#chilchuck is a union man and a union man is chilchuck

[scrumptiousfoxglitter]

My mom asked me if I even knew what a union man is as if we haven't been binge watching Dungeon Meshi together???

[honey-doc]

Chil becoming a union organizer for half foots makes so much sense because literally any time a half foot was in chil’s vicinity he was looking out for them

Like when marcille & senshi transformed

And with mickbell

[adkyro]

Shitty screenshot of my late-night Chilchuck sketch

[amazeyphaedra]

love dunmeshi cause it's one of the few shows where your blorbo can be a union worker blue collar divorced middle aged father of 3 daughters and simultaniously a silly little guy

[fuumiku]

It was Maid Day today yesterday a week ago so I got struck by inspiration to draw the worsties, and it ran away from me into a whole AU where they’re coworkers at a maid cafe. She’s a med student & this is just a part time job, and this is his depression job while he gets his life back together. He needs something he can be workaholic about to forget what it’s like having a personal life and personal issues. He’s actually the accountant, but the new hire janitor (Izutsumi) doesn’t show up for half her shifts and is a sloppy worker, so he gets the extra work of doing her job on top of his because he’s undervalued and overworked. Of course, janitors also have an uniform to keep the aesthetic cohesion as they go about cleaning the place, of course.

Senshi’s the part time cook you only see slivers off, he’s kind and warm when you do see him and have a chat but most shifts he’s in and out the kitchen without a trace. Laios and Falin are regulars because Falin and Marcille are besties & in the same med school, Laios accompanies Falin as she visits her friend at work and gets hooked on the food. Chilchuck has to remind Marcille to work instead of chatting with Falin for an hour, and next thing he knows she’s distracting him from work too. That’s it that’s the AU. Inspired by this idol AU fanart a bit <3

This was not meant to be birthday gift but well…… Happy bday Chil!!!

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[ultimateinferno]

Chilchuck should have a gun because for one he'd be a crackshot with it but for two he has his head on straight enough that he'd actually not misuse it circumventing the "Taking the gun away" aftermath common with this speculation. He'd probably lecture you on gun care and safety if he could.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I started reading Dungeon Meshi last week, became instantly charmed and captivated, and blitzed through the entire manga in 4 days (and changed my profile picture about it). With that in mind, I would just like to say...

I love your dungeon meshi art so so much

CHILCHUCK!!!!!!!!

Thank you kindly! I love Dungeon Meshi a lot, so I'm happy to see so many people get into it for the first time.

CHILCHUCK!!!

[couchtaro]

“Kabru is a fake hater” this, “Chilchuck is the true hater that” you’re all wrong. IZUTSUMI is the real hater. Chilchuck is a fake hater because he’s emotionally constipated and used to being exploited. We had a whole chapter about this. Kabru also had some kind of dramatic friendship revelation. Izutsumi is never paying attention to what’s going on unless she’s judged it to be worth her attention and her big character revelation is not “maybe I like things after all” like Kabru and Chilchuck, it’s “even though I do not like something it is sometimes better for me to still engage with it”. Wake up America.

[dungeon-meshi-tournament]

Masterpost

[fumifooms]

Wait one darn diggity second what’s this about unmarried half-foot women being embarrassing for the family, what’s this about being unmarried as a half-foot being "different [worse than] for other races". Maybe Flertom and Puckpatti’s intensity about finding a husband is the norm, maybe Meijack, despite Chilchuck approving of her disinterest in romance, is the one who’s considered weird by social standards.

Maybe they’re less well-adjusted than I thought. Don’t misunderstand me I’m aroace, but if there’s a lot of societal pressure and it’s considered a failure if you’re not married, it is notable when all 3 of your kids haven’t married past the time that’s expected. For reference adulthood for a half-foot is reached at 14, Chil got married at 13, Puckpatti is 14 while Flertom and Meijack are 16. The other half-foot character we have is Mickbell who is also unmarried, unsurprising considering his situation. I don’t think them not having married is about their family being poorer, if anything I’d think Chil’s family is on the comfier end of half-foot families with the high wages he gets paid with and the nice living conditions we’ve seen (although we don’t know when he started being paid well). We know about Flertom having high standards, but she and Puckpatti are actively looking to date, so there’s something going on here whatever it is.

