#Dungeon Meshi has no romance but it does have canonically queer characters.
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#dungeon meshi#mithrun#Cithis Ofri#Pattadol#Fleki#Lycion#Otta#Happy Canary Debut Day! These guys wont really get to be very present until the next season of Dungeon Meshi#But I can still be excited to see them animated!!!#Shout out to Pattadol - I also tend to occupy 'The Punchline' niche of the friendgroup.#The punchline differs from 'The Jester' who willingly absorbs the jokes. The punchline is often unwillingly the joke.#You are either the one no one likes or the well beloved little-sibiling-esque friend. Good luck figuring out which!#Yes it is canon that Otta is into Women. YES she dates younger women and dumps them when they age.#This isn't a fan made bit. It's real.#Dungeon Meshi has no romance but it does have canonically queer characters.#Shipping is fine and all but it is a running theme in the series than *everyone* who expresses romantic interest in someone -#-finds that love unrequited. Just something to be mindful of to measure your expectations of this series!#Ah! In other housekeeping notes; I'm going to *try* and add Alt Text to my dungeon meshi thurday posts going forwards.#I might not be able to do it day of but I will try to get it done within a week.
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why are you calling farcille sapphic representation when they arenât even canon
had a very lengthy internal debate with myself on whether i wanted to answer this with an essay or say something short like âbecause iâm sapphic and they represent me.â but you guys can have the essay too.
iâd like to preface this by saying that i understand where youâre coming from. explicit lgbt+ representation is so deeply important and queer characters in media needs to be normalized instead of tokenized so that queer viewers can feel like there is a world that accepts them and that they can belong in.
HOWEVER. this does not also mean that queercoding and subtext should be devalued, especially given how ingrained it is in queer culture and media. historically, when it was a lot more dangerous to show a character as queer without villainizing them in some way, subtext was all a queer viewer could have. but itâs because of those small hints (see: the legend of korra) that we could have popular media that unabashedly shows queer love. however, even that representation has been stifled, either by only allowing the queer love to be shown in the end (see: adventure time, she-ra, and voltron) or by straight up canceling the show itself (see: the owl house, warrior nun, i am not okay with this, sense8, and first kill).
now letâs get into the actual discussion of farcille. more often than not, shipping arises more from seeing the buildup of a couple rather than when they actually get into a relationship. and this goes for any ship, not just queer ones. but youâre not questioning me on shipping farcille, youâre questioning that i called them sapphic representation without them actually being canon (and therefore they canât be considered representation).
however, i wholeheartedly think that farcille cannot be read as anything other than romantic, and i genuinely believe that (MANGA SPOILERS) theyâd pursue a relationship post-canon, now that falin is un-chimeraâd and marcille has a less anxious attachment style to the people she loves. dungeon meshi doesnât focus on romance whatsoever, and there honestly wouldnât be any time to show romance anyway because neither character was in a position to be ready for one, so the only appropriate moment would be post-canon.
and thatâs where the importance of subtext comes in. ryoko kuiâs storytelling relies heavily on her audienceâs media literacy skills. though laios is never explicitly stated as autistic, his character is written in such an exquisite way, that any viewer could easily guess what she was trying to represent there. i would 100% consider him to be autistic representation, even without him saying it in-text. now why shouldnât i be allowed to extend that same logic to farcille being sapphic representation? all the tell-tale queercoding signs are there, just like all the tell-tale autistic-coding is present in laios. i donât need the two girls to kiss to be aware of how utterly devoted and in love they are with each other.
#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#dunmeshi#dungeon meshi analysis#farcille#long post#not to make this about rwby but also this is me and i make everything about rwby#this reminds me a lot of pre-v9 bumbleby discourse as well. and how it was considered queerbaiting before it even got the chance to be cano#even though it was very clearly the direction that they were going#asks#anon
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