#it's so simple and so delicious

[lesbiankiliel]

made a japanese style egg sandwich for afternoon coffee, so good!

[seancefemme]

Who wanna be girl best friends

[artfucksmylife]

Just Laios and Kabru enjoying Glühwein during Christmas time. Kabru was not aware of warm alcohol making you drunk faster.

[housecow]

it’s VERY easy to make me happy

[sophsun1]

Queer as Folk – 4.11: Gay or Straight? That's the Question.

[drawsmaddy]

[ID: A digitally illustrated page of drawings of Laios Touden from Dungeon Meshi. Most of the drawings are sketches, except the one in the bottom right, which is a fully coloured drawing of Laios eating the treasure bug sandwich. There are three sketches of Laios. In the top left, Laios is in profile, facing to the left and slightly down. In the top right he is smiling with vegetables tucked into his armour. In the bottom left he is facing forwards and has his eyes closed, looking resigned. Around these sketches are several drawings of various monster parts used for food. End description.]

Laois! I like him :D

[giantkillerjack]

Me: I don't like when shows queerbait me.

Other Fans: Well then just watch other shows, dummy!!!!

Me: 👍👍👍 wow what a tidy way to dismiss and invalidate a legitimate reaction to homophobic story tropes! 👍👍👍

The "just leave then" response to people wanting more inclusivity from the stories they love is not just emotionally invalidating - it is also one of the things that keeps storytellers from feeling that they need to improve in the future by making fans feel stupid for demanding better representation in the first place.

This kind of response doesn't just make you sound like a conservative (since this is a VERY popular response that conservatives have when confronted with leftist media criticism), it also fundamentally ignores the fact that there may not BE an equivalent story with good rep to go to after leaving the queerbait-y one behind.

Delicious in Dungeon is special and unique; that's why I genuinely love it. It is that love that makes me want it to do better.

When I see that Shuro is allowed to openly express romantic love for Falin, but Marcille/Falin is relegated to mere implication, it makes me really sad. It may not be a romance manga, but there ARE straight couples, and hetero desire IS on display - which makes the lack of open queerness all the more noticeable.

So when people say "just go watch something else" in response to my genuine sadness and irritation that a beloved story is excluding people like me..... Are you telling me there's a nearly identical queer show - with a similarly active fandom - all about found family learning to cook beautiful foods in a dungeon? Is my favorite-guy-ever Senshi going to be there? Is there actually a place for me to go to??

OR is there only one Delicious in Dungeon, and that's what makes it great?

I think actually folks who respond this way just want me to leave, and they don't really care where I go, so long as their favorite thing doesn't have to stand up to criticism.

Because I don't want lesbian media elsewhere. I want it here, with my friend Marcille. Here, where the seeds of queer romance were purposely planted to hook my attention. What's so wrong with being disappointed if those seeds never grow to bear fruit??

We can like good art and still demand it does better. And we can validate people who are sad it isn't doing better without getting defensive. Critical analysis is healthy and important. It's how good and bad stories are fully understood, and it's how better stories get made.

And while I will try to enjoy the plentiful delicious crumbs I am being served (since it is more than most shows give me), just because I CAN squish a bunch of crumbs together into the approximate shape of a muffin, that doesn't mean I've been served a meal.

More on this topic because I love a good analogy

My original post about queerbaiting in Dungeon Meshi (that inspired this one with the replies I got from it)

[eggtargaryenii]

my fear is that when I start the imprisonment arc, the reader will have legit chemistry with aem*nd instead of just stockholm syndrome chemistry and the endgame will accidentally shift. I will try to stay strong but the siren call of reader being abandoned by team black and constantly threatened by team green and the only person in this whole wide world who will protect her is aem*nd and she feels safe near him despite his freak kinslaying behaviour. like sorry but that's setup for some real spicy codependence

[pippenpaddlopsicopolisthethird]

Jumping around from step to step on the Laios cosplay, today I put some time into his gambeson! A gambeson is a padded doublet that goes underneath armor and protects the wearer, or can serve as light protection on its own.

Laios wears this gambeson in some manga panels (I don't actually know the context, I'm functionally anime-only) and it appears to be the same length as his chainmail shirt, so I'm going to make it to go under his mail. The most intriguing part from a costuming perspective is that diagonal texture!

There are a couple of ways I can achieve this. The easiest would be to use something like a herringbone twill, that has a diagonal-looking weave in the fabric when it's cut on the straight grain. But that won't read well from a small distance; it'll look solid-colored once you're a few feet away.

Which brings me to poking at my fabric stash, where I've kept a big ol piece of cotton corduroy. Corduroy has a distinct texture that reads very well at a distance, and this one in particular has some variegated stripes that help that texture stand out even more. Rather than make a simple-shaped garment out of straight-cut fabric, I'm going to get biased.

I divided up my simple shapes into panels and cut each panel on the bias, planning them carefully so that the final garment is symmetrical. When it's assembled, it should have that striking texture variation!

The next step will be to cut out an interlining layer on the straight grain, and fuse each of these biased pieces to that piece, which will hopefully give me the right drape. Rather than add more lining on top of that, I'll make a bias tape from some darker corduroy and use that to finish the hems.

[dragondawdles]

[ID: short animated GIF of izutsumi from dungeon meshi. she runs angled left with swinging arms, a swishing white-tipped tail, and a somewhat sour determination in her expression. the limited color palette is tinted warm and a paper texture overlays the piece. end ID]

izutzoomys

[cheruib]

current lunch obsession: labneh + hummus + lots of fresh veggies and olives and a generous amount of olive oil drizzled on everything + zaatar on the side and fresh lebanese bread 🤍🤍🤍

[panakoui]

luna moth

[lifeblogstory]

Kung Fu Buns🥟

Had steamed buns, beef tripe soup, peanut noodles, and chicken fingers. Small meal that can fulfill its appetite. Tasty with simple flavours. From “Gong Fu Xiao Long Bao”

[fairydustskies]

there’s something so beautiful about grilled cheese all u need is bread cheese and butter there are so many miracles in simplicity

[mx-legend-of-faye]

Don’t piss off the person in charge of your meals.

Forget copious amounts of goron spice, if the chain really pisses off Wild they’re making either dubious food, rock hard food, or monster stew. What’s the rest of the chain going to do, cook a 5 star meal to avoid the purposefully icky food? No way, the most elaborate meal they can make is absolutely nothing compared to what Wild makes for them when he hasn’t been pissed off by them.

[hahniana]

Something something people calling dungeon meshi designs boring or bland is like people using the word vanilla as an insult