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I made a uquiz to find out what member of a doomed spaceship crew you are, take it to find out what member of a doomed spaceship crew you are.

grabs your hand. you've had enough plot and exposition and character development lately im taking you to the beach episode

i think some of you dont like narratives or stories or characters i think you just like fanfiction tropes

protagonists can and will be sexist, racist, insensitive, cruel, stupid, etc, especially towards the beginning of a story. these are called character flaws and they are a surprise tool that will lead to narrative fulfillment later

yeah that's exactly what i was saying

(suddenly serious) what i was saying was that Dungeon Meshi has some really well-written characters that also have flaws. half the cast constantly gives Laios shit for being socially awkward, Laios forgets about the basics of human decency a couple of times when interacting with Izutsumi, the funny late-story villain squad are 80% convicted criminals, basically every character is a bit racist in some way, and, yes, Marcille, everyone's favorite silly little disaster lesbian, gets the "ick" about Tall-men portraying the characters in her favorite romance novel because she thinks they're too ugly and pouts about the idea of Falin (her dear beloved Falin) wearing clothes that she would be happy and comfortable wearing because "that stuff is for men"

i feel really silly talking about this but a weird thing that happened for me when the Dungeon Meshi anime took off and the fandom really exploded was seeing how weirdly cutesified a lot of fan depictions of the characters was. the "canon versus fanon" of it all, if you will. a week or so ago there was a bonus comic drawn by Ryoko Kui that got spread around Twitter about a What If situation in which Laios got eaten instead of Falin, and people were shocked about the idea of the party basically immediately giving up on the idea of saving Laios, including at least one "why does the writer think she knows so much" joke (i'm hoping it was a joke), which really baffled me because it just made sense to me that the party initially wasn't all that close to Laios (besides Falin, obviously). the relationship of the main cast is something that grows over the series. please read that carefully: the main cast does care for one another, they care for Laios, it's just that it's something that is developed over the course of the manga... and even that idea was too much for some fans

i'm probably going to sound really snobby, but i think there's a lot of people who are more fans of the fanart than the actual series...

i was mainly being silly when i was like "yeah let Marcille be weird about gender" but i was also kind of serious because it kind of is a prominent part of her character. it speaks to the world she lives in, what she values and finds important, and if you think about it, it actually speaks a lot to the subtext around her and Falin: Marcille hates "gross things," Marcille hates being uncomfortable, Marcille thinks women should be girly, and men should be masculine, and yet she willingly journeys down into a gross dungeon and eats weird monsters in order to save Falin, a woman who likes bugs, fucking around in the dirt, and pants. what do you think that implies about Marcille?

i appreciate writers that don't smooth all the rough edges off their characters. in Kui's case, we all know she's put massive amounts of thought into the world Dungeon Meshi takes place in, and the views of her character reflect all these thoughts. i don't think Marcille being "conservative" is an accident- i would go so far as to say that i don't think the "contradiction" of Marcille's love of Falin is an accident. i think this is all the sign of good writing, and i think it's a diservice to the writer to try and make these characters more "palatable" (and fit all the corny "found family" memes lol)

there is a hart in forest and he holds the world in his crown

hang on I’m trying to see something

don’t tell me the name of your pet, just tell me in the tags the name you call them that’s got nothing to do with their actual name

painting of joan of arc but she's got a lil carabiner. is this anything.

she's got the key to heaven or something

What

okay like The White Pharaoh image macros i make are supposed to be somewhat of a parody of Mormons but like. how the fuck am i supposed to parody this, they literally already did the thing. the thing that im like “oh haha this is funny because its an exaggeration” no. the mormons actually made the most ass-ugly egyptophilic sculpture that i have ever seen in my life

Weird thing I happen to be a semi-expert on because I used to live a couple blocks away from this place and randomly stumbled across it on my way to the grocery store one day (a very surreal experience):

This is from a place called Gilgal Sculpture Garden which is basically an art instillation that one particular man named Thomas Child built in his own backyard during his retirement in the mid-20th century.

He was both a Mormon bishop and a Free Mason, so the sculpture garden features an odd and esoteric mixture of imagery from both groups, presented with basically no context unless you do your own research (whenever I take new people there, I end up up having strangers follow me around while I explain everything like I’m an unofficial tour guide lmao.)

It was really just his own private art project in his own private backyard and wasn’t opened to the public until almost 50 years after his death (although my aunt tells me sneaking in there after dark used to be something of a right of passage for cool teens in the 80s lol).

Interestingly, he personally picked out all the stones used for the sculptures from places around Utah, and he invented a new sculpting technique using oxyacetylene torches! His son-in-law was a welder and acted as his assistant for the actual carving.

Basically, it’s not REALLY something you can blame Mormons as a whole for, but it IS extremely weird and Joseph Sphinx (as we call him) isn’t even the weirdest figure in the garden. But it HAS become a tradition for me and my friends to take selfies with him.

Here’s a selfie my wife and I took with him back when we were first dating!

Also: There IS an actual pyramid in Salt Lake City, too.

It has nothing to do with Mormons, but it IS tied to a 70’s cult that will currently allow you to pay them to mummify your dead pets.

i wanna make a hated foods poll hang on

guy whose eyes are welling up with tears: a station built just for playing. i think id like that. id like that very much

Everyone shits on elf metal. Just because dwarf metal (GRANITE FORGE, UNDERBEARD) and orc metal (URROSH GROGAG, TUSK) are widely renowned and pioneers of the genre and style as a whole doesnt mean we all need to collectively bash LAST KING ELIANDOR'S DIRGE FOR THE FALLEN LEAVES PARTS IX-XXII

nothing more embarassing than when you develop personal beef with a piece of media thats entirely petty. like sorry no i cant talk about that show it. bit me.

this is by far the most fun Ive ever had reading tags on a post that blew up

“but AI art lets me create my OCs!” YOU WILL USE PICREW AS GOD INTENDED