#i think they are blorbo shaped

[gunstellations]

rk800 💙 rk900

[horreurscopes]

i like my body when it is with your body.

[leverage-ot3]

love how we all went into redemption either wary of or expecting to hate harry but within two episodes we all collectively went, oh, he’s just some lil weird guy and we adopted him just like the leverage crew did

[mychlapci]

*holds you tightly by the shoulders until you're bleeding* haha funny joke about pharma's chainsaw hands. but you understand that pharma is actually a really tragic character? you understand that he did not work with the DJD willingly and was forced to harvest organs for them under the threat of the entire delphi outpost getting destroyed if he didnt? you understand that while his "crazy doctor DJD" reputation in the fandom can be funny he actually suffered a lot and it only makes sense he ended up cracking under the pressure and the venomous scrutiny from the people he once called his comrades? you understand that his life was literally just a horrible mess of incredibly unlucky coincidences made worse by his bad decisions, which he was making out of fear and self-preservation instinct? you understand how deeply fucked up ratchet stealing his hands and adaptus possessing his body really was and how extremely damaged he must have been? can anyone hear me? are you going to let me out of here now? i swear i wont lick the electrical outlets again.

[athina-blaine]

kb/ms is truly transcendental yaoi, spectacular, amazing, 10/10, no notes ... from the perspective of a mithrun enjoyer

as a kabru enjoyer, however...

I'll start off by saying that of course Kabru doesn't want or need a romantic relationship to be fulfilled, especially not with a white man, none of them do, it's all non-canon, Dungeon Meshi isn't about romance or shipping, yes yes yes, but none of us are here for that right now!! We're here to fruitlessly argue why my blorbos kissing makes more sense than your blorbos kissing!! You know it, I know it, none of us are free of cringe!! Clown on clown violence!!

That being said ... 🤡

I just don't see what Kabru gets out of kb/ms. With Mithrun, it makes sense; Kabru has a huge impact on him and ultimately helps him reaffirm his will to live. That's very exquisite drama and excellent character writing. But with Kabru, I just don't feel that Mithrun's character interacts with his personal flaws and would instigate his growth anywhere close to the same degree. I have to imagine most fics involving them focus more on Mithrun's baggage and how Kabru helps him heal from that ... because that's mostly all that happens between them in the main story, lol!

And like, that makes sense, because ultimately chapters 61-62 aren't about Kabru and Mithrun; they're about Kabru working through his conflicted feelings in helping Laios conquer the dungeon. I think it's ironic seeing people complain about kb/ms having Kabru be Mithrun's accessory when, if anything, Mithrun's main narrative purpose, outside of illustrating the danger of the Winged Lion, is to serve as Kabru's obstacle. I'd even argue Mithrun represents Kabru's personal bad ending; Mithrun wants him to kill Laios and surrender the dungeon to the canaries, preventing the short-lived races from ever understanding how dungeons function and returning to the status quo that had gotten Utaya destroyed. It's only when Laios practically forces Kabru, straight up puts his thumbs to the screws, to work past his reticence and be emotionally vulnerable that Kabru finally puts himself on the right path to achieve his goals (it's, uh, still a bit of a bumpy ride, but they get there in the end, lol!). If he'd been this way with Laios from the beginning, he might have understood Laios' intentions from the start and saved himself a lot of pain, but it's only because of Laios' influence that Kabru is able to grow as a character and get his happy ending.

(And even if one were a Mithrun enjoyer, ultimately the main source of Mithrun's life affirmation comes from the canaries. In that final scene, Kabru gets the ball rolling because he's outside of the canary hierarchy, but the scene ends with Mithrun being embraced by the canaries and as far as I'm aware the two don't interact with or reference each other post canon at all. Hell, it's Senshi who really drives the point home. Not that it matters when we're all wearing shipping goggles here, but it felt remiss not to mention it.)

At most, I can see how taking care of Mithrun would force Kabru to reexamine how poorly he takes care of his own body and that could make for some good drama. But even then, that change is ultimately instigated by Laios' influence on him, an extension of how Kabru wants to understand how Laios can see the value in monsters in an attempt to better understand his own trauma. If a person were to get into Dungeon Meshi specifically for Kabru and wanted to ship him with someone in a way that's most interesting for him, I'd be hard-pressed to argue there's a better choice than Laios (although who'd be cringe enough to do something like that haha right guys ... [sweating])

(Side note, though, I really don't vibe with the argument that kb/ms "reduces Kabru to a caretaker role" and that's why it's bad. There's plenty of instances where Kabru shoulders his friends' burdens (helps Kuro learn common tongue, listens to Daya's fiance about his relationship troubles, etc) and, more importantly, is seemingly happy to do so. I think Kabru genuinely enjoys looking after his friends and in the story seems to find plenty of personal satisfaction getting Mithrun to eat. I understand it has the potential to be more troubling considering Kabru is a brown man and Mithrun is a white man, but idk, it just feels on the same level as people trying to discount labru by saying Laios wouldn't take enough of an interest in people to want to start a romantic relationship, when his whole thing is that he does want to connect with people and just feels like he can't. It's not a bone I feel like picking, haha)

I honesty don't mind characters being "mischaracterized" in fandom or fic even to a large degree, I know it bugs a lot of people but I respect that ultimately fandom is little more than picking up the vague outline of a doll and playing with it and mashing their faces together. Besides, if I'm really worked up about it I can just write a fic and set the record straight myself, haha. This post is merely inspired by the supremely annoying subsection of twitter that acts like labru is the ship where it's just two dudes sitting in a room together. I'm just saying, Kabru ends the series whispering into the ear of another man as his day job and it's not Mithrun lmao

[localcryptidart]

my brain worms have shapes

[goffilolo]

🍀 my beloved

[bolithesenate]

ik she's not an oc but she should belong to you! 🖊 for komari??

you know what? you are so right 😌✊🏻

*yoinks all the character rights away from canon*

anyways, you know what I want for Komari? That she isn't technically a *good* Jedi, but that she is a terrifyingly *efficient* one.

