#DUNGEON MESHI THURSDAY :D

[everyday-mspaint-kirby]

Day 589

[wayfinderships]

Good afternoon gamers! :D Hope everyone's day is going well so far!! Also Happy Dungeon Meshi Thursday! Gonna ramble a bit about this weeks episode so Spoiler Warning for this week's episode ahead

Gonna be focusing on Laios ofc because look at him!!! Jsfjsndjfksnfk I love seeing him get all excited about monsters! He's so cute methinks <3

Also this moment had me fksnfksnxksn👉👈 Haven't developed my s/i very much but they have a similar situation like Izutsumi going on which means they're probably all -w- this episode like she was. Except that instead of clinging to Marcille they're clinging to Laios

Also surely I'm not the only one who was thinking this, right? ...right?-

[carriagelamp]

I don't know what to say here this month. February, eh? Hate February, the Thursday of months, I'm just clinging to sanity while I wait for spring. Here are the books that helped me through what is basically a month of overcast skies and fucking winter rain.

Candy Color Paradox v6

Candy Color Paradox is a series I’ve been reading for years now and I’ve really enjoyed how the relationship in this one has progressed over that time. It started somewhat similar to how you’d expect a yaoi manga to start — lots of tension, drama, smut, and some light antagonism between the two main characters who both work at the same weekly magazine. But it’s eased into something that’s really quite genuine. This most recent volume focused entirely on moving in together and all the little complications and insecurities that arise because of that.

Circus of Fear

A 1980s D&D choose your own adventure novel so the quality is exactly what you would expect, but at the very least it was a fun little diversion. Doing a CYOA book with a friend can honestly be a blast, they just feel so silly, and the setting of a magical, vaguely sinister circus is always an enjoyable backdrop. We managed to get a good ending on the second try! So yay! I'd honestly like to read it again and try some of the other routes that also sounding intriguing.

Dungeon Meshi // Delicious in Dungeon v1

Me and my girlfriend started watching Dungeon Meshi because we’d seen so much about it on tumblr lately and wow. Just wow. It really is doing something special and we’re completely enamoured. Since we’re waiting for new episodes, I picked up the first book so we could compare it and the show — it’s really impressive how closely they align! And the art is really lovely, it stands out and not just for it's food glamour shots.

For those who haven't been seduced into watching the anime yet: Dungeon Meshi / Delicious in Dungeon is a DND-style parody in which the adventuring party needs to enter the monster-filled dungeon to save one of their companions who got eaten by a red dragon. They need to get to her and revive her before she entirely digested. However, to hasten their quest (and indulge one of their member’s strange obsessions) they begin to hunt and eat the monsters that fill the dungeon instead of trying to bring food in from the outside. This is 80% a cooking anime and 20% a comedic adventure anime. Book or show, doesn’t matter which, you should give it a try if you haven’t.

Down Among the Sticks and Bones

I really enjoyed the first book of the series, Every Heart A Doorway, and was excited when I found out there was a prequel about Jack and Jill and the world they visited. This can either be read as a prequel or it works fairly well as a stand-alone novella; the story is about twin sisters who have always been forced to fill very precise societal roles by their parents. One afternoon, they stumble across a magical door in the bottom of a chest and venture down into the sinister world of the moors where one sister is taken in by a vampire lord and the other by a mad scientist. The story looks at how the sisters grow and change when apart from each other and their controlling parents. Excellent story, the language is just so enticing.

Midnight Sun

My brother has been watching all the Twilight movies with a couple of his friends. Listening to him bitch about Jacob like it was 2007 reawakened something in me, so after laughing myself sick I had to go and relisten to Midnight Sun. Still genuinely and unironically love this book, it’s pure trash but by god it's my trash. I’m a simple soul.

Odder

I’ve been hearing great things about this book, and it’s hard to go wrong with Katherine Applegate so I was excited to finally read it. This is a book written entirely in free verse poetry about an orphaned otter and her experiences being rescued by the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It’s inspired by a true story (several true stories, actually!) and it's very worth picking up even if you don't usually go for poetry. It's charming and reads very easily.

Old-Fashioned Cupcake

A middle-aged salaryman is feeling worn down by the humdrum nature of his life, which is filled mostly with work these days. This manga kicks off with his coworker suggests that if he wants to deal with the feelings of boredom and aging, then he needs to do something to shake up his life: so he suggests that they “act like a pair of teenage girls” and go to a fancy new pancake shop just because it seems fun, never mind that it’s not something grown men are supposed to do. This manga ended up being pretty darn cute -- it was slow and compassionate and loving -- and it managed to convince me to buy its sequel.

