#now to go wash the dishes

[bumblebeebats]

As much as i love Dungeon Meshi, i do think that given Ryoko Kui's attention to realistic worldbuilding there ought to be a companion series called Dishes Meshi where they spend 2hrs washing and drying and packing away. Alll the goddamnfuck dishes they just made

[elkkiel]

i just know that vessel is so fucking hype for this graphic novel because he can finally canonize himself as a cool action manga protagonist

[holmsister]

I think one of the things Dungeon Meshi is definitely about is how different people deal with being an outsider/marginalised/neurodivergent/what have you and basically what im getting at is that Kabru is TEXTBOOK "high functioning [insert diagnosis here]". Its that how they say it still? Don't care.

Basically. This man shows up and you listens to him talk and see how his party treats him and you think. Oh this is a cool guy who has his shit together. And then after like two pages you find out that he has constant flashbacks to Utaya that make him completely freeze, anxiety attacks, thought spirals, is incapable of analyzing his own feelings, is a stuttering mess when the stakes are high, has never done a chore in his life, keeps putting himself in triggering situations and re-traumatising himself, and the icing on the cake is when you read the extra material and it turns out he regularly forgets to eat and lives in a depression nest of dirty clothes and self-medicates insomnia with alcohol and also is 22. Which also kind of puts Misilril not wanting to let him go in another light - yeah for sure she's controlling and infantilising and also its not like she was really helping his issues but also she was not entirely wrong in her judgement. This man does NOT know how to take care of himself. He knows how to do the bare minimum so when he shows up at work the next day he can fool his coworkers into thinking hes got it together enough. For a bit.

He is DEEPLY unwell and he knows it but he is carried by the desperate wish to avoid another catastrophe. If he stops for a moment he KNOWS he'll collapse so he doesn't.

I also think this is why him acting nurse to Mithrun is such an important part of his arc. Its like. This person who has spent all of his adult life focused on a single objective disregarding everything else is faced with what happens when you do that for too long. And the result is a wet tissue of a creature who looks like he doesn't know where he is most of the time.

He is a man on the brink. I have no doubt he felt relieved when he decided he could trust Laios - not even in a Labru way, straight up because he knew he could not keep going like this.

But also like. Of all the characters in the manga, I think Senshi and Kabru are the most lonely ones. Except Senshi seems to be OK with solitude - for sure it's not entirely healthy to be alone for as long as he was but he definitely did well enough. He is very good at taking care of himself. Meanwhile Kabru *knows* a lot of people but can you really say he has friends? Rin, maybe, arguably, but even she does not seem to truly know him, you know? He keeps himself hidden from everyone. I think the only time we see him entirely honest is when he says to Laios that he wanted to be his friend, and hes so shocked when it comes out, you can tell he did not mean to say it. And differently from Senshi, he does NOT fare well alone. He likes people, he needs people. Again compare with Mithrun - he has like a squad of people taking care of him. If Kabru had a breakdown of that size can you say his party would go out of its way to help? Im not sure. Not because they're bad people, but because he's simply not that intimate with any of them.

Idk man it just struck me all of a sudden. Laios is weird and offputting and doesn't care about other humans the way Kabru does and YET he is infinitely more successful at building deep, meaningful relationships and taking care of himself as well. I think this is part of why Kabru is so fascinated with him as well. He can tell Laios has something he doesn't have. Wait this is turning into a whole another post I'll write this next time.

[faeriefully]

every obsession in your 20s is just a resurgence of your obsessions at 8yrs old

[dimsilver]

☀️

[edmunderson]

took a day off of dish duty and my god........ apparently i'm one of two people in this house who knows how to load the dishwasher right

[wisteriagoesvroom]

send me a ship name and a single word and i’ll try and write a 5 sentence thing for it

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i don’t have time for much writing atm but. maybe i have time for a micro challenge. maybe!

[tariah23]

How do you have kids and don’t make them do chores. I’ll never get it, man. They grow up to be one of those ppl who’s never washed a single dish before and are usually dirty and of privilege mind. Parents essentially sending their usually annoying kids out into the world to be an even further nuisance just because they don’t know how to do simple, everyday chores when they are fully capable of doing so and are able bodied.

[esperanzacboronial]

Maturing is realising that (unfortunately) running daily outside is actually good for you and makes you feel good mentally and emotionally and physically and it is (unfortunately) worth the toil if you can manage it. Hate to say it

[toytulini]

i have got to go to bed i have got to get stuff done

[coquelicoq]

so many things standing in the way of me making and eating this strawberry shortcake. for one thing, gotta have strawberries. for another thing, gotta have clean dishes. for a third thing, gotta have room in my stomach. not to mention making sure to do all the loud stuff before quiet hours. but now look at me, eating strawberry shortcake like a boss. real tale of overcoming adversity over here.

[zenjestrr]

fan artists don't lewd teen anime girls challenge

[psychedeliclulu]

👓💙✨

Smol Adachi sketch

[rotisseries]

anyone else have that mutual where if the conversation lags for a single minute they're suddenly gone, uncontactable, disappeared off the face of the earth-

[nightshadeowl]

It is my birthday which means I am allowing myself to be (like just a little bit) self-centered and reblog as much of my art as I want. Enjoy your dashboard 👍

[aashiqui-aashiqui]

AND ITS ESPAÑA!!!!!!!!