#thank you for the meme! !

[meerashaya]

@spacetimewriter: “That sounds like a hazardous procedure… albeit a logical one.” — From Tuvok!

He was realistic in his word choice. Hazardous. Potentially, both for the patient and Meeran. However, she remained serene as always. A simple nod, in all its subtlety, hinted that she didn't oppose his assessment.

'The pathogen is highly viral and quick to attack the physical and neural aspects of the Ensign's body. However, a combined procedure shall yield effects. If, simultaneously, the Emergency Medical Hologram is resultative in applying targeted ionizing radiation and I shall successfully perform the neuro-pressure, chances of the Ensign's survival are 92.47 percent.' Without the conjoined actions, Ensign Marques would perish. The attempt was logical, just as Tuvok said. Meeran appreciated a confirmation, for she had come to a similar conclusion. There was something that concerned her, though. It wouldn't be very restrained, yet she had to ask.

'We are in agreement, then, to what do I owe your company?' Being one of the few Vulcans on Voyager, spending time with the Lieutenant Commander was a rare privilege that brought solace and reminded her of home lost, but…

'You do not doubt my capabilities?' Quickly, she added: 'As a Vulcan, I am uniquely qualified to apply the technique. Additionally, I can withstand the neural and physical damage the pathogen brings.' Allegedly.

[jotasuis]

How I found out about trump getting shot

[creepymutelilbugger]

"i have to water the shitbird wait a minute"

"prosper stupid poultry"

[beepboopappreciation]

Is this anything

[unheald]

@inncrgcld said: ❝ i know what you're thinking. ❞ / louis for old daniel?

he couldn't help the slow spread of a smirk that crept across his lips as he eyed the other. things have changed, certainly. louis' entire life had been uprooted - thanks to his digging, and daniel? well, he was on his own journey now, wasn't he? becoming accustomed to, embracing this new existence he had, this new lease of life that he'd been gifted.

because that's how he saw it. he might not be that foolish, twenty-something-year-old begging for the dark gift anymore, but he no longer felt that strain of age, of his illness on his body, in his bones. daniel felt more alive than he had in a long time, and so of course, he was keeping a tight grip on that, was enjoying it.

" yeah? you poking around in my head? " brows raised briefly. if louis was trying to wind him up, it wasn't going to work, not right now at least. " go on then, what am i thinking about? enlighten me, louis. "

[siribear]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers (ó ꒳ ò✿)

fall weather

listening to people talk about something they're interested in

watching people enjoy themselves

that first bite of good food when you're hungry

making my partner laugh

[collaredkittyboy]

[abovexhorizons]

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Backstory Characters - Still Accepting!

"Someone from my past? I think the first person that really jumps out at me would be my mentor, Ser Iohn, who trained me as a Knight. He was strong, kind, courageous, yet stern towards us recruits. Despite my lineage, he treated me no differently from the others; in fact, I think he sometimes went a little harsher on me to prove an example."

"He was tall, alright! Way taller than me, even taller than Rika too! He was proficient in the Sword and Shield, though was never afraid to discard them to show his prowess with his fists. I don't think I ever saw him out of his armor, though; even when training us, he wore his helmet."

"Once, I remember, our task for the day was to go out on patrol and ensure that a certain ice-cream stand didn't come under attack. Of course, bandits came out way, lead by Ser Iohn himself; he wore a brigands costume, yet retained his helmet like a dummy. We fought valiantly, and afterwards he bought us all ice-cream and told us we'd done a good job, defending as well as we did. Then proceeded to have us train into the night to work the treat off."

Isa would put her finger to her chin, lost in thought as she tried to think of someone else that'd shaped her; her smile turned to a grimace as she realized that there was a significant lack of positive figures in her life.

"I suppose... I should probably elaborate on my family, though; I'll start with my oldest brother, Ser Gerontius. He was the first-born in our family, and as such got the royal treatment; when the civil war ended and my father gave up his military position, Gerontius was the one highlighted to take his spot."

She'd look to the ground, scowling, nails digging into her palm.

"He's a coward, through and through; he can swing a sword true, but he wouldn't defend others if their lives counted on it. He's not a true knight, not to me. A figurehead, I guess. My second brother, though, he's the military-minded one."

[ringosmistress]

grammy nominations for record of the year 2025

[clarisse-doodles]

inspired by this post, in which Damian does not know what Vine is

[the-names-quinn]

I have changed a lot from the kid I was when I was 13. Any type of love apart from cis/hetero relationships used to not compute for me, and now I'm out to 5 people in my day-to-day life. And honestly, I do kind of owe it a little bit(a whole lot) to Undertale for opening up a different life path. I could have ended up really freaking stupid and probably super depressed without it.