It is nice that it doesn’t seem like Chilchuck cares at all, he even seems to generally dislike the idea of his daughters dating. I imagine that their mother must have also not pressured them into marrying at all, maybe even encouraged them not to marry if they didn’t have someone, which is sweet. And understandable, considering she might not want her daughters to rush into it and live with…….. Being stuck in an unhappy marriage. And here comes in what I meant when I said well-adjusted, daddy issues. We aren’t shown a lot of Chil’s married life, but I would bet my life on there having been tensions and warning signs. Especially since, since the daughters and Chil hadn’t seen each other since the separation before post-canon, there’s an air of not having been very surprised or panicked about the whole thing: the separation wasn’t unexpected. Having to watch your parents fall out of love and growing up seeing them in a taxing marriage can be hard, and not exactly put you in the mood to try and find romance and marry. Fear of abandonment, fear of intimacy, stunted emotional intelligence, fear of commitment… Oh girlies I am about to extrapolate so much from this

Half-foot society has a lot of coding I don’t have enough specialized knowledge to pin down, but they’re a poor working class people, anglo peasant vibes. They have tightly knit communities, but then the double edge is that if your community has expectations and rules to belong, the pressure will be harsh and it can end up being more isolating if you deviate from it. Marriage historically and in Dunmeshi has a lot of economical aspects, in Laios’ Adventurer’s Bible profile for example dowries are hinted at.

So the pressure to marry might very well originate from the need to bring money in to your family, and to unite families as allies. And from there it grows into an expectation, and thus if they aren’t married it’s "an unmarried woman was deemed unfit by suitors, something with her must be off"/"This woman was unable to provide for her family, she must be a burden on them" which results into the family having a bad reputation. If Flertom says it’s worse for half-foots than other races, the reasons must be either social or economical or both. There’s of course their lifespan being shorter too, so that might play into it, expectations to go about things quickly and to have a fast life cycle and making sure to have kids. As we see with Laios, having kids is a pressure that does exist globally as well. Elves are another interesting example of how familial expectations are like in Dunmeshi with heirdom and whatnot, but free me I just wanted to bring up the possibility of Childaughters being societal misfits and having relational issues.

I will also mention that in a similar way, Chilchuck’s wife leaving him may have damaged the daughters’ chances, in a "what if they’re like their mother, the type of woman to abandon her husband!" way. Chilchuck also has a reputation especially as an union leader, which can paint him as dependable as much as it can paint him as someone harsh and stingy, which would be an intimidating. It’s possible they’re a bit more well-off from the rest of the half-foot community as mentioned, which could add to the intimidating factor or a bad reputation as an overall uptight family or one that has drama. Again, double edge of community being very tightly knit and important, with family as one of its highest values.

[possamble]

mickbell would not survive in post-canon melini. melini will be a pro-union kingdom because otherwise chilchuck would come and kill laios with his bare hands. mickbell would either have to abandon kabru and get the hell out of melini or abandon his scabbing and exploiting ways to start paying kuro a decent wage and letting him learn common

[rabbit-dance]

Alternatives to Sticker Mule

Artist Friends - In case you haven't heard, Sticker Mule sent out an incredibly gross email supporting Trump.

Ew.

Now, a quick search will reveal plenty of great alternatives to Sticker Mule who do not support a political party hell-bent on taking away your fundamental human rights, which is great!

But Chilchuck here has a suggestion that probably won't be in the first page of your search.

Chances are good there's a Union-run print shop in your area.

Seeing as how Unions are why we have worker protection laws and other great things like weekends and a minimum wage, unions, for the most part, are cool. The Right does not like unions, because those politicians and their corporate masters don't like paying overtime, and are actively trying to get rid of child labor laws. *sigh* I wish I was making this up.

Anyhoo, not only will you be supporting your neighbors, you'll probably get your stickers (or whatever else you want to print) a lot faster than online. I needed an emergency print done QUICK before a con, and I got my stickers next day!

If you can physically travel there, most places have paper samples you can handle so you can pick the GSM that you want, check the gloss, see how writable surfaces are if you want something you can sign, etc. And there will be a human there who knows what they're talking about, and can answer your questions. If you're not sure what to get, they can make suggestions. Even if you can't afford their minumums, it doesn't hurt to walk in and ask. They might be able to cut you some sort of deal.

Hell, I have a friend who got a proof made and approved minutes after she walked in because she happened to have the file in Dropbox. The printer the shop used for stickers wasn't running at that moment, so the worker just got the file and made a proof real fast.

Listen to Chilchuck, our favorite Union Man. Search for union print shops (and other services) near you!

[magickkart]

Just finished the fourth novella, someone hold me. Technically I know Murderbot prefers big jackets and tshirts, but I'm deliberately ignoring that in favour of silly anime outfits that expose its arms. The text is secondary to serving CUNT

[mcgruffthecrimedog]

[nitro502]

I got this pin on Redbubble and I put it on my work bag to remind myself that I do in fact work in a union and shouldn’t bend over backwards for this minimum wage job.

[liaroflesbos]

i think my favourite part of dunmeshi is that Chilchuck is a union leader