#Ask Team Spirit

[beescake]

are you secretly the CEO of solkat

solkat r the ceos of me. actually

[bearotonin-international]

I've had a string of bad luck, do you have any bears that can help turn that around?

Clover is full of good luck!

[amphihare]

two types of scout fanart on tumblr

[fumifooms]

Ok maybe kinda of a weird question you don't have to answer if you don't want to but I've seen some people saying that Chilchuck is canonically misogynistic so, as the Chilchuck especialist, do you have an opinion about that?

Anon you are brave and I love you. Listen if you, person reading this, get peeved or upset when people say Chilchuck might have had not insignificant flaws as a father and husband then probably stop reading here, we will be looking at Chilchuck like a petri dish and defile his pristine allure. Tldr: yes but actually no but really both at the same time aka people & social dynamics are complex and please let your blorbos be flawed. With that said I will be pretty casual and playful if that wasn’t clear already, sorry.

"Aren’t you happy to be in a harem party" "No it’s soul-crushing save me". Toshiro has been drinking his fear women juice since he was young, surrounded by an assassin nanny and her fellow assassin girlies, meanwhile Chilchuck having flashbacks of getting wrung out by his 4 women household…

Waiting on people is something we see he hates doing a couple times throughout canon and extras, here and how he says "it’s not a date" -bless his summer child heart- he frames being slow to get ready as a gendered trait to have? But I can forgive him for this one because honestly the framing of the whole page leans into that, it’s kinda questionable if we’re being highly critical of anything misogynistic or regressive. But it itself is the classic subversive "Women are desirable wallflowers— Wrong! They are a monstrous ruthless force that wears on the mind, body and soul" trope. I don’t fault Kui though, I got giggles from it, it makes sense for everyone’s characters, and Kui has never shied from gendered dynamics in her worldbuilding & characters so it’s not like she’ll write as if sex changes nothing and no one has opinions about it.

Alright alright let’s step back from analyzing this page specifically and get back to the question, is Chilchuck canonically misogynistic? It’s a complex question not because we don’t have hints but because it’s a very black and white answer to give and because misogynistic can be very wide or pretty narrow depending on how the term is applied.

What I would say? Yes, he is, in a realistic way that doesn’t automatically make him a piece of shit, though that doesn’t mean it isn’t uncomfortable or harmful. On the spectrum of misogyny he classifies to me as "It’s in the normalized lighthearted way of being a horny uncle who’s a little too loose about it around the dinner table", he’s a solid "He wants to treat women as pieces of meat and jokes about it but in actuality he’s a gentleman and a family careerman who has a job so he don’t really care about that rn".

Going back to Toshiro’s party, Chilchuck being weird about it being full of women doesn’t even happen only once but TWICE. I made a compilation of every time he’s crass, happens less than you might expect but the overall picture it gives throughout reading the manga is pretty straightforward. Repeatedly he’s shown to be dirty-minded and shown to objectify & sexualize women both lightheartedly and unprompted. They’re a punchline and they’re eye candy and it’s "of COURSE my succubus would be young women, of COURSE women would desire a muscled statue’s [redacted], of COURSE women are sexual beings and of course I am attracted to them".

Dungeon Meshi doesn’t bring up sexuality much and gendered dynamics tend to be more subtle than you’d expect from media in general, so there’s that, but I honestly struggle to think of any character that acts less normal about women existing than him. Like yeah he’s joking but Hien, Benichidori, Inutade and Maizuru were just breathing and doing their jobs. Who else’s misogynistic uhh, that guy working for the shadow governor that licks Cithis’ ear when she’s bound in ropes? The sheer jump from ‘makes demeaning jokes about women’ to ‘assaulter’ between these two, god.

