#BUT DESPITE THAT

[tildeathiwillwrite]

Things I should work on in November: The Hunter, the Myth and the Cure revisions, The Legend of Orian Goldeneye second draft, Trials of the Six first draft

Things I will likely end up doing in November: first draft of A Musician and A Curse, all the music for AMaAC, the next few chapers of Defy and The Assassin and the Dragonlance

I'm not worried about whether or not I hit whatever word goal I set for myself, whether it be the 30K for Novella November or something else.

Rather, it's what I will spend time working on, when I have so many projects that demand my attention.

Fascinating how my brain works like that. I will never have a shortage of things to work on, but I'm also mildly overwhelmed with the amount of things I can work on.

Usually I just don't think about it and follow the inspiration. Is this feasible for everyone? Nope! But it works for me, and that's all that matters

[cassmouse]

Me, walking out of the cinema after watching Frozen Empire: Well that was terrible and forgettable and disappointing and I didn't like it at all.

Me, over a month later: I have LITERALLY not thought of anything but Phoebe and Melody and the other silly little characters in this film for like five weeks straight it's becoming a slight problem- What? Oh yeah, I didn't like the film at all. anyway here's my Checkmatch playlist and all the fanfic I've read-

[inexprymable]

Imagine being the only commercial telepath on a space station populated by roughly 250000 humans and aliens combined.

[kafus]

@ the last post i just reblogged. please look at the difference between me and ayano's frequently used emojis it's so fucking funny to me

mine:

hers:

just a hunch i think she might like the kaf emojis a little bit. i think she relies on them for conversation and self expression,

[door]

agatha agate has a little spot on the top of her head where her fur is white and it’s very thin and the pink of her skin is a little bit visible all the time. turns out she can get sunburnt there

so now she has this stupid hat.

[ionomycin]

Grief

ref photo by @jawsstone

[thelastfriendly]

So as it turns out James Somerton did in fact fake his suicide note, and did a bunch of other stuff in the meantime

[lilithsaga]

My fellow Americans, I don't normally get political but I need to say this to calm my anxiety.

Be kind to each other, no matter what happens. Make your voice heard peacefully. Follow your heart as you select your choice. And good luck to us all! 🤞💜

[lucdoodle]

thought that one Alastor scene would look cool in comic lettering, so i drew this

[mikonez]

[chipchopclipclop]

autonomy

[clownsuu]

God I love the insane amounts of d r i p Stanley just casually wears

[krysmcscience]

I have some questions about karaoke night, Alex Hirsch. Very Important Questions. Which I will happily scream at a poor hapless baby triangle who can have no answers for me, and possibly also does not have object permanence yet.

Follow-up that is I guess suggestive, but let's be real here, Bill's a fucking triangle:

Dude slipped right into his birthday suit, lmao

this is so stupid :D

Anyway, I don't care what anyone says, this brilliant individual knows what's up - Bill is absolutely way more of a monsterfucker than Ford could or ever will be, full stop.

[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.

[heritageposts]

Looks like Israel is using chemical weapons against UN troops now. If the so-called "rules-based" international order existed to do anything but uphold Western interests, something might've come from this.

Full statement from UNIFIL (13 Oct, 2024):