#this did not help -

[rainbow-and-black-like-my-soul]

| Buck and Bucky went their separate ways when the war ended and everyone around them can see that it was a terrible idea. |

I've been in fandom spaces for ten years and those silly little airplane men were what finally got to me enough that I needed to write about them so here's my post-war clegan one shot, I guess

a special thank you to @kalincka for following me down the flying men abyss when i told her i was gonna write a fic and she'd have to read it

[clockswatches]

okay that's fun

[baejax-the-great]

Things Tali has been mighty concerned* about while walking in our neighborhood:

A blow up Winnie the Pooh bear holding an Easter Basket

Pinwheels

A shrub cut into the shape of a dog (almost definitely fake)

Flags at eye level with dogs (usually as a garden decoration and only if they flap)

A dozen toddlers tied together wearing hi-vis vests walking with their babysitters to the park

*not barking or growling, but also not taking her eyes off of them for a single fucking second what the fuck IS that thing

[fae-of-the-rose]

to the random ass person (or bot, more likely) who followed me and sent an ask asking for money:

assuming you are in fact a person and not a bot, don't fucking do that. not that you're going to see this because I blocked you, but still don't fucking do that. it's rude, it's pushy, and frankly you need to pick your scam targets better because I literally have no income whatsoever and was already in a lousy mood this morning before your ask made it worse.

(and in the event that you were a genuine human being who did not think it was rude: this is your sign that it's rude to do that, but I do hope whatever problem you're having gets taken care of)

[superblysubpar]

NO CHEATING: You’re starring in a movie with the last person saved in your camera roll and the last song you listened to is the title. Who/what is it?

Thank you for the tag @pastel-pillows 💛

Let me tell you...I am not mad about this, not one bit. Technically a gif of JK & Ben Schwartz was actually the most recent, but I went with photo instead 🫣

NP tags: @boomhauer @loveshotzz @sweetsweetjellybean @schoopsahoy @crappymixtape @palmtreesx3 @myobmaya and everyone please! Let's make a movie people 💛

[foxqueen-katarian]

I need everyone to know that there is a yellow pole in the parking lot at a semi-local Wal*Mart that has been crashed into no less than a dozen times.

Today it flipped a car.

[sunbentshadows]

Hey all, you know how internet searches suck now? When the results are awful, full-of-AI, death-of-the-internet levels of bad?

Start appending date constraints to your searches - "before:2023".

My results have gone from 90% AI bullshit to ~60% usable - which frankly at this point is a huge improvement.

[catwouthats]

THEY MAKE ME INSANE

Proof below:

Also, I’m fucking crying, I think his arm is like that bc he fell asleep holding the photo.

EDIT: more proof:

[spaceistheplaceart]

thinking about what mabel and ford have in common <3 sweaters, diaries, and bad breakups.

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

yay water

time to drink water woo hoo yay

[hinamie]

mentor

[child--ish]

I remember the time when I would delete reblogs or post if I already reblogged them to not 'clutter' my blog so it would be easier to find stuff on here

[chiptrillino-art]

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some of these were conzepts i drew for @ranilla-bean fic the iconoclast. others are just me doodeling zuko in SEA inspired clothing (khemer or siam style/ so cambodia or thailand)

[captainjonnitkessler]

You know I used to think "tumblr's absolute refusal to actually engage with the Trolley Problem in favor of insisting that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is just a short-sighted idiot is really fucking annoying, but I guess it's not actually doing any harm".

Anyway that was before we asked tumblr at large to decide between "guy aiding a genocide but making progress elsewhere" and "guy who would actively and enthusiastically participate in a genocide and would also make everything else much, much worse for everyone elsewhere" and the response was that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and that anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is a short-sighted idiot.

[spielzeugkaiser]

Since I was on the nostalgia train: Another old thing I coloured just for the funsies of it!

[tofixtheshadows]

I've been thinking a lot lately about how Kabru deprives himself.

Kabru as a character is intertwined with the idea that sometimes we have to sacrifice the needs of the few for the good of the many. He ultimately subverts this first by sabotaging the Canaries and then by letting Laios go, but in practice he's already been living a life of self-sacrifice.

Saving people, and learning the secrets of the dungeons to seal them, are what's important. Not his own comforts. Not his own desires. He forces them down until he doesn't know they're there, until one of them has to come spilling out during the confession in chapter 76.

Specifically, I think it's very significant, in a story about food and all that it entails, that Kabru is rarely shown eating. He's the deuteragonist of Dungeon Meshi, the cooking manga, but while meals are the anchoring points of Laios's journey, given loving focus, for Kabru, they're ... not.

I'm sure he eats during dungeon expeditions, in the routine way that adventurers must when they sit down to camp. But on the surface, you get the idea that Kabru spends most of his time doing his self-assigned dungeon-related tasks: meeting with people, studying them, putting together that evidence board, researching the dungeon, god knows what else. Feeding himself is secondary.

He's introduced during a meal, eating at a restaurant, just to set up the contrast between his party and Laios's. And it's the last normal meal we see him eating until the communal ending feast (if you consider Falin's dragon parts normal).

First, we get this:

Kabru's response here is such a non-answer, it strongly implies to me that he wasn't thinking about it until Rin brought it up. That he might not even be feeling the hunger signals that he logically knew he should.

They sit down to eat, but Kabru is never drawn reaching for food or eating it like the rest of his party. He only drinks.

It's possible this means nothing, that we can just assume he's putting food in his mouth off-panel, but again, this entire manga is about food. Cooking it, eating it, appreciating it, taking pleasure in it, grounding yourself in the necessary routine of it and affirming your right to live by consuming it. It's given such a huge focus.

We don't see him eat again until the harpy egg.

What a significant question for the protagonist to ask his foil in this story about eating! Aren't you hungry? Aren't you, Kabru?

He was revived only minutes ago after a violent encounter. And then he chokes down food that causes him further harm by triggering him, all because he's so determined to stay in Laios's good graces.

In his flashback, we see Milsiril trying to spoon-feed young Kabru cake that we know he doesn't like. He doesn't want to eat: he wants to be training.

Then with Mithrun, we see him eating the least-monstery monster food he can get his hands on, for the sake of survival- walking mushroom, barometz, an egg. The barometz is his first chance to make something like an a real meal, and he actually seems excited about it because he wants to replicate a lamb dish his mother used to make him!

...but he doesn't get to enjoy it like he wanted to.

Then, when all the Canaries are eating field rations ... Kabru still isn't shown eating. He's only shown giving food to Mithrun.

And of course the next time he eats is the bavarois, which for his sake is at least plant based ... but he still has to use a coping mechanism to get through it.

I don't think Kabru does this all on purpose. I think Kui does this all on purpose. Kabru's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder should be understood as informing his character just as much as Laios's autism informs his. It's another way that Kabru and Laios act as foils: where Laios takes pleasure in meals and approaches food with the excitement of discovery, Kabru's experiences with eating are tainted by his trauma. Laios indulges; Kabru denies himself. Laios is shown enjoying food, Kabru is shown struggling with it.

And I can very easily imagine a reason why Kabru might have a subconscious aversion towards eating.

Meals are the privilege of the living.