Honestly it does feel odd to me that he’d be kinda demeaning like that about women even in a workplace setting —Chilchuck the union man out of everyone?— but Kui has spoken man idk, think what you will don’t shoot the messenger. It’s not like he’s weird about Namari? I guess he respects her too much- Wait that sounded wrong. Maybe it’s literally just because she and the other women party members are his direct coworkers, in line with his rule and all? But yeah, even if he canonically had a thing for blondes and pretty young women he has managed to only tease Marcille ceaselessly for fun & entertainment and make her hair extra shiny as his shapeshifter, you get a good behavior star there Chilchuck. He complains on waiting for Marcille to get ready in the barometz chapter and the first anime ED but he also does with Laios when he’s late to meet up the party in extras. He constantly pulls on Marcille to get her to safety as if she can’t protect herself but she’s referred to as clumsy a lot so he has that justified reasoning. He constantly berates everyone so no point to make there. He undermines Marcille’s opinions often but it’s because he dislikes mages and elves and idealism. Clearly Chilchuck knows women can be capable and clearly he can have women coworkers (and friends! Again, Namari) without belittling or sexualizing them, clearly he can be normal about women and knows that some of his attitude can be inappropriate. It’s just harmless fun to him, that he keeps for occasional playful banter and taverns and the ‘right’ moods.

And as I mentioned earlier! Chilchuck is also pretty gentlemanly and protective. As always desires vs wants and instinct vs rationality show up as themes. Yes his succubus aka his ideal, the deepest allure he can imagine, is beautiful naked women, but a chapter just before that was the bicorn, all about how faithful and virtuous he is, how his heart’s in the right place. His brain is virtuous but his heart is monkey. My point is that when it counts, aka 90% of the time and when things are serious, we don’t see signs of sexist bias and he treats women well. Often takes on a protector role or at the least takes them seriously, even Benichidori. He doesn’t want to hurt women or thinks they’re insignificant or anything. He’ll give a handkerchief to a woman in need with a slimy face.

Okay okay this is really entering speculation territory but in my own tally, the way he dismissed his wife’s ‘bad mood’ as some meaningless tantrum that he shouldn’t think any more deeply about, him starting out not reaching out to her as a resentful silent treatment, and her getting dissatisfied in the first place enough to leave makes me think he took her for granted and was kinda dismissive of her in general. Marcille’s theorical scenario is hypothetical and factually untrue at least in parts, but if we do follow it, him forgetting he’s out with his wife for once (in the precious counted time he’s home spending time with her) and not paying attention to her all outing, resulting in her being left out of conversations and just an ornament beside him the way she might have felt for a long time as his housewife waiting home for him to come back………

Editing this paragraph in: Okay I don’t know how I missed mentioning this but, when he’s asked why his wife left him, Chilchuck literally point blank thinks that being thought to have cheated on his wife is LESS SHAMEFUL than not knowing the reason why (due to poor communication skills or whatnot). It’s so ridiculous that it can be hard to see beyond it as a gag or twist, but make of this what you will but this is not a great look for his priorities and his view of women especially in regards to toxic masculinity, good lord. When I talk about him having a sense of being entitled to his wife and dismissive of her emotions that’s sort of what I mean. He thinks it’s better for people to think he mistreated his wife and did something terrible than just failed at keeping her affection for reasons he doesn’t grasp. His pride, both in giving her the silent treatment and doing damage control when talking about it to others like Marcille and coworkers, takes priority over their relationship and love.

Half-foots seem to be patriarchal. The last section of this essay’s chapter (not by me!) + combing through its half-foot chapter should give you insight on that if you want. It’s in their patronymic, it’s in the way marriage seems very important especially for women, and it’s in the implied gender roles, being a housewife whose life revolves around raising her husband’s kids and taling care of the family home waiting for her husband who’s out working to come back. I think Chilchuck is a bit a result of his environment and upbringing in that way, that most of the misogyny is internalized and subconscious and passive, it’s taking his wife for granted because not only does she trust her, his most precious person he’s known since he was a kid, but because she’s his wife, his woman, conceptually something that’s unwaveringly devoted, something that is very valued and enforced in half-foot communities. Here’s a short post on half-foot family bonds culturally + here’s a post on marriage and half-foots for more. The community aspect of half-foots is very strong, which makes sense especially for how empoverished and discriminated against they are, which does come at the expense of not unlike dwarves (dwarves which half-foots idolize) having more pressure to fit in and have a good reputation to not be cast out and have no support lines. By being scared and needing stability people will often be more conservative, etc etc, though the reverse is also often true, like Chilchuck with his union. But yes Chilchuck seems to have many biases he clings onto, harsh on especially Marcille and Laios, Marcille for her idealism, race and magic meanwhile Laios for his lack of social skills and ‘reckless’ behavior.