Professor Calculus: Science’s Forgotten Genius

A ridiculous little book I bought on impulse that was nevertheless a lot of fun to read. It’s a tribute to Cuthbert Calculus, celebrating the 80th anniversary of his first appearance in Tintin. It dives into some of the inspirations that went into the character, and also lovingly and cheekily explores some "facts" we know about Calculus as a person… and wildly extrapolates more from there. It was a cute little read for anyone who’s a fan of the series and wants something a little extra.

Return to Oz

I recently rewatched this movie and maintain that I like it more than the original film, sorry. It made me decide to grab the novelization because I’m always a sucker for a novelization <3 This one was pretty solid too, it actually included details that were left out of the film and improve the stories overall cohesion which is always the marker of a good novelization.

Return to Oz takes place several months after the original film, when Aunty Em and Uncle Henry are trying to build a new house and get the farm back in order before winter. Concerned by Dorothy’s continued belief in Oz and her increased insomnia, Aunty Em decides to take her to a doctor who offers healing through electroshock therapy. Yeah, it’s exactly as fucking creepy as it sounds… You get a scary aslyum, a sinister head nurse, being strapped to a hospital gurney, and new baddies that scared the bejeezus out of me as a kid. Anyway, before she can be electrocuted, Dorothy manages to escape back to Oz where she discovers her friends are in dire need of help. It’s like Alice: Madness Returns but from Disney. Go watch this movie.

She Drives Me Crazy

I had very mixed feelings about this book. It’s about high school basketball player, Scottie, who has suffered a bad breakup with her girlfriend who moved schools to play on the opposing basketball team. Things go from bad to worse when she gets into a car accident with her arch-nemesis, the cheerleader Irene. One things lead to another and bada bing bada boom we have a fake dating scheme so that Scottie can get back at her ex.

This book had some genuinely fun moments (I’m always a sucker for a fake dating scheme, and the characters were reasonably fun) but it’s biggest failing is one that I’ve seen more than I like in current queer lit. It just tries so. fucking. hard. to be unproblematic. Like yeah, it’s great to see healthy relationships but it was SO explicit about it. So much therapy speak, way more than feels natural for a conversation or internal monolgue, especially when they’re in high emotions. The “banter” was very scripted. It was a book that felt like it had a laugh track. And while the ending was satisfying enough, it was also… I don’t know. Anticlimactic. We just spent so long tying everything up in a perfectly neat little bow that it really just strolled to an ending that was obvious from a mile away. 

Like look, I get it, we want this to be squeaky clean and beyond reproach, but I have NEVER entered a fake dating story hoping that everyone was going to be really sensible and respectful and level-headed. Fake dating is the slapstick of the romance world, I want some Shakespearean level bullshit, please don’t try to gussy it up for me. Gonna go and rewatch 10 Things I Hate About You or something just to feel things again. Or maybe pop over to AO3, your average fic writer at least understands that when I say fake dating I mean I want something absolutely fucking unhinged and filled to the gill with mutual pining.

So yeah, if you want a sports-based high school sapphic romance: it’s not a bad book. It went down easy, I liked listening to it in the mornings when I needed something light before work. Some bits I even quite enjoyed. But it’s not going to rock your world.

Shuna’s Journey

Well, if nothing else you can really, definitely tell this was done by Hayoa Miyazaki. I’m honestly not really sure how I felt about it. The art was beautiful, and the story was pure undiluted Miyazaki through and through. The narrative was very nice. The story and message was poignant. It was a nice book. I can’t say it’s stuck very heavily in my mind, but I enjoyed reading it. It felt like a precursor to Princess Monoke / Nausicaa, perhaps?

The Witches

The story of one child and his grandmother needing to contend with witches. Not fairytale witches. Real witches. And all their horrible, child-hating ways. One thing I will always love about Dahl is that when he wants to write about something Horrible, nothing will stop him. His villains are truly villainous and the witches are a prime example of that! I loved the description of the witches and their horrible, sinister deeds, especially in the first half of the book. This sure is Child Murder: The Novel! The ending was absolutely not what I was expecting, and I appreciate that. Such a bizarre book.

