. Maybe the manga?

Anyways I'm really happy about that post-credits and additional time! So season 2 is gonna start from the jump after the 50 days timeskip, huh? Not surprised at all by who I saw there as the starting 11 for the U-20 match, of course our protags and company are there.

That after all the movie they end up bringing it back to NagiReo kinda having maked up, and Reo having friends/rivals telling him to quit the sad face, they're gonna be the best is soooo funny. Yes Reo you have friends, you're there on the 25 of 300 even if you're on the sidelines right now, relax XD Happy for him he seems to get friends other than Nagi, he needs more than a (boy)cough(bestie) friend.

And that was it!!! Thanks to @ashen-sky for telling me to wait for the post credits! Very appreciated given almost my whole sala walked out.

[funkle420]

i love how so much of the stuff in delicious in dungeon that's not central to the main plot is left up to the reader/viewer's interpretations. it leaves a lot of space for fans to imagine what else happens outside of the plot, especially with how good the world building is. a sentiment ive seen more than a few times is that any character in dungeon meshi can be shipped with almost any other character, and because of how it ends you can even imagine characters who didn't interact much or at all eventually becoming friends and/or lovers, and there's so many ways for fans to imagine what else happens in this world after the story ends. there's little bits of interaction between characters that could easily be interpreted one way or another, but there's no malicious baiting or anything that's intentionally implied without being explicit.

That said, it is a little sad that there's no canon romance between Falin and Marcille, as far as I can tell, cause this type of thing happens so often in stories, where two characters of the same gender have romantic vibes but the writer didn't have the slightest intention of it being romantic. Also a little sad that, as far as I can tell, she didn't intend for Laios to be autistic either...

(to be clear, im NOT mad at ryoko kui here! this is JUST me being sad about the lack of good, intentional representation for queer and autistic people in media and how that conflicts with my appreciation for Kui's writing)

[cuteniaarts]

@katkastrofa, circa 40-ish hours ago: Hey, what if our newest bunch of OCs adopted a baby from one of the other brothel girls who knew she couldn’t afford to raise one? That would make for some fun shenanigans :D

Me, with a notoriously non existent sleep schedule, instinct of self preservation or concern for my poor wrist: Alright, bet. Watch how fast I can make you fall in love with this hypothetical baby >:)

Daneli as a gentle and loving caretaker-turned-adoptive-mother is something that can be So Personal, actually, and originally I was going to leave it at this quick sketch, but then I got carried away thinking about what this child will grow up to be like raised by this little gang of misfits, so…

Here she is!! A little older and so, so beautiful, I need more of her in my life immediately, she’s way too precious

And, because I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t also add a sapphic element to this absolute cinnamon roll, a small crack ship that I’m only half serious about for when she’s a little older still:

All in all, we may be getting impossibly far from canon, but I for one already cannot get enough of sweet darling Kumisai <3

(I fully drew three pieces from scratch in 9 hours I cannot feel my brain or my hands anymore send help)

[mx-paint]

there's something both extremely sad and funny about a self proclaimed fan of a series drawing a whole comic about how much the characters would hate the fanart of them in wedding dresses and how much the Lord above has left the earth in the 30 years when the creator of it has been saying since the nineties they're in gay-love (even having them as his wedding topping for his real life actual wedding to his real life actual wife)

[averlym]

which is gayer? SIX or Adamandi (real)

adamandi