He also does the classic "Don’t you dare date my daughter!!", though it’s a bit up in the air because he only gets agitated about coworkers being suitors, not nearly as hostile to the idea when it’s some nameless dwarf. But y’know when a guy assumes every men is as horny and sleazy as they are so they’re like "never trust men"… Chilchuck does embody a lot the tropes of just, the everyday flawed middle aged man. The absentee father and careerman husband who does care despite it all. Disillusioned grumpy old man. Old divorced drunkard joe with a thing for cute young blonde women, as a friend put it.

We know Kui subverses tropes a lot, I definitely think Kui leans into these if nothing else for the bit. He’s tropes of the strict family Father, man doing inappropriate jokes around a beer with his drinking buddies, working man exhausted and frustrated by his job, midlife crisis. Also because of how he acts with Marcille, I always say he’s the boy on the playground pulling on the pigtails of his girl friend bc he thinks it’s funny. Because he thinks she’s pretty.

So point blank, Chilchuck respects women as individuals but he can get a little lost in the sauce when thinking about women in general and jumps to sexualizing them in ways that can be objectifying and dismissive. Casual lowkey misogyny for the bit that may or may not slip into non-jokes as well sometimes when it comes to seeing women as something inherently to defend or take for granted, though he’s well-meaning. He engages in gender roles of "men should be strong and burly" and "daughters should listen to their fathers’ opinion before dating a guy". A guy engaging in patriarchy without thinking much of it y’know, more or less passive and unaware. He’s good in economic and human rights issues but would not win the political correctness medal (though he does care about optics and is very conscious of appearing as upstanding and innocent with the elves or Toshiro’s and Kabru’s parties to avoid getting thrown in jail. Overcompensating for half-foot criminal reputations etc etc. Post on that here).

Do I believe Chilchuck would march for women’s rights? Yes. Do I believe he would make ‘ye old ball and chain’ and ‘my wife’ and ‘ah women’ jokes? Yes. Do I believe he would punch anyone making one such jokes about his wife or daughters? Yes.

I was pretty flippant bc honestly Chilchuck the Sleazy Horny Old Man is hilarious to me but yes hopefully the post was decent. "How could I be sexist? I love bitches"

[spirithunterfamily]

Excuse me, but have you ever met a woman named Mulan Rose?

[moogghost]

...so now that grandfest is over and the results were revealed am i allowed to say that some of y'all were such dicks to team present over their team choice for NO good reason ever since grandfest was revealed or am i going to get mauled for being right.

anyways congrats to the team past members who weren't assholes about their team choice and those team past members only every match against you guys made me feel like i was crawling in the trenches and it's very impressive 👍

[ratatatastic]

"chucky did one with the cardinals not too long ago did you reach out to him any advice?" "i didnt... yeah just going for it we'll see what happens 😃!" (proceeds to be consumed by the spirit that haunts loan depot and airmails the ball)

"Have you thrown a first pitch before? And just your nervous level for tonight?" "I have never thrown a first pitch... a little bit of nerves! You always wanna throw a strike but I think I'll be alright!" "Did you play baseball growing up at all?" "Just a little bit, just when I was younger. And then started to kind-of get into hockey a little bit more and—so just when I was, you know, up until I was 7 or 8, I think?"

Fox Sports 940 | 9.6.24

wonderful form this man did not want to get chirped for not reaching the plate he put his whole arm into that 😭😭😭😭

philedelphia phillies @ miami marlins | 9.6.24 (x)(x)(x)

also just to note that erods wearing a 10th ani florida marlins hat as he dons the black alts which goes so hard man knows BALL

[dee--eer]

Will be using this team for Cyno story quest, my boy gonna be confronting his past together with his family 💪😌

[moregraceful]

Tagged by @soyouwinagain to post 6 photos from my camera roll in the past week, thank you comrade, I was hoping someone would tag me 🫡🫡 except then I had to go back a couple weeks otherwise all six photos would have been my dog at a cocktail garden.

