lover of the light

Kabru has a secret admirer in the castle!

its important to do this every time a museum or school thinks this is a good idea

Did you intentionally make him Cajun before that screencap or was that baked into the prompt already. I ask only because the eyes as green as the bayou got me good

he's naturally australian so i gave him an upgrade

aww yuri!!! oh they’re a little bit fucked up actually

Marcille and Falin wear cute outfits and are probably on a date looking for plants to adopt

Ryoko Kui please return my calls

labru gift art 😘

PACING IS ABOUT LOAD BEARING WALLS.

*staples violently to my own forehead*

This is such good advice.

All I will add is: WRITE THOSE BREAKFAST SCENES if you want to, they can be absolutely critical in getting a handle on your characters. Or even on the setting. Write them all to fuck. Go hogwild.

Then cut them. They're for you, and for the characters. Not the readers.

live laugh laios 🐲🗡🥘

“there is no moral. the wolf eats you one day and until it does, the forest is beautiful.”

anime-only fans please please please consider reading dungeon meshi because once you hit ch76 your life begins anew

Shuro/Toshiro is no more flawed than any of the other main characters in the series and there are good reasons that he is the way he is but the fact that his fight with Laios exemplifies a trauma that a lot of autistic people have means that people treat him as uniquely horrible and refuse to show him the same understanding they show other characters

I finished Dungeon Meshi…

make a wish

mi moku e kiwen

— Erin Bow (via writersrelief)

I'm once again thinking about the Adventurer's Bible entry on kobolds and the accompanying comic

Kabru speaks kobold and he still says that it's best to assume communication is impossible despite him knowing their language. But from the previous page kobolds are probably hostile to other races because kobolds are captured and sold as slaves. So kobolds being "cruel and aggressive as a rule" likely comes from how kobolds (justifiably!) act hostile towards tall-men if tall-men have been known to kidnap them and sell them into slavery where they "meet unfortunate ends." Kabru could be conflating this with all kobolds being inherently aggressive because he has been shown to be very "human centric" and I could see it being hard for him to put himself in the shoes of a demi-human (piled on top of his entire childhood being trauma probably doesn't help either).

But then Ryoko Kui adds Laios and Falin talking about "mountain people" at the bottom of the comic, who are human but from their perspective they fit into the same stereotypes Kabru brings up about kobolds. They are saying something ignorant and bigoted here about an entire society of human people and we as the readers can easily see that since they're talking about humans, not demi-humans.

A lesser writer would have stopped at just the top half of the comic and called it a day. By pairing Kabru's dialogue on kobolds with Laios's and Falin's dialogue on "mountain people" Ryoko Kui frames Kabru's own thoughts as more likely to be based on his own lived experiences and the society he grew up in and not as blanket fact.

This is an excellent post and a great analysis of this comic!

I just also want to add, because I think some of the comic's intended meaning goes over people's heads...

Kabru is trying to discourage the Toudens from innocently harassing kobolds. That's the point of this entire conversation. And as is usually the case, Kabru doesn't care what he has to do or say to accomplish his goals.

Kabru often says things he doesn't believe in order to make people do what he wants them to do. For example, saying Falin wasn't worth reviving in order to make Toshiro stop attacking Laios.