#I'm not even getting into how gross and callous people are about his trauma I'm just sticking to what's obvious on a surface level

[atracaelum]

No, genuinely and with feeling: people have been disgusting me

Not blocking the urls, these are big accounts, fuck y'all. Didn't screenshot it but also shoutout to the other big account that says they just "Can't see Mithrun in a sexual way", how mysterious, why is that? Give me a bullet point list.

People love, LOVE to gush about the autism rep in Dungeon Meshi, how cute and relatable and funny Laios is with his hyperfixation and stimming and poor social skills, but a lot of those very same fans encounter a character whose disability isn't "cute" and now he's a problem, now we're having to tread lightly. Mithrun is disfigured, he requires support to live - round the clock when he's on a mission and can't maintain a basic schedule - and the support he routinely receives isn't enough to keep him truly healthy so he has chapped lips and tangles in his hair and eye bags. He has blunted affect and isn't very expressive. These are all factors of his disability. THESE people know that, and yet they're perfectly comfortable saying

He's ugly

He's impossible to connect with

He shouldn't be loved - SHOULDN'T, they are saying it's ethically wrong to portray him romantically

He can't be seen as sexually engaging

Do we see the problem?

man i've been seeing people say crazy things about mithrun and it's pretty awful considering everything the character has been through

if it was all in good fun that's dubious but it seems to come from a desire to get others to hate him.........?

it would be fucked up to say other characters are ugly for their unique physical appearances and people would get mad right? can't we extend that same consideration for mithrun? he’s barely spoken and people are openly mocking his prosthetic eye and calling him a fucking dog like it’s their job..it's just so weird and overtly ableist like a lot of other things people end up saying about him...

calling him “grandpa” though he's relatively the same age as chilchuck. if it's because of his disability then first of all wow. and that's overlooking how he's actually jacked as fuck (for an elf and especially a tallman) and a physically skilled fighter and has a lot of stamina. the reason mithrun keeps falling out is because his disability makes him overexert his powers

it might be “jokes” but i don't think it's funny anymore tbh

“we need more disability representation” yall can’t even handle mithrun!!