#best I got

[aeris-blue]

Charon found a little bird

[arrowmaker15]

*silence*

Steph: How did my dad react to you telling him we were dating?

Jason: He tried to shoot me, then I broke his jaw with the gun he tried to shoot me with.

[iceycloversart]

happy new years eve

[echo-lore]

Au where Macaque was the first to find Mk, kept him for a couple of years, and later gave him away to the only person he could trust once the lady bone demon started getting a little too comfortable for macaques liking.

Chang’e!

So Mks ends up getting raised up on the moon by Chang’e with just the bunnies and the stars as entertainment with the occasional visit of Macaque.

I like to think he shows up a lot in Chang’e cooking show but usually for special episodes as an example of what not to do as a beginner. (Chang’e had no idea why his so bad at cookings. She’s tried, she really has, and he can make some mean baked goods, but anything else and the kitchen will be in ruin).

Chang’e would probably get really sad sometimes and tell Mk all about Hou Yi (her husband) and how she wish Mk could have met him and how much Hou Yi would have loved him (as far as I’m aware they never had kids but do correct me if I’m wrong!) and she often brings Mk to Hou Yi altar.

She also talks about macaque since it is very obvious to her that that’s Mks favorite guardian, but she doesn’t take offense to it. So instead of growing with stories of the Monkey king, he grows up with the stories of a young six-eared macaque. Although he does know about the monkey king, considering that he does have access to the internet, but he doesn’t talk much about considering the one time he did macaque got really really quiet and left as quickly as he could.

Canon story wise- Mk ends up being more like a tourist by the time he meets Mei. He probably snuck out of the moon, made a deal with the jade rabbit to “please not tell mama” and found himself, freshly 14 and on earth for the first time in a while and his in shock staring up at all the tall building and lights that his heard off, and kinda remembers existing from the few time macaque brought him into the city when he still lived on earth. He probably ends up bumping into Mei one way or another (someone’s probably overwhelm and crying; could be Mei because of family expectations or MK because he didn’t realize how different he actually was, but they meet and immediately become besties cause they deserve each other in every universe).

He ends up sneaking out way more and chang’e does take notice eventually that the moon is much quieter than usual also because you know she’s in the moon. She can absolutely see the stupid shit mks getting into on earth, but she wasn’t gonna stop him, she’s just happy he has a friend his age!

He probably tries to hide the fact that the closest thing his had to a mother literally ever is the goddess of the moon herself but he does a shit job at it and Mei found out like immediately once they meet up again. He does on the other successfully hide the fact he knows magic and is really good at it. After all he does have a lot of time to do things back up there in the moon.

Also Mei brings him to pigsy’s on one of the times they hang out and pigsy immediately recognizes him as chang’e special guest and freaks out. He keeps it together long enough for Mk to leave back to the moon before he officially geeks out to tang who’s very confused.

Also Macaque probably realizes that mks in the city and also freaks out, calls chang’e to rat Mk out, expecting some sort of disciplinary action but all he gets is loud laughter and “let the kid live a little!”

Also also Mei introduces roller skating to Mk and mother fucker. Freaks. Out.

(ALSO Mk with moon and bunny jewelry. EVERYWHERE.)

[h0ney-bee]

Anyway

[whrrlwind]

i am v nice to my son

[erinmccomics]

Not to brag but my cats are Artists™

[Medium: Claws on rainbow scratchboard]

Remi works with a hesitant, erratic violence, creating a piece as light and fluffy as she is, and signing her work by hole-punching it with her teeth.

Timmy uses bold, strong lines to evoke some kind of powerful event, echoing his powerful presence and loud voice.

Nubbins, truly inspired, creates a high-energy piece that symbolizes the void where his brain should be, surrounded by chaos and mischief.

Kona, a reclusive avante garde artist, refused to work with me around. Only in quiet solitude did she create this haunting, introspective work.

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

bumblebees first day out of sublevel 50

[your-average-art-dealer]

🫵😑🎨💁🃏

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[evercelle]

bust... or maybe i'll take it all!

[tofixtheshadows]

I've been thinking a lot lately about how Kabru deprives himself.

Kabru as a character is intertwined with the idea that sometimes we have to sacrifice the needs of the few for the good of the many. He ultimately subverts this first by sabotaging the Canaries and then by letting Laios go, but in practice he's already been living a life of self-sacrifice.

Saving people, and learning the secrets of the dungeons to seal them, are what's important. Not his own comforts. Not his own desires. He forces them down until he doesn't know they're there, until one of them has to come spilling out during the confession in chapter 76.

