#And yes of course

[sasayan]

so, with 3 episodes to go, i have to say i don't really know what to feel.

since there's still tomorrow's episode – and then next week's – i'm not entirely willing to form opinions yet. but on the other hand, some of these thoughts have been lingering in the back of my head for the past week or so and i need to put them into words.

thing is, i don't mind angst. it would be foolish of me not to expect it considering the way the story has unfolded and the themes of this drama and the fact that we're getting close to the end. so yeah, i don't mind angst – as long as it's done well. but you see, this is where my fear comes in.

bc i don't just want a happy ending, i want a good one. i want an ending that makes sense. i want an ending that does right by its story and its characters. i've seen how other dramas i've enjoyed (even loved) start to crash and burn within the last 2-4 episodes and it fucking hurts to spend all that time getting invested in a story only for it to fall apart right at the end. while i don't think castaway diva has been perfect so far by any means, i have considered it one of the best dramas of 2023 (that i've seen) and i would hate for that to change just bc of the ending. week after week i've sat on my couch, almost giddy with excitement, knowing there's a new episode waiting for me. and although i'd say i'm pretty easy to please, that doesn't actually happen all that often.

it's not just the happy ending that's important to me; it's how we get there as well. if it's only angst for angst's sake and everything that that entails – characters making choices that go against their previous actions and words or the story going around in the same old tired circles – then i don't want it.

[brettdoesdiscourse]

Young people are often the ones invading the adult nsfw spaces online

If they want a "cleaner" fandom experience they need to quit engaging in adult centered media

You can't watch an adult show or movie and then cry about it when you see adults behaving like adults minding their own business in the fandom

Oh, for sure. I also hold adult antis responsible for this mindset. For young people, the behavior is often learned from somewhere and I feel like it comes from adult antis.

Adult antis who say fandom spaces have to be clean or censored, especially fandoms surrounding media geared towards kids, because there are children in the space.

Young people then see all these people saying these spaces owe it to them to be clean and then feel entitled to people censoring themselves for them. Because they so often see people saying that SHOULD happen.

[dogsstew]

hiiii is it okay if i draw something inspired by your beach episode billy and stu designs ^_^ with credit ofc

OH GOD ABSOLUTELY!!! YES ID LOVEEEE TO SEE IT !!

Also I just found out how to see all these

[cheapsweetsrocks]

*Getting lots of music recommendations from the comments*

*Also yes, Rasputin by Bonny M. seems to be the one track everyone can agree on :D*

Queer music is impossible to define because we are not a monolith and we all have our own tastes and styles but it sure is not harry styles and taylor swift

[hasanpits]

recently started following you bc your acc is awesome and i need more hasan menaces (affectionate) on my dash

HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYY MAY YOU EAT THE MOST DELICIOUS CAKE TODAYYY AND DONT FORGET TO SHAKE ASS

may i be the 🦕 anon pls🥺?

yay!!!! i am always happy to be a hasan menace.

[bruciemilf]

Need a the Waynes Lived AU where Martha’s a vampire. She snuck in a Wayne Gala for a potential late night snack, but Thomas thought she was a socialite.

“So, what do you do?”

“I drain people of their life sources.”

“Oh, you’re a CEO too?”

She can’t drink Thomas’ blood because he smokes too much, the baggy eyes indicate long nights spent on his feet during surgery, which means it’ll taste bitter, and she saw him drown 10 whiskey shots in one go.

It’s a taste thing, nothing against him.

He is, how ever, very handsome, and she decided she’ll be his house cat for the time being. Fast forward two years later and they have a vampire cherub of a baby named Bruce.

Babies usually don’t come out with fangs and tiny bat wings, so, yeah. His wife’s a vampire. Cool.

“How come I’ve never seen your wife outside during the daytime, Tom??”

“How come I’ve never seen you mind your own fucking business?”

[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.

[imaswellkid]

Addendum to my dissertation @fuckyeahpedropascal

Pedro Pascal as Javier Peña Narcos 1.05

[adyophene]

I couldn't get the idea of Alastor holding Husk like that one ferret gif during his lament in the finale out of my head.

[wellfine]

Work to be done 🍳

[phantom-kiwi]

Venom 3 spoiler warning but like

"Ride me cowboy", "we've been together for a year?", "Sometimes I think we would've been happier you and I living a life like this", them calling each other Thelma and Louise? Them talking about future plans and the camera directly cutting and staying on literal happy newlyweds?? "BUT I NEED HIM BACK" ???? A montage of their time together???? Hello ??? Symbrock nation can you hear me !!!!

[justbackgroundnoise]

Chappell Roan, a lesbian, went on a national broadcast tonight and performed a song about dating a closeted woman who refuses to acknowledge their relationship and denies the fact that she’s a lesbian. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that happening but here we are and it’s amazing.

As a lesbian woman, to have an artist go out and be so entirely herself in every way, to be so proud of her own sexuality and to perform a song like this and have it be broadcasted to millions of people…it makes me so emotional. All I have ever wanted as a queer woman is to have this sort of unabashed representation and we’re finally getting it in such an incredible way. What an era we are living in and all I can say is long may it continue and I am so proud to be a Chappell Roan fan.

[unbloodiedmartyr]

Posts that are so VALShrue. to me.

[frownyalfred]

Reading Pennywaynes as canon is SO funny because there’s no way to plot it out other than Martha dragging Alfred home, presenting him (in full, mild British fluster) to Thomas, and letting her darling husband know that she’d found a butler for them to fuck together.

He’s an excellent cook, he’s killed an indeterminate amount of people somewhere overseas, and she thinks he’d be lovely to have around for the baby.

[kanis-things]

[halcyon-autumn]

Huge L for Helio this episode I gotta say. Something about meeting that guy makes people want to go worship a dead lesbian