#but i'm not 100% sure

[paratisu]

Two drawings i finished yesterday and today, respectively

[transgender-catboy]

Okay! Need some feedback, can you guys read my description okay? Should I adjust the colors?

[ardethbayrulez]

Oded Fehr

[pedanticat]

Volume 9 intro is really hammering in the fact that Neo and Ruby are meant to parallel the mysterious girl seen throughout the intro. Given the current arcs/problems Neo and Ruby are going through along with their similarities, there are several things I'm getting from this:

The girl seems to have the playfulness that both Ruby and Neo themselves have.

Similarly to Ruby and Neo, the girl may be running away from her problems instead of properly addressing them. Hence she covers up her pain with a smile.

She may be serving as a cautionary tale for the person Ruby and Neo themselves may become if they don't end up confronting the emotional distress that's consuming them.

[rainedragon]

Kaneko Isao Shop Flyer Year Unknown. It's probably June 1997, but it could be June 2003

[ahandfulwithquietness]

T.E. Lawrence in white robes

Photos taken by Lowell Thomas's photographer Harry A. Chase

[maxhpart]

Ranger Construct | Tears of the Kingdom

We have new info on the robits!! I partially updated the old art & added some new based on what was in the gameplay video.

More info below the cut.

To (mostly) answer my own previous questions:

Friend or foe? Both! Link fights a few small constructs with horns (Soldier Constructs), but he also passes close by a couple taller constructs (Ranger Constructs) by cookpots who don’t aggro and do otherwise seem like NPCs.

Sheikah, Zonai, or other? Zonai! As confirmed by the “Zonai Charge” dropped by one that Link fought.

New or old? Almost definitely old, being Zonai, but we can’t say for certain yet.

Which ones are the real eyes, if any? Based on the single central eye on the combative constructs, I’d guess that the center-top concentric orange circles are the single eyes on the taller constructs.

The Ranger Constructs seem to be foraging: they appear to sweep the ground with their hands in search of things to gather and then put a hand inside their lower halves as if to drop off a finding for safekeeping. I thought: what if they’re foraging for magitech/electricity berries, similar to Pando from Strange World? That seemed like a fun possibility for their power source, so that's what is being foraged in the bottom right.

[padfootagain]

Fellow Ben Barnes fans, I need your help

I remember that Ben mentioned once that when he released some music he was in a cemetery shooting his episode of the Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosity...

But was it the single and mv for 11:11? Or the whole EP?

I cannot remember which one it was, and I need the info for a fic (because my hyperfixating brain won't leave me alone and won't allow me to mix up the two info, I need to know).

Does someone remember about that?

[gyakusama]

You're a thorn in my side. You think you're special, but you're not. Not in the slightest.

Anonymously send me something your muse is secretly thinking about mine.

[heathenkweer]

We've seen what Luis does when Catalina get's killed but what about if Luis gets killed

y'all are bloodthirsty huh

Anyway, nothing good. That's the answer.

[hopcrow]

my cats have another regular visitor...

it's a young/teenager intact male. no collar or anything.

should I try to lure the little guy into a kennel and take him to a rescue or something???

[shadowtraveled]

"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.

but because romantic envy is both classic and digestible, it probably isn’t a unique enough or complicated enough desire to tempt a demon’s appetite. mithrun’s wish, as far as we can figure from kabru’s reduced retelling, was to have a life in which he had never become one of the canaries, and that carries like 3857 implications and desires within it. that’s delicious. his love interest acts as sort of a red herring to his motivation for making it, though. (side note: i'm saying "love interest" here because, keeping in mind that i barely speak japanese on a good day anymore, "想い人" is something i'd usually take as just kind of an old-fashioned and romantic way to refer to a lover, but in context i wonder if both the connotation of yearning and the vagueness are intentional, and i think this phrasing gets those aspects of it more effectively. anyway.)

mithrun considered his love interest to be untrustworthy. there was a minute where i thought that comment might be about a similar-looking elf (yugin, one of his squad members), but comparing the two…

the "sketchy" arrow is definitely referring to the elf we know as his love interest—the bangs go toward her right, she only has the one forehead ornament, and, most notably, her ears aren't notched.

every time she’s given a full-body depiction in his dungeon, she’s drawn as a chimera, with the body of a snake from the waist down. (side note: the “what if a dungeon has chimeras before reaching level 4?”/“then the dungeon lord is unstable” exchange just being mithrun grilling his past self alive is so funny. he’s so. but anyway) there are a couple things about this.