Ivan Fedotov and Erik Johnson at Flyers training camp, Fedotov in full Russian saint mode; a flower outside of an Indian restaurant; Yankees outfielders running away from each other and I'm so mad I only got them running back to position bc they were being SO cute while a reliever was warming up; Keats at the aforementioned cocktail garden, he was sweatin'; giant rotting boat outside of Ikea; boxes containing all of my earthly possessions.

[satosktty]

horror jjk au where sukuna and his team most likely choso utahime yozoru and uraume are assigned to influtrate a literal domain of hell that seems to be themed around raves and partying — the fashion is so distinct they stand out amongst others

large, bright mismatched colors with satanic related symboling on some of them. countless fur-filled leg warmers, shoes, coats the whole nines.

it’s a huge culture shock to otherwise well socialized sukuna ( technically he went from deviant; where he required his ear piercings -> rough correctional system; where he gets his tattoos from and then -> reintegrated into society only due to his physical prowess and he knows his limited freedoms can be easily ripped away if he disobeys his bosses )

* his bosses belong to a company that deals with supernatural shit by gathering prisoners who also are supernatural and making them hunt down these types of people for possibly lesser sentences

anyways once they enter the rave area, they notice the complexity of the domain and how it’s practically a city with large hotels and just more and more parties. it doesn’t help that they don’t know which people were just unfortunate enough to be caught in the domain and the spirits that have been transformed to look human

they spread out to garner more information after a near death experience with the bouncers for not looking like one of the monster ravers.

sukuna is the first one to reach the pit, he thanks his mother for his tall figure as he's able to shove to the very front of the pit.

then on stage he sees this beautiful creature with snow-white hair who's blue eyes seemed radiant against the neon lights. he's never felt more inlove and they almost make eye contact until sukuna looks down and notices that this white-haired beauty is wearing one of the hearts of the rave.

he's one of the sorcerer's he has to take out.

[shatteredspirits]

Lief: "Yeah, right. So none of what you said makes any lick of sense, so I'm gonna assume you're a funky hybrid and move along with my day. Anyways, whatcha doing out here by yourself?"

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Ethereal isn't mad about the comment- most of my other characters would be, but Ethereal just... doesn't care about other's opinions of them. Instead, they're curious as to what Lief could think they're a hybrid of.

[bearotonin-international]

Hello fellow bear lovers! I have an oc who is a kermode bear centaur (human waist up, bear waist down)! I don’t get much practice drawing him though :/ could you give me some goofy kermode bear (or normal blackbear!) pictures i can use for practice?

so we know you didn't ask for this but the team's gonna nerd out for a couple minutes here and provide a couple fun facts about kermode bears (the team is procrastinating doing actual work). and then provide the requested photos as we always do :)

for anyone who doesn't know, kermode bears are a subspecies of black bears, and most kermode bears do not actually have white coats. kermode bears with white coats are called spirit bears (and only about 10-20% of kermode bears are spirit bears). the white of the spirit bear is a specific coat color morph that is much more genetically common in the kermode bear population. (there's a recessive mutant gene that must be present in both parents (bearants) for the cub to be a spirit bear).

(here's a funky lil graphic about spirit bear genetics)

so it's pretty common for kermode bear mixed families with cubs that are different colors from their mothers and/or each other

there is research suggesting two primary reasons the prominence of the white coat in kermode bears is because it gives the bears an advantage while fishing during the day time, because the fish are less likely to see their light coats from underwater (kermode bears are supremely skilled and successful slammers of salmon) (there's all kinds of fun facts about the dietary differences of spirit bears and kermode bears inhabiting the same reasons).

another reason for the prominence of spirit bears is because of positive assortative mating (aka white kermode bears breed more with other white kermode bears (and black kermode bears tend to breed more with other black kermode bears)) (one of the fun theories for why this occurs is that babies are more likely to imprint on their mother's coat color)

there's all kinds of other fun facts about spirit & kermode bears, but we've gone on long enough so

TLDR not all kermode bears are spirit bears but all spirit bears are kermode bears

okay now on to some silly kermode bears as actually requested

[generic-sonic-fan]

Apologies to Fernsnailz- here's the MLA citations for all my fics that are Omega Propaganda

Generic-Sonic-Fan. “My Soul to Keep.” Tumblr, 1 Mar. 2023, www.tumblr.com/generic-sonic-fan/710621049217286144/my-soul-to-keep?source=share.

