new ship dynamic called schrodinger’s divorce where characters are simultaneously bitterly divorced and fondly married for twenty years

I hate work I should be at the (remembers I don't want to go to the club) the imagination

the gifs i find on this website... you guys are art curators

this is not about gifsets this is about shit like this

One thing i appreciate about Dungeon Meshi is how committed it is to showing totally platonic, non-sexual, non-romantic friendships between its characters.

Take Falin and Marcille for example! Why, in the very last episode, after heartwarmingly helping birth her beloved friend from the flesh of a dragon, using forbidden dark arts, Marcille tenderly helped wash Falin's body of all the blood that was covering it. And then, when it turned out that there weren't enough sleeping bags for everyone, she even offered to share a bed with Falin for the long journey back to the surface! What a pal!

I love normal platonic relationships! Gals who are pals! Girls who are friends! Ladies who birth each other's bodies through sacrifices of blood and flesh and symbolically become part of and consume one another!

Being serious, holy SHIT that resurrection scene went fucking hard, man! And it went especially hard on the birth imagery with that yonic, gaping hole in the dragon, implying both C-section and natural birth, with Marcille as both midwife and, in a sense, father to the reborn Falin.

And I say father because the dragon supplies the flesh, the nutrients, the nourishment for the body it births, while Marcille supplies her own bodily fluids as an activating agent that precipitates the formation of the new body, like semen fertilizing an egg.

The story explicitly draws the connection, too, between resurrection and consumption - a resurrection requires calories specifically, it requires food. In being resurrected by Marcille, Falin has also eaten of Marcille, literally consumed her blood, just as surely as she consumed the dragon's flesh, and the two of them have become inexorably part of each other. And the party, too - they eat of the same dragon flesh that was used to rebirth Falin, and that dragon flesh becomes a part of them, just as surely as it is a part of Falin.

They are all united not merely by sentiment or intentions, but in flesh, a found family, but also a family of shared physical substance. That is what the sharing of food means in Dungeon Meshi. Every meal the party shared on the journey down connected them closer and closer as a group of people, and every meal also changed them in some substantial way.

Especially Marcille. God, no-one on the journey down has changed more than Marcille. And now Falin has eaten of Marcille, and that is going to change their relationship, too. It is going to change her.

Also they are girlfriends who are in homosexual lesbians with one another, I hope I made that clear.

the first part is getting too many notes, someone is going to accuse me of pissing on the poor any second oh god

you call comics 'picture books' because you don't respect the medium in general and think they're just for kids. i call comics 'picture books' because the majority of the modern writing feels like it was designed in a lab to either piss me off or bore me to death meanwhile the artists are still putting their whole pussy into what they do. we are not the same

See I think it's more than just winning the wand. I think Voldemort could never have mastered it because he fears Death too much.

I wonder if this assertion, shouted out defiantly in a way that actively exhorts Voldemort to kill him, might function as a curse---there's payment (his imminent death) and stated effect ("that wand will never, ever be yours") and Voldemort goes right ahead and kills him, in exactly the same manner as Lily offers payment and states desired effect (that Voldemort kill her and that her son live, respectively).

This feels like how curses work.

procrastination !

I vacillate between doing favors for future me because I love her and doing this to future me because haha fuck you bitch

This is privilege. My partner had an "essential job" all through the pandemic. He was not allowed to work from home either. If he'd pulled this he would've been fired.

Well, yeah. But if people who have enough privilege to take a stand against workplace exploitation do take a stand, that helps slow down the ongoing creep of how much they're allowed to dick you around at work.

Make no mistake, by "not allowed to work from home," this employer meant "you will not be paid for work you do at home," while clearly expecting the employee to do work (such as answering work emails and taking work calls) while at home. (If the employer didn't expect that, then they wouldn't have noticed when the worker stopped doing it.)

If you're expected to respond when the boss summons you outside of work hours, you are on-call. If you're on-call, you should be paid.

Expecting white-collar workers to be on-call for no extra pay is wage theft, no different from if a retail or food service employee is told to, "Clock out before you clean up/close out your station, so you don't go over your hours."

(And yes, this example happens a lot. If it happens to you, in the US, you should report it to the Department of Labor. It's confidential; your employer will never find out it was you who turned them in.)

I used to do this as a kid (on paper) and we had a cat that would watch you draw the body shape like

:-/

But then as soon as you added the WINGS the cat would go

:O

"The Large One has cast the Spell Of Create Bug"

when your art program’s closing message hits you straight in the heart and makes you stop and contemplate the state of it all

because of the huge response to this post, I decided to make a version of the art that includes the text

I’ve also uploaded this design to INPRNT, and all sales proceeds will be donated to environmental and humanitarian charities!

this is still going around with the old dead links - please help me share this version

As you wish.

I think next I wanna try making each wing of a moth separate and then combine them somehow?? To make a 3d beaded moth.

Enough wire, determination and beads and this will happen

Oh yeah. This is the way.

Help me pick my next beaded project!!

Apparently I can’t spell for shit lmao

Anyways, moth, beetle or fish! 1 day left!!

We’ve waited a year to reblog this. Happy Bread Anniversary!

Because it’s important to celebrate the little victories in life. 

12 days left until the breadiversary, we’d better make sure we have the ingredients on hand!

It’s today!

It’s today!!

If I had mandibles I'd clack them together like tongs all the time