I will have to ponder this more but there's something there with the goat demon's attack on Mithrun coming across like a sexual assault, elves repeatedly taunting Marcille about being infertile (which she doesn't seem to give a shit about to be fair), and then the winged lion emerging out of her pants looking like the wings are unfurling from her belly.
unit-1312 said: yeaashhhh idk why she did that 😅 like its clear from kabru she can draw a perfectly fine dark skinned person so???? but also there’s cithis who’s regular dark-skinned so???????? maybe they’re supposed to represent dark elves which is a whole nother box to unpack because-im-freaking-greed said: There’s also regular dark skinned elves because-im-freaking-greed said: There’s lore in the adventurers bible, but basically the elf queen always has this phenotype, so the throne is passed down like that instead of direct lineage (this specific character is a cousin a few generation removed to the current queen, and one of only 3 candidates for the throne). It’s probably a condition analogous to hypermelanism, but also another way in which elves are sincerely biologically different from other human races because-im-freaking-greed said: Also, this isn’t what dark elves are in dungeon meshi, dark elves are a tallman/halffoot superstition from the early days of their recorded history; early on certain elves were very actively helpful out of some mixture of genuine altruism and infantilization, so would basically go Gandalf at them for a while, which then lead to tallmen and halffeet encountering elves that weren’t like that, getting rebuffed or into conflict because-im-freaking-greed said: And going home and telling stories of elves with darkness in their hearts, aka dark elves
This is giving me flashbacks to Her Imperious Condescension tbh. But whatever is going on (hyperpigmentation?) I do not think taking elves with the same features as the white elves and dipping them in ink is the #diversity win that one post I saw thought it was.
Thistle was disgusted and judgmental when Laios got too into choosing between dragon breath murder weapons and then turns around and sticks him into some sort of bondage forcefeeding situation.
Gonna be honest here, when I saw someone say that Dungeon Meshi had Black elves this was not what I had in mind
Like that a core part of their plan to defeat Falin is Laios 'special interest in monsters' Touden going 'this chimera design is poorly thought out and won't work biologically'
Biggest challenge of running the PGW blog is looking at tags for podcasts I haven't listened to yet and taking my best guess on which characters qualify as podcast women.
Iirc there was a line in one of the Hi Nay episodes saying one Elder is pretty sure The Benefactor is Sauvard, and it's also heavily implied that the unhoused guy who wanders around and helps people out might be Sauvard, so my almost certainly incorrect guess is that he did some variant of the focus-creating process and split himself into two different facets of himself. I do not remember enough details to disabuse myself of this notion but I think it would be fun.
Haven't had a chance to read further yet, but after the rabbits incident, the winged lion starts seriously considering Marcille as dungeon lord material, and I think it's interesting that Kabru hasn't. He knows Marcille knows ancient magic and even observes that she'll probably be recruited as a canary, but he's fixated on Laios as the likely dungeon lord candidate. Blinded by his protagonist aura perhaps
youre an olympic level hater. i respect it.
they asked me to represent my country in the sport of hating i said no. i hate my country
Picked up a book at the library entirely because it was called Interesting Facts about Space since I felt that I had to, legally, but beyond collecting interesting facts about space, the protagonist also has an information science degree and hearing loss. I feel threatened.
Terrible, horrible metafan comic based on Kate Beaton's Poe shortie at Hark! A vagrant featuring the worst possible space lyctor ship; please enjoy
I'm also going to include a detail shot because this was my proudest moment
Scene from the end of Lady Knight - Kel digging her own grave 💀
I've seen posts joking that Marcille starts out being a fussy eater and then reveals a specialty in necromantic dark magic like it's this big funny contradiction, and sure it initially seems to be, but it actually makes perfect sense. Marcille is afraid of death. She can't handle the idea of the people she loves growing old and leaving her behind, and she's willing to try to remake the entire world so she doesn't have to. Learning necromancy and turning her nose up at killing and cooking monsters stem from the same source: a reluctance to accept the natural cycles of life and death.
Hey Marcille why do you know necromantic reanimation spells
I have gotten to the rabbits chapter and am now wondering if it's a riff off Monty Python or if both of those are riffing off a different killer rabbit thing I don't know about
Got my hands on the next few volumes of Dungeon Meshi even though I've been too busy to read much so far, but I'm very interested that Thistle bound the winged lion. It didn't seem like Mithrun caught onto that the goat-demon was a threat until it was too late. Maybe that's how Thistle has lasted so much longer as a dungeon lord than Mithrun did? I wonder what tipped him off... and how he managed to bind a demon like that at all.
Made the worst brownies ever created just now
Chat where did I go wrong