[youngersiblingstournament]

Round 2 Matchups

There isn't a whole lot to say here except that I've announced the loser's bracket and you should check it out.

Round 2 starts Thursday, April 13 at 10:00 AM CST. Left side will be posted Thursday and right side will be posted Friday.

Anyway, round 2.

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Left Side, Quarter A:

Ritsu Kageyama (Mob Psycho 100) vs. Cat Valentine (Victorious)

Danny Fenton (Danny Phantom) vs. Shuri (Marvel)

Princess Luna (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) vs. Lilo Pelekai (Lilo & Stitch)

Dewey Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle) vs. Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)

Left Side, Quarter B:

(5) Maya Fey (Ace Attorney) vs. Falin Touden (Dungeon Meshi)

(6) Noelle Holiday (Deltarune) vs. Melinoë (Hades)

(7) Abel (The Bible) vs. Greg (Over the Garden Wall)

(8) Dante (Devil May Cry) vs. Kofuku (Real Life)

Right Side, Quarter C:

(9) Luigi (Super Mario) vs. Yukio Okumura (Blue Exorcist)

(10) Emerald Haywood (Nope) vs. Jiang Cheng (The Untamed)

(11) Nico Di Angelo (Percy Jackson) vs. Manny Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

(12) Sunny Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events) vs. Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Right Side, Quarter D:

(13) Michelangelo Hamato (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) vs. Vash the Stampede (Trigun)

(14) King Clawthorne (The Owl House) vs. Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

(15) Jinx (Arcane) vs. Damian Wayne (DC)

(16) Mirabel Madrigal (Encanto) vs. Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

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[nsfwitchy2]

G o d between new episodes of doctor who every weekend, new episodes of dungeon meshi every Thursday, AND a W H O L E new season of bridgertons???

Besties I am F E A S T I N G 😩😩

[shoppinghauer]

Rant: im tired of pretending i like dungeon meshi. Every thursday my roommate and D watch it together but i just cant find it interesting. I hate the 3 guys 1 girl format, I hate the "sister who is a monster" trope that Demon Slayer also has, hated the last breasted boobily scene, hate the fuckin MC, hate the "ik he's a generic white man but he's autistic coded", and i hate how generic fantasy it is.

[yuffi369]

Forget-Me-Not | A Cozy Long-Term Campaign [D&D 5e] [Campaign] [$15.00 usd/session] [Roll20] [Discord] [Bi-Weekly Thursday] [EDT]

Campaign Title | Forget-Me-Not

System | Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition

About the adventure:

You've come to the little rural village of Forget-Me-Not, whether it's on request of a family member or friend, the desire to settle down into a quieter life, or simply to start a new life with turning to a fresh page. This quiet village life still has plenty to offer adventurers that come in to town, whether that be through job offers to clear out areas of hostile creatures or to delve into dungeons nearby and bring back items worth a high price. Navigate the daily life of cooking, cleaning, homesteading, and more. Make your new life in the valley, keep your fond memories and make new ones!

If you enjoy Studio Ghibli vibes, Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons/Stardew Valley and other similar games, and the deep worldbuilding, cozy vibes, and unique crafting and cooking of anime such as Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in Dungeon, then this is the game for you!

❀ Cozy Roleplay Atmosphere

Enjoy immersing yourself in the rich lore and worldbuilding surrounding Forget-Me-Not village. Interact with NPC's that each have their own unique story and forge bonds, with unique mechanical aspects for positive (and negative!) relationships. Relationships drive your story forward and help you find your place in the valley. Feel free to immerse yourself and explore emotions both lighthearted and heavy in your story!

❀ Shape Your World

Create your homestead as an extension of your character. Build a unique home and fill it with all that you need for both adventuring and domestic work. Seek out monsters and defeat them to craft unique items or improve upon the items you already have, cook delicious meals, and create powerful spell components.

❀ Unique Mechanics, Races, Classes & Subclasses

Using supplemental material such as 'Witch + Craft', 'Monstercraft: Monster Harvesting for 5e', and 'The Adventurer's Domestic Handbook', as well as other miscellaneous homebrew material, explore a world unlike any other campaign. If you don't find anything to your liking, reach out to the storyteller to craft your own rules! Nothing is outside the realm of possibility!