first, the snake part of the chimera appears to be modeled after some species of coral snake mimic

which, in the biology-for-fun manga, i… doubt is a coincidence, especially with the added context of the “untrustworthy” comment. the dungeon’s conjured illusion of mithrun’s love interest was a harmless copycat of a venomous original. for whatever reason, he felt this person was a threat and made up a "safe" version of her to be in a relationship with, and while it’s definitely possible to be attracted to or even love someone you find to be toxic and/or intimidating, when you take that into consideration alongside the configuration of her body, you get some interesting implications.

which brings us to our second point: if we assume that mithrun was not in fact fucking a snake, then sexual attraction, at least, was so far removed from his idea of a relationship with this person that he did not even bother to keep her dungeon copy human enough to maintain the illusion of the option of a sexual relationship. this is somewhat echoed in the depictions of their interactions, which also imply a frankly unexpected romantic distance. she kisses his cheek and he doesn't seem to react; she's at the edge of a narrow bed with only one set of pillows, on top of his blankets while he's underneath them.

the kiss is particularly interesting because it seems to contrast the text. kabru's narration tells us this was everything mithrun could have asked for, but mithrun is there looking unreadable to pensive, likely because this is right before the panel that makes it clear things in the dungeon are beginning to go wrong.

walking through this backwards for a minute, we have the physical barrier of his bedding and the spatial separation inherent in a bed made for one person, the emotional barrier of his mounting anxiety getting in the way of his ability to enjoy the affection he sought, and... the snake, which historically carries the connotation of temptation, yes, but also mistrust, barring physical intimacy. okay. ok. if a dungeon reflects the mentality of its lord, all of this might suggest that mithrun was not able to have any real desire for a relationship with this person. his unwillingness to be vulnerable or let another person in was insurmountable. but in that case, why was she such a focal point that she remained to the end, after his dungeon had stopped creating iterations of his friends to come and visit him? why would he get so upset over her meeting with his brother that he became lord of a dungeon about it?

well. mithrun's brother was also interested in her, probably genuinely. and mithrun had to win.

you have an older brother who your parents completely ignore, probably in part because he is chronically ill/disabled and almost definitely in part because he received a ton of recessive traits that resulted in rumors that he was an illegitimate child. you are aware, most likely because those same parents fucking told you, that you actually are an illegitimate child. but they keep you around because you had the good fortune of looking just like your mother. what can that possibly teach you but that you, like your brother, are disposable?

it's utterly unsurprising that mithrun, under these circumstances, developed a pathological need to be better than everyone around him. people don't keep you otherwise. i'd argue this is also why he says he looked down on everyone he knew while milsiril claims his dungeon reeked of feelings of inferiority—he sought out people's worst traits and prioritized them in his mind to protect his already extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and all the while he tried to be as likable and high-performing as he possibly could be. his parents disposed of him anyway, but even then he tried to keep up the performance. he was kind to everyone. he never once lost to a dungeon.

when he saw his "love interest" meeting up with his brother, what he saw was himself being replaced by a person his parents had always treated as worthless, and if that was what they thought of the child they'd kept, what value could anyone possibly see in the bastard they'd given away to die? mithrun and kabru tell the story like he wanted to win this unnamed elf's heart, but it was never about being with her. it was about cementing his worth, proving that he didn't deserve to be thrown away.

and so it's particularly cruel that his demon discarded him, too. but maybe it's also particularly gentle that, in the end, there was someone who refused to even consider giving up on him.

kui laid it out in three panels better than i could hope to.

yeah. it's love. you wanted to be loved, even when the only way you were able to understand it was through the desire to be wanted, and you wanted that so badly that the idea of being consumed felt like the promise of finally mattering to someone.

[allysketches]

gets in charge of the bookshop for 1 (one) day: shows up in a cardigan vest and metal sleeve garters, keeps the shop CLOSED, avoids selling a single book... iconic, truly did THE MOST, 10/10 😩👌🏻

(also, the way he was this 🤏🏻 close to finally achieving the status of house husband he's been dreaming about for MILLENIA just to have the rug pulled out from under him last minute... truly DEVASTATING 😩 my girl really can't catch a break 🤧)

[sylvrndoodles]

[cloudfishcg]

yeah ok i kind of dissapeared uhh