Specifically, I think it's very significant, in a story about food and all that it entails, that Kabru is rarely shown eating. He's the deuteragonist of Dungeon Meshi, the cooking manga, but while meals are the anchoring points of Laios's journey, given loving focus, for Kabru, they're ... not.

I'm sure he eats during dungeon expeditions, in the routine way that adventurers must when they sit down to camp. But on the surface, you get the idea that Kabru spends most of his time doing his self-assigned dungeon-related tasks: meeting with people, studying them, putting together that evidence board, researching the dungeon, god knows what else. Feeding himself is secondary.

He's introduced during a meal, eating at a restaurant, just to set up the contrast between his party and Laios's. And it's the last normal meal we see him eating until the communal ending feast (if you consider Falin's dragon parts normal).

First, we get this:

Kabru's response here is such a non-answer, it strongly implies to me that he wasn't thinking about it until Rin brought it up. That he might not even be feeling the hunger signals that he logically knew he should.

They sit down to eat, but Kabru is never drawn reaching for food or eating it like the rest of his party. He only drinks.

It's possible this means nothing, that we can just assume he's putting food in his mouth off-panel, but again, this entire manga is about food. Cooking it, eating it, appreciating it, taking pleasure in it, grounding yourself in the necessary routine of it and affirming your right to live by consuming it. It's given such a huge focus.

We don't see him eat again until the harpy egg.

What a significant question for the protagonist to ask his foil in this story about eating! Aren't you hungry? Aren't you, Kabru?

He was revived only minutes ago after a violent encounter. And then he chokes down food that causes him further harm by triggering him, all because he's so determined to stay in Laios's good graces.

In his flashback, we see Milsiril trying to spoon-feed young Kabru cake that we know he doesn't like. He doesn't want to eat: he wants to be training.

Then with Mithrun, we see him eating the least-monstery monster food he can get his hands on, for the sake of survival- walking mushroom, barometz, an egg. The barometz is his first chance to make something like an a real meal, and he actually seems excited about it because he wants to replicate a lamb dish his mother used to make him!

...but he doesn't get to enjoy it like he wanted to.

Then, when all the Canaries are eating field rations ... Kabru still isn't shown eating. He's only shown giving food to Mithrun.

And of course the next time he eats is the bavarois, which for his sake is at least plant based ... but he still has to use a coping mechanism to get through it.

I don't think Kabru does this all on purpose. I think Kui does this all on purpose. Kabru's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder should be understood as informing his character just as much as Laios's autism informs his. It's another way that Kabru and Laios act as foils: where Laios takes pleasure in meals and approaches food with the excitement of discovery, Kabru's experiences with eating are tainted by his trauma. Laios indulges; Kabru denies himself. Laios is shown enjoying food, Kabru is shown struggling with it.

And I can very easily imagine a reason why Kabru might have a subconscious aversion towards eating.

Meals are the privilege of the living.

[chanceofwhat]

I created a pile of cats and then I colored the pride flags into it. Idk, enjoy. Don’t “steal” them ig, but like, you can share them, just don’t say you made ‘em. Whatever, my signature’s on it.

Yay pride month!

Update: there are more! I reblogged with the extras but I don’t think many people have seen, so here: https://www.tumblr.com/chanceofwhat/753498899252150272/dang-yall-love-this-thanks hope that link works lmao

[spearxwind]

I think it's sad that most people always think of bottlenoses as the "classic dolphin" since its the one that's always used for shows, and always think of dolphins as just straight grey when in reality there's so many varieties with so many different amazing patterns

Look at the common dolphin! They have a gorgeous X pattern and even some dull yellow/gold!!

Hourglass dolphins have gorgeous white streaks

Spinner dolphins have really pretty banding as well, AND they have a really sleek cute silhouette!

The atlantic spotted dolphin!!! Theyre spotted!!!!!!

and the pantropical spotted too!!

Dusky dolphins have a gorgeous airbrush look going on like straight out of a 2000s fantasy illustration

Striped dolphins sure have stripes!! How cool!!

And these I've shown you aren't even all of them at all, there are so many of them:

There's so so so many different types of dolphins people dont know about this isnt even all of them and some are SO gorgeous and underrated because people just dont know they exist so I'm here to fix that

[sillystringpony]

the one where cheerilee knows

[vongulli]

Woah, drawings!!

[gio-utti]

Redraw of THAT scene.

My favorite moment in the game for many reasons.

Im always so proud of him for it.