Generic-Sonic-Fan. “5 Times Omega Denied That He Cared + the 1 time he admitted it.” Tumblr, 5 June 2023, www.tumblr.com/generic-sonic-fan/719260766483759104/5-times-omega-denied-that-he-cared-the-1-time-he?source=share.

Generic-Sonic-Fan. "Residual Orders." Tumblr, 3 July 2023, https://www.tumblr.com/generic-sonic-fan/721851263896174592/residual-orders?source=share

Generic-Sonic-Fan. "I Can't Accept All This." Tumblr, 9 April 2023, https://www.tumblr.com/generic-sonic-fan/714139779043835904/collapse?source=share

Generic-Sonic-Fan. "It Won't Scar." Tumblr, 25 May 2023, https://www.tumblr.com/generic-sonic-fan/718332215109582848/it-wont-scar?source=share

Generic-Sonic-Fan. "Debugging." Tumblr, 4 May 2023, https://www.tumblr.com/generic-sonic-fan/716428317176250368/debugging?source=share

Generic-Sonic-Fan. "Self-Indulgent Omega Interpretation." Tumblr, 2 March 2023, https://www.tumblr.com/generic-sonic-fan/710720974241316864/you-should-share-some-of-your-favorite-headcanons?source=share

@fernsnailz

[ikkaku-of-heart]

@kaizokugaris asked: ⭐️⭐️⭐️!! For each “⭐️” I get, I’ll write a headcanon about our muses. (Still Accepting)

⭐️While Ikkaku had figured out how to use two swords on her own by Zou, it was Zoro who taught her how to actually use two-sword style. Her desire to both protect her crew and, admittedly, impress Zoro made her a quick learner, even if she still has a way to go to master the style. But she's not complaining because that means more lessons from Zoro.

⭐️Ikkaku gives great massages and naturally gives them to Zoro after he's been training or after a particularly intense battle. However, she does often give the caveat that he needs to shower first. This is to ensure he actually does shower so he's not stinky, especially because it's not uncommon for her massages to put people to sleep, and she wants to be able to enjoy a nice cuddle/nap with him, and she wants him smelling nice for it.

⭐️Deep down, Ikkaku hopes that she'll be there to see Zoro claim the title of the World's Greatest Swordsman. She would love to see his dream come true firsthand. But even if she isn't there, she has every intention to help him celebrate and train to retain that title, plus just spend time with him as he starts on a new dream.

[feykrorovaan]

holy shit you don't even wanna know how long i've wanted to talk to another fan of fable

hi!!!! hello!!!!! i'm insane over these games and i am deciding you're my friend now!!!! (/nf ofc)

It's always nice to make new friends,and if that friend is a fellow Hero of Albion? Even better. Just be sure not to lead any Hobbes,Hollowmen, or Balverines here and you'll be just fine. 😉

[wolfsbanesparks]

Besides shazam and batman (including batfamily), what other characters would you want to write about?

Hi anon! Thanks for the ask!

I have been slowly branching out to write about other characters as I get to know more about them and read some of their stuff. There are so many interesting characters to get into and I' be down to write any of them if I could come up with a decent story. So let's see:

I am very excited to write about Lois Lane and Clark Kent and have a story heavily featuring them in the works (though it's still in the early stages). I have also recently written a fic about Kara and would be thrilled to write about her again, both as a main character or as part of a larger cast.

I am also working on some ideas for Marcus Shugel--Shen (aka Monkey Prince) since I was rereading his solo recently. I absolutely adore his character and can't wait to write about him some more.

I'm currently working on a fic with Hal Jordan as one of the main characters so i've been dipping into Green Lantern lore which has been very fun, 10/10 will do again.

Some other characters I'd like to write but don't have specific story ideas for are Diana Prince, Barry Allen, J'onn J'onzz, Booster Gold, Courtney Whitmore (Stargirl), Plastic Man, Victor Stone (Cyborg), Xanthe Zhou (The Envoy) and Kit Freeman (Kid Eternity).

There are more of course, but I figured I'd just put the ones I'm most likely to write about. But like I said, I'm very open to writing new characters!