[shadowtraveled]

"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.

but because romantic envy is both classic and digestible, it probably isn’t a unique enough or complicated enough desire to tempt a demon’s appetite. mithrun’s wish, as far as we can figure from kabru’s reduced retelling, was to have a life in which he had never become one of the canaries, and that carries like 3857 implications and desires within it. that’s delicious. his love interest acts as sort of a red herring to his motivation for making it, though. (side note: i'm saying "love interest" here because, keeping in mind that i barely speak japanese on a good day anymore, "想い人" is something i'd usually take as just kind of an old-fashioned and romantic way to refer to a lover, but in context i wonder if both the connotation of yearning and the vagueness are intentional, and i think this phrasing gets those aspects of it more effectively. anyway.)

mithrun considered his love interest to be untrustworthy. there was a minute where i thought that comment might be about a similar-looking elf (yugin, one of his squad members), but comparing the two…

the "sketchy" arrow is definitely referring to the elf we know as his love interest—the bangs go toward her right, she only has the one forehead ornament, and, most notably, her ears aren't notched.

every time she’s given a full-body depiction in his dungeon, she’s drawn as a chimera, with the body of a snake from the waist down. (side note: the “what if a dungeon has chimeras before reaching level 4?”/“then the dungeon lord is unstable” exchange just being mithrun grilling his past self alive is so funny. he’s so. but anyway) there are a couple things about this.

first, the snake part of the chimera appears to be modeled after some species of coral snake mimic

which, in the biology-for-fun manga, i… doubt is a coincidence, especially with the added context of the “untrustworthy” comment. the dungeon’s conjured illusion of mithrun’s love interest was a harmless copycat of a venomous original. for whatever reason, he felt this person was a threat and made up a "safe" version of her to be in a relationship with, and while it’s definitely possible to be attracted to or even love someone you find to be toxic and/or intimidating, when you take that into consideration alongside the configuration of her body, you get some interesting implications.

which brings us to our second point: if we assume that mithrun was not in fact fucking a snake, then sexual attraction, at least, was so far removed from his idea of a relationship with this person that he did not even bother to keep her dungeon copy human enough to maintain the illusion of the option of a sexual relationship. this is somewhat echoed in the depictions of their interactions, which also imply a frankly unexpected romantic distance. she kisses his cheek and he doesn't seem to react; she's at the edge of a narrow bed with only one set of pillows, on top of his blankets while he's underneath them.

the kiss is particularly interesting because it seems to contrast the text. kabru's narration tells us this was everything mithrun could have asked for, but mithrun is there looking unreadable to pensive, likely because this is right before the panel that makes it clear things in the dungeon are beginning to go wrong.

walking through this backwards for a minute, we have the physical barrier of his bedding and the spatial separation inherent in a bed made for one person, the emotional barrier of his mounting anxiety getting in the way of his ability to enjoy the affection he sought, and... the snake, which historically carries the connotation of temptation, yes, but also mistrust, barring physical intimacy. okay. ok. if a dungeon reflects the mentality of its lord, all of this might suggest that mithrun was not able to have any real desire for a relationship with this person. his unwillingness to be vulnerable or let another person in was insurmountable. but in that case, why was she such a focal point that she remained to the end, after his dungeon had stopped creating iterations of his friends to come and visit him? why would he get so upset over her meeting with his brother that he became lord of a dungeon about it?

well. mithrun's brother was also interested in her, probably genuinely. and mithrun had to win.

you have an older brother who your parents completely ignore, probably in part because he is chronically ill/disabled and almost definitely in part because he received a ton of recessive traits that resulted in rumors that he was an illegitimate child. you are aware, most likely because those same parents fucking told you, that you actually are an illegitimate child. but they keep you around because you had the good fortune of looking just like your mother. what can that possibly teach you but that you, like your brother, are disposable?

it's utterly unsurprising that mithrun, under these circumstances, developed a pathological need to be better than everyone around him. people don't keep you otherwise. i'd argue this is also why he says he looked down on everyone he knew while milsiril claims his dungeon reeked of feelings of inferiority—he sought out people's worst traits and prioritized them in his mind to protect his already extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and all the while he tried to be as likable and high-performing as he possibly could be. his parents disposed of him anyway, but even then he tried to keep up the performance. he was kind to everyone. he never once lost to a dungeon.

when he saw his "love interest" meeting up with his brother, what he saw was himself being replaced by a person his parents had always treated as worthless, and if that was what they thought of the child they'd kept, what value could anyone possibly see in the bastard they'd given away to die? mithrun and kabru tell the story like he wanted to win this unnamed elf's heart, but it was never about being with her. it was about cementing his worth, proving that he didn't deserve to be thrown away.

and so it's particularly cruel that his demon discarded him, too. but maybe it's also particularly gentle that, in the end, there was someone who refused to even consider giving up on him.

kui laid it out in three panels better than i could hope to.

yeah. it's love. you wanted to be loved, even when the only way you were able to understand it was through the desire to be wanted, and you wanted that so badly that the idea of being consumed felt like the promise of finally mattering to someone.

[everyonesadoptivedad]

Stole this for this fandom bc some pEOPLE need to hear this today.

[justarandomart]

fine! i drew it! now i can rest and also die of shame

[shadowkira]