❀ Off-Table Activity

Joining any of my games gives you access to the Galaxiiverse discord server. In addition, have game-exclusive chats for voice calls, out-of-character chatter, and in-character roleplay in-between sessions using Tupperbox proxy bot to speak and act in-character, to continue both PC and NPC interaction in-between sessions!

❀ A Warm & Welcoming Immersive Experience

A story and game that's welcome to all experience levels with ttrpg's. Create an immersive and fun fantasy escape with other players and the storyteller to come back to every session!

Time: Bi-Weekly Thursday evenings at 8:30 pm EDT

Community discord server with private game chats for VC and ooc chatter, and roleplay text chats to use in-between sessions

Each session is $15.00 usd

Sign up here:

[voidless-screaming]

Thanks for the tag!! Havent done these in ages :3

Favourite colour - quite like soft pastel pinks or deep purples!

Last song - hopeless romantic by Alohaii

last film - the MHA two heroes film, don't watch a lot of movies or MHA but it was fun to watch with company and poke fun at LOL

Currently reading - mob psycho volume 1

Craving - i had a lot of sweets today so now im craving something salty or spicy, i really like those spicy shin instant ramens but i have none rn 😔

Currently watching - Dungeon meshi every Thursday 💪💪

coffee or tea - tea! Ive been trying to collect different types of teas and try them :D

@xpoolboy @sleepysnails @burlapgoblin @especdreamy @cupcraft @iwander12 @dykedaji @eeveebo0w0 @monachopsissssss @owodnia

Rules, answer and tag 9 ppl who you would like to get to know better!

Tagged by @tiredtief and @heyftinally

• favorite color, probably purple, but I really love grey too

• last song I listened to, call your mom, by Noah Kahan

• last film I watched, Detroit evolution (for literally the millionth time I'm obsessed lol)

• currently reading, The Time traveler's wife by Audrey Niffenegger (but I've been trying to read it for like a year lol)

• currently craving, probably anything to do with pickles

• currently watching, either helluva boss, or various religious deconstruction documentaries

• coffee or tea, usually always tea, coffee makes me too hyper, but it's good on occasion

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If I @ed you, absolutely no pressure to respond to this, I don't know many people on this app, my list of mutuals is pretty short lol, anyhow, you are lovely, you are wonderful, have a great day ❤️

[suudonym]

Every anime/manga rec so far have been great! I'm hooked on Made in Abyss rn. If its possible what are some of your other anime/manga recs?

I’m glad you’re enjoying it!! I for one am all but literally bouncing in my seat because tomorrow is friday and friday is made in abyss and I am looking forward to it

other recommendations, hmmmmm let’s see what I can come up wiiith

(genres are gonna be all over the place, sorry about that)

among anime that I eagerly looked forward to new episodes of, I’d recommend re: zero first and foremost. it’s a “normal guy ends up in an alternate fantasy world” story but it does the trope SO MUCH BETTER than the trope usually gets done. there were already like five episodes out by the time I finally gave it a try and boooyy am I glad I did because it’s just a phenomenal story, very painful, top marks from the pain-loving me

if it’s anime that I looked forward to, then I can’t not mention natsume yuujinchou. the sixth season aired last season with new episodes on tuesdays and as early as thursday I’d be like “TUESDAY IS COMING IT’S ALMOST TIME FOR NATSUME.” natsume is what I call a warm and soft anime - it just feels good to watch it. that said it is six seasons long and it’s episodic with pretty much no overarching plot (though there is some subtle and natural character development that’s just HEARTWARMING) so a lot of people find it too boring but if you don’t mind the episodic nature then it’s so… so good

speaking of warm I also greatly enjoyed amaama to inazuma and udon no kuni no kiniro kemari / poco’s udon world. I say them in the same breath because they have a LOT of similarities: yuuichi nakamura (voice of karamatsu) plays a mild-mannered guy awkwardly bumbling his way through single fatherhood to a young child. the thing that makes them very clearly different stories is that in the former the child is the main character’s four-ish-year-old daughter, his wife recently deceased, and in the latter the child is a three-ish-year-old magical shapeshifting tanuki. for amaama to inazuma there’s also an ongoing manga which I would almost be inclined to recommend over the anime (the art works a lot better imo) if not for the fact that the little girl in the anime is voiced by an actual little girl and it’s so endearing

