#it's going to be interesting

[syneepsis]

So... I've been thinking

Listen, I've been in this bangtan sonyeondan shit for a few years now.

I've seen plenty.

I've also been a shipper for pretty much just as long, and a tkk supporter/believer/whatever for a while.

So why not, right? Why not try to actually use tumblr for a change, after 14 years of being on that website and enjoying the peace and quiet of having a lurker account.

Cause man, are there things to say. Still. Surprisingly.

I really thought that, with CH2, things would calm down, shipping spaces would empty out because of the lack of "content".

Boy was I wrong... Chaos is everywhere, Taekook have been amazingly loud and this stupid war (you know which one) has reached (imo) unprecedented levels.

And I have thoughts. And maybe some time to put them in writing.

So yeah, why not, right?

[transingthoseformers]

Wow i am a menace to society

Methinks Mandroid is going to become a situation in between CYLAS and Autobot Spike, with a little extra dazzle.

[iturbide]

Imagine being a random plegian (that doesn't live near the dragon's table and doesn't get involved in... all that) and in the distance you see a massive dragon appear and you're like :D Grima's back!! And then like several days later he's killed by ylisseans again after not really doing anything. D:

CAN YOU IMAGINE PLEGIANS LIVING ON THE WESTERN COAST WHO ACTUALLY GET TO SEE GRIMA FLY OVER

LIKE THEY LITERALLY WITNESSED THEIR DIVINE'S ASCENSION WHAT AN INCREDIBLE MOMENT

and then a few days later Grima is sealed again/killed by Ylisseans

That...would probably be pretty devastating, honestly, if they were faithful and Grima's appearance did offer them hope. I'm sorry Plegia.

[crossed-out-name]

Lots of red dots at the first shooting.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

that article going around abt firefox's new ad program is annoying bc it's phrased as though "mozilla has finally TURNED on its people and is SELLING YOU OUT for cold hard cash!!" when. that's not what's happening. it is specifically being implemented to discourage tracking behavior, and literally all the data they are giving to advertisers is aggregate and anonymized, which is like, the opposite of what that post wants you to worry about, lol

[frankierotwinkdeath]

Y’all want Taylor Swift to be gay so bad but you won’t even write femslash about her

[tariah23]

White people are miserable, racist losers period. They’ve even been getting mad at Japanese people for correcting them about Yasuke as well.

[tactfullyinappropriate]

It's like we all collectively forgot as a society that friendship and just connection in general takes effort. Even if you meet someone you immediately click with, it takes hanging out about 20 times (!) to become friends. And guess what, some of those 20 meetings might be awkward or unimpressive.

We all want to reap the benefits (having a friend circle, having a partner, getting married) without doing the work (going to events, interacting with people, learning to handle conflict maturely, dating). Myself included. If I could, I'd never leave the house or go on another mediocre date again... except, that's part of the process.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, the cure to the loneliness epidemic is touching some grass and building tolerance for tedious in-person interactions.

[noodles-and-tea]

Continuation of this

[thebigcomed0wn]

im so serious if you cant imagine a single female character u like or you coincidentally only care about men or imagine that women are a different species of human that are impossible to draw or write about or relate to, You are the problem. its not because you’re gay it’s because you do not like women

[lgbtlunaverse]

I've seen a good number of people ask a question along the lines of "why do characters like Falin and hate Laios when they're so similar?" and i've also seen good analysis on the differences in how the touden siblings carry themselves that would, despite their shared traits, make a person gravitate to one more than the other.

But i feel like we've overseen one very central thing here.

People don't like Falin

Like... the average person in dungeon meshi doesn't like Falin. She was deeply ostrasized by her home village, in magic school she had zero friends before Marcille and the others generally saw her as strange and a bit offputting.

Characters like Namari and Chilchuck like her well enough but not necessarily more than any other member of their party, including Laios. Neither Kabru nor his party think much of her. The canaries don't give a fuck about her. Toshiro's retainers don't see her as anything else than the weird foreign girl their boss has a crush on.

The reason we think everyone loves Falin is because, despite all the indifferent side characters, the 2 most important and central characters of the story are Laios and Marcille. Who are NOT representative of the average attitudes to Falin! But necromancy georg number 1 and 2 are our main eyes into the story and they love Falin so much that it colours our perspective of the whole world.

The only side character who qualifies as liking Falin and not Laios is Toshiro (at least at first, as he ends the story on much better terms with Laios) and that says a lot about his character, with him drifting to the quiet Falin precisely because of her oddness but being both uncomfortable with and deeply jealous of Laios' much more open expression of that oddness. Because he's a repressed guy from a culture where etiquette is incredibly important.

But like I said, that's a specific aspect of him, not to the world at large.

Because there's also people that click more with laios than with Falin.

Kabru, for one, who is initially distrustful of laios but clearly also deeply fascinated by him and drawn to him.

Minor spoilers, and you don't have to read too deeply into this, because I don't think Kabru particularly dislikes Falin or anything. But it's interesting that when he talks about his distrust of the toudens in ch.32 he's talking about them both. But his big friendship declaration in chapter 76 is aimed squarely at Laios, he doesn't say "you and your sister" he says "you"

And Senshi!! He instantly clicks with Laios, well before he does so with anyone else in the party�� who he also becomes friends with, it just takes a bit longer– specifically because they bond over their shared special interest in monsters!! Senshi is kind towards Falin and cares for her wellbeing, but he also... doesn't know her. The reason he is even here, helping to save her, is because he and Laios bonded over monsters and he wants to help his new friends out!

Of course, the theme of neurodivergent isolation is very present in Laios' story. I'm not denying that. He does turn people off, without meaning to and unable to fully understand why! But so does Falin. And just like there are people who like her despite of or even because of those traits, there are people who do the same with him.

In conclusion: "Average person loves Falin and hates Laios" factoid actually statistical error. Average person is neutral on both Falin and Laios. Georcille, Laiorg and Geoshiro, who live in the dungeon and think over 10,000 Falin-loving thoughts a day, are statistical outliers adn should not have been counted.

[thegayestdiaz]

this modern day fandom culture is killing me because we’re losing the art of shipping

these days you have to publish a dissertation and make a 100 page powerpoint with textual and subtextual evidence to back up the fact that you like seeing two characters together because apparently people can only ship what’s canon now

back in my day we used to be able to ship characters who never interacted,

we used to ship characters that didn’t even exist within the same media

[chloesimaginationthings]

The next game in the FNAF security breach era..

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The squad of all time has arrived on scene.

[notedchampagne]

fleshing out your ocs sex lives is like worldbuilding to me

[wuntrum]

dinner in america posting