Yoda's words were 'do or not do, there is no try', so I like to imagine Komari as a true force of nature because she does not doubt herself at any point. At least not truly.

She just does.

Does she do it because it makes her feel cool and admired? sure. but people around her (and she herself) have learned to direct that energy into a direction that more or less serves the greater good. The way I see Komari is that she truly likes being a Jedi and that she has found her niche amongst the Order to live her dream. She might not exactly do it for selfless reasons like many of her peers do, but that doesn't diminish the good she does.

it's also what makes her the ultimative hype-man.

she lives unapologetically and is her happiest self, so she encourages everyone around her to also do that. social anxiety and fomo? she's never known them.

Also, out of her entire lineage, Komari is the one most firmly rooted in the Cosmic Force. Dooku himself leans heavily towards it too, but he's also got a strong Unifying influence in his life through Sifo-Dyas, so it's a bit muddled.

Komari tho is, in fact, *such* a Cosmic Force baby that she often doesnt realize it is working through her. She just does Her Thing TM because It Feels Good TM not really questioning *why* it does that.

It's a very simple mindset, technically, but also very effective

[anistarrose]

give me a magical setting where the single most terrifying adversary you can come across is a fire magic user with long, loose hair.

a setting where everyone who can so much as light their hands ablaze crops their hair short, or at least tucks it tight into a bun, because fire is an independent, uncontrollable thing. but when you meet someone who doesn't? then either their hubris has gotten the better of them, making unpredictable enough to be very, very dangerous in their own right...

or worse, they really are untouchable by any backlash from their own power. they really are that skilled, that well-practiced, and deadly accurate, and able to control that which was never meant to be controlled. if you're staring down a fire-wielder with long hair, which possibility are you even gonna wish for? which one's worse?

[nostalgia-tblr]

"are people not into that?" i ask, after posting my weird niche shit to the internet, despite knowing it to be weird niche shit.

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

look what i found in my wips last night lmaoo

[shittywriterbrain]

it's a shame babylon berlin is in german because i just Know both gereon and charlotte would do numbers on tumblr

[jattendschaton]

You ever read the way someone writes a character and think 'oh yeah, you definitely wrote for x fandom before this' and then one step further do you ever go back and get reinvested in a previous hyperfixation and realize you are writing your current blorbos in a distinctly fandom x-ish way?? Do I even have new blorbos or all they all just slight variations of the same bitch

[lynxfrost13]

Holt’s vision was basically the first thing to go as she became infected with the corruption happening in Sierpinski-23 and it absolutely wrecks me

[dieinct]

don't ever change (4x12) is the best episode of house

minimal hate crimes SLASH patient is jewish and i'm jewish so i get to decide where the line is for the hate crimes i will personally accept and for me: it's tolerable.

medical condition makes sense and is not insane. (house md fandom wiki rates this ep as 'zebra factor 1')

i guess i sort of said this in 1, but broadly speaking, just do love it when there's jews. bonus: only orthogonal housonian antisemitism! ('it's fine to be jewish, just not religious about it,' which like. is shitty. but this is hate crimes md and see #1.)

thirteen gets outed. bi pride! #representation

house realizes wilson is dating amber volakis AKA 'cutthroat bitch' and explicitly, with his human words, says "you're dating me!" when he realizes, and then, later, 'you could do worse than dating a female proxy of me' when he's decided to give them his blessing

at the same time, in this episode, house knows... way too much about judaism. like, more than the reform/liberal jews on his team. i think it's taub* (jewish) who describes the prayer the hasidic patient's husband says over her - "he's singing, something about eshet hayil" - and house instantly knows and explains that this is a prayer for a husband to say over his wife, calling her a woman of valor. this is a thing that plenty of jews would not necessarily recognize off the top of their heads! this is something that very few goyim would know off the top of their heads.

this is just one example but he consistently has huge reservoirs of information about jewish stuff that the other jewish characters on the main cast do not know or are not chosen to be the ones to convey to the audience. thus: house knows truly just so much about judaism, and uses about half of it to be an obnoxious jerk.

why does he know all this stuff.

why is he insane and over the top about wilson's judaism in the (previous) christmas episode as well. he takes it more seriously than wilson does. by a significant factor

NOW, TO SYNTHESIZE SEVERAL OF THE ABOVE POINTS INTO A MATHEMATICAL PROOF FOR WHY THIS IS THE BEST EPISODE OF HOUSE:

this is making me insane. like i don't know how to explain this. did he learn this stuff - did he take a conversion class specifically to be able to bully wilson? WHY DOES HE KNOW THIS. WHAT DID HE DO.

i'm normal about it

how is house going to be like "i give you permission to date a lady version of me instead of dating me" while he is clearly advertising what an amazing jewish wife he would make for wilson

it's just a perfect episode.

[katoobee]

oh blixer my darling boy