if you like osomatsu san (and if you’re engaging with my blog it feels safe to assume that that’s the case) then I recommend handa-kun for it’s extremely relatable protagonist and general hilarity. if misunderstandings as a tool for humor is up your alley then handa-kun is the alley itself. hardly anybody watched that show and to this day I cannot understand why. (actually it’s probably because it was a prequel to the similarly underrated barakamon which I also wholeheartedly endorse. there are a few references to it in handa-kun so on one hand if you’re interested in watching barakamon it may be better to watch it first for the sake of those references but on the other hand handa-kun has a very different tone from barakamon so it may feel a bit weird watching it after barakamon unless you leave a gap in between)

another criminally underrated one is alice to zouroku. my god did I enjoy that one, it’s a found-family story featuring a young girl with extremely limited worldly experience and a grouchy old man with a heart of gold (ngl I based the explosive engineer in tata on this guy after the first episode because I was so deeply intrigued by the unusual character archetype). it goes through a few shifts in genre and leaves a looot of loose ends but imo it is SO WORTH IT for the really wonderful themes along the way

so that’s what I can come up with for recent anime, and for older/less recent anime the first thing that comes to mind is definitely steins;gate, which is pretty highly acclaimed so I’d be surprised if you’re not already familiar with it. BUT, what gets talked about much less is robotics;notes, which I also very much enjoyed. as you can tell from the semi-colon it’s by the same author as steins;gate (and I THINK, I might be wrong but I THINK it’s also the author of re: zero?) and there are parts that stick out very vividly in my mind, so vividly that I also distinctly remember sitting in the school cafe talking about these parts to a friend because holy shit

I also will never miss an opportunity to scream to the sky about hyouka because MY GOD I loved hyouka and it was so beautiful and so interesting and yes it’s kind of slow and quiet but it’s a highschool slice-of-life pseudo-mystery with a focus on characters and character development so of course it’s gonna be a bit slow and quiet. also the main character is voiced by yuuichi nakamura so, y’know, lil bonus there for those who are as deeply attached to karamatsu as I am

and! tales of the abyss. play the game if you can (it’s for ps2 and has a 3ds port) but if you can’t then the anime, while not necessarily what you might call pretty or well-animated, is an admirably faithful adaptation for being limited to two cours. the protagonist is one of the most deeply human characters with some of the most realistic and thoughtful character development I’ve seen out of anything ever and I will never stop recommending it, but do play the game first if it’s within your ability because it is, naturally, much more thorough in its storytelling and also is very rewarding by nature of being a game

back to anime that’s just anime (and boy is it anime), I’ll always enthusiastically endorse shirobako, the quintessential anime about anime, specially about anime production. I’ve heard that it was supposed to have four cours but due to scheduling conflicts it was cut down to just two and I will never know peace knowing that I could have had twice as much shirobako as what I got

and now that I’ve been through aaaaaall that how about some MANGA

there’s three right off the bat that I very very VERY highly recommend but I’ll do em one at a time for the same of organization. first, I’ve said it before and I’m still waving my arms in the general direction of the promised neverland if you’re not already reading it. if you’re more of an anime watcher than a manga reader you just wait a while and I have no doubt in my mind that an anime announcement will spring up

next, I’ve actually been wanting to recommend this one for a really long time: dungeon meshi. it’s sorta like d&d meets shokugeki no souma - a party of penniless dungeon crawlers crawl through a dungeon trying to save the main character’s sister, and because they’re penniless they cook and eat monsters. it’s CRIMINALLY funny and extremely well-illustrated and the plot has been seriously heating up lately and there aren’t nearly enough people reading this manga

and third is to you the immortal / to your eternity / fumetsu no anata he (not sure which is the more accurate translation of the title). a strange immortal rock has the power to take on the form of things that have a big impact on it, and by experiencing bigger and bigger impacts the entity gains a sense of identity and purpose, plus a whole bunch of forms that he can shift between at will. it’s by the same author who did koe no katachi (which I also highly recommend, both the movie and the manga are really really great - though the manga covers much more than the movie)

I would also recommend yotsuba& / yotsuba to but I don’t want people to think I have a type (I do have a type, it’s family themes. lay them sweet sweet family themes on me). I’m honestly really surprised that this one’s still never gotten an anime. a soft and fluffy story about a single dad raising his extremely energetic small daughter

there’s probably a loooot more, especially manga, but I have completely run out of energy and that’s a pretty extensive-feeling list as it is so I’m gonna leave it as it is for now. hope something in here piques your interest!